This is who I am--
Billy Abigail Quinn.
Sure, I've been through some changes, more than most folks, maybe. To look at me, you wouldn't guess I used to be a normal kid, going to school, hanging out in the mall with my friends, meeting boys, it was all so simple. It feels like a lifetime ago. And I don't take that phrase lightly.
See, there's more to me than meets the eye. Guess that's true of everyone…but in my case there's that unexpected extra. I'm a mutant, see. A human with a genetic anomaly. Hard to tell if my powers are a gift or a curse sometimes.
Thing is, this whole thing started when I turned sixteen. And I thought puberty was hell. It wasn't. All I did was sneeze one day and I almost blind my entire classroom. I didn't know if I could believe it or not at the time, but this was just the first of many. After a while, I was no longer welcome among my so called friends…or my family.
Then he showed up.
Charles Xavier came to me with an offer. An opportunity, to learn control over my powers, to be with others with others like me, an opportunity to have a whole new life.
I knew I couldn't go back to the way everything was before, family abandoning me, friends deserting me, I had a rough time of it. Brutal. I close my eyes sometimes, hoping I'm just having a bad dream and when I wake up everything's fine. But this ain't a dream, this is me now. This man was giving me a chance when I had no choice at all.
This is who I am. Billy Abigail Quinn. Sixteen, a mutant, and two steps away from being homeless to boot. If this Xavier guy says there's a place for me in this world.
I gotta find out.