My alarm clock rang and I pushed the off button. I walked downstairs and looked at my foster parents. Susan looked at me like I was about to bite her or something and Frank just looked at the newspaper. I took a deep breath, trying to explain myself.
"I didn't mean to, it was Bryan Mack's fault. He totally made that cup fly and I couldn't help but see it. Then I got angry. It will never happen again, I promise." They both ignored what I was saying. Finally, Susan mustered the courage to speak.
"We called the adoption center, you will be picked up soon so I would pack." Tears started rolling down my face, and I turned to walk upstairs. I walked into the room and stuffed what few belongings I had into my duffel bag. I looked at a torn picture of my parents holding me as a baby and a tear fell from my cheek. "Kat." I turned quickly but no one was there. "Kat." It sounded like someone whispering in my ear. "Kat, the window." I turned towards the window, my mind trying to remember something. I lifted up the window and jumped out. The wind rushed quickly and two feet before I dropped I stopped in midair. I waited and then dropped the two feet. They wouldn't care; it wasn't like the adoption agency would miss me either. I had gone from house to house since I was five. That was ten years ago. After ten years, it gets old. I started walking then remember what I saw on TV once. I quickly closed my eyes and suddenly I was out in the forest, fifty miles from the house. I started walking and pulled my coat close. I felt a little stupid, my bright green pea coat would stick out in the middle of the woods, but I had my power to help me. I kept walking and had gone about five miles when something caught my eye. There was a clearing one hundred feet from me. A man was standing there.
"Hello, Katrina, I have been waiting for you." I looked at the old man and wondered why he had a metal helmet on his head.
"I didn't think you would come to me, I was planning on stopping the car when it came on the highway taking you back."
"What are you talking about?"
"Yes, you are powerful, you will do well for my army."
Fear went through my whole body. I felt the sudden urge to protect myself with a lie. "I-I don't have a power, I had the cure." The man laughed and I started racking my brain for a way out.
My darling girl so did I, and my body rejected it. If you had had it, you are powerful enough that it would have rejected it, also. I felt my locket suddenly move so it was dragging me by the neck.
"If you will not join my arm, I have no use for you. He started dragging me by my bag also and I noticed that it was dragging the silver buckles on it. A smile lit on my face.
"Does that work backwards to?" His face looked confused and I suddenly was flying backwards, trying to avoid trees. I couldn't stop until I was far enough away, for this wouldn't happen twice, I didn't see my necklace move. I felt myself move out of the forest, and I suddenly hit something hard. I turned around to see a man with blades coming out of his fists. "Shit". I said, getting up and running as fast as I could. I looked down to make sure I was all right and noticed that everything was perfect. I heard his breathing behind me and quickly turned and jumped up to the tallest tree. He came ten seconds later and started moving from tree to tree. Realization came to me and I realized he was sniffing me out. I quickly jumped down and stayed in combat mode. He laughed as he looked at me.
"Kid, don't even try it." I heard wind behind me and looked as a woman flew down.
"Logan, your mission was to find her, not scare her." She looked at me. "Don't worry, we won't hurt you."
"Like hell you won't I jumped again but didn't get very far. "I already used that," I mumbled as I landed and turned to see a girl behind me. She touched my face and I felt energy being sucked from me but I quickly touched her. She gasped and we both let go, though she fell because it was the first time I had done it, more powerful. I felt something go into my neck and I fell to the floor, blacking out...
Professor, you won't believe this, her brain activity is above normal. I opened my eyes and felt myself strapped in. A man was standing over me and the woman was over at a computer. My head was pounding and I tried to move my hand to feel it but it wouldn't budge.
"I am sorry, but we had to strap you in so that you wouldn't move anymore." I felt panic swell inside of me and suddenly I heard rain pounding on the walls outside.
"A most original power, Katrina, do you have photographic memory."
There was no way I was going to tell this man anything about me. I looked at him and noticed something about his face. Then it hit me. I had watched this thing in school about a man who had no conscience. He had full functioning organs but no movement at all. Doctors had wondered if they could put the memories and conscience of another person in him. That was the man I was looking at. I gasped and he smiled.
"Obviously if you can remember something that you saw once in class that you weren't paying any attention to two years ago, you have some type of photographic memory. My name is Professor Charles Xavier. Welcome to my school. It is for people like you, who have special talents. If you remember correctly, I am the one who told you to go out the window." I remember hearing the voice and I calm down a bit. "Well, I don't have to ask you what your power is."
"Yeah, I guess it is pretty obvious I have a photographic memory, but I can only do the powers of others as many times as I see them, like, I can read one person's mind because I saw you do it once."
"Ah, that is a very good power, Storm, I believe you can let this girl out now. He turned and walked out of the room, leaving me alone with the woman called Storm.
