(A/N: Hello, everyone! This is my first story, so I really hope you'll like it!)
Lynna's POV
The feeling was great. The feeling of freedom, knowing that you're not alone and you'll never be like that again, I almost felt happy. But I was nervous. Meeting new people never was my thing, I just get nervous every time I have to talk to new people. But I had to do it. I'm going to start a new life and never look back. That was my choice.
So I was sitting speechless in a bus as I was travelling to The Xavier Institute, a school for mutant kids and teenagers. Yes, I was one of them – a mutant. I never thought I could be a mutant, but only two months ago I found out about that. And everything changed. At that time I was so scared that I didn't know what to do, so I told my mom about my so-called gift. I just wanted for her to accept me, and she has. She always believed in me and she always will. We never keep secrets from each other, we never lie to each other. We're best friends. However, I didn't told my dad and brother about me being a mutant. Not that I don't trust them, I just didn't want to make it all more complicated.
The bus suddenly stopped. I quickly looked through the window and there It was – my stop. I sighed as I wrapped a scarf around me, took my suitcase and got out of the bus. Cold autumn weather blew my fussy face and with my quick pace I got to a taxi that was already waiting for me. The driver didn't say anything, neither did I, and we just drove to my last stop – Xavier Institute.
After about twenty minutes here I was, standing frozen in front of the main door of Xavier Institute. I took a deep breath and tried to calm myself down. This is it, there's no going back, I have to do it. And before I could even open the door, someone slammed it open.
"I can't believe he-" A girl with brown hair and white strand stopped in front of me. "Oh, I'm sorry." She took a good look at me. "Are you..new here?"
"Yes." I said calmly as I could to two girls that were looking at me with confused looks.
"Uh.." Girl with white strand looked at other girl she was talking earlier.
"Come in already." The other girl with shorter brown hair said carelessly.
"..Thank you." I finally walked inside the school.
Those two girls led me through hallway to office where professor Xavier was. As I walked, I saw some kids running in the hallway that were controlling flying paper planes. I looked at them and realized that they are like me – everyone here is like me.
"End of the line." The girl with shorter brown hair said as we stopped near professor's office. "By the way, you can call me Shadowcat." Then she sighed. "Or Kitty Pryde, you choose." Then she looked at her friend.
"I'm Rogue." Other girl introduced herself. "What's your name?"
"Lynna." I said. "Lynna Gilbert."
"Well, Lynna Gilbert, welcome to the family." Kitty smirked. "And If you don't mind we have to go now, Rogue has some boyfriend problems."
"Hey, nothing even happ-"
"Yeah yeah, we talk about that later." Kitty waved her hand at now confused Rogue.
"I guess I see you later." I said, still not knowing what they just argued about.
"Sure." Kitty shrugged. "See you later." And then with her friend, she walked away leaving me alone near professor's office.
I sighed and knocked on the professor's door. Right away I heard a soft 'come in' from the inside. I hesitated for a moment, but opened the door anyway. The office was wide and it was so bright in here, though the weather outside was awful. In the middle of the office I saw a wooden desk and professor Xavier sitting beside it. There was another wooden chair besides the desk.
"You must be Lynna Gilbert." Professor said and I just nodded. "Please, take a seat."
"Thank you." I said after I put my suitcase on the floor near a wall and sat on the wooden chair in front of professor.
"So Lynna, according to your mother, you found out that your a mutant two months ago, am I right?"
"Yes, professor."
"And you're willing to leave your old life behind and start a new one here?"
"I guess I am." I didn't know where he was going on with that.
And he just smiled. "Good." Then he took something from the desk. "This is your key to your bedroom, you'll live with a girl, her name is Diamonda. She will show you everything you need." He gave me the keys. "And classes starts tomorrow."
And as he finished his last sentence someone opened the door.
"Hey, Lynna! I'm Diamonda, but I guess you already know that." A light-haired girl walked near me with a bright smile. "It's nice to meet you." She held me her hand.
"It's nice to meet you, too." I said as I shook her hand.
"Professor," Diamonda turned to professor Xavier after shaking hands with me, "Can I already show her our room? I've been waiting for her all day, I'll show her everything she needs! I promise!"
"Of course, Diamonda." Professor smiled.
"Yey!" Diamonda jumped in excitement. "You gonna love living here, Lynna! Come on." She walked to the door to exit the office, I just stood and took my suitcase, but before leaving I glanced at professor.
"Good luck, Lynna. I hope you will like it here."
I smiled. "I hope so, too." And then left the office.
Though I knew Diamonda for about two minutes as we walked together to our room, I saw that she was a hilarious person. She wouldn't stop talking, but I didn't mind.
"And here we are!" She stopped near door on which was written 'Diamonda!' and looked at me. "You ready?" She grinned.
"Yeap." I actually wondered how our room will look.
"Okay." Diamonda slowly opened the door and let me in. I walked inside and was surprised seeing that our room is larger than I thought it will be. Walls were brightly green colored, on one side there were two beds decorated with tons of different colored pillows, on the other side of the room there was a wardrobe and near it there was a wooden desk with a chair which I assumed were dedicated for doing homework. I also saw another door in our room that probably led into the bathroom.
"Wow.." I slowly said as I walked near one of the beds and put my suitcase on it, still looking around the room.
"What?" Diamonda asked. "Oh, that's my bed!" She laughed.
"Oh! Sorry." I quickly picked my suitcase and put it on the other bed.
"It's nothing, don't worry." She sat on her bed and looked at me. "So, what was with that 'wow' saying?" She smirked.
"I didn't expect our room to be this big and.. nice." I looked at the other door in our room. "Is that a bathroom?"
"Yeah. So what did you expect? Broken beds and spider webs?" Diamonda asked with a little laugh.
"No," I laughed. "I actually didn't think that this school will be so fancy." I said as I took off my scarf and black jacket.
"Yeah I get it, most students who come live here point out that." Diamonda took my jacket and placed it in the wardrobe. "This," She pointed at one side of the wardrobe, "Will be your side."
"Sure," I then looked at my suitcase, "I guess I should start unpacking then."
"You'll do that later!" Diamonda ran to me, "Dinner will be in 10 minutes, after it I'll help you to unpack, 'kay?" She smiled to me.
I looked at her a little confused."Okay." I said slowly. "So what we will do now?" I sat on my bed.
"Now, we'll get to know each other." She said as she also sat on her bed. Seeing that my face was still confused, she continued. "Like tell each other our powers, code names and you know."
"Code names? What do you mean?"
"Everyone here has a code name. It's based on your power." She explained. "For example, with my power, I can make my whole body become diamond, so my code name is Diamonda!"
"Oh." I tried to adopt everything Diamonda just said. "So what's your real name?"
"Demi." She quickly answered. "So Lynna, tell me already, what's your power?" She demanded playfully.
I sighed. "I can..control water. In any way I want." I looked at Diamonda's senseless face. "What?"
"I think I'm getting luckier every second." She smirked.
I still didn't understand. "Care to explain?"
Diamonda laughed. "You see, there's one very arrogant guy out here, that likes to play with fire. I mean, actually play with fire. And water is just what I needed."
"So what, you expect me to go around and splash water on him every time I see him?" I laughed, then thought it actually would be fun.
Diamonda laughed harder this time. "Maybe. Anyway, we still need a code name for you."
I sighed. I couldn't think straight right now, with all things happening around me. New school, new teachers and new friends. A new life. I still couldn't believe it.
"What about Aqua?" Diamonda brought me back to life with her loud question.
I thought about it. "I think its great." It actually was good and I wouldn't have thought about any other code name for myself anyway.
"Great!" She then looked at her watch. "Okay, Aqua, its time for food!" She almost jumped from her bed. Then picked my arm and pulled me with her to the kitchen. "Come on, I'm starving!" I laughed as I ran with her.
After some running with Diamonda, we started walking and finally walked into the kitchen. I stopped, wide-eyed and felt how my jaw dropped.
"Holy Mother Teresa." I said shocked as I looked around the kitchen.
"What kind of manifestation is that?" Diamonda laughed. "I know, this kitchen is big and you can take food as much as you want." She smirked seeing my reaction. "Come on." Diamonda walked through me to pick some sandwiches and poured some orange juice for herself.
I glanced around. I saw how other kids started gathering into the kitchen, some picking food, some talking to their friends. I walked near Diamonda and looked at food. Finally deciding, I picked a sandwich spread with nutella and took some strawberries, also pouring some banana juice into a cup. Then, with Diamonda, took a seat in the dining room that was connected with the kitchen.
"Hey, Aqua?" Diamonda said after drinking some orange juice.
I swallowed a strawberry. "Yeah?"
"Your hair is very beautiful," She looked at my long brown straight hair. "Is it very difficult to have that long hair?"
I smiled. "I often get that question." I then took a small strand of my hair and looked at it. "It isn't difficult, I don't understand why people think it is. Besides, It's not that long."
"Oh please," She teased, "It almost touches your butt!" She said loudly.
"Shh!" I silenced her as I saw some kids looking at us.
"Sorry." Diamonda was grinning. I rolled my eyes.
"Hey, Diamonda!" We looked at a girl coming near us. She sat beside Diamonda and then I recognized her – It was Kitty Pryde, the one that with her friend led me to professor's office. She then looked at me and I felt a little uncomfortable. "Oh, hey, um Lynna? That's your name?"
"Yeah." Then I thought for a second. "Also you can call me Aqua." I noticed how Diamonda smirked at me.
"Aqua? Like water or something?" Kitty raised one eyebrow.
"I guess." I glanced at her. "Well, I can control water. So yes, that's the meaning." I then drank banana juice and sighed as I saw that there wasn't juice left anymore. Then curiosity hit me. "What's your power?"
"I can walk through walls. Or basically through anything." Kitty said and took a bite of an apple. "How old are you again?"
"17." I simply stated. Kitty then glanced at Diamonda.
"Well yeah, she'll be our classmate." Diamonda shrugged. "Why does it surprise you so much?"
"It doesn't, who said it does?" Kitty asked.
"Uh, your face?" Diamonda laughed a bit. "Anyway, where's Rogue?" She looked around.
Kitty crossed her arms around her chest. "Boyfriend problems." She said in annoyed voice.
"Poor thing." Diamonda sighed. "But you know, there's a good side in this."
"A good side? Stop joking around Demi." Kitty was still annoyed. I listened to their conversation as I ate my sandwich.
"Well you see Kitty, Rogue is our friend, so she sticks with us. But as long as she sticks with Bobby, we're stuck with John." Diamonda shivered as she said the last word. I raised my eyebrow at her and she seemed to notice that. "Yes, Aqua, he's the one that plays with fire."
"So he's your friend?" I said a little shocked.
Kitty snorted. "He's not our friend Aqua, he's just.. companion or something. But not a friend. No way." She shook her head.
And as Kitty finished her sentence, three people entered the dining room. One of them I recognized – It was Rogue, the girl with white strand, and as she noticed and walked toward us, she was holding hands with some boy, that was taller than her. After them, there was another boy, with light brown hair and a smirk on his face.