Disclaimer: I don't own W.I.T.C.H or Marvel comics ok. So don't sue ok.

AN: I did have a second prelude to this, but this needed to get started.

Will looked up at her new school with some trepidation. After discovering her mutant powers a few days earlier, she was more than a little apprehensive about most things though and this was not helped by the fact that her dad didn't want to know her. Which had lead to her parents divorce. So all in all, Will was not happy to discover her powers. Oh sure it was cool being able to talk to machines and shoot out lightening bolts, but when your own father calls you an unnatural abomination, that does tend to negate any pluses.

Irma Lair loved to fly. She especially loved flying when she had to attend school. It was the only upside of the day, really. Flowing around her was her best friend Hay Lin. As two of the few non-humans in Heatherfield, they got on like a house on fire. Strictly speaking though, Irma was only half non-human. Still, being a half-human, half-Atlantean mutant had its advantages. Like flying for example.

Taranee Cook kissed her mum goodbye as she was dropped off at the school gates.

"Now remember Taranee, be careful ok?" her mum said. Taranee laughed.

"Mum, ah can take care of myself. Ah might not be a mutant, but ma demon powers should be more than enough."

"Even so" Taranee's mum began, but Taranee cut her off. "Mum listen. When I destroyed the demon trying to posses me, I got her powers. And her form if I need it. Trust me, I'll fit in ok."

Her mum sighed. "Ok. Just.. be careful ok."

"No thank you" Cornelia said to the boy who had just asked her out. Slightly smaller than her, with short brown hair, brown eyes and a slight beard, the boy looked disappointed. "But you don't even know me yet" he complained. Cornelia sighed and looked him in the eye. "I'm not interested ok?"

The boy stalked off and Cornelia rolled her eyes. He was the third boy she'd rejected today. She hoped this wasn't going to be a trend, after all she wasn't into boys.

Hay Lin loved being the wind. While others were constrained to just flying through it, she became the wind. It was a lot more fun flowing around her best friend Irma of course. But while Irma was still half-human, Hay Lin was not human at all. The daughter of a wind spirit, Hay Lin was adopted as a baby by a loving Chinese couple who ran a Chinese restaurant.

Will walked into her form room. Her form tutor looked at her. "Willhemia Vandom?" The woman asked.

"Just Will please." Will automatically replied. Her form tutor stood up and looked her in the eye.

"Miss Willhemia Vandom" she began "You will address me as yes Mrs Rain or no Mrs Rain. Now I do not care what your friends call you, Willhemia is the name you were given at birth and it is the name I shall address you by at all times." Mrs Rain looked Will in the eye. "Are we clear?"

"Yes Mrs Rain." Will replied stiffly.

The dark skinned lady looked at Will and promptly smiled. "It's a start I suppose. Very well, here is your class schedule." She paused for a moment. "You will be seated in the third row next to Mr Caleb Bush." She continued and pointed to a table near the back. Sitting there was one of the cutest boys Will had ever seen in real life. Smiling inwardly, she made her way over to the table and put down her bag. Unfortunately, thirty seconds later all hope of getting this boy faded away as someone else walked into the room.

The first person Cornelia noticed as she walked into her form room was not her form tutor. It wasn't any of the many boys looking at her. It was the redhead, with beautiful brown eyes. You could lose yourself in those eyes. Her thoughts were interrupted by the voice of her form tutor. "Miss Cornelia Hale I presume?" Cornelia nodded. "I am your form tutor Mrs Rain. You will refer to me by this name at all times, understood?" Cornelia nodded again. "Here is your class schedule. You will take the front row table next to Miss Irma Lair." Mrs Rain pointed to a table in the same line forwards as the table with the redhead. Smiling inwardly she took her seat next to the pointy-eared brunette.

Caleb Bush stared at the blonde girl at the front. Definitely girlfriend material he thought to himself. And judging by the glances she kept shooting behind her, she liked him to. He'd ask her out later, he thought to himself.

Will hated the way that Cornelia kept glancing back as registration continued. She was clearly reciprocating Caleb's interest.

Cornelia kept shooting glances at the redheaded girl. Beside her sat a boy who was clearly interested in her. Too bad Cornelia wasn't interested in him. Beside her, the brunette broke into her thoughts "So you like Caleb Bush? Don't worry half the girls in the school fancy him. I mean seriously, what a hottie. I'm Irma Lair by the way," She added as she extended her hand. Cornelia paused for a moment.

"Cornelia Hale" she replied as she shook Irma's hand.

As the class filed out, Cornelia walked up to Will as they headed towards their first class. Before she lost her nerve, she walked up to the Will and introduced herself. Soon they were talking like old friends as they walked towards history.

Will was silently cursing herself for enjoying Cornelia's company. Not only was the blonde girl a boy magnet, she was impossible to hate. And Will had tried to hate her, but Will was hardly the unfriendly type.

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Five hours later.

Caleb gritted his teeth and walked up to the girl he'd been planning to ask out all day. Passing the new, redheaded girl who sat next to him in their form room, he went up to Cornelia Hale and asked her out. After all the glances she had shot his way during registration, he was in no doubt that the answer would be yes.

It had been a trying day for Cornelia. Not only had Will not given her any reason to believe she returned her feelings, no fewer than fifteen boys had tried to ask her out. The next boy to ask her out was going to regret it. Unfortunately that next boy was Caleb Bush.

Caleb seldom got turned down. He was more than adequately aware of what the female part of the student body at Sheffield thought about him. However he had never been telekinetically pinned against a wall and have yelled at him "For heavens sake, I'm not interested in boys. I. Like. Girls. Ok? Now will you all just stop asking me out!" Cornelia yelled at him. In front of most of the school. That definitely got peoples attention.

Will saw Cornelia's rejection of Caleb's invitation. She was puzzled by it too. If Cornelia was into girls, why all those glances? Then it hit her. Those glances weren't for Caleb. They were for her. Oh damn.

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