Disclaimer: I do not own Jesse from Mutant X, if only I did, lol. I do however own Kaelyn. If you want to use her, ask first, then of course you can have her.
Characters Ethan and Gwen are from the soap opera Passions. (You will not need to know the show to follow along; it's AU for Passions) Theresa shows up later. If you hate Theresa, deal with it, cause I don't lol. (Mr. Crane is not from Passions, he is mine, but it is a play on names).
Other characters from other shows may show up, as teenagers, not sure yet. Thinking Shawn and Belle from Days may show up (with Phillip and Mimi of course).
Thanks for all the reviews!
Chapter 2: Start of Something
Jesse walked down the hall toward his last and what he thought would be his favorite class, Computer 1, all he knew was it had to do with computers, and that was one of his favorite things.
Obviously one of those things his dad signed him up for. While he should be happy that his father took the time, but for some reason he wasn't. Cause whatever the reason he did it; he was sure it wasn't for Jesse. He could only imagine how his college life was going to be, if he got to go. What was he saying, of course he would get to go, it was another way for Noah to hide his freak of a son.
He opened the door to the class, walked over to the teacher's desk, and headed the man the form telling the teacher he was a new student. The man looked him up and down. "Jesse Kill. mar."
"Kilmartin." said Jesse.
"Oh right, thanks. I'm Mr. Crane, welcome to my class. All right, let everyone else find a seat and I will assign you a seat. Go sit at the back table for now."
"All right," he said as he made his way through to the back of the class.
Trying hard not to bring attention to himself, he tried to not make eye contact with anyone.
As he brushed by one girl, he went one way to avoid bumping into her at the same time she did, she dropped the books in her hands and he had to reach out to keep her from falling to the floor. "Hey why don't you watch where you are going!" she said as she pushed him away and reached down for her books.
"I'm sorry, I should have done a better job of watching where I was going," he said.
"Yeah you should have, you idiot!"
"Hey chill Gwen!" said the guy just behind her. "Hey you new?" he asked.
"Yeah, it's my first day. I'm Jesse by the way."
"Hey I'm Ethan, nice to met you. Don't worry about her, she just gets this way, oh about once a month," he said as the girl named Gwen punched him in the arm.
"Ouch!" he said as he rubbed his arm.
Jesse continued his walk toward the back of the class, he wanted so badly to make friends, but he had to refrain from it. Every time he made a friend, it hurt like crazy to leave them. So to save himself the pain, he made nice with people, but never friends. However, maybe Kaelyn ... nope not her either. Nevertheless, it will be nice to get to know another mutant.
As he sat down the bell rang signaling the start of the class. He watched as the teacher did role-call. The only open seat he could see was behind a brunette girl, unfortunately next to Gwen, but in front of Ethan who seemed like a nice person.
The teacher laid down the role-call book, stood up, and picked up the form Jesse had handed him when he came in before class. "All right class, we have a new student, Jesse Kilmartin please stand up."
'So much for not bringing attention to myself' he thought as he stood up.
"Class, please welcome Jesse Kilmartin to our class," said the teacher. "All right, Jesse please take a seat behind Kaelyn here in the 3rd row."
"It can't be'. He thought just as Kaelyn turned to wave him over. 'This is the 4th class we have together.'
"Hey," he said to Kaelyn as he sat down behind the computer.
"Hey, this is becoming a habit with us," she said as she smiled at him.
The teacher walked over to where Jesse was seated, "Go ahead and turn on your computers everyone. Mr. Kilmartin, you are familiar with computers I hope."
"Yes sir, I am."
"Good, you will need to be at least intermediate to keep up in my class."
"So not a problem, I can keep up."
"Mr. Kilmartin, you will need a password for this class, let me help you set up that part, and when you get through, please go to Lesson 1. Everyone else is on Lesson 6, you will need to catch up, ok?"
"Ok."
"Ok, bring up the screen right here," said Mr. Crane, as he pointed at a little icon on the desktop, " And we will set your password."
"This one?" Jesse asked as he pointed to little computer icon at the bottom that had a golden key on it.
"Yes."
"All right."
"Ok, place your name here, Jesse Kilmartin."
"With all do respect sir, I know my name," said Jesse.
It brought a snicker out of Ethan and Gwen. Although he could only see her from the back now, he could tell Kaelyn was laughing too. Jesse glanced up at the teacher to see a smile on his face as well.
"Yeah, I guess you would," said Mr. Crane. "I hated when teachers did that to me too. All right, after you finish putting in your password, let me know, everyone, please avert your eyes from Mr. Kilmartin's computer now."
Jesse almost panicked; he had no idea what he wanted for a password. He noticed where he could change it later if he wanted. Therefore, he just put in the first word that came to mind. "All right, got it."
"All right class, Mr. Kilmartin is done. Everyone but Mr. Kilmartin, please begin Lesson 6, it will be Lesson 1 for you Mr. Kilmartin. I will see you after school; to work on the lessons you have missed. But for now, please begin Lesson 1."
"All right, and if I get done with it in time, can I begin the next lesson?"
"Sure, but don't rush Mr. Kilmartin, this isn't a race, and grades are important in my class, not how fast you can get it done."
"All right," answered Jesse as he begins his first lesson. He knew more about computers then anything else in his life. Since as far back as he could remember, he had been a wizard with computers. Probably had something to do with all the time he spent alone.
He glanced up from the screen to see that Kaelyn was frustrated about something. He tapped her chair with his foot to get her attention. She glanced back at him, "Why did you do that?" she whispered.
"Cause you look like something is wrong," he whispered back. "Is it the computer lesson?"
She reached behind her, and placed her hand on his, and just as it had the morning before, he felt something shift under him, and he knew that she had just frozen time again.
She stood up and walked a few steps to face him, "No, it's not the lesson. I need to ask you something?"
"What?" he asked.
"You aren't going to tell anybody about me are you? My dad would freak if he knew I had done this again."
"You mean freezing things like this?"
"Yeah, he is spending a lot of money to send me here, and it is getting harder and harder to find a good school to put me in."
"Yeah I know the feeling, and no I won't tell anyone. Besides, then you would have a reason to tell them about me."
"True, alright, thanks Jesse. And I am sorry I bailed on lunch today, Miss Prissy over there," she pointed at Gwen, "wanted to have cheer leading practice early, so we did it during lunch."
"Funny, Ethan said it wasn't a good time for her," he said with a grin.
"Oh yeah, it isn't, we practiced, she sat there and whined as usual." she laughed. "She only joined to get Ethan's attention, and well she got it, but now she has to stay a cheerleader, cause Ethan likes the cute little outfit."
"Well it is pretty cute," said Jesse as he nicely pointed out that she was still wearing her uniform. However, one side was kind of raised up on one side, showing off more skin than she intended she quickly brushed it down, and started to blush. "That is so embarrassing."
"Relax, time was frozen when you stood up, nobody seen it but me," he grinned. "And I am not complaining."
"I noticed," she said. "Ok, I have to unfreeze time, you want to hang out after you get out of here later?"
"Sure, where you want to meet?"
"In front of the building, I will be on the park bench waiting for you."
"Ok I will meet you there."
"Good, and we're still on for dinner tonight right?"
"Aren't we moving a little bit fast here? I mean we're spending a lot of time together here."
"I don't think so, I mean I not suggesting we get married or something. Just I have been new before, and it helps to have friends, now do you want to have dinner with me or not?"
"Yes of course," he couldn't help but grin.
"Good," she said as she sat down, and reached back to touch his hand, unfreezing time. He had remained doing his lesson while they were talking, so he wasn't going to get caught not doing his work, but he couldn't keep his mind off Kaelyn. It sounded like it had been rough for her growing up, as it had been for him."
'Stop it Jesse, you can't get attached, you know better.' he thought, as he mentally hit he for doing it again, but it was hard not having friends, no it was downright lonely. 'There is no harm in getting to know someone, right? And Kaelyn needs someone to understand where she is coming from, and it might as well be me, after all, I totally understand being a mutant, and feeling like a freak because of it'
Just overhead, the bell sounds signaling the end of class. Jesse looks up, as the teacher walks over to him. "All right Mr. Kilmartin, you stay seated, and we'll see how far we can get you caught up in an hour."
"Yes sir." answered Jesse.
Mr. Crane pointed at the next lesson and walked away.
After picking up her books, Kaelyn stood and turned to look at him; "You don't make friends easily do you?"
"I make friends just fine thank you," he said, insulted by her question, but deep down he wondered 'How did she know?'
"That didn't come out right, sorry."
"How was it supposed to come out?"
"Look when I asked you to join me for dinner earlier this morning you seemed fine with it, but then I asked you a minute ago, and you freaked."
"I didn't freak, I just wanted to know what you intentions were."
"What you think I am going to take advantage of you?" she laughed. "Jesse, I think you could fight me off if I tried something."
"Ok, let's drop it, all right?"
"Deal, this is my room number, can you be there at 7?"
"Sure, no problem. And Kae?"
"Yea?"
He wanted to apologize to her for how he acted to her question, but all he said was, "I'll see you later, at the bench right?"
"Right."
All right I am going to end it here, cause I don't want to ruin it by adding too much, next chapter coming up soon!
