-Chapter 2: Getting to Know Everyone-
-girls' dorm, Blitz's room-
All the girls had gotten into one room to try and get to know everyone.
What can I say, it's what girls do. Well, most girls.
"I still don't understand why I'm here." Julia said. When you can't
touch anyone, you tend to not like being around a lot of people at one
time. Julia was sitting in a chair in the corner of the room, which was
big enough to hold two people but for now only held one. It had two twin
beds, one extremely large desk, a bookshelf, the chair Julia was
sitting on, and nightstands with lamps.
"We hafta get to know everyone, silly!" Hailey said, brushing a blue
strand of hair out of her eyes with her telekinesis. Julia didn't answer
her. The seven girls were all situated in the bare room, Julia in the
chair, Blitz and Dawn on one bed, Alley and Hailey on the other, and
Stephanie and Carmen sitting on the desk. They made one big, disfunctional
circle.
"Ok, I'll go first!" Hailey said after a moment of awkward silence.
"Ahem. Hi, my name is Hailey Benson, I'm 17, and I have the power of
telepathy and telekinesis. My favorite thing to do is swim." She smiled at
the room.
"I guess it's my turn, then." Alley said running her hand through her
dark hair nervously. "My name is Alley Lewis, I'm also 17, and I have
super strength. My favorite thing to do is watch movies."
"Hello, I'm Dawn, and I am 16. When I take these awesome green vball
gloves off and snap, I can create fire and control it. My favorite thing
to do is prank and play volleyball with Blitz." Dawn said, her
green-grey eyes flitting around the room with obvious pent-up energy.
"Yo I'm Blitz. I'm 16, and I control electricity. I like pranking and
volleyball and spazzing out and eating and-" Blitz said.
"Today, Blitz." Dawn interrupted.
"Anyways," Blitz continued. "Where was I? Oh yea. Spazzing, eating, and
boys. I like boys." she said with a smile. Dawn rolled her eyes.
Everyone looked to Julia, who sighed in submission after a moment.
"My name is Julia. I'm 17. I have poison skin and I like to read." she
said quietly. She obviously didn't want to talk, so they moved on.
"Hola, me llamo Carmen Baez. I'm 16 and I can melt into shadows. Soy de
Puerto Rico and I like sports and boys." Carmen said with a hint of
accent.
"Hello, I'm Stephanie, I'm also 16 and I can turn into a ghost. I enjoy
doing anything, really." said Stephanie, playing with her chestnut
hair. There was another moment of silence, as they had gone all the way
around the room. Well, it was silent.
"Ok, now that we've gone around, who says we go ask if we can do
something with these rooms? They're like jail cells!" Blitz bursted out. All
of the other girls murmured in agreement. So a few of them decided to
go ask. A few meaning everyone but Julia and Stephanie, who decided to
stay with her. So the other five scampered on their merry way to the
Professor's office.
-the boy's wing, Hunter's room-
All the boys sat in one room, doing nothing. Being boys, they just
naturally got along for the moment. They were all laying down or almost
laying down. Chris was on one bed, Hunter on the other, Jack on the desks,
Jason on the carpeted floor, and Luke on the chair.
"Shouldn't we introduce ourselves or something?" Chris asked tiredly
from the bed.
"I'm Jack Lewis, 17, can control weather." Jack said without ever
moving the arm across his eyes. He was laying down comfortably on the desk.
"I'm Hunter, I'm 16, and I can blend in to any background." Hunter
pushed his glasses up a bit and shifted on the mattress.
"Jason McMannis, 17, find and project a person's worst fears." came
Jason's voice from the floor.
"I'm Luke DeWenson, I'm 17, and I can project light beams...or
something like that..." Luke said, laying all over the chair. There was a
minute of silence.
"Guess that means it's my turn..." Chris said. "I'm Chris Jameson, I'm
17, and I have super speed."
"Sweet..." said Jack.
"Anyone wanna go exploring?" Luke asked, although he sure didn't sound
like he wanted to.
"Go right ahead." Jason responded.
"Maybe in a minute..." was the response.
-Girls hallway-
"I think I wanna paint my room yellow...with polka dots..." Blitz said.
"I'm thinkin' mine's gonna be blue..." Dawn said.
"I want pink!" said Hailey.
"What are you, four?" Alley asked her jokingly.
"No I'm five silly!" Hailey answered her.
"Where does that hallway lead?" Carmen interrupted, pointing down the
boys' hallway.
"That's the boys' hallway." Alley said.
"Gasp! How did you know that!" Blitz asked in fake appallment.
"My brother went down there." Alley answered.
"Sounds reasonable enough." Blitz said with a shrug and a nod.
-Hunter's room-
"What's that noise?" Jason said from the floor.
"Well I just heard my sister so I'm thinkin-" Jack said.
"Girls?" Chris said. All the heads raised up, then to the door. A
couple minutes later, all the boys were scrambling out of the room and into
the hallway.
-hallway-
The girls had just finished their discussion on the boys' hallway when
they all came tumbling out of the room. Blitz was the first to notice.
Who'da thunk it. She immediately grabbed Carmen and started tapping her
incessantly.
"Carmen. Carmen! Boys! Boys boys!
Boysboysboysboysboysboysboysboysboysboysboysboysboysboys-"
"Shut up, Blitz! We see the boys!" Dawn said.
"They're kinda cute..." Hailey said.
"Si, son muy guapos..." came Carmen.
"Question: Do you always switch from English to Spanish?" Alley said
with actual curiosity.
"Yea. Es a bad habit since I came to los Estados Unidos." Carmen said.
The boys came down the hall and stopped. Everyone stared in silence.
Blitz was the first one to break the silence.
"Hey, I'm Blitz!" she said, sticking out her hand to the first boy, who
was somewhat tall with brown hair and eyes with glasses. Hunter gulped
a little bit nervously and shook her hand.
"I'm Hunter." he said before Jason pushed him out of the way.
"Jason McMannis, nice to meet you." he said with a flirty smirk.
"You're right it's nice to meet me. I'd have to say I'm quite a sexy
acquantance." Blitz said with a challenging smirk, placing her hands on
her hips.
"Obviously this will get us NOWHERE so therefore, I will introduce
everyone!" Dawn said, pulling Blitz back by the wasteband of her jeans. "I
am Dawn. The girl with the blue-grey eyes and dark hair over there is
Alley. Blueberry over there is Hailey and the Latina babe over there is
Carmen. Not pictured are Julia and Stephanie. Julia likes dark stuff
and Stephanie has reddish-goldish kinda colored hair."
"What about me?" Blitz said.
"You already introduced yourself, loser." Dawn said.
"Your mom." Blitz said.
"Your face." Dawn countered.
"Your mom's face. OH WHAT NOW!" came Blitz.
"Your dad." Dawn said with a smirk. Blitz fake gasped.
"Oh NO you didn't!" she said.
"I believe I just did-"
"Ladies!" Alley interrupted. "Why don't we let the boys introduce
themselves?" she said. The boys, however, were just standing there, staring.
Chris was the first to regain his composure.
"Uh right. I'm Chris, tall dark one over therre is Luke, the one that
looks like Alley is Jack, and you've already met Jason and Hunter."
"Pretty flippin' sweet." Blitz said.
"Ok Blitz time to shut up now." Hailey said. Blitz shrugged and nodded
her head in agreement. "We were just going to ask the Professor if we
can paint our rooms because they're grotesquely decorated." Hailey
explained.
"Sounds resonable. We'll wait for you in this room right here, which
would happen to be Hunter's room." Jason said with a wink.
"Interesting..." Alley said. "Anyways...let's go."
The girls went down the central staircase and down a hall that looked
mighty important. They soon found a great oak door with a conveniantly
placed gold name plate that read 'Prof. Charles Xavier'. Carmen knocked
on the door.
'Come in, girls.' he said in their heads. Most of the girls got
startled and looked around the hall. The only ones who didn't were Hailey and,
of course, Blitz.
"Sweet." she said, and opened the door. The Professor was sitting at
his desk, casually looking over some papers.
"What can I do for you, girls?" he asked.
"Well, sir," Alley said, being the calmest of the bunch. "we were
wondering if perhaps we could decorate our rooms? They are very plain and
boring, you see."
"Very well. I will have Logan take you to shop for these things next
weekend. One thing, though: you cannot decorate too crazy. I expect more
students to come during the year and you all will probably end up
sharing rooms." the Professor answered. The girls cheered.
"Thank you sir. Uh...do you have a computer lab or something where we
can look up merchandise on the internet?" Alley asked.
"If you look in your desk drawers you will find that you each have your
own laptops. There is wireless connection in each of the rooms. Please
inform the boys of this, also." the Professor said.
"How rich are you?" Blitz asked stupidly. It was rewarded by a hard
smack on the back of the head from Dawn. "Sorry!" she said quickly. The
Professor just laughed.
"If you think about it, I am basically acting as your parent and
guardian. I need to provide for you. The laptops are going to be used for
many projects this year, and that is the reason you have them. If you make
a list of what you would like to order over the internet, I will give
you each the necessities to purchase them. Go now, have some fun." he
said with a smile. Needless to say, they left. Ran up the stairs, in
fact. Only Dawn stopped and popped her head into the boys' room.
"Hey! Ever heard of knocking?" Chris said from his position on the bed
again.
"Yea! You're unlucky, we could have been changing or something!" Jason
said with a smirk. Dawn rolled her eyes.
"Like you would have anything to hide." she said.
"Burn." said Jack.
"Face." said Luke.
"Mom." said Chris. (a/n: That's all you'll hear in my BCIS class)
"Anyways..." Dawn continued. "The Professor said we can paint our rooms
and that you all have laptops in your desk drawers. See yuh!" She
closed the door and went to go find her new laptop.
"Yea...that's pretty sweet..." Jack said.
"I'm thinkin' I'm gonna take a nap first..." Chris said, yawning.
"You're thinkin' what I'm thinkin'..." Hunter replied.
-Blitz's room-
"Grotesque pink!" Blitz said, picking up the box that contained her
iBook. "Anyone wanna trade?"
"I'll take it!" Hailey said, taking the box. "I've got lime green."
"Ooh I want lime green!" Dawn said, taking that box. "I got blue."
"Me gusta el azul!" Carmen said, taking that box. "I have red."
"I'll take the red!" Stephanie said, grabbing the red. "Purple,
anyone?"
"Me." Julia said, taking the purple. "Orange?"
"I'll take orange." Alley said. "You want yellow, Blitz?"
"Heck yes I want yellow!" she said. "Now, let's get searching! I
seriously want some new linens white is not my style." she said.
The weekend went by quickly, all the teens slowly getting to know each
other. Most got along well, and before anyone knew it, it was Monday
morning. And time for classes.