August 21st, 1963, 4:35 P.M

I watched the door as it opened slowly, holding my book defensly in front of me and pushed myself so far into the couch I thought I would sink inside.

"I'M HOOOOOME!" A girl jumped through the entrance, a bubbly teenage girl with short brown hair and bright blue eyes. She wore a light blue tank top with cut off shorts and black flip flops. She looked around, not noticing me at first. "What? No welcoming party? I'm OFFENDED!" she dropped the bag she was holding near the door and acted to be pouting, crossing her arms. When no one came to her calls she sighed and walked forward, finally noticing me. She smiled so big I thought her round cheeks would split.

"Hi!"

"Hi..."

"My name's Samantha Harrison! But you can call me Sam, everyone else does!" she held out her hand, and when I put my book down and took it, instead of a handshake she pulled me out of my seat. "You must be new, hiding in the couch and such! Do you know everybody yet?" I shook my head. She paused, thinking to herself.

"Well we'll just have to change that, won't we? C'mon!" she took my hand and started marching me around. We first went to the kitchen, where Kate was.

"Hey Kate!" Sam greeted. Kate smiled and jumped off the island to hug her.

"Welcome back!" she looked towards me.

"Kate, this is...sorry, I didn't catch your name?"

"Echo..Echo Luv." I said hesitantly, not sure if I liked this person enough to reveal my name but telling her nonetheless.

"Echo! Kate this is Echo, and Echo this is Katherine Argasen, but we call her Kate."

"Nice to meet you."

"Likewise!" Kate hugged me. Next we went into the room heading to the backyard, where a huge staircase was. There was two girls.

"So, dare yourself to show your face here again, huh?" a girl with black hair asked a girl who startled me. She looked like a green lizard, with scales and everything with wings and if I moved my head in a certain position I could have sworn I saw a tail. She glared at the black head.

"Go away Ashleigh. No body cares about you." Samantha coughed to get their attention, and the girls turn to her. The one with black hair smiled.

"Sam! It's nice to see you! Better than seeing her." she glowered at the other, who glared back.

"I want to introduce my new friend, Echo! Echo, this is Ashleigh Walker." She curtsied, and while we talked the one with wings snuck away, head down.

"Who was that..?" I whispered.

"Oh, that? Does it matter?" Ashleigh asked.

"That was Regina Maddison. She's...interesting...Ash and her used to be friends, huh Ash?"

"Yeah, when I was an idiot." she responded, huffing and walking away, saying bye to the both of us. We were heading towards the study room, which felt more like a library, when we passed two girls. Sam introduced them as Kalina Mass and Angelia White.

"But you can call me Kaja!" Kalina told me, shaking my head. Angelia nodded.

"And I guess you're Rainbow now huh, Angie?" Sam pointed out. Angelia smiled.

"Yup! Finally part of the team!" she said excitedly. We passed each other with a hearty good bye and then walked into the study room, where by Professor Xavier's room sat a girl with short black hair with red streaks in it. She was very pale, thin and had three piercings in each ear. She had her arms crossed and legs stretched out in front of her, waiting. She wore a black under shirt with a red jacket with skulls and black skinny jeans.

"Hi! I've never met you before! What's your name?"

"Why should I tell you?" she muttered, then straightened a bit and said "Name's Roxy Lavish."

"Oh...you waiting for Professor X?"

"Yup." Sam nodded then mouthing okay, she took my hand and walked inside the room to a door, and knocked.

"Come in!" a high pitched male voice said, and we walked inside a classroom."

"Hey! I'm just showing Echo here around!" inside was five people. Apparently they all were teachers except for one. There was Professors Havok, Banshee, Beast (whom I already knew), and Hack. Professor Hack's real name Natasha Dugan, but many of the students called her Tasha or Tash. She had brown hair and blue eyes. She wore a plain white t-shirt and jeans. I wondered if any of the teachers here actually got dressed up for classes, but I guess I would find out once classes actually started. With them was a boy who said his name was Aleksandr Harkov. When he spoke he had a Russian accent. He wore a very luminecent green shirt, regular jeans and sneakers. He was very tall, about a couple inches taller than Professor Hack. He had black hair and green eyes, and for some reason seemed flustered when he spoke to me, and wouldn't look at me dirrectly. I shurgged it off, and was dragged away upstairs and we went to one side where a tv was. Sitting in front of the TV was a girl with red hair, and alabaster skin. I didn't get to see her that well when Sam pulled me away, towards the other end of the hall.

"Who was that?" I asked.

"Aislinn O'Callaghan...she's a major...not nice word..."

"Oh..." however I think I would have preferred her over the girl we met next, who was on the computer until she heard us come in, and screamed when she saw Sam. Sam screamed too, and the two rushed over to each other to embrace.

"Echo this is my friend Harper!"

"Harper Baker at your service! I'll do anything to help you settle in here!" she pitched in quietly. Her hair was a dark brown, with a pixie cut style. Her eyes were a combination of gray and light blue. She was very pretty but short, but she had tan caucasion skin with slightly rosy cheeks. She wore a heather blue knit long sleeve top with banded cuffs and hem and red design around her torso, dark blue skinny jeans, and red all-star converse. She seemed shy, but if the way she acted towards Sam was any indication, then she was either just really good friends with her or she was a lot more bubbly than she first appeared to be. I left the two, because they began chatting happily about their summers, and I walked back downstairs to return to my book.

The door knocked, and I was confused, unsure if I should answer it. Deciding since I was the only one in the room, I walked to the door and pulled it open. Outside was a pretty tall guy wearing a short sleeved gray shirt and jeans. His hair was dark brown, like Harper's, but his eyes were a stunning green. He stood beside what seemed to be his father.

"Hi." the boy spoke, in what appeared to be a Scottish accent.

"Hi."

"Is there an adult we can speak to?" the father asked politely. I said sure and went back to the classroom, getting Beast. Beast came back and spoke to the father and to the boy. It turned out the boys name was Aaron Galloway, and he was enrolling. They walked back to the way to Professor X's room, and I sat and watched them leave, wondering if he was just as nervous as I was when I first came here.