Oops! Sorry about that guys! Thanks for the heads up Stormysongbird!
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I was awaken by a knock at the door. Groggily, I got up and answered it to see Jean Grey leaning against the door frame. Then I remembered that I probably shouldn't have been there.
"Uh," I stammered. "I can explain."
"There's no need." Jean said with a small smile. "I was just coming to find you. We'd better set you up with your sleeping arrangements before curfew. Unless you prefer to just take over your father's room?"
I gave a small smile and followed her down the hall.
"Have you heard anymore about my parents? Have you found them yet?" I asked as we walked.
Jean sighed. "No, not yet. The Professor and I have been working with Cerebro for hours, Scott took a team out to search. Usually we try to keep to ourselves but we even got involved with the Avengers to get them to assist in the search."
Jean read my face and quickly added. "But I'm sure we'll find them soon."
"I hope so. Is there anything I can do to help?" I asked, feeling desperate and useless.
"I don't think so sweetie, unless your mutant ability is being able to locate people at will." Jean said, then made a thoughtful face. "By the way, what is your-"
I was saved by being trampled by two girls the size of bears. They knocked Jean and I to the ground as the ran past, shoving each other.
"Ginny, Tara! What have I told you two about roughhousing?" Jean said sternly. The girls quickly apologised and went on their way. "Honestly, I think we should have a class here that teaches basic indoor rules. Ah, here's your room."
Jean knocked on the door and a seemingly normal looking girl opened it. She peeked her pretty pale face around the door, and stared at us with pleasant brown eyes. "Hey professor, is this our new roommate?"
A voice from a girl still hidden by the door said, "Taren, open the door! I can't see her! Does she have claws?"
The girl, Taren, looked over and frowned. "Uh, manners much Alex?"
"What? Some kids in my history class said that the new kid was Wolverine's daughter!" Alex replied.
Taren rolled her eyes. "My sister can be kind of stupid sometimes, try to ignore her."
I was about to reply when Taren completely opened the door to reveal both girls. Sort of. I forced myself to keep my face straight and not stare at them. Alex and Taren were completely conjoined, two heads on one body. They both had the same pale skin (and curvy, athletic body), but while Taren had chocolate brown eyes and long brown hair in aside ponytail, Alex had hazel brown eyes and short blonde hair. They walked over to one of the two beds and sat down on it. Alex popped a piece of gum in her mouth.
"Want some? Its spearmint." Alex offered, holding out the package of gum. I could see that the nails on the hand on Alex's side was painted pink and green, the hand on Taren's side just had a coat of clear polish.
"Uh, no, that's alright." I declined, forcing a smile.
"Alex, you I hate it when you're chewing gum in my ear!" Taren complained. Alex's only reply was to use her hand to cover Taren's ear closer to her.
"Girls, this is Leah, you're new roommate." Jean introduced, coming into the room and taking a seat in the chair next to a desk. "Leah, these are Taren and Alex Boled."
"Is it true you're Professor Logan's daughter?" Alex asked excitedly. "And Storm's?"
"Um, yup. And no, I don't have claws." I shrugged. "Lame, I know."
Alex laughed out loud while Taren just smiled.
"I have to go back to helping Professor Xavier. Will you two help Leah settle in? She'll need a couple changes of clothes until we can get her set up with a wardrobe, so if you could lend her a few things, that would be great."
"Will do! See yah Professor!" Alex nodded, grinning.
"Thank you." I said as Jean left.
"So Leah, do you want to raid our closet now? Not that your outfit is bad, but you look like you've been through a lot with it." Taren said tactfully. I looked down at my clothes. Yup, it looked like I ran through the woods, fought a robot, and slept in them. I smiled gratefully.
"So wait, if your parents are mutants, why do you need clothing?" Alex asked, completely innocent.
"Lex, don't be so nosy." Taren scolded her sister.
"I just meant, her case isn't like pretty much everyone else's here! Powers develop, parents freak out, kid goes on the run without time to pack." Alex defended herself, then turned to me. "Like for us, I was super sick and dying, right? So the doctor's tell us its probably going to be my last night. The 'rents say their goodbyes and then its Taren's turn. Boom, she touches me and suddenly we're sharing a body. Her body."
I gasped at her story.
"Our parents didn't want freaks for daughters and we had to leave fast." Taren added softly.
"So what's your story?" Alex asked.
I knew I was sort of being impelled into telling, now that they revealed their story. I took a breath. "Well, my parents were taken by the MRD and our house was blown up, so I don't have any clothes."
Their brown eyes widened.
"Whoa, someone kidnapped Wolverine?" Alex asked, saying it like it was as impossible as someone jumping of the CN Tower and walking away without a scratch. "And Storm? Isn't she like a goddess?"
"My mum isn't a goddess, just a superhero." I said, strangely relaxed. Never thought I'd be saying that.
"We've seen Wolverine fight, he taught a few of our classes. They must have had some major advantage to have been able to take them." Alex said, giving a little shiver.
"Lex, I don't think Aly wants to talk about it." Taren said very quietly, intending for only her sister to hear. Alex gave an apologetic smile.
"Sorry, my mouth is faster than my brain." Alex said, shrugging one shoulder.
"Oh, its fine. That's cute." I said, to change the topic, pointing to a white, sleeveless shirt.
"Try it on! We also have this black belt to wear with it." Taren said, rooting through her closet to find it.
"Thank you guys so much for this."
"Don't worry about it. We'll just raid your closet once you get it together." Alex replied.
Once the sisters set me up with a week's worth of outfits, I collapsed on my assigned bed and rolled in my supply of clothes.
"I feel so rich!" I moaned happily. "So much clothes!"
"Stop that, you're going to wrinkle them." Alex scolded jokingly. "And then Taren will go all obsessive compulsive and have to iron them, which means I have to help because you need two arms to iron."
"So are you ready to go down for supper, Leah? They started serving ten minutes ago." Taren asked, as she slapped her sister upside the head (you can not believe how funny that looks with two headed person). "I don't know if you've met anyone else, but you can sit with us if you like."
"Uh, thanks for the offer, but I've made plans already." I answered. When they looked skeptical, I went on. "Eric Craig asked me to eat with him, but we can all sit together or something."
"Eric Craig?" Taren repeated, with slightly raised eyebrows.
"Um, yup."
"As in Fang?" Alex said doubtfully.
Now I laughed as we headed out the door and down the hallway. "Yeah, I guess that's his code name or something. Why?"
"Leah, a lot of girls know him as Fang Ivina Bang. He's one of the hottest guys in school and you already have him eating out of your hand!" Alex said seriously.
"You're kidding me." The little boy that used to eat flowers, was afraid of the dark and had mud fights with me is some kind of mutant pinup boy? Fang Ivina Bang?
"He's sooooo cool!" Alex moaned, flopping back on her bed. Taren looked at her sister with a glare. "He's really smart, super nice, charming, and, have I mentioned how hot he is? He's like on the A list for the X-men when he graduates."
"As you can see, my sister is one of his groupies." Taren drawled with distaste as we past two other students making out on the stairs.
"Hey, I've seen you checking out his cute butt, so don't judge me."
"Wait, so he's not a manwhore or something, is he?" I asked, lowering my voice as my heart sank.
The sisters shared a look before Alex answered. "Nooo…but trust me, if he wanted to be one, there'd be a long line of girls, and a few guys, who'd be happy to help him out."
"So you and Eric are…friends?" Taren asked diplomatically. I knew what she was really asking.
"Yes, and just friends. We were neighbors and best friends when we were younger, but then his mutation expressed and he had to come here." I said. I decided to leave out the whole naked thing, believing that they'd take it the wrong way.
We rounded the corner to show the cafeteria buzzing with talk and movement as people got their dinner. I saw Leah with the same group that she ate with this morning. She saw me and waved before going back to a conversation with Pyro. I hardly noticed though because Eric came up to us with a grin.
"Hi girls, how's it going?" Eric said pleasantly to the twins. Taren blushed, so Alex responded for them. "We're just dandy, Fang."
"That's good. So, uh, ready to go Leah?" Eric said, turning to me.
I raised my eyebrow, "Uh, we're going somewhere?"
Eric just smiled in response and took me by the elbow and began to lead me away.
I heard Alex mutter to Taren. "Just friends my ass."
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