Galla put her back to the door and slid down into a sitting position. Why did all of this have to happen to her? What had she ever done? "Why do have to be cursed?" She murmured into her knee. She laid her head down and her knees and slowly slipped into sleep.
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Alex stood looking at the door. Why had she pulled away? Was he a bad kisser? "Why do have to be cursed?" He murmured. Not realizing that Galla was thinking the same thing at the moment he walked of in search of Storm.
"Alex?" Alex nearly jumped out of his skin before he turned around to find Aurora staring at him.
"Storm! Don't scare me like that!" Aurora put a hand on the boy's shoulder and looked into his eyes.
"What's wrong? You're never this jumpy unless something's wrong." Alex frowned. He resented the fact that she could read him like an open book.
"It's your sister." He murmured just barely audible. Aurora frowned and ushered him into her office.
"Tell me what happened." Alex told her about the three hours they had spent together.
"And then when we got to the door… I kissed and she went into her room and that's all that happened!" Storm looked at him with a quizzical eye.
"Alex, you are the most terrible liar I've ever met. Now tell me the truth. What REALLY happened?" Alex begrudgingly told her what really happened in full detail. "Hmmm. Sorry but I haven't seen my sister in 11 years so I have no clue why she would do this. Why don't we see if we can figure it out after dinner? Which by the way is in ten minutes so you don't have to wait to long." Alex nodded and took his leave to get ready for dinner.
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The dining room was the usual bustle of talk and chatter. Galla had Evan on one side of her and Storm on the other both talking at once trying to catch up on everything. She was getting quite a headache as they asked question after question, which she answered quietly.
Scott was sitting across the table next to Jean and Alex talking to them about the trip to Spain the professor had just scheduled for winter break. He looked over at Alex and saw that he wasn't eating. "What's the matter bro why aren't you eating?" Alex just shrugged.
"I'm not very hungry." He stated solemnly pushing his plate away. "May I be excused professor?"
"Hold on a little longer Alex we just sat down. You can go in a couple of minutes." Alex nodded and sat back in his chair with a sigh. He looked around the table not really looking at anything unparticular when those piercing green eyes caught his deep blue ones. For a second Alex saw what looked like apologies and sadness in those eyes but they quickly changed to the impassive glare that matched the one Storm held.
Galla looked outside wondering how much longer she was going to have to listen to her nephew babble. She noticed the sun was setting and the stars were beginning to show. Then she remembered. "Storm what's the date?" She asked in a very worried tone.
"It's the 26." Galla grabbed a little book out of her back pocket and began searching frantically through it. She found the page she was looking for and an expression of pure horror showed on her face. She through down the book and ran out of the hall.
Where are you going Galla? the professor asked through her mind.
I have to go! Stay away from me and STAY OUT OF MY MIND! the professor heard the last bit and she cut him off.
"Storm your sister has one very strong telepathic abilities. She pushed me out of it, which no one has been able to do. I have a feeling that animals add to that power. We will have to test that theory some time. But for now do you have any idea what's wrong?" Storm shook her head gravely.
"Professor would this be of help?" Jean asked. She held up the book that Galla had been searching through. She began flipping through it, looking at the pages intently. "It's schedule. But the only thing marked in here are the moon rotations." Rogue, who was sitting next to Jean, leaned over and looked.
"Why are all the dates with full moons circled in bright red?" Jean just now noticing what she was looking at flipped to the day's date. It was circled in the same red as the other full moon dates were. "Isn't there a legend about a guy who got bitten by a wolf once and for then on whenever the moon was full he would turn into a wolf?"
"Yeah I've heard of that. But there's no way. Is there?" Kurt asked shoving a very big fork full of spaghetti into his mouth. The professor sighed.
"You of all people Kurt shouldn't be saying anything is impossible. In fact I hope none of you think that, as you have seen enough not to. Rouges suggestion could very well be true and we have to consider it a possibility. Now I suggest we continue eating because Galanna told me to stay away. So for now we will honor her wishes." They continued eating all the previous conversations dying down.
Storm was about to go put her plate in the kitchen when there was an earth-shattering scream. Aurora dropped her plate on the ground and ran and an air splitting speed. Now the students had seen Storm walk, float, fly, and other odd ways of getting around, but they had never seen her run. They quickly followed her, stepping around the broken glass shards.
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Galla grabbed her head as another shot of pain erupted there. (Why did this have to come so soon? For once I found a place that I am happy at and they're going to kick me out. Even my sister won't want me after this.) She let out another ear piercing scream and the pain was gone.
~*~
Storm was desperately trying to break open the door to Galla's room when the rest of the team arrived. She pointed her finger and the knob about to send a lighting blot at it when the Professor held her back.
"Wait Storm. Something's wrong." He concentrated trying to find Galla's mind. Galla! Galla! He called to no avail. "I can't sense her mind anywhere. I since some kind of mind that's alien to me. It seems to be that of… of an animals." Everyone fell silent at the last few words. It seemed that Rouges suggestion was true.
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