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Thanks to all those who have reviewed! Are you enjoying it so far? I hope so!!

I need you're help with something. I was going to originally going to make Jessalyn end up with Kurt, but do you guys think that I should make her end up with Pietro? I'm not sure anymore…so what do you guys think? This won't come into play until a later chapter, but it's just so that I can have my ending figured out!

Well, anyways, enjoy this chapter! ^_^

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The rest of the afternoon went by slowly for Jessalyn. She couldn't believe that she had so much homework.

As she walked through the halls and outside she received many stares, but she shrugged it off thinking that it was just because she was new.

As soon as she stepped outside, she was greeted by the fresh autumn breeze and the crackle of leaves under her feet as she walked. She looked around at all the students in envy, thinking that they all had homes to go to tonight - while she didn't. She lowered her eyes to the ground and reminded herself not to think that way - she should be thankful that she's alive.

'But even that was at a great cost,' she told herself silently. A tear slid down her cheek but she quickly wiped it away hoping that no one saw.

She took a deep breath and continued her way past the happily chattering students. She had just reached the sidewalk when all of a sudden she heard a yelp of pain coming from nearby. She looked to her right and saw a little boy - no more than 7 or 8 years old - on the ground holding his right arm with tears in his eyes. Standing above him were two older boys - about 12 or 13 - laughing at him.

"Oh, the baby got hurt?" One boy commented in a mocked tone.

"Leave me alone!" the little boy cried. "You pushed me! It's your fault!" And he continued to cry.

The older boys just laughed even harder as they threw insulting remarks before walking away.

Jessalyn rushed over to the young boy. "Hey, kiddo, you alright?" She looked down at him with sympathetic eyes.

He looked up at her with sad eyes, but his cries only sufficed to quiet whimpers.

"Those big kids pushed me and I fell and I hurt my arm." He removed his hand from his arm to reveal a large scrape on his forearm.

Jessalyn kneeled down to take a better look.

The little boy let out a small whimper as she touched it. She quickly pulled her hand away as if she had just touched a hot stove.

"It really hurts," the young boy whispered as he looked up at her.

She looked into his eyes and immediately she was filled with pitty for the child.

"Would you like me to make your arm feel better?"

The little boy nodded his head, but was unsure how this girl thought she could make his arm better.

Jessalyn looked at the large scrape before raising her eyes to meet the little boy's tear stained face.

"This will only take a minute, okay?"

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Kurt was standing next to Scott just outside the school doors. They had told Evan that they would wait for him and then leave for the institute together.

Kurt was now just looking around the schoolyard taking in the atmosphere. His eyes stopped on the familiar face of the girl that he had met that morning. She was kneeling down towards a little boy who had a scraped arm. He could feel a smile creep up on his face as he thought about how kind a person she must be to help a little boy that she didn't even know. A lot of people wouldn't even have given him a second glance. He watched curiously as she placed her hands over the boy's arm. She then closed her eyes and looked as if she was concentrating extremely hard on something. She then slowly opened her eyes and removed her hands from the boy. Kurt couldn't believe what he saw! The boy's arm now looked completely normal - it was just as if he had never been hurt at all. The little boy looked down with just as much surprise as Kurt had. He looked up at Jessalyn as a huge smile spread across his face. Kurt saw him mouth the words 'thank-you' as he leaped up and hugged her. He could now see that it was Jessalyn's turn to be surprised as she reluctantly wrapped her arms around the little boy to return the hug. He then saw them exchange a few more words before the little boy skipped merrily away.

"Hey Scott…did you see that?" Kurt tugged on Scott's sleeve without taking his stunned eyes off of Jessalyn. "She just…and he…"

Scott turned around and pushed Kurt's hand off of his sleeve. "Kurt, do you mind? What are you going on about?" And then he turned right back around because Evan had just joined them. "Okay, Kurt. Let's go."

"But…" Kurt started to protest but couldn't finish because Scott and Evan were already quite a ways ahead of him walking towards the parking lot. Kurt reluctantly followed, but not without several glances back towards Jessalyn until she was finally out of sight.