Chapter 6- School
It was 5:45 am when he heard the door open and saw Kurt waking him up. "What the hell? Don't you guys know what time it is?" Bryan spat in his face.
"Hallo, good morning to you, too. I guess we were gracious to let you sleep in today, weren't we?" Kurt said with a wide smile.
"Ugh, you people are insane!" Bryan said, still not even able to entirely open his eyes.
He got up and got dressed, more black clothing. He paid no notice to the fact that Jack wasn't there when he awoke; in fact he had suspected that he wouldn't be.
He got up and noticed that Kurt was right, all of the other kids were awake and about, and Xavier was waiting for him.
"Good morning, Bryan. I trust you had a good night sleep?" Xavier asked.
"God Xavier, you think that I would have a few more days to get adjusted, and not to mention that, it's still an odd thought for me to go to sleep when it's dark out." Bryan remembered the long nights he had in Europe, as Simon had convinced them all it was much easier to work at night then it was at day.
"Well, I'm sure that there will be no problems with you at school today?" Xavier asked.
"No, professor. Is my brother going to school?" Bryan asked quickly.
"I'm afraid not, Bryan. It seems he has some new… contacts that he insists is far more important than any schooling. But I don't think schooling is too important as far as he's concerned, he knows everything he needs to know in life. You, on the other hand, theirs plenty of things for you to learn." Xavier left, and Bryan went to the kitchen to get some breakfast.
He found himself literally eating a donut every five seconds it seemed, and even Kurt looked disgusted by it.
"You look like you haven't ate in like, a long time." Kitty commented.
He wiped his mouth and smiled. "Haven't had breakfast in over four years." He continued eating.
When it was time to go to school, they got a ride with Kitty. Kurt appeared scared stiff, and after driving, even Bryan could feel his stomach being uneasy.
"Well like, that guy who cut me off was rude, wasn't he?" She said as Kurt bent over and vomited.
"God, remind me vhy I always get rides vith you?" Kurt said.
"So Bryan, we've got first period in PE, just like follow Kurt and you'll be able to find out where the locker room is, we'll help you find out where the rest of the stuff is later." She said running after the boy named Lance.
"So are their any other mutants in our PE?" Bryan asked Kurt, trying to make small talk.
"Ja, four mutants, four students." Kurt said laughing while Bryan had a dumbfound look on his face.
"I thought you guys said people were warming up to the whole mutant thing?" Bryan asked, still a little shocked.
"Definite improvement, ja. In all your other classes, you'll have plenty of other students in them. Trust me, but parents, nor the students for that matter, really like the idea of being in PE with mutants. I have to say, I disagree with practically everything that people say about us, but that is one of the few things I can understand." Kurt said.
"Yeah, I guess." Bryan replied calmly. "So what do you do, then? Play basketball or stuff like that?" Bryan asked.
"Nein. Ve mostly just hang out and talk, or at least Kitty and Lance do. Toad and me usually call each other names, and do nothing other than that. The teachers take attendance, and then leave." Kurt said with a frown on his face.
They arrived, Bryan got checked in for the class, and much to his displeasure Kurt was right, the teachers wanted nothing to do with this PE class. Some of the supposed 'teachers' apparently didn't even show up for this period, and he didn't even have to dress down. He was quite shocked at everything that was happening.
"Well like one good thing is that no one will vandalize your locker or anything. Trust me, that gets so annoying." Kitty told him, trying to ease up his mood.
"So Kitty, is this new punk that you said was at the institute?" Lance said yelling at him. Bryan gave him a good luck, and then nodded.
"She told me the truth about who you really are, Youngst. But don't worry, even though our secrets out, yours will remain secret." Lance said
"Thanks, I guess." Bryan replied.
"Just stay outta my way and you'll be fine." Lance said going back to his conversation with Kitty.
Kurt walked up closer to him. "Damn, I thought Kitty vas more intelligent than that. Vell, I guess that is only to be expected when you're in love." He chuckled.
"Yo, Kurt why don't you take off that watch and show the people how ugly you really are, ya know?" Toad said.
"Shut up, Toad! Vhy don't you go take a shower or something?" Kurt screamed at him.
"Hey yo, where's all this hostility comin' from? Oh well, time for breakfast yo, talk to ya' later, blue person!" Toad said as he hopped off, leaving the gym.
Bryan looked at Kurt dumbfounded, he had heard them talking and calling him not normal looking before, but he looked as normal as any of the other kids.
"What did he mean by that?" Bryan said curiously, and now Kitty had taken an interest in it, and Lance left to join Toad.
"Like, you've never shown him, have you Kurt?" Kitty said to Kurt with a confused Kurt.
"Nein." Kurt looked around anxiously, making sure that no one was around them. Then he changed, into a blue creature.
Bryan blinked his eyes once, and then just stared at him for a moment. "So, is this the reason you're always called elf and blue boy?" Bryan said.
"Ja" Kurt said with his head down.
Bryan nodded, realizing now all the trauma that the kid most of had to endure in his life. But he wouldn't pity Kurt though; he knew that would only make matters far worse.
"You look pretty cool." Bryan said, and Kurt looked up and had a grin across his face.
"You think so?" He said with a happiness that couldn't be fake.
"Yeah. I myself would love to have claws. And besides, looks don't matter, and where it does count, you have a good heart." Kurt nodded and smiled. Looks like he was expecting that.
"I thank you for being nice, but unfortunately people inside those classrooms von't share the same views." Kurts voice echoed around the gym, and he pressed a button on his watch, and he looked like a human again.
"Humans, who cares what they think? A bunch of low life bastards who only care about their looks and can't accept anything different." Bryan said clenching his fist.
He looked at the puzzled looks on Kurt and Kitty, and laughed. "Sorry, I guess I'm still not quite over the brain washing Simon gave me." He added a few more laughs.
"Vhatever." Kurt said. "Alright, I promised that I would meet Amanda after class, so I'll talk to you later Bryan. Later Keety!" He said running off.
Bryan now just looked at the clock now, waiting for the first period to end. He looked down at his schedule, trying to waste time when he noticed Kitty was staring at him.
"Did I do something funny?" He asked, and saw that she was trying to read him.
"No like, it's just odd. You're all dark and gloomy, and stuff. And then you're just like, really nice to him. Hard to figure you out, I guess." She said.
"What am I going to do? Tell him that I want nothing to do with him? And besides, you can tell he's a good individual." He said walking out of the gym.
He realized that he should have asked her where his next class was, as he arrived into the class five minutes late. He handed his English teacher the note, and he was officially enrolled into Ms. Finch's class, and she wasted no time making sure that everyone knew he was a mutant.
"Students, I would like to introduce you to Bryan Onith, he's from the Xavier School." She said announcing to the class, and their were many stirs and screams and whining about that.
Bryan took a seat that was empty, near the back of the classroom, and when the teacher was finished giving instructions, she called him up.
"Alright," She said not trying to look in his voice. "If you use your powers in this room you will be kicked out of this classroom, and will not be allowed in for the rest of the year, understood?" Bryan shook his head. "Alright, since you've missed so much, I'm going to give you the opportunity to get yourself made up for." She said reaching onto her desk and pulling out a thick stack of papers. "These are all the assignments that have been given out. You will have three weeks to finish them. These include the ones that are to be done within the next few weeks, and they include what were doing right now, which is just a group project, now you can get started on these assignments now, or later. It doesn't really matter all that much to me. Now, get to work." Bryan took them and went back to his seat
When he got their he noticed their were three people there, one looked like a hot shot jock, and the other two were attractive females, something that he never really had time to deal with.
"God, mutant or not, that is just plain cruel of a teacher. Looks like your month is booked up!" The boy said.
"No kiddin" Bryan replied.
"I'm Josh Matthews. This here is my girl, Sarah, and this is her best friend, Samantha." He introduced himself and his friends, to Bryan's surprise. He looked at the girls, both brunettes, and both cute faces, and he was shocked to see them smiling at him.
"Excuse me for being a little more than surprised. But I kind of thought people well, I thought that people hated mutants." Bryan explained his surprised look.
Samantha giggled. "Oh, you have no clue how much we loathe your kind!" Now her and the girl Sarah were laughing hard. Bryan frowned in confusion.
"It's not like that. We whine about mutants, but really I think we've matured. Besides, their was a kid that I had in one of my classes last year, Bobby Drake, he was too funny for me to hate him, and I accepted him as someone else. I think most people have learned to do that as well." Samantha insured him.
"Yeah." Josh chuckled. "As long as we show hatred to mutants in front of our parents and Principle Kelly, no one gives us any trouble about talking to a mutant. My brother, Duncan, hates mutants. But then I guess you could ask your friend Jean as to why that is." He laughed, and Bryan looked confused.
They started working on their project, and Bryan's curiosity made him ask the question. "So, what are you guys doing?"
"Oh, well it's kind of odd, our history and English teachers decided to do a joint project together. We're doing it on that one book, Most Bizarre Murders. In history, we're doing days of going over the reports of all the incidents in the book, only to have a final test at the end of it. In this class, we have many options, this group is doing a project on the Youngst family." Bryan's eyes shot up with curiosity at what Josh was saying.
"Yeah, each one of us is doing it on the other three that no one has any news about." Samantha sighed. "Josh is doing Simon, Sarah is doing Jack, and I'm doing Bryan." She said, and Bryan had a hard time trying not to laugh.
"Yeah, our history class has already gone over it, or at least me and Josh have, miss intelligence hasn't yet. Odd, our normal history classes have already gone over them while advanced hasn't yet, odd." Sarah said sarcastically to her.
"Yeah, well I have it next period, so I'm sure we'll go over it then." Samantha said.
"Wait, you have advanced history next period? Who's your teacher?" Bryan asked, trying to talk like a normal kid.
"Mr. Walter." She replied.
"Sweet, me too." Bryan said.
"Really? That's cool. I have no one to really talk to in that class. I'm the only freshman, or was I guess I should say." She showed her beautiful smile to him. "Alright, I guess I'm going to fill him in, do you have a problem with that, guys?" They shook their heads no.
She went over to where she could see him clearly; she was rather small, not too short She was barely taller than Kitty. She wore blue jeans that cut off at the ankles, and a yellow shirt. Bryan couldn't answer to himself why he was even thinking about stuff as unimportant as this, he just knew that he was.
"So, I guess the first thing to ask is, are there any mutants in the class?" Bryan asked hopefully.
"Yup, two actually, well kind of. This is mostly a sophomore class, with some juniors as well. Theirs a girl named Amara, I'm pretty sure that she's a mutant. And also Kurt, he's a TA." She said to Bryans delight.
She looked outside the door and he could see fear on her face. "Is that a friend of yours, or something?" She asked him, and he looked out.
It was a man in all black, like him at this moment. He was looking right at him, and then he looked at him with his left lip curled up into what could be considered a smile. Simon. He knew. They stared at each other until the bell rang, then he followed Samantha to her locker, and then to their history class, where he saw Kurt.
"Kurt, I need to talk to you." Bryan said the second he ran into them.
"Is it about that freaky man? Keety ran into him apparently, and vas spooked out. She said he, teleported, or something like that." Kurt said looking freaked out himself.
Bryan bent closer into his ear. "That was Simon." He whispered, and Kurt's freaked out face went to that of horror.
"You'll hafta talk to the professor later." Was all that Kurt said on the subject.
Bryan was seated between Samantha and Amara. He had never talked to Amara, he had seen her at the Institute before, but that was all. He kept that tradition alive, and they did not say a single word to each other throughout the class period.
It was almost ironic. They were watching a video on his family, and the tragedy that had happened, and he had just seen Simon. He barely even watched the video, and noticed a few concerned looks from Kurt, and even some from Amara. Throughout the whole thing he noticed Samantha giving him more than one suspicious look.
At the end of the class he checked his schedule, and it appeared him and Samantha had sixth period together, which was math.
He got Kurt to lead him to his Computer Lab class. When he got in there he saw Kitty in there.
"Like, hey. Did Kurt tell you about the guy wondering around the campus?" Kitty asked excited.
Bryan did the same thing he did with Kurt, and whispered into her ear. "It was Simon." She blinked, and tried to play it cool.
"Oh, like let's get started. How's your day been so far?" She asked him, showing the 'why did you have to tell me that' look on her face.
"Okay. English wasn't bad at all. In history, Kurt's my TA it seems, and we got to watch an interesting video on the Youngst family." He said with a smirk.
She whispered this time. "How wrong is the accuracy?" She asked, the curiosity obviously sparking the question.
"The good friend they had talking about me, I met him once in my life. They also got most of the other things wrong, too." She giggled, and they got on with the class.
He realized how technologically disabled he was, although Kitty kept on assuring him that in one fifty-five minute period, he had learned what it took most students one month to learn.
His fifth period was Biology, a subject that he was actually pretty good at, or so the entrance test told him that his teacher had given. The girl Sarah that he met in his English was there, although she didn't say a word to him. He figured this would probably be the worst class that he had to deal with on his schedule as it came to Mutant struggles.
Sixth period was math, and Samantha agreed to help him out in that subject. He took notice of how eager she was to be willing to help him, and from the stuff he was hearing the other students say, it appeared that they had noticed it as well.
It ended soon, and they walked out the class together.
"So, I'll see you later." She said and Bryan nodded his head and walked out to his car.
"So like, is that your new girlfriend?" Kitty teased as he hopped in.
"Yeah, right. Let's just go. I hope Jack is back." Was all Bryan would say, although Kurt and Kitty wouldn't drop the subject.
"Ja, she is a really nice girl, Bryan." Kurt yelled into his ear, and after that they were at the institute.
When he got there Xavier was waiting for him, and Jack stood right next to him.
"He was there, wasn't he?" Jack asked.
"Yeah. He's a lot more powerful, just like Robert said he was." Bryan frowned.
Jack gawked at the comment. "We'll have to see if that's enough for him to survive." Jack stormed out of the room, slamming the door.
"Well, it seems as though you've had quite a first day. I trust you have a lot of homework." Xavier said, dismissing him.
Bryan spent the remainder of the day in his room, coming up for only dinner.
Jack eventually came down to his room, and carried an annoyed look on his face.
"Did he say anything?" Jack asked.
"Nothing. He just glared at me. He was far more powerful than me at this moment, but he was still, nothing compared to what…" Bryan looked down at the ground.
"Yes, I don't expect him to be anything compared to that until he goes all the way. Which I don't suspect he will do for a little bit." Jack said. "Now, get some sleep, do you have any idea at what time it was?" Bryan supposed he didn't, but at this moment it wasn't something he was particularly interested in.
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