A/N: A short chapter, sorry, my muse has left me . . . CARTOON NETWORK IS NO LONGER PLAYING X-MEN EVOLUTION IN JAPAN!!! I'm so mad!!! Ahem, but anyways, here's your chapter~~

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Jean sat on her flowered bedspread, wallowing in her own self-pity. Her parents were sending her away, sending her to that school for freaks; sure, it was just for a trial basis, but the fact that her own parents were sending her away crushed her heart into thousands of brittle splinters. "They don't love me anymore,"