June was scared. She had never been more scared in her life. Wait, that's a lie, she had been even more frightened before, once before, six years ago…
She looked around searching for the blonde-haired girl named Katie when she noticed someone coming towards her. Sure enough it was the blonde-haired girl she was looking for, she could tell because of her eyes.
The girl walked right up to her and introduced herself. "Hi," she said in a soft sweet voice, "I'm Kaite. Cute dog. Are you June?"
June opened her mouth a little but said nothing, she wasn't sure what to say. How did this girl know her name? Why was she so forward?
"You do talk don't you?" Katie asked, a wider smile on her face.
June nodded, and then told her. "Yes, I speak, I was just, well, surprised. The wolf's name is Eagle."
"It's a wolf named Eagle? Weird."
"You're pretty forward aren't you?"
If it was possible, Katie grinned even more. "Yes, I am, but you'll get used to it, everyone does. Come, I would like you to meet my friends." Katie turned on her heel and started singing 'Amazing Grace' as she led June across the lawn where Matt, Eric and Kit were waiting., and all June could think of was how random and quick the introduction had been, the girl hadn't even been subtle. Was everything in New York, around here that fast?
"Will you ever stop singing, woman?" Kit asked with a smile as soon as his sister arrived. Katie shook her head and continued, but she lowered her voice. "Hi, I'm Kit, and that's a cute dog," he said, giving Eagle a short head rub. "This is Matt and Eric."
"Hey."
"Hey."
June smiled. "Hi, I'm June."
"Yeah, we know, we were snooping through the Professor's files." Eric offered. "You do know about the Professor, right?"
June nodded. "Oro- Storm told me about him." The others nodded.
Katie finished singing her song. "Okay, the formal introductions are over. June and I need to have some serious girl time, okay?" The guys groaned but nodded and left the girls to walk the lawn.
"Okay," Katie started off. "Do you know who you're rooming with?"
"You. Didn't you know?"
"No! Really? This is so cool! C'mon, let's head up." It was more of an order than it was a suggestion.
When the girls reached their room, June sat on her own bed and half-expected Katie to do the same, but instead, Katie stood in the door frame and scanned the room.
"Did they forget to bring your stuff up?" she asked.
"What do you mean? My stuff is right here," June said acknowledging her duffle bag.
"That's it?" Kaite frowned.
June blushed and nodded.
"I don't mean to sound critical, but, sweetie we're going shopping!" Katie squealed crossing to June's bed. June, however lowered her head.
"I don't have any money."
Katie let out a laugh. "Not yours!" Katie opened June's bag, and started putting things away in drawers. "Xavier's, the professor's. The government is funding his school right now… After that whole thing with Stryker, we'll fill you in later, the feds have finally figured that this place might be some use, as long as Xavier keeps his mouth shut. The professor was rich in the first place so… he's got alotta extra cash, if you know what I mean."
June smiled. "Okay."
"You know what? This could be like a girl's day out thing!" Katie closed one of the dresser drawers, walked into the bathroom, and knocked on the door that connected with the other room. "Sunny! Ming! C'mon, we're having a girl's day out thing! Get you butts out here!"
"Wait, we're having it today?" June asked. Back in New Mexico, she would prepare for days before she decided to go into town, she would have to save up gas money, check to see if the old pick-up would even be able to carry her. But, she reminded herself, she wasn't in New Mexico anymore.
There were two more girls standing in their room now. Sunny McNair, a sixteen year-old blonde, stood at 5'8" and was very pleased with her figure now after dropping ten pounds over the past year. Ming Nash was the smallest girl June had ever seen, which really is an understatement seeing as June hadn't really seen that many girls her age. Ming stood at five feet even and probably weighed ninety pounds at the max.
"Hi, I'm Sunny! And this is Ming," Sunny said giving her friend a small hug.
June gave a small wave. "June."
"That's a pretty name." Ming said.
"Thanks!" June smiled.
Sunny turned to Katie. "So what are we talking about?"
"I'm thinking, H&M, Nordstroms, the salon, and then Coldstone." Katie grinned.
"Mmm, ice cream! I'm so in!"
June looked down at her grungy jeans and shirt. "Can I go in this?"
"Uh, the jeans, sure, they've got a cute grungy look to them, but that top is not gonna be warm enough for you in the mall."
Ming smiled and offered, "I think she'd fit your stuff Katie."
Katie nodded, "That's what I was thinking."