"Do you live here?" Rogue asked as she and Clark walked out of the café. "No. I just come here occasionally. I lived here with my stepparents when I was a kid and I just came to visit them. They were really great to me when I was a kid but I just wanted to get away and live on my own when I turned 18. I live in St.Louis now."

"What happened to your parents?" Rogue asked

"My dad left my mom when I was really young. And my mom died when I was about 5. I just barley managed to survive the fire that killed my mom and my younger sister."

"I am so sorry." Rogue muttered a little ashamed that she had brought up the death of his mother. It must have been dreadful for him to be in a fire that killed his mom and sister at such a young age.

"I was supposed to come here only by 10 but this was the only bus I could find that would get me to New Orleans today." He said trying to fill up the awkward silence that had come up after he spoke about his mother and his sister. "And they aren't exactly early risers so I cant go home till about 10:30 or 11." he continued. " So where are you headed to after this?" he asked her as he sat down on a bench in the middle of what seemed to be a park. Rogue sighed as she sat down and started with the re-entry of "that damned Cajun" in her life and didn't stop until she had told him everything that had happened in the past two days.

He grinned when she finished and said, "So how long do you plan to stay away from that place you live in with all those other kids? And I really don't understand why you live there. I mean is it like a boarding school or something?" Rogue knew that she shouldn't say anything to him about being a mutant. "He'll probably freak out and instigate a mob against me or something." She thought bitterly as she remembered the reaction of all the students in Bayville when they had found out she was a mutant. But she just couldn't help it. It was just so easy to tell him everything. And it felt good to finally tell someone what was going on in her head. So despite everything she explained to him that she was a mutant and about her powers and how they learnt to control them in the mansion. He looked very pale when she ad finished and Rogue said "Yah are just too freaked out by the idea of mutants aren't yah?"

"Hell no. I am a mutant I just never knew that others like me existed."

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