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It was night. On the foot of the stairs there was a school statue. It was a statue of the world with a large "X" on it. No-one would dear vandalize it because everyone felt proud of it. SPLAT. An egg hit the statue and broke. The egg slowly slid down it making a sticky mark. SPLAT. Another one hit. Rogue stepped out of the shadows and wrapped toilet paper around the statue. She smashed more eggs on the statue till it looked gooey and disgusting. She put the eggs and toilet paper into a bag that Dawn brought that day. Rogue made her way up too the room she shared with the other girls. She walked over to Dawn's bed and shook her.

"Dawn wake up I have to show you something" said Rogue.

"Huh, Rogue its 2:00am" said Dawn sleepily

"It's important, hurry" said Rogue. Dawn got out of bed and rubbed her eyes. Rogue grabbed her hand and pulled her out of the room and down the stairs.

"Oh my god, Dawn, look" said Rogue. Dawn's eyes widened at the statue.

"Who would do a thing like thins?" asked Dawn

"Wait here, I'll get help" said Rogue. Rogue ran off. Dawn stood staring at the vandalised statue. Everything was silent. Suddenly Dawn got pushed from behind. She fell onto the statue getting egg all over her. Dawn head the sound of footsteps. A whole crowd of people came and grouped around the statue. Everyone started gasping and whispering. Storm came at the front of the crowd.

"Okay everyone, go back to bed, nothing to see here" said Storm. Rogue came up to Storm.

"I found this bag under her bed, its got eggs and toilet paper in it" Rogue held out the bag she shoved stuff in earlier.

"Dawn come with me and Rogue make these people go away" said Storm. Rogue started shooing people away. Storm picked up Dawn's bag and led Dawn down a few darkened hallways. They came to a door. Storm knocked on it, opened it and led Dawn inside. It was a bedroom. Xavier was sitting in her wheelchair in his nightclothes and nightcap.

"Dawn please sit down" said Professor Xavier pointing to a chair "Oroco you can go". Storm left. Dawn sat down letting her hair fall in front of her face.

"I didn't do it" said Dawn. Xavier wheeled his chair in front of Dawn's chair. He picked up the bag on the way.

"Please tell me what happened, Dawn" said Xavier looking concerned.

"Well, Rogue told me to come down stairs and I saw the statue. Rogue went and got a teacher then someone pushed me and I got egg all over me" explained Dawn motioning to her egg covered nightdress. Xavier rubbed his chin.

"I don't have enough time to figure this out. I have to go places tomorrow. I'm sorry Dawn I'll have to give you a months detention" said Xavier "is that okay?"

"I guess" sighed Dawn. Xavier said what class she had to go to for detention and then dismissed her. Dawn slowly made her way to her room. She got glares from a few students loitering around. When she got to her room Multi, Sarah and Rogue were talking in whispers. They stopped when Dawn entered. Dawn stared at them then, taking a large tee-shirt, she went to the toilet and changed out of the egg covered nightdress. When she got back to the room it was dark and all the girls were asleep. Dawn lay down and fell to sleep dreaming about false accusations.

Sarah woke her in the morning. Dawn groaned and hid her head under her pillow to get away from the light.

"Dawn, get up, time for school" said Sarah, she sounded impatient. Dawn was getting dressing in a fish net long sleeved top with a singlet over it, bondage pants and a baggy black coat. She left her black hair down and thickly put black eyeliner on her eyes. She also wore her Ankh and spike collar. Multi and Rogue had already left so it was only Sarah and Dawn. Sarah was wearing a knee length denim skirt and a dark blue long-sleeved tee-shirt. She had put her brown hair into a ponytail with a few curls hanging around her face. Sarah gave Dawn a black shoulder bag.

"Xavier gave me this to give to you; there are pens, pencils and other stationary. The teachers will give you your books. You also have a locker. Its number 296 heres your key" Sarah gave Dawn the key.

"Thanks Sarah" said Dawn

"Yeah" said Sarah like she was not interested "heres your timetable. First class starts in 20 minutes. I'm going" Sarah gathered all her stuff and left. Dawn fed her fish, grabbed her walkman, put the headphones on her head and turned it on full blast. She made her way to the canteen. Dawn's music drowned out peoples whispering but not their stares. Dawn grabbed some toast, sat down and turned off her walkman. Dawn started looking around. Two girls on the next table stared at her for a second then burst out laughing and started whispering to each other. Dawn glared at them. She realized everyone else was staring at her. She took the rest of her toast and went to where the lockers were kept. Because she didn't know where they were kept she asked a person in the corridor. He looked at her strangely and kept on walking. She heard laughter behind her. Dawn was getting annoyed; she turned around to confront the person. It was Shock.

"God, these people can be so mean sometimes" said Shock "so, looks like we have detention together"

"Yeah, it does" said Dawn "Shock, do you know where the lockers are?". Shock directed Dawn to the lockers. The first class bell went. The crowded hallways piled into classrooms. Dawn was alone in a empty hallway. She quickly found her locker, put some books in and hurried to her first class, World Geography. She found the room and knocked on the door. Storm opened the door and let dawn in.

"Ahh, heres our new student" she led Dawn to the front of the classroom "Dawn Martin is her name and she came here about a month ago… you haven't seen her because. We wont get into that now.. Dawn comes from Australia" Storm pulled down a large map from the roof. It was a map of Australia.

"She comes from Western Australia" Storm pointed around the Western Australian part.

"around here" circling part of it "you will all get this sheet" she held up a sheet with a small map of Australia on it "label all the capital cities, Simon please hand them our". A boy came up, collected them and gave the extras back to Storm. She gave one to Dawn.

"Sit up the back Dawn". Dawn made her way down the back. Everyone was staring at her. Dawn put her bag next to the wooden desk and sat down. She looked around. She didn't notice anyone she knew so she got on with her work. Everyone was turning around and chatting to their friends about the answers. Storm left the room to make photocopies of the sheet for another class. Everyone started talking louder and a few girls walked over to their friends on the other side of the classroom. Some other people were crowded around listening to phone ring tones. The noise of everyone was great. Someone threw a paper ball at Dawn. She picked it up from her desk, unfolded it and read it.

"GOTHIC LOSER" was written in large capital letters. Dawn ripped it and threw it on the ground. She was annoyed as the paper placed itself back on her desk in perfect order of words. Then it formed into a paper man. It did a little tap dance and then ripped itself up. Storm walked in the room and tried to stop the noise with no prevail.

"Quiet" she said. No one listened. Lightning flashed and thunder rolled.

"QUIET" yelled Storm. Everyone fell silent and all went back to their seats. The bell went with a shrill ring. Everyone packed their stuff and went to their other classes. The rest of the day was uneventful despite accusing stared, evil glances and inaudible whispers. At lunch she was delighted with the large library with authors ranging from Enid Blyton to Raymond E. Feist. The library was a luxury compared to the few books her foster father owned. She had maths and art with Shock and, she found out later, had Rogue and Bobby in her world geography class even though she didn't see them. At the end of the day she went to the detention room but because her class was kept back she was 5 minutes late. She barged into the room.

"I'm sorry I'm late" said Dawn. The teacher, an old lady with grey hair and glasses, looked up.

"That's alright. What is your name?" asked the teacher

"Dawn, my names Dawn" said Dawn

"Oh, okay, you can sit down now Dawn" said the teacher. Dawn looked at the classroom. Only one person was there, its was Shock. Dawn went up to the Desk next to him and sat down.

"Please take out homework you have to complete and sit quietly and do so. I don't think I'll have any trouble with you two". Shock and Dawn got out their homework. The teacher, Mrs Cummings, pulled out a woman's magazine and started reading it. After a while Shock scribbled a note, ripped it out of his book and handed it to Dawn. It read.

"Do you want to play cards?"

"Won't Cummings see us?" Dawn wrote back and handed it back to Dawn

"I don't think we'll have any trouble. Just look at her". Mrs Cummings had her eyes closed and was snoring softy. Dawn stifled a giggle. Shock put his chair next to Dawn's table, pulled out a pack of cards and started shuffling them.

"So how was your first day?" asked Shock in a whisper so not to wake Mrs Cummings. Dawn told him about her day in detail as he dealt out the card and they started playing "Uno". Shock felt sympathetic about how everyone had treated Dawn in her classes. Soon they got so absorbed in their game they forget to be quiet. Soon they were laughing and talking loudly. Mrs Cummings woke with a start and looked at the clock.

"You can go now" she said to them. Shock and dawn got their things and left.

I've got guitar lessons now so ill see you tomorrow, bye" said Shock

"Bye" replied Dawn as Shock walked in the opposite direction. Dawn went to her room and put her bag down. She grabbed a book she borrowed from the library and went outside. She sat under the shade of a tree and read. She ignored all the stares and whispers even though they were causing her emotional harm. After a while it grew dark. Dawn went inside, skipped dinner and went to bed. She wasn't prepared for any more glances and whispers.

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Okay people; just remember that Dawn got taken to Xavier's because she couldn't be located on Cerebro.

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