AN: I know these last couple of chapters haven't been very exciting, but I had to write them so that Cassy could get settled in a little bit before anymore drama occurs in her life.
Chapter 2
Cassy forced a smile in the face of Jubilee's extreme cheeriness and nodded as she explained where the classrooms were for regular studies. "Jubilee, I was wondering if I could the introductins to the other students around over with first? See I'm not very good at making new friends because I've never had to. I've only moved once in my entire life and all my friends came up to me first."
Jubilee pushed her long dark brown hair out of her eyes and said, "Sure, I so understand where you're coming from. I was the same way when I first came to live here, but everyone's just so easy to get along with and we all know that we automatically have one thing in common." When Cassy gave her a blank stare Jubilee laughed and said, "I forgot that you're like really new. We all have our own personal gifts. That's what makes us all similar, our being different."
Cassy nodded her understanding and sighed at how stupid she felt. I'm such an idiot. Of course she was talking about our powers. It's a school for mutants. What else would she be talking about. God she's probably thinking I'm some sort of retard. Out loud she asked, "Hey Jubilee, how old are you by the way?"
"Seventeen, I ended up here when I discovered my powers about two years ago. Everything electronic in the house just kept going haywire whenever I'd come near it. See my power is that I can create electric sparks from my hands that look like little fireworks. What's your power?"
"I guess it's the power to controll water and a psychic link with water animals. That's what the professor said anyways."
"So, I guess it fits that you've got that blue in your hair then, huh?"
"What're you talkin about? My hair is and has always been midnight black. It's always been my favorite feature."
"When was the last time you looked in a mirror? Nevermind, I think I'll show you our showers before you meet the other students. Honestly if I'd been thinking I'd have said something before, but I was just so excited about you being here. Anyways, as I was saying, you probably don't want to meet any cute guys looking as, um, natural as you do."
Cassy just nodded as she thought about all she'd been through. I really don't want to meet any boys at all right now. I just wish that Aaron were here with me, or better yet that we could be on our own together like planned. She figured she probably did look a mess though and decided that Jubilee was right and that she still wanted to make a good first impression in case she ended up staying for a while. "I must look terrible huh? The thing is, I have no clean clothes. I had actually planned on buying more later."
"Well, um you're a little taller than me, but I think you'd probably fit some of my clothes. It can't hurt to try. What are you by the way, like 5' 8 or something?"
"I'm actually 5' 9. I hate it because I always feel like a giant. Anyways, let's get this done and over with. So are the showers here public like in a dorm does each room have it's own?"
They're community, but the guys have seperate showers from us. Not that that doesn't stop 'em from peekin in every now and again. Especially Bobby, Peter, Ray, and Sam. They're such perverts. I mean I've never peeked in on them, none of us girls would ever stoop so low." Jubilee laughed at the look of disbelief on Cassy's face and said, "Yeah, I know you're one of us. It's just fun to pretend because unlike the guys we've never been caught. Thanks to our secret weapon."
"Huh?" Cassy frowned as they entered a large room with two rows of three beds on each side with a small dresser and lamp next to each bed. "Um is this our room? How do they fit all these beds in here? I mean they're like huge. This room is like practically the size of half my house back home." She laughed as she flopped onto the bed that Jubilee pointed out as hers and said excitedly, "Wow, I could so get used to this. This place is like totally a palace."
Jubilee grinned and pulled out a pair of jeans a tiny purple tank top with a blue butterfly on the front. "Here, I'm pretty sure you can fit these. I got the pants longer so I could wear 'em with heels. The shirt'll most likely fit though 'cause most of your height's in your legs. I wish I had your figure, you're like a model all tall and skinny."
"I am so not skinny. I've got what you'd call a ghetto figure. Anyways, I don't mean to be rude or anything, but I thinks probably bad when you can smell yourself don't you? I really need a shower." Jubilee nodded with a giggle and lead Cassy down the hall to the girls' shower room. Cassy smiled gratefully and headed in. About fifteen minutes later Jubilee heard her scream all the way in the room where she was sitting on her bed writing in her journal.
She ran into the shower to see what had happened and saw Cassy staring at her hair in the middle as she held one of the teal blue streaks framing her face. Laughing in relief Jubilee grinned sheepishly at Cassy and said, "One pointer, unless it's really an emergency don't scream like that around here. We've recently had a very real attack by the government so we're all a little on edge. Oh, wow. Girl you look great. Why don't you keep that outfit? After seeing it on you I know I could never do it justice."
Cassy just shook her head at the ridiculous notion that this gorgeous Asian was less pretty than she was and said, "Thanks, but don't try to make my head any bigger than it is already." She finished combing out her hair and let it fall free to the middle of her back and asked, "So, do I look decent enought to go meet everyone now?"
"Yeah, I think so."
Bobby Drake, his girlfriend Rogue, Kitty Pryde, Sam Guthrie, Ray Crisp, and Piotr Rasputin were sitting in the kitchen munching ona bowl of chips sitting in the middle of the table when Jubilee walked in with a striking young woman right behind her. She had long wet wavy black hair with two teal blue streaks framing her face, wide black eyes with a tiny ,almost unnoticable, blue rings around the pupils, full pink lips, and well-defined high cheekbones. She was slightly taller than Jubilee and had a slim yet toned middle exposed by the tank top. Piotr was the first to jump to his feet followed quickly by Sam, Kitty, and Ray. Peter grinned at her and said, "Hey, I'm Piotr. You must be new here."
The young woman smiled softly and said, "Yeah, my name's Cassera, but you can call me Cassy or C.J." She craned her neck to look Peter in the eyes as she introduced herself and shook his hand. She went through the same ritual with the other three until the only ones she didn't know were Bobby and Rogue. She smiled shyly at Rogue and held out her hand, "Um hi, I'm Cassy. "
Rogue nodded and stood up with Bobby right behind her. She shook Cassy's hand and said with a southern accent, "I'm Rogue and this is my boyfriend Bobby. Welcome to the school. So, what are your powers? Not to sound rude, but I'm sure everyone else would like to know also. And how old are you?"
"I'm seventeen, and from what Professor Xavier says I have the power to control water and communicate with sea-creatures."
"Cool," Bobby said removing his hand from Rogue's waist and holding it out to Cassy, "I can control ice."
As soon as their hands touched Cassy felt a spark shoot up her arm and warmed her entire body. She shook it off as static electricity and sighed as she thought about her boyfriend from home Aaron Smith.
