Chapter Four: You Are Who You Choose to Be
"Running away?" Kitty asked, suddenly next to me. It had been two days since I had damaged Chris' car. I was sitting at the bus stop waiting for the bus that would take me to a small town just outside of Charlotte.
"It's not like I can go back," I replied.
"Where will you go?"
"Charlotte," I replied. "My aunt lives there."
"There are other options," Kitty said, matter-of-factly.
"Kitty, I can't afford to pay for that car I damaged."
"But you can come with me."
"And go where? New York? There's nothing for me there."
"There's everything there, Carson. You could learn to use your gift for good."
"This isn't a gift!" I shouted. "Water kills! Water killed my father and turned me into a monster." I was crying now. "This is a curse and I don't want it. I just want to be like everyone else. My goal in life is to be invisible. And that's the one thing I'm good at."
"Carson, you may see water as only a murderer. But don't forget, you saved my life. Yes, there are bad mutants out there who cause train wrecks and blow up cities. But there are also good mutants. None of us asked for our powers. None of us asked to be the butt of humanity, to be treated as different because of the way we were born. I never asked to be feared by my own mother."
"Stop talking to me like I'm one of you! I am not a mutant! I am not a dirty mutant! I don't have powers!"
"Carson, whether you want to believe it or not, you are one of us." I realized that Kitty was crying too. "Obviously, you have accepted it because if you hadn't, you wouldn't have trashed Chris's windshield. You don't have to be a monster. You are who you choose to be."
A/N: I know it was short but i'm trying to build something up for the next chapter...