Anna Calahan ran her fingers along the spines of the books in the library. Her lips frowning as she kept feeling the books, searching for one to read.

"Hey, Annie, wanna come outside and play catch?" Jamie asked holding up a baseball glove and bat.

"It's Anna, and no thank you. I'm trying to find a book."

"Then why don't you just look at the titles?"

"Can't see them," Anna almost snapped frustrated from not being able to see, and having been treated differently by most the people around school and the Institute.

"Oh, your the blind girl!" Jamie said suddenly understanding.

"Yup, I'm Anna, the blind girl."

"Oh, I'll go see if Roberto and Sam want to play." Anna heard Jamie run out of the room, probably embarrassed by Anna's condition. Anna shook her head and finally gave up on finding something to read. She sank into one of the huge cushioned chairs scattered around the library. Head in her hands she felt the tears slide down her face. It was so hard here. At the Thorne Academy, Ms. Thorne had made sure there were just as many braille books in the library and Anna had every advantage so she could be part of the social aspects of the school.

"Anna? Anna, are you here?" Anna lift her head.

"Yeah, Gilly, to your left," Anna called back after figuring out which direction to voice had come from.

"There's a phone call for you, on the mansion phone line."

"Thanks, um, where's the nearest phone?'

"Right here," Anna felt Gilly's furry paw hand her a cordless phone.

"Thanks, Gilly," Anna said hearing Gilly slinking off.

"Hello?

"Anna?"

"Yeah," Anna tried to recognize the voice, but it didn't sound familiar.

"Um, you don't remember me. It's Fred, Fred Dukes, from school?" Anna thought for a second.

"Oh, Fred, hi! I didn't know you had my number."

"Lance has the number, cause he's um, dating Kitty."

"Kitty? The valley girl one?"

"Yeah, her."

"She's annoying."

"Yup, hey, um, do you understand the homework?"

"Yeah, why, do you need help?"

"I don't understand it at all."

"Which part?"

"Um, all of it. I can't read all these words."

"Why don't I come over and help you? I'll bring my book and read the stuff aloud, would that help you?"

"A lot, I'll have Pietro pick you up. He'll be there in a minute."

"Okay, I'll be there soon Fred," Anna smiled as she hung up the phone and grabbed her braille copy of the text book. Her smiled widened when she heard the doorbell a few seconds later.

"That's for me," Anna called shoving her book in her backpack and walking down the stairs slowly.

"HiyoumustbeAnna!" Pietro said in usual super speed, Anna nodded. She was used to Mercy speaking super fast.

"Hangontight. Let'sgo." Before Anna knew it, she felt the wind rushing past her face, then everything stopped.

"We'rehere!" Pietro announced. Anna took a few steps, using her staff to try and feel around her.

"Anna, over here," Fred yelled a little surprised that Anna had actually come willingly.

"Hi, Fred, ready to start working on our homework?"

"Yeah, I guess, c'mon, I'll show you to my room. No one will pester us there." Anna nodded following the heavy thud of Fred's footsteps. She didn't see Todd and Lance exchange glances.

"Five on yes," Todd said.

"You're on. Five on he'll ask her out in less than a week."

"Heycountmein. Tenonnextweek," Pietro added as Todd collected the money and put it in the betting tin.

"Hey, had anyone seen Anna?" Roberto asked sticking his head into the living room.

"Yeah, she went to some guy named Fred's house," Adri said tossing a piece of popcorn into her mouth, not taking her eyes off the TV.

"Fred? Fred Dukes?" Adri shrugged bored with Roberto's interruption already. "Adri, this is important!"

"And my show's not?"

"No, it's not." Roberto said flipping of the TV and looking at Adri, "Now, did Anna go to Fred Dukes' house?"

"Okay, sheesh, yeah, she's at Fred Dukes doing homework from what I over heard." Roberto blinked at Adrianna. He couldn't believe this. It was as though she didn't care about her teammate.

That's crazy, she's new. She probably doesn't have a clue how dangerous Fred is he though leaving Adri in the living room watching TV as he went to the garage so he could drive over and save Anna. But when he reached the garage he noticed almost all the cars were gone. Cursing he tried to hot wire Rogue's latest treasure, a broken motorcycle she had managed to rebuild with Remy's help.

"What are ya doin?" Rogue's voice yelled from the doorway.

"Getting Anna. She's at the Brotherhood house."

"Not anymore. Pietro brought her home like a few minutes ago. Now, get away from mah bike" Roberto didn't have to think twice before running back into the house where Adri was waiting for him, her reddish blond hair loose around her shoulders, and her small hands on her hips.

"Anna's in the dinning room, perfectly fine. She may have a handicap, but she can take care of herself." Adri stated looking up at Roberto. "She doesn't need your protection. She needs someone who doesn't worry, who cares, but isn't going to go running around like a chicken without a head just because she might, emphasis on might, be in a slightly dangerous situation." Roberto just blinked at this girl, her hair sparking with little electric sparks and her greenish eyes sparkling with what he could only call fury. Smiling, Adri blinked, her hair now falling perfectly flat around her narrow shoulders and her eyes those of a normal teenage.

"Keep that in mind, Roberto. Later, Charmed is on," she called over her shoulder as she walked back to the sofa and joined some of the other girls in front of the TV, leaving Roberto with a puzzled expression on his face still trying to figure out exactly what had just happened.