Be Careful what You Wish For

Chapter 7: Dinner Time


Upon our arrival into the dining room all talking stopped and everyone turned to stare at us. It was kind of unnerving and I pulled my hood farther down over my face.

"Everyone," Ms. Grey paused, "These are our newest residents here, Skye Green and Sparrow." After she introduced us she motioned for us to follow her to get our dinner.

She explained to us how dinner here was always buffet style and how everyone usually ate together. Breakfast and lunch, on the other hand, you would make yourself in the smaller kitchen and you would wash any dishes that you used. That sounded fair to me.

When it was our turn to fill our plates Sparrow completely avoided all vegetables and fruit. I filled my plate with some of everything; it had been so long since I had eaten home cooked food. I had some pasta, a piece of chicken, corn, strawberries and a bowl of salad. I then looked down at Sparrow's plate and found that it wasn't as unhealthy as I had expected, but I still filled up a bowl of salad for her to eat.

Once we were done in line I stood there with Sparrow at my side looking for a place to sit. Then someone behind me spoke.

"Hi, I'm Kitty!" I turned to face a smiling short brown haired girl who looked to be about sixteen.

"Hi." I said.

"Do you have anywhere to sit?" she didn't even pause for my answer. "You can sit with me and some of my friends then!" She then proceeded to walk towards a table with four other teens sitting around it.

"Hey guys!" Kitty said. "The new kids are going to eat with us, okay?" She addressed the other kids.

"Alright," came the collective reply as me and Sparrow took our seats between Kitty and another girl with brown hair with white streaks in the front.

I had barely eaten any of my dinner when Kitty spoke up again. "Okay guys, be polite and introduce yourselves." She commanded her friends happily.

So Kitty went first and introduced herself again. "My name in Kitty, my codename is Shadowcat and I can walk though solid objects." She said before turning towards the tall muscled boy next to her.

"Hello," he started. "I am Peter or Colossus and I can grow metal armor on myself." He smiled proudly.

The next boy to introduce himself had his brown hair slicked back and he was playing with a lighter. "The name's Pyro and I can do this." He said wickedly as he opened his lighter and a ball of flame burst forth.

"His real name is John and obviously he can control fire." Kitty whispered to me as the blonde guy sitting next to Pyro glared at him for showing off before he introduced himself.

"I'm Bobby, codename iceman, I create and control ice, and this is my girlfriend Rogue." He said as he gestured to the girl next to me who was wearing a long pair of gloves.

"I have the curse of poison skin." Rogue stated gloomily.

Everyone was silent after that until Sparrow piped up. "Well, Skye and I can fly." She then went back to happily eating her food.

"She's cute," Kitty laughed. "How old is she?"

"Sparrow is about seven." I told her.

"Cool. Well I think that she is going to be one of the youngest kids here. Is she your sister?" She then questioned. I realized that Kitty like to talk.

"No, but she might as well be." I smiled at Sparrow as I finished my dinner.

"So, what's up with the cloak?" Pyro asked rudely.

"What do you think?" I spat back, just as rudely.

With that, Sparrow and I got up and went to put our empty plates in the stack with all of the other dirty plates before heading back to our room. We were almost there when I heard Professor Xavier's voice in my head.

"Skye I would like to talk to you and Sparrow in my office about school arrangements as soon as possible, please." His voice echoed in my mind. It was kinda wierd to hear someone else's voice in my head.

"Come on Sparrow, change of plans, the professor wants to talk to us." I told her turning to walk down a different hallway. I mostly already knew my way around the mansion.

"What does he need to talk to us about?" She questioned.

"School stuff." I said as I opened the door to the professor's office.

"Good evening, I hoped that you enjoyed you dinner." The professor said.

"Yes, thank you." I said politely as we both took a seat in the chairs in front of his desk, much like we did earlier this afternoon.

"Now that you both are all settled in, I think that it is time to discuss your educations." He told us.

"Well Professor, I haven't been to school since seventh grade and I am going to be turning eighteen in a couple of months and Sparrow has never been to school, but she does know how to read and write so…" I said uncertainly.

"I see. It would be quite odd to send you back to seventh grade seeing as you are older than most of the students here," he started smiling. "Though, you could be a teacher assistant." He was looking at me expectantly. I figured that he wanted me to be doing something of some importance if I was going to stay here.

"Sure, I could be a teacher assistant, but I don't know how good I would be at it."

"Don't worry about it, you will do fine. The teachers do most of the work, but since they sometimes have to go on rescue missions they often need help grading papers and stuff like that. Also, you might need to be a substitute teacher on rare occasions."

"Alright, I could do that, but what about Sparrow. What grade will she be placed in?" I questioned him as I looked over at Sparrow, who had fallen asleep in her chair. It had been a long day so I didn't blame her.

"Well, at this school, because there are fewer students younger than fifth grade, they are all put into one class, but they are taught different things according to their age. Right now, we only have twelve children in grades first through fifth. Storm teaches the younger students' main lessons and then some of our oldest students, who want to be teachers here once they graduate, teach extra classes, like art and such. So, since Sparrow is seven I will place her in first grade and we will see how she does."

"Thank you, Professor. Also, I was wondering if there was any place where I could wash all of our clothes." I asked him.

"Oh, yes. On each of the upper floors at the end of the main hallway there is a fully equipped laundry room for the use of the students." He replied.

"Thanks." I smiled at him as I got up to leave.

"Your Welcome." he replied.

I leaned over and picked up the still sleeping Sparrow before leaving Professor Xavier's office. On my way back up to the room I passed Kitty.

"Hey Skye!" she whispered noticing that Sparrow was asleep. "Do you want to go shopping with me and some of the girls tomorrow? It's Sunday, so there will be no school and we can be out all day. I also thought that you might like to see the town and get some new stuff."

"Sounds like fun, but I don't have any money, sorry." I said apologetically.

"Oh, don't worry about it. The professor will give you some money as long as you don't waste it on silly things." She told me with a wave of her hand.

"Well alright…" I started.

"Great! We are all meeting downstairs in the lounge at ten. I will get some money for you. Good night!" she said as she walked off down the hall, towards her bedroom.

"Bye!" I called after her as I continued up to our room, with a smile on my face.


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