Just when Alexis thought she would kill someone if she had to fill out one more form Ororo declared them done and collected everything back into the folder, placing it in one of the many piles on the desk. They made there way out of the office and up the grand staircase Alexis had seen when she first walked in. Making a right down the main hallway, and then up a second smaller flight of stairs around the corner they came out into a slightly smaller hallway on the second floor. Ororo explained that this was the girls floor, the boys rooms were on the floor below them, off the main hallway, and that the teachers and other adults lived on the topmost floor. The adults floor was off limits unless you were given permission to be there for a specific reason. The boys floor was off limits to girls after 11pm and before 7am, and the same was true for the boys on the girl floor.

While Ororo rattled off the other house rules and information (breakfast was 7 to 9am, lunch was 12 to 2pm, and dinner was 4:30 to 6:30pm) Alexis surveyed the rooms she was passing. The doors that were closed were decorated with posters and white boards that were scribbled with notes. It was much like the college dorms she had visited while in Fredericksburg. The rooms she could see into though looked much nicer then any dorm room she had ever seen. Each one was decorated according to who was living there, some neat, others cluttered with clothes all over the floor and the bed. Some were singles, others had two girls living together. Alexis sincerely hoped she was in a single, it would be easier to stay detached that way, not to mention hiding the weapons she had in her duffle bag.

They finally reached a white door, empty of decoration, towards the end of the hallway. Ororo pushed the door open to reveal an equally devoid of decorations room. White walls, beige carpeting, white sheets and comforter. Besides the full sized bed there was also a small desk and bureau in a light colored pine. It was sterile and bright, light streamed through the French doors leaving squares on the carpet.

"This will be your room. A little bland, but we encourage our students to decorate it as they please." Ororo glanced at the duffle slung over Alexis' shoulder. "If you should need anything the school can arrange to take you to the shopping center downtown."

"I think I'll be okay." Dropping the duffle on the bed Alexis managed a smile of thanks at Ororo.

"We shall see you at dinner then. If you have any questions ask anyone on the hall, they'll be more then happy to help you." Ororo closed the door behind her and Alexis finally relaxed her stance. It was hard to be cheerful when all she wanted to do was be on a rooftop somewhere with her headphones on and the scope in front of her.

Sighing she put away the clothes that she had brought in the small closet and the bureau, then put her minimal toiletries in the bathroom. At least the room looked like someone lived in it now. The two handguns and her throwing knives she left in the duffle bag and slid it under her bed. Finally she unstrapped the knife from her back and placed it under her pillow. Cliché, but it made her feel safer in an unfamiliar place. The smaller double edged dagger she left in it's holder strapped to her ankle. She never knew when she would need it, and frankly she didn't like to go anywhere without some sort of weapon on her.

She had just grabbed her headphones and set her watch for a 5pm alarm when there was a knock on her door. Making sure everything was hidden she walked over to the door and peaked out and was almost bowled over as a flash of yellow bowled into her room.

"Oh man, you're so lucky you got a single! Most people are in doubles now, not that I mind rooming with my chica Rogue but still, closet space!"

The girl in yellow flounced onto her bed while Alexis blinked, still standing in her now open doorway.

"You'll have to excuse Jubilee, she's nothing if not rude. I'm Rogue." The second girl who was politely standing outside of her room extended a gloved hand. In fact, Alexis noticed, this girl seemed to be covered from head to toe.

"Alexis. Would you like to come in?" Rogue nodded and walked into the room, Alexis shut the door behind her, and locked it out of habit.

"So, you're new. Where're ya from?" Jubilee popped the bright pink gum she was chewing and bounced her heals against the bed. Alexis could tell immediately that she did not like this girl, loud nosy people were trouble, and she did not want to become involved with these people.

"Philadelphia. Pennsylvania originally. But mostly all over." Alexis answered the girls questions and spun her lies for the next hour until her watched beeped at 5 o'clock. No, Jubilee was definitely not her favorite person. But Rogue seemed nice enough, quiet, probably not someone who got into trouble a lot. While Jubilee had trouble written all over her.

"Dinner time!" Jubilee practically launched herself off Alexis' bed. "You coming?" Alexis followed the two girls down to the already crowded cafeteria for dinner where she was introduced to the girls' friends including the girl she had seen walk through a wall earlier and three boys. Halfway through their meal a large, hairy man in plaid and denim had approached Rogue and spoken to her in tones to low for her to pick out from where she was sitting. He was definitely on her list of people to avoid. Especially when he looked up at her, sniffed, and gave her a questioning look.

"Who was that?" She elbowed Remy, one of the boys Jubilee and Rogue were friends with, who was sitting to her left at the table.

"Dat was the Wolverine. He and Rogue be 'special friends'." Remy frowned, he obviously liked Rogue but this Wolverine was a roadblock if there ever was.

"Do y'all want to play pool after dinner?" Rogue's voice from the other end of the table halted anymore questions she might have had.

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