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Chapter 3

Ororo gave me the address on the phone… and after packing all my things, I locked up the house and stepped out of the front door for the last time.

The drive to the school was an hour from where I had lived, which was in Westchester County, New York. When I finally got to the large gated mansion of a school I was greeted by Scott and red-head.

"Hello Avery, glad you came." He said

"Hi, my name is Jean, we spoke earlier on the phone." The red head greeted me.

"Hey" I said, still fairly hesitant about my spur of the moment decision to move.

"that's quite a lot of luggage, let me help you with that" Scott said

"lets bring it to her room now, so she can meet her roommate..then the professor is quite excited to meet her." Jean said giving Scott a look I didn't understand. I tried to get a sense of what she was feeling, all I picked up was static..she was a telepath. Their minds can shield my senses…

We lugged my stuff through the beautiful old mansion to a big bedroom with large bay windows. There were two beds, two dressers and two desks. One half was already cluttered with things. As soon as we put all my stuff down, a girl walked into the room. "hey" she said "I'm kitty..Kitty Pride", with a bubbly smile. "hey" I replied.

"Kitty, this is Avery, she's your new roommate, I'm sure you guys will get along great" Jean said with enthusiasm. "Oh, for sure!" Kitty said with a smile. "Now that you've met, I'm going to take you to see the professor now, he basically runs and owns the whole school and he was particularly excited about your arrival." She said.

I followed her through the mansion into a large office, where an older man in a wheel chair sat at the desk.

"extraordinary" I heard him mutter

"professor, this is Avery Windmere" Jean introduced.

"I know" he responded with a smile. "If you don't mind Jean, I would like to speak with ..Ms. Windmere" he hesitated as he said my last name. "not a problem" Jean said as she left the room.

"please, take a seat" he motioned towards the chair across from him.

I sat. He had a warm smile the whole time. "Hello, dear, my name is professor Charles Xavier, and you have no idea how glad I am that you're here, Avery.." "you have quite the gift…mental manipulation...you can get people to see what you want them to…even get them to do things…that's quite incredible...I knew a woman who could similar things, but she could transform her skin into diamonds, her name was Emma Frost"

"how creative" I said sarcastically. The old man laughed. "yes, it is quite unimaginative, I have to agree...most of our names are.."

"names?" I asked

"yes, we mutants affectionately have nicknames, in regard to our powers, most people call myself, "professor X". He said with a chuckle

"So this place…its is a school for mutants?" I asked

"Indeed, the only one of its kind, it remains a secret to the world, but it is a haven for our kind...where young mutants are trained to control their powers and eventually have a career in human society…or they can stay on here to become teachers...and what we call X-men."

"X-men?" I asked

"mutants who strive for maintaining the peace...protecting out kind...from humans…and other mutants.." as he said that last part I couldn't help but notice how he glanced towards an old framed photograph on the wall, of two men side by side. I assumed he was one of them.

"Well I'm glad to have met you, Avery, if you go to your room you should find a schedule of your daily classes on your desk." "And I'm sure Kitty wouldn't mind giving you a tour of the institute." He said with a smile. I took this as my cue to leave the room.