"My mother and father don't care about me, they never have." I say looking down at the steaming cup of hot chocolate in my hands.
"I see, well humans often don't really know how to handle the gift of a mutant child." Erik says nodding at me.
The diner was almost completely empty and the light above are heads was going on and off but if I was to tell the truth, this was the safest I had felt in almost three years.
"You call mutant's gifts so easily, your not afrad of what someone might do if they hear you talking the way you do?" I ask.
The older man smiled his teeth a bright white.
"My dear, their is no reason for you to fear humans. With gift's like your they are far beneath you." He says.
I was so taken back by the words of the man who sat in front of me on the other side of the half broken table. He looked like he belonged leading a college class in England or something. He seemed so out of place in this worn down little diner talking to a pathetic little girl like myself. Their was something about him that made me want to listen to what he was saying. I wanted Josh to hear what this man was saying, I wanted...
"Kally...if I may ask, what made you finally try and end your life?" He asks looking at the bandeg he had put over my bleeding wrist earlier.
I looked down at the gray table top. What should I say, the truth? That would make him think less of me I'm sure.
I took a deep breath and looked out the large dinner window and out to the street before I finally was able to answer the man.
"My bother..." I say weakly.
He waited clearly wanting me to go on but a part of me didn't want to, but the other part was screaming at me to talk to this older mutant. Maybe he wasn't lieing to her, maybe she could belive the sweet words that left the mans lips so easily.
"What about your brother?" He asks after he realizes I'm not going to say anything more until he does.
"He's a real big believer in God you know..." I mumble.
Erik's eyes bore into mine willing me to elaborate on the matter.
"We got into a big fight after school today and, and...he snapped. I mean he really freaked out and hit our father really hard. He didn't get back up or anything, mother started to call the cops but Josh bragged me and we went to the public library and he said...that maybe all mutant's were damned and that's why everyone hates us. I know he was just mad...I see that now anyways but...but..."
I started to cry, tears spilled from my eyes and I felt Erik grab my hand and squeeze it.
"You are a gift from God Kally and don't let anyone tell you other wise." He says trying to look into my face.
I looked up shaking like a leaf.
"H-How can you be...be so clam. You're a mutant, you know what it's like. At first I thought that being invisible was a gift but they still think I'm a freak. I can't stay invisible forever and when they do see me...they hate me. To them, it would be better if I never reaper. So...I thought it was better if I just...just."
Erik made me look at him this time.
"Kally, that would only make your brother hate himself. Never, and I mean don't you ever think that you don't deserve a better life than this." He whispers the last part.
"But what do I do now?" I ask throwing my hands into the air. "I have no where to go! If I go home...I don't know what they'll do to me." I sob.
"I run a house for kids just like you Kally, a house and home for all mutant's without one. I can garenty you'll be safe there." He smiles.
I look at him for a long moment, in one night this man had done more for me then my father had ever done in all my 16 years of living. What should I do? I didn't want to leave Josh behind, I loved my brother and he was all I had in this world. He really loved me, and I wanted him to meet Erik too.
"But, my brother..." I gasp out.
"If also welcome and I will help you find him first thing tomorrow." He says before I say anything more.
"Why?" I ask.
Erik smiled and ran a hand though his graying hair.
"I had a daughter once Kally...and she was taken from me. My whole life went up inflames because of the X-gene that lives within my body. I never want any other mutant to go though that."
His eyes never left mine and I was overwhelmd with wanting and needing to belive every word that came from this mans lips.
It was like whatever he said was truth, was law. All I could do was nod and blush. Maybe, just maybe I had found a new place for my brother and I.
Erik took me to a huge house right on the outside of town, there was at least three storys and a red-tiled roof. Even though it was dark the house felt worm and bright. There was a few cracks here and there but other then that it looked alright.
I walked up to the house with Erik by my side and I couldn't help it. I turned invisible making Erik look over at her.
"Why are you doing that? You were fine only a little wail ago. Are you afrade to meet your new friends?" He asks me.
I griped my shirt and felt my lip trembled.
"I'm s-sorry." I whisper.
"That's alright my child, come on inside." He says taking me by the hand and opening the door.
The inside of the house was well put together. There was a red sofa by a black flat screen Tv and the curtains were drawn over the huge open window.
"Magneto?" A boys called from up the stairs.
I jumped a little and then realized that Erik was letting me stay invisible, was he giving me the choice of showing myself?
My brother always told me to show myself, he never let me decide when or when not to use my powers. I knew that Josh was only trying to get me to be open and stop using them so much but I kinda liked not being told what to do with my...
Gift.
"Yes, I'm down here Lance." Erik called up the steps.
"Where were you, Boom-Boom just went out looking for you." A brown-haired boy says when he got down the stairs.
"I was out with a another one of us." Erik says looking in my direction.
I felt my face heat and even though he couldn't see me I still felt embarrassed for hiding, I couldn't help it though.
It wasn't my fault, I was never good with being the out going or leader kind of girl. I just liked to fade into the crowd and pretend I was anywhere but there at the time. Although there was no rush, Erik didn't seem like he was waiting for me to show myself, he was letting me go at my own pace. I liked that as well.
The boy named Lance looked behind Erik with a raised eye brow.
"I don't see anyone, you didn't you bring them here? I mean if they are like 'us' then that means he or she is out on her own." Lance says bitterly.
"Oh she's here, you just can't see her." He says a smirk playing on his lips.
Lance went over to the kitchen and turned on a light, filling the room with a yellowish light.
"No way, you mean like she's...in the room." He says with shock in his voice.
"Yes, Kally do you want to come out now?" He asks me in a playful voice wail looking around.
I felt my hands shaking and my breathing was faster than normal. I felt a sweat drop go down my neck and I took deep breaths and tried to will myself to reaper for Erik, I didn't want to make him look stupid in front of this boy.
After a moment I realized I really couldn't do it, I wanted to but couldn't. This sometimes happened when I was really stressed or nervous, which happened more often than not.
"I'm here...but I can't go back." I mummer into the open air.
Lance jumped a foot in the air having no idea that I was only a few feet from where he was standing. His brown eyes went wide and he looked right at me, but it was that look I got all the time. The I think I'm looking at you but I can't see you look. Josh had mastered it over the years.
"Hay." He says giving me a light smile. "Invisibility, that's freaking sweet."
Erik stepped in making my invisibility stop working and reviling me to the young boy. I still looked like I had been in a car crash but what could I do. I didn't really care what I looked like most of the time cuz no one could see me and I had planned on dyeing tonight anyways. His eyes went wide and his smile turned huge.
"Aww sweet, you're so cute!" He says loudly.
"Down boy." Erik warns.
I give a small smile, he was funny I would give him that.
"T-Thank you, that's very kind." I say softly.
We talked for a little longer before Erik showed me to a room in the back of the house.
"This room is yours Kally if you want it, and it will always be here for you." He says.
The room was plane but clean. There was a twin bed by and a large window looking out to a garden. The closet was closed behind a white door that matched the walls perfectly. The carpet below my feet was a worm brown and the room smelled lightly of lavender.
"Is...is this really alright for me to stay here?" I ask looking over my shoulder at Erik.
"Of cores it is, we will talk about your brother in the morning and you can meet the rest of the kids."
I nod not looking for forward to meeting people first thing in the morning. Although I was cold and dirty and the only thing I really wanted to was fall on the neatly made bed and sleep.
"Thank you...really...I feel like it..."
"Like it was fate that I stopped you, I was feeling that when I saw you sitting on that bench my dear." He says starting to close the door behind me.
"I'm...I'm happy you stopped me..." I say feeling teary again.
"I know you are Kally, I know you are." He says touching my cheek. "And you are meant for such great things Kally." He says.
That was how it ended and now it all started.
A/N) I almost forgot about this story I hope you can forgive me. I do like this story and think I will make more chapters. Please tell me what you think!
