After a week, the class session of Ms. Jean was very interesting because individually we got to ask her hidden facts about our capabilities.
When it was my turn, she held both of my hands and closed her eyes. She then said, "Hayley, your telekinetic power is in a good state by now but beware of your healing power. You can heal yourself in whatever incident that may happen but when you heal others and their pain is too much you might suck it all up and… die."
She released her grip from my hands and warned again, "Be careful Hayley."
"I will." I replied while rubbing my hands together
I felt curious and horrified by what Ms. Jean said, but I thought, maybe if I just become way careful than before I wouldn't kill myself.
After Ms. Jean's class, Cyclops was our next teacher. He didn't give us any activity or any schoolwork he just explained to us some situations and plans of the normal people have towards us mutants. He told us about some groups that are in charge of putting us in cages, which will poof out gasses. And when us mutants will inhale that gas, we will lose all our powers permanently.
The dismissal time was almost near when Ms. Storm made an important announcement. Everybody was attentive and ready to listen because Ms. Storm doesn't usually makes announcements. So then she started, "All students who think that they are capable of being the next mutant apprentices for the X-men, sign up at the board next to our office later because the announcement of winners will be tomorrow. What we seek with the chosen ones are responsibility, power and good cooperation. Thank you!"
As Ms. Storm was announcing, the students were very thrilled about it and so am I. Arra and Elise invited me to sign up with them but my mind started to think, what if I won.
I never wanted to become a fully developed mutant and fight for our race. I seem to be against my kind but I am not, I am just afraid that I will never become normal and I would forever live mutated and un-liked. I explained this to Arra and Elise but they told me a lot of stuff like, "Being a mutant is a wonderful thing, it is a gift." "You are not un-liked, everybody here in this school likes you. We are one family."
They wrote my name down even though I still didn't want to. "If ever you win, I'm sure you will love it." Arra said with a smirk. I just smiled back and tried to look like I learned a lesson from them.
We headed out of the school and Arra asked, "Hey, I wanna see where you live. Can we bring you to your house?"
"Sure, but you're from the west side right?"
"Yea."
"Oh. Nah, you can't bring me. I'm from the east and that's a long trip if you'll bring me there. So, never mind."
Arra and Elise couldn't bring me home so we said our good byes and left each other's sides.
I never liked to pass through the streets where there are a lot people who would stare at you while you walk innocently. I always pass through the forest-like way. There are plenty of different kinds of trees and plants. I would usually bring my younger sister, Catherine different flowers everyday. Now I decided to bring her a beautiful tulip. She has the Earth power. It is very strong and what she can do is make them move in any way or make them grow fast. As I was picking one, an unpleasant smell covered the whole area where I was in. It smelled like smoke coming out from a car.
I started to follow the smell and check what was happening. As I tried to walk as fast as I can I arrived at a jet plane that seemed to crash. I dropped the tulip and muttered,
"Oh my gosh" while looking at the shattered parts of the plane. I covered my nose for the smell was very strong. I tried to look for people or the pilot who drove the plane. I couldn't seem to find anyone. I thought to myself, it couldn't be driving itself, could it?
When I looked at my far right I saw a man in a black suit lying face down on the rocky floor. I ran towards him and checked if he was breathing, luckily he was. He had a bow and a set of arrows at his back. I flipped his whole body to check injures and when I did I saw his face. And I abruptly said,
"Wow."
