Tegan's hands were shaking.
She had never been inside a school before. Her parents were too poor for books. But Jake had thought her well enough, and she learned enough to be in her rightful grade.
She looked at her locker assignment again and sighed. "There are too many freakin lockers in this building," she muttered.
"Yo, Tegan," Evan came up from behind. "What's up?"
Tegan smiled. She liked Evan. He had been very nice to her over the weekend, trying to show her how to ride a skateboard. She kind of failed at that though.
Tegan sighed. "I can't find my locker, there are just too many!"
Evan looked at the number, then walked over to the one on the far end, not three feet away from where they'd been standing. He smiled, "I found it,"
Tegan giggled, "Yeah, yeah. Thank you,"
Evan smiled, "No prob, what class are you in?"
Tegan fumbled around as she tried to get at the piece of paper without dropping her books. "Uh, um…Ah! Here it is! My first class is history."
"Same! I'll see you there," Evan waved as he walked off.
Tegan let a deep breath out. It was going to be alright. She had friends here, she could do this!
Someone bumped into her.
"Ah! I'm sorry, I vasn't…." Kurt trailed off when he saw it was Tegan he bumped into.
"Oh, Tegan, uh…hi," He said, smiling like Jean told him to.
Tegan's body was tense from the want of running, but she forced herself to stay, remembering what the professor said.
Tegan took a breath. "I'm okay," she said, a little loudly.
Kurt looked surprised. "Oh, that's great! Vell…I hope you stay that way."Nice, Kurt mentally kicked himself.
Tegan nodded. "Thank you…"
There was an awkward silence between them.
Kurt shrugged. "Vell, my first class is this vay…so…I'll see you around." He smiled at her.
Tegan made herself say something, "I like your accent!" Random, but at least it's something! Tegan thought.
Kurt smiled. "Thank you, it's German. I like you're accent."
Tegan loved that smile. "Thanks,"
This time the silence wasn't so awkward.
Tegan actually had something to say this time. "Uh…Kurt, I know this may seem stupid and you're probably going to laugh at me but…"
"Vhat is it?"
"What am I? I mean school wise."
"Vell, if you're in Evan's class than you're a junior, like me."
Tegan smiled. "Cool,"
Kurt loved that smile.
--*--*--
Tegan looked around the cafeteria, overwhelmed.
She'd never been in one before. At least not one with people currently in it.
She took a deep breath.
She took one step, than she saw a blur of something and a guy was standing next to her.
Of course he was Pietro.
"Hey, so you're the new X chick?"
Tagen sighed. "My name is Tegan, not chick. And yes, yes I am. What's it to you?"
Pietro shrugged. "Nothing at all. Just wondering what your power is,"
"Well I'm not going to tell you," Tegan decided she didn't like Pietro's cocky attitude.
" Really? I'd bet I could bring it out of you."
Tegan glared. "Yeah, like how?"
"Like this," in less than two seconds he took her lunch and her wallet from out of her back pocket.
"Hey!" Tegan clenched her fists. "You jerk, give me my lunch back…and my wallet! How'd you even know it was there?"
"I didn't, I had pat you down." He said with an obnoxious smile.
Tegan went red when she remembered the faint taps all over her body. "You jerk! Give me my stuff back or I'll...I'll…"
Tegan's hair started to move strangely as the wind collected around her.
Pietro smiled at his success. "Ooo! Temper, temper! Come on than, show me what you got."
Tagan bit her lip. Oh how she wanted to!
"Back off, Pietro!" Rouge walked up to them, looking pissed. "Just leave her alone, okay?"
Pietro shrugged and gave her back her stuff. "Whatever you say," he sped off, not feeling like pushing Rouge into taking off her gloves today.
Tegan relaxed and smiled at Rouge. "Thank you,"
"Just get a grip on your powers, will ya?! Your hair was moving like in was in water!" She shoved past Tegan.
Tegan sighed. Great, she hates me.
"She doesn't hate you," Jean said, coming up from behind. "That's just how she is,"
Tegan jumped and backed away from Jean.
Jean her hands up apologetically. "Oh, I'm sorry! I didn't do it on purpose."
Tegan relaxed a little. "So you can read and hear them?"
Jean shrugged. "I can sometimes hear them, but not like the Professor. Come on, let's sit with the others."
Jean led her to the X table where everybody was sitting.
Jean sat next to Scott, leaving the only available seat next to Kurt.
Tegan fought back a blush and she sat next to him.
Kurt was busy doing the same.
In the back of the cafeteria there were a few girls glaring at Tegan.
Julie growled. "Did you see how she was flirting with Pietro?"
Marie, the nicer one, spoke up, "Uh, Julie…I don't think she was flirting with him."
Wanda glared at Marie. "Like, whatever! She was talking to him, and that's enough. Pietro's ours."
Marie blushed slightly. "Actually, I think Evan's nicer."
"No one cares who you think!" snapped Julie. "Come on; let's teach this newbie a lesson."
Marie hung back as her "friends" walk up to the X table.
Julie took a cup of pudding and hid it behind her back. "Hey, you're new here, right?" She said with a fake smile.
Tegan nodded. "Yeah,"
"Oh, cool! Can we talk to you for a sec?" Wanda asked.
"Don't do it," Kitty whispered, "They're, like, total jerks."
Tegan shrugged and fallowed just far enough so the others were out of ear shot.
"So, what do you want to talk about?"
They dropped their fake smiles.
"You listen to me," said Julie, "Pietro's our boy. Not yours."
Tegan's mouth dropped open. "What?! No! I…no! You can have him!!"
Wanda shrugged. "Ok we will, but here's a little something, just so you remember not to go near him again."
Wanda shoved the pudding in her face.
Tegan stood there for a few seconds and thought Wow! So this really does happen in real schools….that's freakin awesome!!
Tegan ran back to her table and grabbed a handful of mash potatoes. "Food fight!!"
She flung it at Julie, who ducked; making the mash potatoes hit Pietro.
And a food fight broke out.
Tegan ducked peas and mystery meat as she threw food at random people. She laughed when she tripped on some ketchup.
She crawled under a table and bumped heads with someone.
"Ow!" They said at the same time.
Kurt when looked up his cheek brushed Tegan's.
Tegan was too giggly to feel embarrassed. "This is so awesome! I love school."
Kurt, who certainly was not too giggly to be embarrassed, blushed and said, "Yeah, I do too. It's more exiting now that you're here."
Tegan smiled at him. "Thanks,"
Their faces were so close together! Even though Tegan was too hyped to notice, Kurt desperately wanted to kiss her on the cheek.
Or maybe the lips…
Kurt blushed harder and said, "Ve'd better get back out there and help the others."
Tegan nodded. "Right behind you!"
Just as they get out they heard a whistle blow and someone scream, "STOP RIGHT NOW!"
It was the Principles.
--*--*--
Tegan sighed as she walked into the Professor's study, but when she saw him she relaxed. She knew that he was trying to be serious, but he couldn't hide that hint of a smile.
"I got an interesting call from the school today, something about the new student starting an uproar in the cafeteria."
Tegan tried not to smile. "It wasn't my fault, Professor! Some girls tried to bully me with puddiHAaha!" Tegan was trying to say 'bully me with pudding' but it just sounded too ridicules.
The professor let himself smile. "I know, I guessed as much. But you must learn to control yourself next time."
Tegan nodded. "Yes, Professor."
Tegan nearly kipped out of the study.