I am so sorry for the dealy, it's been a crazy few weeks and I forgot about this completely. And with me having chapters through chapter 16 ready, it's quite unbelievable that I haven't posted this allready... This is pretty much a filler, but there is some important things in here too, so no skimming of the top here! As always:

R&R!

-Via

Chapter 7: First meeting

Gambit and I sat there in the kitchen, joking and laughing, exchanging stories and experiences, for the next hour, until I found out I wanted to see the garden. Gambit told me it was a really bad idea to go now, but he would make sure I got to see it tomorrow morning. I was sick and tired of sitting in the kitchen, so I excused myself to my room.

I walked up the stairs and to my room. I opened the door and closed it behind me, kicking of my shoes in the process. Professor Xavier had said something about a fresh set of clothes in my closet when he came into the kitchen earlier, so I decided to see what I had.

I found a marine blue cotton shorts with a matching tank top. I quickly changed, and decided I wanted to check out the gym facilities. There where also a set of running shoes and soccer socks, which I also put on. 'Much more comfy to exercise in then old converse,' I chuckled to myself.

I walked out of my room, closing the door as always, and headed for the east wing, and the gym. It took me about five minutes from my room to the big room with all the training equipment.

It took me the total of three seconds to find what I was looking for: a punching bag and a set of boxing gloves. I grinned as I approached the gloves, and put them on.

I circled the bag a few times before I freed the beast inside.

I don't know how long I played kickboxing with the poor punching bag, but I didn't get tired. It wasn't until I felt my stomach growl, that I packed up the stuff again, and ventured back to my room. It was still pretty quiet, so I decided to take a shower before everyone got home. I found a towel in my closet, and walked to the showers.

I undressed quickly, and put on the hot water. As it hit my skin, I felt like all my stress and worries just got washed away. I massaged some shampoo into my hair and rinsed it out before I finished with some conditioner. After all the soap was cleaned out, I turned off the water, grabbed my towel, wrapped it around myself and walked back to my room.

The first thing I did when I got to my room was look at the time. 3:45pm. That meant that the house should be filling up with students right about now. I quickly dried my hair with my towel and combed through it a few times, before changing into my "The All-American Rejects"-T shirt, my jeans, a hood jacket and my fingerless gloves. I'd gotten my clothes from Goodwill, but it was all almost unused. 'People throw away perfectly good clothes, why on earth?' I asked myself as I slipped my tired set of converse on.

I took a deep breath before I went out of my room, and towards the entrance where all the noise came from. I walked down the staircase and saw all the students had raincoats on, and several where wet to the bone.

I saw Kurt shake his hair dry right in Rogue's face, who yelled at him before they both started laughing. I saw Jean whom I remembered from last night, kissing an unknown brunette man, and several other small groups of people standing together chatting. A few guys were running around, one of them held something in his hand while another one chased him. It was obvious that they had all just gotten back, since the only place with muddy footprints was in here. I just stood there at the end of the staircase like any other idiot, watching them all.

Then a guy who looked native American left his group of friends and approached me. He had his backpack hanging from his left shoulder and he smiled as he came closer, his tanned skin making his teeth look even whiter. His short black hair had raindrops that looked like diamonds in it.

I stood in front of the staircase, looking at the guy who apparently decided to act nice to the new girl.

As he came to a stop in front of me, he raised his right hand and presented himself.

-"Hi, I'm Caleb," he said as I took his hand.

-"Amelia," I said and smiled back at him, before letting his hand go.

-"I haven't seen you around before, did you come earlier today?" he asked me.

-"No, actually I came late last night. Rogue and I met on the subway," I answered and chuckled at my own words.

-"No way, you're the one that knocked out Sabretooth?" he looked at me, his face a mix of shock and amazement.

-"That big blond smelly guy? Umm, yeah I did," I replied rubbing my arm, suddenly feeling a bit self-conscious.

-"That is unbelievable, you don't look like you'd be able to do that," he said, and raised his eyebrow and smiled as he looked down at me.

He was a bit taller then me, my chin just reached his shoulder. As I looked at him closer, I saw that he was almost as muscular as Peter, but not quite. Then I looked at myself; I was slender yet curved by nature, making me look pretty girlish. But at the same time I had almost invisible, but still strong, lean muscles hiding beneath my slight tan skin.

I understood what he meant by that; I didn't look like I'd be able to knock out a guy twice my size. I had to laugh a little at his remark.

-"I guess I'm stronger then I look," I answered and laughed, and he joined in.

-"Allright everyone! Take of your shoes and coats and rinse them out before you go and get ready for dinner," an African American white haired woman in her mid twenties said with authority in her voice. Caleb raised his shoulders and let out a sigh and a chuckle, before saying:

-"I have to go get this cleaned up," he said, and pointed to his muddy shoes, and laughed. I nodded and laughed with him.

-"I guess I'll see you at dinner Amelia?" he asked. I smiled and replied:

-"Yeah, sure. See you then," I smiled at him. He waved as he walked outside again, to wash out the dirt in his shoes.

Just then Rogue came over; apparently she'd already cleaned up.

-"Hi Amelia, were you bored all day, with everyone at school?" she asked.

-"No actually, I didn't. After Kurt dropped me off at the professor's office, I spent a few hours there. Then I decided to do some exploring, and I bumped into Peter. After that I went to the kitchen and then Gambit showed up and kept me company for a while, before I went to the gym and spent the last hour there," I answered, smiling. She smiled back, and started walking up the stairs.

-"I have to go change," she said and motioned to her wet clothes.

-" A certain blue fur ball decided to make me even more soaked," she said growling jokingly. I could hear a faint "I'm sorry" from Kurt, and then a snigger. 'Wait, blue fur ball?'

-"Since when was Kurt a blue fur ball?" I inquired, last time I'd seen him, he was normal.

-"Since birth. He just uses this converter that changes his appearance to that of a normal human," Rogue replied.

And as to confirm what Rogue said, Kurt suddenly appeared in front of me, hitting his hand on some kind of clock-like device on his hand angrily as he muttered German curses under his breath. Then, as he hit the clock-thing for the tenth time, he changed into a blue furry thing with a tail and three fingers on each hand. I almost fell backwards from the shock, but I managed to keep my balance. 'When am I ever going to stop getting surprised around here?' I asked myself.

Ps: I'm not planning on it Courtney;)