I took the time to add in more descriptions :)

When Haley arrived back at the institute, the professor contacted her. He wanted her in his office. Mentally exhausted from a day full of asking for directions, getting lost, and introducing herself, she trudged to his office silently.

"Professor?" she asked as she knocked on the huge mahogany door.

"Come in, Haley." She pushed open the large doors and walked into Professor X's spacious office. He motioned for her to take a seat. She quietly plopped down on one of the leather chairs. "How was your first day?"

"Good. A little tiring, but no biggie," Haley responded truthfully.

He kindly smiled at her. "Well that's good because in an hour you will join the other X-men in the Danger Room."

Her eyes widened in fear. "Are...you sure that's...such a good...idea?" she said, fumbling with her words. Haley had only had her powers for a few days, and already she was going to be training with the others? That couldn't end well.

"Storm and Wolverine seem to think that you will be able to handle yourself. I have the utmost confidence that they are right about this."

She sighed, not believing that she was ready. However, if this meant no more one on one sessions, then Haley would at least give it a shot. "Okay, Professor, if you think so. Is that all?"

"Yes, you may go now." Wearily, she lifted herself out of her chair and made her way to the door.

Meanwhile, Kurt was quite content. After lunch, he and Haley had discovered that they were in the same gym class. It was quite a nice surprise for him to have a class with her. Considering they aren't in the same grade, that was the only class they could possibly have together.

He was on his way down to the kitchen, trying to read a book for his English class at the same time, he accidentally crashed into Haley who was worriedly staring at her feet. "Sorry about that," he said while helping her up. Kurt was embarrassed that he had bumped into her. He also was a little frustrated that he had lost his page.

"It's okay," she replied, her eyes looking far away.

He studied her for a moment. "Why do you look so nervous?"

"I'm supposed to join you guys in the Danger Room today," Haley blurted looking more nervous as the words tumbled out of her mouth.

"Oh, I see." Kurt remembered his first time training with the others. It wasn't exactly one of his fonder memories.

"Yeah, so I'm just busy freaking out." She tucked a strand of her blonde hair behind her ear.

He smiled at Haley. "I'll stay out of your way."

She giggled. "Thanks, Kurt."

"What are you planning on doing while you freaked out?" Kurt was confused as to why he was asking this.

Shrugging, Haley said, "I guess I'll e-mail my friends. Three days away from them, and I'm nearly dying. It's kind of pathetic."

"What was your excuse for leaving so early?"

"I just blamed it on my parents. I figured that was the easiest way out. I don't like the secret-keeping part of this…" She trailed off getting that glazed over look again.

Deciding that she wasn't going to talk much, Kurt decided he should leave. "Nobody does. I'll see you later, my stomach is yelling at me."

"Bye."

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Haley yelped as she jumped out of the fire of some laser gun. She was beginning to feel that her water blasts weren't enough. Yes, if done correctly they had broken the guns, but there seemed to be just too many. She glanced around the room nervously, hoping that the others might be able to help her out. However, they all had their hands full at the moment too.

They had been running simulations for a while now. This was about the fifth one. Haley was starting to get tired. She was constantly wondering when they were going to get to the finish line. Putting her hand against a wall, she took a short break.

Not paying attention for a moment was apparently a bad idea on Tidal Wave's part. As she looked up she realized that she was about to get full on shot at. Her muscles clenched in anticipation, knowing this was going to be a direct hit. Haley begged herself to move, but she couldn't

Then, she wasn't standing in the line of fire. "What?" she thought out loud.

"Rescue courtesy of Nightcrawler," Kurt said as he let go of her arm, smiling cunningly. His tail whipped around being pleased by his save.

"Thanks, blue boy, I owe you one," Haley said, kissing him on the cheek as she normally did when people helped her out. Luckily for him, Kurt's fur covered up the blood rising to his cheeks.

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"How long did you say he's been at it?" Lance asked irritably as he watched Pietro back up and then speed towards Mystique's locked door, over and over again. He had come home to be greeted by two annoyingly happy members of the Brotherhood.

"Pretty much since we got home from school, yo," Toad replied.

Lance sighed in disbelief. "That was hours ago."

"Looks like Pietro has fallen off his rocker," Fred said with a chuckle.

The three shook their heads in wonderment and went off to watch TV. A few minutes later, Pietro snagged the bag of chips out of Blob's hands. He was acting as if nothing out of the ordinary had been going on at all.

"Well, that was a workout," he said as he threw himself onto the couch.

"What were you supposed to be doing?" Lance asked incredulously.

"Thinking. You should really try it some time, rock head."

"How can you think when you're ramming yourself into a door at ninety miles per hour?" Avalanche replied, choosing to ignore Pietro's comment.

"And I thought I was the weird one," Toad mumbled.

"So are you all done thinking, Pietro?" Fred asked, scratching his head in a puzzled manner.

"Yup. I know exactly what I'm going to do." The others looked at him in question. What was he going to do? Why was he going to do this? Even though he felt their stares, Pietro didn't look up to acknowledge their confusion.

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"That was so fast!" Evan exclaimed as he finished timing Kurt's attempt to devour an entire cake. All the other mutants stared in astonishment. The caked had been devoured in no more than two minutes. That had to be a record.

"Thank you," he said, grinning.

"Do you know what's faster?"

"What?"

"Haley's lover!" Evan finished with a smug smile.

"Hey!" Haley screeched, objecting to his comment.

The entire room was filled with laughter. "Seriously, Haley," Kitty assured her. "You can't go out with a member of the Brotherhood. They are stupid, not to mention, like, our enemies."

"I'm not going out with him!" She sent a blast of water at Evan, being further frustrated by him. He fell off the stool. Everyone laughed harder at this.

When he got up, he snarled, "You are so going down!" Haley squealed and ran out of the room. He lunged after her a wicked smile on his face.