I Miss my Friend.

A/N Zoe Campbell is a character I submitted to an X-men Evolution story that compiled several OCs together, called, "Calling All OCs" by apersonfromflorida. I believe this fanfic is on hiatus, as of now. I've also used Zoe's character in other fanfic I have left unpublished.

In short, I am grateful to those who read and review.

When they gave me one phone call, I called my parent's home phone. Naturally, no one answered, so a left a voice message letting them know, essentially, "Guess what, Mom and Dad, I'm in jail." Right.

Actually, that phone call was only the runner up in hard phone calls. The hardest phone call was trying to explain at one o'clock in the morning to my parents why I was in North Salem, New York instead of back home after school. About the only nice thing about that conversation was that my Dad gave directions in order to effectively drive around NYC. My mom had explained to me bluntly that she was surprised I hadn't been creamed by the Big Apple's infamous traffic.

It took them this long to get to the county jail where I am being held. Apparently, they were having trouble with the voicemail, again, and then it's a ten hour drive to get here. According to Mom, Dad would be flying in over the weekend, but they might let me out by then. Meghan would be coming in, too, but it's not easy trying to get time off of a job you just started.

Mom brought me some of my books. They wouldn't let her give me my I-pod, though. That's too bad, I had some movies on there that would have really helped to pass the time (and it has a clock!). Still, the books are a welcome enough of a respite.

Among them is a bibliography on Zoe Campbell. I suppose we could be called kin, at least we have the same ultra-common last name. It's pretty boring; I had already read the book a number of times over when I was doing a research paper on her last semester, namely her court case.

If I had processed pen and paper, I might have tried to trace the cover. Zoe herself stood before the camera upside down, demonstration her mutation. Although her hair fell in a natural manner towards the ceiling, a ball that a hand released, the rest of the body off camera, demonstrate Zoe was upside down thanks to her ability to ability to manipulate the direction of gravity. What if I could do that? Well, if nothing else, it might make pacing easier. I could just walk in circles by going around the walls. Otherwise, the walls and ceiling were about as boring as the floor. I'd probably look like a hamster running around in a wheel.

That wasn't all Zoe could do.

Potentially one of the more powerful mutants on record, the Campbell literally destroyed half the gym of her middle school- by accident. This is pretty weird to think about, having the ability to accidentally crush the wall in front of me. That would be nice, except I doubt it would do much for my legal situation. Maybe I could just smash a window in my room? Wait, this would only work if one of my walls did face the outside, because if it's an interior room, I'd just have a lovely view of, well, another room.

You wouldn't know it from looking at the cover, but Zoe's purple hair is one hundred percent natural. Apparently it used to be strawberry blonde, according to her mom, but then Zoe hit puberty. That's actually relatively minor, I've heard that some people will change skin tones or grow new appendages. Actually, that'd be kind of nice, having and extra limb. Especially when I'm trying to carry groceries up to my room, a third hand would be really, er… handy.

When did my sense of humor become so corny? I miss TV, and the comedians who could crack real jokes, like those guys on "Whose Line is it Anyway?" Okay, sometimes the jokes are really bad, but sometimes they are really good, too.

I wonder what a third hand would do for a comedian. Would they make handy jokes? Nah, they'd probably actually come up with something original, unlike me. This would not be so good in other jobs, though. Mm… I can't see how having a third arm, or horns or rainbow colored skin would contribute to a professional image. Aside from the entertainment industry, this could prove to be a disadvantage. Even having purple hair, like Zoe's, would be a pain in the ass trying to convince the rest of the world: yes, this is my natural hair color.

Forget about a job, what about surviving school? I wouldn't know what I would have told my junior high friends if my hair turned purple. I probably would start dyeing my hair. But my hair grows really fast, so I guess my purple roots would be prevalent in about four weeks. My sister tried dying her hair, and she said that you were supposed to wait every six weeks to dye your hair, or else you would damage it too badly. Six weeks wasn't often enough for her, so Meghan tried doing it every three weeks, which ended up making her hair really brittle. That's why she stopped dyeing her hair, even though she hates her natural color to this day.

But neither of us have purple hair. I guess one thing to take note of is that we both have hair in the first place. It's bad enough to be a bald man. Being a bald woman dooms you to, at best, standing out in our society. At worst… actually, I can't say I really know. Really bad though.

I wonder if Natalie would know. I tried contacting her last Christmas, but I didn't get very far. Then school started again and the rest is history. For all I know, she might have taken the cure. Lots of mutants did, the media makes it sound like most mutants do. Impressions can be misleading though (I'm learning from experience).

What made Zoe so famous was the legal case when she tore apart the school, the school district tried to sue her and her family. Zoe's mom and step dad were a force to be reckoned with: passionate, well educated, and more than financially sound, they fought back tooth and nail in a counter sue, and the court proceedings almost winded up in the supreme court. Even though it didn't make it up there, it was sensational enough of a case on its own by asking if mutants were to be held accountable when they lost control of their powers. Minors are not held accountable now, in the state of Washington. As for anyone else and everywhere else, it was a question that still hangs in the air.

One of the things I analyzed was how the case could have turned out different if there was casualty, or even a fatality, when Zoe's gravity manipulating abilities caused increased gravity enough to make the support beams fail. Of course, there were a lot of other variables that might have changed the case. Zoe could have already been an adult, the court proceedings could have taken place in another state, or Zoe's parents might have been more poor or less educated, or less tolerant...like Natalie's parents.

Sometimes, I still day dream that Natalie's parents were more like Zoe's. Maybe she would have still gone to New York, since generating solid photon objects is pretty serious business. It still would have been a smoother departure than the mad dash we made to North Salem like a couple of criminal escapees. Or maybe Natalie would have been able to stay, and I wouldn't have lost my best friend.