Austin's POV

I can't believe my friends were like this. They wanted to be with others like them. So do I. Now they don't.

It was too dark already. I couldn't see. Oh, shit!

The branch of a tree knocked me in the face. I tumbled to the ground. As I got up, I checked myself.

My necklace! Where my A necklace?

I searched through the snow for my necklace. My necklace is too important to me. Ally and I bought each other matching necklace that had our initials on it. Mine had A.D. and hers is A.M.

Finally, I found it. How did it come off? I guess the branch yanked it out and broke it. I stuffed it in my pocket and continue walking.

Suddenly, the snowflakes started falling down hard. Oh, man, how could I forget what Rosie said? She warned me that if I ever yell at Ally, she's going to kick me outside and make a snowstorm. Just great. I'm going to freeze to death!

I zipped my jacket all the way up and covered my face with my hoodie.

"Austin?" yelled a voice. It came from a trailer I was near.

"Who is it?" I called out.

"It's me. Kat. What are you doing out here? Come in. Come in."

I walked into the trailer. Kat closed the door behind me.

"Austin, sit down," said Kat. "I'll get you some hot chocolate."

"Thank you, Kat."

As she made my hot chocolate, Kat asked, "What were you doing out there in a snowstorm?"

"I kind of got in a fight with my friends. Sorry about the storm. Rosie gets like that a lot."

"Don't worry. I've seen much worse with all fifty-eight mutants here."

"Fifty-eight?"

"There's a lot of us. Too many of us actually. You didn't think that you were the only mutant in the world, did you?"

"Not really."

"I figured. Austin, what's your power?"

"Do you want to know? My ability is not that powerful. I can morphed into people, animals, and objects."

"That's pretty powerful."

"Not powerful compared to my friends. Ally is telekinetic and telepathic. Dez had super speed. Rosie has weather manipulation. And Trish has pyrokinesis."

"You're still pretty powerful to me." Kat handed me a hot cup of hot chocolate.

I took a sip and asked Kat, "What can you do, Kat?"

"I can replicate mutant powers."

"What do you mean by replicate?"

Suddenly, she transformed into me. Did she have the same power as me?

"How did you do that?"

"When I encounter someone, I am able to copy their power. I'm able to copy your morphing ability." She shifted back into her form.

"How did you know how to control my power?"

"I also copy control and knowledge of the abilities."

"That's amazing."

"Yeah, but the mutants here don't like my power."

"Why?"

She sat down on the couch next to me. Kat sighed, "They always call me Copy Kat. They are so afraid of me because they think that I'm going to steal their powers."

"You won't, will you?"

"I'll never steal your power."

"I don't see why you would ever want my power."

"Hey, every mutant is different, Austin. All of us are powerful in our own ways. You are capable of more than you could imagine."

"Ally never says that to me."

"Expect the unexpected."

There was something in my pocket. It was my necklace.

"Kat, I want to give you something," I said as I showed her the necklace.

"A necklace?" She murmured. "For me?"

"Yeah, it's mine, but I want you to have it."

Kat turned around and I put it around her neck. She turned back and said, "It's beautiful, Austin. It's the first piece of jewelry anybody has ever given me."

"You need it more than me. You're a really good person."

"Thank you, Austin."

The window behind her caught my attention. The snowflakes finally stopped.

"Kat, I have to go." I said.

"Are you sure you can't stay?"

"No, my friends are probably worried about me."

"I thought they kicked you out."

"I know, but…they're my family. You don't how much I worry about them and I love them all. I have to go now."

Quickly, I left her trailer. As I walked back to the tent, I ran into someone. Who was it? Ally!

"Austin?" She said.

"Ally, come on," I said. "I thought about it once. We should get home now."

"You changed your mind now?"

"I don't want to fight. It was my mistake to come here. I was being a dumbass. Can we go home?"

"Yeah, I don't want to fight either. Let's go."

Dez, Ally, Trish, Rosie, and I managed to sneak out of there. We headed straight home. Finally when we arrived, I flopped onto my bed.

Ally walked in and flopped onto my bed with me.

"Austin, did you really want to stay there?" She asked me.

"No," I answered. "I wasn't thinking straight. What did you think about living there?"

"I don't want to go back there ever again."

"Why?"

"Austin, being there didn't feel right at all. All of those mutants there made me feel uncomfortable and scared. We don't belong there."

"Babe, were you scared being there?"

"Something didn't feel right." Her voice began to crack. "We didn't know anybody. We don't know how to live with any of them." She started crying.

"Hey, hey, hey," I whispered to her. "Hey, babydoll, it's okay. Don't cry, Alls."

"Austin, I keep have this bad feeling that something bad's going to happen to all of us," Ally whimpered. "What if something bad does happen?"

"Nothing's going happen. Ally, listen to me. Your life is my top priority. I'll protect you until the last moment of my life."

"Forever?"

"Not forever. For all eternity."

"I love you."

"I love you."