Post by Laurie Collins on Aug 7, 2006 11:36:39 GMT -5
Moving to a new town and a new school was hard enough. You had to make a new life, with new friends and new places. It was even harder though when you moved to a totally new country, away from your family and everyone you knew. And to top it all off your new school was filled with mutants who had great control over great powers and you were stuck with the stupid stuff that you couldn’t control.
These were the surface problems of one Laura-Lynn Collins, or just Laurie for short. Laurie was born to Sean and Gail Collins in Arad, Alabama. It was a little nothing town with a population of one hundred people, and only two other kids her age. She was used to being very close knit with everyone, knowing everyone by name and face, that’s what happens in such a small place. However, her world got turned upside down when her father accepted a job in Africa. You see, her father was a brilliant scientist and her mother was a wonderful doctor. Together they searched for cures for many diseases, and had been offered a rather intriguing job in Fez, Africa. They packed Laurie up when she was bout seven and moved there. Fez wasn’t that large of a place, but it took a while for Laurie to befriend people. She did though, and had a small group of close friends.
As she grew up she started to become more and more like her mother. She was shy and beautiful, meek and mild. She liked to take care of people, to help and nurture them. She was a very cheery person, a smile always soft and shy on her beautiful face. She also because a bit like her father as far as science goes. Everyone was sure she’d be a brilliant scientist just like her father. She was forever helping her parents care for sick villagers, and made strong bonds with many of them. She had found her place in the world, but yet again her world would be flipped.
When she was fifteen she met a nice British boy who had just moved into Fez. Their fathers were close friends, and his family had moved down to help with the Collin’s research. Laurie developed a little crush on the boy, and right about then she noticed that people were acting strangely around her. You see, the boy in question, Richard, didn’t really like Laurie at first, but when she started liking him he started liking her, but only when she was around him. When he was right there with her he liked her as much as she liked him, but when he was a good distance away he didn’t like her at all. It was strange, but nobody caught on. Also, when Laurie got mad or upset the people around her did as well, and nobody knew why. After a while her mother realized that Laurie was a mutant, one that produced pheromones. She had been controlling people around her to feel what she felt.
They tired to keep it a secret, from everyone, even her father. Laurie worked very hard to try and control her powers, and she learned how to, to an extent, but she still didn’t have full control. One day however, some of the villagers found out. They all got very angry and began to chase her. She just ran from them, as quickly as she could. All the sudden she felt this over whelming feeling. She could feel the arousal in her molecules, a soft pleasant tremble. She was scared at the feeling, but kept running. Her molecules grew more excited, pinging to be free of gravity. All the sudden she because invisible. Her molecules separated, allowing her to run out of her clothes and be gone from sight. When she finally realized this she quickly ducked into an alley and came back to full form, naked. She quickly found some clothes, and snuck back to her home. Her mother decided it was unsafe for her now, and sent her away, back to the US, to Xavier’s Institute for Gifted Youngsters.
And here she was. She didn’t like it here, she didn’t like the feeling of people always looking at her. It was hard for people not to notice her, she was very beautiful, and she couldn’t stand it. She wanted to be left alone, she didn’t trust herself, she didn’t trust her powers. She knew she could never have real friends or a real relationship. She could control her pheromones better now, but she still was never really sure when she was using them and when she wasn’t. She could have friends because if she wanted to befriend them and they didn’t like her them her pheromones would make a fake friendship, and she didn’t want that. And she defiantly couldn’t have a boyfriend because she may have been attracted to him, be he wasn’t to her and her pheromones would make a fake attraction.
As for her invisibility, well she was working on that still as well. She was trying her hardest to become invisible and keep her clothes on, make them invisible too. She could get it most of the time, but every once and a while something would startle her and she become invisible, her clothes would drop to the floor and she’d re appear with nothing on. Thank her lucky stars that so far she hadn’t been in public when something like this happened, but it was only a matter or time.
Today turned out to be a very nice, sunny day. Most of the kids were outside, playing and having a good time. Laurie decided to go out as well, but she unlike the others was very much alone. She strove to find a spot where there were very few people. It took a minute, but she found a nice tree off to the side of the grounds with nobody around it. She snuck over, head held down and placed herself under its shade. She opened up the book she held in her hand and begun to read. It was The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, her favorite book.
These were the surface problems of one Laura-Lynn Collins, or just Laurie for short. Laurie was born to Sean and Gail Collins in Arad, Alabama. It was a little nothing town with a population of one hundred people, and only two other kids her age. She was used to being very close knit with everyone, knowing everyone by name and face, that’s what happens in such a small place. However, her world got turned upside down when her father accepted a job in Africa. You see, her father was a brilliant scientist and her mother was a wonderful doctor. Together they searched for cures for many diseases, and had been offered a rather intriguing job in Fez, Africa. They packed Laurie up when she was bout seven and moved there. Fez wasn’t that large of a place, but it took a while for Laurie to befriend people. She did though, and had a small group of close friends.
As she grew up she started to become more and more like her mother. She was shy and beautiful, meek and mild. She liked to take care of people, to help and nurture them. She was a very cheery person, a smile always soft and shy on her beautiful face. She also because a bit like her father as far as science goes. Everyone was sure she’d be a brilliant scientist just like her father. She was forever helping her parents care for sick villagers, and made strong bonds with many of them. She had found her place in the world, but yet again her world would be flipped.
When she was fifteen she met a nice British boy who had just moved into Fez. Their fathers were close friends, and his family had moved down to help with the Collin’s research. Laurie developed a little crush on the boy, and right about then she noticed that people were acting strangely around her. You see, the boy in question, Richard, didn’t really like Laurie at first, but when she started liking him he started liking her, but only when she was around him. When he was right there with her he liked her as much as she liked him, but when he was a good distance away he didn’t like her at all. It was strange, but nobody caught on. Also, when Laurie got mad or upset the people around her did as well, and nobody knew why. After a while her mother realized that Laurie was a mutant, one that produced pheromones. She had been controlling people around her to feel what she felt.
They tired to keep it a secret, from everyone, even her father. Laurie worked very hard to try and control her powers, and she learned how to, to an extent, but she still didn’t have full control. One day however, some of the villagers found out. They all got very angry and began to chase her. She just ran from them, as quickly as she could. All the sudden she felt this over whelming feeling. She could feel the arousal in her molecules, a soft pleasant tremble. She was scared at the feeling, but kept running. Her molecules grew more excited, pinging to be free of gravity. All the sudden she because invisible. Her molecules separated, allowing her to run out of her clothes and be gone from sight. When she finally realized this she quickly ducked into an alley and came back to full form, naked. She quickly found some clothes, and snuck back to her home. Her mother decided it was unsafe for her now, and sent her away, back to the US, to Xavier’s Institute for Gifted Youngsters.
And here she was. She didn’t like it here, she didn’t like the feeling of people always looking at her. It was hard for people not to notice her, she was very beautiful, and she couldn’t stand it. She wanted to be left alone, she didn’t trust herself, she didn’t trust her powers. She knew she could never have real friends or a real relationship. She could control her pheromones better now, but she still was never really sure when she was using them and when she wasn’t. She could have friends because if she wanted to befriend them and they didn’t like her them her pheromones would make a fake friendship, and she didn’t want that. And she defiantly couldn’t have a boyfriend because she may have been attracted to him, be he wasn’t to her and her pheromones would make a fake attraction.
As for her invisibility, well she was working on that still as well. She was trying her hardest to become invisible and keep her clothes on, make them invisible too. She could get it most of the time, but every once and a while something would startle her and she become invisible, her clothes would drop to the floor and she’d re appear with nothing on. Thank her lucky stars that so far she hadn’t been in public when something like this happened, but it was only a matter or time.
Today turned out to be a very nice, sunny day. Most of the kids were outside, playing and having a good time. Laurie decided to go out as well, but she unlike the others was very much alone. She strove to find a spot where there were very few people. It took a minute, but she found a nice tree off to the side of the grounds with nobody around it. She snuck over, head held down and placed herself under its shade. She opened up the book she held in her hand and begun to read. It was The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, her favorite book.
