Chapter One: What makes me so Special?

I had just finished running the brush through my hair when I put it back down on the table and picked up my pom poms. I ran out of the room and closed the door and walked the short distance to school. You see, I wasn't what you would call normal, but I hid who I was because I knew people would be scared. I have a special ability; you could say I was different.

"Hey Kimmie wait up!" I heard the voice of my best friend and co-captain call out to me. You see I am cheer captain at our high school. We called ourselves the shooting starlights and our uniforms are made of black skirt and top with golden trimming and also a kind of golden dust on the top. Also on the top was a cut out of a star, each of which were personally designed by each cheerleader and put on in their favorite color, mine was purple and Krissie, my co-captain was pink. We hugged as she came up and we walked side by side to where the other cheerleaders were waiting.

The game was the most anticipated game we have been waiting for, it was the football semi finals, we win this and we would make the final. I sighed as I looked out into the stands that were beginning to fill up; we were playing the team from Bayville High, a school that was in the next district from us. I looked at the people sitting on the benches and one person stuck out to me, a girl with red hair, it was as if I knew her. I shook my head as I looked at my team and prepared to give my pep talk.

"Now remember guys, we can do this, let's show them how we rock the house with our amazing cheer skills!" I said as to which the team screamed and cheered. "Who are we?"

"The Shooting Starlights" the team shouted.

"And what do we want?"

"To show them our shit!" to which I laughed, Krissie had been changing the chants.

"Let's go out and show them what a regional cheer champ team is made of!" I said as they cheered and we ran out onto the field, people began to clap and shout at us, I heard many people cheering my name as I smiled and put my pom poms down and performed a set of flips. Oh I so spaced, I am also state champion gymnast.

"Let's go starlights!" I shouted as I landed my double back somersault. The crowd went crazy as I signaled up to the box to put on our music. The music blared and we began to do our routine, people stood up and cheered as we began our complex stuff. I went over to Jamie, one of the male cheerleaders as he whispered something in my ear.

"Full out Kimmie?" he said as I smiled and nodded. He put his hands on my waist and lifted me up, I stood on his hands and posed, he then bent down and threw me up into the air, but I knew it was not high enough this time, I closed my eyes as I pulled in the wind, asking it to push me up as I completed my full out and then prepared myself to land into the arms of the catchers below. Once they put me on the floor I smiled at the crowd, but only one face stood out, the red haired girl, her mouth forming a smile, I knew then that I was so busted.

My smile vanished as I reached out my senses to her and read her mind, she was like me, someone special and she was not the only on here tonight. You see, I am a mutant and I have amazing but also destructive abilities. No one knows about them, not even my foster parents and that was the way I was gonna keep it. With the routine finished we went to the sidelines, I told Krissie I was going to get something quickly and went over to the benches where the people from Bayville were sitting. I saw the red haired girl waiting for me; I grabbed her arms and pulled her behind the benches so that no one could see us.

"Please don't tell anybody." I said to her as she smiled at me.

"Kimmie, don't be so scared, I know what it is like to be special, as you know I am special too. I am sure that the professor will help you to control your abilities." she said as she placed her hand on my shoulder. I looked at her and smiled.

"So, what can you do?" I asked her.

"Well, I am a telepath and telekinetic." she said, I smiled at her.

"That is so cool, I can do that too, but I can also control the weather, I can't create it, but I can ask it to help me in some stuff, well you saw if I didn't ask the wind to push me high enough, that would have been such a disaster and would so hurt, but I have like never used my powers in a cheer contest before, first time actually." I said as I laughed and put my hand on my neck and played with my hair, it was a nervous habit that I did when I knew I was gonna get told off. I didn't like using my powers, I believed that they would be a form of cheating, so I wanted to prove to people I got to be who I was without doing that.

"Trust me, I don't think that at all Kimmie, I am Jean Grey, we actually picked up your signature last night, you accidentally used your powers?" she asked, again I blushed, I was having nightmares and when that happens, my powers kinda lose control.

"Yeah sorry about that, but thankfully my fosters were out that night so nothing happened." I said as I let out a nervous giggle.

"Kimmie, after the match I would like to take you to where I live and meet some friends, what do you think?" Jean said, I looked at her and saw nothing but kindness, I also felt no bad aura coming from her but I knew that if I went, this may mean leaving everything here; I smiled and nodded at her. "Great, look I will meet you here after the game, oh and by the way, I am so jealous of the stuff you can do, your cheer skills are amazing!" she said as she smiled and waved and walked away. I went back to the squad and pondered, this may mean that this could be my last match as a shooting star; I looked over at the Bayville High cheerleaders and saw that they were not as skilled as us. I let out a sigh as Krissie came up to me.

"Hey captain, we need you to take point." she said as she reached out her hand to me, I smiled and giggled as we began to build the pyramid, all the time I was watching the other squad.