Chapter 5

The day of the festival came upon them really fast. It was complete with both rides and ice cream. Professor X did all this because he knew the kids were not accepted that much in the normal world. Anne was sitting with both Cordelia and Phyllis along with their families when she had her first bite of ice cream.

"This is so good, better then I could have ever imagined." Anne said with a huge smile on her face. "It is just simply divine now I don't know how I ever lasted without ever eating it,” she said all in one breath taking another spoonful of ice cream in.

The adults smiled at each other. "I'm glad you like it Anne," a friendly voice from behind her said.

"Yes Professor X it is quite divine." He smiled very warmly at her.

The rides were just as fun. Anne couldn't remember laughing so hard in her life before now. Anne, along with Cordelia and Phyllis, went on most of the rides. Anne liked the tilt-a-whirl and ferris wheel the most. "We can see so far from up here," she said in awe as the ferris wheel stopped when they were at the very top.

"Look over the trees Anne, and at the fields, oh how pretty," Phyllis said. "Look to the lake on the left," Phyllis pointed out.

“I could stay up here forever," Anne said with tears in her eyes because of the marvel. "I wish I could fly, I could see this all the time," She said. Both girls smiled at each other,

"Gilbert can," Cordelia whispered. Anne just huffed.

That night she said her prayers thanking God for the very good day. As she got ready to start working on Gabriel's writings there was a knock on her door. "Come in," she said, still smiling from the day.

"Hi Anne I'm glad you enjoyed yourself," Professor X said happily. Anne smiled at him and then went back to her writings. After a moment Charles asked, "Do you want help Anne?" as he picked up a page and read it.

"No thanks. I promised Gabriel I'd do this all by myself.

Just then Professor X gasped. "Anne where did you get these?"

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Anne seemed confused. "Gabriel Blake," she said, still not sure why someone like Professor X would care about a meager thing like this.

"Anne these notes are from the first real battle the Mutants had. Gabriel Blake fought with us very hard, he too was a mutant," Professor X said.

"Then how did he end up in that awful founding home?" she questioned.

"From what we learned in class, the mutants were protected by a secret government agency back then." Professor X sighed. "The people who ran it changed. They grew afraid of us."

"And then they forgot about him." Anne finished.

"Yes," Professor X said. "I tried to find him again, and when I finally did, I asked if he would join our fight to protect our country. He said no."

Anne said slowly, "You tell us to pray, but why should one pray to a God who has forgotten them?" Anne said. "And why should he fight for a country that forgot about him?"

"God didn't forget you," Professor X said soothingly.

"Yes he did, just like the government forgot about Gabriel. If he remembered us, we would have never been treated like slaves, like non–humans," she said, her voice trailing off at the end.

"Oh, Anne, God puts us through trials to better our souls," Professor X said. Anne looked at him in disbelief. She knew she couldn't blame him, how could she, when he had everything? When he was liked and had a happy family and plenty of money?

She then excused herself to go to the bathroom, and when she got back, Professor X had gone.

"Oh Katie," she said to her mirror friend sadly, "I should be mad at him, I want to yell at him for not understanding, but I can't." she sighed. "He'll never know, none of them will - I don't think even Logan will."

The next day Anne was rather quiet and wouldn't share what was wrong. At the end of the day, Phyllis had enough. "Please tell me Anne, I'm your friend! Please don't shut me out."

Anne smiled at her. "It's nothing, Phyllis. Now shouldn't you be getting ready for the senator's visit?" Anne said. The mutants were fighting with the government for the right to keep their own privacy. To try and help convince them, Jean Gray invited one of the senators to the school for the gifted, to try to make him see the kids were like all other kids. Not to mention he would be a rare guest speaker for the government class.

"What about you, Anne?" Phyllis said, "Don't you need to practice?"

"No, I memorized The Lady of Shalott years ago," she said with a bit of a smile.

Anne walked the grounds the rest of the day. When she came back to dinner Phyllis thought that she seemed back to normal.