Chapter Ten: Of Literature and Hell

Kagome tried to make herself as small as possible as she sat down in a seat towards the back. Sadly it wasn't working; Jean was staring at her quiet harshly. She gulped and looked away from her harsh gaze.

Kurt blinked, now, he wasn't the brightest of people but even he could sense the tension. What he didn't get was why Jean was glaring so harshly at Kagome, yeah they were all late but to take it all out on Kagome was just wrong.

"Vell, Provessor Jean vhat are ve doing today?" He grinned as Jean blinked and smiled at him while picking up a book.

"Well, since we have a new student, we have to start a new book." Kitty blinked, well that didn't make much sense. Sure Kagome would have no idea what they were working on but if they spent the day catching her up things would be fine, so why did Jean want to start a new book?

"Um, can't we like just get Kagome caught up? I mean we're only four chapters into the book…" She trailed off as Jean gave her a blank stare.

"Or, like not?" Rogue rolled her eyes what Kitty said was true but, Jean was known for wanting to do things her way, all the freaking time.

"Kitty just let it go. What book are we reading now?" Jean smirked lightly as she held up a semi thick book.

"We're going to be reading The Brave New World." Now, even Rogue was confused, why were they going to start a book they weren't supposed to read until they were seniors? Kurt was the first one to voice their confusion.

"Vut…Vhy are we going to start such a hard book? I mean even I'll have trouble vith it! Vhat about poor Kagome?" Kagome blushed as Jean gave her a hard stare, as if everything wrong in the world was her fault.

"Well, I think that if we're going to toss her head in we might as well start with this, it'll not only help her get reacquainted with English literature but it'll give her an advantage for when we go back to school in the fall." She smiled as she inwardly smirked, plus it would give her a chance to prove Kagome wasn't worthy of being an X men.

"Now, let's get started." It was ten minutes later that Kagome found herself blushing like a fool and staring down at her book.

Jean smirked as she innocently looked at Kagome, holding her book in front of her.

"Well Kagome? Can you tell us what this passage means?" Kagome nibbled on her bottom lip as she looked over the hard and long words, honestly she could only read a few of them.

"Um…that his refusing to take soma means he refuses to buy the lies that everyone else swallows so easily?" Jean grit her teeth but nodded, she was partly right.

"Yes, can you expand on that though? Why do you think he refuses? Why not just embrace it and be happy like everyone else?" Kagome felt sweat start to drip down the side of her face, she must look like she was retarded.

"Um, because he…he's…he sees the world for what it is…unlike everyone else who sees it through a rose tinted glass…" Jean nodded, while on the inside she was seething.

"Right, now let's move on to the next chapter." Kagome sighed in relief and smiled at Kurt who worded, 'good job'. Wow, now she remembered why she hated school, aside from the fact that everyone hated her because she was different.

It was five minutes later that Jean called on her again.

"Kagome, can you tell us why he took soma even though he didn't want to?" Kagome nodded nervously.

"Because he didn't want to be singled out more than he was." Jean nodded and flipped through a few pages of the book and pointed out a passage.

"Can you tell us what the author is trying to get across in paragraph two on page thirty-five?" Kagome frantically flipped through the book trying to get to the right page.

Rouge glared darkly at Jean as Kurt and Kitty looked on in pity, why did Jean keep asking Kagome so many questions? It was as if she had forgotten the rest of them where there.

Rogue rolled her eyes as Kagome frantically looked for the passage Jean was talking about and decided to come to the poor girls rescue.

"What the author is trying to get across is that humans are easily influenced." Jean blinked and turned to Rogue a small smile on her face, yes, she had honestly forgotten the others were there, and judging by the looks they were giving her they had noticed.

"Thank you Rogue, let's keep moving along then." Kagome blushed as she smiled at Rogue in thanks and was rewarded with a small smile like smirk.

Kagome let out a small happy sigh as Jean announced that class was over and quickly packed up her things. She jumped when Kurt placed his hand on her shoulder.

"Vell, you made it!" She smiled and nodded.

"Thank Kami…I thought I was going to die." Kitty laughed as she walked over to them, Rogue following behind as Jean tossed them all a nasty look and walked out of the room.

"Yeah, Jean was, like, totally zeroing in on you. It was like odd." Rogue rolled her eyes as they all slowly made their way into the hallway.

"Little miss perfect was picking on her plain and simple." Kagome nodded lightly, glad that she wasn't the only one who noticed it.

Kitty blinked, yes Jean was acting odd, but…well she honestly didn't know what to say so she kept her mouth shut, for once.

Kurt grinned as he tossed his arms around Kagome's and Kitty's shoulder's.

"You guys vanna go get some grub? I could go for a gut burger right now." Kagome blinked, oh! She had to meet Logan for her training!

"Oh dear! I have to go! I have to meet Logan for my first training session! I'm sorry, I need to go now!" She quickly ran down the hall to go change.

Kurt grinned as he hung off of Kitty.

"Oh~ I vant to see this! Kitty Rogue you in?" Kitty blushed and shrugged him off.

"Sorry, can't I have to call my mom, let me know what happens." With that she walked towards her shared room with Rogue.

Rogue shrugged as Kurt turned to her giving her puppy dog eyes.

"Sure why not?" Kurt smiled as he walked down the hall with his sister.

"Oh, this is going to be avesome!" Rogue rolled her eyes but even she was curious to see how well Kagome would fair on her first training session. Things were sure to be interesting.