<hr/><div class="floatleft">(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2014/244/2/d/laura_pol_paint_by_patricia_crvl-d7xjoof.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Tessa "Tess" Cantrell | Hourglass<br/><strong>Location:</strong>A Classroom<br/><strong>Date/Time:</strong>September 2nd, Mid-Afternoon<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Charles Xavier, OPEN<br/><strong>Content:</strong>Class<br/><strong>Wearing:</strong>Sweater (https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d8/55/14/d85514ea29c4b1e35f0c623432af89b4.jpg), dark blue skinny jeans, dirty Converse sneakers, black finger-less gloves<br/><hr/><br/>Tessa could feel him enter her mind and it made her very uncomfortable. She closed her eyes and turned her head away slightly as she gripped the cards in her fingers. Her heart raced a bit, having that initial fear that he would see more than he intended to. She could feel a tightness in her chest as if there were muscles expanding around her heart, putting pressure on it. Her anxiety was beginning to get the best of her. Maybe she shouldn't have come to this class. Immediately, without thought, she froze time and set the cards down on the floor before pulling her legs up to her chest and covering her head with her arms as she let it hang between her knees. Her fingers clenched the hair on the back of her head as she tried to settle down and focus on her breathing. She was not yet used to all of this and was still very broken from what she had just recently escaped from.<br/><br/>After rocking slightly for about a minute, she finally let out a deep breath and began to compose herself. She put her feet back down on the floor and picked up the cards before sitting back up. One more deep breath and she unfroze time, but was in a slightly different position from what she had been in before. She had been shuffling the cards before it happened, but now the cards were resting in her lap, and she was sitting up a little taller in her seat. Her headache was mild, having not changed anything besides her position while she was essentially alone. She was used to the mild headaches, so she didn't focus on it much at all.<br/><br/>Listening to the Professor's words, she looked around to find something to focus on first before selecting a card. She glanced at it quickly, long enough to see that it was a 3 of diamonds. She set the card on the top of the deck, just in case she ended up forgetting what card it was, and immediately started thinking about something else.<em>I wonder if that cat is another mutant just wanting to sit in on the class. It seems weird that it would just come in and immediately allow that girl to pet it without first smelling her or without being cautious. Maybe she has food on her or something? Or maybe it's an indoor cat that loves people? It doesn't really seem that dirty, so it must have a home.</em>