Emma sighed as she carried the last of her boxes into her dorm room. The 18 year old had just arrived at her new college dorm and was trying to get settled in without talking to anyone first. In fact not talking to anyone was kind of her game plan of the year.

Emma isn't your average student, Emma was a mutant, to be exact a cat mutant.There is many different kinds of mutant but the cat ones may have the hardest time, mostly because it's hard for them to hide their true form. Other mutants could change at will but cat people could only change their hair colour and even that was rare. Because they find it so hard to hide they were the most discriminated against. Cat people were hunted almost to the point of extinction, some were kept as pets and forced to wear humiliating collars and the rest are force to hide who they are. Emma has to hide her real mutant identity by painfully pinning back her ears, strapping her tail to her back and wearing contact lenses. Even after hiding her physical signs of being a mutant there was still some parts of her character she had to keep under wraps such as the way she hisses when she is mad or scared, how she purrs when she is really happy and how she loves to curl up in a ball in a warm comfy place.

Emma was always very careful to hide who she was. Her parents were killed by mutant hunters when she was very young. She managed to escape to a local orphanage where a kind but firm social worker took her in and showed her how to hide what she was. She even schooled her at the orphaned so she didn't have to spend all her days at school hiding. However now she was 18 and too old to live there and had to find a place to stay. Having no money and still wanting to learn she ended up going to college. However college meant only ever being able to show who she really was in her tiny dorm room and what scared her even more interacting with people her own age. She had spent very little time around people her age and was nervous she would make a fool of herself.

As she carried the last box to her room she was dressed in black skinny jeans, a grey guys t shirt, a burgundy guy's hoodie, a pair of guys cookie monster boxers and a pair of old school vans. She always dressed kinda butchly. She acted butch as well. It was all in an attempt to hide how scared she was of the world around her. She always joked and laughed about her feelings never opening up to anyone, well at least not since her parents died. Her skin was pale, eyes blue with bags under them as she never sleeps well. Her hair was bown and in a short pxie cut though it was still long enough to hide her ears that were pinned to her scalp.

Ashley hefted her own stuff filled boxes down the hall, she stepped her way around Emma and walked about two doors further down the hall before she dropped the current load of boxes down in her room. Stepping out of her dorm room she walked down the hall again and possibly briefly made eye contact with Emma, though she didn't notice anything distinctly off about her as she left to go and pick up the final set of her boxes of stuff. Mutants didn't have any sort of special sense for one another, nor did they have some giveaway or tell. After all Ashley was one of the few mutants who were capable of suppressing their unique appearance without having to do any sort of strapping or pinning down.

As Ashley returned to the hall with her final load of boxes there was again the possibility of making Eye contact with Emma. Though since Ashley was busy moving her boxes she didn't exactly stop for a chat. Plopping her boxes down in her room Ashley gave a sigh and stretched before she began to unpack things and put them away at a proper place. The door to her dorm was left open since Ashley didn't have a reason to keep it closed yet.

Though the likelihood of anyone wandering into her dorm was very slim.

As Ashley walked past Emma Emma tried to make herself look as unnoticeable as possible as she had done whenever she walked past anyone. Emma was rather small in height but curvy in figure.

She got all her stuff in her room and sighed locking her door and finally getting to take the pins off her ears and unstrap her tail. As she did this her ears popped right up and she shock her head like a wet dog. Her ears had always been too big for her with the silly looking big brown tuffs of fur at the top. Her tail was too big as well being brown and fluffy, it puffed up to twice the size of her when she was scared. She also took out her contacts showing her true eyes. They were still blue but now with hints of green and had cat slits for pupils instead of normal round pupils.

She started to unpack making sure to hide her teddy bear under her pillow not wanting anyone to know she still slept with one, it was the last thing she had left of her parents. She then unpacked her cloths and stuff for class including her cherished laptop she had saved for years to buy. Emma was a bit of a nerd and loved to play games and stuff on her laptop. She also unloaded her huge dvd and book collection and her sketch book and drawing stuff.

Ashley made note that Emma was doing her best to not be seen. As she unpacked her stuff She remembered that classes for the day would start eventually and picked up the pace with her unpacking. As she finished she grabbed a bag and hustled out of her room while closing the door behind her. As she walked down the hallway she walked past Emma's dorm room but didn't pay any mind to it since she needed to get to the class that just had to be two floors down.

As she entered class Ashley frowned at having to take the back left corner desk. Which unfortunately only left one other seat left. That seat was the one next to her. This presented some interesting problems for Ashley since she didn't have an enormous, unbreakable control of her suppression yet and as such may slip a bit into her true form or slip entirely into it. This would be rather debilitating since the clothes she wore would be ripped to shreds due to the large size difference and since most of the classmates were guys there would likely be many pictures up on the internet within the hour.

Hopefully that didn't happen.

Once Emma unpacked she noticed the time and muttered "Shit" she quickly pined her ears back wincing as she did it, strapped her tail to her back and put in her contacts before running off to class. She was almost late but made it just in time. She winced seeing there was only one seat left. It was next to the kinda cute girl she passed earlier Wait cute oh no don't go getting any crushes now. she thought as she went and shyly sat down next to her.

As she sat down she nervously bit her lip which made one of her cute little tiny fangs noticeable to Ashley. Class soon started and Emma listened in taking notes the whole way. Emma had terrible handwriting and bad spelling due to dyslexia but was still rather smart. The class was Sociology which was the one she was looking forward to most. She loved learning about how people effect society and how society effects them as well.

Ashley paid little heed to Emma as she sat down beside her. After all, she still assumed that there was nothing out of the ordinary about this girl and as such didn't really have anything special to say to the woman. Ashley also noted that Emma put out shy-vibes by the bucketful and as such she likely didn't want to be bothered. As the Sociology class went on Ashley did her best to keep herself entertained by looking around the classroom without really moving her head. In doing this Ashley noticed that Emma seemed to have a fang of some sort. Gently ripping a small, unused corner of her notes out Ashley scribbled onto it I can see your fang, my name is Ashley, I'm to your right, I am one too. Do not fear. Visit me in my dorm later, it's two doors up and to the left from yours.

Ashley gently slid the small piece of paper onto the girls notebook while trying to avoid looking like she was doing anything. She didn't know if she was noticed by Emma or not.

Emma looked down and noticed the note and tensed all over a look of fear on her face. She quickly hid her fangs and looked over at Ashley blushing bright red with worry in her eyes. She looked her over trying to figure out what kind she was but couldn't. She knew she wasn't a cat as Lily would smell another cat and notices the signs of them hiding it. She didn't know what to do she couldn't ask her to prove she was a mutant here and even if she did in doing so she would be showing her that she is in fact one so instep she just nodded slowly and tried to put her butch walls back in place.

Emma tried to focus on the the rest of the class but ended up spending the rest of the time panicking in her head worried that maybe this girl was playing some cruel tick on her. Emma was far more wary of other's than Ashley.