['What do we do.'

He doesn't know. Scream, cry? Try and be strong and better so nothing like this will happen again? It's an appealing thought, but it's hard to prepare against the unknown, against something that can just change his entire person in a few seconds. But even with these thoughts...]

...For me, it's because I still like being around you and everyone else. I didn't have a lot of friends back home. Really, Ange, I was pretty much a loner in my old high school.

[Then things started to get better when he became a mutant, ironically enough. He became a 'freak,' yeah, but he also felt like he was able to bond with Jean and Kurt and others far quicker than the students at public school. Still, even with them, they only managed to hang out for one afternoon before he suddenly found himself here. Now he's been friends with others for a much longer time, some even lasting over a year. Ange definitely fits in that category.]

And... I felt what it was like to be numb about everything. When... when I was taken over, everything just felt far away. I'm pretty sure I dissociated and...

[He shakes his head, voice dropping in volume.] It was awful.