xxxxxK.C.'s life has been staggeringly normal, in most respects. The younger of two children born in Jersey to a pair of doctors (her father a dentist, her mother an oncologist), her parents had planned to have one more child but changed their minds when K.C.'s developmental delays ended up taking up too much of their time and energy to balance careers plus one more kid. K.C. excelled in some subjects but was at a loss in others; frequent classroom outbursts and trouble with interactions with the other children, too, led her parents to switch her in third grade to a private school where she could get more of the focused attention she needed.
xxxxxAfter the move to private school she did much better in class, though still always had a struggle with social interactions. Still, life was pretty okay; she got along well with her older sister and had enough school-and-extracurricular interests to keep her occupied. When she was eleven her parents split up -- it was an amicable break, and her father moved to the Upper West Side, where she and her sister still saw him frequently. She moved from one private school to another for high school. The adjustment was difficult for her, never good with change, and it was further complicated by the onset of her mutation in her first year. It took a while for anyone to figure out what was going on with her -- her usual tics and idiosyncracies were becoming pronounced, her outbursts and upset more frequent, her attention scattered in school, and at first they just assumed it all had to do with her rather expected difficulties adjusting to her new school.
xxxxxThe growing unrest in the city and anti-mutant sentiments together with K.C.'s difficulty in understanding which things were safe to say and not say made this exceptionally difficult, though, and bullying from the other students as well as hassle from the other parents made attending school harder.
xxxxxXavier's school's announcement in the news was like a godsend for her family. They wasted no time in contacting the school -- and while she may not have been the most dire of cases, the fact that they could afford to pay tuition in full likely helped with securing her a spot for this upcoming fall, where she is poised to enter the sophomore class.
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