Why Me? (X-Men fan fiction)

Chapter 6 "Pasts"

"You can help me control this?" I asked Aric. He looked at the professor and then nodded at me. I decided to go back with them and the returning journey was much more comfortable than the departure journey.
We road in a jet that Aric piloted and I sat in the back with Professor Xavier. The ride was a quiet one but it gave me time to think about what I was getting myself into, which may or may not have been a good thing. I genuinely believed that the professor and Aric wanted to help me, but I wasn't so sure they could.
When we got back to the school it was dinner time and when we walked into the cafeteria I could feel everyone's eyes on me, and I immediately started to regret my decision. I got settled into my own room and went to bed early.
The next day I was woken up by Aric shaking me, no that isn't the kindest way to be woken up, but what I had learned of Aric was that he was in Germany during World War II and is a Jew so he was used to more order and less tardiness. So when he woke me up at five in the morning I didn't say anything and just got up, and got ready.
I went down stairs fifteen minutes after, and Aric was waiting for me in the kitchen. He was sitting at the table drinking coffee and reading the newspaper when I walked in. He looked up at me, nodded, and then went back to his newspaper and coffee. I got a green apple and some orange juice, then sat down across from Aric.
We sat there in silence for a few minutes, then Aric put down his paper and looked at me as if he was expecting something, I finished my apple and through the core away and then sat expecting him to say something anytime.
After a few minutes of awkward silence Aric extended his hand to me and said "Charles tells me you can read, and project thoughts if you can touch the person, so take my hand and show me your thoughts about your abilities."
For a second I just looked at him but then I said "I will if you allow me to read your thoughts as well."
He looked at me for a few moments and then said "Fine but stay away from the personal stuff." I nodded and then took his hand. I showed him my experiences with my abilities first showing him my memory when I was seven and I got upset with my brother and ran into my room crying, one moment I was crying into my pillow and the next my back was flat against the ceiling. I had levitated myself I had no idea about my powers then and freaked out. I told my parents about it and they just thought it was a seven year olds overly imaginative mind, but little did they know that I had actually flown and that, that was only the beginning of my abilities. I showed other memories I had of my powers, and once I had finished I read his memories and was shocked by what I found.
He had suffered so much in his some what short lifetime, it didn't seem fair to me that a man with so much love in his heart should have to feel so much heart ache. I saw through his mind, his mother and father being taken away by German soldiers at a Jewish prison camp during World War II. I saw his wife and daughter slaughtered, and him being rejected by his fellow man because of his powers. Amongst all of this I also saw Professor Xavier or... Charles. He and Aric were close friends once, the professor taught Aric how to enhance his powers and control them, and through that action became close friends. But like all friends they sometimes have their scrummages. They drew apart and haven't spoken much since.
I released Aric's hand with tears in my eyes, and when I looked at him I couldn't help but say sorry.
Aric looked at me with sadness in his eyes and said "You have struggled much."
He looked down and then continued saying "Your powers are different than mine, but Charles was right, both our powers are drawn from the same inward power. I will teach you, but you must listen to me." I tell him that I will, then he takes me to professor Xavier's office to figure out how my lessons are to be completed. We decide that I will take the essential classes with the other students, but when the others are doing their electives and taking their breaks, I will be training with Aric.