Jean reached out and lightly stroked the green locks with her slender fingers, hoping to calm her. " It's okay, my parents don't know either or my friends." She said softly. Even when she was sent to live at Xavier's school for mutants, they hadn't found out the truth about their youngest child. They just thought she was special and very intelligent, which she was...but she could also read minds and had potentially powerful telepathy. She could move things with her mind...strangely very easy. On top of that...she could create flames, essentially kill someone. " Since I was ten. I was hit by a car...my parents said I was techinically dead for a minute." She sighed softly. " My powers manifested then."