7 May 2012
This is only my version, I'm working on this with the amazing @CuriousCat so make sure you look at her too!
We're sitting on the railing, our railing, by room six, during lunch. Just me and Kitty. Everyone else is playing football or basketball or some other sport that involves mindlessly chasing a ball. Not us though! Kitty is probably the best friend I will ever have. We've only known each other since the beginning of last year. Kitty was the new girl in our class so I decided to go talk to her and from that day since we've been the best of friends! Most lunchtimes we sit on our rail and draw or talk about life the universe and everything, or something in between. We both love art, Kitty's amazing at drawing, me not so much. I want to be an actor see? So I alway focus on scripts and stuff. But yeah we are definitely best friends! "Hey Jack," Kitty says. "Yeamph?" I reply from halfway inside a sandwich. "What superpower would you want?" I cough an choke on my sandwich. "Sorry what?" "What superpower would you want?" she asks again. "Em... I'd want, eh... Firepowers?..." I lie. See Kitty knows everything about me save one. She doesn't know that I have superpowers! I can control things with my mind, it's Telekinesis! Like Prof. Xavier! "Really?" she asks, giving me a funny look. "Yeah.. Yeah! Aw it would be so cool!!!" I reply trying not to look guilty. She can tell when I'm lying. "Are you sure?" she asks again. "That doesn't seem like your kind of thing." "Oh well eh... BOOP BOOP! BOOP BOOP! "Oh hey! There's the bell!" I say hastily. "I have my art exam now so I'll see you after school?" "Yeah, okay," Kitty sighs. Phew saved by the bell.
I'm walking home. I just dropped off Kitty. She lives close-ish to me. She didn't bring up the superpower thing again, that the heavens! I wonder why she asked... I stop. I can hear something, something muffled like a TV turned down too low. It's coming from the next alleyway. I quickly scam the street. No-one, perfect. I levitate up onto the rooftops. I rush over to the edge and peer over the gutter. There's someone down there, or is it a cat. It's dark. The cat disappears. Poof! And it's gone. How the?! I drip down into the alley. In the corner behind some rubbish bins there are three thugs tied up with rope! One of them, an ugly man with a square face and a broken nose, had an oddly shaped bruise on his forehead. It looks like a paw print! I take out my iPod and open up photos. After a quick search I've found it. One of the robbers from the bank robbery last week had the exact same bruise in his back! Coincidence? I think not! A tin can rolls on the floor behind me. I freeze. It feels like someone is watching me. Maybe that cat, or was it a person, never left? I clench my fists. I slowly turn. No ones there. Maybe it was my imagination. I leave the alley and start to run home. Maybe im not the only superhero in town?
Heroes Of The Night 1 • Opuss № I