New story. Yayz! I don't have any idea where this one is going. After all, it kind of just appeared out of no where about ten seconds ago. Normally, I'd write it on a paper and see if I'm still interested after two hours but since I have nothing better to do right now, this one is going straight to the blog. I apologize in advance if the story never ends.
The superpowers first began appearing at the end summer before my junior year in high school. This was probably the worst time the could have appeared because I was an emotional wreak. Why? Because my sister, who is probably the most important person in the world to me, went off to college. I don't know how many girls cry themselves to sleep when their sister leaves home for the first time but I did. For a whole week, I think I got a grand total of ten hours of sleep, most of it in one night, because I was too busy bawling my eyes out. There were too many memories with her in that room. We shared the room for as long as I can remember so every night before bed we would have long, drawn out discussions about everything and anything. I pride myself in saying that I probably know more about my sister than anyone reading this knows about them self. The same was true for her, after all, I told her almost everything, and anything I didn't tell her she figured out herself. It wasn't too hard for her to do since we are so. We look the same; black hair, green eyes, and red lips. When we wear the same clothes, the only way to tell us apart is by the fact that I am always three inches shorter than her (I hope to catch up at some point) and our facial expressions. She usually has a happy inviting smile on her face. People say that I need to show my teeth when I smile but I'm a little shy. She's a lot more confident than I am. I guess that's because I'm the younger sibling and because she is perfect. Her grades are always good, she's athletic as well, and popular. We are the same, I said it before, but since I came after, she's already done everything. I can't really beat her because I'm not better than her. So we are equally good at everything but she got all the praise and I am just the little sister. A lot of people assume that I resent her because of this but I don't. In a way, I don't really mind at all because I'm doing the best I can and so is she. The point is, we were really close and for the first time in out lives, we would not be together. I don't think she was as torn up about it as I was but I do hope she was a little sad. We dropped her off at college on the 25th of August. Five days later, (on the 30th for those who are too lazy to do the math) we heard about the superpowers. It came on the 6:00 news. They told us that recently people all around the globe had been found to develop unexplainable abilities. In Japan, there was a boy who had amazing hearing. Apparently, he had been sitting in his house and somehow heard police car sirens from three miles away. In South Africa, there was a girl who could go through solid objects. In Ohio, there were rumors of a boy having set a house on fire with flames shooting out of his hands.
"Folks, this is not a joke, this is the real deal. We still do not know the cause of these powers to develop but we will find out. For now, just be careful. They can be recognized by the black tatoos that appear on their arms when they are using their powers. If you or someone you know begins to develop powers, please call 911 immediately and they will come and help you out. "
I don't know who believed that bullshit. By help us out, they probably meant something more along the lines of lock you up so you can become our lab rat. I knew that if I knew anyone with powers, I would have kept it secret, even though the idea of powers scared me. Humans as it is always have power over one another. Some people are stronger, some people are smarter, some people have more money or influence and they always use that power over others. Bullies use their strength and their mean words to hurt weaker people, smarter people use their intelligence to get into better colleges, get better jobs, get money or they use it to tell people truths that they don't want to know. Everyone has power of some sort, even if it is something as simple as the ability to make people pity you. Either way humans already have that power over others so whose stupid idea was it to give them even more power? I have always been scared of people with power, my sister being the obvious exception. Since I have no confidence, I end up being the weaker one, after all, confidence is the best catalyst to power in the world. Someone without confidence, is a lot less likely to win anything no matter how much power they have. So, if you add to the scary superpowers the fact that one of the only people who had ever helped me out with my confidence issue had gone to college,it's not surprising that I wanted to shut myself in my room and never leave. That wasn't really an option though, so on September 1st, I went to school. Of course, everyone was talking about the powers. So far no one in the school had confessed to having powers but everyone knew that didn't mean no one had any. Luckily for me, my friends were not really the kind of people to gossip or make up rumors so I was able to ignore most of it. We pretended like nothing was happening. That first day of school was the first day in a long time that I saw my boyfriend. I apologized profusely for ignoring him during the my-sister-is-gone crisis but he, being the sweet guy he is only felt guilty for not being able to help somehow. So that was how everything started. Over the next few months, we saw videos on YouTube, and on the news of people who had powers. Sometimes it was hard to tell what was special effects and what wasn't but the world slowly got used to the idea of the Specials. That became their official name after a while. By the way, get used to is the perfect statement in this situation. I can't say that it was more than that. Very few non-Specials accepted them as part of society right away. I think everyone had the same fears I did, even if they couldn't put it into words. Specials were shunned the moment they "came out". I guess I'm not surprised, after all humans fear people who are different by nature. There was no way, in this world of discrimination that the Specials could fit in. I just didn't know how hard it was until I became a Special.
