September 20, 2014

"Khali come on! I want to get ice cream before we have to home" my little brother whined. I laughed, tying my thick black hair up and out of my face. I was not going to die of the heat. It may be fall but here in Texas it still felt like summer. School had started to a month ago and I hadn't had any time with my brother lately. So we were going out for ice cream.

"Alright, alright I'm coming. Slow down James" I said as he grabbed my hand and started pulling me. I kept him close to me. We don't live in the nicest part of our city and I wasn't going to take any chances by letting him go ahead of me. So I sped up to humor him. We got to Sweet Frog fairly quickly; we went inside, ordered our ice cream and went to the topping area. I topped mine with a whole bunch of chocolate. It was my very own kryptonite. We sat at a table and ate while we talked about anything that came to mind.

Outside it got dark pretty fast. I checked my phone for the time. It was 8:47. "Okay kiddo. We need to go. Throw your stuff away and let's go" I said. I stood while James threw the trash away. I took his hand while we walked home. I saw a man behind us so I sped up a little and he did the same. I looked down at my brother, his brown eyes shining with innocence. Having no idea what was going to happen. Everyone in my family had blue eyes. The only person who doesn't is me. I have dark green eyes. Apparently I got them from my grandmother or something like that.

I looked down at James. "You know the way home right buddy?" I whispered

"Yea" he said looking up at me.

I loosened my grip on his hand. "Okay when I say now I want you to run home as fast as you can. It's like…" I searched for a way to explain it that wouldn't sound so horrible" Tag. We are going to play tag"

"Okay" he smiled.

I swallowed the lump in my throat and looked back. My jaw dropped. It was Chris Andrews. We dated and it didn't end well. He always said he was going to get me back. That he was going to get revenge but I never took it seriously. I guess I should've before now.

A glimpse of red caught my eye. He was wearing a red ring. This was really weird. He was never one for stuff like that. He hated rings with a passion because they didn't feel right he said. So why was he wearing one now?

I turned to James. "Are you ready to lose?"

"No! I'm going to win and you are going to lose!" he said while he pumped a tiny fist in the air.

"Now!" and we both took off running. James laughing loudly as he ran down the sidewalk. I was after him at first then slowed down. I took another corner and ran as fast as I could. Adrenaline was pumping through my veins. My converse covered feet slapping the ground as I ran. Chris' footsteps right behind me. He was catching up and fast. I ran and ran. I took corner after corner until I ended up at a dead end. How cliché this ended up to be.

I turned to look at Chris.

"Don't do this please" I begged. My green eyes filled up with tears. I couldn't see past them. I could only imagine the cruel look on his face.

"Nope you broke my heart. It's only fair I break your family's. An eye for an eye." He spat.

"We could work this out. We could get back together and everything will be fine" I stammered over my words in a hurry to get them out. I looked for a way to get pass him. I could have sworn I saw a green light but I must've been imagining it.

"Uhm let's not" Chris laughed. He pulled something out if his pocket and pointed it at me. OH it's a gun… yay..

Three things happened at once. There was a bang that seemed to echo in my ears and down the alley. Pain flared across my left shoulder. It felt like it was on fire. I looked down and there was a whole dripping blood. Ohm maybe that's why. Then the green light filled the alley. It was so bright it hurt my eyes. The light strangely comforted me. It gently nudged me towards unconsciousness and I gave in. I honestly did not care. ************************************************** ***********************************

When I woke up I felt good as new. Then I looked at myself.

"Okay this is not funny "I said.

"It's not a joke "A voice said I spun around. The owner was wearing a long sleeved leotard looking thing. The top half was green and the bottom was black with combat boots. On his chest which was finely built was a picture of a ring. Which I had an exact copy on my left hand. I looked at myself again and back at him. Over again.

"Holy shit! I'm a green fucking lantern!" I exploded. I put my hands on my head. My hair was pulled up into a higher ponytail the tips being died green. Oh hell no not my haaairrr. On my face was a maskthat showed my eyes which were still green. Thank goodness.

"We need to take you to Oa you need to learn to control your powers" the dude said.

"You expect me to go with you? I don't know who you are and I need to get back to my family." I said. I turned to walk out of the alley when I realized we were in some sort of field. Talk about creepy.

"They think you're dead. It's been two days and my names Hal "He said.

"What?" I choked out.

"The police only found your blood. You've been declared dead due to the amount of blood they found" Hal explained.

I took this all in as I stood there and thought. So I'm declared dead. I have this ring with powers I don't know what to do with. I sighed. I turned towards Hal. "What's the worst that could happen?"

He laughed "I knew you'd come around kid. Let's go we have to travel a lot of galaxies "

"GALAXIES?! It's another planet?! Oh no changed my mind bye"

"Nope." He wrapped his arm around put the other one up and took off flying. Both of us glowing green. My screams faded into the wind.

Holy shit I'm a green lantern.

first story ever. please review and let me know how I did, what you did and didn't like. what you'd like to see, questions ,anything lwt me know if I should keep this going