It was a regular Saturday when my world changed forever. I was watching the news from the couch while Grandma sat in her chair, it reported on the latest rescue by Metropolis' protector, Superman. I was always a big fan of superheroes way before they became reality and loved watching the stories of their battles.
"Aaron", Grandma said turning off the TV, "there's something I need to tell you." I turned to her.
"Can you come over here?", she asked turning her voice down to a whisper. I nodded and sat by her chair."Your parens didn't want me to say anything about this to you until you were older but I think it'd be better to tell you now.", she continued.
"What are you talking about Grandma?", I asked, "What's wrong?" She chuckled slightly. "Nothing is wrong Aaron", she answered, "but rather something spectacular." She leaned down closer to me. "In the 1980s, I fell in love with your grandfather.", she explained, "but he was no ordinary man."
My eyes widened with curiosity. "What do you mean?", I asked her. Her smile dropped slightly as her face had a more serious look to it. "Aaron before I tell you, you must swear not to tell a single soul about this.", she whispered harshly, "do you swear?"
I was surprised. Grandma was never like this at all, whatever it was, it must be extremely important. "I swear.", I whispered. Grandma took a deep breath and continued, "this man was not from Earth but from space."
I was at a loss for words. "His real name was Kor-L and he came from a distant planet called Krypton." She leaned back, taking a book out of her bag labelled 'Kor-L'. "He showed me many things, told me great stories and shared many secrets with me.", she explained, opening the book to show me pictures of who I assume is my alien grandfather (that's gonna take some getting used to).
"In this book, lies everything you need to know about Krypton.", she said handing the book to me. As she did, I noticed something extremely strange, beneath the name was a symbol…the same symbol as the one on Superman's suit. "W-wait, this is…", I stuttered.
"Yes", Grandma quickly replied , "Kor-L belongs to the house of L, the same family Superman is from, we could tell since that symbol is the house's coat of arms." My head lifted slowly. "Why are you telling me this now?", I asked her. She replied with a frown. "When I had your Dad, Kor-L told that he might have the same biology as a kryptonian but he didn't", she answered, "however when you were born we made the discovery that your biology was more kryptonian than human."
My mind was racing at this point, blowing up with questions, somehow I couldn't find the voice to ask them. "It's all explained in the book", she said, "unfortunately I don't have any time to explain all of this." Her face turned to worry and slight panic. "Why not?", I asked. She sighed.
"Because…"
'BANG'
I couldn't move as a little blood splattered onto my face from my Grandma as a bullet pierced her chest, killing her instantly. Her head leaned back as her face turned grey.
"G-grandma", I whimpered as tears filled my eyes. I ran up to her dropping the book on the floor as I tried to wake her up with no success and tears in my eyes.
"NO NO NO, HELP, SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME!", I shouted as I cried hearing a car speed off in the distance. As I lay there, shouting out for help, two thoughts consumed my mind. How and Why?