"The Titans save Japan! See Dad, the Teen Titans aren't so bad." I set my newspaper onto the table, with the headlines, "Teen Titans save again!"
"I never said they weren't bad, Honey, just my boss is better." My dad's voice was muffled by the eggs in his mouth.
"He can't be mad because his sidekick left to go on his own, then to join another group. Plenty of other heroes' sidekicks leave and save the world, like the Flash and the Green Arrow, and do you see them complaining?" I set my plate of breakfast on the table and sit down across from my dad.
"Yes, well," My dad stands with his plate, shoving the last egg into his mouth, "They are just a bunch of kids, handling lesser villains. Robin seems to be fine now, but he was better off with-" he was interrupted by the alarm on his phone, telling him to get to work. "Sorry, Annabel, Sweetie, I'll see you after work." He grabs his coffee mug and the car keys and heads to the door, "You're my gem!" He shouts as he shuts the door.
My dad is off to his very exciting job of designing weapons for Batman. Yeah, he's pretty cool. But because of his boss, I have been very interested in super heroes my whole life, I've always wanted to be one to be honest, I know just about everything about them, but that's only half of my life, the other is tech, I take after my dad, he has thought me what he knows, so I can make just about everything with just some nuts and bolts.
That's how my dad and I bonded after my mom left us with my brother and sister, leaving me saying I was "my father's child". Neither of us can let people in anymore, my dad is afraid I'm going to leave him sometimes. But so am I.
I grab my backpack and head off to school.
I was just about the typical person at school, for what they know anyways. I have long, brown hair, hazel eyes, and normal height; I think I'm ordinary, but I have been objected many times. And when I'm told I can be more, I just "go with the flow". And just with one friend, I'm fine, I don't need anything else. Besides, everyone at school calls me, "Sneak", because no one ever sees me coming, so I scare people often, and when I scare them, they get the wrong idea about me and think I'm just some creep. I bottle up all my anger a lot, but I release it through my tech, and if I don't, it gets pretty bad.
"Sneak! Sneak!" my one friend, Gigi comes up to me, "The Gotham Carnival is tonight!" She points to a mini poster with a carnival and happy children on it. "You are ganna come with me right? I already got Josh to come with me, maybe he will finally ask me out?" My friend Gigi is crazy for this guy, Josh, and I'm surprised he hasn't asked her out yet; my friend is genially pretty, light orange short hair, big brown eyes, and light freckles. She's the kind of girl the guys commonly like.
"I don't know…" I trail off, thinking. "A carnival sounds like I would not typically go to…" I smirk with sarcasm. Carnivals and other places with rides and games, and lots of deep fried food is what I love to go to most.
Gigi squeals, "Yay! Ok, I'll meet you there at 8:30!" she skips down the hallway singing a tone.
After school I come home, hearing noise in the garage. I walk to the door, hearing a man speaking. I open the door, seeing my dad sitting at the desk, his bald spot facing me, and his pot belly away from me, "Hi, Dad, I'm home."
"Hi, Honey." He mumbles in frustration, "Just trying to work on this here new design." He points to a blue print and I walk closer to see it.
"Oh! Well, here," I take the pencil and erase some markings. My dad gasps, "It's ok, you just needed to change the cord wirering and the bolt size from 5 to 3 with the cords going and direction. Now instead of the…whatever this is, from exploding in your face, it can now shoot an electrical net from the gun. You shoot it, once it hits your target, it immediately get electrical charge. See!" I say cheerfully.
My dad strokes his prickly beard, contemplating my configuration, "Annabel, you are so smart! It makes perfect sense, solving more problems that hadn't ever been thought of yet. Your my little gem." He pats my back.
"Glad I could help!" I go back to the door, "I'm going out tonight, and I might not be back till later, so goodnight!"
I got to my room and put more suitable clothes on for going out, a tee shirt with "HERO" on it, and a ruffled skirt, with a large hoodie, and leave.
The carnival really did look like the magazine, with the smiling children and all. I find Gigi and Josh and joined them, "Hey there."
"Hi, Sneak." Josh replies. I really dislike him; he is not a kind person to his past girlfriends and uses them. I've tried to tell Gigi this, but she never listens and thinks he is just perfect.
"Josh." I nod with a hello.
"Sneak! I have to tell you something, let's get on this." Gigi tugs my arm onto a tilt-a-whirl. We stand in the line and she begins, "Ok, so Josh and I were here a bit before you, and we went onto a Ferris Wheel together-" she stops to get onto the ride's seat, "and we talking about friendly stuff, right? The when we get to the top-" she stops again, when the ride starts, and our car spins in a circle, everything around us is in a colorful blur, all the smells blend together into one big carnival smell, like popcorn and cotton candy together into one. Gigi continues, "So then he says, 'you know, Gigi, I have to tell you something,' then I said, 'what, Josh?' and it was exactly what I was hoping for, for a long, long time, he said, 'Gigi, we have only known each other for a short time, and I feel I know so much about you, and I want to know more, but as more than a friend.'" It was soooo sweet, Sneak.
I was truly happy for her, but also having pity, and a bit of jealousy, all at once. I was happy for her that her crush liked her back. I had pity that her new boyfriend was a player. And I was jealous, that no one has ever said that to me, no one has ever asked me out, Gigi has always been the one to get the boyfriends, and I've just had to watch it all happen in the high school. And even though we are only sophomores, she has had plenty of boyfriends; I have felt she needs to share the love, literally.
"Sneak, Sneak…Annabel." Gigi interrupts my train of thought, and I notice the ride has stopped, people are walking past us to get off, "You ok?"
"I'm fine, Gigi, I just need some space." I get off the ride and walk around the carnival alone. Gigi doesn't know me well, but she does know, when I say I need my spaced, I really need my space.
As I walk around, the people at the game posts shout for me to play, I ignore them for as long as I can, and when a man says I need to try to whack as many weasels as I can, I've had enough, "SHUT UP!" the area goes quiet, "I've had enough! I don't want to whack any weasels, I don't want to toss a ring onto the bottle, and I don't want to pop the balloon with a dart!" my hands clench to a fist, and I breathe heavily.
"Sounds like you want away from this," an unfamiliar voice comes from behind me, I turn around, to a tent, with an old lady sitting down at a table "Come, Child, I can fix that."
I sit down in a chair that the table, across from the old woman, "How?"
"You have always wanted to be a hero, correct?"
"Yes, how did you know that?" I was surprised she knew that, but I quickly realized my shirt might have given it away.
"I know many things about you, Annabel."
I stand up, "Alright, you are starting to freak me out." How can she know my name?
"Well you still want to get away from it, right. I don't understand why, you're a beautiful girl."
"You don't understand me."
"I might not understand you, but I know you, just sit, I can help, you want to be a hero, well I can arrange that."
"You can? How?"
"It does not concern you how, just what it will cost."
"Ok, tell me, what does it cost, I have money." Was I really going to become a hero? And for money?
"No, Child, I want something more precious. I will give you super powers, but only if no one ever sees your face again, if someone ever sees your face; your powers will be gone."
Before I could think, the words slip my mouth, "Yes." I hadn't known what I had done till after I said it, no one can ever see my face ever again.
The lady smiles, "Alright, you have powers once you turn around, then no one can ever see your face."
I stand up, put my hood up, having it droop over my face. I leave the carnival, looking to the ground. Wondering where to go, I can't go home. My dad can't see me, and if he knew he would never forgive me, I have to leave; Gigi will be fine without me. I can easily slip away.
I quickly go to a costume shop, looking for something to temporarily cover my faced till I make something better. Then I see it, it caught my eye so suddenly. It was the most beautiful mask I have seen. It was a maroon color, it was large enough to cover my whole face but my mouth, it had pointed tips at the end, and had rhinestones attached to the end of the tip.
I grabbed the mask, put a 10$ bill onto the counter and quickly left.
There was only one other place I can go where no one can find me, the forest.
:D i dont know about you, but that was intense!
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