"Tell me what's wrong." My dad demanded as he closes the bedroom door and my mom stands by the bed, back facing my dad as he walks over to her. "If your sad because I'm always leaving I'll stop being. . ." He pauses as he hears a soft cry escape from her. "Why are you crying? Is it something that I did? Cause I'll fix it if it will make you happy."
"It's you and your job." My dad nods, putting his nose in her hair and nuzzling his head into her hair, trying to make her laugh, but fails.
"Did I do something wrong? I need to know why your so sad this is really worrying me more than anything. What did I do?" He inhales air as she let's out another cry.
"I want to get a divorce. . ." She pauses barely even starting when he unwraps his arms from around her.
"You don't have to do this," he pauses as she sits on a dark blue blanket, laying on a bed with white pillows, "What did I do to make you want to get a divorce?" He ask and she sucks in air as she looks down at her hands.
"Our daughter isn't safe with you around. I was put into danger because of your job. I don't want any of that to happen to our daughter-"
"She'll be fine, please don't do this to our family. I don't want to lose you. We finally have our happy family let's not do anything to mess that up." He begs sitting next to my mom.
"I'm not going to have our daughter be put into danger because of your job." She says. "And I know you can protect her as much as you would protect me, but what if something bad happens and we end up losing her. We could have lost her when Brent started hitting her."
"Let's not start to talk about Brent, okay? Are you sure you want to do this? What ever happened to the happy couple twenty something years ago? "
"I don't know, but we are getting a divorce we are doing this to keep our daughter safe."
~~Henry's pov~~
My names Henry Hart and I'm thirteen years old and live in a town called Swellview. I have dirty blonde hair, chocolate like brown eyes and go to Swellview Junior High. I have two friends, Charlotte is a smart, sassy girl, strong, and independent. She is the voice of reason, who's always there to snap everyone back to reality. Charlotte has dark brown hair that's shoulder-length (when curly) and dark brown eyes.
Another friend of mine is, Jasper Dunlop. His hair is a raspberry blonde and he has blue eyes and is thirteen. He is loving and a very giving person, which makes him gullible. He is a bucket collector who often embarrasses Charlotte and I. He is a big fan of Captain Man, and thinks he'd be a better sidekick than Kid Danger.
My sister, Piper Hart is nine years old has long brownish-blonde hair and has blue eyes. Piper is a sassy, spunky, bratty, confident, temperamental girl, who knows exactly what she wants. When she's on social media she wants likes, follows, popularity, and most importantly, fast Wi-Fi. She claims that she hates her life, by saying she is not okay, which might have to do with that addiction to her phone she has. She seems to have no problem with breaking the rules, as it happens for her when she flashes her fake ID and maxing out our parents credit card. Lastly she sadly has a huge crush on Kid Danger.
My boss at Junk N Stuff, Ray Manchester is immature, yet sarcastic, witty, and funny. He has a fun spirit. He also has a big ego and is romantic. He has dark brown hair, blue eyes, and is almost thirty-four years old. When Ray was eight he accidentally skated towards his father's indestructible machine, pushing the lever in the process and gaining the power of indestructibility. Now, Ray fights crime and is the only superhero in Swellview.
Let me explain how I got my job at Junk N Stuff and what I do.
I walked into the store Junk N Stuff and was quickly greeted by a lot of junk and stuff. As I glance around I notice there was a fire breathing dinosaur hanging on the wall. I don't even know how to describe this place, there's extremely strange things everywhere. I walk over to a man behind the counter, sucking in air. "My names Henry Hart, I'm here for the job."
"The job," he says nodding his head, "too back."
I look over at the front door then looking back at him. "Come back?"
"Go back."
"Where?"
"To the back." He motions for me to walk to the back room behind him. "Take the elevator floor down."
"What floor?" I ask.
"Down."
I lift an eye brow as he nods. "The down floor?"
He grins at me for a brief second. "Good luck." I start to walk to the back room, feeling his eyes still on me before I spot the elevator. The elevator opens and I quickly walk into the elevator, pressing the down button. With sudden movement he elevator floor plunges down and I scream to the top of my lungs in an ear-piercing voice. After what seems like minutes I finally land back on the ground, catching my breath as I force myself to stand up. I struggle to walk as the elevator doors open and I stand there in complete awe when I walk out of the elevator.
My eyes glance over at a desk with six medium size computers hovering over the desk on a grey wall. The desk is also shaped like a half circle, but has white clear buttons that are shaped like glass bubbles that are surrounded by red rings holding them it place. The floor and wall are grey and there are two small grey steps that led to machines pushed against the walls.
The elevator was orange, shaped as a circle and has glowing blue and red dots in many sizes built into it. Then two thick tubes that were planted across the room on the second floor. There was a circle door over in the left corner of the room, a Auto snack machine that was by the desk, and a door that has a lot of small clocks, buttons.
Above the Auto snack machine was Captain Man's red and blue logo which is on his costume on the left side of the costume. In front of the couch was his logo again but printed on the ground in the center of the whole room.
Suddenly a half red and blue circle couch spin into the room, slowly with a man on it who has dark brown hair, blue eyes, headphones on his head with his phone in his hand, wearing a brown and grey shirt, and blue jeans. When he notices me he quickly stands up, throwing his headphones followed by his phone behind him and walking up to me. "Hey! How are you? Cool. Thanks. Great to meet you. I'm doing good. What's your name?"
"Uh-I'm Henry Hart, here about the job."
"Age?"
"Thirteen," I pause, "I'll be turning fourteen on my next birthday."
He nods his head turning around, thinking before meeting my eyes again. "Ah. . .your ageing sequentially, I like that."
I grin as he walks up to me again. "Thanks."
He sticks his hand out for me to shake and I gladly shake his hand. "My names Ray."
"Hi Ray."
He slowly stops shaking my hand and lifts an eye brow. "You ask a lot of questions."
"I-I don't I've asked any questions." I disagree as he walks behind me and when I hear him snap his finger at me, I turn around to meet his blue eyes.
"Chocolate or Vanilla?"
"Vanilla."
"Helicopters or Kangaroos?"
"Helicopters."
He steps up onto the second floor snapping his finger again. "Love it!" He steps off the second floor and looks over at me before asking.
"Scrambled eggs or dynamite?"
"Both."
He looks away from me with his hands out forming them into a fist. "Maybe?" I couldn't help the grin that I was trying to hold in. His eyes widen before looking back at me. "Complete this sentence," he walks away from me, "I'm sorry mother I didn't mean for my elephant to blank." He leans over closer to me with his hand out.
"Uh. . .lick dad." I reply, confused as he starts to laugh then stops and I begin to laugh with him. He continued to laugh before looking down at the ground, stopping.
"Oh. . .that's not funny."
"No." I agree looking down at the ground as he walks away from me, pulling out a container of blue and red gum balls that glow. He opens the container, grabbing a gum ball before popping it into his mouth and chewing it. I follow him over to his desk as he sits down putting the gum away. "Uh. . .is this the job interview?"
"Do you want it to be the job interview?"
"What is the job?" I ask and he smiles, getting out of his seat and leaning over to me.
"What do you think the job is?"
"Well the ad said part time helper," I stop trying to focus on what I'm saying but it's hard to do that when you have Ray in front of me, slowly bouncing up and down, "so I thought you need someone to help you. . .you know part time."
He stops bouncing up and down and moving side to side. "Do you ever dream about sleeping?" He points his finger at me and I shake my head.
"No."
"Good," he blurts out, "if you did you'd be dead." He walks back over to where we started our conversation as I turn around.
"I'm so confused." I admit while he turns around to meet my eyes.
"David-"
"Henry." I correct but he ignores what I said and continues.
"Can I trust you?"
"Sure."
"Can you keep a secret?"
"Totally!"
"So I can trust you," he leans back over to me," to keep a secret?" I nod as he leans back.
"Yes sir." He steps back and continues to chew the gum in his mouth before pointing to his mouth.
"I'm going to blow a bubble."
"Your going to blow a bubble?" I ask in a question like manner and he smiles.
"And I'm going to blow your mind." Within a few seconds the bubble that he's blowing gets bigger and bigger before the bubble pops. A greenish- yellow color starts forming at the top of his head, when the color get to the middle of his stomach it turns purple, moving down to his feet then, turning orange moving back up to his head as Captain Man's costume forms underneath the colors.
My eyes widen as I bring my hands to my head before throwing them back down. "Your-your Captain Man!"
He smiles and nods. "Do you know how to make sandwiches?"
"I do." I confirm as he throws his arms out.
"Then you have all the qualities I'm looking for. Your the one Henry. " He puts his hand on my shoulder and I smile again.
"The one to make you a sandwich?"
He laughs as he takes his hand off my shoulder. "No. . .well yes, "he slowly walks away from me, "but everyone gets old some day even Captain Man. I can't protect the town of Swellview forever from bad guys, bad things, bad smells."
"Smells?"
"I'm not as young as I use to be," he looks up and smiles, "I'm almost thirty-four. I need help and someday, someone's going to have to take over for me."
"Like me?"
"What do you say Henry? Do you want to be my sidekick?"
And thus Kid Danger was born, swore to help Captain Man protect the citizens of Swellview for as long as he can.
I was running to Junk N Stuff as my whiz-band was beeping, flashing blue and red after Ray called me on the whiz-band.
Suddenly I see a arm swing in front of me from behind, wrapping around my neck and my feet lifting off the ground. I could barely breathe as I started swinging my arms around trying to hit who ever was doing this but failed. I felt a hand cover my mouth so I couldn't scream then a rope tied my hands. I heard a car door open. I watched as one of them slammed my head against the car window, pushing me in the car.
It just came unexpecting.
