" my mom had always had medical problems and my dad died before I was born

CHAPTER 2

" My mom had always had medical problems and my dad died before I was born. He got in some type of car accident when some nut job messed with the traffic lights.

Even so my mom told me so much I felt like he was always there.

I was born 2 and a half weeks premature, according to my mom there was a very slim chance that I would even live, but then she said there was some type of miracle. Some type of super blood donor came in just in time. I found out later it was the Flash. He had only had his accident a month or too before so the chemicals were still in his systems and the transfusion put them in me. That wasn't enough though.

I was in 8th grade when this big change happened. Maybe it was Flash's blood in me, or maybe it was my dad. Mom told me that he was a running back on his high school football team. Even so, I was born to run. The genes I got from Flash healed me very fast so I never developed any problems. Being premature never affected me. Naturally I joined my middle school track team."

Jinx listened intently. She had never heard this much about his past before. He always seemed to live in the present, so it never really came up. However he seemed to be getting a little upset, for the Kid Flash that she knew.

" Back then everyone called me the Flash jr. I guess that's what happens when you're the star of a track team in Central City. My real name is David. My mom said my great, great grandfather was Jewish, and that I was named for the star of David, but my guess is that my dad just bought a baby book, closed his eyes and pointed.

It was one of the last big track meets of the season. I had already done the pole vault and I was a little tired, but I was ready to go. Halfway thorough the race there was a blackout and the track lights went out. Wouldn't you know stupid me ran into a hurdle.

Turns out, Weather Wizard was having a little fun downtown at the first national. Next thing I knew there was lightning everywhere. To tell the truth I was scared out of my wits but I couldn't move. That stupid hurdle gave me a concussion and I could hardly think straight.

After that all I remember is looking up at one of the lights to see it explode. Then I felt like I had fallen into a box of joy buzzers…