I know I said that I wasn't going to update this until I was done with A Second Chance at Life, but I had to get this up.
I watched the first Superman movie with Christopher Reeve, found out that Superman did have telepathic powers, but he only used it once in the movie. So I figured I should give Clark the same powers in this story. So here's the next chapter, lemme know what you guys think.
The two girls were on their way back to Selena's house. They sat at the park for another hour just talking anything other than their superhuman or supernatural abilities. Time just seemed to be just passing by. Demi finally caught a glimpse of her watch and realized that it was getting a little late. "Want to start heading back? My mom must be wandering where I am."
Selena nodded her head, "Yeah, I should probably start looking at Joe's paper." The two girls got up from the bench and left the park. She crossed her arms across her chest as she walked beside the younger girl.
"So, who's Prometheus?" Demi asked just to make conversation with the other girl.
"His name means forethought. He tricked Zeus and stole fire from the god to give back to the humans." She briefly explained. "To understand more, you should probably look into Greek mythology."
"Maybe I should." Demi just looked at the girl. "So what brought your dad to earth?"
"He didn't exactly have a choice." Selena began to explain. "He was sent here as a baby, his planet was destroyed. He was adopted by a married couple in Smallville. That's pretty much it for right now." They finally reached the older girl's house. "Let's go get your stuff."
They walked inside the house. "Do you need help with that paper?"
"Oh no, that's okay. Joe is usually self-conscious about his papers until he knows for sure that it's good." They made their way into the living room where they had their belongings. "I know it's weird but that's how he is."
Demi was putting everything back in her bag. "He doesn't have to know." She said still trying to persuade the girl because she wanted to spend just a bit more time with her.
"I know, but I would." When Selena said that, she saw a hint of disappointment in the younger girl's eyes. "It won't take me long, do you want to hang out afterwards?" Demi nodded her head with a smile on her face. The older girl was leading her to the front door but before they reached it, Selena's father had walked through the door. "Dad, what are you doing home so early?"
"I just have this massive headache. I couldn't focus anymore." Her father replied. He looked up and saw someone he didn't recognize. "Who this?"
"Oh, this is my new friend, Demi. She lives next door."
Her father sat down on a stool. His hands were on the side of his head. His face had shown obvious signs of pain. Selena took a good look at her father. That's how I was when I first got my telepathic powers. She thought to herself. "Selena, that's something you shouldn't say in front of somebody that you barely know."
Selena looked at Demi then back at her father. "Dad, I didn't say anything." She walked up to her father and took his hands off his head. "Just take a deep breath and focus on me." Her father did as was instructed. Now do you hear me and only me? Her father nodded. "Good, as long as you focus, you'll be fine. Is that headache gone?"
"Yeah. Is this what you go through every day?"
Selena nodded. "Well, only on the days I want to focus. I do have my lazy days but that's because I can handle it. You, Dad, are going to need to focus more each day until you can get the hang of it, okay?"
"Okay, but what about her?" He pointed at Demi. "She heard everything."
"It's okay, Dad. She's different, just like us, except she's fully human." She explained to her father. "So she's not going to tell anybody."
"Hey, I'm going to head out or could I just…" Demi gestured around herself.
The older girl automatically understood what the girl meant and nodded her head. Demi orbed out of the room, leaving the father and daughter in the house. "She can do a lot more than that." Then Selena remembered the email that she got from Joe. "Hey Dad, I'll be in my room. Call me if you need me." She walked up the stairs and to her room.
She sat down in her chair that was in front of her desk. She logged into her computer and went into her emails. She pulled her flash drive from one her desk drawers and plugged it into the computer. She clicked on the email that Joe had sent her. "Whoa." She wasn't expecting so many pictures. She saved them all on the flash drive. Now, she was planning to go through them.
She pushed up glasses and clicked on the first picture. She scanned through the basic information of the process of how the project works. She was more anxious on who the test subject was when the project was first used. She looked at the picture and saw who it was. Selena leaned back into her chair.
She got up from her chair and went downstairs but after she logged out of everything and unplugging the flash drive. She walked up to her dad who was sitting in the living room watching the news. "Dad, I have a question for you."
Clark turned his attention away from the television and looked at his daughter. "Yeah, what is it?"
"Project Prometheus. Did you know that it's going to be up and running soon?" She asked her father.
Clark quickly sat up in his seat. "How do you know about it?"
"Joe." She answered.
"You know that I don't trust him."
"But I do, with my life. I'm done trying to prove that to you." She said to her father. "Anyways, he sent me a file on the first test subject."
"Really, who was it?"
"Did you know a Lana Lang?" He father froze for a split second before regaining his composure. "I do."
"Y-You do?" Clark was showing subtle hints that he was nervous but only Selena could catch on. "How?"
"She's my chemistry teacher at school, weird huh?"
"Yeah." Her father was chuckling nervously. Normally he would have kept his cool but when it came to his daughter, it's gone. Nothing could get past her.
"There was something that I learned from her today."
"What was that?" He brushed his hair with his hand.
"Oh you know, nothing big. Just that she's my mother." She sat down next to her dad on the couch. "How come you never told me her name?"
"You would've gone looking for her." Her father replied. "She did not want you to enter the life that she had been living. Not that it was dangerous for you, she did not want to grow up in the kind of environment that she was living in. Her life dealt with revenge, she didn't not want you in that life. She did want you, just not at that time of her life." He got up from the couch and left her in the living room.
She got up from couch and walked out of the house. She told Demi that she was going to hang out with the girl when she was done with Joe's stuff. She walked to the house next door and knocked. She put her hands in her pockets as she waited for someone to answer the door. She heard someone turn the knob and open the door.
"Hey Selena, that was quick." Demi greeted her.
Selena smiled, "Well, I'm a fast reader. Can I come in?"
"Oh yeah." Demi step aside to let the older girl inside the house. "What did you want to do?"
"It doesn't matter." Selena answered.
"Okay, let's go to my room." Demi grabbed the girl's hand and pulled her towards the stairs but they were stopped by an older woman.
"Demi, who's this?" The woman asked.
"This is my friend, Selena. She just moved in next door." Demi answered
"Nice to meet you, Mrs. Halliwell." Selena stuck out her right hand for the woman to shake, which the mother did.
"Nice to meet you too." The mother looked at her daughter. "Make sure you keep your door open."
"I will, Mom." Demi said annoyingly
"Okay, you girls have fun now." The mother walked away leaving the girls alone.
Demi continued to pull the girl up the stairs and lead her to her room, leaving the door open, of course. "What did you want to do? Watch movies or we could talk, but I think we had enough of that, don't you think?"
"Yeah, what did you have in mind?"
"Just this." Demi pulled Selena towards the bed and lay down on their backs. Then the younger girl curled up on Selena's side. The older girl's instinct was to put an arm around Demi. This is actually very comfortable. I hope we do this more often. The younger girl thought.
Selena smiled because she heard what Demi said in her mind. She too hoped that this would happen more often. The older didn't really like silence all too much, so she decided to strike up a conversation. "So I told my dad that I found my mom."
Demi looked up at the girl from where she was lying. "How did he take it?"
"Quite well, actually." Selena lay on her side so that she was facing the younger girl. Demi did the same. "So is there something I should know about?"
"What do you mean?" Demi asked confusingly.
"There has to be a reason why your mom told you to leave the door open." Selena said with a smile on her face.
Demi blushed and looked down a little so that the older girl couldn't see it. "Long story short, Miley and I were experimenting couple of years ago before she had her boyfriend." Demi turned over on her back. "Well, to her it was experimenting but to me it was finding out if that was me."
Selena propped up her head on her hand and continued to look at the girl next her. She was only joking with her at first. "Did you have feelings for Miley?"
"No." Demi answered. She turned her head so that her eyes made contact with the older girl's. "Sorry if it sounded like that. It was that back then I was hoping that wouldn't be me. I wanted to be somewhat normal, but I guess we can't always be normal no matter how hard we want to be."
"That's how felt about it when I found out about myself." She grabbed one of the girl's hands. She liked how she felt when they hold each other's hands. "But do you think we would be here in your bedroom talking to each other if we didn't accept ourselves?" Demi shook her head. "Besides, being normal is totally overrated." Selena lay down on her back, still holding onto the girl's hand. "I kinda like being different." She smiled at girl, who smiled just as big.
