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Chapter 11 Problem
Sue watched intently at the lunch table as her boyfriend and best friend, Victor, were caught in a serious glaring contest. It had been going on for the past few minutes, Sue had thought it was a friendly contest, but she was wrong. Victor's icy blue eyes gave Reed a nasty cold gaze, while Reed's softer blue eyes attempted to penetrate Victor's. Their gazes seemed to be ineffective.
There was only one way to end this war.
"Stop acting like children you two." Sue snapped irritated, rubbing her temples softly, Victor begged to differ.
"Come on Susan, boys will be boys." He declared and went on, "It was just a friendly staring contest."
Sue saw through that lie in a second. Sue knew that the boys were fighting over her, it was obvious the moment that they had set foot inside the school, Sue sighed in frustration.
"You two can be as immature as Johnny can and that's saying a lot for the two of you." Sue sighed, giving up, she walked over to her friend Christa. As she left she muttered, "Boys."
That's when the problems between Victor and Reed became vocalized, it started off as a whisper and rose to a full fledged argument.
"You're just jealous because I got Sue's heart!" Reed countered Victors previous attack.
"At least I can provide her with what she needs." Victor quipped viciously.
"Who says I can't? Sue likes me for me, not for money or any of that crap. I don't buy love!"
"Sue's not yours. Things happen Reed, things that you thought that would never be imaginable. Something things just…disappear." Victor smirked and turned on his heel, striding out of the cafeteria with too much aplomb within his veins. Reed was boiling.
But what had Victor meant when he said, 'things happen, things that you thought that would never be imaginable. Something things just…disappear.'? Was Victor implying something bad would happen to Sue. If Victor even thought about hurting Sue, Reed would personally strangle him. As Reed pondered a possible meaning, the blonde beauty returned, captivating him.
"What happened to Victor?" Sue asked, cocking her head to the side, peering at him curiously. Reed smiled, Sue was adorable without realizing it.
"What?" Sue persisted.
"Nothing. Victor left, he said something about a project." Reed replied dazed, still staring at Sue.
"What, is there something on my face?" Sue asked concerned, touching different areas of her face.
"No, you're flawless, I was just looking at your beauty." Reed told her, causing a blush to invade Sue's cheeks.
"Thanks Reed." Sue said still flushed from his previous comment.
School ended dully two excruciatingly long hours later, the students relieved to be going home, after all, it was the beginning of winter break. Sue sighed as she sat in her seat on the bus, looking outside the window, fresh powdered snow flowed down in a light flurry. Like New York needed any more snow. Opposite of her sat Johnny, a large grin spread wide across his face.
The bus rolled to a halt in front of Storm Mansion, Johnny and Sue exited the bus cautiously, not wanting to slide and fall on the icy driveway. Sue and Johnny stepped inside the house, the lights were dimmed slightly, the fireplace was lit. Sue stepped into the flickering light of the fire, the flames roared as she sat in front of the warmth, laying there she began to think.
An hour or so passed, Sue was still thinking by the fireplace, suddenly her cell phone went off. She shrieked in alarm, sending out a force field that knocked over a end table. Sue rubbed her temple with one hand while she picked up the ringing phone in the other.
"Hello?" Sue asked.
"Hey Sue. It's Reed. You mind if Ben and I come visit?" Reed questioned politely and then added, "I wanna see you again." Sue gave a small laugh, boy was he crazy for her.
"Sure, maybe you two can spend the night. We're supposed to get a foot of snow. Maybe tomorrow we'll have a snow war." Sue suggested.
"We'll be there soon." Reed responded and hung up. As soon as Sue hung up her thoughts went immediately back to what she had been thinking about for the past hour or so; Victor. He had hurt her, she rubbed her wrist gingerly where he had gripped, his grip was uncharacteristically strong. Plus he was attempting to take her to the lab, he was going to force her if Reed had not shown up.
Something was different, Sue couldn't tell what, but something was changing Victor into some monster. Sue wasn't quite sure how long she could go pretending to want to be friends with him when he was seriously scaring her.
Minutes later, the door bell rang, the butler courteously opened the large oak doors, allowing two snow covered boys entrance, they shivered, shaking off and then taking a seat by the fire to warm themselves. Sue smiled as Reed walked over to her and wrapped an arm around her as they snuggled by the fire.
Ben closed his eyes and dozed off within minutes. Sue and Reed collapsed on the floor next to Ben, all three of the teens taking a nice long nap.
Two hours later, Sue, Reed and Ben finally woke up. Sue yawned as she stretched out, sitting up, Reed sat up next to her rubbing his eyes. Ben laid on his back staring at the ceiling,
"What next?" Ben asked jokingly.
"Food of course." Reed responded playfully.
"Let's go to the kitchen then." Sue replied humbly before dragging the boys into the marble kitchen. The teens rummaged through the cabinets and drawers for a few minutes, finally deciding on some hot chocolate and macaroni and cheese.
Ben drummed his finger son the table as they waited patiently for the food to be finished, Sue meanwhile brought out the hot chocolate topped with fluffy whipped cream. Ben immediately slurped half down, Reed and Sue stared, the hot chocolate was burning hot.
"What?" Ben asked.
"That hot chocolate is really hot and you slurped it down no problem." Reed said incredulously.
"Didn't feel it really." Ben replied.
Half an hour and three stomachs full later, Sue, Reed and Ben sat on the couch watching a movie. As the movie rolled on, and the time grew later, Sue dozed off on Reed's chest. She snuggled closer, causing Reed to blush as Ben looked at them. Reed merely shrugged and wrapped his arms around her.
No sooner than Sue had fallen asleep, Ben and Reed had too fallen asleep. Before they did however, they had returned Sue to her bedroom and gathered blankets and pillows for themselves.
The next morning started early, Reed and Sue had woke up at five o'clock to watch the sunrise. They were sitting on Sue's ledge near her window in Sue's bedroom. They looked up at the sky, which looked beautiful. It was very serene.
A yawn from behind them made the two teens topple off the ledge in a heap. Ben chuckled at the two entangled teens who made frustrated grunts as they disentangled themselves. Sue got up and dusted herself off, Reed scoffed at Ben, mostly for ruining the nice moment. Shrugging it off, the three left to the kitchen to grab a bite to eat before they prepared for their day in the winter wonderland.
At ten o'clock, Ben, Sue and Reed had all gotten changed, getting ready to go out and play in the snow. Sue and Reed were holding each other as they waited for Ben patiently by the door.
"Ready for the war?"
The two turned around to see Ben walking toward them, Reed and Sue gave a quick nod before they all exited the mansion into the expansive backyard.
Sue yelped as a large snowball provided by Ben flew at her, she created a force field, the snowball exploding on impact. During the diversion, Ben scooped up another handful of snow and chucked it at Reed. The snow had such an impact Reed was knocked flat on his back in the snow. Ben laughed and Reed gave a nervous chuckle.
Ben's hands reflexively covered his face as a barrage of levitating snowballs pelted all over his body. Reed created a large spoon with a hand, he pull his arm back and slung it at Ben, drenching him in snow. Sue ducked as the boys turned on her, she being the only not hit yet so far. When she turned on her invisibility, her clothes hung in mid-air, her face and hair disappearing.
"What's going on?" Sue asked confused, this had never happened before.
"I think I have an answer." Reed said, thinking about it."
Inside the mansion, Ben, Reed, and Sue discussed what was happening over a cup of hot chocolate.
"I believe that our clothes were exposed to the cosmic energy for only so long. After a while it died out, being nonexistent. So in theory, when Johnny "Flame's on" he will incinerate his clothes. When your invisibility is turned on, only your physical body will disappear." Reed paused, stretching out wide, his clothes became tighter as he stretched more. "I can't extend without ripping my clothes in half. So, the only thing now being permanently exposed to the clouds power…"
"Would be our jumpsuits from the accident." Ben realized.
"So whether we disappear, stretch, or "Flame on", the suits should do whatever our powers do?" Sue questioned.
"Well, yes, they should." Reed responded.
Ben was confused by this and asked, "How are we supposed to fight crime when we don't wear our suits all of the time?"
"Good question." Sue agreed, watching Reed, noticing he was deep in thought.
"We'll just have to wear them under the clothes we wear." That's all Reed could've thought up.
"This is going to be one hell of an adventure." Ben said.
"We'll just have to make the best of what we have." Reed noted.
"Yes we will." Sue agreed.
"Make the best of whatever we have." She repeated to herself softly…
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