Lacey looked in the mirror at herself as she waited for the carpool. Knowing that her house was at the end of the street it would be a while. Lacey turned back to the mirror and lifted up her hand to feel her recently cut chin length brown hair. She wasn't used to it. Her hair had always been so long, but this year something inside her made her want to change. She hated change. Change was such a bad word to her, to other people it meant different, it could be good or bad. But to her it was always bad. Now what's so bad about a haircut, her mother had asked her after she emerged down from her room, her closely cropped hair in a jagged line, not straight like at the hair dressers.
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3days ago
"Mom!!!!!!!!!! Mommy something's wrong!"
"What is it honey?" Nicole Gemm Wilson said, looking up the stairs where the screaming had taken place.
"Mommy! It was awful, I didn't mean to do it, I swear." Lacey sobbed as she ran down the stairs toward her mother.
"Do what, honey?" Nicole said as she met her daughter at the landing halfway up the stairs.
"Cut my hair." She sniffled.
"Oh honey," Nicole bent down to comfort her daughter who was now sitting on the floor.
Her daughter had been growing her hair out ever since she was three. It had been her pride and joy; it was this soft silky brown color, almost a deep chocolate, and reached down to her waist.
"It'll be okay, we can go and get it even out. We can make it look pretty, besides I think it looks better this way."
"But mom, I didn't want to cut it. It just kind of… happened."
"Tell me about it."
"Well I was sitting looking into my mirror, thinking that I should maybe change something about my looks, you know, and that's when it happened."
"What happened?"
"The mirror broke and the glass, it flew at me. I closed my eyes and felt a tingling sensation, and when I opened my eyes, well my hair was like this."
"So your saying that you wanted to change how you looked and the glass cut your hair for you? Almost like you made it cut your hair?"
"Crazy, huh? I bet you and dad think I'm lying, but I'm not."
"No, I don't think your lying, how about we go to the hairdressers and get you a trim, what do you say?"
"Sounds fun." She said still sniffling.
"Yeah, girl's night out, how about you go get ready, I have to talk to your father real quick." Nicole said.
"Okay, yeah I bet I look like crap." She said already going up the stairs.
Nicole watched as her daughter walked up the stairs and her shadow rounded the corner, before she pulled out her cell phone.
"Hi. Joseph? We need to talk; I think our daughter has powers.
That was three days ago. When she first found out she had, well special ability's. Her mom and dad had told her everything. How they used to be hero's called "The Teen Titans" and that she wasn't a freak she was special. They had also told her that everyone who lived on her street, well the adults at least had belonged to the same team. 'Aunt Rachel' and 'Uncle' Gar went by Raven and Beast Boy. 'Aunt Kori' and 'Uncle Rich' were Starfire and Nightwing, formerly Robin. 'Aunt Karen' and 'Uncle Vic' were Bumblebee and Cyborg. 'Aunt' Jen and 'Uncle' Wally were Jinx and Flash formerly Kid flash. And last but not least her mother and father had gone by Kole and Jericho. It was all so sudden, to figure this all out. And quite frankly, it scared her. All this change.
"Honey, Carpool's here." Nicole, Kole, said in her sing-songy voice.
As she hugged her daughter, Nicole Wilson whispered into her daughter's ear,
"It'll be okay"
And with that, Lacey Rose Wilson walked out towards the car, her short hair bouncing as she walked.