"Okay, Alex. Are you ready? Hold on tight!" Alex clasped her arms around Kara's shoulders and tightened her grip.
Then, Kara took off.
It was instantly the most exhilarating feeling Alex had ever experienced. She audibly yelled out in excitement, loving the rush of the wind on her face. Kara turned her head enough to see a gigantic grin plastered on Alex's face.
When Kara turned around, Alex could see her face practically glowing. So much light in her smile. In her eyes. As if to protect them from some kind of impending darkness.
They flew like this, holding tightly onto each other, for a good ten minutes. An occasional whoop of joy came from Alex.
Then, finally Kara brought them back to the roof, where they plopped down to catch their breath.
"Kara, that was amazing! I don't know how you can resist flying at all. It's the best feeling in the world! And look at that... It even brought back that big smile from earlier."
"Well, lets just say I've been enjoying the perks of having my very own big sister to share the fun with," Kara said, smiling. "But seriously, Alex. This has been amazing and I'm so glad I got to take you flying tonight, but maybe we should get back into the room before Eliza and Jeremiah find out about this."
Alex nodded in agreement. As they stood up to climb back through the window, they found a pair of very concerned and angered parents staring back at them.
"A little late for that now," Jeremiah fumed. He pulled them off the roof and into the room. Alex and Kara knew they were really in for it this time. And somehow, they both knew it was worth it.
Off into the distance, the man stowed away his binoculars into his bag, content with the day's work. Wow. Finally perfected our liquidated synthetic kryptonite AND found a Kryptonian ripe for the taking! Talk about timing. Today has been the perfect day. With that, he got into his car and started making his way over to the Danvers household.
Back at the house, Alex was thinking to herself "Today has been the perfect day. And even though Kara and I are in a world of trouble, it's so worth it." She was jolted out of her thoughts by furious yelling.
"WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?! ANYBODY COULD HAVE SEEN YOU! AND NEITHER OF YOU LEFT US A NOTE OR ANYTHING. WE THOUGHT YOU WERE BOTH TAKEN!"
"Jeremiah, calm down. Please," Eliza attempted to placate him. It seemed to work as he went from an angry father to a worried one.
Eliza continued,"That was so dangerous and irresponsible of you girls. Never do that again. Please. I cannot lose either of you, let alone both. Your lives are not worth one night of fun. Anyone could have seen or reported that and Kara would have been taken. Is that what you want?"
Both girls shook their heads in shame as they stared at the floor. "I'm sorry Eliza. It was my fault. I'm the one who asked her to come with me. If you need to punish or yell at someone, then punish me. Please don't take it out on Alex." Kara had accepted that they would be punished, and decided it would be better if at least one of them could get out of it.
"No, Mom," Alex protested, seeing what Kara was doing. "I'm her big sister and I should have tried harder to stop her after realizing how risky it was. I'm in the wrong and failed to protect her. I'm sorry. It's me you should be blaming, not Kara."
Alex and her little sister locked eyes, wondering why all of a sudden, they were so willing to take the fall for each other. It was just a day ago that they didn't even consider each other sisters. Funny how things can change so drastically in such a short time. They subtly intertwined their fingers in a show of support for the other. Knowing the grounding and punishment was about to be rough. But also determined that whatever it was, they'd get through it together.
Eliza softened a bit after witnessing all of this. "I hope you girls learned your lesson. You're my daughters and I don't know what would have happened if something had gone wrong with both of you out there. In danger. Now you girls know better than to do that again, and I can see you're both willing to get in trouble to save the other, so just this once, there will be no punishment. However, I do not want this to happen EVER again. It is not worth it to risk Kara's life for flying. I don't know what would happen to this family if she was taken because of thi-"
Eliza was interrupted by the doorbell. All four family members visibly tensed.
Jeremiah cautiously questioned,"Honey, are you expecting someone? It's 11 o'clock at night right now. Who would be outside?"
Eliza answered,"I'm not sure. You girls stay in here. Your father and I will go see who's at the door. Whatever happens, do NOT leave this room until we tell you it's okay to come down."
The girls nodded, but somehow knew that they would probably be leaving the room anyways. Then, they heard the door open. In stepped an intimidatingly tall and broad African American man.
And that's when their perfect day ended.
When everything started to go wrong.