𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓕𝓵𝓪𝓶𝓮

FOUR

After a few hours of long flight, and crossing at least three state borders east, I am hungry and REALLY need to go to the restroom. So I stop at a gas station and get 2 full pizzas. Right after I grab those, I eat them in one of the aisles, while looking at the candy section. My mouth waters so badly that I can practically taste the candy. Grabbing all the packs of gum on the shelves, I walk back up to the counter, where a kid a few years older than me is playing on his phone.

"Excuse me, could you please put your phone down and let me buy this, please?!" I say with an irritated tone.

"Y-you, you're the girl from the video!" The boy gasps, fear radiating from his words.

"What video? I don't know what you're talking about!" I exclaim, shocked and disturbed.

The fear in his face is wild and untamed. It reminds me of a rabbit trapped by a coyote. He uses a shaky hand to take out his phone and show me what he's talking about. In the video, it shows the part of the presentation where I get up and everything, but this one doesn't stop. This one shows me in one spot and reappearing in another, this one is the one that shows everything that happened up to the point of when I smashed the camera, it was still playing even after I stopped time. My heart stops, and I can feel all the hope I had draining into a great pool of nothingness.

Looking at the guy I stutter, "Please, please sir, can I just pay for my gum, and leave? I didn't mean for my presence here to make you uneasy, I just want to leave." He finally nods, very wary of me and lets me go with my packs of gum. Flying back through the air, all the pieces come together. They weren't coming to take me to another foster home, they were here to capture me. I make it over the woods, to see an abandoned house in the middle of nowhere. Lightly floating over the ground, I land in a soft patch of moss, and cautiously tip toe my way up to the house. As I approach the door, Akira starts to buzz in my pocket. I pick her up and answer her 'call'.

"Hi Akira", I say in a very, VERY non-enthusiastic voice.

"Master Alina, I have urgent news!"

"Go on.."

"The video the gas station boy showed you, it's gone viral, on every news website and game. And now there are several fan pages that are popping up every minute! It has more viewers than any other video EVER! This is bad, so bad, what ar-"

"Akira."

"Yes."

"Relax, you're getting yourself too worked up! Your hard drive might overheat if you keep worrying about this like you are. I have an idea."

"Alright, Alina, but what is this idea of yours?"

"Well, what if I became the first superhero! I mean just imagine it, I would be helping the world out!"

"Okaaay... and how exactly?" Thinking for a moment, I think of all the things I would need for no one to recognize me.

"I've got it! I can make a costume so no one would know who I was, and I mean~" I sigh for a moment. "I don't know, it probably wouldn't work!"

Akira goes silent for a moment before commenting.

"Actually it may work. If I were to go back to my true form, you could design the costume and create it, but first you'll have to check out the cool house we have been talking on the porch of, since it's 9:30 and all.

"Oh! I totally forgot about it!", I say as I quickly open the door and walk in. I turn around to feel for a light switch, and notice something brush up against my leg in one fast motion. I quickly flip on the lights to see a small, very starved, house cat. Hissing at me, it runs into a closet and hides.