Super Beginnings

Chapter Twenty One - Guarded Life

-Mia-

I had moved from the loft to outside and taking out my feelings chopping wood. Yes I could have easily broken it apart with my bare hands but this was for tension not convenience. I started swinging axe to wood. Over and over again.

"Tough day, sweetheart?" Dad ask as I chop some more wood.

"I am not..." I chop wood in half "A Ice Queen." I brushed off the chopped one and then got another log.

"What about that comment got you so mad?"

"The assumption that I want to be this way. That everything I do or say to people is because it's naturally who I am. I'm not." I stopped and started to cry "I'm scared." I lowered the axe down easily and dropped it to the ground.

"Oh, sweetheart."

" I'm an alien from another planet who runs fast, is incredibly strong and can see through things. I'm not normal and since starting high school it's pretty clear I will never be normal. What if what I have is not the end of it? what if I have more powers that are dormant. It only leads to a bigger secret, a bigger reason to keep everyone out so that Clark and I are safe.

What if someone was to find out, who we are, how and when we came here? Everything. Humans test what the don't understand. A thousand years of scientific breakthrough and progression is best on testing out unknown things or new things. I don't wanna be a test. So I show restraint, caution, distance. People can't find out if they can't get close. I'm not Ice Queen, I'm guarded, in self preservation and comfort zones." Dad came over and wrapped his arms around me. pulling me in tight as i cried onto his shoulder

"I know sweetheart. I know."

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I think I might have fallen asleep because the next thing I remember was waking up in bed and it being dark. Jogging downstairs all the lights were off, so switching them on I went to the fridge hoping there would be a note.

Dad and i gone to Luthor Mansion, Clark is out with Lana. Leftovers in the fridge. Love Mom.

Personally I wasn't in the mood for left overs so I decided to have pizza instead. The thing was they were too tight to deliver here so I had to go and get it myself. I sped into town and then slowed to a regular pace. I bought my pizza and was aiming for home again.

"Mia! Hey, Mia!" I sighed turning to face Whitney and he was with Lana

"Hey I thought you were with..." she shook her head at me "never mind." I stopped with my original sentence

"You okay, you don't look so well?" Whitney asked

"Fine. I better go." I turn and carry on walking. i just wanted to curl up in front of the tv and watch some boring movie and fall asleep again after a few slices.

"Mia!" Whitney grabbed my arm making me stop "I have to ask. You and Sean."

"Sean is a asshole and a player in the worst sense." i replied shaking my head, getting tired at peoples assumptions of me.

"But I saw you write your number down."

"That was Chloe's number. I figured she could chew him out at trying to go after a young teen which now given his age is a minor. He would back off me and Chloe would get a story about her favourite chew toy. He didn't bite and neither did I. Can I go now?" he let go of my arm

"You know I think I've figured you out, Kent." he smiled

"Everyone does."

"I think that you being adopted has made you more guarded than your brother. No one can really let you down if you don't care about them in the first place. Sure you love your family, they're your family. Your parents brought you in, loved and cared for you. Clarks your brother but everyone else is a potential for disappointment. So you decide to go through life in a little bubble of your creation only coming out once in a while to prove you do exist" It was weird. Everything in that moment froze for like a split second and then sped back up again as he told me practically what I had cried about earlier. minus a few details