Another Regular Day?

Chapter 2: Discovering Abilities and More

"It appears that I cannot control myself," said Mr. Watson.

"No kidding," said Jack as he laughed and continue to humiliate our teacher.

"Hey, bro, can I talk to you after class?" I asked Jack.

"No problem man. Hey maybe I can 'teach' you how to do this. Haha" he said as he continued laughing."

"Sure, even though I already know how," I mumbled under my breath.

"What was that?" Jack asked me.

"What? I didnt say anything," I lied. I mean it was a simple maneuver. Just focus on his arms and make them move, that was it. 

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I started to remember about each new ability I started to learn after a while. At first it was healing. I had to control it just enough not to freak anyone out. I learned that the hard way.

I was walking down the street when two thugs decided to mug me. I thought to myself, "Wow these guys must be losers to mug a scrawny guy thats walking by himself" and they were. So they started beating me up for a few minutes. They used knives and everything. At that moment i started healing pretty fast and they were freaked out. It was kind of funny actually.

"My turn," I said to them. Then, I remembered a movie were a guy has super strength. Thats when I thought "Wonder if i could do that." Sure enough one of them goes flying into a brick wall.

"Awesome," was the only thing I said as I looked at the other thug.

"Please don't hurt me. I'll do anything. Please I'll go to jail, I'll...I'll give you my money, anything."

"Get out of here," was all I said feeling my pride as i walked away. Next day, I hear on the news they say they found a thug through a wall of a grocery store passed out.

"Wonder how he's goin to explain that," i laughed to myself the next morning.

That morning, I started researching more abilities i can "copy."

I looked up telepathy, flight, teleportation(coolest one by the way), telekinetic, terrakenisis, hydrokenisis, anything you name it i can probably do it. Except time travel i just couldn't do that. 

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After class, I asked Jack how he did it. I obviously knew the answer, I just wanted to see how he'd explain it.

"Nothin to it really, haha, oh man did you see Mr. Watson's face? It was like 'oh i cant control myself' haha," he continued as he laughed.

"But how is what I'm asking," I asked him once again.

"I don't know man it just came to me a few years ago."

"Huh interesting," I finally remarked as I walked away. 

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As soon as I got home, I researched more abilities and tried to figure out if anyone else was like me too. I found out about some magicians like Houdini and asked myself "what if the reason he could do this was with telekineses."

I kept thinking about what Jack said, "It came a few years ago." If this is true then for sure there are others like me and they probably got their abilities around thirteen years of age as well.

I was so lost in my research and thoughts that I didn't hear my mom call my name for dinner.

"Clint! Get in here! Your food is getting cold!"

"Mom, I'm doing research!"

"Do your research after dinner! Now hurry up!"

"Be right there!"

After dinner, I continued and discovered something. Some scientists have theorized that in people we might have abilities that are locked away. They have discovered that some humans have already unlocked their abilities, even some people that you wouldn't want having "powers" like serial killers. The ones that they've discovered have only one ability at a time.

I thought I was special. I thought I was alone. I was wrong, horribly wrong.