Beginner's Guide to Being a Superhero

5-I Ship It

Chapter 5
I Ship It

I'm currently walking down the hallway with Audrey, on our way to get ice cream. I love ice cream and all, but I don't like the fact that she invited Sam along. So now he's talking our ears off with a story about his uncle driving a truck off a cliff or something like that.

"So he was like, 'oh, would you look at that? I'm going to die!'" Sam moved his hands as he spoke, barley hitting me a few times.

I send Audrey a glare and she smiles back guiltily. I cross my arms in annoyance, when I spot Noah angrily walking down the hall in our direction, with his fists clenched and a red face.

"Noah...?" I ask him as he storms past us. I think I saw tears in his eyes.

He's usually so cheery and upbeat. I don't know what possibly could have hurt him like that.

"Noah!" Audrey calls after him. She tries to grab his arm and hold him back but he just yanks it back without bothering to look at her and continues marching down the hall.

I share a confused look with my best friend. That is absolutely not like Noah. I can't help but feel sympathy for him.

"I'll go talk to him," Sam volunteers, and I'm about to object but he's already down the hall, running after our crying friend.

"I hope he's okay," Audrey mutters as we watch them both at the end of the hall.

"Me too," I tell her.

***

Audrey and I ended up getting ice cream without Sam, which was fine by me.

I ended up getting cherry cheesecake and Audrey got cookie dough. I enjoy them both, but today I was feeling more cherry-ish.

After our treat, we walked back to Drew and I's apartment in downtown. Audrey and I had planned a sleepover tonight, never mind the fact that it a school night. I'm sure a normal parent would care how much sleep their child earned the day before school, but my guardian is Drew, so his reasoning could be debatable.

"Big Bro?" I called once I opened the door to our small apartment. Audrey and I dropped our bags and made our way into the kitchen where my brother sat on a stool, typing away at his computer.

"Hey, Little Sis," He responded, not taking his eyes off his screen.

"What 'ya doing?" I opened the fridge door and grabbed two Cokes, tossing one to Audrey as we both took a spot on either side of him.

"Did you hear what happened two hours ago?" He asked, and bot Audrey and I shook our heads.

"Well," my brother continued, "Apparently Static left a message on the side of City Hall."

We leaned over to see what my brother was talking about. At first, all I saw was City Hall, but then I spotted a few bold words written in black at the side of the building.

DO YOU REALLY KNOW ME? -STATIC

I was slightly confused. Static said he's never done anything bad, but yet it says it was him who wrote this. Or could it have been one of Slick's schemes?

"Do we know anything about him?" Audrey asked Drew, "Do we have at least some type of lead?"

"Not even a lead," Drew sighed, leaning back.

"How do we stop him, then?" Audrey asks.

"At this point, all I can really say is that we don't," Drew gritted his teeth and I gasped. A Super never lets the enemy win.