Dummies' Guide to Being a Superhero (Editing)

{Bonus Story #1: Unlucky}

[a/n: as you can see from the title of this chapter, this isn't a bonus chapter. THIS IS A BONUS STORY. Meaning it has NOTHING TO DO WITH DUMMIES' GUIDE TO BEING A SUPERHERO. This story actually belongs as a bonus chapter to Fright Night. But I'm posting it here since I want to post it on Fright Night when it's completed. And some of you guys are also checking my Fright Night out too. Plus it must get tired reading about superheroes all the time, right (lmao not really)? So here's a fun and slightly gay vampire story that you will definitely see again as another bonus story! Enjoy ~~]

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{BONUS STORY #1: "Unlucky"

summary: In which sixteen-year-old boy Nova Lancaster realizes how unlucky he really is. }

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NOVA LANCASTER IS SUPER UNLUCKY. Not only does his name prove his point, but his enter life was fucking unlucky to begin with. Sure, he was given a girl's name, was left at an orphanage at the age of four, and was pretty much bullied since he went into middle school - but his life had some upgrades. Like how he was adopted by a wonderful, wealthy couple when he was seven and was the only child from there out, and....

Okay. So he's really unlucky, but he tries not think about that as he stares at the stinky notes left on fridge. With a sigh he looks over them, frown deepening.

Business trip in Wisconsin. I'll be back in a week. Love you and be careful. I'll Skype with you later, Nova.
- Dad

He looks over at the next note, a furrow in his brow.

I'm working late again so order a pizza just in case I don't make it in time for dinner. Love you.
-Mom

And that's exactly what Nova finds himself doing, sitting at the large dinner table, alone in the silence of his large home. He bites into his pizza, staring at his phone as it buzzes, signaling message after message.

He reads them over, smiling to himself.

Becca. 8:34 P.M.: hey dipshit so do u have plans tomorrow

Nova. 8:35 P.M.: maybe...why

Becca. 8:35 P.M.: DONT LIE TO ME. u're always home sulking around. Despite the fact that you're their only son, ur parents have zero time for you

Nova takes a breath. "For the last time, I told you they're not my biological parents," he mutters, despite the fact she can't hear her.

That's Becca Zanders for you. She's too hardheaded to listen to anything. He remembers the first time he told Becca he was adopted. She just stared at him, then continued sipping her soda like it was nothing. She didn't ask why he was adopted, why his parents left him. And for that he was thankful - but sometimes he wonders why he's her only source of entertainment.

Becca Zander's is pretty, with her dark skin and wild curls. Of course it wouldn't be hard to seek entertainment that isn't Nova - but, no. When they were in sixth grade, she simply walked past all the other eleven-year-old kids and pointed at Nova, the small, pale boy with wild black curls and gray eyes.

"You! You're my best friend now! Got it?"

Nova had stared up at her. "Wha?"

Ever since then they've been together, partners in crime. Or more like a partner in crime with a ghost on a leash. And to be fair, Becca was always a badass.