Superpowers

Chapter 1

I'm Rebecca. I'm 12 years old and was adopted at birth. Don't ask me why my real parents would give me away. I was told I was an adorable baby and a joy to have. Anyway, many people are well....interested in one of my qualities. I'll get to the point: I can fly.

How did I find out I that I have this awesome ability? I was about six years old when I felt it. I knew there was something inside me that wasn't quite right. My adoptive father had told me Mayan stories before about people doing something with rocks or who knows what, so I decided to give it a try.

So I went into our backyard and brainstormed. Well, I thought. There's a pretty big rock over there......Why don't I try jumping off of it? It's not that big, so I won't get hurt. I made up my mind and snuck over to the rock which now seemed more like a cliff. I climbed up, up, up until I was at the very top. I peered over the edge and then started to chicken out.

Come on, really? You came all this way just to back down? You've been wanting to find out the meaning of that gut feeling inside of you for so long and now you're just going to give up? Please, Rebecca, be realistic. You know you can do this.

I leapt off the edge and squeezed my eyes shut. After a few seconds, I managed to gather up enough courage to open my eyes. At first, I was quite perplexed, to put it mildly.

I was floating just a few inches above the ground. My adoptive mother happened to be walking by the glass door in the kitchen that led into the garden and caught sight of me floating. I have to admit, now that I look back on it, if I were in my mother's place at the time, I would have probably been pretty freaked out. So I don't blame my mom for acting the same way.

"Oh my god, Rebecca, what are you doing?!?" she screeched.

"That's actually a very good question....any idea on how to get down? Oh there, I've got it.," I mumbled while gravity forced me back to the ground with no warning.

"What was that all about?" my mother questioned me.

"Um..well...you see..." I stumbled. "I guess you want the short story, right? Here it is: I was curious and so I climbed up on a rock over here, you see, and I jumped off for fun and I closed my eyes and all of a sudden I found myself floating."

I know exactly what you're thinking about now. Oh this story is just a bunch of baloney! Well you may be right. But the fact is that I was floating. That's the story of how I found out about my amazing ability!