E-squad

chapter 4

Chapter 4: Biggest Lie Ever

I jumped into my mom's car and we drove off. She started the conversation with

"How did your day go, besides getting detention.." she asked.

"Greeeaat. Great. Except for the fact that, you know... IM A SUPERHERO?!" I said as calmly as I possibly could.

"Oh.. um." She mumbled, "That's... uh great." She said as she fidgeted with the steering wheel.

"Really? Because I thought you would care. I thought you would tell me and prepare me for this!" I shouted.

"Honey, you know your father and I would have prepared you. But before you were 16, anything anyone ever told you, you wouldn't believe. How were we supposed to tell you that without you saying it was the 'Biggest Lie Ever'?" she said.

"I-I guess so... But didn't you have any proof? I mean a picture, a sign, anything?!" I said

"Well I'll show you when we get home..." She said

~(Bolton's POV)~ (ooohhh I bet u weren't expectin dat!)

"I don't understand why you had to keep it a secret." I said trying not to yell.

"I was just trying to protect you... I didn't want you to, you know, take advantage of it, become a villain." My dad said.

"A villain? Really Dad? You think I would become evil? Why would you think that?" I said, actually yelling this time.

"Studies show that if you tell your child that they're superheroes, before their time, they become villains." He said, trying to live up to his job as a scientist.

"So how am—"

~/(Amber's POV)\~

"—A superhero?" I asked. I feel like someone else in the world said the exact same thing at the exact same time... weird.

"Well my mom, your grandma, was mutated in a lab experiment, to see if they could pour liquid nitrogen onto fire and make it freeze. The people back then weren't the smartest. So your Grandma accidentally fell into the pot of liquid nitrogen, and was blinded, and frozen. She almost fell over and shattered, when someone caught her and held her over the fire. But that person was your idiot grandfather, so he , of course dropped her into the fire. He thought for sure she was dead, but she soon flew out of the fire. Mutated. So then they had me, I had superpowers, I had you, you have superpowers, it's that simple!"

"Oh... okay... But I'm going to the "Superheroes School for Gifted Teens"... so that okay with you?" I asked.

" The Superheroes School for Gifted Teens! Who offered you a scholarship? The principal?!" she questioned

"well, yea how did you know?" I asked

"Honey, I can read minds. BOOM!" she stated

"COOOOL! Can I?" I asked.

"No. But you can cause fire!" she said excitedly.

"I'll take what I can get." I said, as we drove down the road.

Pic of Fern in the media