The Action of Us vs Them

Just the Beginning

                                                                                The Action

                                                                                        Of

                                                                                        Us

                                                                                        vs

                                                                                    Them

    The Prologue

Have you ever had to keep a secret so long that you were willing to face the consequences no matter what they were- if you told someone? I know I have. In fact, that's what is going on right now. I can't even tell my best friend Zayden. He's been my best friend for as long as I can remember and I can trust him with anything- besides for the fact that I have powers. I mean I can trust him with it, but I'm not ready to tell him. Also he's really smart. To my knowledge he has A's in all his classes with 4.0 GPA. Pretty amazing to me. Just thought I'd let you know. Anyway as far as I know, only my mom knows about my power. My dad died when I was very young and even now I don't know what happened to him. My mom has never brought it up and to be honest I'm afraid to ask.

I've always been told, "be yourself" and "everyone is unique- so why change?". For me that's impossible. I have to put up a fake persona to guard myself against those whom I don't trust. This might sound crazy and completely unbelievable, but I have the powers of both Time Travel and Divine Creation. It sounds like it would be straight out of an action comic book. I've always fantasized about being the main and strongest character in a world I wished existed.

That made-up world partially does exist and it scares me. What if someone finds out? Are there more like me? What if for other reasons I'm forced to use my powers and what would happen if I did? Questions like those and many others claim space in my head previously reserved for other thoughts. I don't know how I haven't known about these powers until recently when my mother accidently left the stove burner on and lit the house on fire. I was distraught, and within my thoughts I begged for time to rewind. What I didn't expect was for my wish to come true.

I blinked one second and the next I was back in my room researching a school topic for History. I raced downstairs to the kitchen, hoping the fire had never started. Instead I came down to find my mom confused and disoriented.

"Weren't we just outside?" She had asked, "Wasn't the house just on fire?"

I didn't know what to say nor do. I was just as confused as my mom was. A silence lasted between us. It seemed like hours that fear hung over our heads. I looked at my mom as she looked at me. We didn't say anything, but an unfamiliar glint flickered in her eyes. Her stare seemed to have added a heavy burden to the air- as if she knew what was going on.

"...Mom? What's wrong?" She didn't answer me with words- instead she answered me with the fire igniting in her eyes. She knew. She knew the powers that lied deep within me had now awoken.

    Chapter One

It's seven thirty in the morning in Riverton City, Wyoming and I'm already late for school. Spring break has just ended and starting today we are presenting our History projects that we had to work on over break. The topic is covering the Holocaust and those involved. Each student was given a person to research on- being told to put it in an essay format. I was given Heinrich Luitpold Himmler- Chief of the German Police and Reich Minister of the Interior. That's who I was stuck researching on over spring break. I guess it wasn't as much of a break as I had hoped, but it's better than nothing.