Ever since I can remember, I've had this ability. I can make people do whatever I say. Like, whatever I say. When I was a kid I didn't understand it. I suppose I would have been about 4 when I noticed my parents were scared of me, and about 6 when It finally dawned on me why. I've been living alone for so long now you'd think I would have forgotten what it felt like to be part of a family but I remember all of it. I remember sitting on the sofa with my parents watching 'friends' and eating popcorn, crying to my mum when someone at school was mean to me, baking with my dad in our tiny kitchen on Saturday afternoons, and I remember how my mother stopped reading me bedtime stories after I forced her to read 'the cat in the hat' again and again and again until 2 in the morning.
If I really focus I can control when it happens, but mostly I just have to be very careful of how I word things. But when I'm particularly emotional it's almost impossible to control, which I found out the hard way. When I was 12 Me and my bestest friend in the whole world had a falling out and it was the worst day of my life. Henry moved into the house next to us when we were kids and we were inseparable from that very day. After school we would go to the arcade in town or build imaginary castles in his garden or if his parents were arguing we would build a fort in my bedroom and watch movies and tell stories all night. Then, a few weeks into year 7 Henry got a girlfriend. Her name was Lauren, who I'd sat next to in maths for the last 2 years and she was the prettiest girl I had ever seen, with her long blonde hair and collection of baby pink skirts, naturally she was the leader of all the junior sports clubs and I had never been more jealous in my life. Suddenly Henry didn't have time to play after school or meet up on weekends. We still walked to school together and sat together at lunch but seeing them holding hands, giggling, hugging. Ugh. It was unbearable.
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Dark Heroes: chapter one
Jugendliteratur'Growing up I always thought the concept of revenge was a bit melodramatic. Characters would spend the first half of the story looking for revenge and the other half hating themselves for getting it.' Kody has always loved superheroes but what will...
