Lifetime

Chapter 2

Home or Something Like That

It has been two years since my parents kicked me out. I was placed into foster care and have already been passed around to 3 different homes. I know that none of them are going to be permanent but hopefully someday soon I can at least have somewhere I can stay longer than a few months.

I'm currently staying at the Hannigen's house until they to decide that they are ready to get rid of me. Unfortunately, most of the families I have been sent to live with do not really want to have a foster kid in their home and are only really in it for the additional money.

One good that has happened since I was sent away was the revelation that I had powers. I assume that I am mutant but neither of my parents are mutants to my knowledge. However, I guess I don't really know who my real father is. So it would be pretty logical to think he was a mutant. I wonder if his powers are similar to mine?

After that first night that I discovered my powers, I continued to experience random moments where I could just move things without my knowledge. Slowly, I started to get these painful migraines every time I was near large groups of people. I realized that I could hear all their thoughts and boy were some of them not meant to be heard. 

Shortly after I moved into my new foster parents house I started practicing with my powers when everyone went to sleep and was able to kinda get the hang of them but the reading minds thing was a pain in the behind, so I tried to avoid being around to many people. As long as I was alone the headaches would become more bearable to handle.

Since I started getting placed in foster homes practicing my powers became much more of a necessity. Unlike, my early years I now had to go to school and going to school meant being around loads of people. It was so hard to focus on anything with so many thoughts rummaging through my head. Luckily, I was pretty gifted in terms of intelligence and found most of the stuff taught to be pretty simple. I guess being home-schooled by my mom paid off. 

My mom always said my IQ was well above the normal range for a kid my age. I honestly wished I could take some harder classes but I don't have any money so that would be out of the question. Despite school being an absolute nightmare for me; I did enjoy seeing other kids my age. Most of them were pretty nice and there was even this girl named Gwen Stacey who could actually keep up with me. 

Gwen became my first real friend and showed me the ropes while I was at midtown elementary. She had gorgeous blond locks that sat perfectly on her head and wore a free-flowing polka dotted dresses that she told me her mom gets her while shes off on trips. Despite all of that, I think the best thing about Gwen was her heart. One smile from her would make just about anyone feel better.

Getting to meet Gwen was great, I did not feel so much like an outsider when I was around her. Of course she did not know about my powers but I feel as if I told her then she would want to help me rather than report me to her father (who is a cop). Oh well, I did not have the courage to tell her that I was a freak let alone put the burden of my secret on her. What we could talk about was our love for science. I loved to fix things, I found computers to be way to slow. While Gwen, loved a good experiment. That year me and Gwen entered into a science fair where we won first place by building a mock binary fusion run scaffold. Gosh, Gwen is the best. No wonder she was my first crush.

If only I had some more control over my powers then I may have been a little more open to other people at my school. I am afraid that I may hurt someone some day. So by keeping people away I reduce that chance. 

One thing was clear to me from an early age, under no circumstance can anyone find out that I am a mutant. The world seems to hate mutants because were different. If anyone found out about my abilities they might actually send me away to some science facility this time.