ISSUE #16

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BLÜDHAVEN  5:22 AM LOCAL TIME

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BLÜDHAVEN 
5:22 AM LOCAL TIME

Jon Kent thought it should be illegal to be awake this early on the weekend. His own grandma wasn't awake this early.

Aren't old people supposed to be up early?

He drank too much coffee and now he was jittery.

He watched as Mar'i climbed out of her window and up at the fire escape.

"Hi Jonny." She smiled and sat next to him.

The two half aliens gave each other happy (but tired) looks.

"Hi how was your first week at human school?"

"Fun! I love it I never... had school on Tamaran. It was just me but with other people it's interesting."

"Well that's good, you made friends I'm sure."

"I bet you have a lot of friends at school Jon." Mar'i sighed.

Jon wanted to burst out laughing. Instead, he just shook his head.

"I was popular when I was like ten, then I moved the Metropolis, then BACK to Kansas and I don't know things were never really the same so."

"You left only to go back to the place you started? What happened?"

"Um... my grandpa died." He swallowed.

"I'm so sorry," Mar'i whispered softly.

He didn't look at her. He suddenly felt like he had ruined everything.

"It happened a long time ago so." He shrugged it off.

"That doesn't make it hurt less."

He felt his throat tighten.

"I think if we grew up together... I would have loved to have been your friend." Mar'i said mostly to herself.

He heard her though. Jon could hear everything. Which included Damian-Robin climbing the fire escape.

"It's rude to keep a lady waiting," Mar'i said to Robin.

His costume looked freshly cleaned.

Jon could tell Robin rolled his eyes behind his mask.

"Superboy catch."

He caught some type of device and looked to see it was a GPS.

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