smallville : sense

《 introduction 》

Kansas. Autumn Bradbury thought, tossing her backpack on her bed. Out of all the places we had to come they picked Kansas. Why would dad pick here for a job?

And above all that, why did she have to go to school? Homeschool had been fine. But now Mom had her hands full with the other kids and so she had to go to school? She could do it herself. But her parents wouldn't understand the worst reason for not wanting to go.

It would be to overwhelming. Being an introvert in a big school was bad enough, being an empath was double bad. And being an empath with rather interesting powers was worse. She didn't understand it. Ever since she was younger she had been able to perfectly understand other's emotions. It was sorta crazy.

But that wasn't it, that could probably be explained rationally. she could also change people's emotions. Not completely. But when her sister had gotten stressed over a presentation or her mom had been overwhelmed by packing, all she had to do was touch them and think about it... and they just calmed down.

It was weird.

But when she was in crowds of people it could get overwhelming, feeling so many emotions at once. She was learning to block things out, but in large groups of people, it was even harder.

Autumn tossed her pencil case on the bed alongside the backpack.

"Autumn! The bus is here!" her mom called from downstairs.

Shoving the last few things into her backpack, Autumn raced downstairs towards the front door.

It was too bad everyone here in Smallville seemed so normal. At least in New York, everyone seemed different, she felt more at home here. 

Now things were quieter, but she was going to have a lot harder time blending in.