dam·sel in dis·tress /ˈdamzəl in dəˈstres/ (noun): 1. A young woman in trouble (With the implication that the woman needs to be rescued). 2. A stereotype of someone in trouble who needs a hero to save them.

"It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's just some idiot in spandex." Arabella Jones is your average American teenage girl, she even lives in one if America's most prosperous cities, Empire City, California. She's a sucker for the performing arts and owns two bookcases full of young adult novels. Well maybe she's not so much like your average American teenager. Everything in Arabella's life seems to be finally going perfect, right up until the city's most famous superhero come barging through her widow at two in the morning on a school night. All she used to have to worry about was what part she was going to get in the musical and if the boy she's been crushing on since freshman year likes her back or not. But these worries are nothing compared to her newfound super stalkers. Now it seems that the city's only hope, and her's, is a teenage boy dressed in spandex who still hasn't learned not to wear his underwear on the outside of his clothes.

A girl who has never believed in miracles, rarely believes in hope will someday find out how much hope can change a person's life. A short story about hope.