Chapter 1

“Joseph P Cain! Get your lazy ass up right now mister before you’re late for school!” I awoke groggily to the sound an alarm and angry mother standing in the doorway. “Wha? What time is it?” I asked still trying to shake my morning coma “It is almost seven o’clock and I need to go get ready for work.” I jumped out of bed wide awake now. “WHAT?! I’m going to be so late!” mom covered her eyes as my morning wood poked at my pants. “Oh for Pete’s sake can’t you wait until after I leave the room?” she said as she shook her head “Sorry, but I’m kind of in a hurry here.” I said as I grabbed my clothes from the closet and headed into the shower. My mom just shook her head again and left the room.

Okay, so first off, yeah my name is Joseph, but only my mom calls me that, everybody else just calls me J.P. I am 17 years old, light skin tone with light blonde hair and hazel eyes. I am just your average geek in school, A-B average grades, loves books, hopeless with girls, bullied by jocks, yeah just your average wallflower. I come out the shower, dress quickly, grab my backpack and run into the kitchen nearly mowing down my twin sister Josephine. We both fall on our asses and grunt in pain.

Physically, she looks just like me, but has a slight build from being captain of the basketball team and the boxing team and the track and field squad and the wrestling team, now she trying to get a spot on the football team with no luck. Even though my sister is a jock she still has good grades and it’s pretty popular around school. She can even be nice to me sometimes.

“Hey Speedy, where are you going so fast?” Jo asked picking herself up off the ground and giving me a hand afterward. “Stop calling me that, you know I hate that name.” I grumbled accepting the helping hand. “But you know you’d be great for the Track team! You might even be able to start doing Cross country if you’re lucky.” she said

“Jo, we’ve both had this conversation a million times. I’m out of shape, slow, and get tired easily. I’m not sporting material.” I counted off the reasons as I grabbed a bagel and my keys. “Maybe if you actually applied yourself to being stronger you’d get there and stop being picked on so much.” I rolled my eyes as we stepped out the house toward the school, we started another tirade about me joining up as we usually do and arrive at school just before the bell rings.

We both went to our separate classes, me in English class and her in math class. As soon as I stepped into the room, however, my (somewhat) good morning ended abruptly. “Mr. Cain, would you please tell me as to why you are late to my classroom again?” a sharp voice asked. I turned around to face my teacher. Ms. Garfield looked like a nice enough person but unfortunately, looks can be deceiving, especially in her case.

She is the toughest teacher we have in the whole school, which is saying a lot. She gives out twice the amount of homework and is always keen on giving three-paged essays. Thankfully, English is my favorite subject so I can deal with the work quite easily. Despite having the patience of a bull with anger issues, she is definitely the most popular teacher in the whole school, made famous by her smoking hot looks and gigantic ass where the long locks of her brown hair occasionally get stuck in between. I sighed as I wished I was able to just sit down quietly with the hassle.

“I am sorry ma’am, my alarm clock didn’t wake me up again.” she snorted in disbelief and rolled her blue eyes at me. “You know if you’re going to make up excuses, you could at least make them good.” I sat down and kept quiet, it was safer that way. With no more incidents for the rest of class, my next three classes passed quickly

. Finally it was time for lunch where I can finally relax. I quickly grabbed my tray and hurried out of the cafeteria, towards the school gardens. I looked around to see if anyone was following me. Once I was sure no one had tailed me, I put my tray down on a table like contraption that I built my first year here. It’s a pulley that takes my tray up to the top of the great oak tree where I was. As for me…that’s a different story. I jumped onto the lowest branch of the tree and pulled myself up. From there up, it was easy. I moved through branches like a monkey, swinging and sliding until I came to the heart of the tree. There was a slight curve there where if you relaxed, seemed a bit like a comfortable chair. I slid down and sighed as I pulled my lunch up. I relaxed because no one ever came to the school gardens anymore since it was abandoned five years ago.

Everything in here died without someone to take care of them, well, almost everything. I had run in here my first day of school when a pack of jocks was chasing me around at the last bell. I quickly scrambled up the tree and tried to make myself as small as possible and the bullies left laughing about their success as they went.

Ever since then, I’ve been coming here every day just to relax and kick back once in awhile. It’s really nice over here, especially in the afternoon, where you can see the sunset better than anywhere else in town. I sighed as I realized I needed to get down before lunch ended. I climbed my way down from the heart of the tree. No soon had my feet touch the ground when a voice sounded behind me.”Huh, nice spot you got here nerd.” I jumped then cursed as I recognized the voice; it was the football team star player, Derrick Cohen.

He’s 6’4, three hundred and fifty pounds and is nasty. He somehow gets away with picking on me every day at school and nobody ever believes me because they think he’s an angel. I turned around and face the Jock and his posse, every single one of them just as big as he is, just dumber.

“So this is where you go hiding during lunch? And here I thought you enjoyed the time we spend together.” I couldn’t help but raise my eyebrows at that statement “Wow, Derrick, you actually thought about something? I’m amazed.” Derrick growled and pushed me against the trunk of the tree, I tripped over one of the roots and landed on my ass while the Cock-heads (Excuse me, Jock-heads) laughed at my pain. “You know it’s funny, we wouldn’t have even thought of this place, but thanks to a little tweety bird, you’ve got nowhere to hide, runt.” Before I could ask who snitched, Derrick threw an uppercut that left me seeing stars. While I was down he and his goons kicked and threw more punches. They stopped once the bell rang and walked inside laughing at how puny I was. I stayed on the ground crying softly as I bled. Finally, I picked myself and limped home, Not caring whether or not I missed classes or not. I walked inside and washed up. Thankfully, nobody was home, mom was still at work and Jo wouldn’t be home for another hour so I took off my bloodstained clothes, threw them into the hamper and collapsed on my bed where I slept until Jo came home.

“J.P! Are you here?” I groaned and covered my head with the pillow. Eventually, she found me on the bed and breathes a sigh of relief. “There you are, I was worried sick! You had just disappeared and nobody knew where-” She stopped and I heard a sharp intake of breath. She must’ve seen my bruises.

“Oh my god, what happened to you?” she asked silently. I moved my head out of the pillow slightly so she could understand me. “Derrick caught me at my hideout. Somebody told him where I went during lunch.”

“Who would…oh….oh my god.”

I couldn’t see her face but I could hear her tone well enough that it made me pull my head out of my pillow, despite my pounding headache, and look at her face. Now, keep in mind that twin telepathy stuff is utter bull, but since we know each other so well, we can still read each other like a book so when I saw her face, It didn’t look like a surprised face or an I’m-going-to-kill-someone face, It looked like a guilty face. “Jo,” I said keeping my anger in check “You wouldn’t happen to know who told Derrick where I was, do you?” she kept her head down and refused to look at me. “Josephine,” now she glanced up, because we only used each other’s full name when we’re pissed and right now, I think I qualify as pissed. “Did you tell Derrick where I was?” Jo said nothing and kept her head down for a while and all you could hear was the rain that was pouring down heavily. Finally, Jo looked up with tears in her eyes and spoke.

“I-I came to him during gym and-and I had asked him to let me-let me sign up for-for football, and he-he said he would talk to his coach if I would tell where were you during lunch so he-he could ask for help on a report he was doing for English….” She stopped there and burst into tears. I was so mad, I was seeing red. Instead of comforting my little sister, I grabbed my hoodie and stormed downstairs where I grabbed my boots and headed for the front door, Jo on my heels babbling about how sorry she was and how she didn’t mean for this to happen.

She paused when she saw where I was heading. “W-Wait where are you going?” she asked her eyes still swimming in unshed tears “Out.” was the only reply I gave. Before I stepped outside, I turned back to face her, fury written all on my face. “I would have rather been beaten to death by Derrick and his pack of thugs then you stabbing me in the back.” I went outside and slammed the door in her face and started running from the house, not really going anywhere, just running away from the hurt, from the pain, from the betrayal. I kept running, past the houses, past the shops until I couldn’t run anymore.

I stood in an open field heaving and huffing till I could catch my breath. Once I did, I screamed. I screamed into the open air, into the storm yelling until I was left empty. I just collapsed in the field on my knees, looking up at the sky. “I’m done with it all,” I said the clouds “You want to make life for me so unbearable, just end it already, please.”

The storm grumbled and rumbled, almost as if it didn’t like what was going to happen next. I stayed there, tears falling from my face as I wished the world would just disappear. Suddenly, the sky glowed with white light as a bolt of lightning struck down and hit me directly on the head. Once again I opened my mouth and screamed, not in anger, but in pain, as every part of my being felt as if it was being tortured cruelly and then melted. I kept screaming even when the lightning had long faded from the sky and I sat in a circle of flames. Finally, I just collapsed on the ground as my vision faded into blackness. The last thing I remember was hearing someone call out my name as I faded into nothingness.

Chapter 2

I woke up somewhere between death and life, or at least that’s what it felt like.

I couldn’t seem to say anything or see anything at all except for blackness. But I could hear. Ever since I woke I could hear everything. I could also feel everything. It’s like I was a bat, whenever someone spoke, I could hear them clearly and see what they looked like. Like whenever my family came for a visit or the doctor came in, or when the sexy nurse comes in to take care of me. She often came in to fix my IV or to refill my life supporter, so I saw her a lot. She has bright blue eyes and blonde hair and her chest! She had to be at least a G-cup! I had a lot of fantasies about her and her cow sized breasts.

One day, when everyone had left the hospital where I was staying, the nurse had come into my room to check my vitals and do my IV again. I had thought of moving the IV over so she would have to lean over me to reach it when suddenly it starting rolling away! I was shocked; did I just move that with my mind? The nurse reached slightly for the IV then frowned as it was farther away than she thought. She leaned over me, squishing her large melons on my chest. A wave of excitement passed through me that I haven’t felt in a while. My cock stood up straight and was noticed by the nurse who stared at it for a moment. While she was thinking I had a great idea.

If I can move things with my mind, what else can I do with it? I decided I have nothing to lose. I concentrated on the nurse’s mind and imagined myself going into her head; suddenly I was standing in the middle of a gray area with a bunch of nerves all over the place. I was amazed at how fast everything moved, but I seemed to be able to understand exactly what parts did what, influenced what and moved what.

It was like everything was color-coded, Emotions and feelings are red, thoughts and memories are blue, and body movements and systems are yellow. I went to the section of thoughts where I could hear and see all of her memories and thoughts. I learned her name was Tiffany Black and she was 24 years old. She’s married but her husband, Ryan Cutler, is always away somewhere and she is starting to suspect him cheating. I moved away to the thoughts section where she and her conscious were waging war.

Oh, come on! Get a grip girl! Are you really bout to have sex with a kid? I mean really! Just think about if anyone saw you, you could get fired!

But… Ryan hasn’t been home in months and it’s not like anybody’s here, everyone checked out hours ago. Besides, he’s kind of cute.

But still! What would Ryan say if he found out his WIFE was acting like a whore?

I tried to input my thoughts inside of her mind to help give her a push. It helped to think about having a control station inside of each section. Soon, I was controlling her thoughts with ease.

After my work was done I exited the busty hospital worker’s mind. In my own body now, I could see that Tiffany was licking her lips and rubbing her legs together. Lust was bright in her eyes as she pulled up my hospital gown and slid down my boxers which caused my dick to spring out. My dick isn’t small; in fact, it’s bigger than most guys standing at 6in long and about 1 cm thick at half-mast, but stood 11in tall and 3in thick.

Tiffany almost drooled at the sight of it. She caressed it softly, feeling along every inch, before sticking her tongue out and licking the head slightly. After that, she acted like a nympho queen, slobbering and sucking like a wild animal. I was in heaven, and because of my new senses, I could feel everything a whole lot better, like her tongue rubbing the inside of my shaft as she deepthroated me. I almost lost my seed right then, her tight throat was so far on my dick, her nose almost touched my balls. Almost.

Tiffany kept sucking up and down, till I felt my sac tighten. I couldn’t warn her so I gave her a small nudge that it was coming. Surprisingly, she didn’t move from her position, she kept on sucking, trying to get my entire dick down her throat, till I exploded. I was cumming so much, I was sure it made her stomach a little bigger.

Tiffany swallowed it all, swishing it in her mouth a bit to save the flavor, before swallowing it erotically. “Oh no, we’re not done yet mister!” she growled when she saw my deflating member. She unbuttoned her shirt and took off her lacy, white bra, revealing her amazing tits. At the sight of those fleshy mountains unleashed, my dick jumped back into position.

“Ahh, I see you ready for another round.” She spit right in between her two mounds and rubbed them together before pushing my cock right between them. I thought I had died for the second time in a row. The feeling of two gigantically sized, soft but firm, boobs on each side of your dick is indescribable. She started to rotate them softly around my dick before lifting them up and dropping them down, softly and slowly at first, but then faster and harder till she was slamming them up and down. I was trying hard not to blow up too soon, but after a few minutes, I felt that familiar tingling in my balls. I sent her another warning but once again surprised me, this time by putting her mouth on the head of my penis and pumping her boobs even faster. I shot another load into her mouth so hard, it hurt.

Tiffany let some of it in her mouth before pulling off and letting the rest all over her face. I relaxed as I finally realized what the hell just happened here: I just controlled someone to fuck me with my mind! But how? I started thinking back to all of the things that happened to me before. Did they inject me with something? Maybe I got bit by some radioactive animal, or was exposed to it. Finally, it hit just like it did in that field. The lightning! When it struck me it must’ve zapped something into to me that gave me these powers! I did a quick mental search on myself and was amazed at what I found.

Instead of it being cramped and close like Tiffany’s mind, (who had gone to get cleaned up by the way.) It was huge. I wondered why it was like that, when I remembered something about humans only being able to use 5% of our brains. I went to the main control section of my brain and immediately searched for a data analysis of how much my brain usage has increased. Wow, I don’t even know what the fuck I just said. Shaking my head, I resumed searching until I came across a type of diagram that showed how much brain power I was using and frankly, I was stunned.

If the average human uses about 5% of their brain, then that meant I am five times smarter than the average person. I stared at the 25% percent on the screen. There was no way this was possible. I, a nerd and wallflower who couldn’t try out for a sport even if he tried, now suddenly have superhuman abilities? This sounded like something made by Marvel. I could do anything I wanted to! While I was thinking about all the shit I could do, I remembered reading about a guy who lived his life seeing things like it was an RPG. I decided to make some changes off of that to make this mental area thing a bit cooler. I tweaked the mental image until I was back in my regular body with a screen like they have in the RPG games, only visible to me and anyone else I chose. I looked at it and concentrated on an Info screen and the screen in front of me switched to an information screen, showing stats, health and a yellow paralyzation icon at the end of the health bar.

I looked at my stats and was disappointed at how low my STR and EDR (Strength and Endurance) was kind of low, but was pleasantly surprised to see my SPD and INT (Speed and Intelligence) were really high. I made my way over to the ability section, expecting to see nothing there, but was surprised. I had 6 abilities: Telekinesis (I could move things with my thoughts) Mind-reading, limited Physical Manipulation (I can change how I or other living things look, act and increase or decrease how strong or fast something is, but I can’t create things.) Mental Shift (When I leave my body and can see and hear everything) and two things I didn’t know, the first one called Discharge and the second one, Unbind. I looked at Discharge first to see what it was about. It said discharge was the ability to unleash bursts of electricity, but I would be unable to control it.

I mulled over that, Being able to use electricity in a burst, but not being able to control it? Best leave that one alone for now. I moved over to Unbind and read what was under it. It said that unbind would allow me to increase my brain usage allowing to be able to control my abilities better and even gain new ones, but at the cost of I would be in a comatose state for three weeks. Underneath that, it showed a red timer counting down from One week.

I guess it meant I had used Unbind in the field when the lightning struck me, which explained why I was in a coma. The timer must be how much time I have left till I can wake up physically, which means I have been in here for almost two weeks! I groaned as I thought of the amount of work would be awaiting me when I returned. Then I grinned as I remembered I have these powers, I can just copy all the answers. I thought about what that will do to me and I sighed as I realized I can’t do that, it’s like that old saying from Spiderman: “With great power, comes great responsibility.” I can’t just be using my power all willy-nilly; I could be discovered and shipped off to some government facility. I just had to be careful about how I used it, but that’s not saying I couldn’t use it for my own enjoyment. I grinned mentally as I remembered what I did to the sexy nurse.

Oh yeah, this was going to be a fun three weeks.

Chapter 3

For the next week, my time was spent tempting Tiffany and various nurses to do naughty things to my still form after hours. During that time I learned how to control and perfect my powers, and soon, it was like a second nature to me. I improved a couple of things that had always bugged me about myself, like getting rid of pimples and slightly increasing my height as well as increasing my strength a little bit. But while learning about my new powers, my hair turned a shocking white and my eyes an electric golden yellow due to some chemical rise in my Electrolytes. I could’ve changed them back, but I decided on keeping it as a remembrance of that day in the field. Speaking of which, during the time I spent in the hospital, I calmed down about how Jo acted that day.

I mean if it was me in that position, I might’ve done the same thing, plus if it wasn’t for that whole encounter, I wouldn’t have these amazing powers! Finally, it came time for me to wake up. I was eagerly watching the paralysis countdown like the New Year’s Eve clock. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one! I did a quick mental cheer before exiting my info screen and settling my mind. I let myself fall back into that deep darkness area. I felt myself spreading through my body like liquid through a glass. It started with my toes then my legs then my thighs. After that, it spread more quickly. From my fingertips to my chest, my heart fluttered a bit when the sensation reached it, and it continued. Spreading, Spreading till It reached my ears. I heard Tiffany’s voice. “…Waking up! Come quickly!”

I felt the sensation pass through my eyes and finally on the top of my head as I heard footsteps approaching me. I took a deep breath and opened my eyes as I returned to the land of the living. The first things I noticed were the lights, since when were they so bright? I forced myself to look at them anyway, enjoying the pain it brought with it. I looked around once my eyes had adjusted. I saw, really saw Tiffany standing next to my bed with wide eyes, her chest leaning over the handrail with a man in white scrubs standing behind her, staring as well, but with a smile on his face that would make Cheshire cat jealous.

“Welcome back J.T, can you hear me alright?” I nodded my head, though his voice sounded two times louder than it should in my head. “What about your vision,” The doctor boomed. “Any problems there?” I shook my head no. “Good, good. J.T, do you know what happened to you? You were seen being struck by lightning in the middle of a field. You barely survived, If not for your sister carrying you all the way to the hospital. Honestly, you should consider yourself lucky. Not many people survive from that, even with immediate attention, maybe one in a million people.”

I sat back and closed my eyes, just realizing how close I came to death. “I going to go call your family, they should be here in a moment, so just relax and rest till they get here kay?” The doctor said. I didn’t even open my eyes I just nodded. After the doctor left, Tiffany gave me some water for my throat and tried giving me a once over to see if anything hurt or wasn’t working properly. After I was deemed okay, she called another nurse to help see if I could support myself. They tried sliding me out the bed, but I waved them off saying I got it. I moved my legs over the bed and hesitated, wondering if I would fall. Just to make sure, I opened my Info screen and increased my physical ability in my legs (Giving myself a tiny headache that disappeared after a moment in the process.) before sliding down off the bed. I wobbled slightly, still getting used to being back on my feet, before taking a few shaky steps.

By the time mom and Jo came busting through the door, I was walking normally and speaking in full sentences. Both women threw their arms around me in a tackling hug, crying about how worried they were about me and saying that if I ever did something that stupid in my life they would kill me themselves. I just smiled and hugged them back saying how I missed them, which caused them to burst into another round of tears. Twenty minutes later, I was sitting in the back of mom’s Volvo on my way home with Jo sitting next to me. Everyone was silent at first, but then my popped up the question I knew she would ask. “So the doctor said that Josephine brought you in from a field. What were you doing there exactly?” Jo stiffened as I thought of an answer. “Well, to tell you the truth, I had gotten into an argument with someone very close to me.” I admitted staring straight at Jo, who had turned pale. “Oh no! What happened? Who was it?” Mom asked. By this time Jo slightly whitish and hadn’t removed my gaze. “It was…. my girlfriend.”

I swear Jo’s eyes almost busted out of her head in disbelief. “WHAT?!” She screamed. I sighed dramatically covering my face as if I was hiding my shame, but in reality, I was trying not to let my laughter out. “Yeah, we were trying to keep it a secret from everyone at school. Eventually, though she started acting strangely. Soon I found out she was cheating on me, but when I confronted her about it, she called me a liar.” I said getting really into my story. “We argued a bit until I just said that it was over. I was so upset I went running through a field to help clear my head. Though Jo told me to wait until the storm passed, I didn’t listen. She must’ve followed me to make sure I was alright.” I glanced over at mom and Jo to judge their reactions. Jo had the most dumbstruck look on her face possible, while mom seemed to be swimming in tears. “Don’t worry Joseph, there are plenty of fish in the sea and you’re a handsome young man, I have no doubt that you’ll find someone better.” I faked a sniffle “Thanks, mom, but you don’t need to lie; I know I look like a freak.” “No, no, no, no, sweetheart, you just look a bit….different, that’s all. And if it really bothers you, I can go gets some hair dye to make it your old color and buy some colored-lenses.” I smiled into the rearview mirror. “Thanks mom.” I turned toward Jo who suddenly turned to look at her shoes. “And thank you, Jo, for having my back like always.” I smiled as Jo had the look of somebody who was just slapped. I may have backed down a bit, but that doesn’t mean I have forgiven her, though I felt something inside of my chest hurt a bit, but I ignored it.

“Well, I’m hungry, who wants pizza?” mom asked breaking the silence that had settled on the back of the car. Soon we headed to a nearby pizza place and then went home. I had gone upstairs after saying goodnight to mom and headed up to my room to go experiment some more with my powers. I walked in and mentally closed the door. I also closed my curtains mentally before sitting on my bed. I started lifting up heavy thing to see if the heavier things are, the harder they are to manipulate. I started with my textbooks, then my laptop, then the desk, all of it, no problems. I set everything back down to its original place and tried seeing how many things I could move at one time. First I picked up the books again, this time separately. I was up to five books when I started getting woozy.

I set them back down again wondering what else I could do. I opened up the curtains again and was staring outside at a flock of geese flying south when I had a crazy Idea. I stood up on my bed and bounced a few times before jumping off and trying to catch myself. I ended up on the floor, face down. “Okay,” I groaned. “Let’s try that again.” I climbed back on my bed, but instead of jumping off, I was just going to walk off. I closed my eyes, imagining stepping on a flight of steps connected to the bed. I walked two paces off the bed when suddenly I felt something hard underneath my foot. I didn’t open my eyes; I just kept walking until I felt my hair brush something. I cracked my open a bit and I was greeted by the ceiling hanging only inches away from my head.

I did a quick cheer as I floated about a foot off the floor. I now had to figure out a way to get down. I imagined myself going down an elevator, and was startled by the feeling of going downward. I did this a few more times until I was able to do it standing still and moving easily.

I was just floating around lazily, when something popped up in front of me that looked strangely like a notification box. “Congratulation, you have created a new move, what would you like to name it?” I read. Huh, my mental-scape must’ve taken all of the things it knows about RPG’s and applied it to itself to make itself more like them. I typed in Flight and the boxed disappeared. I checked my Abilities section and sure enough, there it was. As I sat on my ceiling, I Started thinking about how I really felt about Jo right now. I tried thinking about why I felt like I was going to be sick when I was mean to her and why I couldn’t seem to stay mad at her. ‘Maybe it’s because she’s always been so close to you, that you don’t want to be mad at her’ I thought. I sighed wondering why the hell I was so confused about this. I floated around for a while trying to think about what was wrong with me. Soon enough, it was late at night and I had just laid myself on my bed as someone knocked on my door. I got up and went over to the door to answer it when Jo’s voice came from the other side.

“J.P? Are you still up? I want to talk to you.” I paused at the door and thought for a moment. She jiggled the door handle and I panicked throwing myself on the bed and make myself look as asleep as possible. I heard the door open and Jo walk in and felt the weight on my bed as she sat on it. She just sat there for what felt like hours. Finally, I couldn’t help but have a mental peek. I quickly activated Mental Shift and felt the sensation of floating out of my body again. I saw Jo sitting on my bed, her eyes red and swollen from shed tears. She had an envelope in her hand, which was trembling, She stared at the paper for a while before slipping it under my pillow and leaving, pulling the door shut behind her. I quickly returned to my physical body and opened the letter.

Dear J.P

It’s obvious that you still hate me from what happened at the school and I honestly don’t blame you for it. I realized that maybe if I weren’t around, you would be a bit happier, so I’m leaving home and going to go find somewhere to live. Don’t worry, I have a bit of money and I can find a job somewhere. I hope you will remember me and take care of mom.

Signed,

Jo

(P.S I never got to tell you this, but I love you more than anything else in this world, please remember that.)

The letter floated from my hand and I was down the stairs before it even touched the floor, flying down three stairs at a time. My chest was aching with each step I took as I thought of losing someone so important to me. “Please don’t let me be too late.” I muttered as I jumped down from the stairway. I walked into the living room, just as Jo was putting her hand on the doorknob, her backpack over her shoulder and keys in her hand. As she saw me she flung the door open and tried to run out of the door, only getting to the sidewalk before I grabbed her arm. “Let go of me!” She screamed as she tried to pry off my strong grip. “No” I answered. She continued pulling away from me and yelling until she just snapped and started crying and screaming “Why do you care? I thought you hated me! I thought you’d be happy to see me gone, so why don’t you let me go?! WHY?!” She screamed. I let go of her arm as she started to stand up and started beating on my chest even though I know stood a head taller than her.

“Why do you still care? Why can’t you just leave me alone? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?!” with each sentence, she pounded me softer and softer till she just had her hands on my chest crying. “Why? Just tell me that…” she whispered. I stood there a for a while before I acted on instinct and pulled her close to my body and hugged her before looking into her eyes and seeing so much hurt in there and need. She needed me to be there for her, to want to be beside me. I just reacted. I pulled her by her chin until we were eye to eye. “What are you…?” Jo asked in a whisper “You want to know why I’ll never let you go? Why I won’t let you leave? Because if you leave you’ll be taking away the only thing that matters in this world to me, I know I was a jerk and I’m sorry, but I need to say this or else I’ll never have the courage to say it.” I said never looking away from her eyes. “What…?” Jo said staring back at me, her eyes pleading the unasked question. I took a deep breath.

“Josephine Cain, I think I love you, not like how I am supposed to. I love you from my heart and I can’t bear to think of life without you.” The truth becoming clearer with each word I spoke. I then sealed everything with a kiss ‘I am not going to lose her.’ I thought to myself. ‘No matter what the hell happens, I will not lose her!’ I felt her tongue touch the front of my lips and I opened up, only meet her tongue with my own. Jo moaned slightly into the kiss as our tongues intertwined swirled around each other’s mouths before we broke apart, breathing heavily. “I Love you to J.P, oh god I love you so much!” She said leaning into my chest and sighing. I wrapped my arms around her. “I swear I will never let you go.” A single tear fell from her face as she whispered in my ear. “Take me home…”

I upped my physical strength a bit more before picking Jo up bridal style, and carrying her back into the house. Mom had to go to work again, so it was just us at home. Some time on the way back, Jo had fallen asleep, so I carried her up the stairs and laid her down in her bed before returning to mine. My mind went over and what the hell I just did as flopped down onto the bed, but quickly shut itself down, anticipating a good night’s rest. I quickly fell asleep; unaware of how significantly that single kiss changed my life forever.

Chapter 4

I woke up the next day floating out of my body, which by the way, is a very strange way to wake up. I settled back into my physical self before getting up and stretching, enjoying the feeling of my bone popping and cracking. I looked at my alarm clock and was surprised to see that I had awoken an hour before it goes off. I shrugged and went into the shower, when I had a nice idea I thought about a slide spiraling around my body.

I opened my eyes to see that the water was no longer touching me, but was instead circling around my head all the way down to my feet and emptying back into the drain. ‘I’m a freaking waterbender!’ I thought. I tried moving it as though I was controlling where it was going, but it ended up splattered on the floor. Looks like I’m no avatar. I got out the shower and increased my body heat, evaporating all the droplets on my skin until I was completely dry. I put on my clothes and walked out my room.

As went down the hallway, I stopped in front of Jo’s door. I didn’t hear anything on the other side, so she must be sleep. I opened the door just a crack and peeked inside to see her lying on the bed still asleep. I felt my heart pound again, but this time, I knew the reason why. She was beautiful in the sunlight gently resting on her head, turning her hair slightly golden and seemingly giving her halo. She was still wearing her clothes from last night, but took off her shirt and was laying there in her T-shirt. My breath caught in my throat as I stared at her, wishing I had a camera, then had a great idea. I made the settings change and kept that memory hidden in my mind. Jo suddenly shifted in her sleep. I panicked thinking she woke up and closed the door before leaning against it my heart beating against my chest wildly.

I cursed at myself. ‘She’s your sister! She probably doesn’t even love you back and you keep setting yourself up for a major hurt.’ I scolded myself. I decided right there that I should probably avoid her a bit until she forgets. I made my way down the stairs and started breakfast for everybody. I used to do this in middle school when dad was still around, but now it seemed I never had time. I made pancakes, eggs, and sausages with coffee for mom and orange for me and Jo. I was scarfing down my plate when mom came down, still trying to get dressed for work.

She was about to go to the fridge to start making breakfast, when she noticed me at the table already eating and two other plates, steaming in the air. “Oh, what’s this? You made breakfast for us?” She kissed my cheek and sat down at the table. I was just putting my plate in the sink when I heard Jo coming down the stairs. I quickly kissed mom on the cheek on was heading for the door.

“Oh sweetie when you get back can you make sure to do the dishes please?” Mom said coming around the corner. “Uh, sure.” I said edging towards the door. “And can you put them away as well?” Mom continued looking for her car keys. “Yes, mom.” She suddenly stopped looking before look up at my face as if searching for something. I heard Jo step down into the kitchen. I grabbed the doorknob and yanking it open. I put on a smile and showed it to mom as I exited the house. “By mom, love you, see you later, peace!” I said as I practically ran out the door.

My mom continued starting at the door after I had left. Jo came into the living room a few minutes looking like she had lost something. “Mom have you seen J.P? I need to talk to him.” She asked her mother. “Yeah, he just left…but he seemed kind of…strange.” She answered still staring at the door. “Really? How?” Jo asked pausing to her what her mother had to say. “Well when I asking to do something when got home, around the same time you came down the stairs, I had looked up from trying to find my keys and looked at his face and I saw something there…” Jo stopped what she was doing and walked to her mother. “Mom, what did you see?” Jo’s mother mused the question for a bit before answering in a low voice, “I saw fear, like was scared of something.”

For the rest of the day, my time was spent avoiding both Derrick and Jo, not exactly eager to meet up with either, leaving class early and coming in late. This continued for about a week. On Friday, I was sitting in the library during lunchtime, reading up all the books I could find about each of my abilities and researching what I could. My lunch period was usually spent wherever since I no longer had my secret place, and today was the library. I was in the middle of looking up invisibility, when I noticed a notice screen popping in front of me warning me that Jo had entered the Library.

(I figured out that I could sense where people and made a type of alert to tell when a person enters or leaves an area I’m in or have chosen.)

I quickly exited out of my session and packed up my stuff as I saw her looking at the front door. I was walking over to one of the side doors, when another notice popped in front of me. ‘WARNING: Cock-head Derrick has entered the room as well as four others!’ I looked around and saw Derrick entering the room and sending his goonies to block all of the doors from the outside.

I was trapped.

I retreated to one of the corners of the room trying to find a way to escape. I saw both Derrick and J spot me at the same time and start walking towards me. I was about to soil myself when I had a stupid Idea. It was crazy enough to work. I walk calmly between bookshelves that separated Derrick from Jo. Both of them saw me and went backward, hoping to cut me off at the entrance. When they saw each other they stopped. Jo glared while Derrick grinned. “Derrick.” Jo said coldly “Tweety.” Derrick joked, that shit eating grin still plastered on his face. “What are you doing here? Don’t you know zoo animals aren’t allowed in school?” She asked. “Looking for my little buddy to help me with algebra.” They stared into each other’s eyes for a moment longer before turning towards where I was standing, except I wasn’t there. Both of their eyes bulged out of their eye sockets as the saw nothing in front of them.

“The little brat sneaked out!” Derrick exclaimed angrily. “But he was just here a moment ago, where could he have gone that fast?” Jo asked aloud. They both looked at each other for a moment before searching in separate directions. After a few minutes, they left the library. I sighed when they finally left and I made myself visible again. “Thank god I figured out how to turn invisible.” I muttered to myself as I exited the library. I had found that a certain feminine superhero, turned her invisible by bending the light around her, and using my Physical ability, applied that to me.

A notification box appeared in front of me as I was walking towards my next class. ‘Congratulations! You have created a new move! What would like to name it?’ “Invisibility.” I said as I raced down the hallways. ‘The ability ‘Invisibility’ has been saved.’ I walked into my math class just as the final bell rang signaling all students need to be in their last class. “My, my Mr. Cain, you barely made it in time.” said Mr. Green, our math teacher.

“Sorry Mr. Green, I was doing some research in the library again.” I explained as I took my seat next to the window. “We’ll make sure this project doesn’t mess with your grades okay J.P?” Mr. Green was the one-of-a-kind teacher that not only was actually kind of cool, but he acted like to a kind of father or grandfather to everybody. “Yes sir.” He winked at me before turning back to the lesson. I let my mind wander as I stared out the window. How did it come to this? Before, Jo and I used to be so close, we would share everything.

Now I was avoiding her like the plague. I wondered when exactly I fell in love with her. I thought about how she made me feel sometimes, and was shocked to learn I had always felt so strange around her; I just never had given it much thought. No matter how I tried to convince myself that it was a fluke or I was just sick or something. But the more I thought about it, the more convinced I became.

I was irreversibly in love with my sister, from her enticing eyes, to her beautiful face and mischievous smile that made me shiver and my toes curl. I blushed, unnoticed to myself, as I thought more about her body like her perky and firm looking breasts, to her tight, plump ass. I felt myself grow a raging boner as I thought about myself suckling on them as I felt up her behind slowly lowering down her pants… I quickly snapped myself out of my trance as I realized that I needed to jack off somewhere now. I raised my hand and asked Mr. Green if I could use the bathroom.

A few minutes later, I was walking down the hallway towards the bathroom when I saw something that made me stop cold. Derrick and his buddies were circled up around a Jo and had backed her up against a wall.

“Come on,” Derrick said. “All I’m asking is for you to ride with us for a while, no biggie.” “I would rather die than go along with you and your pack of cock-heads.” Jo growled. See? Told you we were twins. “Aww, that’s not nice,” Derrick pouted as his goons chuckled behind him. “Tell you what; I’ll leave your wimpy brother alone if you agree to date me, Sound fair?” Derrick proposed.

Jo looked down for a minute and I took the time to look into her mind to see her decision. I was shocked to find she was seriously considering his offer. I zipped back into my physical form just as Jo opened her mouth to answer. “Don’t even think about answering that!” I yelled coming around the corner. Jared smiled. “Hey squirt! We were just talking about you!” He said putting his arm around Jo. “J.P?” she asked before looking down. My temper flared I ripped his arm from off of her shoulder “Don’t touch her!” I spat standing in between them.

Jo stood next to the wall her eyes still on the floor. “It’s fine J.P I got this.” She looked Derrick straight in his eye before taking a deep breath. “I-” She was interrupted as I put my hand over her mouth and placed my finger on my own. “Shush and let me handle this one okay? Afterwards we’ll talk.” I smiled at her to show I wasn’t mad and turned to face Derrick and his crew. “Look! The nerd thinks he’s tough!” Derrick said to his crew.

“Look Derrick, I’ll make you a deal,” I said my eyes flashing in barely contained rage causing his buddies to back up. “I’ll meet you after school at my old lunch place and we’re going to settle this. If you win, I’ll do anything you want for the rest of the year,” At this Derrick smiled again. “BUT! If you lose, you have to swear to leave both me and Jo alone and quit bullying everybody around here. Forever.” I stared him straight in the eye as he thought about my offer. “Okay squirt I’ll play your little game.” he said grasping my hand and shaking it.

“But don’t start complaining when I have you sing the national anthem naked at the next game.” he whispered in my ear. He and his pack returned to class, laughing and making ideas about what they’ll want me to do. I took a deep breath calming myself when Jo spoke. “Why did you do that? You’ll get murdered out there!” She asked. “So my sister wouldn’t end up dating the biggest prick in school and possibly the world, just to save my neck.” I explained looking up at her. “But you’ll get killed!” She screamed as I started walking back to class. “Not this time,” I turned and had answered grinning. “I’ve got a few tricks up my sleeves.” And I walked away without another word, leaving her standing in the middle of the hallway.

The story had spread by throughout the whole school by the time the final bell had rung, ending school. People whispered and pointed as I walked towards the school garden. I caught pieces of conversations I walked down the path: “Did you hear? J.P is going to fight Derrick!” “No way, that’s J.P? What happened to him?” “Some say he was struck by lightning when he was going out for a jog, left him in a coma for two weeks!” “I got my bets on Derrick.” “No way, J.P definitely got this.” “You know he looks kind of hot now.” I smirked as I heard that last one.

Finally, I entered the garden where Derrick was waiting and a bunch of kids were looking through the windows, whispering amongst themselves and placing bets. “Looks like a lot of people how come to see you get your ass whipped, so be a sport and don’t go down to quickly okay?” Derrick taunted. I said nothing; I just focused on the changes I was making before searching for Jo and finding her standing next to the tree, nervously chewing her nails. I smiled and waved before turning back to Derrick who was hopping around throwing punches.

“You ready for this?” I asked. Derrick laughed before nodding and slamming his fists together. Suddenly it was deathly quiet as nearly everyone took out their phones and started recording. Both Derrick and I stepped forward and started circling each other. I stared at that stupid grin Derrick always wore as I felt my anger increase. Suddenly, Derrick swung a Left Hook that should’ve caught me in the jaw and sent me to the ground.

But I was no longer there.

I had ducked under his arm and hit him three times in his side before sliding out of range of his fist. Once Derrick had realized I wasn’t on the floor and that his side was stinging like crazy, he turned and approached me, more carefully now. I waited for him to make a move, when he swung an uppercut. I just leaned back before swinging back around and hitting him twice in the stomach. Hard. To his credit, Derrick didn’t clutch his stomach or gasp for breath as I thought he would, instead he just gritted his teeth and started coming at me harder and faster. I easily avoid all of his punches and kicks, squeezing in a few jabs and punches here and there. After a few minutes, Derrick was bent over trying to catch his breath, and sweating hard.

One of his knuckles was split and his right was blackened while I stood perfectly unharmed and barely breathing hard. “I’ll give you one chance Derrick,” I said standing over him. “Give up and you can walk away with only those few bruises and scratches. But if you continue, it’ll be way worse than that.” “Don’t…..Don’t try and feed me that Bullcrap!” Derrick roared throwing a straight punch towards my face, which I caught in my palm. “You should’ve walked away while you could.” I said as I grinned evilly. I swung my fist around and punched him in the side of his head, and then I swung on my heel, bringing up my foot which I planted firmly in his stomach. But I wasn’t done just yet, I turned my body flipping over to my other foot which I slammed into the back of his head.

Derrick slammed on the ground hard. He stubbornly rose to his feet and threw a drunken hook which I slapped away and crouched down low swing my foot around tripping him and causing him to fall backwards, but was stopped when I grabbed the front of his shirt and pulled him forward head-butting him savagely. Everyone groaned in sympathy as Derrick staggered away from me. I walked towards him slowly, enjoying the moment before I was straight in his face. “This is for my sister!” I yelled as I kneed him in the crotch. As he bent down to clutch his package, I brought my other knee up and hit him straight in the jaw sending straight back on his feet. “That was for the school,” I said tightening up my fist “And this is for four years of putting up with your bullshit!” I punched him squarely in the nose, letting him fall backwards on his back. At first it was silent as Derrick’s goons rounded him up and took him somewhere, their tails between their legs.

Then somebody started doing the slow clap and soon enough everyone around me was applauding and cheering. I turned around to see Jo running toward me and tackling me in a hug. “Since when could you do all of that?” She asked looking at me with wide eyes. I grinned. “I told you I had a few tricks up my sleeves.” I answered completely dodging the question.

Actually, I had just copied some stuff I saw online and had read and practiced them super early in the morning before I left for school. I also increased my agility, balance and accuracy for a moment to hit his pressure points that caused him to tire quickly. That last punch was all me though. As I pulled away from Jo, the crowd had now swarmed the area, congratulating me and patting me on the back. The school journalist came up to me camera flashing. “J.P! Do you mind telling me what you thought your chances were of beating Derrick?” I smiled at the camera before giving my answer. “One in a million.”`

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