"Beeep...Beeep!” I grudgingly get up from my bed and slam my hand on the alarm clock stop button,(annoying bastard)…

I walk on the cold vinyl floor which was really cold for some reason (It was already summer time) and headed towards the bathroom. The bathroom door was closed and I tried to open it but it was locked, “I’m already here!” a melodious voice calls from within the bathroom.

My sister always beat me to the bathroom even though she had water powers, couldn’t see take a shower or brush her teeth with her powers. I turn and head to my mom’s bathroom and close the door behind me, I went to grab my toothbrush… shit

I rush back to other bathroom, “Sarah! Pass me my toothbrush, I need it!” A few seconds later the door slightly open and a tentacle of glow pristine water gives me my toothbrush and slams the door on me.

Powers I tell you, I quickly brush my teeth, take a quick shower, and put some clothes on for school. My mom had cooked breakfast for both of us, it was some toast and eggs. 

“So what happened yesterday?” My sister asked very nonchalantly, it was like she was obligated to talk to me. I had noticed over the years that she rarely ever talked to anyone in that tone but me, it was like she didn’t like me but I mean I don’t like her either so it’s practically even on both sides..

“Uhh my bus driver died right in front of me, I almost died to a giant lizard and I think that’s mostly it” I tried to play it off as nothing but out the side of my eye I peeked a look at her to find her not caring at all… THIS APATHETIC BIT-

“You guys have to hurry up to school now, goodbye my loves” Our mom grabbed me and  my sister before we could run and gave us french kisses all over our faces. 

                                                                      My bus stop was a couple houses down from my house, even though my sister went to the same school as me, she and some of the “Popular” kids car pooled to school together. My mom asked once for her to give a ride to school but she politely said that there wasn’t any space in the car ( It was SUV for Gaben’s sake) and there’s only 4 people in the damn car!

“Bye Alex!” she called out before she got in the car with a fake innocent smile, every time she pulls that off and everybody believes it but no not I, underneath that innocent smile is a terrible person.

I head down to the street and stopped at the bus stop and pulled out my phone and scrolled through some videos on TheTube, someone actually recorded Lizard fight with the Turbulence  and currently has 40 millions views… Well I guess someone just became an overnight hit.

The bus drive only took about 10 minutes to get to school, which led me to have extra time to hangout with my nerd friends. We had usually hanged out in the computer lab and talked about video games or superpowers.

I got off the bus and rushed to the computer lab so that I would be able to use the two computers that we are permitted to use. But what made it special was that these computers were top of the line, worth thousands of credits each. They could run any program or game possible to human creation, developed by the one the greatest companies that ever existed, worth over a trillion credits...CCCCRRRRYYYPPPPTTTTIIIICCCCC TTTTEEECCCHHHH.

Cryptic Tech is one of the most powerful companies in the world, they dominate a half of all electronics on the market and plus their founder and current CEO are both powerful Supers. Their tech is top of the line and they’re decades ahead in advancement of Technology and Science compared to first world powers. 

The clapping of my shoes smacking the recently cleaned vinyl floor resounded throughout the hallway, I turn a immediate right around the corner and looked down the hallway to see a door with a imprint Computer Lab Room 243 I ran as fast as I can for the final stretch and busted through the door to see already two of my friends with the gaming headsets on and playing games. 

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I dropped to my knees with a melodramatic pose and call out dramatically “I have failed you mother I wasn’t fast enough” I made a motion of doing seppuku and laid on the floor for a few moments pretending I was dead

“Alex stop being so damn dramatic you should’ve of just came faster” Noah blankly said as his eyebrows furrow from the difficulty of the game he playing.

My two friends were here before as usual. Noah Jereb and Takashi Oda (We just call him Taka) have been my best friends since middle school of the 7 grade, we meet in geometry class 3 period and our passion for games and powers, we clicked and been best of friends since.

I get up from the cold floor and came around to see the games they were playing. It was Kurgen: The Rise of The Fall, one of the most demanding games in the market but these monsters of computers ran them like a piece of cake. It was a MMO FPS, it was about you were in a post apocalyptic world and you had to survive by looting, killing, and anything to survive. Each server had huge amounts amount of people playing it. I was level 928 right now while these two hardcore of the hardcorest gamers were both level 957. 

“Hey Alex you happy, today is the day when we pick our choices for college” He called out with face filled with the joy because a boss kill.

“I’m not sure what to pick right now, maybe I’ll go to Skyline University!” I called in a joking manner, Skyline University is a top rank university that mostly people with powers or the brightest of the brightest got to. My sister got a full scholarship there and she is not as smart as me (Intelligence wise)! And if you graduate huge companies will flock to have you like Cryptic Tech or be directly recruited into the Hero’s League

“Alex you know you only have a 0.000000000000001 chance of getting into that Heavenly University” He paused his game and looked at me when he said that. It was true, even though we might be the brightest in this high school doesn’t mean we are the smartest in the county or even the state.

“RRRRIIIINNNNGGGG!” The School day bell had rung and I said my goodbyes and ran to my first period.

The day had passed by fairly quickly and in 7th period that’s when our mail came to tell us whether we got accepted or not.

Halfway through class a cart of specially divided mail was pushed through by one of the faculty. One after one we were given stacks of mail (We’re encouraged to apply to as many colleges or universities)

My stack came after a while and the faculty had rolled their mail cart to the next classroom. 

For the rest of the class we sifted through our mail.

Rejected, Rejected, Rejected, Rejected.

I need to make college so I can get a job and a good family. All my mail had been ripped open except from one, with no hope I open it up.

We are happy to inform you that you have been accepted to join Skyline University, your test results have been amazing and a very heartfelt essay have won our hearts. We hope to see you here at Skyline University this fall. For more information please go to our website and type in the code…

Warm tears dropped from eyes onto my paper, I’ve just been accepted into Skyline University!