I woke up dazed inside a bed not knowing where I was I started panicking
‘Did I get kidnapped?’ I observed my surroundings and I see that I am in flat, there is a windows above my bed with shutters cars passing by below on the streets. ‘Someone picked me up?’ I get up from the bed and see that I am still in my light blue sundress, the memories of yesterday playback in my head shell shocked I sit there in an unknown apartment just thinking, thinking about what I’d done. ‘I killed someone.’ Tear well up in my eye, trying to wash tune out my feelings an figure out where i am. after sitting for a bit i hear pans clatering from outside my room
warily i approached the door feeling the handle i lightly nudged it outwards and peeked, the door opened the the end of a hallways ther sound coming from the other direction opening the door ever so slightly I poked my head and and saw into a kitchen. an old motherly looking woman was cooking up a storm in the kitchen. Not understanding my situation I kept staring the woman suddenly turned to face me a light sohkc going through her face before settling on a warm smile, “come You finally woke up!” she exclaimed happily.
“Who are you, and where am I?” I asked Not stopping her hands she kept on cooking stirring and throwing ingredients into the cooking pot she said “I’m auintie Jemima, but you can just call me auntie I found you collapsed infront of my apartment compley I couldn’t let you stay there so I brought you inside, take a sit breakfast is almost rady. Aprehensivily I approached to a table neatly placed inside the kitchen surrounded by 4 chairs I took a seat facing Jemima, I sat that in slightly uncomfortable silence. As I mulled over my thoughts, not believing what just happened yesterday I was on the verge of crying when jemima said “What happened to you? A beautiful young lady like you shouldn’t be alone at night.” My mind tracing as fast as possible I tried coming up with a lie “I got lost,” I said
Harrumping “You’re way to young to think you could fool me with that, what really happened you can share.”
Catching me in my lie embarrassed at being caught so easilyI decided to tell a helf truth “I got into an argument with a friend. It turned really ugly.”
“Aaah sweaty, that’s not good.” Jemima approached me and hugged me with her chubby body it felt like I was being hugged by a warm marshmallow. I started bawling into her, I couldn’t keep it in it was too much. The void, then the superpowers, my silly argument with Hugh. and I- I killed someone it is still hard to process I could feel acid coming up holding back my stomach acid.
After a few minutes in a tight hugh lock by Jemima, I was let go and my stomach took it’s chance to growl at us, my cheeks a blinding red. Jemima just smiled, and said food will be right up.
A few more minutes passed with me slowly getting accustomed to the situation and Jemima finishing breakfast. We both ate in relaxing silence.
After we finished up eating I asked where we were Jemima explained that we where near the Whale, the Whale was a large shopping centre on the northern side of Tello, shortly after that I checked making sure I had everything marginally more calm I bid my farewell to Jemima.
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“You can come back anytime if you need someone to hug!” She said bidding farewell.
Slightly smiling I left and started heading home, the journey back home was relaxingly uneventful nothing happened I just mixed in with the crowd.
The closer I got to home the more a sinking feeling came across me, what am I going to tell Mom. Why wasn’t I home, she must have been freaking out. I checked my phone and weirdly I saw no calls or even messages from mom. I put my phone away after finding that weird.
Not shortly after I was standing before my house, same as always nothing has changed with it. Only I have, the grim reminder about my powers I quickly check. yes, I do still have them, if only all of this was a dream.
Apprehensively I approached the door and opened it already imagining the earful I’m going to get from Mom. Stepping in it was quiet earily quiet I went more in doors.
“Mom? I’m home, I’m really sorry I shouldn’t have left.” I said.
…No response? What? It was early morning Mom should still be at home, I investigated the rest of the house and found nobody. Finding this whole situation weird, I sat down at the kitchen counter and brough my phone up, I dialed Mom. After ringing for a while nobody picked up. What was happening to mom? Worry begun to fill me, so this is what Mom must always feel. I saw Hugh’s phone number I decided to ignore it, I have Mom’s bosses number I think he was called Mike? I called him up but he didn’t know anything about Mom either he said that she went home yesterday. Not knowing what to do I went to my room and changed after a quick shower helping me clear my thoughts. I was sitting in the living when I heard the door bell ring, curious on who it might be I went over and checked through the peephole. I saw a pair if police in their purple clothes. Did they find me? I hurriedly ran away from the door trying to find an escape route my brain kicking into high gear, I don’t want to be captured. My phone beeped, worried for my mom I checked it weird it was an unknown number it was a text it said.
“Hugh Richards passed away yesterday.” Re-reading it making sure I read that right, Hugh died?! Was it because of me? I thought back I thought back to Hugh at the park, I killed Hugh?
My world was collapsing, shock pure shock. I couldn’t process what I just read. I heard the door bell ringing again “This is the Tello Police Department, please open the door.” My captors arrived, I didn’t want to escape anymore. I went to the front door and opened it, with a blank look on my face.
“Are you a relative of Peyton Hills?” Asked the police officer on the left.
Why weren’t they arresting me? What was happening.
“Yes.” I croaked out not understanding what was happening.
“My deepest condolences, Ms. Peyton passed away yesterday.” said the officer on the left.
Mom? She was dead as well? How did this happen?
A scream of pure agony, suffering, and anger at the world came out of me. Both of the officer were startled and jumped a bit. I don’t care anymore, about anything everything I cared about is dead, everything. My father is gone, my mother is gone, and my frie- Hugh… Is gone.
I grabbed my power and willed it to work. Like a bomb went of with me as it epicenter everything around was blown apart, first the pair of police officers were turned into mince meat and launched the building I was standing it blown apart pieces flying for hundreds of meters their police car launched into the opposing street going through several houses. The concrete road was uprooted and sent flying everything around me but the ground I stood on was blasted away. pieces of the roof flying for as far as the eye could see. a Mighty cloud of dust and rubble rose for hundreds of meters in the air. The shockwave could be felt in the whole city as windows shattered everywhere, raining down on the pedestrians across the city. Everything stood in silence for a few seconds after the explosion like the world came to a stop, then the screaming started. absolute chaos with me at its epicentre, the last I could see was what I’d done again. I lost my footing and collapsed falling unconscious for the third time.
This explosion signalled the beginning of a new era of superpowers.
END OF ARC 1