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Last month was weird for Kim Agbayani.
It started out normal. Kim was going to be late to school because her stupid alarm decided to be an ass and just stop working. She decided to just skip school the entire day to hang out with her best friend, Ray, at Empire State and play music with melodica.
It was just a normal day for Kim.
But then, the red mist appeared. The next thing that Kim knew, she, along with Ray, passed out. Out of anyone who died on that day, Kim and Ray were the lucky ones that survived.
That day was very traumatizing for her; she didn’t want to die young. She didn’t want to be long-forgotten and only be remembered as the girl that the red gas killed. But despite this, she kept her spirits high as she tried to return to her sense of normalcy. Return to her music. And return to her crush, Suzy Maxwell.
But then, you guessed it, crazy shit started happening.
Kim’s body started to glow blue, she could make neon signs explode, and she shot neon lasers out of her fingertips.
Okay, the last part was pretty cool. But the rest of it was really weird.
And she was not the only one with these types of abilities, Ray had one of his own as well. Whatever that red gas was, it seemed that whoever survived on that day got superpowers.
It was at that moment that Kim realized that her life was going to change. She wasn’t going to be a normal girl anymore.
She was going to be a superhero.
Well, er, not yet anyway. I know, sorry to hype you up for a second there.
Ray told her to keep her powers on the down low for now, they still needed to figure out what happened to them, and what happened on that day.
So, Kim was just going to have to wait.
October 4th, Brooklyn
One month after the Recluse Incident
And waiting had been so freaking boring!
It had been over a month since the incident, and there **had been no talk of people having powers. Kim tried looking around the Empire State, disguised herself as a journalist and talked to the staff members so she could talk to the surviving students. And she got caught really quickly.
Apparently, a homemade badge didn’t count as an actual badge. Who knew?
And waiting for Ray to get some updates hadn’t been fun either. Kim just hoped that he was at least trying to save superpower people like them. But so far, no luck.
Kim felt like she was in a maze of unanswered questions. No matter which way she went, she only found herself at dead ends.
While her mom was still at work, Kim was just chilling at the rooftops of her house, looking at… The sky, she supposed, considering there were no stars in New York. She could hang out with Suzy, she could try not to be an awkward dork around her. But it seemed that Suzy was busy with her science project. Her and her science projects.
Kim had considered telling her about her new powers, wanting to show off her neon skills. But that idea alone had scared her. Suzy would have been scared of Kim, thinking she had turned into a blue glowing freak. Probably wouldn’t have wanted to hang out with her anymore. Or worse, would have given Kim to the government, dissected her and tried to figure out how an angsty, weird, gay teenage girl had gotten these powers.
The thought had made Kim shudder.
Okay! Get those dark stuff out of your head, Kim! And look at the damn stars! No, Sky! Whatever! Oh, it didn’t matter. The stars were basically nonexistent in cities with too much light, Kim would never see them…Unless.
Kim’s fingertips had glowed blue as she drew blue stars above her. Some big, some small. Some stylish, some just straight up goofy, like a star wearing sunglasses.
Kim had chuckled at that drawing.
Her life might not have been normal anymore. But, at least she could have tried to have fun with it.
