“It’s not that big of a deal, no one saw me!” I’m tired of this conversation, I love my dad and I know he’s trying to protect me. But I can handle this. “All these pictures and videos of me, all you see is like a white blurish blob.”

“Ashley Ann Davies, you listen to me right now. I don’t care if you think you’re invincible or what you can do with your… powers. You are playing a dangerous game and I have a bad feeling about it.” I roll my eyes at him before falling onto my bed. I don’t think I’m invincible… I know I am, gosh give a girl some credit.

“Even if someone did see me what’s the big deal, it’s not like I’m committing crimes. I’m saving lives, shouldn’t I be proud of that and show myself?” I hate being whatever I am sometimes. Don’t get me wrong I love that I’m saving people and I do the best to my abilities, but I’m not supposed to show who I am or take credit and draw attention to myself apparently.

“You should be proud ash honey, but you know the danger of it all.” He sits on my bed next to me while I look up at him. I can see he’s having a difficult time with this. “Remember when you were younger and you were obsessed with comic books?” ugh not this again.

“Dad I know ok, we have had this talk before. But things aren’t like a comic book. This is real life, there isn’t some villan out there waiting in the shadows to destroy me or some doctors that want to do crazy test on me!”

“You don’t know that! People hate to see others do good and there will always be someone out there looking to hurt you. And the doctors, trust me if they knew they could study you they would be here in a second. You know what it was like when you came out as gay to your friends at school and how they acted. You were different and they didn’t like that. They hurt you; I don’t want that to happen again”

“Dad…  I know you think it’s for the best but-“I want to finish that sentence but my eyes are glued to the TV. There was an explosion and I saw people running and fire all around. Jumping up I’m ready to go help but something stops me. This isn’t a natural thing. Or even some regular bad guys looking to steal something. There’s a guy, maybe a girl. Who knows? But they are in a suit made of metal. It’s black and shiny and his eyes are glowing red. How original…