Submitted by silentreader90 t3_ztonzw in WritingPrompts
hysterical_writings t1_j1ixjuc wrote
"Some of us are born with greatness, some of us become great, and some have greatness thrusted upon us," they say. I think I maybe be all three.
I think I was born with superpowers, I mean nothing happened to me. I didn't get hit with a doses of radiation or a shooting star. There was no toxic spill. I was an orphan at a young age, so it's not like I could just my parents or friends of theirs.
But one day, I relized I could shoot lasers out of my eyes and fly. Ensue failure montage. I was waiting for a suppervillian that would never come. I got a job as an accountant. But one day I saw a little girl about to be hit by a reckless driver, so I jumped out my window and flew to save her without a disguise.
I was nervous about going back to work the next day. About all the big news. But no one treated me any differently. This happened a few more times where my mask just wouldn't stay on. But no one seemed to care to talk to me about such actvities. "Didn't you watch the news?" I once asked someone.
"Every now and again, but not usually," they'd commonly reply.
I even picked up a paper that had me on the cover and told someone this is me. But they just looked at me weird and continued on with their walk.
I even went up to my long time friend Emily and asked her if she recongnized me. "Um yeah?" she questioned.
I was on the news! I said. slightly irritated that she and no one else didn't seem recognize me.
"Oh, what for?" she asked.
"I'm the town hero," I said.
"uh-huh" she said.
"You don't believe me? Don't you seem the resemblence?" I asked.
"I'm sorry but you two looking nothing alike." she replied. "I Have to go, cake in the oven"
I couldn't believe it, I was fighting bank robbers and saving people from disasters, but people didn't seem to be grateful at all outside of those events.
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