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Having powers was incredibly rare, no one was entirely sure how people came to obtain powers, though it was widely theorized kids were born with powers by complete chance. Many studies have been conducted, but no one could find any results. Powers were so rare, only one out of one million people had them. One school, however, was lucky enough to have two at the same time
Eva Rosalene was one of those lucky few, and even luckier when she discovered the hidden powers inside her.
Eva was only 12 at the time, the first year of middle school and recently met her future best-friend-for-life, Neil Watts. Eva lived relatively close, to their school, within walking distance, so, being the friends they were, Neil and Eva were going to hang out at her house. Eva was a safe kid, always looking both ways before crossing roads, especially the busy street between her school and the road to her house. The crosswalk light switched to the picture of a white man walking, so the two began walking across, continuing their conversation, which Eva specifically remembers being about the new Smash Bros game, she noticed a large truck speeding towards them, not slowing down or even noticing the two young kids.
She acted purely on instinct, lunging forward and wrapping one arm around Neil as they fell to the ground, and putting the other one out protectively. Looking back on it, Eva wasn’t sure why she put her arm out, as if the arm of a below-average strength, twelve year old girl could stop an entire speeding truck. If not for the luck timing of Eva discovering she has telekinetic powers, the two surely would have been crushed where they stood.
What happened instead, was Eva put up a telekinetic shield around the herself and her friend, causing the truck to crash into that instead of running down two children. Both kids and the adult in the car stared in shock at what they all had just witnessed. Neil was clinging to Eva in fear, and Eva still had her arm around him protectively. The man fell out of the truck going over to the two kids. Eva insisted that it was alright, saying all that mattered is that no one was hurt. She simply just wanted to go home, not fully taking is what had just happened.
“Eva, you have powers? Why didn’t you tell me?!” Neil asked her, shocked. The two were about halfway to her house before either of them had spoken, and naturally, it was Neil, asking every question he could come up with.
“I don’t know! I had no idea I had them until, what, 5 minutes ago? I’m freaking out as much as you!” Eva retorted, sick of the questions and pestering. “I’d rather we just not talk about this” Eva mumbled. Neil just nodded in acknowledgement, the two of them staying silent until they reached Eva’s house.
She ended up in quite a few newspapers the next day, many people commenting she looked like a superhero, saving the helpless Neil Watts from danger. Neil was teased quite a lot about it, but any sort of harassment he received quickly ended once they saw him by Eva’s side, hiding behind her like a protective shield.