It was my birthday and my uncle, who works at NASA, arranged a trip to outer space just for me as my birthday present. I was really excited, but a little scared. I had a lot of risks to consider. But I would also be one of the few people to ever experience the joy of space flight. My uncle sent an astronaut that would be there to make sure I was safe, the spaceship would be driven by an autopilot. Now it was time for me to get a whole lecture on how being in space works. “How long do I suffer through this”, I thought. Finally it was over, I was getting ready for the big trip when The astronaut told me that I was ready to go to space. We were at the space station and my mom was worried about me, but the astronaut assured her that I would be perfectly safe and that she had nothing to worry about. It was about 7:00 PM. We were now ready for liftoff. 10 - 9 - 8 - 7 - 6 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1!. LIFTOFF.
We were now in outer space, and to my luck something went wrong. There was a hole in the door. And it was growing bigger. The astronaut told me that he would try to fix. But the tunnel was jammed and was too small for him. So, I agreed to help. I was trying to fix the hole but my finger got stuck in the door. And I was really scared anyway. I tried to free my finger but hit my head on the door. I fainted and the last thing I saw was a star.
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I was back at the space station and had no memory of what happened. I wasn’t told what happened for my own good. The next day was Sunday, so no school. But that's when I realized that I had the powers of star-girl. I was really confused. I didn’t get it. I would glow whenever I was embarrassed, Whenever I saw a star, I would have jump up and down, whenever I saw yellow, I would say what's on on my mind for an hour. And I couldn’t control it, well at least not yet. Later on, I figured out the whole story of what happened in space, and I also realized why I had these powers because of seeing a star. Well, turns out that the star was ultraviolet, but instead of harm, it gave me awkward superpowers.
But, still I could not control my powers, which was a very bad thing. And got much worse, one day, my powers went haywire during school, around when I was at math, we were doing probability and I saw a star. And well, you can imagine the rest, I started jumping up and down like did not stop for 10 minutes. Everyone was staring at me like I was crazy, which I was for 10 minutes. Soon, the bell rang. “That was embarrassing”, I thought as got my books out of my locker. But, I remembered that when I was jumping up and down, I had no ideas was going on, it was like my body was controlling me completely and I couldn’t do anything. I went home and tried to figure out a way to control these superpowers I had and it took a lot of work, but I figured it out, every time I was embarrassed all I had to do to not glow was clap twice and I wouldn’t glow. Every time I saw a star, I had to blink twice and I wouldn’t jump at all. Whenever I saw yellow, I would simply say the word stop and my thoughts would safe inside me. Now, it has been 2 years since I’ve had these powers, and I am really good at controlling them. But no one knows why that star gave me these weird and awkward powers, perhaps it was a secret. I am now not so interested in these powers. I want to get better, cool powers, who knows, maybe I will one day. Or maybe I will live with them forever. I decided that I will one day I would want to, or have to tell someone about these not-so-fun, boring, awkward powers. So, I told my best friend, and guess what……..
turns out she has powers too, lame, awkward powers like mine. I should probably tell you her name, it’s Jane. When I told her that I had these powers, her attitude changed, she started being mean to me. I didn’t get it, but I didn’t ask. She later asked me at school, why was I ignoring her, and I told her. She said, “ what? I wasn’t even at school since 1 whole month, I had a surgery and couldn’t come”. Now I was really mad, first she is mean, now she acting like that never happened. But anyway, we weren’t friend this whole week and she didn’t seem to want to give me an explanation. I was getting impatient, if this was some type of practical joke, she should knock it off. All of my thoughts were jumbled up inside my head. And then, the bell rung and it was time to go home. I kept thinking about why she was doing this on my way home. I didn’t say a word, when my mom asked me, “are you OK, you didn’t talk the whole way home and for you, that's rare”.
“Yeah, I’m fine”, I said if nothing happened, but she was my mom and she could tell I was lying before I even did. “Well, how did school go?”, she asked.
“Good”, I replied, I just didn’t know how to tell her. We pulled up in our driveway, she told me to go inside, and that she had to go run some errands. I went inside, got a snack and started homework. We were doing algebra, my worst subject. Right when I sat down, the doorbell rang, I went to see who was there. The next thing I know, I got hit in head with a bat, and I passed out. When I woke up, I was in a factory of some kind. It was dark so it was hard to tell. Then I heard footsteps. I got scared thinking it was the kidnapper. But it turned out to be Jane, I was so mad at her, I mean, ignoring, I can live with, but kidnapping. she is truly evil. But then I saw her dragging someone else, it… was…..Jane? I was so confused, Jane was dragging Jane. She put her down next to me. I woke Jane up, so that I could slap her. But she didn’t sound evil, she sounded as she usually did, nice and caring. When the other Jane, (the one who was dragging), came up to us and took off her mask. “ It was all a trick, I can’t believe I was so mean to Jane when she never did anything in the first place”, I thought. It was the masked girl. “Who are you”,Jane asked.
“ I am Marissa, your doom, and I don’t care if I’m breaking the rules by kidnapping you, the world needs a better leader ”, the masked girl said. She was blonde with hazel eyes, and a very cruel face. “And you will help me rule the world”, she added. Me and Jane were so mad at her right now. Jane said, “sounds like a ruler and a rebel”.
“Its not time for english”, I reprimanded her. Marissa, soon left and Jane and I started planning our escape. We were able to get out and we started running, when she caught us. “Where do you think you’re going?”, she said with an evil smirk on her face.
“Why are you doing this?!!!”, I yelled.
“ Because, guess what, I have the same powers as you (me, not Jane)and you will help me rule the world!”, she replied.
“ What, wait”, I stopped myself, “you have something to do with star don’t you?”
“Yes, Einstein, took you long enough, I got powers the same way you did but later they turned into cooler powers that will help me rule the world, but that's a 2 person job and well, no one had these powers, so, I put that hole in the door and put a spell on that star, and luckily for me, I have you right where I want you”.
“You have to be kidding me, the coolest birthday present turns into my doom”, I said.
Suddenly, the ground started shaking, and things started flying everywhere, and then Marissa turned into smoke and disappeared but as she was going, she yelled ,“ I will be back, even if you have destroyed me now!’.
“What does that mean, there’s more? Thanks a lot uncle”, I thought.
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