When I got back to my apartment everything was exactly as it was before, just as messy.
I checked my phone which had the brightness at maximum and saw that it was already 11 at night.
I discovered that I have a superhuman as a neighbor. She is a bit rude but quite friendly once you get to know her.
Now I also have a Gift that lets me shoot fire. It is a good time to restart my life.
I looked at the PC with its worn screen and the tower with a bit of dust on top.
I was not a gamer but I was not the worst either. It was a PC powerful enough to play on my day off which was Sunday.
I approached and sat in the chair. It was uncomfortable and made your bones ache but after a few seconds it became bearable.
I turned on the PC by pressing the button with my finger. The fans started spinning but not loud enough to wake the neighbors.
TAC TAC TAC.
I went to the work page and entered the Resign section. There was a text box available to write the reason for resignation.
I made up a slightly silly excuse but believable enough so I would not end up saying that I awakened powers and now I was going to get rich thanks to them.
“Shitty job! Goodbye!” I murmured in a low voice. All that was left was to click send.
SEND.
When I pressed the button I felt incredible peace. It was like taking a weight off my shoulders. I felt like I could float and do whatever I wanted with my life.
For the first time.
Along with that peace came the silence of the invisible neighbor.
There was no sound of punching bags echoing or footsteps that sounded like a gorilla.
She had listened to me and kept her promise not to make noise.
I turned off the PC and stood up to face the messy bed.
I have to take advantage of this calm to sleep. Tomorrow I do not have to work.
But the bills do not pay themselves. This time I am going to treat myself to sleeping eight full hours.
I took off all my clothes except for my boxers and threw the rest of my clothes far from the bed.
I threw myself onto the bed and in a matter of seconds I was already yawning with my eyes closing.
***
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK
Someone was knocking on the door very urgently while I was struggling to open my eyes.
DING DING.
They were also ringing the doorbell urgently. Who would knock with so much urgency?
I got up and the first thing I did was stretch completely flexing my arms fingers and legs basically all my limbs.
I have to avoid any type of injury so I can perform well at my job. Medical insurance is too expensive to afford that luxury.
They kept ringing the doorbell. The rhythm had even become melodic. Ding Ding.
I approached the door and heard a very feminine voice that sounded familiar but I could not figure out who it was.
Finally I opened the door and what I saw made me remember everything I had done the night before.
The invisible neighbor was at my apartment door ringing the doorbell and knocking on the door itself with great urgency.
“What are you doing here?” I asked while taking in all the clothes she was wearing.
Now she had on a dark blue jacket with a logo on the shoulders. The jacket clung to the shape of her body and was not fully closed.
Underneath she had a white shirt similar to the one from the night before but this one actually fit her body and was not four sizes too big.
Her pants were jeans that fit extremely tight. They were not tight enough to make her walk like a penguin but they were tight enough to show the shape of her thighs.
First she looked directly at me with her slanted gray eyes and black eyelashes of normal size.
She did not have that fake eyelash crap that ruined the eye area of famous women.
But she inevitably dropped her gaze quickly toward my abs. I had forgotten that I was almost naked with only boxers on. She ended up looking down at the bulge between my legs.
She opened her eyes wide and threw her head back. She blushed when she saw it and quickly looked back at my eyes.
Her hand gave her away trembling slightly. She was a little nervous. She returned to the conversation.
Suddenly her expression changed completely from nervous to slightly angry.
“I want to take you to the New Kroy Superhero Agency” she said while raising an eyebrow and crossing her arms.
Why does she keep insisting that I have a Gift? Maybe superhumans have some kind of sense to detect others.
I laughed a little inside imagining the situation of two superheroes passing by unnoticed with secret identities.
Just when both pass next to each other they stop and look at each other suspiciously and finally point at each other with stretched arms.
A silly joke.
“Why do you want to take a civilian to your workplace?” I asked but I did not let her answer immediately making the situation a bit worse. I needed to see her reaction a little angrier.
“That same civilian knows where you live and can easily discover your full name in seconds thanks to the careless security guard we have. What do you think?”
Her face stayed exactly the same but this time she took a step back. Little by little she started becoming invisible until the hallway was completely empty.
I sighed because I had managed to make the only superheroine I knew stop talking to me over a bad joke.
Finally I closed the door and turned to look at my entire room. The messy bed with t-shirts almost everywhere on it.
It was a disaster but I could not end this day on a bad note. I had to get a job with these powers.
I finished showering and came out completely naked into my room to put on another pair of boxers.
When I finished getting fully dressed putting on blue gray pants and a shirt a slightly darker red than the one from the day before.
Finally a pair of Mike brand shoes that were half white and half red.
“ah ah”
I heard some light muffled sighs. They were almost imperceptible but I had heard them. Maybe she…
I was stunned by the possibility that she had turned invisible to enter my messy apartment and maybe see me completely naked.
A superheroine with invisibility powers who had taken advantage to see a civilian naked? That only happens in certain movies.
When I set out to search the whole house with arms and legs extended to cover more space and maybe catch her.
But suddenly there was a click at the door just as subtle and soft.
I ran to the door pulled the handle down and pushed it back with force.
She was standing there with the same face a cat has when it knows it has done something naughty.
“How long have you been there?” I asked while approaching invading her personal space and lowering my head to look her directly in the eyes.
“I have been here for 1 minute. I just came back from my apartment. Did you know that superhumans have to eat twice as much food as a normal person!” she said diverting attention while turning toward the building stairs walking like a guilty person.
“What an incredible fact…” I said but my stomach had growled like never before feeling a sharp pain in that area.
I had gone almost 18 hours without eating absolutely anything but I did not feel dizzy.
Another advantage added to the mental list of things that made superhumans’ quality of life superior.
So I followed her without any more questions.
The morning sunlight bathed the city and the constant car horns reminded me of the calm of my home without noisy neighbors.
I had recognized multiple ads about the agency where Vanessa worked but they always appeared taking up less space than the two bigger agencies.
A speedster passed by us in the exclusive lane for them. He was not going as fast as the great speedsters of the world but fast enough to call himself a speedster and run someone over.
Vanessa had not spoken during the 20 minutes of walking. She was in a silence that was not uncomfortable. It was more comforting.
She was checking her smartwatch which also seemed to be from the agency.
“HELP HELP HELP THEY ARE ROBBING”
Both of us turned to look where the screams were coming from and I scanned all directions with my eyes.
Finally I saw a lady jumping in horror while asking for help. She pointed at a store with broken glass and people just as horrified as her were running.
PIP PIP PIP
“Shit this mission is for me” Vanessa said while looking at her watch which was beeping with a red button that said Accept Danger E mission.
Immediately several orange reddish notifications appeared in front of my eyes.
[Fireman System]
[Mission: Save the store]
[Villain: Corvus Night]
[Reward: Pass to the superhero agency tests]
[Penalty: Loss of contact with Vanessa]
[Accept Mission?]
[Yes / No]
When I finished reading all the notifications I already had a smile on my face. It was finally the moment to explore my abilities.
I ACCEPT!
“It is time to be a hero invisible girl.”