Chapter 4 Back-to-School Season
Time slipped through my fingertips, and the rumors in the town gradually stopped, and soon it was the beginning of the school season.
The car was driving on the road, Richard was behind the wheel, and Ivan and Jessica were sitting in the back of the car.
The high school they were going to was in Queens, and there was no high school in the town.
Jessica was much more cheerful during this time, and time is the best medicine for grief, of course, thanks in part to the Ivan family's enlightenment and care for her.
"Ivan, Jessica, make sure to take care of each other when you get to school."
"This is the fourth time you've told you." Ivan was a little helpless.
"Yes, I say that because, um... By the way, don't learn to smoke, don't be encouraged by some bad guys, it's illegal to smoke underage. β
"Is it okay as an adult?" Jessica asked suddenly.
"Jessica, you're a girl, don't smoke at any time, that's detrimental to your charm." Richard Road.
Jessica lowered her head and muttered, "Smoking looks cool." β
"I'll give you money in a while, you go buy some stationery and daily necessities, Ivan, save your pen this semester, and when you eat in the cafeteria, be careful not to bend other people's spoons, that's not easy to explain."
"Understood."
Ivan knew himself better than he used to, he didn't know why the spoon bent or why the door opened, but now he understood it, he knew how to control his psionic powers.
"So there shouldn't be a leak..."
Ivan feels like an ocean of psionic energy that overflows a little if he doesn't pay attention...
Townsend Harris High School, a prestigious school in Queens.
For Ivan and Jessica, this is a beautiful and strange place.
Or maybe beautiful things are always unfamiliar, because when people are familiar enough, they become accustomed to them and no longer feel beautiful.
After all the formalities were done, Richard said a few more words to the two of them, and then said goodbye, the family ranch could not be done without him.
At the opening ceremony of the new semester, hundreds of teachers and students sat in a large venue, and the middle-aged principal Dorian Gray took the stage to give a speech.
The speech was impassioned and ended with applause.
"My dear students, thank you for the applause, thank you for listening to me say so much, I hope you can have a great semester at Townsend Harris High School, now..."
Principal Gray shifted gears.
"As always, this year's opening ceremony still has several wonderful performances, including a magical..."
As the melody played, Principal Gray smiled mysteriously, and then slowly stepped back into the audience.
The first was a pure music performance, and the second was a white girl singing, both of which were not bad, but Jessica, who was sitting next to Ivan, was sassy.
"Jessica, didn't sleep well last night?" Ivan asked in a whisper.
"It's boring." Jessica said, "She sings that makes people sleepy. β
"Uh, it's not that ugly, is it?"
"It's because it's not hard to listen to and it's not good to listen to me that I'm sleepy, and if she sings hard to listen to, I'll be in good spirits." Jessica said.
"Makes sense."
After the white girls finished performing and stepped off the stage, the atmosphere on stage changed.
Elegant music with a hint of mystery quietly sounded, followed by a slightly childish male voice.
"Do you believe in superpowers?"
With this question, a brown-haired teenager slowly walked to the stage with a microphone in hand, his pace unhurried.
"Do you believe that I have superpowers in this school?"
After saying this, there was an uproar in the audience.
"Hey! That's a super boy! I know him! Flushing's Super Boy! β
"Did he come to our school too?"
"What? Do you recognize him? β
"Oh my God, I didn't expect to be in the same school with him!"
"I haven't heard of it."
The young man on the stage smiled and raised his voice: "Today I will show you, that's right, my performance is a superpower!" β
These words brought Ivan to his senses, which may have something to do with him.
Although he knows how to use his own abilities, he still doesn't understand some of the principles that if there are other people in this world who have superpowers, maybe some problems can be solved.
Jessica, who was sitting on the sidelines, was also obviously interested in the teenager on stage.
"Let me introduce myself first, my name is Angel Brown, I'm fourteen years old, and everyone in our neighborhood affectionately calls me the Super Kid, because I'm really Super, I'm a genius, a genius in superpower."
The young Angel's face turned ruddy, he looked down at the hundreds of teachers and students in the audience, and continued.
"When I was six years old, I noticed that I was different, I sensed that there was an element in me that I shouldn't have in humans, and that was psionic energy, which I called it, and then I worked it, and eight years passed, during which time I broke through again and again, and each time I became more proficient, and I started to help my neighbors do something, do you believe it? My superpowers can do anything, even to speed up the growth of plants. β
"I'm getting stronger and stronger, and with unparalleled talent and unparalleled hard work, I've made it..."
Angel said, raising his left hand, there was a match in his palm, and under his gaze, the match slowly broke away from his palm and floated.
"Today's me."
When he finished speaking, there was a cheer from the audience, and then he wiped the fine sweat from his forehead and continued:
"You know what? My brother also has superpowers, he works hard but he is not as talented as me, he spends five minutes staring at a wire, and he may not be able to bend it, but I am different, I am undoubtedly a genius! Give me some applause, please! I will continue to perform more difficult for everyone! β
In the audience, a female teacher frowned and asked the principal: "Principal, is it really good to hold the opening ceremony like this?" β
The principal blinked: "Private schools can't fall into clichΓ©s, believe it or not, because there will be many children who dream of entering our school?" β
The applause was loud, and Jessica applauded excitedly, it was the first time she had seen someone perform superpowers.
"Fan, have you seen that? I'm glad we're in a good position! She asked Ivan with her applause, staring intently at the stage.
Where is Ivan's nickname.
"I see it." Ivan said.
On stage, Angel opened his arms and accepted everyone's love for him.
"Thank you, I will continue to perform, the most difficult object bending."
Angel pulled a pen out of his pocket and showed it to everyone.
"See? It's a fountain pen, and the difference between me and my brother is that he only dares to pull the wire out of his pocket. β
He gripped the bottom of the pen with his left hand.
"I said I could bend this pen with my superpowers, do you believe me? Of course you do, because I am..."
As he spoke, his eyes began to stare intently at the pen, and his left hand holding the pen began to tremble slightly.
Five seconds, seven seconds, twelve seconds, as a bead of sweat oozed from Angel's forehead, the pen began to bend gradually.
He gritted his teeth, his face flushed from the exertion, and then the pen bent even more, and it was already at a ninety-degree angle.
"Because I'm a genius! I'm a super boy! β
Angel roared, and he held up the pen, which had been bent at a ninety degree angle, and glared at bloodshot eyes in response to the applause.