Police, ambulance and the fire brigade could do nothing but watch the burning flames. If the fire brigade sprayed water the fire would spread because water reacts with burning petrol. In the large flames everyone was surprised and shocked when they saw a black shadow walking through the huge flames. It was Simon, holding his marvel comic book. There was a minute of silence, a silence of disbelief. The ones who wore glasses had to wipe them to see that what they were seeing was true because he walked as if he was walking through thick air. A doctor from the first aid hospital asked Simon, with amusement, if he was really okay, ´´I´m just fine´´ Simon responded. The boy had to go to hospital for check up, even though there was nothing to check. Doctors felt cheated and could not believe that he was in the car accident. There was no evidence to prove it, not even the x ray.
Three days spending the night in the first aid hospital and Simon´s relatives were not to be seen. No one knew what to do with him. On that day the boss of the hospital came to visit Simon with shock all over his face, I´ll bet Simon wondered why he got grimsy faces everyday. Before the boss gave a word Simon told him, ‘no one cares about me’. He even told him about his family background, how poor they were and how no one liked him because he spent money on comics and never did well in school. The boss felt pity for him knowing he had no where to go. Beside Simon´s bed, he noticed an awful lot of comic books like spiderman, superman and captain america. It seemed he was a comic freak.
The longer Simon stayed in the hospital the more famous he became. Reporters interviewed him almost everyday and he was known as the ‘lucky boy’. Time was running out and Simon had to leave the hospital, either he would have to be adopted or taken in child welfare. It seemed no one wanted to adopt him so he was taken to the welfare in San Diego.
As soon as Simon arrived he saw thousands of homeless children running around the playground and under a big oak tree were a group of boys looking at him with jealousy and fierce eyes. ‘Home sweet home Simon Brown’ shouted a nanny across the playground, ‘how do you know me?’. Simon questioned the nanny, ‘everyone here knows you and they really like you’. Simon was led to his own bedroom in room number 9. Most children had to share a room. His room was new and had everything a child could dream of. Before the bell rang for tea time, Simon was the first to queue in the line, but nomally it was the boys seen under the tree known as the ‘threaten bullies’ to queue first. The bullies did not like anyone being before them and if you dared they would bully you for the rest of your time at the childrens welfare.
After tea time simon went to the toilet upstairs not knowing he was being followed by the bullies. Finishing with what he was doing Simon saw the bullies standing over the toilet, ‘surprise, surprise Mr Brown’ shouted one of them. Simon was shivering to death when he saw almost everyone holding weapons, pen knives, baseball bats and even daggers.
‘What do you want from me?’ responded with a quiet voice. One of the bullies grabbed his comic book from his hand and before the bully gave him a punch Simon disappeared not knowing he ran off with the speed of light. The bullies could only see the toilet door swinging back and forth. Simon was so fast while he took his comic book with him.
This is the moment that Simon realised one of the strengths with in him. As Simon was walking through the corridor heading to his room, he could read peoples minds who were passing by he could tell the good ones, the naughty ones and even the sad ones. Only one touch and Simon knows everything about you.
One week gone and everyone seemed to like Simon, many of them used to play a game called ‘guess what I think’. Simon´s superpowers were known by everyone and he was known to be a record holder in 100m sprint with a time of 0,00,1s unbeatable. The bullies would do nothing but be as friendly as possible. But they did find his weakness. If Simon does not carry his comic book with him he is as weak as anyone else. They found this out when Simon was going for swimming lessons. But still no one would still dare to bully him because he might be one of the comic heroes.ll
