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GrowingUp Super
 
Two nerdy boys getting ready to graduate the junior highschool discover that they have superpowers and both try to usethem to further their own popularity.
Mr. Popular
 
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Chapter 1Geeks United!
“You coming over later?”
Jesse asked Alec on their walk home from school.
Alec is the unannounced leader of his group of friends. He’s the quietest one in the small band
of comrades, but for some reason, everyone listens to him. He has light brown hair and greeneyes and he would be very attractive if he would lose some of the acne on his face.
“Yeah,” Alec replies nodding his head.Jesse’s house is the hangout house. He has a large basement that the boys
spend most
of their time in. This is where they work on and play their favorite game, “Wizards & Warriors.”
They built an entire table top for the imaginary world that they have been creating. While theygo by the standard rules, it is really up to the players to design and immerse themselves in theworld.
“Do you know if Cody can make it?”
Alec and Cody have been building a temple to place on the table top and it is finally
going to be installed tonight. It’s a project that they have been working on for what has seemed
to be forever. They have had to sacrifice a good amount of playing time to erect this templebecause of the detail they put into it. They also hope that in the end, the rewards that alsocome with it will be worth it.
“I think so,” Jess answers. “I don’t see why he wouldn’t be.”
 
Of course he’d be there,
Alec thought.
Where else would any of them be? 
 This game is what they look forward to every week. The group is a little sociallyawkward because they are rather geeky. They all get good grades and almost never speak to
 
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any of the girls. It i
sn’t that they d
o
n’t like them, they just d
o
n’t
know how to approach themand even when they do talk to them, they do
n’t know how to continue the conversation past,“Hello, how are you?” They are the typ
e of guys that the bullies will pick on and steal theirlunch money because they have easy targets on their backs. They a
ren’t overweight or even out
of shape, just not athletic or outgoing or have a backbone to stand up to the bullies.
“I’ll be over after dinner,” Alec says as he walks up to his front door leaving Jesse to
finish the walk home by himself.* * * *
The four boys; Alex, Cody, Vince and Aaron, arrived at Jesse’s house just after dark.
Their routines were similar every day. They would finish their homework when they got homefrom school. Then they were all left a list of chores that they would finish up as quickly as
possible and then it would be close to dinnertime. When they weren’t playing their game, theywould either read through their “Wizards & Warriors” comics or play video games. They all
secretly hoped that their own adventures into
 Ashtonia
(their own made up world) would oneday make it into the comics.
They file through the house saying their greetings to Jesse’s parents. This would be thelast normal night of playing they would ever have as tonight’s events would set in motion a
 chain of events that would drastically change their friendships and themselves.Once through the door going down to the basement, they would switch into their role-playing voices. It really was as if they were entering an alternate world.
“Greetings fair weather travelers,” Jesse greets them. “It’s a beautiful day in the land of 
 Ashtonia
.”
 
“Ah, greets my good fellow. My brother and I are excited for the adventure to come,”
Aaron beamed as he slapped his twin brother Vince on the back.Vince pushes his glasses back onto his nose because the slap to his back dislodged them.
He was proud of his glasses though because they didn’t make him funny looking in the game.
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