Hard Times, Measures Uncalled For
I opened the box under my bed. “I know I told myself I’d stop, but I know that wasn’t true.” I told myself as I put on my crimson-and-black gothic dress that I count as a hero costume. Someone my age shouldn’t do this, or have to for that matter. But this is what has come upon us. This is what the new generation has to do to save this world before the previous generation destroys it any more than they already did. Adults say to “stay out of grown folks business”, but grown folks business IS our business. The adults should just give us the world now while the world can still be fixed. So far, it’s all pollution, murder, overpopulation, wars. I could go on, but I have to take care of another thing: crime. Not the worst, but in the top three. I rush over to the bank on my motorcycle. I’m eleven years old, but the people of LA don’t need to know that. My powers: I have none. Except for my killer lung fu. And killer puns. “You know, I always thought money cost too much. But you found a coupon.” “Can you shut the heck up so I can just steal this money and go home?” The masked burglar growled “If you plan on calling jail your home, then yeah, it would make my day.” “Well, What if I gave you someone else to go to jail for me? I have this super annoying little sister named Minerva but I call her cockroach.” Oh my flipping god. It was my older sister, Venus. I couldn’t tell her that. But I had to for her to stop. No one was around anyways. I flashed her my face by taking my mask on and off lighting quick. “Venus, you have to come home, now! I whispered to her. We went home, and I gave her the scolding of a lifetime. “How could you do this?! I thought you were happy! And you wanted to send me to jail in your place?!” She just sat on the bed with her head in her hands. Well, she deserved to be sad. “Cupid, moms been going through hard times at work. She got fired today. I needed to take that money to help us out.” “You think that will make me take pity on you?! What you did was-“ she starts crying and I have no choice but to pull her into a hug. “Everything will be fine. You’ll see!” I told her. And maybe they will be.