I’ll never forget this terrible night. Its cold and the snow is creeping up my ankles like a snake ready to strike. My body shivers in the cold while I come face-to-face with my consequences. Of course other people had to be involved in my choices. I never really meant for anyone else to get hurt, but of course like everything else in my life, something went terribly wrong.

I faced up to a villain I wasn’t ready to face. He was strong and I am weak. I never stood a chance but I wanted to prove myself. Everyone at the superhero Academy told me that because I don’t have a well known or common superpower like super speed or telekinesis I would never make it as a superhero. Of course I had to take on a villain before I even graduated and now I’m facing the consequences.

I’m standing feet planted firmly in the snow staring at what used to be my home, What used to be my family. Now all of that is reduced to ash. I will never see my family again; The firefighters pulled nothing out but bone and ash. The only survivor was my sister but she didn’t come out the same. And I don’t blame her.

But now I need to come clean. I have to tell her about everything. Of course, it’s a really bad time to do so but I I can’t live with myself for killing my family. So before I join my family in an afterlife I want to come clean.

I walk over to my sister who is sitting wrapped in a blanket in the back of a firetruck. Somehow she came out relatively unscathed. I approach her with tears in my eyes.

“I have so much to tell you, Ashley.“

“Is now really the time? “She whispers behind a cry.

“ All of this is my fault.“ I tell her everything. I tell her about the Academy. I tell her about the evil villain I was trying to destroy and hopes to prove myself to my peers. I tell her about how he threatened everyone’s lives but I didn’t listen. My ego is too big and I needed to prove myself, and of course it failed.

She obviously doesn’t take the news very well. But of course I can’t blame her for the way she reacts. She agrees and blames me for everything I have done. For killing our family.

“ just forget about me; Just forget about this family. They would be so disappointed if they were alive. But they’re not! Because you killed them! I don’t want you near me ever again. We’re no longer family,” Ashley said behind tears.

“ Don’t worry. I’ll tell them as soon as I join them; goodbye Ashley,” I whisper knowing she didn’t mean it.