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And right in the middle of it all is Valerie.
“Zacia, can you be trained to hiss when you see Valerie? I feel like that’d be just the special effect we need right now,” I say, making sure to glower at Valerie through the windshield.
“I wonder if this is why Valerie told us not to go home, but you just wrote ‘I hope you choke on air’ instead of listening,” August says.
“I would never do that,” I say as I tuck my phone away so he doesn’t see the new message I sent her. Valerie sure does if the scowl on her face has anything to say about it.
When I get out of the car, there’s this weird mishmash of chanting. I hear some “Once a villain, always a villain!” and a “Landon for president” which, dear god, do they not realize how little reading I would get done?
“Is that… Is that the SAVCGEM?” August asks.
The groan that escapes me is completely involuntary. It’s like a feral demon rushing from my body at the sight of the lackluster supervillain group my parents birthed. They think they’re hardcore villains, but instead, the SAVCGEM—also known as Super Awesome Villains Combined for the Greater Evil of Mankind—are just a bunch of half-priced hacks.
But they’re my half-priced hacks so I have to love them… grudgingly.
I turn my eyes toward my parents who are right at the front holding signs that say, “Leviathan will Levigone your ass.”
“What does that evenmean?” I ask August.
“I’m sorry, I can’t look away from your brother’s sign long enough to look at anyone else’s.”
Brandon, my other brother who was left with exactly zero brain cells, is waving a sign that says, “My brother will eat ur hole.”
“I will do what, now?” I ask, a bit in shock over this declaration.
August pats my shoulder, like he’s pitying me. “It took me far too long to figure out what he meant, but I think he meant ‘Will eat you whole’ and instead…”
“Instead, my brother is declaring to everyone that I’m eating out the asses of all of my enemies,” I say as Brandon makes sure to jump in front of a cameraman who is surely guaranteeing that people all over the world know that I eat the holes of others.
“The only hole I will eat is—”
August unfairly clamps his hand over my mouth before everyone can hear my declaration of love.
“Landon, look!” Brandon says as he comes running for me, knocking people out of the way as he shows me his sign. “It’s good, isn’t it?”
“You forgot a letter,” I say.
“Oh! That’s alright. I have a marker right here!” I watch with bated breath as he stares at the sign forfartoo long before squeezing a letter in so it now says, “My brother will beat ur hole.” Ah lovely.
“Perfect,” I say, to which he beams and proudly displays it for all to see.
“Villains belong in prison!” someone yells before flinging a glass bottle at me. I turn to look and grab onto the bottle with my mind before flinging it back at him far faster than he had sent it to me. With a grin on my face, I stop it about an inch from his forehead, just daring him to do something annoying enough to allow me to finish him off.
A bead of sweat rolls down his forehead as he looks the bottle right in the eyes… if a glass bottle had eyes.
“Don’t litter,” I say before dropping my hold on it.
“Keep back!” Valerie barks as members of the law enforcement try to keep the growing crowd back. “We have just released a statement about what happened. Please read it and move on.”
There’s the noise of people taking out their phones as I try to make my way through the unruly and irritating crowd. I’mverytempted to just part them with my powers but am also positive that if I accidentally knock someone over, they’ll be crying even more and declare that I’m the reason their wife left them and they got fired from work or some other bullshit.
August sets a strong hand on my back and it gives me an insane sense of strength that tells me that Icanpush through this crowd without tossing them all into the next county… no matter how tempting that may be.
Icangrin and bear it.
That’s the moment someone tries shoving me and ends up pushing Zacia. The entire crowd snaps silent. Zacia looks minorly offended and gives a tail flick but is no worse for wear as my eyes lock on to the man.
He hesitates before dropping at least three shades of color as I hold my hand out.
