Messy

“How much do you think I can eat?”

The sudden seizing of his mind from sleep caused his breath to seize up in a sharp hiss.

“Um… what?”

“I asked how much you think I could eat?”

Well, I’m off, she said. She had just gotten off the bus, and was on her way to the first day teaching her kindergarten class. She just got out of school, she told me on the bus. I could barely keep my eyes off the girl, she was beautiful. She could have said anything and I think I would have listened. Never saw her eyes, though. She was wearing those fading kind of sun glasses, they covered them up pretty good. Her orange brown hair was tied back behind her head, the sun was glaring off her hair through the window of the bus.

When it all boiled down to it, Beth was rude. She was anything but a people person. She talked down to her co-workers, was mean to her neighbors and worst of all was an absolutely awful tipper. For her entire adult life, she had been a narcissistic, shallow and petty woman. But things change in life, and not always for the better.

One night after work, Roger, Maria and Steve decided to go out to dinner. Being the butt-in that she was, Beth weaseled her way into being invited.

“Let’s go to the Golden Dragon,” suggested Steve.

Athena joins forces with another hero, Midknight, as she faces off with Wrecking Balloon for a final showdown.