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All throughout eating my lunch, I couldn't stop thinking about my awesome powers. It didn't take very long before I started getting even more ideas. I had told Sarah that abusing my powers didn't interest me. But what if I used them to, say, help people instead? I started to think of myself as that superhero again, grinning in excitement. How cool would it be if I, I don’t know, could turn invisible? Yes! That would be so amazing! My mind began to flood with all kinds of possibilities of helping people while invisible. Imagine, sneaking into a house full of bad guys while they're planning a bank heist or something. I could alert the police and tell them everything and those guys would have no idea how they found out.

I reached down to pick up some potato chips off my plate. That's when I noticed they were floating into my mouth. I gasped, dropping the chip back onto the dish and jumping up from my seat. I couldn't see my arms! Or my legs! It couldn't be! Could it?

I quickly ran to the nearest mirror and found that I had no reflection. Oh, my gosh! I was invisible! I was shaking at that point as I looked over my non-existant body, just when I had started looking good for the ladies, too! I was full of excitement and happiness and nervousness. What do I do now? Where do I go? Where do I start? Do I run out and beat up bad guys now or do I wait? Oh man, I was so excited I felt like I was flying.

I went to go run around the house like a mad man when something bumped my back really hard.

It was the ceiling.

I stood there, sort of, for a moment in confusion. What the hell just happened? Did the earth flip upside down? Did I flip the earth upside down and cause everyone to suddenly start falling into the sky? Once I realized how that made no sense at all, it came to my attention that I was suspending gravity. In a nutshell, I was flying. Flying! And I wasn't even on drugs!

I waved my arms around like I was swimming, managing to slowly maneuver myself awkwardly through the air. Then I found out that my arms weren't controlling the flying, my brain was. So, I started to calmly float around. I was getting the hang of it, little by little. A huge grin spread across my invisible face more and more.

"Whoo!" I exclaimed as I began to fly in a large circle through the living room and back into the kitchen. I smirked confidently, suddenly darting out through the open sliding glass door and out into the world. I was breathing so quickly and so heavily. Seeing a handful of people casually strolling by a few stories under my feet was amazing. I could not believe this. This was like every amazing dream I ever had of flying, where me flying around was completely normal and nobody in my dream thought twice about it.

The cool breeze whipping around me was so pleasant. I felt like I was one with the wind, my entire body the weight of no less than a feather. I couldn't stop grinning. Again, this was amazing! I spun my body in different directions to get a feel of my new, airborne surroundings. Just seeing my balcony - where I should've been, several meters away from me was surreal. The view was incredible, and I was only barely off the ground.

When I finally had a brief moment to relax and let my body hang loose, I wondered how I even managed to do this. All I did was get the sense that I was flying because of how excited I was. That's when the realization hit me.

That was it, wasn't it? That was the secret to my powers! It took me all this time to figure it out. It was so simple, so efficient, so not like a radioactive mutant at all.

I just had to imagine it.

I'd even realized it before, without really realizing it at all when I told Samantha;

'I pretty much just think about what I want and don't want to freeze in my mind and it happens.'

I understood now. Finally, I had the key. With that thought, I accidentally materialized a real key in my invisible hand before panicking and making it fade away. Pride swelled up my invisible chest and caused me to do a couple backflips in the air. I withheld the urge to laugh as loudly as I could as I didn't want to confuse anyone nearby.

This was awesome!

I couldn't wait to test drive this new power. First though, I waved my hand in front of my face to make sure I was still invisible. I don't think there could've been anything worse than having to explain how I'm floating in the air to passerby's. I took a deep breath, and with some intense thinking I was able to propel myself upward. However, I went a little too fast. The air screamed by my ears, my face pressing against my skull from the intense force.

When I managed to correct myself and come to an instant stop a couple seconds later, I was already well above the roof of my building.

"Whoa," I wearily uttered, feeling as though I was about to throw up. That was far more wild than any carnival ride. Seemed like I thought a little too hard there.

After I managed to settle my stomach, I felt myself shift uncomfortably a bit upon looking at my surroundings. I was really high up in the air. Typically, I wasn't very receptive to heights. But, if I was going to actually make use of this power, I was going to have to get over it. The wind whipped much harder up there than down below. My palms and feet felt cold and sweaty, looking around the bustling city from high above everyone. The people were so tiny, cars hardly noticeable. It gave me a great sense of just how vast the nearby ocean was without anything to obstruct it. It was beautiful.

I felt compelled to fly towards the water. I eased up a little on my flight pedal and kept myself at a moderate pace. I couldn't help but look down, watching the trees, the street and the buildings all slowly roll by beneath me. I descended a bit, keeping myself around about a hundred feet or so over the sandy beach. I smiled, watching the people down there enjoying the sun and the clear sky. I chuckled to myself. Little did the sunbathers know they were bathing underneath me. Luckily, I wasn't casting a shadow with my invisibility.