t-ara, jiyeon-centric; you should call me super girl

[augmenti]

You should call me Supermangirl.
Jiyeon centric; pg-13. 629 words.
If your dad was superman, what would you do?

At first thought, you’d think having a superhero for a dad would be really cool. Especially if he’s a really good one who can fly, use x-ray vision, lift more than twenty elephants at once as though he were lifting a cup of coffee, and various other abilities, but it’s not cool at all. And no one knows better than Jiyeon. It’s hard to sit down for dinner when your Dad’s arch nemesis invites himself over by crashing through the roof. She’s lost count of how many times they’ve had to move, but she supposes that’s what happens when he finds out about your father’s identity. He often liked to come over when her dad wasn’t there and that’s when things would get really ugly, because there’s nothing quite like waiting for your dad to come home with a gun pressed to your throat as you’re tied up to a chair. “Hi Dad, welcome home,” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it when a killer is pressing his knee into your back. Even though her life is a constant threat, the thing she’s most annoyed with is her lack of social life. It’s difficult to have a normal life, especially since your dad can see everything you’re doing. She’ll never forget the time she had her friend Chulyong over and they were experimenting by making out on her bed. She’d just been sliding her hand up his shirt when her dad pulled her door (and half the wall) open and kicked Chulyong to the sidewalk. Chulyong was the kind of boy that didn’t let a few broken bones bother him, but after her dad threatened to rip his boner right off, he never came around to her house again. The sad thing is, none of this is really her fault. It’s not her fault that her dad is a superman, so why should she have to be home by 8, when all the other kids can stay out all night? Why does she have to be the one to move to five different homes in the span of three months? The two friends she has made, Sunyoung and Jieun, are barely able to come over unless she goes to hang out with them, and when she does she gets a taste of what normalcy is. But somewhere between an evening flight with her Dad and going over to Jieun’s home to visit her and her grandmother, Jiyeon realizes that she’d probably be ridiculously bored of a normal life. Jieun gets her wise quotes from her grandma and that’s probably what sets it off, the sense of too much routine. But what really sets it off is when she’s breaking bricks in taekwondo and she ends up cracking a fissure right through the school gym floor and down into the earth beneath. She turns around and finds the entire class staring at her, so she walks away like nothing happened. “What happened?” Sunyoung asks, holding too many boxes in her arms. “I heard a big crash in there!” “Nothing,” Jiyeon says, and lifts her books with one hand to test the waters. She accidentally sends them flying through the ceiling. Sunyoung stares at the hole in the wall and then at her friend. Jiyeon just grimaces and apologizes. “Growing pains, that’s all.” She makes her excuses and then runs away – flies away, she should say. And flying is much harder than her dad ever made it seem. There’s nothing quite like having a dad as a superhero, but there’s also nothing quite like being his side-kick, either. Robin, move aside, she’s the new super girl, and when she develops x-ray vision and accidentally sees her parents having sex, she thinks she might finally realize why her dad stopped her. end :)