The Secret of the Supers (The First Superhero Book 4) by Logan Rutherford Page A

other teenagers, really—had to throw away their childish behaviors once Atlas rocked our worlds, every once in a while Doug would do something that would remind me that he’s just a fourteen year old kid. The excitement he had when it came to any story involving Supers was one of those things.
    “Sure,” I said. I shut my door behind me and locked it. “You get yourself one of these?” I said, showing Doug my phone.
    He smiled and nodded, pulling his own out of his pocket. “Yeah, while you were out being a superhero and fighting bad guys, I was setting up my shiny new cell phone. Who’s the new winner here?”
    I laughed and slipped the phone back in my pocket. “Definitely you, Doug. You’ll be out there fighting with us one day,” I said.
    “Will I though?” he asked with a raised eyebrow. “By the time we find out what the hell my powers are we’ll either have won the war, or be long dead.”
    “At least we know you have them,” I said. I looked around in the hallway. “Which one of these rooms are yours?” I asked.
    Doug stopped in his tracks and turned around. “Let me show you real quick, it’s back this way.”
    We turned and walked back down the way we came. We passed my room, and kept walking a few more doors down.
    “This is it,” he said, standing in front of the room four down from me. “If you ever need anything just knock.” He patted his pocket with a smile. “Or shoot me a text.”
    I was about to respond, but then I heard something that sounded like shouting. I paused for a moment, listening to hear where the sound was coming from. “Are you hearing that?” I asked.
    “What?”
    “Shouting.”
    Doug stopped and listened for a moment. We stood in the middle of the hallway while a couple of people walked past. After a few seconds he shrugged. “I think I hear something. Probably somebody’s superior yelling at them for doing a bad job.”
    I thought I recognized the voices though. I took a couple steps towards the voices. I wanted to use my super hearing to listen more, but I didn’t want to be eavesdropping. I just wanted to be sure that no one was in trouble. The voices got louder, and after walking down to the room two down from the elevator, I found where the voices were coming from.
    “They’re in here,” I whispered to Doug who stood behind me.
    “That’s Drew’s room,” he said with wide eyes.
    Well, now I had no choice but to listen, even if just for a few seconds. I had to be sure everything was okay.
    “Just stop talking for two seconds and listen to what I’m trying to say!” I recognized the voice instantly. Selena .
    I stopped listening immediately, not wanting to violate their privacy. I found that to be extremely difficult, however. Curiosity burned within me, and all the possibilities about what the two of them could be arguing about floated around my head.
    “What is it?” Doug said, tapping me on the back.
    I turned around and starting walking back down the hallway in the direction we were originally going, waving for Doug to follow. “It was Drew and Selena,” I said as we were walking.
    “Selena?” Doug said, confused. “What was she doing arguing with Drew?”
    I shook my head. “I have no clue. That’s really weird though, I don’t know what they could be arguing about.”
    We walked in silence for a few seconds, our minds wandering, trying to figure out all the possibilities.
    “Are they…?” Doug began.
    I looked at him, eyebrows and shoulders raised. “No telling. They haven’t acted like it. At least, I don’t think so.”
    “We should ask them.”
    “Are you kidding? You wanna ask Selena a question like that? She’ll pummel you bro. No joke, she wouldn’t let you finish your sentence.”
    Doug laughed and rubbed his eyes. “Man, this is so weird.”
    “You don’t know if it means anything.”
    “You don’t know if it doesn’t mean anything.”
    “What are you saying?” I waved him off. “Let’s just forget about