Superior by Jessica Lack

Author:Jessica Lack [Lack, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: LGBT, Young Adult, Fantasy, Superheroes, Romance, M/M
Goodreads: 31521246
Publisher: Book Smugglers Publishing
Published: 2016-08-16T00:00:00+00:00

You’d think Captain Superior would be happy to hear that his intern was out saving lives and being heroic. Apparently, you’d be wrong. For the next week I’m stuck manning the Heroic Help Hotline after school. He claims it’s not a punishment, but that’s a load of shit. Covering the hotline is the worst. Half the time you’re fielding calls from people who don’t even have an emergency, who get pissed at you when you tell them that the supers are too busy saving lives to come install their satellite dish, or whatever. And when you do have a real cry for help to forward, it can be a nightmare to figure out which hero is free, or which one can’t deal with the magic spaghetti monster because he has a gluten allergy. And while half of the heroes have email addresses and cell phones like normal people, the other half make you use overly-complicated “secret” signals that you have to look up in this disorganized hardcopy binder. Normally, the interns of all the heroes who are members of the Urbanopolis Heroic Union take turns on hotline duty, so that no one’s stuck with it for too long. So yeah, a full week of this torture is definitely a punishment. By Wednesday afternoon, I’ve decided that this whole internship is a load of crap.

I’ve just finished sending a goddamn smoke signal to The Ancestral Warrior when my own phone rings and Tad’s picture pops up on the screen. I answer as I head back to the phone desk and say, “Hey, home-fry.”

“Hi, Jamie.” Tad sounds like he’s smiling. “You busy right now?”

“Yes and no.” I drop into the office chair and kick off from the desk with one foot, spinning it around in circles. “What’s up?”

“Nothing, really. My dad’s at one of his therapy sessions, and I’m… I was just wondering if you were free.”

“I’m working for Cap right now, sort of. Babysitting the emergency hotline,” I tell him. Before he can respond, I kick my chair around again and say, “But you should come here.”

There’s a pause before Tad asks, “Here?”

“The Stronghold of Superiority. You know that big, blue building uptown next to the Dave & Buster’s? With those weird angel-gargoyle things on the roof? It’s on the top floor.”

“I really don’t think you’re supposed to tell me that,” Tad says.

“Screw it,” I respond. “If it makes you feel better, we can say that I kidnapped you and forced you here. Turnabout, and everything.”

“Kidnapping isn’t very heroic,” he says. I can tell from his tone that he’s teasing me, but I’m not in the right mood for this joke.

“Yeah, well, apparently I’m not supposed to try to be heroic. S’why I’m stuck here in the first place.” Tad doesn’t reply right away, so I try to edit the bitterness out of my voice when I say, “Seriously, man. Please come?”

He does. I barely have time to let him in and say hello before another call comes through the hotline.

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