A Dire Situation by David Michael Slater

Author:David Michael Slater [Slater, David Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Incorgnito Publishing Press
Published: 2022-04-04T00:00:00+00:00

“Thanks, means he,” said Doris.

“What?”

“She means he means thanks,” said Cooper.

“WHAT? Just get in there already!”

“Inward ho!” David said, shooing his family inside.

As soon as they were all in, the door slammed shut behind them.

“I’m proud of you mom,” said Cooper. “For speaking up.”

Doris gave a weak smile. She hadn’t thought it went well at all.

“I can’t believe this is really happening,” David said, looking around. There were six regular beds and a door to a bathroom. And pretty much nothing else.

“I didn’t realize superheroes got injured,” Cooper said.

“Oh, well,” her father told her, taking a seat on one of the beds to test out its softness. “Probably not very often. But they might get injured once in a while, during training and so forth.”

“Careful very be everyone,” Doris advised.

“No one told me about that part,” Cooper said. “Is the getting hurt part in the comics, LD?”

“Stuck!”

“Enough with Stick Man talk already!” Cooper cried. “I don’t even know what that means.”

“No! Stuck!” Little Davey was using his not stuck-to-Stick-Man-and-a-hunk-of-other-junk hand to pull on the door that had just slammed them in. “The door is stuck!” he clarified.

Cooper went over to make sure. “He’s right,” she confirmed, tugging on the knob. “LD, do you want help with that mess?”

“You’ll get stuck if you try,” he warned. “Then I’ll have to carry you around too. For twenty-five thousand years.”

“Off come it’ll,” said Doris. “Stuff real the not it’s.”

“Actually,” Cooper said, forgetting the hand and trying the knob some more. “I think it’s locked.”

“Archie probably forgot the door would lock,” said David, laying back on his bed now. “That’s to be expected for an infirmary where medicines have to be kept secure.”

“What medicines?” Cooper asked, looking around at the total lack of storage in the room. “Superheroes get sick too?”

“The ones that aren’t superimmune!” David insisted.

“But—!” Cooper could see it was just plain not nice of her to bring her father down when he was so happy. So, she zipped her lip. She no longer had any idea what she was thinking wanting to come to SuperHero School.

“Who’s up for some puzzlers while we wait?” David asked, sitting up with a gleam in his eye.

“I am!” Little Davey said, hurrying over to sit beside his dad. Doris joined them, so Cooper reluctantly did as well.

The Doopers worked on puzzles.

They tried crosswords for a while, but since Little Davey liked word searches the best, they focused mostly on them.

All the while they worked—two solid hours—David Dooper had a super-sized smile pasted on his face, and his family couldn’t help smiling at the sight of it. They knew what he was so happy about, of course: he and his family were going to be trained as superheroes.

Which made Cooper happy for her father. But she was worried about him too. What power was he going to train in? She wanted to ask, but what she wound up saying was, “I’m hungry.” Because she was hungry.

“Me too,” Little Davey said. He hadn’t been paying attention to

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