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background / hey so yeah this cover has my real name on it but i'm still going by kaya. i just made two versions, and this one looked better.
anyway. i first started writing this when i was really bored during the summer holidays (i think? may have been november last year) but the first draft is really really bad. i love the concept, however, and so thus i made the probably doomed decision to rewrite it. hopefully this version turns out more coherent than the first one.

blurb / with great power comes great responsibility, great danger, great boredom and great tendency to get sidetracked from schoolwork by fighting crime. particularly if you're a group of smart fifteen-year-olds at a normal school.

CHAPTER ONE: GENESIS
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�� you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions ��

To put it quite simply, we were idiots. Ten years of school had done nothing to improve our common sense �� indeed, I could name a lot of other people our age who had been just as stupid. Only, they channelled their stupidity into non-deadly pursuits, like binge-watching multiple seasons of tv shows in one day. We were the weird, mismatched group that nobody really knew that well, the group that went out and did stuff outside of school, like hiking or movie marathons. More obviously, our weirdness stemmed from the people that made up our group.

I was the obviously weird one: a DMAB genderfluid person who fluctuates between basically every part of the spectrum but sticks mostly to they/them pronouns �� and nobody would shut up about it, because I was the first non-binary person they'd ever met.

Harrison was the popular sporty person nobody expected to be in the 'weird' group �� except he was gay and so far into the closet he'd practically reached Narnia.

Becca was dubbed 'Most Likely To Hack Someone's Wifi To Watch A Kpop Video At 2am' on the fourth day of term, and basically our entire year knew her as 'the one with awesome food' because of that one time when her dad made way too many empanadas and she brought them to school (How to befriend everyone in your year: bring nice food and give it to everyone).

Amy was the kid whose parents were vegan and who went camping all the time, the one who did Scouts and had no wifi at home �� whenever she stayed over at someone's house (which was a lot), we'd all inevitably stay up for hours talking or watching YouTube videos.

Sophie was the not-so-tortured artist with your typical Asian Mum who didn't understand the words 'I'm', 'not' and 'hungry' (in that order) when put into a sentence. She won every art-related award you could win in our hole of a town, and somehow her parents still had a mortgage and a dog. Despite the distinctive success of their daughter, they were still as middle-class as ever, and somehow that made her part of our group.

Anthea fit into our group by virtue of having a cupboard-full of antidepressants and way too much independence. Her parents never grounded her �� they were rarely home long enough to do so �� and basically gave her all the money she could possibly need for anything. Except she hardly ever spent it, and often stayed over at someone's house so as not to get lonely.

Jules... Julian was the normal one �� before everything happened. He was the one that could have been in any group, but picked us. He always said there was more to it than that, but the rest of us never uncovered anything that might prove his statement to be true.