I’m 14 and in 5th period when it starts. At first I think someone’s turning the lights on and off, but I quickly realize I’m the only one seeing the world flicker.
“Are you okay?”
It’s Marcella’s voice, but when I look at her I see bones and organs and entrails. I shriek and fall out of my chair.
Joey and Greg are laughing at me, jeering crybaby and loser.
Joey’s still laughing when the school nurse carries me out, and I glare at him and decide that he looks better without skin, anyway.
I begin to formulate a plan.
Author’s Note: When you think “X-ray vision,” you think “seeing people naked even when they’re fully clothed.” But usually X-rays reveal what’s underneath the skin: bones and organs and such. That actually doesn’t seem like such a glamorous superpower anymore, does it?
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