Page 134 of The Not So Super Hero

Zane nodded, saying nothing while he followed.

Yeah, things had changed.Bit by bit, the life that Zane and Bailey once knew had been replaced with something similar, and yet drastically different.Not that either of them was complaining.The changes were welcomed, even if Zane didn’t always know how to react to those changes.

“Well, I gotta get to class,” Bailey chirped after sitting his dirty bowl in the sink.When he spun around, he found Zane leaning against the wall, watching him.“Try to stay out of trouble.”

“We both know you are the trouble,” Zane argued.

Bailey rolled his eyes.Zane approached him to tug him in for a soft kiss.Followed by another, another, and maybe a more heated one that stopped only because Zane’s phone rang.The two of them separated.Bailey’s cheeks flushed when he realized he was more than ready to skip class just because of a kiss.Shit, he had it bad.However, Zane’s phone continued to ring.He checked on it.His boss had called.Seemed he was needed.

“So, how does it feel being a hero?”Bailey asked in a teasing tone, only to be surprised by Zane’s response.

“I don’t know.How does it feel?”

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

Zane pressed his lips to Bailey’s once more, like he could only go so long without their touch.It was soft and sweet, just like the tender touch of his hand against Bailey’s cheek, yet it paled compared to his words.

“Don’t tell me you still don’t see yourself as a hero,” Zane whispered, his forehead resting against Bailey’s.His deep blue eyes kept Bailey in a trance.“You’ll always be a hero to me.My not so super hero.”

He had to tease, but Bailey’s heart soared.

“I love you,” Zane spoke quietly.

“I love you too.”

Zane kissed Bailey twice more, then went out the door.Bailey couldn’t lie and say he hated watching Zane go.Sometimes it scared him, but when he saw the almost excited hop in Zane’s step, it made everything worth it.

Zane no longer lived a mediocre life, doing mediocre work for mediocre people at a mediocre wage, and he was happy with that.Once he would have said content but happy sounded much more fitting now.

Why wake up, go to work that required little to no physical or mental effort, sleep ten hours a day and play video games or binge watch TV when he had the power, the strength, the courage, the love, the family, and support to do so much more than that?Exactly.There was no point in arguing, no point in doing nothing when he was no longer content with the simplicity of a mediocre life.He didn’t want the “easy way out”.

With Bailey by his side, Zane’s life was anything but mediocre.

Troublesome.Difficult.Extraordinary.

That was Zane’s life, and that was the way he wanted to keep it.

Sometimes, we got exactly what we wanted.