Chapter 17

FLASHBACK

I went ahead of Vanessa towards the sushi restaurant while she was going to catch up to after she takes her bathroom break. I was holding unto a bunch of clothes and shoes that Vanessa bought for herself and me, when I turned the corner and collided against a pretty tough guy, I was the only one who fell while the guy barely even flinched.

To be honest the only reason I fell was because I wanted to, I was tired of holding all those bags that I wanted to lie on the ground and take a break.

"Ah, my bad. You alright?" The guy who I collided with said. Blond hair and blue eyes with a handsome face and an easy smile, he looked like a playboy.

"Yeah, I'm good." I responded still lying unto the ground, relishing the nice feeling the cool floor brought to me. My arms were killing me.

A girl who I thought was the guy girlfriend slapped him on the head and asked, "Do you need help to get up?" and extended her hand for me to grab.

I didn't want to be bad mannered and make it awkward, so I reluctantly left the confortable floor and took her hand. I took a curious glance at the top of her head to see who it was and it was written Susan Victoria Storm. When I touched her arms I could feel she had powers, powers I could absorb. It was like suddenly my arm could breathe and suck up the air in her. Obviously I didn't try to do it.

The embarrassing thing was I didn't recognize her at first and that middle name didn't help me. To be fair I have never seen any of the fantastic four movies nor read any comics, they movies aren't mainstream or successful enough for a casual who prefer anime like me to pay attention to them. But I had heard of them from some of my friend and read of them in the internet or fanfictions but I always knew them by their nicknames, such as invisible woman and human torch.

"Kenan, what happened?" Vanessa said as she walked in our directions and glanced at the bags that were lying on the ground.

"I fell, no big deal. I was just too tired." I replied to Vanessa telling her nothing exiting or bad happened.

Vanessa in her Jenny appearance rolled her eyes, and gave me a face that asked if I was really that clumsy.

The blond man next to me rushed next to Vanessa and said with a charming and seductive smile. "Hello lady, you're breathtaking."

Vanessa smiled just as seductively in return and replied. "Thank you, you aren't too bad yourself. But I'm already taken." Before she bypassed him and continued her march toward me.

The handsome man looked at her backside as she walked by him. "He's your boyfriend? You guys don't look like a couple." He said and that pissed me off a little bit.

What did he mean by that, it's not like I looked like an ugly motherfucking duck. I do admit in term of appearance she's might be out of my league but it's not like there isn't any couple like us.

I do admit my thought may have gone wild for a second there.

Vanessa and I ignored him.

"Why are you holding his wrist like that?" Vanessa asked as she looked at us.

I didn't even notice that she was still holding to my arm before Vanessa mentioned it. I guess I was too distracted by what the guy did to notice it. I guess it was the same for the invisible woman.

The blonde women immediately removed her hand and apologized.

"Sorry, I was distracted and wasn't aware of it." Susan said with a heavy blush on her face.

"Oh, really?" The tall woman said while looking at her with a raised an eyebrow.

Susan didn't dare to meet Vanessa's eyes and looked down with an increasing scarlet face.

"No way… Sue really?" The handsome blond chimed in.

"Keep your boyfriend with a tighter leash." Vanessa warned as she helped me with collecting the bags that I left on the ground.

"Huh!? Johnny isn't my boyfriend but my brother." Susan explained while waiving her hand side to side in denial.

It was only at that moment I realized who they really are, I mean to be honest I wasn't really thinking until that moment and when I heard their nick names and their sibling status along with the knowledge Susan has powers was when my brain connected the dots.

"Now, that I take a closer look. You guys kind of look like each other's." Vanessa admitted.

"Yes, siblings, just brothers and sisters." Susan Storm kept saying as she was repeatedly nodding her head.

"We have to go. I'll let you siblings get back to… whatever you were to do." Vanessa said as we as we picked back up our bags from the ground.

When I took another look at Susan status, I thought it bugged for second because the reputation score was much higher than it was supposed to and it said she liked me a lot.

Susan Victoria Storm

Status: Single

REP: 45/100

Likes at first sight, she thinks you may be her soul mate

Now I swear her score was at zero the first time I saw her, so I doubted it was love at first sight but the system was saying otherwise. My theory was when she took my hand to help me get up, Susan felt my sweet guy touch and in her mind thought that was some destiny things and something happened in her head that made her think I may be her soul mate.

It was just a theory because when I shook hand with Amara or any other person nothing happened.

I also thought she will be at this moment and time with Reed Richard, but apparently it wasn't the case.

Then I saw I could still roll the dice, so with a mental command I rolled the dice, and thing got complicated.

Susan Victoria Storm

Status: Single

REP: 65/100

She thinks you are her soul mate.

It went from might to are now. I sincerely didn't know what to do at that time. This situation took me by surprise and I wasn't prepared for such situation. I couldn't try anything at that time because she knew Vanessa is my girlfriend and might think I'm a scumbag and a cheater if I get too friendly with her unless Vanessa help me explain but then her brother was also there, making me hesitate even more.

To be honest I was just too timid and being a pussy.

As Vanessa and I were ready to leave, Susan spoke up.

"Can I invite you both for a meal? To apologize for my brother rudeness." Susan asked with an apologetic smile.

"Sis?!" Johnny whined in disagreement.

I was ready to jump at the opportunity to spend more time with her since it will allow me to figure out what to do with this situation but before I could do that Vanessa already refused.

"Sorry, we have in a hurry, but thank you for the invite."

I was disappointed when I heard that since we were going to eat anyway but Vanessa apparently didn't like the siblings and wanted to leave.

"Can I at least ask for your names?" Susan asked again, she clearly spoke before thinking and looked a bit abashed but when our eyes met, the Storm woman held on the stare though not without a blush painted on her face. Johnny who was standing nearby looked at her dumbfounded.

"Kenan Kang." I replied calmly, trying very hard to maintain my nonchalant face. I was afraid to smile like a retarded pervert.

Vanessa didn't say anything at first and walked toward Susan, Vanessa lowered her head to whisper something into the other women ear and gave her something she took from her bag. The invisible women blushed and took the object before pocketing it. I couldn't hear what they whispered nor saw what she gave her and when I later asked Vanessa about it, she told me it was a surprise.

After saying what she needed to say Vanessa took my arm to leave. As we left I could hear the Storm siblings talk.

"That was impressive sis, doing it in front of her girlfriend like that. I didn't know you had it in you." The human torch said while giving his sister a slight bump into her shoulder. The blonde woman replied him but her voice was so low I couldn't hear it clearly however from a nearby showcase reflection I could see her hit him on his ribcage.

"I'm telling Reed about this." The youngest Storm said.

This was the most I heard before we got too far away. We just left the mall without even eating.

Flashback end