Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Superman, Part Two

While Superman is fleeing from the shame he will bring his family, he notices that when he concentrates he can make most of himself and the horse become invisible. He also notices that the horse seems to get quite a good deal of air when jumping over items on the ground. With this, he decides to disrobe, throw the blanket over the both of them and take to the air. Disrobing, it seems, helps him to concentrate on less items to make invisible and makes for a lighter load in flight. Unfortunately, it doesn't always work, so throughout the country a few people are convinced they have seen a man flying, or a horse flying, or a flying carpet in some cases. Somewhere over the Midwest, a man asks his wife, Ma, to get the shotgun.
Newspaper images and celebrity bloggers are running the headlines of "Producers son disappears!", "Why did he take the horse?", "Are drugs involved?", and "Producer's Missing Son Seen in Amsterdam!"
It's only been a few days since Superman decided to leave home, but he knows that his disappearance is actually bringing more scrutiny to his family as they are fairly high-profile. He makes the decision to return home, and does so by returning the horse first.
He enters his home to little fanfare. He thinks that if he pretends to just have been on a bender, he will be forgiven much easier as all his older brother's friends have gotten into some kind of similar trouble. His mother is glad to see him, his older brother merely looks at him, and his dad shakes his hand. It is his younger brother that mentions he has missed him, while his sister merely asks if he's okay. He retires to the third floor loft space that he used to build forts in with his brother. It overlooks the marble-tiled foyer, and he watches his family go on with their lives.
Newspaper images flash that the missing son is home, with no answers as to where he is been. They then flash that another starlet is in rehab and another politician has committed a crime. With that, the disappearance of a seemingly normal son of a Hollywood producer is no longer worthy of a Perez Hilton blurb.

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