章 3: A new chapter, a new player

SIX YEARS LATER

2016. The sun was up, the flowers were out. And one young man was laying in. Despite racing drivers normally having scrict schedules, this one was bent on being relaxed as all hell. So it was no wonder Lee Heartwood was still asleep at 9:30 am instead of getting ready for the next set of racing tests.

Lee was 25 years old and lived with his younger brother, who was 19 and also a racer. The boys were sons of a very famous mutant couple, who made a huge name in the world of motorsports. However, despite their mutant parentage, neither had powers. Or to what they saw at least. That was the funny thing about mutant awakening. Sometimes babies displayed powers straight away, some didn't get their powers until their late 20s.

Recently though, Lee's brother, Neo had been noticing things breaking in places they shouldn't be. Once he touched a table only for it to become dented. From a light touch. Lee seemed completely normal for the most part. Thus he carried on with his carefree attitude, much to his brother's chagrin.

"Hey bro get your ass up, man! You gotta be at the test soon!"

"Ughhh, Neo. Put a sock in it will you.... I'm having a good dream here...", he moaned back as he hid under the blanket again.

There was a reason Lee had been messing up so much recently. He'd overworked himself one day and just passed out in the nearest hotel room he found. Little did he know he'd crashed into someone else's room. As the sun beamed down like something from a mothership the next morning, Lee startled awake only to find a fetching young woman next to him, who either didn't know or didn't care that he was there.

"Gah! What the hell.... How did I get here... Wait what are 'you' doing here in my room?!", he yelled as he tried to cover himself with the duvet.

The woman replied in a no nonsense tone, "Technically, what are you doing here in your underwear, passed out in 'my' bed. You're a driver so I'm sure you're not hungover. Care to explain?"

"Well..."

"Never mind. I don't need to hear it."

She got up and walked towards him, obviously fine with the fact that she was in her lingerie in front of a complete stranger. This woman seemed not to be phased by much. Lee desperately kept trying to cover up when she interjected,

"There's no point in doing that. I've seen the human body countless times. We have nothing to hide here".

"You're really brazen, you know that? Now where are my clothes! And how do you know who I am?"