Hit by Glory Girl

“LET GO OF MY SISTER, YOU BITCH!”

A car. I was hit by a car.

That was what it felt like as something slammed into me at what had to be thirty miles an hour, lifting me up off of my feet and throwing me across the floor. The tiles beneath me squealed as I slid ten, twenty, thirty feet back down the hall, and I came to a stop, ironically, not far outside of the office where Lisa and I had just left a minute ago.

For a moment, I was dazed. My ribs felt as though someone had taken a bat to them, and my head swam from conking it against the floor when I landed. As I managed to gather my wits, I closed my eyes and pressed a hand to my forehead, and then, carefully, I tried to stand back up. My ribs flared up and protested immediately, but a deeper feeling tugged at the inside of my chest, next to my heart, and I knew I couldn’t afford to stay down.

I got to my feet a little shakily, and I had to force the stars from my vision as I opened my eyes. The world was tilted a little, off balance, but a few blinks cleared it up enough that I could get a good enough look at my assailant.

Platinum blonde hair, tiara on the top, white-on-white, a skirt, a cape. She was beautiful in a way that I would never be, and next to her, even someone like Lisa could seem rather plain and unremarkable. It would be easy, with her flawless appearance and her almost all-white color scheme, to imagine her as an avenging angel come down from heaven to smite the unjust, and with her powers, it wasn’t a completely inaccurate image.

A wave of sudden fear washed over me, and my knees threatened to give out. I just wanted to run, to run as far and as fast as my legs would carry me, if I didn’t just collapse to the ground, first. At that moment, I would have given anything not to be in front of her, anything not to be under the gaze of that wrathful goddess.

And she was coming my way.

“VICKY, NO!”

But Glory Girl paid her sister no mind, and she zoomed at me, racing across the hallway without her feet ever touching the ground.