Two Months Ago:

Brooklyn wakes up and quietly gets out of bed. She looks over at her younger sister sitting on the bed, texting someone and happily smiling.

That in itself wouldn’t raise any red flags for Brooklyn, instead, it was the way her sister laid on the bed with her legs crossed pointing upward.

That is not something her sister would normally do, she would normally sit on the bed with her back against the wall and text, and if she was watching a video, she would lay her head on a pillow as she watches it.

Brooklyn instantly knows that something is going on, that she doesn’t know about.

“What? Doing?" Brooklyn asks in a hushed voice, from behind her sister trying to see the text.

“Ahh!” Her sister screams at being startled and juggles the phone in her hand. “When did you get...get up?!,” She says while securing the phone in her hand and shutting it off.

Brooklyn knows something is going on now, she sneaks up behind her sister at least eight times a week and it never gets that kind of reaction...anymore.

“Now?” Brooklyn says slightly confused since this is her normal schedule.

“Guess I’ll go make some breakfast then!” Her sister awkwardly runs out of their bedroom and into their apartment's small kitchen before quickly yelling back to Brooklyn, “Do you want Oatmeal or Cereal?!”

Brooklyn will get to the bottom of anything involving her sister but, she would most definitely love it if her sister made food for her.

Even if her cooking is about as sloppily put together as her hair. Brooklyn will do just about anything for her sister, including eating sub-par oatmeal.

Brooklyn responds with, “Oatmeal,” and goes to seat herself while her sister sloppily cooks.

After a few minutes, the watery oatmeal is served, and they eat together until her sister gets a look of surprise on her face.

“Oh shoot!” Her sister exclaims after seeing her tangled knots of hair in the reflecting oatmeal. “Can you do the dishes, I uhh really have to use the bathroom?!" Her sister yells before rushing into the door next to the bedroom.

Brooklyn isn’t even able to reply before her sister ‘locked’ herself in the bathroom. Brooklyn could easily get in using a fake wall she installed in every room, in case any hero or villain tried to break into her and her sister’s three-room apartment.

Instead, Brooklyn begins to do the dishes and can hear her sister quickly juggling multiple hair products, make-up sets, perfume, and other beauty products.

After that she hears the toilet flush and her sister walks out, looking more similar to a model than her sister. Her sister then instantly turns the corner and goes into the bedroom and shuts the door and walks out in a pair of snug, light blue jeans, and a ‘revealing’ pink crop-top, that only goes down to her navel. She walks over to the front door and puts on her new white shoes that she bought two days ago, on her small feet with light pink socks.

“I’ll be right back, I just need to go to the uhh…” Brooklyn stands right behind her sister, scaring her, “GROCERY STORE!”

“Ok.” Brooklyn quietly replies.

“Really?! I’ll uhh get some bananas then." Her sister says, surprised about the ‘lie’ working.

Brooklyn nods her head and smiles as her sister walks through the door.

Brooklyn loves her sister too much to argue with her and will almost exclusively put a stop to any of her shenanigans, by affecting the ‘other’ party involved, usually in the form of assassination or blackmail.

Brooklyn goes to the bedroom closet and puts her hand on a rocky painted part of the wall and she pops it out using her geomancy. Inside of it is all of her gear she uses for her ‘work’.

Brooklyn quickly puts on the smooth pitch-black military outfit and a large black coat to hide parts of the suspicious outfit.

Brooklyn then sets out the door and begins to follow her sister.

Brooklyn’s sister has a feeling that Brooklyn is following and pays five dollars to take the elevator to quickly descend down to the first floor and possibly lose her big sister as she takes the stairs.

Brooklyn won’t lose a target that easily though and rushes down the stairs nimbly avoiding all of the moving people, not paying five dollars for an elevator.

As her sister steps out of the elevator, she looks over to the 30 or so people coming down from the stairs squinting her eyes looking for anyone suspicious that could be her big sister.

No one ends up meeting that criteria and she continues on her way out of the main entrance of the apartment complex.

Brooklyn steps out from the corner of the stairs and begins her way out of the building.

Brooklyn follows her around a few city blocks dodging around alley corners until her sister ends up stopping at a small restaurant. A young boy of similar age to her sister with brown hair comes out of the restaurant in a waiter’s outfit. Brooklyn can hear their conversation from a nearby alleyway.

“Are you Veronica?” He asks a little sheepish due to him being in a waiter outfit, while his date seemed to have gone all out for him.

“And your Michael?” She says slightly awkwardly due to her being in casual clothes, while he looks extremely cute in his waiter clothes.

“Give me a minute. I’ll go change. I already told my dad that you would be coming.”

“Your Dad?” She asks him, confused.

“Oh! ...yeah, my family owns this restaurant. I just work the dishwasher and pass around plates, though.” He says a little sheepishly, before his bodybuilder of a dad in a chef's outfit barges in.

“My boy got himself a girl now!” Michael’s dad excitedly walks up to the couple. “I promise if you take my boy, he will scrub the dishes so clean; they may as well be new!” He says before giving a hearty chuckle.

“Uhh.” Veronica blushes at the thought of a cute boy in a waiter outfit, doing dishes.

“Dad! Don’t say that!” His face goes red in embarrassment.

“Ahh. Don’t keep the girl waiting, lad.,” He hands his son a pair of casual clothes and pats his son on the shoulder with his large hands, "Go change and have fun.”

“Tha...thanks, dad.” He replies sheepishly before heading to the back room to change.

He quickly comes back out, and Michael’s dad happily waves them away as the couple left for a movie theater.

Brooklyn keeps a vigilant eye for suspicious movements on Michael, as he locks hands with Veronica. Brooklyn makes sure to keep her distance and immerses herself in the crowded sidewalk as she stalks the two love-birds.

The couple soon arrives at the movie theater, and Michael pays the ticket booth worker twenty dollars for two tickets to watch a romantic comedy movie called 'Forensic Hearts'.

Brooklyn sneaks in through a backdoor of the movie theater reserved only for employees and watches as the couple buys popcorn and soda.

The couple then enters the large theater and makes their way to their designated seats in the middle row.

Brooklyn walks through the other lane and seats herself at the very top row, looking down at the couple ready to pounce on any suspicious move made by Michael.

The movie about a heart surgeon falling in love with their patient starts off strong and many people laugh, including the large hearty laughing man in a red and black nylon suit, three seats to her right.

Brooklyn shifts her view to the familiar chuckle and see’s the hero, Steel Hands, laughing along with everyone.

The hero senses Brooklyn’s glare and looks over to the extremely suspiciously dressed woman, 3 seats to his left.

Steel Hands immediately notices a similarity between the woman's face and a picture of a villain that is currently on the 'Hero’s Register for Confirmed Villains' or otherwise known as H.R.C.V., but it's too dark all the way up here to know for certain.

Brooklyn also immediately becomes suspicious of the man’s true identity as well, due to the similarity of the laugh.

Both of them give highly suspicious glances at each other, but neither is willing to make a move and cause a scene in the theater.

The movie continues as both the hero and villain continue swapping glances between the kissing couple and each other.

The couple intertwines their lips together as the characters do in the climax of the movie.

[Steel Hands feels his heart shatter in pride for his son, choosing such an opportune time to go for the kiss.

[Brooklyn feels her heart skip a beat as she sees her little sister’s joyous smile, after the exceptionally romantic kiss.

The lights turn back on as the credits roll and Steel Hands turns to his left to question and get a better look at the ‘suspicious woman’ only to see an empty seat.

Steel Hands decides to give up on the woman and go with his original reason for following the couple on their date.

...Making the date one that neither Michael nor Veronica will ever forget.

As the couple exit out of the movie theater with a light hop in their step. They are instantly met with a hero carrying a huge basket of chocolates for each of them.

Small pink confetti grenades setup by another hero, Frog-Nade, explode and form a large pink heart of confetti around the couple.

Veronica and Michael are both stunned at the display and both of them look at each other as if the other had planned this.

Neither of them did, but when the hero explained the reason behind the display it all made sense.

“Congratulation’s Michael, you won the ‘Heroic Valentine Raffle’, inside each basket you will find a Limited Edition Collection of each hero’s favorite piece of chocolate, you have one basket to give and one to keep!” Steel Hands says in a deep booming voice, before continuing, “So, who will be the lucky woman?”

Michael can’t even speak words at winning the raffle he entered on a whim and just points at Veronica.

Steel Hand, hands each of them a meter tall basket filled with signed boxes of chocolate from all the heroes in the city.

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Brooklyn watches the scene from atop a nearby building mostly to enjoy the view of her little sisters permanently etched smile, but still there to keep anything bad from happening to her.

The couple continues to have pictures of them taken and posted online as they continue to walk along the sidewalk with hands intertwined.

Veronica ends up giving her basket to Michael to avoid suspicion from her big sister, and after giving him a hug, starts to walk home.

Brooklyn watches the farewell and starts to grapple down into an alley from above and makes her way back home, trying to make sure Veronica never finds out that she was stalking her.

Brooklyn enters back into the apartment and changes into the same clothes as before and waits for Veronica to come back.

Six minutes later, Veronica enters the apartment and comes face to face with Brooklyn.

“Where? Bananas?” Brooklyn asks with a slight smile as her joyful sister enters the apartment without any bananas.

“They uhh...ran out?” Veronica gives an easy excuse.

Brooklyn loves her sister too much to call her out on that lie and decides to let Michael slide on this one since he didn’t actually end up trying anything suspicious in Brooklyn’s eyes, meaning that Michael left a lasting impression on Brooklyn and passed the ‘test’ to become Veronica’s boyfriend.

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...Then there is a certain Tentacle Monster that's about to leave it's lasting impression on a ghost girl.

In more ways than one.