Being able to go invisible is not as big as a perk as it sounds. You constantly have to control your feelings and make sure you don’t accidentally disappear in front of people, or you could get reported to ASTRA- Agency for Superhuman Tracking& Regulating of Abilities. They could give you an ability inhibitor or in extreme cases, relocate you to a new city, and the incident would go on your record. ASTRA is a secret government agency that keeps tabs on people like me with special talents- Variants.

From the outside, I look like your average teen girl- short, wavy brown hair, small build, and brown eyes just like the rest of my family. Only I’m not like them. I can still remember the first time it happened even though it was almost ten years ago, when we were living in Florida.

I was six, and my mom had taken me and my twin sister, Hayley, to the playground. She was on the swings, and I was poking around in the bushes when my hand nearly brushed a ribbon snake and like any normal six-year-old, I screamed. And that’s when I felt it- a sort of cold chill run over my body. “Annaliese!” My mom screamed my name. Apparently, just for a second, I flashed invisible. My mom dragged me, still crying, and my sister home. I’ve hated snakes ever since. My mom became my handler- the one responsible for me and my abilities until I turned 18. She knew exactly what to do because something similar had happened to my aunt Missy and my mom was her handler too. I spent 6months in special therapy learning to control my new ability. My mom and my aunt are the only people outside of my ASTRA agent who know my secret. My sister has no idea and will never know unless one of her kids inherits it. Only one girl every generation in my family can do it. Hayley is the complete opposite of me- long blond hair, Barbie blue eyes, and the confidence of someone who doesn’t have an enormous secret to hide. I am the constantly cautious one-always keeping my guard up in case anything triggers my invisibility. I’ve almost never slipped up- only a few times.