Super Secret Series (Book 1): Super Model by Princess Jones Read Free Book Online

powers.”
    “You make it sound pretty normal.” I envied the casual way she talked about it. Like it was in her blood. She practically took it for granted.
    “It is. Or at least it becomes your normal.”
    “What about Big Supers? What was yours like?”
    Audrey shook her head. “They didn’t have this stuff when I was in school. Must be something new.” She pointed at a church ahead. One of those big ones with the spires and colorful windows. “We’re here. Come on.”
    I followed Audrey inside and down a few flights of stairs to the basement. We ended up in a meeting room with rows of chairs and a big refreshment table in the back. Everyone inside looked pretty normal, which surprised me but I tried not to show it. Audrey had just yelled at me the night before about not being able to tell a Super just by looking.
    Audrey motioned for me to follow and made a beeline right up to the most gorgeous man I’d ever seen. The guy was tall. Impossibly tall. He had jet-black hair, smooth creamy skin, and the most beautiful blue eyes. He looked one of the guys on the covers of the paperbacks my mom read when she didn’t think I was paying attention. I didn’t know how old he was but I wondered if I could talk him into to waiting for me until I was old enough to marry him.
    Audrey, on the other hand, seemed oblivious the insane beauty of this guy. Maybe her eyes weren’t working. She tapped him on the shoulder. “Hey.”
    “Hi, Audrey.” Even his voice was beautiful. Oh my God, I thought. How can he look like that AND sound like that?
    “This is the one I was telling you about. Penny. And this is Nathaniel, my district leader,” she added, turning to me.
    “Hi, Penny. I hear we have a problem.” Nathaniel shook my hand. It was warm and strong and I held on a little bit longer than I had intended to and then blushed when he practically had to yank it back from me.
    “Um, yeah, you see I was supposed to go to the Academy but I guess I didn’t get in because of some glitch.” I was babbling. I took a deep breath and tried to slow myself down. “Anyway, Audrey convinced them to give me a second chance and now I’m worried about the testing because I don’t have—”
    “We don’t have any idea what the tests are going to be like,” Audrey interrupted, giving me the stink eye. “So, yeah, like I told you before, we need to know what we’re up against.”
    “Right.” Nathaniel raised his hand and called over a short, blond guy with glasses. He was eating a cookie from the refreshment table. “Ladies, this is Dale.”
    Dale shoved the rest of the cookie into his mouth and used his now free hand to give us a little wave. “Hi Audrey. Hi Penny.”
    “How did you know our names?” I blurted out.
    Audrey gave me a pained look and Dale rolled his eyes. “Come on, man. I’ve got skills.”
    I felt my face get hot. “I just. . . I just didn’t think it worked that way.”
    “Just kidding! Nathaniel told me!” Dale laughed. “So you’re taking your entrance tests? Cool. What do you want to know about it?”
    “We were just wondering what kind of tests they put you through.” Audrey explained, while I stood there quietly. I’d already embarrassed myself enough for the night.
    “There are only two tests—a written test and a card test. Everyone’s written test is personalized purposely so that it’s on something you know nothing about it. And the card test is just guessing cards they hold up in front of you.”
    “That’s it?”
    Dale adjusted his glasses. “They usually give them on separate days because when you’re that young and you’re learning to use your powers, stuff like this can really take it out of you. You get migraines if you try to push yourself too hard.”
    Audrey nodded. “Right. And, just curious, how much should she be able to do right now, anyway?” She tried to say it casually but I knew what direction she was going with this.
    “Enough to pass the test.” Dale cocked