Thomas Lachlan, teenager about to discover his powers

Thomas glumly entered the school gates for his first day back at school. As usual, it looked like chaos ahead of him. Dozens of students had developed superpowers over the summer - manifesting like clockwork on their eighteenth birthdays - and they were keen to show off. Jason flew over his head, laughing, dangling some poor kid's phone just out of reach. Stacy lounged against the wall, fifty feet tall, chatting excitedly with her gushing friends. Everywhere he looked, Thomas saw his classmates laughing and enjoying their powers, before the school bell rang and the no-powers rule would be in ****. This was the disadvantage of skipping a year, he supposed: being the only one still not superpowered.

In the midst of his brooding, Thomas let out a strangled scream as the floor dropped from under his feet, and for a second he fell - only to fall onto something soft.

"Alright, Tom?"

A face appeared over his head - covered in freckles, ginger-haired and with a huge grin over his face.

"Seriously, Gregg?" Thomas tried to re-enter his brooding, but couldn't help but laugh with his friend. "Congratulations on the powers - portals! Neat."

"You're welcome, by the way," added the third member of their little coven, walking forwards as Gregg helped Thomas up. Hasib was a tall, gangly boy, who spoke with a faint Indian accent.

"I wanted to make you land in jelly, but this man insisted it be trampoline elastic," explained Gregg. Hasib had walked into school with the ability to transmute any material (including his own body) to have the properties of any other material almost a year ago. Since then, he seemed perpetually disappointed in them, despite Gregg's insistences that they would make him a sex magnet.

"Come on - you can have a cock that's literally rock-hard! What girl wouldn't want that?"

Hasib would shuffle his feet, look extremely uncomfortable with the whole topic, and mutter, "No use if you can't talk to girls in the first place."

And now Thomas was the last of them to be powerless. He didn't care what his powers were, he just wanted them. It was even worse than his continuing status as a virgin. The two weeks he had remaining would be excruciating.

The school bell rang soon enough, and classes began. Thomas did his best to just bury himself in the work, and ignore his problems in life. His mom did always tell him that powers mattered less and less in this modern era: "What you need is a good education," she would often remind him. "The best-paying jobs are the ones where your mind is your most valuable asset." Easy for her to say, bringing home a fat salary for her healing abilities.

"Now, the concept of a world without powers is a long-standing and hotly debated one," continued Miss Wright, their English teacher. "Shakespeare chooses to depict it as a world of peace and poverty... would you like to share that little comment with the class, Izumi?"

A girl with bright pink hair squirmed in her seat. The class remained utterly silent.

"I know that," replied Miss Wright, "But I won't tolerate telepathic note-passing, especially whilst I'm talking."

Thomas sighed. It was always irritating listening to one half of these telepathic conversations, which unfortunately were quite a common occurrence when your teacher was a mind-reader. Fortunately, she was good-looking enough that the time was still well-spent.

Miss Wright cast him a curious look - half-chiding, half-flattered - before turning back to Izumi. "Fine. You're on warning, young lady - not a good start to the year. And my advice to you - don't gossip. It doesn't suit you."

The class did eventually end, and Thomas finally was able to think freely. Teachers like Holly Wright weren't supposed to read your minds, but they often couldn't help it. It was like telling them to turn off their ears. Miss Wright is so beautiful, Thomas mused. Those subtle but hypnotic tits pushing against her shirt, that braided black hair, her playful smile... it was so much effort to try and not think about her in that way. Izumi's pretty hot herself, with that neon-pink hair, coquettish lips, petite but well-endowed body... but so coy, and a gamer to boot. She could have walked straight out of an anime.