Thank goodness, I made the right decision!
Instead of fighting my sister over the ticket for a "Domestic Frankenstein Party", I had a really wonderful afternoon, meeting with my beautiful girl-friend Susan and her brother Steve, who was my best friend since childhood.
At first we went to "Viper's Nest", this new Comic Shop in High Street and had a lot of fun with all this "real" Super-Heroes-stuff. We even bought a little tripartite lucky charm. Then we went to "Luigi's" and had an extra large ice-cream. And when Steve had to leave for a date at the movies (he didn't wanted to go into more details about that), Susan and I spent some time reheating our icy lips (about which I don't want to go into more details here either!) Finally we decided to spend some more time together, and since we didn't want to interfere with Steve's plans, we decided to go to my place.
But what a nightmare was waiting for us!
I couldn't believe my eyes when I opened the front-door of my family's house! Though the lock had been untouched, the interior was a total mess as if a burglar had broken in - or a group of aliens had invaded our home.
First, we found my mother, Evelyn, sitting in the kitchen, strapped to a chair, bound and gagged. When we relieved her from her bonds, she seemed unharmed, though she was completely jazzed and crying her eyes out.
"Experiment...", "Stupid girl..." and "Madman!" was all we could understand between her weeps.
I couldn't believe that the Frankenstein-Party had turned out like this!
Next we found my father, kneeling in front of my sisters locked room door and babbling about "super-powers" and "new world-eras".
I felt really miserable in front of my girl-friend, especially since she had never met my Dad before... and he obviously was completely out of his mind.
Hammering at my sister's door, I called her name...
"Lizzy! Sis! Are you in there??"
To my relief - I could hear her voice answering.
"Yes. Tim... I'm here. But stay out!"
"Lizzy! What's going on in there? Open the door!"
I think I would just have broken through the door, as furious as I was getting, But then my beautiful girlfriend shoved a key under my nose.
"Here! Right at your feet..." she told me with a grin.
I just had to kiss her. Then I unlocked and opened the door. We found my sister cuffed and tied up on her bed and with several strange green-glowing infusions and needles plugged and pumping into various parts of her body.
"Hey Bro!" My sister called at me with a grin, thereby being very focused not to move her body. "Calm down! Everything will be fine."
But I was far from calming down.
"Father! What have you done to her?!" I turned to my Dad again.
"Liz accepted the super-powers you didn't want!" My father responded with a scary blitheness in his eyes. "Your sister is turning into a goddess, into a super-heroine now... And there is nothing to stop this anymore!"
"Of all birds, this bitch is getting a superhero?" My girlfriend asked in a mixture of sarcasm and shock. "This is just insane!"