I'm Energy In DC

Chapter 131 Shazam Meets Zeus

While Clark was having a splendid evening, finally getting a break from his demanding secret identity. The night of someone else wasn't as pleasant as he constantly brooded about his.

The League members were either missing or currently inactive on Earth at this time. But only one was inactive not because he wanted to, but because he had no other choice.

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Metropolis….

Midvale ......

Darla's POV.

The lights were on in a small bungalow building as several figures sat around the dinner table.

Unlike the next door Metropolis, the neighborhood was quiet. A little too quiet for my liking, but hey, what else can a girl do?

When one thought of people sitting around a dinner table at this time of night, the first thing that came to mind would be the picture of a family getting together to eat.

Dad would ask about the children's school affairs before Mom would ask how the Father's Day went, and the conversation would go back and forth until dinner was done.

If it were a less normal family, like one with crappy parents who had overwhelming issues, dinner might probably be spent in silence.

At least....... That was what I could picture in possible scenarios.

But neither situation had anything to do with us.

Not because of anything special really but simply because we didn't have parents to begin with. It wasn't the picture of a family eating a meal at the dinner table. It was just three lonely kids picked up from the orphanage and arranged to live together.

We called ourselves siblings, but we weren't in any way related. As you can probably guess, the house belonged to foster care, and we were just lucky enough to be living in it.

The time spent together was quiet. Save, of course, for the sound of Freddy constantly tapping his spoon against the plate in an attempt to eat his meal.

The constant clatter of kitchenware against each other was particularly grating to my ears, causing me to give him an annoyed glare.

Freddy stopped, but the atmosphere didn't improve in any way. The air around the three of us was gloomy and the depression in the atmosphere was more than I could currently tolerate.

Eventually, I couldn't help it anymore and raised my head to look at the third member of the family of three.

“Billy”.

With dark brown hair and blue eyes, he was still while he sat on the chair. His posture was slightly hunched as he looked at the food on the table unblinkingly.

The expression on his face showed that he didn't hear me calling his name at all.

Seeing this, I looked to look at my brother with a bit of anxiety. Only to see Freddy shaking his head at me with a look of helplessness within.

“Billy!” I called out in a louder voice. That seemed to do the trick as he snapped out of his daze and turned to look at me.

“What?” He replied in a grumpy tone.

It had been like that ever since..... The incident.

“I'm ready to help you eat now”. I said with the best smile I could muster, trying to put him in a better mood. Unfortunately, it seemed to have the opposite effect.

From the previous dazed look, a heavy frown appeared on his face as the turned his head to the side.

“I..... I'm not hungry”.