the uncle ben's...

Around 9, team mates started to arrive.

Its team practice.

But Rome got here around 7. They are way late than him.

"Ro. Im out." Abby came from their practice facility.

"Up for lunch?" He wants to ask her out for chill because he cant during the night.

"Yeah. Send me the place."

Her hair still wet and she's wearing the varsity jacket and white shirt underneath plus faded jeans.

"No. Ill get u." Rome insisted.

Abby looks at him. "Say, ur planning on staying here till lunch, right?"

"Uh huh."

"Then ill come by."

"Hmm. That's better."

"Hehe. See u Splash." she winks.

"Yeah, spike."

She opened her mouth and surprised. "Spike?"

"Spike. volleyball. Like it?"

She nodded thrice. "I love it. Spike. Goshhh. so creative. original.." Her exam hand gestures made Rome cover his face.

"I get it I get. stop. ugghhh."

Abby giggled. "Spike and Splash. nice.. One two punch?"

"Hmmm. Greatest combination."

"Haha. Ciao."

"Ciao Bella."

The next few days.

Rome's life is very satisfying.

Training and being good at it.

Be with Abby during the day and have some dinners with friends.

Rome completely became tourist. While Abby the tour guide.

Out of nowhere, Rome felt stuffy.

He clearly feel that he has been reborn and living in LA.

Arguably one of the best cities in the world, he hasn't seen it much.

Picked his phone. Got cash and key.

Took off.

Listening to some Vanessa Carlton's.

Bobbing his head out.

Feeling the rhythm. ugh.

"Making my way downtown..haha. im really downtown..walking past or fast, faces past or im home bound????" Not sure the lyrics but it feels so right.

"BBBBbbboomm!"

Rome directly looked over because of the loud explosion.

"Shittt." he can only curse and watch a mushroom in the sky.

Rome felt bad

"What to do. What to do. Help or not. Help or not."

He is debating internally.

"Uncle Ben said it. Great power, comes...fukkk it." He pulled over and runs to the store pounded by a huge truck. Trucks are huge but this one. Huge huge.

And whats it doing in city road anyway? should be on the free way.

At the scene.

Few cars ahead. 10 or so.

An explosion from a shop.

Then there's a big truck half its body into the shop.

A clothing shop.

There were also cars thrown aside.

Obvi they were hit by the big truck.

"911! 911!" A car got hammered.

People are shouting because a father on the driver seat seemed to convulse and took a deep breathe. His head hanging.

Theres also a kid and a woman inside.

Clutching his hair.

Rome shaking because he could see blood from the woman's head. And even brain he could see.

"Uwaaaak.!" He thrown up on the spot.

"Waaaaak!"

Rome is having regrets now but his feet continued to move.

He came to the car and saw a woman in pain.

She is a passenger of a black van beside the woman that got her head busted.

"Ur okay. Ur okay." Rome nodded to the woman.

"Go up and help me push the door." He said to the security guard who trailed after him.

"Yeah. But u know what u doing?"

"I dont know." Rome said honestly.

"What if we get sued for making her situation worse?" The dude said.

Rome opened mouth. "U got a point. But do we care?"

The security shrugged and helped Rome. haha

The van got flip sideways.

So they have to go up to get the people inside.

The scene is now very chaotic.

There were more than 10 cars got hit badly.

And the shop is with people. There are deaths for sure.

People like Rome started to get people out and save them.

The woman at the back wasn't stuck or anything. She just experiencing shock and must be injured somewhere.

Rome crawled under the window but his half body only because he is big.

"Hey lady. U hear me?"

The woman nodded.

"Great. Ur fine. Can u feel ur legs? Where is the pain."

The woman looks at Rome and applied force to feel her feet.

She moved her feet.

Rome sees it too.

"My shoulder. It hurts so much." She explained to Rome.

"Hold on. Can u still move. I'm sorry because I'm a big guy I cant fit to get u." Rome serious saving people.

The luck of the woman is now 100x for her to survive.

"Thank u." She got carried by Rome to the hood of the Benz.

The girl and her driver are in shock.

"Take care of them." Rome returned to the accident and entered the shop.

"Water."

The driver offered the two people shaken up.

Rome returned with a guy full of dust on his back.

Then returned inside again.

Fire is raging.

Hydrants are full use.

People are waiting for the ambulance and trying to save as much as they can.

"Little girl. Where's ur mommy?"

Rome embraced the 4 year old girl in shock at the corner.

"Mommy. Mommy." The girl pointed at the woman that has blood on her head.

The heart of Rome felt squeezed and he is so much pain for the little girl.

"Ur dad? Where's ur dad."

"In heaven. Mom said dad went to heaven. Mr. wake my mom, I'm hungry."

Rome cried then and there.

He pulsed the mother of the child.

"Fuck!" She is dead.

But it did not stop from carrying her along with the girl.

He doesn't want her to burn to death with no funeral.

"Kid.."

The security got the girl..then Rome looking right and left.

Selecting a decent spot, he placed the body of the little girl's mother.

Rome's eyes misty as he is bloodied hands shake uncontrollably.

"Cover..."

Rome have the girl in his arms.

After 2 minutes, fire department and ambulances have arrived.

But Rome and the people he saved already at the hospital.

"Son." Ana came because she got a call from him.

How can he take care of the girl. Its a puzzle or him.

He doesn't even know where she from. Her family.

Right now he is sitting at the bench as he waits for her mother and the kid undergoing mri and all.

He came forward to the couch.

The room he got is for vip's. duh.

Also for the 5 people he saved.

"Thank u for ur time Mrs Smith. Social services will come forward and take care of the child."

"Social services?"

Rome chided.

"Yes. She is a minor. She will live in an orphanage."

"Orphanage." Rome felt pity for the little girl.

Shaking his head and felt angry at the driver of the truck.

"Mom, I think I want a little sister." He smiled innocently.

The words of Rome made Ana and the two police look at him surprised expressions.

Ana looks at the little girl.

"U know what, I might also like a daughter."

They smiled at her.

"Mr. Policeman, sir. How can we contact the social services?" Ana continued.

"Ill call them Ma'am. I appreciate what ur doing here. I'm a father too and I'm..u know, for these kids. I hope u can be successful taking them in."

"Thank u. We hope so." Anna replied.

"Put also some good words, officer, k? Say my mom works at Home for the Elderly and I'm an athlete scholar down at USC. Hehe"

"Haha. Will do Rome. Ur a hero. That would weight for the evaluation of the adoption."

"YEah? Then that's good."

"Hmm. Thank u for ur time. Ill call in social services now."

As a father, the police officer felt heart ache for the child.

Thankfully, there's people like Rome and Ana.

Staying at the hospital room. The sun is going down.

"Son, u go back, Ill watch over the kid."

Ana said to Rome.

Rome nodded.

"Ill get u guys dinner first."

"Hmmm."

"Son, u made me so proud today. " Ana with so much pride of her son the saved lives today.

Some will cower but Rome got courage and did it.

"I learned it from u mom. hehe" Rome thumbs up to Ana.

He got out.

Closing the door.

"Hooooh." He exhaled heavy.

Nothing to feel proud.

He pocketed his shaking hands.

If she only knew that her original son is dead.

She won't be speaking this way, right?

Thats what's on his head.