Supergirl

Barbara put her finger up telling me to wait and then rushed to grab a quick swig of water from a nearby table and then came running back, ready to give it her best. "Don't laugh" she said before she composed herself and then started to sing.

🎶♪🎵I've been in love and lost to my senses"

Spinning through the town

Sooner or later, the fever ends

And I wind up feeling down

I need a man who'll take a chance

On a love that burns hot enough to last

So when the night falls

My lonely heart calls🎶♪🎵

As she was singing I could tell this wasn't her first time singing the song for two reasons. One she sounded amazing and two she knew all the lyrics by heart and sung them without reading them from paper. She wasn't Whitney Houston good, but she still sang very well for someone who never had training. I also noticed that she changed 'woman' back to 'man' like the original lyrics before I had edited them. She continued her song.

🎶♪🎵Oh, I wanna dance with somebody

I wanna feel the heat with somebody

Yeah, I wanna dance with somebody

With somebody who loves me🎶♪🎵

After hearing the chorus, I was won over. She hit all the right notes, I was a little jealous of her natural talent. Without my system, she would probably be a better singer than me. I held up my hand for her to stop.

She looked a little down "Was it not good?"

I shook my head. "No, it was way better than I expected to be honest. You have a beautiful voice and It's just what I need for the song I plan to do."

I pulled the lyrics to the song I wanted them to start practicing out from my suit jacket pocket. I originally wanted to wait until we saw who won before revealing the songs lyrics for my next song, but I have a feeling that if I gave her time to practice it, it would be better for the song. I don't want to hold her back.

I gave the lyrics to Barbara. "This is the song I plan to do, please do not let any other eyes see this except for you and the competition winner a week from now. If things go well, I may not only add it to spotify, but maybe we can do a small performance somewhere to bring awareness and funding to the orphanage".

Barbara looked at the lyrics I gave her. "A million dreams?" She said in a hushed voice to herself before speaking to me directly "I doubt the orphanage needs funds, but awareness is good. Many do not ever think of the orphanage unless they have already decided to adopt. Most go their whole lives without thinking of the abandoned orphans that grow up without love from anybody but a caretaker. It hurts my heart just thinking about it."

As a person that was an Orphan of sorts in my past life, I understood what she meant. My brother and I were separated and placed in different group homes and then later I moved place to place bouncing around in the juvenile system. I grew up tough and without love. Maybe that was why I liked visiting these kids? It was my way of healing my inner child that grew up way too fast.

I gave Barbara a warm smile. "The kids are lucky to have someone like you and Jude in their lives. I doubt all orphanages are filled with so much love and care."

Barbara quickly turned around with the lyrics in hand. "I'm going to go practice right away!"

She scurried away with some pep in her step.

Jude looked back at her before speaking to me "The kids are also lucky to have you Aeric"

"I'm not much different from those kids. We are lucky to have each other." I said looking away a bit embarrassed at my cheesy words.

Jude smiled "I understand, now lets get you to work. I've got a lot of laundry that needs done and the toilets aren't going to clean themselves".

Ugh, why do I come here again? I went in and did my chores and killed time until it was time to work at the watchtower. From time to time I had heard Barbara singing. She seemed more excited to do the song than the kids did.

After leaving the Orphanage, I flew home. Stepping into the transporter, I willed my costume on and then transported to the watchtower.

Upon arrival I was met with GL John Stewart. Seeing me transport in he approached while speaking to me. "interesting form of transport, is it some kind of device, magic, or are you made of light?"

"It's my own personal tech, How have things been up here?" I asked

John walked over and picked up a tablet computer. "Everything you need to know is on here, including how to use the computer, usually one of the league members would stay behind a while and teach you the ropes and then you would teach the next person that comes in for their shift, but I've got places to be tonight. The only hard part of this is the getting to know the computer and how to use it. I wrote it all down on the tablet and you can reference it anytime you have a question".

I looked at the tablet and scanned through some of the notes written inside. "Understood, I think I can figure it out, if not I can always contact you through coms"

GL John Stewart headed towards the exit. "Sounds like a plan, enjoy your night".

GL John Stewart left me alone and shortly after I saw him flying in front of the observation deck, he gave me a head nod and then flew off into space. Must be lantern business.

Reading how to operate the computer and with my little more than basic computer skills, I figured things out quickly without help. The shift was boring. Nothing big of note was happening on the earth or in space.

Moving from the crows nest, I flew down to the observation deck and looked out into space. It was beautiful. A sight I would have never seen on my old earth unless it was in pictures or video. It's a whole different experience viewing it with your own eyes.

As I was admiring outside, I saw supergirl fly towards the watchtower. It was the first time I had seen her since being on this earth. I met her eyes as she flew by and shortly after she flew back and floated in front of the observation glass looking at me. I had no idea what she was thinking, but man was she pretty. She would have been right up my alley if her chest was a bit bigger.

She waved to me with a smile and I waved back. I contacted Superman on coms and asked if I could let his cousin on board. He said it was fine as long as she didn't touch anything.

I went to the hangar and opened it up. Right after, I flew out to Supergirl and directed her back to the hangar and then closed it behind us. I say directed, but she didn't seem to need my help getting to the hangar at all.

"Is this your first time in the watchtower Supergirl?"

She shook her head "No, I was in here yesterday with my cousin"

It made sense, the computer didn't go off at her presence, so the computer must recognize her.

She looked me up and down before asking "Have we met before?"