Short Story Challenge

Nice prologue fallenforyou. I have chosen the topic fantasy, and have even got a title to go with my short story if that's okay. The Ghost Kid Prologue of ‘The Ghost Kid': Ethan Hamil is an intelligent, but quite young high school sophomore. In fact, he is a little be more than just quite; Ethan does very little to make himself noticed, and he did not interact with others very much. Its not that he didn't want too, but he would just get so nervous. He often talked himself out of stuff. In fact, a good example of this occurred the day his life took a turn for the weird…. Ethan decided to stop and get lunch at the local Graffiti's. After he sat down he noticed at a table across the room, his current secret crush, Emily Green, was eating there with a friend also. Emily was everything he wished he lived up to, an active person in anyone's sense of the word active. ‘maybe I should try and talk to her here' Ethan thought. ‘but what will I say, or talk about…' he thoughts began with this in telling himself it would be a dumb thing to try and talk to her. But he secretly didn't just want to accept that, ‘maybe I'm just making excuses for myself…' but before he could work himself up anymore than that Emily and her friend had already finished there lunch and left. There was a man in the dark corner table behind him he hadn't notice. The man was wearing a dark cloak. Ethan only noticed him now because the shady figure spoke to him. ‘why didn't you talk to that girl' the man said inquisitively, not in a mocking or accusatory manner. Ethan had thought he had not stared at her while she was there but this man thought he new something. "which girl?" Ethan said without emotion. "the one you wanted to talk to" It seems the man wouldn't tell what gave Ethan away. Ethan decided to go ahead and answer his question though ‘Cause it's not easy too' Ethan figured he found it easier to talk to this man because he didn't know him and if he said something embarrassing he wouldn't see him again. ‘Sure it is, just look at that boy do it' Ethan looked at the where he was pointing and it was the TV in the corner, it was playing a cartoon, Danny Phantom, and the hero was asking a girl out. Ethan just rolled his eyes "He's got superpowers" ‘Well that doesn't make any difference' ‘Yes it does, he has power that makes him confident enough to get in the literal line of fire, so he easily would get confidence to do so figuratively.' Ethan figured the man couldn't argue against that after he was silent for a moment. But then he said. ‘So if I gave you that kid on the televisions powers you think you would be confident enough to do something like talk to that girl?' Ethan was confused at this question, ‘well, if you could do something like that and did, then yes' ‘Oh I can, do you want me too?' the man asked. ‘What, how?' Ethan asked. ‘That's not important; do you want me to give you those powers?" Ethan didn't actually believe him but said ‘well yeah' anyway because it was fun pretending it was true. The man grabbed his hand and closed his eyes. Ethan heard a strange noise from the tv and when he turned to look at it he saw it flicker, but the rest of the power in the building was steady. Ethan got this strange warm feeling then the hairs on the back of his neck stood up. The man let go and said ‘Done!' The waitress came to give the tab, Ethan paid it and was about to ask more question but when he turned back to speak to the man he had vanished. Ethan left a little unnerved by that event after that. He drove home, and by the time he was in the driveway he had reasoned that the man he met was crazy and must have left in a maniac rush when he wasn't looking. But as he was getting out of the car he paused. What if…. Ethan couldn't help but push his hand on the roof of the car and see if it would go through. To Ethan's amazement, it did! Is this real!? If it is does he have all the powers of the hero from the cartoon!? And if so what is Ethan going to do with them!?