CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The rest of the week was pretty uneventful, all things considered. I fell into a stable routine: Get up, go to school, go to work afterward, and then come home, eat dinner, and go to sleep. I always came home from work very tired, so tired that I couldn’t do much more other than eat dinner and go to sleep afterward, which helped me understand why Dad always seemed so tired whenever he came home from work. Adams continued my training sessions with me, because Rubberman was still in the hospital recovering from his fight with Fro-Zen. Adams must have been a good teacher, because his guidance helped me to become more and more efficient at controlling my powers. I even got to the point where I could make a small laser beam that could cut small holes in things; however, my a

