This is a story about a guy who was actually a hero. Such an inspiration!

Everybody used to think that John was a normal guy, even a boring one. He used to spend hours in front of his computer or his garden playing basketball. He didn’t have many friends because other guys in his high school considered him a “weirdo”. He used to go anyway, with a humble smile on his face and some hope on his eyes; hope that someday, something amazing would happen so he could finally show how he really was.

He didn’t knew his life was about to change when he arrived to chemistry class on a very hot Monday. In class, everyone was falling apart because of the extremely hot and dry weather. That day’s assignment was an experiment, but that day something went wrong. Claire, a shy and pretty girl who, as John, didn’t have many friends, asked to go to the bathroom and left her experiment unattended. At first there was a funny smell, but then a green foam appeared and grew more and more, and then out of nowhere it got on fire! People were panicking, screaming and crying, but John realized it was his time to show the world what he was capable of. He quickly poured some water in the fire, when this didn’t work, he took the extinguisher and shot its contents to the curtains and ceiling that were already being consumed by fire. The result: the fire was extinguished and the classroom was covered with a fine white powder. There was a moment of silence, but then the students realized that they had just been rescued by the guy they used to punch and discriminate every day. Mark, a big handsome boy that all the girl where in love with, stood up and walked until he was standing very close of John. He closed his eyes, expecting the usual wedgie he used to get, but this time Mike and the other guys took him, not by his underwear, but by his legs and arms. They lifted him in the air singing football victory songs and yelling his name, saying that he was a hero and thanking him for saving them.

Two months later, Claire came to apologize for causing the fire and John, with his new confidence, asked her out. Now, he was just a normal guy. But now nobody kicked him or used to make fun of him; now they said hello every morning and sometimes even talked to him. He was really happy to be just the boy he had always wanted to be.