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armchair, Colin groaned inwardly.
This is all my fault! If I hadn’t been showing off if I’d been paying attention, that guy wouldn’t have knocked me out and none of this would have happened.
    Warren flung the remote control on to the coffee table and—without looking at his son—said, “Colin, how many times over the past few weeks have I told you to be careful?”
    “I know, Dad. I’m sorry!”
    “Sorry isn’t good enough! We have to find a way to fix this…I don’t know, maybe get someone else to wear the Titan costume and arrange it so that the two of you can be seen in the same place at the same time. If Danny Cooper still had his powers…”
    “It wouldn’t work, Dad. Danny’s taller than me and his hair’s the wrong color. Plus, you know. His arm. Anyway, he
doesn’t
have his powers and there’s no way we can fake them.”
    Mrs. Wagner and Renata came into the room. “Renata just had an idea,” Caroline said to her husband. “Why don’t we start phoning everyone, saying things like, ‘Did you see how Kid Titan looks just like Colin?’ A preemptive strike. It would be better than people calling us about it.”
    “It’s not
Kid
Titan,” Colin said. “Just Titan.”
    “I really don’t think the name is what you should be focusingon right now,” his father said. He turned to Renata. “Let me take a look at your hands.”
    She sat down next to him. Warren carefully unwrapped the bandages on her hands and examined the blisters. “You’re healing fast,” he said. “You’ll be OK in a day or so. Any pain?”
    “A bit,” Renata said. “But it’s not bad. Look, maybe Titan could make a public announcement saying that he has the power to change his face, like Façade could, and that it’s just a coincidence that the face he chose looks like Colin.”
    Warren shook his head. “And when he’s asked to demonstrate this power, what does he do then?”
    The phone rang. Everyone looked at each other.
    “That’s the first of them,” Caroline said, biting her lip.
    Colin stood up. “I’ll get it. If it
is
someone asking whether I’m Titan, I’ll just laugh at the idea. Or something.” He went out into the hall and picked up the phone. “Hello?”
    “Col?” It was Brian McDonald; along with Danny, Brian was Colin’s closest friend.
    “Hi, Brian…How’s it going? Hey, were you just watching the news?”
    “Yeah! That’s why I’m phoning. Kid Titan looks just like you!”
    “I know. Now everyone will think I’m a superhero!”
    Brian laughed, then said, “You’re not, are you?”
    “Oh, I wish!”
    “You’re going to have everyone bugging the heck out of you now! Still, maybe some girls will finally notice you.”
    “Oh, thanks a bunch.”
    “Not that you need to worry on that score,” Brian said after a short pause. “You’ve had a hot babe living in your house for weeks. Pity she’s your cousin.”
    “I don’t think of her as a hot babe, though,” Colin said. “Just as someone who eats all the food and forces us to watch girly movies.”
    “You know,” Brian said slowly, “she does kind of look like Diamond.”
    “Brian, I think I’d know if my own cousin was a superhero.”
    “I suppose. Anyway, I’d better go. I just phoned Danny but his mum wouldn’t let me talk to him. He’s been grounded or something. See you tomorrow, right?”
    “Sure,” Colin said. “See you.” He hung up.
Maybe I should have told him ages ago. He wouldn’t have told anyone else. Probably.
    The phone rang again. Colin hesitated for a second, then picked it up. “Hello?”
    “Colin? Is that you?” a girl’s voice asked.
    “Yeah. Who’s this?”
    “It’s me! Judy Morris! Don’t tell me you don’t recognize my voice.”
    How could I recognize it?
Colin thought.
You’ve hardly ever looked at me, let alone talked to me!
He could hear whispering and giggling in the background.
    “So listen, we were just watching television and guess what we saw?”
    “You saw