"Um...y/ n? There's something we've been meaning to talk to you about..." Serif approached me as I gather my purse and keys, trying to prepare for work. The transition off of maternity leave has been so easy with six babysitters at your fingertips. So much so that we decided to move into a larger house, originally I vetoed the idea, but when they all suddenly started coming to me with gold and diamonds, I became suspicious. They said that they had gotten them from their homes, where these things are common, maybe I could visit them one day. Once we had a decent amount of savings, it took only a few weeks before we were moved onto a larger estate, twice the size of my old home.
As much work as it is trying to keep this place together, I've never been happier now that one have a permanent place I can call home with those who mean the world to me. Right now though, with nervous expression Serif is passing my way, makes me worry slightly.
"What is it?" I ask, splitting my attention with my current priorities and listening to Serif. He takes a deep breath.
"Well, as much as we all love you, we can't be around...all the time..." He twiddles his thumbs together, waiting on my response.
"..what do you mean?" I ask, giving Serif my undivided attention, my other tasks, forgotten.
"Well, between keeping Error and his pals in line and visiting...other family...sometimes, we just might not be home...but we'd never leave for good!" He quickly adds, clarifying himself. Well...as large as this new property is, I didn't expect them to stay coped up in it all the time, but how will I know when their gone? What about the baby? This is too much to think about right now, if I don't leave soon, I'm going to be late to work.
"That's...fine Serif...but let's talk about this later, as a family, right now, I need to head out to work." I respond, Serif places a hand over his ribcage and let's out a long sigh of relief.
"Okay...yeah, okay...let's do that." Serif 's attitude brightens considerably, making me grin in these early morning hours. I give him a quick kiss on the mouth before shrugging my purse over my shoulder, heading towards the front door.
"See you later, baby, love you~" I send him a shy wave over my shoulder before heading out the door, but not before catching a quick glance over my shoulder, noticing Serifs bright indigo face. I laugh, heading to work in bright spirits.
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I pull up the drive before crawling out of the car. My feet ache from being on them all day, my head hurts from being constantly bossed around by senior citizens, and by back hurts from hunching over rather than having proper posture...okay, maybe that last ones my fault, but still! I drop my purse and keys before plummeting face first onto the couch, only to land in someone's bony lap.
"You look like trash." From the failed attempts to avoid laughter, I know I'm talking to Geno, oh so he thinks this is funny? I sit up, next to him, I also notice that Chess is napping in an arm chair to my left and Ink is sketching in a small drawing pad to my right, oh right, they have no jobs.
"You don't have a job, so you can't talk." I retort, stabbing a tired finger at Geno, he puts his hands up in surrender.
"We told you that you didn't have to work anymore if you don't want to, we have enough money for you to retire right now if you wanted to." Ink quipped, not taking his eyes off of whatever he was doodling. My shoulders sag.
"But what would I do all day?" I counter, raising an eye brow.
"There's Stella, and there's us, and we both demand attention." Chess yawns and rolls over. I roll my eyes, there's more to it than that, I'm sure of it.
"Yeah, I'll think about it, where is Stella anyway?" I ask, suddenly curious, I haven't seen her all day. Dream enters the scene, cradling the little infant, right on time.
"Uh, guys...you might want to see this..." Dreams starry eye lights never leave the baby, well what now? Dream pulls down the blanket swaddling her just enough t to expose her face. I nearly had a heart attack when I saw it was a skull instead of a head, much like how she looked at birth.
"What happened?" I pronounce each syllable carefully, dangerously. No one messes with my baby. Dream gulps.
"I-I don't know, when I went to wake her up from her nap, she was...like this...again..." Maybe having the genes of both a human and a monster skeleton might be messing with her body. It appears I wasn't the only one with that mindset.
"It could be some kind of ability she inherited when she was given two very diverse sets of DNA." Geno thinks aloud, scratching his chin.
"And she really can't control them that well because she's still an infant..." Came Chess's muffled voice from the couch cushions.
"Makes sense, I guess...wasn't there something else you all wanted to talk about? Serif had brought something up this morning about...not being home?" I strain to recall the events in my muddled memory, all faces turned towards a hooded figure walking out of the kitchen holding an apple.
"Guys, don't go in the kitchen, Blues in their, trying to-...what?" He finally notices the many stares in his direction.
"You told her?!" Geno barks, Serifs eye sockets widen at Genos agitated accusation. He swallows a chunk of Apple hard as beads of translucent sweat dot his forehead.
"I..uh...noooo?" I laugh at the poor display in front of me, poor Serif, he looks like he could use some help.
"It's fine guys, we can always figure things out over-" Blue explodes from the kitchen, huffing and puffing from the sudden exertion of energy.
"DINNER!" He calls, even though we're all in the same room, no one is phased though, we've been living long enough to be deaf to Blues excited screeching. Well, at least I can get a hot meal before dealing with whatever everyone was hiding from me. Speaking of which, it's dinner time!
Quick Note: If you have no idea what's going on, I suggest you skim though 'Twist Ending' first, a story I wrote earlier. It will give you an idea what's going on here.
