Friends Change
A/N I got the idea for this from my new Aria novel I'm working on. It is a Five Children and IT fic but it's about trying to help a friend even though he's changing and you're not willing to give up on him when others tell you they're a lost cause. I hope you enjoy. This was something that's been in my head for the last two days as well as listening to Superchick on my I Pod.
It was a dreary, raining and cloudy day and Izzard J Nassicus was out in the rain. It was the anniversary of his parent's demise and he was very sad and was wearing a black hooded cloak and black kimono. It'd been a year since that day but his friends had been helping him cope. They were like a family to him.
Leah saw David staring out the kitchen window. He wondered what Izz was doing out there all this time.
"He's just having some personal space at the moment. For him today is sort of a sad day. He'll be fine later, you'll see.
Now help me with dinner." she answered him.
She was making chilli but with rice. She knew Izz had been a little different since last year. Sometimes he wouldn't talk to anybody except for Elisa or Carley, listened to Amy Lee or Superchick on the MP3 player or sleep.
But today felt different.
She just didn't know why.
Carley was in her room watching Naruto on the computer.
She saw Izz come into the room later as he climbed onto the bed and lay there coughing up a storm.
That worried her as she felt his forehead and it was hot like lava. It made her worried.
"Just stay here, okay?
Maybe rest will help." she said gently as she heard Leah calling her.
She watched as he put the ear buds in his bat like ears for the MP3 player and relaxed.
Suddenly he drifted off as she left the room....
Leah wondered what was wrong with her soulmate as they ate but Elisa could tell by looking into her eyes.
"It's Izz, isn't it?
Something's wrong with him." the female Psammead teen whispered to her friend.
Carley nodded.
Later after Leah and David were in the living room, she brought out a plate of cookies that she'd baked eariler because she knew her Psammead friend would be sad because of what the day was.
She then went upstairs and into her room. She found Izz lying on the bed with grey fur on the blanket which was.... his own.
"Something isn't right! Since when has he ever shed in his life?
I'd better get Leah!" she thought seeing Izz's eyes open.
He looked worse. He was sick.
There was pain in those kind eyes of his and he was very scared about the fur on the blanket.
"Don't worry I'm gonna get Leah." she said leaving him for a few minutes.
Leah wondered what was going on as she followed her upstairs into her room but understood when she saw Izz. He looked like a wreck.
"Maybe he has the flu but really bad. I don't know why he's shedding." Leah said as they wrapped a blanket around him.
"The shedding.... happened a few weeks..... before this." Izz said coughing badly.
"A few weeks ago!
Why didn't you tell us?" Leah said surprised. He normally did come to them when he was scared or worried.
"Because he felt ashamed about it, right?" Carley replied to Izz.
He nodded as he felt dizzy and weak.
They watched as his eyes closed.....