A/N; Okay this is a sequel to my story, "So It Begins". Should read it before reading this.
Disclaimer; I do not own the Ben 10 series.
Adrian's POV;
I walked down the hallway by the Student Body Office of Davis High School, feeling drained of all energy. My parents' fight last night seemed to go on forever. I had stayed up all night along with Penny and Devlin to make sure that our other five siblings stayed asleep. The number of hours of sleep we sacrificed each was wearing on me. But I can't let that get in the way of graduating and finally getting the Hell of dodge.
While I was pondering this, someone saw fit to glomp me from behind. Surprised, I almost fell flat on my face, but maintained my balance… and what little dignity I had left. When the person who had a hold of my squealed, 'Aidie-kun!' I knew who it was.
"Good morning, Aphry," I mumbled. The black haired girl with purple streaks* giggled and kissed me on the cheek. Usually, people would feel a sudden redness rush to their faces, but people in general can bite me. Also I was too used to Aphry doing this to care.
"C'mon on Aphry, get off him. I'm pretty sure the man doesn't want to be glomped this early in the morning." At this new voice behind me, I turned. Behind Aphry and I was 17 year old Troy Anderson, one of Aphry's younger brothers and my best friend.
"Awww whyz?" Aphry asked, almost whining, using that ridiculous language of hers where almost every word ended with a 'z'.
Troy scowled at her, brushing his own pirple and black hair out of his eyes. "Because he's exhausted, right Aid?"
I smiled at my designated nickname. "Yeah he's right Aphry, I'm just not feeling the hyper today."
As she got off of my back, her look of glee turned into a look of concern. Troy, whose arms where crossed, lowered them, also looking concerned. They seemed to have gathered from my tone what I didn't want to tell them.
"Adrian, how bad was it?" Aphry asked, putting a gentle pale hand on my shoulder. "How badly did they fight?"
I know by 'they' she meant my parents. I brush my strawberry colored hair out of my coffee brown eyes and glared at them. When their questioning stares didn't waver, I sighed and said, "It got so bad that Jacob could hear it from his room and his room was far, far away from were the fight was going on."
Troy and Aphry exchanged worried looks. "Are Penny and Devlin okay?" Troy asked. I raised my eyebrow at him. A sudden redness appeared in his face and he turned away from me. Aphry and I exchanged a knowing smirk. Troy caring about Devlin was natural, because it seemed like a natural instinct with anybody who knew our family. Everybody cared about that kid, even though he's 14 years old and can look after himself. But the reason that Troy cared about Penny was because he likes her.
Penny is seventeen years old like Troy is and, like Troy, she is only a year younger than me. Penny looked like how our mother did when she was a teenager, except for the fact that Penny had brown eyes that my father had when he was eleven. The was a slight difference with the attitudes between my mother and Penny as teenagers; my mom was a goody, goody school girl. Penny, on the other hand, was a bad girl, like Troy, who was a bad boy. They weren't complete and utter law-breakers though. There are some places where they knew that they shouldn't venture, though they've tried it. Example? He's a teenage father and she's a teenage mother.
"Are they all okay anyway, Adrian?" Aphry asked, bringing me out of my thoughts.
"Yeah," I said after awhile. When I turned my back on them I mumbled, to where they couldn't hear me, "But I don't think it'll stay that way for long…."
A/N; *Purple streaks mean that she, her brother and the rest of their siblings are royalty where they come from which I will explain later.
Okay that's it! More chapters will be added soon, so R&R guys!
~Ellie~