I smirked as Frost .T Bite slowly faded away to reveal my godfather (or was it adopted father now?) Frostbite.
"That's better" I smiled as he opened his arms wide and I hugged his fur tightly. Throughout the whole ordeal, my brother was just staring in shock and confusion between us. He finally reacted by yanking me away from Frostbite and shielding me from our adopted father.
"Stay away from us!" I almost smack my brother in the head and asked what he did to the real Solomon because he would never do something like that.
"Solomon, relax Frostbite is cool, pun totally intended" I stepped around him and back to Frostbite.
"And before you ask, Frostbite isn't just your imagination and you haven't gone crazy. If you want to know how he is here beside me you're gonna have to believe me one hundred percent okay?" he nodded slowly and I almost sighed in relief.
"Few weeks ago, as you remember, I had an accident with a car where I went into a coma but what actually happened was that I died and became a ghost. I was sent into that cartoon I always talked about, Danny Phantom, which turned out to be another dimension and got a new life, well more like afterlife but you get the point, there" while letting my bro digest the information I had just told him I turned back to Frostbite.
"How and why are you here anyway, not that I'm upset or anything" I asked him.
"Not now, you and your brother still have school tomorrow and you two will need to be rested physically and mentally. I promise, I will tell you tomorrow" I pouted and crossed my arms like a child but he just ruffled my hair and shooed me off to my room. I complied and Solomon trailed after me slightly slower. The moment the both of us stepped into our room he shut the door close and locked it. He moved me over to my bed, sat me down and gave me a stare that I could not identify. I'm gonna call it a big brother stare cause I never saw him do now and considering the circumstances it probably is one.
"How do you trust that… that thing" he asked pointing at the door. I cringed at his last word but otherwise somewhat glared at him.
"Firstly, Frostbite is not a thing he's our adopted dad now and he's awesome. Secondly, what is up with you? Since when do you care about stuff like this? Last time I check, you said that it was weird and awkward when I actually share my problems with you" I asked and crossed my arms.
"If you never noticed Shannon, our parents are dead and you just accept him as our new dad? How do you know he didn't change your memories or something?" he asked coldly. I frowned and reached under my bed pulling out a dusty box.
"Frostbite made this for me when I was under his care for all that time and when I came back, he gave me this" I opened the box and passed it over to him. He looked inside to see nothing but black and raised his eyebrow. I rolled my eyes and pulled out my cloak and revealed it to him.
"Now do you believe me? And you still never answered my second question" I put my cloak back into the box and pushed it back under my bed. Solomon sighed and sat down next to me.
"I know I haven't really been the best of brothers but I'm trying to make up for it, with you having that accident just a few weeks ago and now, our parents are gone…" he trailed off, unsure of how to continue and I awkwardly just patted his back and went off to get ready for school.
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The next day, I waited for classes to start by reading. Our normal school schedule was usually morning assembly and then afterwards classes but before then we weren't allowed in the classrooms. I adjusted my beige uniform skirt a little before turning the page. I glanced upwards for a few seconds to see three new faces walked around confused. There were two guys and one girl, one of the guys had grey eyes and dark brown hair, the other guy had dark brown eyes and black hair with a black framed glasses and the girl had blonde hair and green eyes.
I shrugged mentally, guessing that they were probably new students and got up, marking my book before I did, as the announcement was made to start the assembly. While walking over I accidentally bumped, well more like crashed, into the girl from the trio. I said a quick apology and walked away quickly, avoiding eye contact. I looked back for a second to see her talking with her friends before all three of them looked at me and I looked away.
Somehow, they were all in the exact same classes as me and I didn't really try to interact with them. They were a little confused at first cause our school was different from theirs, especially since it looked like that were itching all over because of the uniforms, but some of my other classmates told them how it worked. I tried to avoid them a little more after that because the moment they talked with them, a group of boys who loved to tease and make fun of each other and mostly me and my best friend, they would not be that good to be around.
I sighed in relief when it was finally time for the break and left the classroom. I ate quickly as usual and sat in my usual spot at the waiting point for my actual friends, some guys in my class who I realized were there for me, and my best friend arrived first.
"Sup old man joker. Truck's up?" I asked smirking slightly. Old man joker was the nickname I gave him because he has little to no stamina and would 'die' after running laps and the joker part because he was psychotically insane, in an awesome way. The truck thing was a joke we made when I tried to trick him but he ended up saying the word trick so much it sounded like truck.
"The usual"
"So… wishing almost everyone in our class was dead?"
"Yup" I nodded in understanding. Old man joker was probably the only guy whom I may trust, still scared to trust people, since we both understand each other's problems to a certain degree and we were both the class outcasts. I glanced around to see if the other guys were walking over yet and spotted the new kids. They were staring at me and the old man and talking between each other.
"What's up with the new kids?" I asked no one in particular when I turned around. Old man joker looked over to them and got up.
"I'm gonna say hi" I smiled slightly and turned to the other guys who finally arrived. We got into a discussion about some computer games and started imitating the voices of some of the characters. Old man joker had come back somewhere during the voice imitations and joined in with the conversation.
I didn't bother asking him about the new kids.
