Fresh POV
Dear Diary,
I am still thinking about the trial and what that lady said when she came over the other day, while I haven't said anything about it Error seems really nervous but I don't blame him, I'm scared too but I just put up an act so that I seem as emotionless as before but I can tell they can see through me like glass even though they haven't said anything-
"Hey!" I yell out as my diary was ripped out of my hands, I look up as see some of the older kids from my and Errors class with smirk on there faces that sent a shiver down my spine, I knew that smirk anywhere, that smirk meant 'We are gonna make your life a pain that you'll finally cry.' Which happened a lot, they would beat me up and rub dirt in my eye sockets so it would make me cry but they knew it wasn't real tears, they were bodily teras to get the mud out my skull. They wanted me to cry out of pain and fear and today was probably going to be that day...oh Joy…
The leader of the group was a lot taller than me, which was to be expected since he was 10 and I was only 8 but he was taller then he should have been and he was really strong for a human, he has a dark green and blue striped sweater that he adored, which clashed horribly but no one was brave or stupid enough to say anything about it for fear of getting beat up; his name was Jonathan but he insisted to be called 'Johnny' and he was the one that had a hold of my dairy.
"Johnny, give it back." I try to keep my composure and sound as normal as possible but even I could hear the unsure tone in my voice but he pretends not to notice and laughs "Ha! Why should I? What's a freak like you got to hide anyway? Whatever it is, I bet it's good, HEY EVERYONE Check this it!" He pulls it up to his face and I feel my soul skip a beat, I had written about everything that had happened to me in that book and I knew I wasn't allowed to let anyone know what was going on until it was over and he was gonna tell everyone!
I was so distracted by my own thoughts that I didn't even realise my magic had begun spiking again, with purple smoke coming out of my eye sockets "What the HECK?" I hear in front of me and all I can focus on is my dairy "Give. It. Back." I growl out, suddenly feeling angrier than I ever have before as I staked forward "H-Hey, get away from me you freak!" As Johnny began to back up he suddenly stops as a cold grip encases his soul, he looks down and can see it glowing blue with a purple tinge to it in the middle of his chest, as he stares at me with udder confusion and I sense a hint of fear...I didn't know I could do that…"Now, I'm gonna ask you nicely brah, give it back before I lose control of myself...and you really don't want that, I have more power in my soul than anyone I know...Now. Give. It. Back!" and just like that he drops it on the floor in front of me, so I let go "Thanks Brah!"
As I reach down to grab my diary and put it away in my fanny pack, I see him trying to scrabble away, I smirk "Oh and Jonathan...Bullyings unrad, so don't do it again." I could hear the spite in my own voice. Huh, so that's what anger feels like, it's not a nice feeling but now I understand what Error used to feel all the time, speaking of which where is he? He went to get our lunches while I wanted on the bench, also is it so quiet?... I look around and EVERYONE is staring in complete shock and is dead quiet, then some of the kids start to part a path and Error comes through with two lunch boxes, he must have just shown up since he's not freaking out, he just seemed more confused than everyone else as he sat down next to me and we started eating our lunch, eventually everyone just started playing again but it was still a lot quieter than normal.
"Hey Fresh, is everything alright?" Error says out of the blue as we were eating, a hint of concern in his glitchy voice "Did something happen while I was gone? Everyone's watching you…" Error puts his hand on my shoulder and rubs it gently "Come one bro, what happened?" I sigh and pull my dairy out "Jonathan tried to take my Dairy and was gonna read it out to everyone… So I stopped him..." Error eyes glitch out for a second as he slightly growls out "What?" I look to the side to avoid his gaze "He...he was gonna read it out what happened to me but I stopped him, he won't be bothering anyone anymore though." I smirk at that last sentence "Wait, what do you mean? What did you do?" I don't wanna answer because I'll get in trouble "Umm…" I stammer and pull at the colourful sleeves on my jacket "Fresh come on, I'm not mad I just wanna know...you didn't kill him did you?" I look up at him with a shocked face "What!? No! No, I didn't kill him I just scared him by picking him up by... his soul..." I trail off as I realise that I had just told him everything and in shame I draw my legs up to my chest and bury my head in my knees, waiting to be lectured about using my magic like that.
When I was younger, I didn't really have a sense of right and wrong but Ma was quick to teach me about what's acceptable and what's not. So now I have a very strong sense of right and wrong, so I was always against fighting, even when Error used to hit me I used to lay there and take it because I didn't think fighting was right, so whenever I got bullied I would never fight back or do anything really, so getting into a fight would be a really big thing for me and Ma used to say "The day that boy fights back will be the end of the world." It was a joke, well it was supposed to be a Joke…
"Fresh...Come on look at me, I'm not mad I promise, Please look up." Error pats my back gently, Error sure could be gentle when he wanted too, I'd seen it before with him and Geno when he was home but before this happened, never with me. After a few minutes I raise my head up but only look to the left "Fresh, I'm not upset." Error says in a somewhat happy tone "Huh?" I look back and look at Error, he's practically beaming, eyelights conversion into stars as he smiled one of the widest smiles I have ever seen "Fresh, I've never been more proud of you!" He leapt forward and hug me tightly, knocking me off the bench and pushing us both to the ground "Oh god, I'm sorry! Are you ok Fresh?" Error pulls back and covers his hands over my chest worryingly. I just stared up at him and start laughing, the look on his face was priceless! "Haha! Oh man, you should see the look on your face." Error blushed a dark blue and turned his head to pout, he does that when he's embarrassed.
I giggle and hold my hands up "Oh come on glitchy. You know you look hilarious when you make that face! I guess I'm still not used to you caring about me yet, forgive me?" I reach my hand out as a sign of an apology, he glances and tries to act tough and turns around dramatically with a 'Humph!' I smirk and decided to play along. I gasp loudly and turn my head up at him "You don't care about me, Oh brother how can thou be so cruel?~" I was just bearly able to hold in my laughter as Error played along "Now could you say that to me?" He says even more dramatically as he bent back until he fell back on my legs in a dramatic pose and then we just burst out laughing.
After what could have been 5 minutes of laughing we stopped catch our breaths, with tears running down our sockets. We just laid there and stared up at the sky, it was a bright day but still really chilly and there was a lot of clouds out "You know..." I say, sitting up and look down at him "I think that the most I've ever heard you laugh since Geno, well...you know." Since Fresh had learnt what hurt was, he had stopped being so blunt about Geno's Condition "I've heard you laugh with Ink, but never that much." Error just looks up at me with a blank stare, then smiles shyly as he leans up and turns around to face me "That's because that's the first we've really bonded. Think about it...we really haven't spent any time together or kidded around like this. It feels good you know, hard to believe that I used to hate you..." At that, a bad thought crept into my mind.
"D-do you still?..." As I muttered the question, Error head shot up and looked dead into my eye with a confused exception "What?" I rubbed my arm once again but didn't break the gaze "Do still hate me, even a little?" When he didn't reply...I moved to get up but he reached up faster then I'd ever seen him move and pulled me back down "Come on, give me a chance to reply, would you? Why would you think I still hated you?" I shrug, glancing to the side as I do "Was it something I said?" I shook my head "Nah, I was just wondering, I always thought that if I did get 'Better'-" I make quotation marks with my fingers "That you still wouldn't wanna be around me. Not that I would blame you, Now that I know just how strange I was compared to now...Now I'm even weirder." Error just sighed and rubs my shoulder gently "Look, don't worry about it, you could be worse things then bit weird, I mean have you met our family, there's something wrong with all of us: Geno's sick, I have no social skills and can't touch anyone and you're just you." I nod and looks up at him with a small smile "And what about our friends? Ink's weird too and your friend Decan is super fragile, right?" I nod more and he pulls me closer, putting me in a headlock and rubbing his knuckles against my skull in a playful manner "So forget about how wired you were! Just live for what you're like now. And to be honest, I think I like this you much better."
I just laugh and try to push him off "I think I do too."Then he started to rub my ribs, I burst out laughing "No! Come on Bro you know I'm ticklish there!" I try to roll away but he's too strong but I didn't mind, I was actually enjoying this bonding thing but my excitement had activated my magic once again and before I could contain it, I felt the hands off me but I just rolled over to catch my breath, assuming that he had just let go "Er..Fresh?" "Yeah Brah-!" I look up and he's hovering slightly above the ground with his soul even more blue with a purple tinge in the middle "Sorry! Sorry, I'll let you down." I wave my hand and Error drops to the ground he looks up and smiles brightly again "Again I am so proud of you right now."
"B-But I just-!" As I tried to explain my confusion Error leaps up and grabs my hand bring them together "Don't be confused. Don't ever question this. Look, your magic is connected to you and your emotions. If you feel like you are threatened or you feel the need to get away, your magic response to that feeling. That's a good thing." I look up "But I don't wanna hurt people, I don't wanna fight." I pleaded in a pathetic tone "Fresh, you need to learn something very important and I NEED you to listen to me, Please?" I look into his eyes, he has a begging look in his eye...I should listen... I nod my head and he nods and I listen very closely.
"It's Ok to Fight Back."
