Charmy was out of the office, leaving the two reptiles behind. He never told them why Charmy wanted to leave, usually they both would smile and enjoy the moment of peace without him around. Ever since Charmy obtained his superpowers, the bee stayed in his room most of the time and rarely spoke. And the two of them were wondering the reason about Charmy's new weird behavior.

That day, Vector was sitting at his desk with his feet on the table listening to music. Espio was meditating in the corner of the room like the usual. Vector needed to use the bathroom.

The croc got off the chair, walked upstairs and walked past Charmy's bedroom. But before he could make it to the bathroom, he halted his way and turned to Charmy's bedroom door. He was wondering what the bee has been up to.

"I'll whiz later," the croc thought to himself and made his way to the bee's bedroom. He opened the door and walked in, usually, Charmy's bedroom was messy like his room but seeing the kid's bedroom clean and beautiful made him surprised.

What surprised him even more that Charmy has a new bed sheet and some other stuff that he never buy for him. How did he even get these things?! Did he steal them? No, Charmy wouldn't do that.. he's too innocent. The crocodile didn't remember that Charmy has lots of money or giving him any cash to buy himself these things. Vector's too greedy to give his teammates money.

Vector noticed a notebook sitting on his table that caught his attention. He remembered that Charmy always spends his time writing on his notebook and he was curious.

Without hesitation, the croc took the book, opened it and read the first entry. It seemed like Charmy kept a journal.

Entry 1:30 March 4, 20XX

I'm glad Mom bought this book for me, now I can write stuff safely without Vector or Espio knowing about my problems and other things. I just don't want to make them mad or annoy them like I used to. I don't even know if they consider me as a friend.

"Charmy.. why would you think about that?"

Entry 1:30 March 7, 20XX

Met an owl at the Green Hill Forest and saved him from a robot that was attacking him, his name is Hootie and we became best friends and shared our interest and stories. He has superpowers. I'm really glad I met him. I didn't tell Vector and Espio about this because I don't want annoy them, yeah, I feel like everytime I speak they both would get annoyed by my annoying stupid voice. Though, Hootie doesn't find my voice like that.

Entry 1:30 March 7, 20XX

That night, Hootie came to the agency and told me about this lottery competition at a store. Hootie didn't win, surprisingly, I won the lottery and people in the store chased us around to get the money. Thanks to our superpowers we managed to get away from them and visited the mall. We bought so many stuff and got home. I decided to get inside using the window of my room because I was too scared to tell them that I went outside without their permission. I kept the lottery money inside my wardrobe and decided to tell them at the right time. I don't even know why I'm doing this..

"Wait what?! Charmy won a lottery?!"

Entry 1:30 March 9, 20XX

Got a call from Cream that he needed my help urgently. There was a competition and I met Hootie there, he asked if he could come with and meet Cream so I said yes. We met Cream and I introduced her my friend. She told us that she just broke Mom's purple vase and needed our help to replace it with the grand prize of the competition. So, we helped her cheating, but things went wrong when the Babylon Rogues showed up and stole the vase but we managed to get it back.

Mom knew about Hootie and he was wondering how she knew about him. She told him that Cream told her about him and us helping her cheating, she was very angry. Cream then came into the scene and told her the truth. The chief then gave us the grand prize because Cream told her the truth.

Some hours later, Mom adopted Hootie because he told her that he doesn't have parents. We learned two things that day: never cheat in games or competitions and always tell the truth.

Vector then began reading all the entries for minutes, he found out that Charmy has been suffering with emotional problems and never told them. While ignoring the fact that Charmy won the lottery prize, he was also angry when he found some swearing words in them but he was worried sick about the bee's mental health.

Afraid that Charmy might be back soon, Vector stood from the bed to place the book where it belongs but as soon as he stood up he felt his bladder about to burst, remembering that he needed to take a whiz earlier. He quickly tossed the book on the desk and ran towards the bathroom as quick as possible.

Vector was right, Charmy had returned the agency after having a walk at the Seaside Park to calm himself, earlier, he felt stress in his room and felt an urge to go somewhere else. Espio got off the floor and greeted him with a smile.

"Hi there, Charmy. Welcome back," Espio smiled.

Charmy smiled and nodded in response. Espio always wondered why the bee is always quiet. Charmy made his way upstairs to his room and found his door opened, he didn't remember leaving his door open. He entered his room and found out that his book was not being placed properly on the desk. But decided not to overthink about it since he was too tired after taking a walk.

He closed the door behind him and hopped himself on the bed. Feeling better that he managed to reduce his stress, the bee lied down and closed his eyes to get some sleep.

Vector walked out the bathroom and sighed in relief, he noticed that Charmy's bedroom door was closed and already knew that the bee has returned. He took a deep breath, made his way to the door and knocked on it.

"Charmy? Little one?" Vector called out.

Charmy opened his eyes, it's unusual to him to hear Vector calling him that name. But whatever it is, Charmy got off the bed, walked towards the door and opened it, only to find Vector standing outside looking at him with a concerned expression on his face.

"Vector?" Charmy spoke quietly, trying his best not to annoy him.

"May I come in?" The croc asked, Charmy opened the door wider and let the leader step in, he closed the door behind him and sighed.

"Charmy, I'm really sorry but I just read your diary.."

Charmy's eyes widened.

"No, I'm not mad at you, but I'm proud of you that you won the lottery." Vector smiled, then frowned. "But why didn't you tell us about your problems..?"

Charmy hung his head, he wasn't sure if what to tell him but part of him was telling him that Vector only cares about money which made the bee upset even more.

"...I don't know. I just don't want to bother you guys like I used to." The bee spoke softly.

"Charmy," the croc kneeled down. "You have changed so much after you obtained your powers. You became quiet and sad and I don't like seeing you like that. Don't even think that we are better off without you because without you, the Chaotix isn't the same."

Vector then wrapped his hands around the bee and pulled him into a hug. Charmy widened his eyes in astonishment but hugged him back. He let go of the bee as the croc looked at him sternly.

"I found some words in your book that you shouldn't say or write, Charmy." He said.

Charmy chuckled nervously, "Sorry, sometimes you swore a lot when arguing with Espio."

Vector sighed, "Oh my, why am I so stupid.." he turned to bee and gave a fatherly smile. "I love you and proud of you."

Charmy grinned, "I love you too, Vector."

Charmy gave the money to Vector and the crocodile paid all the bills and rents. The crocodile told Espio about Charmy winning the lottery and the chameleon was proud of the bee, though the two of them were disappointed that Charmy left the agency without their permission.

Since then, Vector became a father-figure to Charmy.

Sorry for taking too long to update, I was busy with school and stuff. Also, stay tuned for another chapter featuring one of my friend's OC.