A Familiar Friend

After the emotional scene on the stairs the gang is finally...FINALLY ready to leave this town for...probably a good few years, but as always, some questions must be answered like why was there a key on the picture and the broken violin in the toy box in the cleared-out storage room.

Sunny: That's easy, you see before mom (looks at Mari)...died she told me that if I ever went back to Faraway town for any reason I should go to the old tree house and find the picture and to find the toy box I had to go in the storage room and find a secret compartment that shouldn't be part of any floor plans for this house so it wouldn't have been cleared out

Hero: Not to speak ill of dead especially in front of both of you...BUT-

Kel: Bro I'm not that bright and even I know what you're about to say and all I can say is, do you really think that would stop him?

Hero: It SHOULD, but at this point everything about this entire family is anything but normal

Mari: even me?

Hero: especially you, and why was any of that there in the first place?

Sunny: if I had to guess it was most likely a message from my mom, she knew I wouldn't come here under any circumstances no matter what.

Aubrey: Unless-?

Sunny: Unless I did one of 2 things like moving on/ ran away from the incident with Mari and living my life and if I came back here, I would most likely burn the photo and the broken violin since those would be the only reminders left of my hypothetical discarded past. It doesn't take a genius to figure out the second option and how one man forced me into it without my consent.

Everyone looks at Kel

Kel: geez Sunny I honestly don't know what to say other than

YOU'RE WELCOME! (From Moana yes)

Basil: well since I assume you don't want to burn them; we can at least keep the picture in the photo album as a nice reminder of what once was

Kim: yeah, enough doom and gloom people let's just be happy

Mari: easier said than done but I agree we shouldn't let the past define us, only give us the starting point from which we make our own lives

With that heartfelt message we leave Faraway-

*WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH*

A siren is heard from outside the house

?: This is the police come out with your hands up

Hero: WHAT THE FU- WHO CALLED THE POLICE!?

Aubrey: I CAN'T GO BACK TO JAIL!

Kel and Basil: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Kim: STOP SCREAMING LIKE GIRLS!

Mari: (facepalms) things just... can't go right can they?

Sunny: EVERYONE SHUT UP LET'S JUST USE THE SECRET PATH TO SNEAK PAST-

Familiar voice: I wouldn't recommend that please just come out you not in THAT much trouble

Everyone was shocked to hear that voice and quickly came out to see...

Sunny and Mari: DAD!?

Samson: hey kids I knew you'd break in this place, right commissioner Nelson?

Nelson: Samson, while I do owe you for a variety of reasons, I can't just not turn them in if they come quietly and explain their actions the worst, they get is community service.

Samson: why should I turn them in this my house after all and I invited them

Everyone is understandably confused until Samson goes to the for-sale sign that now has a sold sticker on it.

Nelson: *Big Sigh* then all I can do is give you warning.

Samson: welp that settles that, and the last bus left some time ago so we should just stay here you probably didn't notice but there some furniture already inside nothing special just some beds and couches

Nelson: Sunny, Mari, a word

Everyone goes into the house

Mari: nice to see you again Nelson

Sunny: You've met?

Nelson: I've known both of you since you were babies but had to leave town until I came back to be a commissioner which happened after...the incident.

Sunny looked at Nelson, not in anger but still very serious

Nelson: I know what happened Sunny. As a matter of fact, I was the one to help Samson with moving Mari's body, as I saw you that night wondering what your future would be like after what you had just been through. Samson was at my side crying.

Sunny: I don't believe you

Nelson: I know, and Mari how are your memories?

Mari: I've remembered all I can I think, the last thing I recalled was my cat Mewo

Nelson: I see well I wish the 2 of you the best

Kel: SUNNY, MARI, GET IN HERE!

The 2 siblings rushed inside wondering why Kel would yell at them and then they saw...

MEWO

Mari instantly grabbed her to make sure she was real, and she was.

Mari: I- how

Samson: after I bought the house, I found her still inside and with some adorable kittens, I was going to show them all to you but when you told me about the trip well, I wanted it to be a surprise.

Everyone noticed that Sunny was standing incredibly still staring at Mewo

Sunny: s-she survived all this time?

Sunny stumbled back on the floor, he remembered now. Before he left Faraway town Sunny saw Mewo trying to escape, probably because Maria was being neglectful towards her, (because of grief) and Sunny helped her with a knife by doing that thing where you push the nub to open the door. But of course, this moment became heavily distorted in Sunny's mind leading to the creation of THAT ROOM in BLACK SPACE and it wasn't until Sunny confessed the "Truth" that things would clear up but still muddled

Mewo: purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

As Sunny was thinking this Mewo was already on top of him cuddling

Hero: is this, okay?

Samson: don't worry we'll get her, and her kittens tested but from my observations she's completely fine

Kim: Mari are you gonna keep all of them?

Mari: hmmm... I'll provide the cat food and various furniture, but I think they should be with Sunny

Sunny is seen playing with Mewo and her kittens

Aubrey: thanks Mari he defiantly needs company when he's home alone

Basil: all that's left is to give these 6 kittens names but *yawn* that can wait

One more time the gang FINALLY slept in the house that quite literally started all of this because Maria was born in that house as well with Samson moving in later, and in the morning left the town Faraway.


Notes:

Yes Mewo is alive and has six babies I wonder what that could symbolic mean for this series and a certain character

Aw who cares the kitten now cat is alive and is now part of Sunny's life I hope you like my interpretation of that RIP room and prepare for the obvious april fools day chapter