Chapter 3: Personal
I walked down the hall with a broom in my hand. I swept up all the dust and dirt from the floor, pushing it into the dust pan. I made my way to the kitchen to dump the pad into the trash when i saw Toriel coming up the stairs. She smiled weakly when she saw me.
"Hi Gem! Doing...chores i see." she exclaimed with a surprised look on her face. I shrugged.
"I might as well make myself useful while i'm here." i told her, crossing my arms. Flowey was on her shoulder, he rolled his eyes.
"You're still injured, you should not be working." He snapped.
I glared at him. Toriel tried taking the broom from me but i twisted it away.
"I'll be fine. Just let me be useful." I growled.
Toriel and Flowey exchanged a glance before turning and walking towards the kitchen.
I continued sweeping, gathering the dirt and dust and pushing it into the pan.
I started humming to myself a song i knew. I mumbled the lyrics to myself.
"Little do you know
How I'm breaking while you fall asleep
Little do you know
I'm still haunted by the memory
Little do you know
I'm trying to pick myself from piece by piece
Little do you know
I need a little more time
Underneath it all I'm held captive by the hole inside
I've been holding back
For the fear that you might change your mind
I'm ready to forgive you but forgetting is a harder fight
Little do you know
I need a little more time"
Memories spun in my head, creating cobwebs i couldn't escape, no matter how hard i pulled, or how much i tried.
Old friends leaving me.
My brother getting bullied because of his freak of a step-sister.
Hiding myself in a hood, to protect him.
Scars.
"Little do you know
I know you're hurting while I'm sound asleep
Little do you know
All my mistakes are slowly drowning me
Little do you know
I'm trying to make it better piece by piece
Little do you know I
I love you 'til the sun dies"
Clapping. That was the first thing i heard. I swung around and there was the boy, awake and clapping.
My face went red.
"Your...awake…" i mumbled, turning back to keep sweeping.
"Are you okay?" he asked.
I whipped around to glare at him.
"Really? You ask ME this!" i nearly screech at him. Out of the corner of my eye i see flowey peeking out of the kitchen.
"Yes! Those guys tried to kill you, i'm allowed to be worried!" he told me, matter of factly.
I rolled my eyes,
"Those GUYS were your FRIEND'S." i snarled. I struck a nerve. He balled his fists.
"I don't even know your name for crying out loud! So why, please tell me, why would you save ME!" fumed, my face flushed with anger.
"I saved you because what they were doing was wrong!" he yelled back.
"Oh don't give me that excuse, for YEARS they've been doing that, with you in on it, and you suddenly decide to go 'hey i feel bad, i'm just gonna risk my life to help this girl i've helped bully for most of her life!' i think not. So give me a REAL reason, right here, right now."
The idiot looked down at his feet as if my gaze weighed hundreds of pounds.
He mumbled and answer.
"Excuse me, could you repeat that?" i snapped in mock politeness.
"Because...i...were a lot more alike than you seem. I just didn't know it until then." he mumbled slightly louder. I rolled my eyes.
"Really? Alike huh." i began rolling up my sleeves, revealing the scars i hid from my family.
"So alike huh? Have you ever felt so guilty to the point you think you didn't deserve a life? That me, every day. I cause my family hardships they shouldn't have to go through, because of these." i growled, pointing at my teeth.
"You're not the only one who was bullied for being weird!" he fumed back.
I give him an 'oh really' look, crossing my arms.
"Fine then, if you believe that, show me."
"I can't"
"Why not?" I snap back.
"I'm to weak right now, but i can try and explain it if you want me to?" he looked up at me, his brown eyes meeting my amber ones.
I scoff and turn away.
"I can cause accidents….all i have to do, is think about it. If someone is being bullied, and i don't like it, the bully has bad luck, accidents for a long time." he tried explaining.
"I don't know what it is, but Jake found out, and he didn't like that. I was threatened, i was scared, so i joined him."
I look at him out of the corner of my eyes. His eyes pleading, as if he was trying to say 'please believe me!'
"Fine, i believe you." i muttered.
He smiled a little bit.
"By the way, my name is Aiden"
The song parts are from"little do you know" by Alexa and Sierra.
So that was a pretty moody chapter. Gem revealed some stuff, and so did Aiden. It took forever to find a name for him. I had to go on pintrest and look up "names" and spent and hour, scrolling through, trying to find a perfect name. So what did you guys think? Was i descriptive enough? Was it not enough? Was the chapter long enough? Please tell me if you have any tips for me.
~Lynx