Kim's POV:
My head hits something hard, making me jolt awake. It must've been the wall to my right. A pitch black room sits before me making me scared then ever before. I just had a nightmare that Jack was here, sucking my blood from the five sockets of darkness. He hurt me painfully but I do know it was his and Garret's fault. They couldn't even control their anger to realize that I was trying to break it up. I'm not that kind of girl who just sits back to watch boys fight over her. I didn't even want one boy in the first place. Yes, I did like Garret-just a smudge- but then Jack came along and swooped me off my feet. Like how I felt how much I don't want to be, I'm attracted like a magnet. As if that love sick feeling is quickly forming when I started having a crush on Garret. Jack has at least hurt me several times emotionally, physically, and mentally. The thing is I still have those damn butterflies in my stomach every time I get near him or even think about him. There are those damn butterflies again.
Struggling to even get up I quickly but gently (mostly on my stomach) to the stairs. Once at the bottom of the steps I use the two railing to prop myself up each step. Male laughing on the upper floor makes me go even quicker. I don't know why, probably I was hoping Jack would be talking to my dad like friends, but no Kimberly Mary Jane (Sorry if you don't like her full name, it was her mom's) Crawford you just got injured by him. He couldn't possibly be boy-friend material. My hand clutches the door knob, most likely getting someone's attention. The door squeaks open as a crack forms to show me who's in the living room. My dad sits in the red over stuffed rocking chair; one boy with red hair in a Mo-hawk sits on the long couch with a beer bottle in one hand, the TV remote in the other and Garret siting on the love seat. "Kim I didn't think you would heal so quickly." My dad says with a happy grin of me being able to at least get up with help. "Yeah, you can say that again." Shy smile spears on my face, mostly because one red head I've never met is in my living room having a beer with my dad, and Garret who is half the reason I almost got killed. "Kim, this is Bryce." With the shy smile still on my face I hobble off into the kitchen. Footsteps follow me making me feel uncomfortable. The red head appears in my vision, obviously coming for another beer.
He then turns to me with a bright smile, almost as bright as his hair. His hand extends from his side wanting a hand shake. He then puts it down with his beer then comes over to hug me. I don't really bother to shove him away mostly because he seems nice like a brother. My dad then comes into the kitchen, then smiles just as bright as this red head's. "Good that you two are getting along, I was afraid you wouldn't." "Why it's not like we have anything against each other." I say just as this kid pulls away. "Well that's good because….." My dad sits down next to me like it's serious. "Well what?" "Kim before you go asking questions just listen." "Alright, I'm all ears." I take a bite out of an apple in a bowl on the table, not really wanting to ask any questions in the first place. "Bryce and you are brother and sister." I almost drop my apple out of my hand and mouth as I take a bite that doesn't end. I set it down to listen more closely.
"Before your mom had you she had Bryce. At sixteen, just like you, he started developing….powers." Garret leans against the wall in the hallway, very interested. Bryce just stands there quietly, tossing an orange from one hand to the other. "Your mom was very worried. She didn't know how to calm him down when it was his time of the month to grow very powerful, the slightest sarcastic joke about would blow him up. So we sent him to boarding school." He pauses to let me refresh. "But what about before he went to boarding school, I didn't meet him before then did I?" "Yes you did but your mom insisted I erase your mind of anything of Bryce Alexander Crawford's existence." "Now why would she do that?" Once those words escape my mouth, Bryce leaves the front door in a flash. "She didn't like his kind of powers." "Well but….." "She didn't like him because he could something like this." His pointer finger lights up in red, orange, yellow and slight white. He leans it over and lights up the candle near the window. My mouth drops open in shock. "Why didn't you tell me this?" "I was afraid you won't accept me like your mom didn't accept Bryce. There is something else important I need to tell you." Seeming serious I turn to please excuse Garret, but he's already outside talking with Bryce. When I turn back my dad has a paper and a pencil, the paper has drawings already.
On the far right is a scaled creature with a long neck and tail, most similar to a dragon. The next on the right is a large dog, hairy with fangs and looking like it wants to kill. The next one over is a vampire. The strange thing is it seems like this guy been alive for centuries. The next guy looks like Bryce, but much older and looks like he has more skill. "These are the four clans, lion pride for the flame or packs for werewolves. We all have a hatred for one another, which practically destroyed your mother's and my relationship." "So how did your parents let you get to together in the first place?" "Well this maybe shock to you but I was called bad boy in the dictionary. I was a runner, didn't have any care in the world. Then one day I saw your mom. She was out in the woods hunting just as I was with my quiver of bows. That's how we met." He sits back and takes a sip of his beer. "What about mom? What was she like?" "She was very beautiful and amazing. Except for on the full moon am I right?" He pokes my stomach trying to be funny. Glaring at him with narrow eyes he continues. "Anyway, I have no idea why she had that affair. I am very much sure I didn't do anything wrong." His eyes stare out the window in sadness. I never knew something funny could go in the complete opposite direction.
Knocking on the door gets me and my dad out of our daydreams. We both turn around, with Cat banging on the door like a maniac. I quickly get the door before Cat tears the house apart. Cat comes in with a side bag, with a big poster sticking out of one side. At barely gets out what she has to say in breaths. "Hey guys, Kim we need to talk like now." "But Cat….." "It's important let's go!" She then dashes down into the basement. Giving my dad a quick kiss on the cheek for hope, I then dash down the basement stairs after her. "Cat what was that about?" As I turn the corner my question has been answered. Cat put up an Adventure Time poster above my bed, but instead of doing anything normal friends do she's shutting the curtains of the windows and then runs past to shut the door. She then drags me over onto my bed to see the poster close up.
The poster has your usual characters on it. Then again it's in gender bender. Every character seems familiar. Cat then puts a black marker in my hand. "What do I do with this?" "Do those characters seem similar?" "Yeah I guess so but…." She turns me to the poster. 'Then write their names down, hurry!" Once she says that I feel like I know everyone their names.
Me as Fionna, Cat as Cake, Jack as Marshall Lee, Jerry as Lord Monochromicorn, Regina as Ice Queen, Garret as Prince Gumball, Bryce as Flame prince, dad as BMO, Sam as Lumpy Space Prince, and Grandpa George (her mom's father) as Tree Trunks.
As I sit back to look at what I did, I realize that it was just big blank poster board tapped against the wall. The drawings look like the real thing except more in a pg-13 between rated-R kinds of thing. Fionna is more skinny at the waist, bulky at the legs, stomach, and upper area, Cake looks pretty muscular, Ice Queen is in some tight clothes, Prince Gumball looks muscular as a prince, Flame prince looks big in flames, tree trunks looks healthy for being old, BMO looks a little bigger, Lumpy Space Prince is slightly thinner, Lord Monochromicorn is just plain old ripped along with Marshal Lee as well. He is riding Lord Monochromicorn other than Prince Gumball.
That raises my eyebrows a little. Cat looks at me in confusion. "How'd you do that?" "I don't know. You just gave me the marker, which I just thought I was going to write the names but instead I did…..whatever this is." "Damn Kim I didn't know you could draw." "Cat but there's someone missing. I just don't know who it is." "Weird we might as well think about it then." We stare at the picture of my drawing for who knows how long. "Plus Marshal Lee is riding Lord Monochromicorn than Prince Gumball. Why did you draw it like that?"
"Probably because she was thinking of me."