Sophie slept like a log the entire night. It was still dark outside when she heard her door creak open. Sophie groaned softly as she curled up in her bed. Why was this person coming into her room this early in the morning? She felt some weight sit down on her bed and some kind of animal jump up there as there. The person started shaking her shoulder and said "Sophie. Wake up. Come on."

Sophie groaned even more as she pulled the blanket up over her head. "I'm too tired to figure out who you are. Go away."

"Aw come on Bugaboo. I came all this way from college in New York and you don't even wanna see me or Fungus?" The voice said as a dog barked.

"Wait... Bugaboo… New York… Fungus?" Sophie questioned before gasping, getting up, and hugging the mysterious person. "ICKY!"

Icky chuckled and hugged her back as the dog wagged his tail. "I missed you to bugaboo!"

The person was a 19-year-old boy with dark skin with freckles, goldish eyes, pale blue hair, and was wearing a purple hoodie with rabbit-like ears, jeans, and maroon high-tops. Next to the boy was a Shetland Sheepdog puppy with a special vest.

This was the brother I was talking about last time! His name is Ichabod Simmons or "Ickis" for short though I call him "Icky" as my personal nickname. He's 19 years old so he's going to college right now which is why he wasn't in my last journal post. He came here shortly after our former brother Reese did. He lost his mother when he was still a little baby. He ran away from his dad when he was around 13 when he felt like he couldn't live up to his star athlete father and his father didn't understand that he has Autism. So he ran away to where he felt his emotions were most at that point. The dump. He didn't live there long though. Our Grandpa found him living amongst the trash piles so he handed him over to mom like: "This is right up your alley." He did eventually reconcile with his father but he's kinda bouncing back between him and us. Fungus is his therapy dog for when he gets overwhelmed by all the people.

Icky is one of my favorite brothers after Tak and Snap. He has always been super gentle with me since I first got here where I was six and he was 15 years old. Some of that is due to his nervous nature and lack of self-confidence. The other part of that is because he was always really good with small children much to his annoyance. One of those children just so happened to be me. Though he has had his moments of aggressive behavior. When I first moved schools and some mean girl pushed me into a trash can after school, Icky was there and scared them pretty bad.

Sophie yawned still cuddling up to Ickis. Ickis chuckled again "Geeze you really are tired huh Bugaboo?"

"Yeah… I spent all day painting for mom and dad for some reason…by the way. Why is your hair blue now?" Sophie asked sleepily as Lion and Fungus inspected each other.

"Oh that… I kinda lost a bet against Oblina and had to dye my hair whatever color she picked." Ickis said sheepishly blushing a bit.

Sophie giggled a bit before yawning again. "Wanna come cuddle with me on the couch?" Ickis asked as Sophie nodded quickly. Ickis smiled and picked her up carrying her downstairs with both Fungus and Lion following them. They settled down on the couch and quickly fell asleep.