Chapter 4: Matt
"OH CRAP, OH CRAP, OH CRAP!!!" I said pacing the room
"What`s the matter? Didn`t you want to evolve?"
"NO!"
"Why?"
"Because, because… sigh. Alex you tell her."
"Tell her what?"
"The thing about Banette… you know the thing I told you in the forest…"
"Is that it?"
"What it?" said her mom?
"Banettes can't tell a secret, but I don't know why you're so worried about-" she thought for a second "Your scared of that zipper coming closed on you?" I nodded
"HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!" laughed Cody "Revenge is sweet!"
"Stop laughing! This isn`t funny!" I said looking at my shaking hands
"OH yeah it is! I can get back at you for all those times you closed my mouth!" I sulked even more
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About 4:00 PM:
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I was on the couch face down with Alex sitting right next to me leaning over petting and comforting me…
"It's not the end of the world…" she said "Just don't tell any secrets and you`ll be fine!"
"You don't understand!" I said with my voice muffled from the couch "It's already been downhill since I turned into a shuppet, but now I'm a banette!"
"What do you mean turned into a shuppet?"
"Well… me and Cody were"
Zzzzzip!"
"Humph! HUMPH HUMPH HUMPH!" it felt weird having your mouth close… like having your mouth tighten so much that you can't move it at all, and above that, its humiliating…
"OOPS! I'm so sorry! Please forgive me!"
I tried getting the zipper undone but I found out that it won't budge and whenever it`s tugged it hurts a lot. I tried to remember what Cody did to get his undone. He admitted that he won't tell and the zipper became undone! I did that and the zipper became undone! It felt relieving to get it undone.
"It's OK…" I told her "it was an accident…"
"MOM!" called another voice much younger and belonging to a boy "IM HOME!"
"I can hear you from ten feet away honey…" her mom said
"Sorry I didn`t see you…" he walked by the couch and saw me. "Is that a Banette!?"
"He sure is matt!" Alex said "But… he's feeling a little down right now…"
"I know how to cheer him up! C`Mon! Let's go upstairs!" Alex nodded to me and I followed him to his room. What I noticed about this room, like all the others, was that it seemed to have nothing in it except common furniture…
"Um…" I began "where is everything?"
"OH…" he seemed to lose his pep "It was burned in the fire…"
"What do you mean?" I asked
"Before we moved here there was a huge fire at our old place… nothing survived except my dad's lucky charm… not even dad survived…" he showed me the charm. It was an ancient carving from someplace…
"I`m so sorry." I said "what else did you lose?"
"The only things in my room I really cared about. And that was my stuffed animals… but now I have you! You are going to live with us and be my best friend! But… I usually confide all my secrets to my stuffed animals and I don't want you to tell…"
"IT`s OK… Banettes can't tell any secret…"
"Really?"
"None… wanna try?"
"OK…" he decided what he was going to tell me "Well I… whisper whisper whisper…"
"HOLLY CRAP YOU STILL-"
"Zzzzzip!"
"HUMPH HUMPH HUMPH!!!"
"WOW! It's true! … Need help getting that undone?" he saw me tug on the zipper as hard as I could and it wouldn`t budge. I nodded. He picked me up without any trouble and tugged on the zipper. It came off so soothingly that it didn`t hurt a bit!
"That's weird…" I said "I could never get the zipper undone yet you can without even trying!"
"I guess it's another thing a banette has…"
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Later:
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It was dinnertime when Alex and Cody came in bragging about their leveling Cody up thing.
"YEAH" said Cody "I leveled up three levels!"
"Wow… so cool…" I said sarcastically. I was eating poke` food, and it didn`t taste bad, it even tasted GREAT! When I was a human I tried this stuff once and I spit it out, but it taste delicious now!
"It`s decided then?" asked the mom
"Yep" said Alex
"What?" I said
"That Alex gets to keep Cody and Matt keeps you!"
I thought about this for a moment… " I guess that sounds fair…"
"YEAH" said Matt "Now we can hang out all the time!"
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10:00 PM:
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I was getting into Matt`s room when he said "Don't be afraid! You can sleep with me!" I walked over to the bed and jumped onto it. Struggling to get up on it because it was so high to me. "Here let me help you with that!" he pulled on my arms and I got onto the bed when he grabbed me and put me under the covers.
"What are you doing?" I asked
"Hugging you!" he fell asleep soon after and I was in a grip that I couldn`t get out of… yet it felt comforting and relaxing somehow and I fell asleep too.
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What a great chapter! Who says a ghost can't be loved? Well that's it for this chapter! PLEASE REVIEW!!! (Words=1056)