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The Rooftop
Chapter Nine
"I saw her. Our mother, I mean." I struggled to get it out and realize that after all this time I did have a mom.
"Do you know what we are?"
"I still don't know. But she looked exactly like me without glamour. Green hair, purple skin."
"Did she care? At all?"
"Yeah, but I don't think she knew she had had twins until lately, she looked a little shocked that I had a brother. She's been watching me, from where ever she was."
He nodded slightly, his head drooping a little.
"Our father?"
"He's been dead a long time, Iggy. He committed suicide when our mother told him she was a faerie. I'm…sorry."
"Not your fault. Why do the Itex records say that my parents are alive, human? Is it all fake??"
"Yes. It's glamour. When I was around five the problem came up that Itex had no records about our parents, they faked it and made me glamour an old couple. They threatened to…you get the picture. And then I had to glamour myself parents, after I did yours."
He nodded again, sitting there. He looked pretty droopy so I got up to leave. I was opening the door when I heard Iggy say a soft "Thanks."
I nodded, even though he couldn't see it.
I got back to the room I had been in, Max and Angel were sitting on Iggy's bed, Gazzy and the weepy girl asleep next to them.
I guess they laughed themselves to sleep.
I sat opposite Angel and she climbed over to my lap, reaching up to play with my hair.
'I was worried.'
'Yeah? I was, too. I thought I'd never get out and see you guys again.'
'The whole flock waited for days. Fang never even left the room.'
'Thanks for waiting. I'm glad I was able to get back.'
'We all cried a lot. I didn't cry as much as Fang, and when Iggy woke up he wouldn't stop walking around. He kept pulling at his hair.'
I nodded, and I believed her. Fang hadn't been able to stop smiling and crying, Iggy had been enormously happy to have his sister back.
"Were you guys really that worried about me?" I asked Max, looking at her.
She was sitting, hands on her forehead.
"We were. Nobody knew what had happened, and Iggy couldn't even do anything. Fang sat here and talked to you the whole time. Angel wouldn't leave, Nudge and I had to drag her out to get her to eat and play with Gazzy. Iggy just paced, and paced, and paced. He eventually just sat on the couch but then burst out with some totally random question, getting up to pace again. I was busy trying to get things a little more normal, you know?" She let out a short, nervous laugh.
"Thanks. I really mean it, thanks." And I did. They were the only people who cared. Every one else was long gone.
Max, Angel, and I sat there until Angel fell asleep, hands tangled in my hair. I started to lay her down but she refused to let go, clutching me even tighter if that was possible.
I looked at Max, a hopeful look in my eye. She got what I meant and started to help me untangle Angel's hands, prying her off of me.
Angel lay down on the bed, Max sitting next to her and smoothing her hair down.
I walked out of the room as silently as possible and started to look for Fang. He wasn't in any of the bedrooms, and Iggy was still in the room.
I searched downstairs and found nothing.
Splash trotted up to me and started grumbling. I laughed a little and started opening fish and tuna cans. I dumped twelve or so in his bowl and he went straight to work.
I walked out of the house and sat on the porch a few minutes, got bored, and climbed up to the roof.
I was just getting on top when the tiles under my hands ripped off and took me with them. I started to fall, the whole two floors and basement down.
A hand gripped mine and started to pull me up. The other one reached down and I grabbed it, looking around me for a foot hole, finding just smooth, concrete, wall.
I was now eye-level with the roof. I looked up and saw Fang, looking right in my eyes and he started to carefully pull me over the roof's edge.
I put my boot on the roof, using it for balance. My other boot found it's way next to the first as Fang let go of my hands.
He climbed up to the peak of the roof and sat down, facing away from me.
His face was illuminated by the weak crescent moon, a little boomerang in the sky.
One that was stuck, never able to come back.
I crawled up next to him and sat down, our legs touching. He looked over at me a second, searching my face for something. I stared right back at him and he turned his eyes back over to the moon.
I kept right on looking at him, not bothering to search for anything. It was all there, laid out in front of me. He was still worried.
I put my hands on my knees, leaning forward.
"You know…" I started off, then let the thought go as Fang put his arm around my waist, pulling me even closer.
I leaned into him a little bit, relieved.
He sighed, his breath came out in a smoky white puff of warm air meeting cold air.
I leaned my head into his shoulder, letting my thoughts drift.
We sat there for about an hour until a white-silver streak crossed the sky.
His voice brought me back to the present.
"Make a wish."
He looked at me, a hint of laugh to his eyes.
"I wish…" I let the sentence go, realizing I didn't wish for anything.
I had my brother, I knew my mom, I had the flock, and I had Fang.
I looked at him, our eyes meeting. He leaned forward a bit, I put my arms around him and leaned into him, our lips meeting.