Nakamas Can Be Family
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Izz was in the woods sitting on a broken tree log thinking. He was depressed still. He felt guilty because he'd left them to go to Earth.
"If I'd stayed, then maybe I.... could've saved them. But they had Ras-Gos's flu and they couldn't fight it.
I didn't say goodbye." he thought feeling the wind but felt an armoured hand on his shoulder.
it was Jen.
It scared him to see his partner so miserable.
"It's okay Izz.
A friend told me what's going on. I know how you feel.
Maybe you should tell the others.
They'd understand." he told him feeling his partner's tears hit his armour.
"It's okay to let it out. I've never done that about my loss." he reassured him.
"What loss? You've never lost anybody in your life." Izz told him.
"M-My adoptive parents on Earth were destroyed by Nalia and the shadow spirits and I was helpless to do anything.
But I'm okay.
Because I have people who care about me like Ogre Child." he told him.
Izz nodded.
"I-I sort of.... understand. But I feel this gaping void in my heart and it won't go away no matter how hard I try." he replied as Jen vanished....
He then thought about it as he walked back to the Robert's house. Leah saw him go upstairs and heard him slam Carley's door.
"Wow.... he's never that angry. We need to find out what's bugging him. We can help him.
I know it!" she told David who agreed with her.
Carley saw worry in Elisa's eyes as she came home from the comic store.
"What's going on?" she asked her.
"Izz. He came in, ran upstairs and slammed the door. Leah and David really wanna help but they need to know why he's like this." she replied.
She nodded.
She then brought a plate of cookies with her upstairs. In her room Izz had curled up in a ball on the bed. He was thinking about what Jen had told him.
"....... You okay? The others were worried about you." she said softly.
He looked at her sadly.
He had bite marks over his fingers which he normally bit when nervous.
"What're you thinking about?" she asked gently.
".... About telling the others why I've been depressed lately but they won't understand." he answered biting his thumb.
"I know it's hard but it might help, like make you feel better." Carley told him.
"Y-Yeah but how.... does that help?" he asked.
"Because your feelings about your parents can flow from within where you've been trapping them for the past week." she answered him.
He nodded sadly eating a cookie.
"Whatever you decide, It's fine with me." she said leaving the room......
But he was too upset and not thinking clearly while watching the others play in the snow.
It reminded him of him and his parents when he was a child.
"I should.... just run away. I've nothing here, I don't even have a family anymore.
They won't miss me." the Psammead thought sadly writing a note and putting things in his back pack........