As we were walking towards the lunch hall Wendy told me Tweek's story "He was in his house, cowering in the corner of his kitchen, muttering about gnomes and government conspiricies when I went to mark him. He hadn't eaten in three days and he'd drank the same amount of coffee that would last any normal person a year."
"Wow" I said in shock. "Wait, I thought you said he was home schooled. Where were his parents?"
"That was their cover story" Wendy explained. "The school didn't know how to deal with his paranoia, his parents had enough of him as well and they were on the brink of divorce because of it. So his parents removed him from public school and told people that they were home schooling him but they were actually abandoning him to go on vacations and stuff like that."
"So they were leaving him in the house on his own for days and weeks on end? Tweek? Who can't even calm down when he's in a room full of his friends?" I asked.
Wendy nodded "Yeah, they left him completely on his own. They weren't there the day he got marked, we left a note for them, we still don't know if they've even realised he's gone."
"So how did Craig and Tweek get so close?" I questioned.
"Craig walked into their room on his first day and Tweek was curled up in the corner muttering about how his room mate could be a mad axe murderer and we were all already in there trying to calm him down. So then Craig walked over to Tweek and introduced himself, then Craig kind of reached out and put a hand on Tweek's shoulder, and Tweek just stopped."
"Stopped what?" I asked.
"Everything, the mumbling, the twitching, he probably would have forgotten to breath if we weren't there to pull him out of his trance. Ever since then they've been really close friends." I raised a brow at her. "What?"
"They seem like more than 'just close friends' Wendy" I pointed out.
"Really?" Wendy questioned. "I haven't notic- Oh my goddess!" she said as something in the distance caught her eyes. She furrowed her brow, walking over to a tree that had been burnt, obviously it had been done on purpose, I think Stan said this was where the goths hung out so it must have been done with their lighters. "Why? Why must people damage nature like this? It's completely uncalled for!" she sighed frustratedly, placing her palm against the bark of the tree. Just like in Horticulture class, the damaged part of the tree glowed a green colour and the tree was soon healed again, as if it had never been touched. The green glow lit up Wendy's face as it continued to radiate from her hands. She removed her hands from the tree once it was completely repaired and the glowing stopped.
I still don't know to this day why I did what I did next, but something just clicked in my brain and before I knew it I was approaching the purple eyed, raven haired fledgling.
"Kyle, what are you-" She fell silent when I put my hand on her cheek, holding her head in place so she couldn't turn away.
Remembering what Nyx did to me I lifted my free hand and spoke the words as they came into my head "Wendy Testaburger, you have shown great wisdom and compassion for the world around you. You have been forgiven for past actions and now you must move on and focus your future." I totally sounded like some kind of martial arts teacher or something but I wasn't in control of my actions, I was just doing what felt right. "Therefore I choose you as the first female green vampire fledgling of Nyx." I copied Nyx's actions from the day I was chosen, gently brushing my thumb over the crescent moon tattoo in the centre of her forehead. She gasped and stumbled backwards, grabbing a compact mirror from her pocket - why does everyone here have a mirror except me?- just in time to see her sapphire mark light up.
My eyes widened in surprise as the intensity of the light continued to increase until her mark was shimmering with the intensity of the sun. I sheilded my eyes with my hands due to the blinding light. Is this how my mark changed? I can't even imagine how Stan must have reacted when I suddenly started glowing like that. The light started to change from a blue colour to green and as it began to fade, Wendy's new, green coloured crescent moon tattoo was revealed. For a while she just stared into her mirror in disbelief, and I stared at her in disbelief.
What did I do?
What if she didn't want to be like me?
However, her lips soon streched into a wide grin. "I knew it" she smiled. "I knew I was different." Wendy looked up at me, she looked different but also the same somehow, her new mark made her eyes sparkle brightly and her skin almost seemed paler now.
I repeated Wendy's words but changed them slightly "I knew you were special."
She took me by surprise by pulling me into a tight hug but I relaxed and wrapped my arms around her. Now she truly was like a sister to me, we were connected in the fact that we were now two of a kind.
My thoughts were interrupted, however, when we heard a loud cry of "GAH! PLEASE, PLEASE LEAVE ME ALONE!"
We broke the hug "Tweek!" we chorused, sprinting through the entrance to the lunch hall.
We found Tweek, he was standing in the centre of the room with his back turned to us, talking to himself "Look! I - gah!- already told you! I don't know you! So please would you just leave me alone! It's too much-"
"Tweek?" I called, he abruptly spun to face us. "Who are you talking to?"
Tweek gave us a horrified look "You mean you can't see them? Oh crap!"
"Can't see who Tweek?" Wendy asked in a confused tone.
"But they...they're everywhere!" he yelled.
We just stared at him in bewilderment, the lunch hall was completely empty except for us three "Tweek, there's no one else here. Just me, you and Wendy."
The blonde started to freak out, grabbing his hair and scream "AH! OH NO! I'M THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN SEE THEM!" He turned to face whoever he was talking to before "I'M THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN SEE YOU!"
