p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Lloyd thought today was going to be a particularly interesting day at school, because he had to bring Morro with him. Especially because the black-haired boy had never been to school in his life./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"The blond was still worried about what had happened to his cousin's left hand (And Lloyd was pretty sure Morro was left-handed at this point) last night./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"How could Morro have burned his hand that bad and not even know how It happened?/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Eurgh, he needed to focus on emnow/em. Right now, he was walking towards his friends and dragging Morro behind him./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Alright, Morro, this is Jay, Cole, Kai, and Zane. Please note that Cole may have trouble hearing you, please face him while you talk," Lloyd said once he had finally reached his friends./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Zane, Cole, Kai, and Jay, this is my cousin Morro. He's illiterate and somehow managed to bust his dominant hand last night. I'm taking him to school with me because frankly there's nothing else to do with him." Lloyd finished with a huff./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""You… aren't gonna attack us again, are you?" Jay asked sheepishly./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Lloyd watched as the younger barely glanced at Jay, gave a short shake of his head, then turned back to whatever it was he was looking at. Lloyd followed his cousin's gaze and saw two teens making out, and suddenly the mildly disturbed look on Morro's face made sense./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Oh, emeww/em." Lloyd said loudly, wrinkling his nose "They aren't even trying to hide," The couple shot him a glare./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Let's go inside now," he told Morro, yet again grabbing the taller's wrist. Jeez, this was starting to become a habit./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Morro gave no protest as Lloyd lead him inside, and started walking down the hallway, leaving the blond's friends behind./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Okay, as long as you stay near me no one will-" Lloyd began to explain, before an annoyingly familiar voice belonging to Chen called out behind him./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Garma-dorks got a boyfriend!" Lloyd immediately halted, letting go of his cousin's wrist and whirling around to face the offending cheerleader./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""This is my emcousin/em you disgusting sicko!" He shouted. Chen just grinned, a sick grin on his face, and began walking closer to the shorter./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""So, what, you an inbreeder now too?" He asked, more of a statement, getting up to Lloyd's face./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Before Lloyd could defend himself, the brunet was suddenly flung into the opposite wall by an invisible force. The blond turned around to see Morro with his hands curled out in an odd way, almost as if he were tugging long strands of ribbon./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Without warning, Chen was pushed forward by seemingly nothing, stopping right when he was in front of the black-haired teen./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Piss. strongemOff./em/strong" Morro said, his voice gaining a surreal quality about it, almost echoing with a more hollow and distorted sound behind it. Lloyd could have sworn that his cousin's hazel eyes glowed a sickly green for a moment./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Chen looked like he was going to wet himself./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Then, the bell sounded, ringing out down the halls, and the students who had stopped to watch started shuffling to their classes. Morro blinked, and his hands dropped to his sides, and he walked swiftly to stand at Lloyd's side./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Where are we going again?" The blond stared at the younger for a moment in confusion, before brushing it off and motioning to the classroom at the end of the hall./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Math class."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"And with that, the two begun the day at school, and Chen didn't even so much as look his way the rest of the day./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"~~/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Turns out, math was a whole lot of confusing stuff about numbers, Morro learned quickly. Which was unfortunate because he could only really count to about thirty./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"So, he just sat at the empty desk next to Lloyd and zoned out. He felt like nothingness, like he was barely even connected to his body./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"That's when he realized that he emwasn't./em He was floating a good four feet above his body. emOh no no no no, not already. He should have more time, it wasn't even-/em/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"He snapped back to attention when a paper triangle hit his head and was left with a strange sense of dread in his stomach. emWhat just happened?/em/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"A small stinging on his head reminded him of the paper that had landed on the desk he sat at. He gently unfolded it and saw scribbles that were probably words written in dark grey./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Feeling particularly bored, Morro decided to fold it into a new shape. Within a matter of minutes, the single sheet of lined paper had been turned into a small cat. emOrigami,/em Wu called it once./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"He hadn't realized how… peaceful it felt to do the familiar act again. Even if Wu had originally taught him it, Morro still loved it./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"He loved being able to turn just a flat material into something beautiful, loved the idea that anything he created was inherently his, and he loved how natural it felt to run the wind over his little origami army and have them float on gentle gusts./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Morro picked up the paper cat and twirled it in his fingers, then past his fingers with a small push of air. It spun for a moment, hovering just above his hand before landing in his hand gently./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Morro!"/span/emspan style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';" Lloyd hissed from beside him. He had almost forgotten where he was./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"The blond looked frustrated, but curiosity lay behind his glare, in his eyes. It was clear he had been trying to get Morro's attention for a good while./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Morro hummed, casting a side glance at his cousin./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""emDid you read the note?"/em/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""I can't read, remember?" Morro replied dryly, struggling to keep his own voice as quiet. Lloyd face palmed./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Just- pay attention to the teacher, I guess."/span/emspan style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';" Morro shrugged, and directed his focus at the gibberish the man up front was spewing./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"The rest of the day leading up to lunch went smoothly, with Morro barely paying attention to whatever the class was about./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Morro had started to zone out again by the time Lloyd had dragged him to an indoor picnic table with the rest of the blond's friends./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Ooo, what'chya got there?" The one with shaggy black hair—Cole? —Asked him, and Morro remembered he was still holding the origami cat from earlier./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"He opened his palm and absentmindedly blew it over with a breeze, landing it right in front of Cole's spot at the table. Morro tried his best to ignore the sudden over-load of smells and sounds that flooded his senses from the moment he walked into the overly crowded lunchroom./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"His head hurt, and he couldn't think, all his brain wanted to focus on was how much it hurt. And FSM, did it hurt. It felt like someone had aggressively pummeled him with a sack of sand and then shoved said sand down his throat./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Morro realized he hadn't drunk anything for a few days. Which was because believe it or not, it was rather difficult to get water into one's mouth without any touching your skin./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Hey where can I get water?" He asked, then added "For drinking," Morro did his best to filter out any noises that weren't from the immediate area around him. Unfortunately, that distracted him from the crunchy plastic bottle that ended up hitting him square in the nose./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Ow- Whatever, thanks." He picked up the bottle and unscrewed the cap, carefully putting his entire mouth around the opening before downing the whole thing./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Danggg- you really were thirsty!" Exclaimed- What was her name? Nya? Yeah, it was Nya./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Morro's nose itched, and he rubbed it for a second before looking at the girl to respond./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Well yeah, I wouldn't have asked otherwise." He felt something sticky on his hand./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanHe looked down to his fingers and saw blood on it and cringed. Morro tucked his hand under the table and noticed somethingspan style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span horribly wrong. emBlood isn't supposed to glow gre-/em/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Morro! Did you hear Jay?" Lloyd whacked his shoulder lightly./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Hm? What did who say?" Morro asked, snapping back to reality, wiping his hand on his pants. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""I asked if you needed something to eat,"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Oh uh, no thank you, I'm fine."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Morro's headache got worse. What had he just been doing? Oh, he had drunk water after letting someone look at the paper cat./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; padding: 0in; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Hey, Could I have my cat back?"/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"The blond was still worried about what had happened to his cousin's left hand (And Lloyd was pretty sure Morro was left-handed at this point) last night./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"How could Morro have burned his hand that bad and not even know how It happened?/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Eurgh, he needed to focus on emnow/em. Right now, he was walking towards his friends and dragging Morro behind him./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Alright, Morro, this is Jay, Cole, Kai, and Zane. Please note that Cole may have trouble hearing you, please face him while you talk," Lloyd said once he had finally reached his friends./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Zane, Cole, Kai, and Jay, this is my cousin Morro. He's illiterate and somehow managed to bust his dominant hand last night. I'm taking him to school with me because frankly there's nothing else to do with him." Lloyd finished with a huff./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""You… aren't gonna attack us again, are you?" Jay asked sheepishly./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Lloyd watched as the younger barely glanced at Jay, gave a short shake of his head, then turned back to whatever it was he was looking at. Lloyd followed his cousin's gaze and saw two teens making out, and suddenly the mildly disturbed look on Morro's face made sense./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Oh, emeww/em." Lloyd said loudly, wrinkling his nose "They aren't even trying to hide," The couple shot him a glare./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Let's go inside now," he told Morro, yet again grabbing the taller's wrist. Jeez, this was starting to become a habit./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Morro gave no protest as Lloyd lead him inside, and started walking down the hallway, leaving the blond's friends behind./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Okay, as long as you stay near me no one will-" Lloyd began to explain, before an annoyingly familiar voice belonging to Chen called out behind him./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Garma-dorks got a boyfriend!" Lloyd immediately halted, letting go of his cousin's wrist and whirling around to face the offending cheerleader./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""This is my emcousin/em you disgusting sicko!" He shouted. Chen just grinned, a sick grin on his face, and began walking closer to the shorter./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""So, what, you an inbreeder now too?" He asked, more of a statement, getting up to Lloyd's face./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Before Lloyd could defend himself, the brunet was suddenly flung into the opposite wall by an invisible force. The blond turned around to see Morro with his hands curled out in an odd way, almost as if he were tugging long strands of ribbon./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Without warning, Chen was pushed forward by seemingly nothing, stopping right when he was in front of the black-haired teen./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Piss. strongemOff./em/strong" Morro said, his voice gaining a surreal quality about it, almost echoing with a more hollow and distorted sound behind it. Lloyd could have sworn that his cousin's hazel eyes glowed a sickly green for a moment./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Chen looked like he was going to wet himself./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Then, the bell sounded, ringing out down the halls, and the students who had stopped to watch started shuffling to their classes. Morro blinked, and his hands dropped to his sides, and he walked swiftly to stand at Lloyd's side./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Where are we going again?" The blond stared at the younger for a moment in confusion, before brushing it off and motioning to the classroom at the end of the hall./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Math class."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"And with that, the two begun the day at school, and Chen didn't even so much as look his way the rest of the day./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"~~/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Turns out, math was a whole lot of confusing stuff about numbers, Morro learned quickly. Which was unfortunate because he could only really count to about thirty./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"So, he just sat at the empty desk next to Lloyd and zoned out. He felt like nothingness, like he was barely even connected to his body./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"That's when he realized that he emwasn't./em He was floating a good four feet above his body. emOh no no no no, not already. He should have more time, it wasn't even-/em/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"He snapped back to attention when a paper triangle hit his head and was left with a strange sense of dread in his stomach. emWhat just happened?/em/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"A small stinging on his head reminded him of the paper that had landed on the desk he sat at. He gently unfolded it and saw scribbles that were probably words written in dark grey./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Feeling particularly bored, Morro decided to fold it into a new shape. Within a matter of minutes, the single sheet of lined paper had been turned into a small cat. emOrigami,/em Wu called it once./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"He hadn't realized how… peaceful it felt to do the familiar act again. Even if Wu had originally taught him it, Morro still loved it./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"He loved being able to turn just a flat material into something beautiful, loved the idea that anything he created was inherently his, and he loved how natural it felt to run the wind over his little origami army and have them float on gentle gusts./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Morro picked up the paper cat and twirled it in his fingers, then past his fingers with a small push of air. It spun for a moment, hovering just above his hand before landing in his hand gently./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Morro!"/span/emspan style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';" Lloyd hissed from beside him. He had almost forgotten where he was./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"The blond looked frustrated, but curiosity lay behind his glare, in his eyes. It was clear he had been trying to get Morro's attention for a good while./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Morro hummed, casting a side glance at his cousin./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""emDid you read the note?"/em/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""I can't read, remember?" Morro replied dryly, struggling to keep his own voice as quiet. Lloyd face palmed./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"emspan style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Just- pay attention to the teacher, I guess."/span/emspan style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';" Morro shrugged, and directed his focus at the gibberish the man up front was spewing./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"The rest of the day leading up to lunch went smoothly, with Morro barely paying attention to whatever the class was about./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Morro had started to zone out again by the time Lloyd had dragged him to an indoor picnic table with the rest of the blond's friends./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Ooo, what'chya got there?" The one with shaggy black hair—Cole? —Asked him, and Morro remembered he was still holding the origami cat from earlier./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"He opened his palm and absentmindedly blew it over with a breeze, landing it right in front of Cole's spot at the table. Morro tried his best to ignore the sudden over-load of smells and sounds that flooded his senses from the moment he walked into the overly crowded lunchroom./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"His head hurt, and he couldn't think, all his brain wanted to focus on was how much it hurt. And FSM, did it hurt. It felt like someone had aggressively pummeled him with a sack of sand and then shoved said sand down his throat./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Morro realized he hadn't drunk anything for a few days. Which was because believe it or not, it was rather difficult to get water into one's mouth without any touching your skin./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Hey where can I get water?" He asked, then added "For drinking," Morro did his best to filter out any noises that weren't from the immediate area around him. Unfortunately, that distracted him from the crunchy plastic bottle that ended up hitting him square in the nose./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Ow- Whatever, thanks." He picked up the bottle and unscrewed the cap, carefully putting his entire mouth around the opening before downing the whole thing./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Danggg- you really were thirsty!" Exclaimed- What was her name? Nya? Yeah, it was Nya./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Morro's nose itched, and he rubbed it for a second before looking at the girl to respond./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Well yeah, I wouldn't have asked otherwise." He felt something sticky on his hand./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanHe looked down to his fingers and saw blood on it and cringed. Morro tucked his hand under the table and noticed somethingspan style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span horribly wrong. emBlood isn't supposed to glow gre-/em/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Morro! Did you hear Jay?" Lloyd whacked his shoulder lightly./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Hm? What did who say?" Morro asked, snapping back to reality, wiping his hand on his pants. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""I asked if you needed something to eat,"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Oh uh, no thank you, I'm fine."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Morro's headache got worse. What had he just been doing? Oh, he had drunk water after letting someone look at the paper cat./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; padding: 0in; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Hey, Could I have my cat back?"/span/p
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