I DID IT!
Yes, my finals are almost over and I finally found time to write again :)
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"Go, open the door!", Charlotte hissed to Sebastian who was still sitting in his chair, staring at the door wide-eyed. He got up slowly but went over to Charlotte's front door when the knocking was repeated. Charlotte wasn't fast enough when she tried to hide and she was sure that, no matter who was waiting outside, the situation would get even worse if she hid under her blanket in the bed or anything. She waited next to the door and hoped whoever was in front of it, wouldn't come inside.

"Oh Charlotte, I'm sorry I'm late but I had quite a lot of things to do in the shop. I have all the blueprints here!", Robin exclaimed and squeezed herself through the door and passed Sebastian who was looking at his mother as if she was a ghost.

"Yes...Sure, Mu...Robin, simply put them on the table.", Sebastian replied and looked at Charlotte who was still standing next to the door. He bit his lower lip. "Sebastian's already here, he thought he could help you by bringing some..." Sebastian let his eyes scan Charlotte's room and discovered a small toolbox "...tools! You know, I don't really own a toolbox, so he borrowed me one.", he said and pointed at Charlotte who shot a daring gaze at him. He scratched the back of his head and looked at his mother who had raised an eyebrow. Robin scanned Charlotte and tilted her head. "Yes, yes. I brought a toolbox over, you weren't in the shop yesterday when she had needed a hammer to... nail a painting on the wall.", Charlotte added and Robin didn't quite know who to look at. Her son who was standing awkwardly next to the door as if he simply wanted to run away or her client Charlotte, who obviously hadn't put a single painting on a wall in this hut. Some hope started rising in her stomach when she noticed her son's face reddening when he had noticed as well that what he just had said was a lie. She watched him clearing his throat and looking at Charlotte next to her for a second before he sighed.

"If you need any help placing the painting, ask me. I have to go now, bye.", he said hurriedly and left the house. Robin shook her head and smiled while pointing at the chair next to her.

"We have quite a lot of things to discuss if I have to start constructing tomorrow. Since it will be your very first coop, I would recommend this standard type. It's uncomplicated and relatively cheap in resources as well as in work time. You can only hold four chicken in there but I can upgrade it at any time if you want more. Yesterday, you told me you wouldn't have enough lumber but if everything has to happen as fast as possible, I would put in some out of my stock.", Robin told Sebastian, who had taken place next to her. He rubbed his hands nervously.

"I think I need some time to think about it.", he stated and his mother looked at him surprised.

"Oh, you do? Hm, of course, you can come to me whenever you want. It isn't as if I had too much to do in this village, anyway.", she replied and stroked a hair behind her ear that had loosened out of her ponytail.

"It was very nice of Sebastian to bring the... toolbox to you.", Robin said and Sebastian looked up and blinked at his mother. He cleared his throat. "Yes, I guess.", he answered shortly and hoped his mother would simply leave and let him alone so he could lock himself up in Charlotte's house so he wouldn't run into any other persons that day. This whole pretending was even more exhausting than he had expected in the first place.

"You know, he might sometimes seem like a loner but he's simply a little shy. It's good to see the two of you.", she added and Sebastian started coughing. Was his mother trying to make Sebastian interesting for Charlotte? Did she do this with other girls as well? He felt anxiety rising in his gut and noticed that there was nowhere he could hide, not even behind the long bangs that usually hung into his face.

"I don't want to interrupt your work day any longer and I need to go back to the shop.", Robin said while standing up and Sebastian nodded absently and got up as well. He opened the door for his mother.

"Goodbye, Robin.", Sebastian said and his mother waved before exiting. He watched her leaving the farm before he closed the door again and let himself sink to the floor, not sure how he could get through this whole situation.

Charlotte had decided it would be best to continue working rather than waiting outside her house. Not only because things would get even more awkward if Robin caught 'her son' sneaking around Charlotte's property, but because she wouldn't let this whole situation ruin her plans of becoming a successful farmer.

She went down to Cindersnap Forest in order to gather some lumber because she had left her axe with Sebastian. She didn't think his body could handle chopping down trees, anyway, so she was fine with carrying this big basket, which she filled slowly. Apparently, there wasn't much wood lying around because the last storm had been quite a few weeks ago and she had already gathered most of what had been ripped off the trees.

"Do you need help or something?", a voice behind her asked and she turned around slowly. Shane was sitting on the stage, his feet dangling above the water of the lake. His feet were bare and his Jeans rolled up. A can of beer was in his hand and he looked at Charlotte like he had never seen her here before. In fact, Charlotte couldn't know whether or not Shane had seen Sebastian gathering lumber here.

"I'm fine.", Charlotte replied and she tilted her head while watching Shane continuing to drink his beer before he got up, stepped on the can and kicked it into the lake. "Haven't I told you not to do this? It's a nasty habit, throwing garbage into the water.", Charlotte said an blushed immediately because she couldn't suppress the urge to rebuke him for his actions. Shane rose an eyebrow and shrugged.

"You haven't and why would you care anyway.", he replied and passed her. He went over to Marnie's house and didn't look back to her before closing the door behind him. Charlotte sighed heavily. Of course, Sebastian hadn't told him not to drink that much and not to throw his cans into the lake. And he probably didn't have the right to do so, anyway. Charlotte couldn't help but feel hurt when Shane had ignored her. Charlotte couldn't say that Shane and her were that close or anything, but they had this connection that she had felt when she had seen him for the first time. And from then on she didn't mind reminding him of what he was doing to his body was pure poison. Not because she felt any better than him, but because she could relate to what he was going through. She closed her eyes and breathed in and out when pictures were flashing in her head. She shook it in order to sort her thoughts before leaving the forest and going back to her farm. The past would be the past. She had a new future in front of her and she simply needed to follow this path in order to get happy.

She passed her crops and checked if they had been watered enough for the summer heat. When her fingers touched the moist soil, she got up again and entered her house. The past would stay the past. There was no way she would ever go back to where she was coming from.

"Sebastian, I'm back. Well, I hope you are still here.", she said while opening the front door. Sebastian sat on her sofa and looked up at her. "What are we going to do now?", she asked and Sebastian shrugged. She sighed and let herself fall next to him.

"Maybe you should go back to my mother. Should be dinner time soon. She really likes when I eat with them, you know?", he informed me but Charlotte frowned.

"I don't think I should participate in any kind of family meeting right now. I'm really tired.", she stated and Sebastian looked at her from the side. Had he always had this dark circles under his eyes? Probably.

"You don't have to eat with them. But you probably should go there, anyway. Mum's getting worried easily and she already thinks I acted awkwardly today. She'll probably ask you...stuff.", he replied. Charlotte smiled lightly.

"Stuff?", she asked and got up in order to fix herself something to eat.

"Stuff. Stuff like: 'Why did you bring Charlotte a toolbox if you could have simply waited for me to do so if you were only about to do it the next day, anyway?'.", he smirked. "Man, we really are bad liars.", he stated and shook his head. Charlotte smiled and opened her fridge. "No fruit, right?", she asked and had a concerned look on her face. Sebastian nodded. Charlotte closed her fridge again. "Guess, I'm going to eat at Gus'.", she said and Sebastian rose an eyebrow.

"You only have fruit in there?", he asked and Charlotte sighed.

"To be honest, there's nothing in there. I usually eat what I harvest but I had nothing I could've harvested in the last days and I kind of forgot to buy something at Pierre's and he was closed yesterday and today's probably too late. Could it be that none of us has eaten anything today?", she asked and Sebastian looked blank for a second.

"This really could be. How about we get something fast before I end up executing cannibalism?", he asked and Charlotte opened the door.

"Would you really eat up yourself?", she asked. "I mean, what happens if you end up being stuck in my body because you ate up yours?", Charlotte added and Sebastian shrugged.

"Better stuck in your body than being reincarnated as a piece of poop.", he answered.

They passed the bus stop and nobody said a word, only the loud grumbling of their stomachs could be heard. The passed Harvey's clinic and felt Jodi's and Caroline's gazes on them when they passed the women on their way to the Stardrop.

"You know that we just produced tons of gossip, don't you?", Sebastian asked. When Charlotte shrugged in return, he was surprised that she really didn't seem to care about being seen go having dinner with him. Or was she simply acting the way she thought he would if he was in his own skin? Charlotte opened the door to the Stardrop, which had only a few customers inside. It was Thursday, after all. Emily was standing behind the counter and greeted them while drying a glass with a towel. Shane was sitting next to her, his head was leaning against his hand and he held a glass of beer in his other one. Charlotte sighed heavily when she saw him, which cause the man on the bar and Sebastian look up to her. She averted her gaze and pointed at a table where the two of them could sit.

"I'm getting the pizza.", Sebastian said and went over to where Gus waited him. He felt Shane's gaze on him and looked over at him. He saw a small smile forming on his face and Sebastian was taken aback for a moment. The smile was small but it was definitely present. A weird feeling he couldn't name rose in his body and he looked to where Charlotte was sitting. She had remembered not to cross her legs while sitting. Good. When Shane followed Sebastian's gaze, his expression darkened. Sebastian decided to ignore it, or at least try to do so. When Gus returned with the hot pizza and Sebastian saw the molten cheese on top of it, his stomach growled even louder.

"This is porn. Like for real. This is food porn.", Charlotte stated when she pulled out the first piece and stuffed it into her mouth. She grimaced and started waving air into her mouth hastily. "It's hot. Hot food porn.", she added. Sebastian smiled lightly.

"Of course it is hot. And of course it is awesome, it's Cheese Pizza.", he replied.

"I have no idea when the last time was I ate pizza. You know, it's not really included in my diet.", she said and Sebastian shook his head in disbelief.

"You seem like suuch a fun person to be around.", he commented and she rolled her eyes but couldn't suppress a smile.

"But now, I guess, I can eat what I want. There needs to be a possible side of it.", she said and watched Sebastian devouring his third piece. "You probably should eat a bit slower or you are going to be about to burst in any second.", she added. "I usually don't eat that much, you know?", she said but he shrugged.

"Yeah, but I eat more. That means, I can eat now.", he answered.

"No, that means that your stomach is much smaller right now and you can't fit everything you want in there.", Charlotte explained and watched Sebastian's face growing paler and paler. The short pause had been enough to make Sebastian's new body register how much had been stuffed into it. Charlotte laughed out loud. "Well, this means more for me. Whoa, I guess I have never eaten a pizza this big all by myself!"