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*Clank* *Ruuuumble* 

“Revival… Revival… Revival…”

“You’re not supposed to be back here.”

“Geep!” 

*Clank clank clank*

“G-Great Creator! Sir!”

“Gabriel, what are you doing?”

“Umm… nothing?”

“What’s the 9th Commandment?”

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…

“*Sigh* Thou shall not bear false witness…”

“Correct, now. What are you doing?”

“... Finding a Revival.”

The Great Creator sighed, “Ignoring the fact that you’re also disobeying the 8th Commandment, you should know that Revivals are only given to those of extreme caliber.”

“And you’re saying he’s not?!”

“I know how you feel about him, but we’ve had this conversation before–”

“Well we’re having it again! You’ve seen his file, there isn’t anyone more kind and more giving than him. He bought 15 fishes to feed the stray cats every day.”

“I’m well aware–”

“He asks for baking lessons from his twin neighbors not just to learn but because he knows they love to talk about baking.”

“Yes he did–”

“He received a Bonsai Tree from another resident in his neighborhood as a gift, and he stayed up all night researching how to take care of it, and it was in perfect health right before…” Gabriel withheld herself, “My point still stands! He was nothing but a… but an angel! And look what they did to him.” 

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“While all of those are valid points, if we give him a Revival, then we’d have to consider every resident of Heaven.”

“Do we really? Because I did heavy research in the Heaven Databanks, and the few people who meet or even exceed his kindness lived full happy lives. All except him, just him.”

“Gabriel…”

“He didn’t get a chance to chase his dreams, fall in love, grow old with someone, and feel… feel fulfilled! And for what?! A damned recital?!”

“Gabriel.”

“They didn’t see how much he brought to the world. All because Greed and Pride–”

“Gabriel!” The yell from the Great Creator shook Gabriel from her stupor, “I hear your points… and I’d be breaking my own Commandment if I said I didn’t consider giving him a Revival.”

“Really–”

“But like I stated prior, we can’t just give him a Revival. He must earn it.”

“... Earn it?”

“I’ve been working out a new program, and he can be the first tester. Call him to the Grand Sanctum immediately, we will discuss it with him further–”

“Actually… we should postpone that.”

“Why?”

“He’s tending to the Garden of Eden and the Tree of Knowledge, it should take him about… an hour? Give or take?”

“... I thought that was Rachael’s Job.” 

“That’s something you’re gonna have to take with her.”

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…

The Great Creator sighed once again, “Very well, see to it that he reports to the Grand Sanctum when he’s finished. I’m going to have a talk with Raphael.”

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“You didn’t deserve him…”

‘ Not again… ’ With a groan, Mari Suzuki sat in her bed, “I’m well aware of that.”

“Are you? He was a great brother, a literal angel. ” Mari? said in the mirror. “ Always there to tell you how amazing of a sister you are, willing to torture himself all to make you happy.”

“Stop.”

“And what did you do to repay him? Yell at him, scream at him, tell him how much of a… how-how did you word it again? Leech? No… Insect? It’s on the tip of my tongue… Oh I remember! Parasite! You called your own little brother a parasite–”

“That… tha-that didn’t–”

“If you’re going to lie to yourself, at least put the effort into believing it. ” The Mari in the mirror just shook her head, “ Now where was I? Oh right, listing off the ways you’ve failed as an older sister and a role model. Don’t call people names as you proceeded to do it to him. Don’t yell at people as you proceed to scream loud enough so the whole country can hear. And how did you always justify it again? To prepare him for the harsh realities of life or whatever? Well guess what… ” She leaned forward, “ He didn’t even get to see those–” 

*SHATTER* *Thud*

Suddenly, a hair brush flew into the mirror, breaking off half of it. “Alright, that’s enough out of you, demon.” 

“H-Huh?”

“W-What?! No… what’s an Angel–”

*SHATTER* *Thud*

Another object flew into the broken mirror, leaving only the very top of it stable. “W-Wait, we can talk this out!”

*SHATTER* *Thud*

Now only a lone corner remained, “I-I’ll give her anything! Money! Power! I can even fix that knee of hers! So please! Let me–”

“No thanks, and besides…”

*SHATTER* *Thud*

“Broken Mirrors are bad luck…” 

As for Mari… well she had no idea what the hell was happening. One minute she was being yelled at by what she thought was a self-depreciating image created by her brain to remind her of her failures… but it turned out that said image was sentient? And living in the mirror? She had no idea what to make of any of this! 

“Aaaand… done.”

*Poof*

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…

Now she was truly lost, the figure before her just made the mirror disappear out of thin air! “W-What?”

“Oh right, you okay Mari?” 

And now the being knew her name. “H-How do you know my name? A-And who are you?”

“Who am– Mari it’s me! Sunny!”

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…

Now she has heard enough. “Okay… this is all clearly just a… just a dream. Yeah. Yeah I’m just hungry and this is all a dream.”

“M-Mari?”

“I’m just dreaming about Sunny saving me from my demons, a rarity nowadays. So I’m going to go to bed and in the morning that mirror will be back and this will happen again.”

“Mari.”

“Well thank you Sunny for giving me a good dream for once but I’m going to go–”

“Mari!” 

*Plap* 

The figure claiming to be her little brother, Sunny Suzuki walked up to her and gently smooshed her face, “Lord’s name in Heaven Above, this isn’t a dream. This is real!”

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…

“No it’s not.” Now she’s in full denial, “This is all just a dream.”

“I’m literally touching you!”

“Irrelevant.”

“What do you mean–”

“And if this isn’t a dream, then how can you smash the mirror and make so much noise without anyone coming up here?”

“What– Mari these walls are soundproof remember? It was all Cousin Kai’s fault after he brought a girl home.” He shivered lightly, “I’m not explaining further…” 

Well that argument slashed to bits, but Mari didn’t back down, “Alright then, but that doesn’t explain the mirror. How could it talk to you, and how did you make it disappear?”

“Mari, that mirror had a demon living in it and was waiting for someone to let it free.” Sunny then sighed, “In retrospect getting a full body mirror for 5 bucks should have been a red flag, and the guy did look so eager to get rid of it. As for how it disappeared, well I slapped one of these stickers on it.” 

Sunny handed her a packet of stickers, “Demonic Artifact. One way ticket to the Cleansing Facilities.” 

“You’d be amazed how many things are cursed with demons here on Earth.”

“Well that doesn’t clear you Dream Sunny!” I’m not exactly sure whether or not she’s this far into denial, or too stubborn to back down and admit defeat. “Because you say this is all real, well how are you alive!”

“Well… I’m… not.” Sunny said, “I’m an Angel.” Wings sprouted from Sunny’s back, “So… I’m still dead.”

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…

“Well ha! That’s what the Dream Demon said! So this is all a dream!”

Sunny was getting annoyed, but he quickly quelled that down, “Alright, how’s this. I’m going to tell you four… no five things that you don’t know and I would know. And you can call the people these facts are about to verify. Deal?”

“Of course Dream Sunny, good luck.” Mari was sitting on her bed with confidence, ‘ This dream is about to hit a dead end and I’ll wake up. ’

“So remember how Kel said he found the Secret Hideout?”

“Yeah he said he discovered it while exploring–”

“Which is true, but what you… and anyone else don’t know for that matter. Is that he ‘found’.” He said with air quotations, “A map that leads to the hideout, I would know… because I made it.” 

After hearing that fact Mari was starting to get confused. “Wait–”

“Fact 2. Remember how you and Aubrey were going to get your hair dyed? You said you wanted Purple and she said she wanted Pink?”

“Y-Yeah–”

“And when you asked she said, ‘Because it looked pretty’ really fast?” Mari nodded, “Well the real reason was because she wanted to dress up like Sweetheart for Halloween, remember that OC I made and sent it to a contest and it got made into a bunch of movies?” 

“W-Wait what–”

"Yeaaah, sending that off to the Fan Art contest in retrospect was a terrible idea. Could have made bank and instead only got a lousy T-Shirt out of it. A-Anyway where was I?"

"Wait... s-slow down--

“Oh right! Fact three. Remember when I was eleven years old I had only 2 pillows and refused to get a third one?” She nodded slowly, “Well… and I guess this counts as fact three and a half, because I also learned that you keep stealing my pillows that day. But… Hero…” Sunny paused, “Dah screw it he was dry humping my pillow.”

“W-WHAT?!”

“Because apparently… after leading him on too much, you put the pillows back before he took a nap on my bed, they smelled too much like you, and… yeah.” Sunny refused to think about that anymore, “So when I woke him up he looked at me with wide eyes, apologized like seven times, and ran away. After he left I grabbed that pillow, threw it in the trash, and refused to let him sleep on my bed anymore. And yes, I hate the fact that I saw that, and still remember it.” 

Mari’s dream theory was quickly crumbling away, but she still refused to believe it. “Fact four, Basil once tried Crossdressing.”

“... I’m sorry, what?”

“Yup, he was reading this manga… Parfait Girls. And he loved this once character, Alice. So much so that he bought a costume of her in secret. Literally no one else knew about it… except me when I barged into his room unannounced.” A small smile graced Sunny’s face, “He was so red and begged me not to say anything, and I took that secret to my grave. But since I’m out of the grave I’m no longer morally obligated to keep that secret.”

“W-Wait… then–”

“But it wouldn’t be fair to do that so… *sigh* fact five.” Sunny pulled out the seat from her desk for this one, “So… remember how when I was four we went to the beach?”

“... Yeah?”

“And remember how I didn’t put on sunscreen and my whole body was sunburned?”

“Uh-huh?”

“Well… mmph, well Mom had to rub me with so much Aloe Vera to make the sunburn go away. And she convinced me that in order for it to work fully I had to… I had to be completely naked.”

“W-Wait whahat?”

He decided to ignore that giggle and continue, “Yeah, so for the next week or so I had to go to the bathroom strip naked so she would rub Aloe Vera on me, and if that wasn’t embarrassing enough she took a picture of me while I was laying on my stomach, so you can see the sunburn red on my back and legs, and my pure white butt.”

“Baha! No way!” 

Now Sunny was bright red with embarrassment, “And this is where the fact comes in… Mom would… *sigh* She would sometimes call me her… her…"

“She would call you what?” She wanted to hear what’s coming next so badly.

“She would call me…” ‘ Do it for her, Sunny… ’ “Her… Little Red Oreo.”

“PFFT!!” Mari burst out into laughter, as Sunny was now regretting adding that story to the list. 

She then threw herself off of the bed, “Oh I gotta ask Mom this!” She sprinted out of her room, causing Sunny to follow at a short distance. 

“I’m gonna need to explain a lot of things…”

…

“Mom mom mom!” 

“Mmgh… Mari?” Forced out of her rare slumber, Halley Suzuki rubbed her eyes, “What… do you want–”

“Please tell me you still have that picture of Sunny naked and sunburnt to all heck with his white butt in the middle? Something that perfect can’t be hidden forever!”

“... It’s in the 2nd drawer.” She said before going laying back in bed.

“Thanks Mom!” With glee Mari rushed towards the 2nd Drawer.

“So how did you find out about that anyway? I was sure only Sunny knew about it.”

“He told me–” The realization finally caught up to her, “Wait…”

“What’s wro–”

*Knock* *Knock*

“So… that wasn’t a dream, Mari.”

Mari slowly looked towards the door, as Sunny was standing in the doorway, “N-No…”

“I missed you so much sis.”

*FWOMP* *THUD*

“Ghh!” Mari tackled Sunny to the ground, crying and nuzzling into his chest.

“I’msorryI’msorryI’msorry.” 

She didn’t say anything else, as a teary eyed Sunny just petted her head softly, “It’s okay Mari.” The sibling pair stayed like that for a few precious moments, before Sunny broke the somber yet light atmosphere, “But I would have appreciated it if you believed I was real… before I told the sunburn story. I was more than willing to take that to multiple graves.” 

Mari let out a tearful giggle, “A-And yet you were willing to sell out Hero and Basil?”

“Oh he deserved it after ruining a really good pillow, as for Basil… well it was too good a story to not tell.”

“He’s going to be so mad.”

“He’ll get over it.” 

As the siblings continued to hug, Halley was still shocked. “N-No…”

“Mom?”

“This isn’t… you’re not real. You can’t be.”

“But Mom he–”

“This is all… this is all a dream. Yeah. Yeah this is the depression meds talking.” 

Sunny felt his heart tighten when he heard the words ‘Depression Meds’. “Mom, this is real. I’m here–”

“Then prove it then!”

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…

“So you can’t–”

“Remember when I was six I started that little stand? And how I said I got all of my fruit from a new store?”

“Yeah so what–”

“Ms. Holly did that. She bought that building and turned it into a store just to teach me a lesson on business.”

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…

“Well we’ll see about that.” Halley, still in denial, pulled out her phone and dialed Ms. Holly’s number.

*Bzz* *Bzz* *Click*

“Halley? Do you know what time it is–”

“It’s 2 in the morning, I know. Listen, I’m having this dream and Sunny said that–”

“Halley this isn’t a dream. Sunny is back and is a literal Angel sent from God himself.”

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…

“What?”

“Yes, now I’m going back to bed.”

“W-Wait!”

*Click* *Beep* *Beep* *Beep*

“An Angel… what kind of bullshit is thi–”

*Thwack*

“Ow– Wait… that hurt.”

“Sorry Mom, but I couldn’t think of a way to snap you out of it.” 

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…

Halley decided that this was the one time she’d let that slide, “How… how are you back?” 

Sunny… rubbed the back of his head.

“Well that’s a long and complicated process.”

…

“So to summarize.” Sunny, having pulled a large whiteboard from literally nowhere, finished his complicated explanation. “The Great Creator, aka The Lord, aka God, has implemented a Guardian Angel Program.” He then moved his pointing stick, also pulled out of nowhere, downwards. “The Program basically gives Angels of a certain caliber an opportunity to go back down to the Living World to take care of loved ones.”

“Wait wait wait.” Halley interrupted the explanation to ask a question, “So… you’re down here, who's watching you?”

“One of the 4 Grand Archangels. In my case it’s Gabriella, but I call her Gabby.”

“And Gabby is me.” 

Sunny jolted at the sudden appearance of a new voice, “G-Gabby! When did you get here?”

“Oh I didn’t want to interrupt your little family reunion.” Archangel Gabriella said as she held a polaroid picture on her hands, “Aaaand I also heard something about an embarrassing picture that I’m sure the girl angels would looooove to see.”

“Gabby I swear to the Creator–”

“Too late I sent it a few minutes ago.” Sunny, now more than ever, wished that he just left it at four facts. “Anyway.” She dropped the picture back into the drawer, “I’m here to make sure he does his job and doesn’t do anything stupid. If he does his job right then he might become a Guardian Angel full time.” ‘ And hopefully snag one of those Revivals. ’

“And if he doesn’t do a good job?”

“Then he’ll be sent back to Heaven. So really this is a ‘everything to gain and nothing to lose’ situation for him.” 

“Well that’s goo–”

“However.” That stopped Halley from speaking, “Should he break a Heavenly Law then there will be consequences.”

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…

“Buuut I wouldn’t worry about him, he’s too good to commit crimes.” 

“W-Wait what–”

“Anyway.” 

*Clap*

“This has been a long and… enlightening night, but you all can talk about this more in the morning. Good night everyone.” 

*Poof*

Aaaand she’s gone. 

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...

“Welp guess it’s time for bed.”

…

“I still can’t believe you’re here.”

“... Honestly neither can I.” Sunny said, nuzzling under the covers, “But this feels nostalgic.”

“Y-Yeah.”

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…

“Sunny I–”

“It’s okay, you know?”

“... No it’s not.” Mari said, her grip on the covers tightening, “I… I shouldn’t have been so hard on you. I shouldn’t have gotten so angry at you. You didn’t even want to do the recital for yourself, you wanted to do it for me.”

“Mari…”

“And I, the selfish one, made it all about me. And when you made mistakes I would say that you were ruining my recital, I even called you a fucking parasite.”

“Mari.” 

“And when we didn’t do so well at the Recital I took it all out on you, that was the angriest I’ve ever been, and it was at my own little brother. I didn’t even take you to go get Gino’s and then you… you–”

*Fwap*

Sunny then hit her head gently with a pillow, “Yeah, you did do all that. But I forgive you.”

“... B-But why? If it wasn’t for me then you wouldn’t have–”

“Ehh, shoulda coulda woulda.”

“But your life isn’t a ‘shoulda coulda woulda’ thing Sunny!” Mari yelled, “Everyone… Everyone fell apart when Mom found you. Basil was angry, Aubrey was crying, Hero was speechless, and Kel… Kel tried his best, but he couldn’t fix everything.” 

“I see… then let’s go fix everything then.” 

“But we can’t–”

“Of course we can. Aren’t you supposed to be the confident one?”

“B-But–”

“And besides, if I had said something to you that day, then maybe none of this would have happened. But we can’t keep looking at hypotheticals, all we can do now is move forward.” 

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…

Mari hugged Sunny tighter, “How did you get so profound?”

“Years of Heaven Therapy.” 

Mari chuckled and laid her head on a pillow, “Well… I do miss Faraway.” 

“Same here…” Sunny said, before shifting himself slightly, “But I wish you took my bed instead of yours.”

“You know why we wouldn’t.”

“Yeah but that was the actually comfortable bed–”

“Good night Sunny.” Mari said, putting a stop to any more conversations from happening.

“Alright then…”

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“Goodnight Mari.” 

End of Chapter

...

A/N: Hello, this pile of garbage is… well it was a beta idea for another much longer fanfic I have in the wings. But I didn’t want it to go to waste so here it is, Guardian Angel Sunny! 

Anyway I have some fun ideas for this fic, a lot of which will be revealed literally the next chapter, but I have ideas for fluff and angst (maybe a bit of romance) and other emotions. Some of which will involve more embarrassing stories that I’m making up for these gaggle of kids. 

And this is also a perfect time to dust off the cobwebs of not writing in a long ass time. So if this pile of garbage turns out to be exactly that then feel free to roast me in the comments

So a little disclaimer, I might not focus on all of the Faraway Residents since... well like I said I have a way bigger fanfic in the wings and it'd be kinda stupid of me to use the arcs I have in mind in that fic here. And a lot of the characters in Faraway are kinda difficult to think of arcs for ngl. 

Anyway that's all I have to say, see you all later for Chapter 2.

Chapter Text

“Mmmph.” Stirring from her slumber, Mari slowly opened her eyes to take in her surroundings. And immediately she noticed a distinct lack of Sunny. “Guess that really was a dream. Well… it was nice while it laste–”

*Slam* *Clatter* 

“The one time I’m envious of those Older Angels. Having multiple arms.” 

“Sunny!” 

“Morning Mari.” Sunny set the plates down on the bed. A simple breakfast of eggs, bacon, and lightly toasted bread. “Though I guess that isn’t really a point anymore since it’s 2 in the afternoon.”

“... I slept that long? Oh god the buses are going to be packed!”

“... Mari. I’m an Angel, remember?” 

*Fwoop*

“Wings. Flight.”

“... Oh right.” After that brief incident of terror over social interaction is over, Mari stared at the plates of food, “You can cook?” 

“Just the basics.” Sunny said taking bite of his toast, “They offered that as an elective in Heaven School–”

“Heaven School?”

“Well yeah, for the kids and teens who die early so they can feel some sense of normalcy.”

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…

“Mari.”

“Well I can’t help it okay?” Mari snapped, “If it wasn’t for me you would still be living.”

“Okay yeah but what does that matter now? I’m here, and now that I’m here I plan to make up for lost time.” Sunny said as he stared out the window, “I wanna eat Hero’s cooking, see Basil’s plants, see how Kel’s doing with his Basketball stuff, and…” He stopped himself, “Anyway I wanna go back as soon as possible. So hurry up and eat!” 

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…

“What’s wrong?”

“It’s… it’s about Hero.”

…

“Signs of a mental laps–”

*CRACK* *CRASH*

“Wha–”

“A DOCTOR?!” An angry Sunny stomped over the ruined remains of the door to grab a shocked Henry ‘Hero’ Rodriguez by the collar of his shirt, “What do you mean you’re going to be a doctor?!”

“... S-Sunny?”

“Whatever happened to that dream you told me, huh? You wanted to be a 3 Michelle… Michigan… whatever the heck those stars are called Chef! You wanted to be a household name all across the world!”

“H-How are you–”

“And after you accomplished that dream you said you’d let me eat there as much as I wanted! And you know damn well how much I love your cooking! So why did you stop?!”

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…

“No… no this isn’t real.”

‘ Not again… ’

“This is all just… just a dream. I’ve been studying too long and for far too many nights. You can’t be back–”

“Remember how your favorite trophy broke and I said I did it? And you scolded me for an hour about it?”

“Y-Yeah?”

“Well when it broke I thought it was Kel who broke it and I took the blame for him. But really your Mom broke it because she was dusting and accidentally knocked it over.”

…

…

“What?”

“Yeah it turns out those trophies are pretty much held together by Elmer’s Glue and break easily. She told me a week later after feeling bad but I took that to my grave.” Sunny said before shrugging, “But now I’m out of the grave so all secrets are off.”

“W-Wait then–”

“But if that wasn’t enough, remember that sweater you got for a college tour? To Washington University?” Hero nodded, “Weeeell… I might have stolen it while we were sleeping over, and everyone unintentionally gaslit you into believing you lost it prior to coming home. It was winter and it was super warm and comfortable, just the perfect amount of oversized to be super snug, and I might have forgotten to give it back.” 

Before Hero can respond–

*POOF* 

Gabriella suddenly appeared, “9th Commandment Sunny.”

“... Fine.” He replied as Gabby disappeared again, “I kept it and didn’t want to give it back for the longest time, but when I decided now would be a good time to fess up it was gone from my closet.” Sunny said, before not so subtly pointing towards Mari, “It was as if it was stolen.” 

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…

“I admit to nothing.” Mari said, totally not thinking back to the sweater that’s hanging in her closet back at home. 

Hero, now overloaded with emotions and revelations, needed to sit somewhere…

*Thud*

So he chose the floor. “W-What the heck is happening?”

“I’m going to explain everything once I round up everyone. But the basic summary is, I’m back.” 

“But… that’s not possible–”

“If you’re still in disbelief then I can tell more stories. Like how when we were celebrating your 8th Birthday at an Amusement Park you won me a stuffed bunny. So in response I won you a giant shark plush from the ring toss.”

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…

“Oh my God, that’s right!” Now Hero is smiling, “And you named it–”

“Mr. Jawsum.” They both said in unison.

“But specifically spelled ‘S-U-M’ because he's the greatest Business and Loan Shark in the world. If it was spelled any differently then it’s not the real Mr. Jawsum and it's someone trying to profit off of his image.” 

“Yeah, and you even took Dad’s shades to put it on him.” He chuckled at the memory, “But… that doesn’t explain how you’re alive again.”

“Oh that, well I can explain once I got everyone rounded up.” Sunny grabbed Hero’s arm and jostled him to his feet, “Now let’s go. We can share more stories and talk about your career change later.”

“W-Wait Sunny–”

“Time to find everyone else!” Sunny then started forcibly dragging both Mari and Hero along. “Oh wait.” Before stopping right in his tracks, “Mari… I mean this with 0 offense…”

“Huh?”

“But… you stink. Really bad.” Mari winced before looking down, she’d be lying if she said she has been keeping up with her hygiene the past few years. “So… here.” He handed her three bottles, “Angel Brand Shampoo, Conditioner, and Body Wash. Made from natural ingredients from the Garden of Eden and the Tree of Knowledge. One rinse of that stuff and you’ll be as good as new.”

“R-Right.” 

“Anyway we’ll get everyone back before you’re done. See ya!” And with that Sunny dragged Hero away, leaving Mari alone in his room.

…

…

*Sniff* *Sniff* *Sniff*

“I don’t smell… okay I smell really bad.”

…

It was calm and empty at Gino’s Pizza… well as calm and empty as it could be with six rowdy kids stuffing their faces with pizza. “Hey Aubs, I’ve been meaning to ask.” Until one Kimberly ‘Kim’ Johnson asked a lone question aimed at one Aubergine ‘Aubrey’ Smith.

“Yeah Kim?” 

“Why do you only get two slices of cheese every time we come here?”

…

…

“It’s the perfect amount.”

“... If you say so.” 

*Boom* 

“Curses! Whoever this… ‘SUN’ is, I will beat his High Score!”

“You got this Master!”

“He’s never going to beat his score.”

“Never?” Kim asked, taking a glance at the machine, “I mean Mikhael–”

*Clang*

“Dah!”

“IT’S THE MAVERICK™!” 

“I’ll call you whatever I want!” Kim yelled, before picking up the quarter, “And you’re not getting this back.”

“W-Wait I’m sorry–”

“Anyway.” She promptly ignored his pleas and diverted her attention back to Aubrey, “He may be annoying but he’s nothing if not determined to make himself look cooler. Even if his attempts are stupid.”

“Yeah but no one can even come close to that record.” Aubrey said, before taking a slow sip of her cola, “Many have tried…”

“Dang… whoever that was must have been really awesome huh?”

“Yeah… Sunny was.”

…

…

“W-Wait that was Sunny’s score?” Kim’s brother, Vance Johnson, looked up with concern. While Charlene ‘Charlie’ Fare shifted uncomfortably in her seat.

“Yeah… damn it I miss him so much.” 

Kim, realizing that she’s entering a spiral jumped out of her seat, “S-Shit I–”

*Dingling Ding*

“Yo Gino! I’ll take the–” Broken out of his stride, Kelsey ‘Kel’ Rodriguez stopped right at the door, “Oh. Hey Aubrey.”

“K-Kel?” Aubrey shook her head and stood up at the ready, “What are you doing here?”

“Here to get some food. Is there a problem?”

“Of course it’s a problem, my gang is–”

“It’s my store and anyone can enter Aubrey.” Luckily the manager stepped in. “I’d very much like to stay in business here.”

“... Fine.” She said with a huff, “Get your pizza and leave.”

“Excuse me, I can eat inside if I want.”

“Wanna try it? Kelsey?”

“You did not just say that.” Kel said, readying his ball.

“Bring it on Bench Warmer–”

*Pssh* *Pop* *Crack*

But before anything could happen, Kel’s ball suddenly popped and Aubrey’s Bat was broken right across the barrel. “W-What the–”

*Screech* *Fwomp*

“Years later and you two are still fighting. Well then…” Kel, Aubrey, and everyone who is currently in the store stopped what they’re doing and turned their attention to the source of the voice, “Let’s settle it then.”

“S-Sunny?!”

…

“It’s been a while Ke–”

“Shut it!” Aubrey yelled, holding up the splintered remains of her bat up to Sunny, “Y-You’re not real! You’re an impostor who is pretending to be my dead friend!”

“Aubrey please–”

*DINGLING*

“Dah… hah… S-Sunny!” Entering the pizzeria out of breath, Hero staggered up to the angel, “Why… Why did you run?”

“My K.A.F, or Kel and Aubrey are Fighting senses are tingling.” 

“K-K.A.F?” 

*Clank* *Clanklank*

“N-No… this is a trick! Only Sunny uses that Acronym, you can’t possibly–”

“Aubrey… this is Sunny. Honest.” Hero said, trying to reason with the girl.

“PROVE IT THEN!” She yelled, pointing at Sunny, “Prove it to me you’re really Sunny–”

“Challenge accepted.” Sunny stood up from his seat to look Aubrey right in the eyes, “We were 11 years old, having one of our sleepovers. I was sleeping on the floor while Hero slept on my bed for what would be the last time ever.” Hearing that made Hero wince, “However, as I was sleeping on a quilt I heard footsteps.” 

…

…

“Oh no.” Aubrey said, realizing what he’s saying, “H-Hey Sunny. I-I know it’s you now, so please–”

“I slowly opened one eye.”

“Sunny.”

“And right in my vision.”

“Please?!”

“I see Aubrey. Sleepwalking.”

…

…

“PFFT HA!” As Kim of all people let out a laugh, “No way really?! She sleepwalks?!”

“Yeah, and she talked too.” 

“No freaking way do you remember what she said?!” 

“Of course I do.”

“Sunny I swear to God!” 

“Pray harder then.” Sunny responded, making Aubrey screech with indignance, “She said, and I quote, ‘I… want… huggles’.”

Kim was cackling, while Vance and Kel were trying to hold back laughter, Hero watched on with pity, and the manager had no idea what the heck was going on anymore.

“H-Huggles? Really dude?"

“Shut up shut up shut up!”

“But that’s not where the story ends.”

“YES IT IS!”

“Hell no keep going please, this is great!”

Sunny only smiled at Aubrey, but only she saw the sheer menace that’s laced in that smirk. “So she walked towards me, laid down on my quilt, and wrapped her arms around me.”

“Daw! Puppy love!” Kim exclaimed, while Aubrey was sitting on the ground in the fetal position, trying to regain some level of dignity after being exposed like this.

“And as she was hugging my back, I heard her whisper, ‘Haah… huggles’ before going back to snoring. When she woke up in the morning she noticed she was hugging me, promptly let go, and ran down the stairs and into what I assumed was the bathroom. I would know because I did not sleep a wink that night after that.”

“I hate all of you…” Aubrey muttered, her face about as pink as her hair as she was wondering what she did to deserve such a fate.

“HAHAHA!!” And what’s worse, Kel was laughing his butt off. “Oh– Oh man he got you good Aubrey–”

“I wouldn’t throw stones Kel, I got a story that I’d argue is worse.”

“Really?!” Kim asked, more excited than ever.

“Ha!” But Kel decided to call Sunny’s definitely not bluff, “Do you? I don’t do anything embarrassing–”

“You got us caught skinny dipping at the Hideout.”

…

…

“WHAT?!” Everyone in the venue yelled with varyingly different emotions. From shocked, to excited, to mildly disappointed. But the only person who was speechless was Kel.

“I…I uhh…” 

“Cat’s got your tongue now huh?”

“H-Hey Sunny… how about you… you know? Leave it at that?”

“Not a chance, and you’re lucky I’m throwing myself under the bus here too.” Sunny replied with an equally sinister smile, “Now… It was July 20th, my birthday. We were having a sleepover at my house and everyone was asleep. Except Kel who decided it’d be fun to take me to… and I quote ‘Skinny Dip with the boys because we’re manly and cool’. We were 10 by the way.”

Now it was Kel’s turn to huddle in the fetal position right next to Aubrey who was slowly recovering from the Emotional Damage™. 

“And me, realizing that there was no way he would leave it if I didn’t agree, let myself get dragged to the Hideout. There we stripped, though some were more eager than others, and got into the water. And I’m going to be honest, it felt kinda nice to have the water touch my bare skin, but that’s not where the embarrassing part comes in.” 

“Yeah you said someone caught you, who was it?”

…

…

“How about we go ask them about it?” Sunny asked, pointing next door. Everyone else wanted to see who this mystery observer was–

“Wait, I'm in the zone!” Except Mikhael who was having trouble weighing his priorities.

“We’ll give you the cliffnotes of it Mikhael!” 

“It’s the Mav– Oh nevermind.”

…

“Welcome to the Ba– Sunny?”

“Hey Daphne, before you ask. Yes I’m real and alive, but first I want you to confirm something for me.”

“O-Okay?”

“Great, so remember–”

“Sunny says you caught Kel and him skinny dipping. Is that right?”

…

…

“Oh my.” An amused smile graced her features, “That’s a memory I haven’t recalled in a long while.”

“So you have? What happened? I gotta know!”

“Hmm…” Daphne looked around, not a single customer in sight, “Alright here’s what happened. I couldn’t sleep so I went on a nightly constitutional at the park, when suddenly I heard splashing and light giggles. Curious, I followed the sounds of the noise and found Kelsey and Sunny, naked as the days they were born, roughhousing around on the dock.”

“... And what did they look like?” Kim was definitely after teasing material for decades to come.

And Daphne… “Their bottoms were so pale, I might have gone blind if I stared long enough.” Was more than happy to provide.

“BAHAHAHA!!” 

And now Kel was dealt fatal Emotional Damage™, relying on his brother to give him comforting back pats. 

“Oh… oh man you made my year. Thank you Daphne.” Kim said, wiping a lone tear from her eye. 

“You’re quite welcome. It’s always nice to go on a trip down Memory Lane.” Daphne said, before looking at Sunny, “And it was nice to see you again after so long… and if it’s at all possible.”

“I’d love to bake something with you again, Daphne.”

Daphne gave him a somber smile, “Thank you all, come again.” 

The group then made their way out of Othermart, with Vance carrying the ball that is Kel. Leaving Daphne to run the store.

…

…

“I can’t wait to tell Bowen about this.”

…

“So… you’re alive.” Aubrey said, having recovered from the blows to her pride. 

“Well… alive is technically not correct.”

“Then what is correct?”

“... Well we should save that for when we find Basil.”

…

…

“What happened?”

…

*Knock* *Knock* *Knock*

“Yes– wha–”

“Sorry Miss. I need to talk to Basil.”

“B-Basil doesn’t want to– wait what are you–”

“That wasn’t a request.” Sunny pushed past the woman before him and marched his way up to Basil’s room, and with eloquence and class…

*CRACK* *CRASH*

Kicked down the door.

“W-What the–”

“Basil!” 

“Who the– who the hell are you?!”

“Basil it’s me, Sunny.”

“But that’s not– You’re not–”

“Possible? Real? Look Basil I went through this song and dance 4 different times now. I’m just going to cut to the chase–”

“What–”

“You crossdressed after that famous Manga, Parfait Girls.”

…

…

“W-Wait a minute–”

“But if that’s not enough for you then in order to make it up to you for barging in on you. I managed to convince my Mom to get me a crossdressing costume too to make you feel better. You remember what it was right?”

“Y-Yeah it was…”

“Mariner Cosmos from Marine Stars.”

“N-No way, Sunny?”

“I missed you so much Basil–”

*THUD*

“Whywhywhywhy?” Basil was sobbing into his chest, and Sunny just held him tight, “Why did you have to leave me?”

“I’m so sorry Basil…”

“Y-You’re here to stay right? You won’t leave again right?”

…

…

“Right?!”

“It’s more complicated than that.”

“Then explain it to me! Please?!”

“I will… I’ll explain everything to everyone. But we gotta go somewhere with more space.”

…

…

“I know where.”

End of Chapter

A/N: 

First, sorry for being a day late. I was planning on having a week be the bare maximum for updates (Unless something catastrophic happened). 

Second, well that was fun. We got to tell more embarrassing/endearing stories, Kim has a lot of ammo for the future, Daphne is still precious, Basil is still sadness, and now the group is all back together… well until Mari gets out of the shower. 

And finally, the third thing I wanted to talk about. So as I’ve stated in the last chapter I have an Omori series in the wings. A massive one. To put it in perspective I’ve had the idea for it and have been working on the logistics since October 2021… it’s almost been a year. 

But that’s not what I wanted to talk about, it’s really a structural thing. So the series is gonna be structured with Arcs. Like… Story Arc 1, Story Arc 2, Story Arc 3, something like that. And my question is, do you prefer it being listed off that way or have it be under an umbrella name.

Like, for example in One Piece the whole thing is called ‘East Blue’ but inside that it’s Romance Dawn, Orange Town, Syrup Village, etc etc. Do you prefer the arcs to be separate or under the umbrella name. I’m leaning towards the separate camp, but idk, lemme know because I’m curious. 

Anyway that’s all for this chapter. Next chapter will be the explanation and some Sunny stories because he’s been spilling the beans so much that he needs to be stopped somehow.

Chapter Text

“Man… I forgot how good showers felt.” Finishing up her shower (and raiding Hero’s room for clothes) Mari began heading towards… well she had no idea where exactly. “I think Sunny said something about Gino’s? But that was 30 minutes ago, so maybe he would have left by now?”

…

…

“Well standing around won’t accomplish anything. Let’s go look for them.” 

…

…

“I really gotta stop talking to myself.” Stepping out of the Rodriguez Residence–

“Bark! Bark!” She was interrupted by a hyperactive dog jumping at her for some attention.

“Hector, please I need to see my brother.”

“Mrr…” 

*Fwump*

Great work Mari, you’ve murdered him. Doggos need constant attention or else they’ll die.

…

…

“Oh fine.” She squatted down to give him his desired belly rubs. Once he was satisfied he trotted over to his little Doggy Shack™ and promptly passed out.

“Just like his owners…” Now that she was free from the shackles of puppy love, Mari began walking down the familiar sidewalks. Same plastic flamingos, same weird statues that felt like they were eyeing her every movement. “At least things haven’t really changed… for better or worse.” 

Once she made it to the intersection, she was faced with a choice. Go left which leads to the park, so straight which leads to an unknown section of the neighborhood, or right where Aubrey and Basil’s houses are.

…

…

There was only one way to settle this dilemma. 

“Eenie meenie miney… Basil and Aubrey’s Houses.”

…

“Okay, so to summarize–”

*Click* *Creak*

“Aah there you are.” 

“M-Mari?!”

“Oh hey Mari, you’re just in time for the summary.” Sunny said, standing in front of another whiteboard of unknown origin. “So basically–”

“Hold on we’re not just going to gloss over the fact that Mari–”

“Basil, it’s fine.”

“But–”

“Really, it’s fine.” 

…

…

Basil just sat down on the couch with a pout. “So to summarize. I’m an Angel, enrolled in the Guardian Angel Program, my job is to help and protect… well really it’s this town from stuff.”

“What kind of stuff?”

“Oh whatever comes up. Help you all with problems, clean up trash, fight demons, run errands–”

“Hold up, what was that?” Kim asked with her hand raised.

“What? Run errands? I did that all the time back when I was alive–”

“Not that! The fight demons part!”

“... Oh that. Yeah sometimes there are demons lurking around to devour your soul and take over your bodies. One of them was trying to take over Mari’s body last night but I stopped it.”

“What in the… how did you… wha?”

“It’s simple, just slap one of these Demonic Artifact Stickers on it and it’ll be scooped up and sent to the Cleansing Facilities up in Heaven. Demon's are sucked out and their soul is sent to the Reincarnation Station where the soul is brutally and painfully scrubbed to take away all the impurities before being sent off to be reincarnated.”

…

…

“My whole world view just got turned upside down.”

“I was like that too during my first week up there. But at least the drinks were good! They have this fountain that sprays out Apple Juice made from the apples grown from the–”

“How long are you staying here?”

“Huh? Oh right that. According to the Grand Archangel Gabriella, I have until Summer’s End.”

“T-That’s so little time!”

“Well yeah… but if I do a good job then I’ll be promoted to permanent Guardian Angel, and then I get to watch you guys grow and do stuff! Isn’t that great?!”

…

…

“What’s wro–”

“But that means you won’t be able to grow and do stuff.” Basil muttered, which gave Sunny pause.

… Before he smiled, “Well… it’s not like I had a lot planned for myself back then anyway.” 

“That’s not the point, Sunny!” 

“You still want to run your own Flower Shop, right?”

“What does that have to–”

“Right?”

“... Well yeah, that hasn’t changed?”

“Aubrey still wants to be a Hairstylist?”

“You still remember–”

“Hero, a 3 whatever Star chef?”

“...” 

“And you Kel? Basketball player?”

“Well… yeah! But I’m… not doing so well right now. Haha”

“And Mari… you first wanted to be a Softball player… but then the accident happened. After a while you wanted to run a little bakery but Dad made you pick up Piano.”

Mari didn’t know how to respond.

“Honestly I put more effort remembering and wanting to help you all fulfill those dreams… that I kinda didn’t really think about mine. Then again it might have been the years up in Heaven that made me forget, haha.”

“... We haven’t paid attention to you at all have we?”

“It’s not like that Basil–”

“How is it not?! All of us have only talked about ourselves, what we want. And yet we never asked you what you wanted–”

“Well maybe seeing you all happy and talking about your dreams WAS what I wanted!” Basil instantly backed down seeing Sunny raise his voice, “It was great, seeing you all talk about your dreams. The excitement in your voice, the brightness in your eyes, hearing you all talk a mile a minute about your plans to accomplish those dreams, I loved that.”

“B-But that’s–”

“I’m going to be honest, I never really saw myself doing much back when I was alive. Working a 9-5, an apartment, maybe a wife and a kid. But what I did see back then was seeing all of you accomplish your dreams. Watching the news, seeing you all doing what you set out to do.” A small smile wormed its way onto Sunny’s face, “And when that would happen I saw myself bragging to random people about you all. Pointing at the screen and going ‘Aren’t my friends and family amazing?’ but that only made me realize that I wish I said that so much more in real life than in some daydream.”

…

…

“Then… keep saying it.” Amidst the silence, it was Kel who spoke up first.

“Huh?”

“I-I’ll become the best Basketball player ever!” Tears welled in his eyes, “I’ll become someone so… so awesome that you’ll brag to every single angel up there!”

… Leave it to Kel to exclaim what everyone was feeling, but didn’t have the courage to say. 

“Well I’ll look forward to that.” 

The atmosphere felt warm and comforting. Like any and all worries were sapped away and replaced with a warm embrace.

“Anyway.” Which means it’s time to kill it, “I grow tired of this mushy stuff. Time for more stories.”

“Oh please no!” Aubrey exclaimed, not wanting to go through another incident of extreme embarrassment again, as Kel was instantly hiding behind Basil’s couch.

“Sunny, I don’t think it’s fair to blow all of our friend’s secrets without sharing some of your own.” Mari meanwhile was coming in with the assist play.

“Careful Mari, I haven’t said anything about you yet, and I have plenty of stories.” And was instantly shut down, “But sure… I can tell some stories about me… hmm…”

…

…

“Taking a long time there, Sunny.” Kim commented. 

“I’m trying, but all of the stories I have that are considered ‘Embarrassing’ involve either one or all of us.”

“What about that Valentine’s Day–”

“That was your idea, doesn’t count.” 

“Who cares tell it anyway.” Kim ordered.

“Alright then… I was… four? No five! I was five at the time. Mom opted to not put me into Kindergarten so I was pretty much staying at home doing things to keep myself occupied. But a day before Valentine's Day, Mari barged into our room and begged me to help her with a… Extra Credit Project.” He said with air quotes, “So naturally, naive kid me agreed instantly… and instantly regretted it.” 

“... What did she make you do?”

“Well… for reference, the Project was to have the most spectacular Valentine’s Day Card Giving… with the winner not only getting 100 points extra credit, but also got a big white chocolate heart, and Mari, the brilliant mastermind, decided a sure fire win was to have an actual cupid giving out the cards.”

…

…

“No freaking way.”

“Yeah, she got me a cloth diaper, fake wings, and a little bow, and made me give out cards for her.”

“Oh my God what?!”

“Yeah… wanna know the worst part? We didn’t even win.” 

“BAHAHAHAHA!”

“Yeah as it turns out… we were disqualified because SOMEBODY,” Sunny shot a glare at Mari, “Forgot that outside help wasn’t allowed. It was the first rule she said.”

“L-look! It was a good idea at the time!” 

“Clearly not considering we lost. I did all that for nothing!”

“Oh don’t be like that, I remember you loving the attention the girls were giving you.”

Sunny’s face turned beet red, “That’s not at all true–”

*POOF*

“9th Commandment Sunny.”

*POOF*

“Damn it Gabby!”

“So what was that Sunny?” Mari said with her trademark smug smile, one Sunny wasn’t going to let go this time.

“Alright Mari, we’ll talk about you later.” And just like that, her smile evaporated, “Now back to me… like I said most of my stories involve one or all of us. There was this one time Hero, Kel, and I were going to Othermart to buy something for Kel’s mom. But like the klutz he is he tripped on a tree root and fell face first into a puddle of mud.”

…

…

“Oh yeah I remember that!” Kel exclaimed, “Mom was super mad when we came home.”

“Wait, we?”

“Yeah, out of solidarity I fell into the mud too.” Sunny explained before pointing to Kel, “Kel on the other hand did it because he wanted to roll around in mud.” 

“Jeez Kel I know we call you a pig to make fun of you but we weren’t that far off huh.”

“Can it, Huggles.”

“You wanna go Skinny Dipper?”

“Alright you two don’t interrupt story time.” Sunny commented, de-escalating the conflict rather quickly, “Hmm… I got one. So this isn’t really embarrassing, but it’s my Mom’s favorite story to bring up whenever she’s felt like it. So I was four right, and Mom had a habit of baking cookies as a form of stress relief–”

“Sound familiar bro?”

“Hush.”

“Anyway, Mom loved baking Mari’s favorite cookies, Chocolate Chip, because they were easy–”

“Hold on, I thought Chocolate Chip was yours?” Now it’s Basil’s turn to interrupt.

“No they’re Mari’s, both to bake and to eat, it's a reason she always makes them. If I had to say my favorite they’d be Peanut Butter.”

“But then why–”

“Because you all love her Chocolate Chip Cookies so I thought it’d be kinda rude to have her make a batch specifically for me.”

“W-What?”

“Yeah and honestly they were my 3rd favorite cookie, but after a while they kinda fell out of my Top 10.”

“WHAT?!” Now everyone was shocked. Both at this info and at the fact that Chocolate Chip Cookies fell out of his Top 10.

“S-So you’ve been eating a cookie you didn’t really like just to make us happy?”

“Well I mean Mari’s cookies are like a paragon of the art form, she can make something as bottom tier as Oatmeal Raisin taste delicious. It’s just whenever we get them from other places, well I've always slipped them my share into each of your plates.” Sunny shrugged, “I don’t know, the bitterness and the richness of Dark Chocolate is great in moderation, and we've blown WAY passed that. WHITE CHOCOLATE though? Love it. White Chocolate Macadamia cookies are great, right behind Peanut Butter cookies.”

…

…

“Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah Mom baking. So she makes cookies right? And she puts them in the jar high on the counter to save them for later. But Mari… has a near insatiable sweet tooth–”

“Tell me about it…” Hero muttered, earning a halfhearted smack by Mari.

“So she would always steal from the cookie jar, and would always be caught. So after like 5 attempts Mom got fed up and bought a safe to put the cookies in. If that sounds excessive, well it was mostly to send a message and she would soon use that safe for important documents and emergency savings. So after Mari was successfully stopped, she needed a hero… and that hero was I.”

“... So you’re telling me you cracked the safe?”

“Of course I did, Mari wanted those cookies.” 

“Okay, how in the heck did you crack a safe at four years old?”

“Well it was easy, the safe was one of those keypad safes, and the numbers made a different sound. I overheard her putting in the combination and once she left I crawled over, pushed every button to hear the sounds, and cracked the safe in one shot.” Sunny said, “But in hindsight I probably could have figured out the code myself. It was so obvious. It was 3197, Mari’s Birthday.”

“... Why am I not surprised at this point?” Kim muttered.

“Anyway after I gave Mari the goods, Mom saw that I cracked the safe and hid it somewhere else. And every place she would hide it I would find it in 30 minutes tops. Eventually it became like a game to her, finding ways to hide the jar and seeing if I can find it. At one point she buried it outside in the yard, before going out to pick up some milk. When she got home she saw Mari eating more cookies and me covered in dirt.”

“Dang, Baby Sunny was on a mission.”

“But that’s not even the craziest one. Fast forward like 15 attempts, she got so fed up with a baby outsmarting her that she literally bought a cookie jar that was the same one Kel’s and Hero’s Mom used for their cookies, and covertly swapped the two. Now I knew something was up because she just left the cookie jar on the counter unguarded. So I was trying to figure out where the jar was, until Hero and Kel came into our house to invite us over for a play date. Mom gave us the go ahead and we went to their house. Now I was hungry and wanted a snack, and once I set foot into the kitchen I saw it. A cookie jar that looked exactly like the one Mom bought. Went back out to the Living Room, pulled Hero along, made him grab the cookie jar for me after a bit of convincing and there they were, the still warm cookies.”

“Mom didn’t even bake cookies that day so I didn’t know why he wanted the cookie jar so bad, but when I saw he pulled out a cookie I was shocked.” Hero recalled, “And he then handed it to me as ‘Payment’ before walking out to give the rest to Mari.”

“Yeah, and right as I handed the jar to Mari, Mom barged into the house and publicly admitted defeat. Crying with pride and a bit of shame at how she got outsmarted by a four year old.”

“... Sunny, how the hell?”

“It was like you said earlier Kim, I was a baby on a mission. A mission to get Mari her cookies.” 

“Wow Kim, why don’t you go that far for me?”

“Well I don’t know Vance, what have you done for me lately?”

“How about covering your candy tab after you got caught by Ms. Candice?”

“SHUT UP!”

“Anyway that’s all of the stories I got for me…” Sunny said before looking at Mari.

“... Sunny, don't you dare.”

“But I have a few about Mari.” Now that got everyone attention, “So, as a kid I’d always sleep in her bed–”

“Yeah because you love me, end of story–”

“Well it was a mix of that and the fact that Dad got you the actual comfortable bed while cheaping out with mine. So any chance I got I would sleep in your bed because it was super comfortable. But that’s not the story I was going to tell, what I was going to say was that almost all of the times I sleep in Mari’s bed, it was great. The best night’s sleep I ever had.”

“... Almost?”

Mari’s eyes widened, “Sunny I know where you’re going with this, don’t you dare–”

“In the rare few times she would sleep in an awkward position, she would snore. Snore so freaking loud.”

…

…

“PFFT! HAHAHAHA!!” Kel burst out laughing, with Aubrey and Basil following suit. Hero tried to not laugh but was struggling while Mari buried her face into a throw pillow. 

“And one time she started snoring during a school night, I couldn’t sleep a wink that night and got in trouble for sleeping in class. Mom and Dad got called in and I was so tempted to throw Mari under the bus but I just nodded at the scolding. It got so bad that I risked getting grounded to sneak out to Hobbeez to get some earplugs.”

“You know what? Fine.” Oooh Mari’s mad now, “Wanna play ball, Sunny? I remember the singing phase. You’d sometimes sneak out in the middle of the night to practice singing. Who were you practicing for, hmm?”

Sunny’s cheeks flushed and his eye twitched, “Alright, guess it’s war now. You thought you were sneaky, but I saw you sneaking away to eat the last slice of MY 8th Birthday Cake.”

“You saw that?!”

“Yes, and I was betrayed and heartbroken! And after I ate Grandpa's cooking for you, for all those years, that was how you repay me?! You KNOW how much I love Mrs. Baker's cakes!!"

The siblings went back and forth trying to one up each other with embarrassing and scandalous facts. Eventually going so far back into their childhoods that neither of them really fully remember what they were revealing.  

But this was the feeling they missed. Many years of heartache, anger, sadness now replaced with a sense of warmth and familiarity. 

And it was something they weren’t going to take for granted ever again.

End of Chapter

A/N: 

Hello! This is… more or less the end of the Prologue of this fic. And that means that there will be no more Sunny stories. I know, it's tragic. 

The thing is that now that half of the town knows that Sunny is alive, with the other half figuring it out in the next part, there isn’t really a need for Sunny to prove his aliveness with more embarrassing stories. But I do have a few more ideas…

Which is why this fic will take a temporary Hiatus. Not because I have no idea what to do or want to drop this fic, far from it. Buuuut my plan was to make a series about these stories I summarized in here, along with others that I came up with between now and Chapter 1. The reason I’m hiatusing this fic to work on that one is… well I have a tiny brain and I will probably forget all my ideas immediately unless I do them.

Also I planned to have it drop during Sunny’s Birthday because Chapter 1 is… well Sunny being born and his life as a babu. 

But his birthday is July 20th… and today is July 20th. So I’m kinda late to my own plan, the story of my life.

So here’s what we’re gonna do. We’re gonna pretend that today is actually the 19th, and that tomorrow is the 20th so I can lie to myself that I did it on time. Got it? Alright break!

Anyway hope you like the chapter, if you don't like it, then feel free to yell at me. I can take it (I can’t actually, please be gentle).