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The sky was pretty today. It has been pretty prior to today and it will be pretty even tomorrow. It has always been pretty, it always will and it will never change. Forever brightly purple gazing over their heads with stars shining and various silly constellations slowly moving above their heads.

That didn’t matter to Omori, as he was busy grinding not only his but also his friends’ asses off at the not-so-secret rarebear idea in Sweetheart's gardens. It had its reason, one of them being Sweetheart looking like a pain in the ass to fight and Omori wasn’t having that.

Everyone was starting to get tired, running from the rarebear area back to Mari, wiping some sprout mole asses on their way there and then back.

Aubrey was feeling physically sick and Hero is following. Kel was trying to hide it, but failed miserably.

Omori silently assured them this was the last run for the rarebears and it would be all over soon, and everyone decided to “bear” (get it) it a little longer, for Omori and the pain relief they will feel once they encounter… Who knows.

It was soon over, with them all getting some unnecessary EXP at this point, but who were they to care. Omori said it’s over, so their reward in the form of a break at Mari’s picnic it is.

That lasted for about an hour, Hero getting cuddly with Mari, Aubrey and Kel passing out in means to get a nap and Omori thinking what else is there to do. He did catch himself slipping for a bit into naps but didn’t let himself fall fully.

Before they knew it, everyone was energetic and killing everything in their ways. Poor sprout moles for EXP they don’t need, obliterating puzzles and getting “secret” passwords to escape this hell and face Sweetheart because there is no way she won’t catch them.

They come more than prepared, crash a wedding and kick her ass. All success, EXP not needed.

Until Omori sees he reached lv 51. That’s not right. The limit is 50, he knows this, he was the one to make that rule. And before he gets to think about that more, everything goes dark.

Sunny woke up with a gasp only to hear someone gasp right after him. That scared the shit out of him, why wouldn’t it? He doesn’t have a sibling anymore, not even a father and his mother is far away. Either someone broke into his house and Sunny is about to get robbed and kidnapped or he’s hearing things. Nothing unusual with the hearing things.

He sat up in his bed, not moving from it and looked around, only for his eyes to stop at the monochrome boy lying on his floor right beside his bed.

Holy shit that is Omori. Alive and probably breathing. Time to double check- yeah, no, his chest is rising, he’s definitely alive. How in the actual shit, Sunny thinks.

Okay, time to try and not panic. How does he deal with this? Hero is coming back today, Kel is going to start banging on his door probably soon and there he has in his room an alive personification of his trauma, depression, repression and god knows what else. To make it worse, he looks like he’s 12. To top it, he IS 12.

And he’s waking up, there goes god. Sunny braces for what’s about to happen.

Omori opens his eyes, confused as to where he is. There is… A ceiling above his head, but surely not the Neighbor’s room one. It’s dull, there is a fan hanging from the ceiling. Some light is coming from behind him. He pushes himself up, looking around only to set his eyes on a bed. And Sunny sitting on it.

,,What.” Omori whispers, confused.

,,Don’t ask me. You just appeared.” Sunny explained, not having a clue himself.

They stare at themselves for a moment before Omori pushes himself up some more to get closer to Sunny. This is the person who made him to protect him from the bad he lived? Well, it appears to be that way.

Curiously, he brings up a finger to his cheek to squish it. Yup, definitely real. And to his surprise, Sunny does the same. Now that didn’t feel pleasant and Omori takes his hand back.

Protect. That was what he was made to do, that he will do, even in this form. Though he was made to protect from the truth, maybe protecting him physically will also help to bury the truth deeper. He’ll take that.

Omori takes a seat beside Sunny.

,,No powers, huh…” Omori ponders and Sunny just nods at him.

,,Yeah, this world is… Pretty lame.” he admits and Omori nods along with that statement.

,,How do I protect you then?” Omori asks and Sunny is taken aback.

,,How do yo-” He wants to ask but there’s sudden banging on the front door, it seems. Well, his room door isn’t budging, so it’s only his front door at this point. Omori looks to the door, making an unpleasant expression.

,,It’s just Kel. He’s dragging me outside. And I’m going, so… You do you.” Sunny gets up and goes to leave his room when he hears quiet footsteps behind him, as if Omori didn’t want to be heard.

,,Where are you going?” Sunny asks, leaving the room and Omori following suit.

,,Protect. Have to tag along, you know.” Omori reasons and Sunny sighs.

,,How do I explain this to others?!” He yells a bit too loudly for his liking.

,,Your problem.” Omori shrugs before taking a turn into the kitchen for a moment, away from Sunny, who kept walking towards the front door. It didn’t take long until Omori was back at Sunny’s side, who had already opened the door. Well he surely didn’t want to be seen but whatever now.

,,Sunny! Top of the morning to you!” Kel waves a small hi before looking around and seeing… Omori.

,,...Sunny, who’s this? Is this a friend you’ve never told me about?” Kel questions with a giggle, making sure to take a good look at Omori.

,,Well, uh, Kel, how do I-” Sunny begins and Kel stops him mid-sentence.

,,This fella looks a little bit like younger you, actually. What’s going on, Sunny?” Kel asks, squinting his eyes at Omori and Sunny.

,,I- Uhm- Ah you see- This-”

,,Doesn’t matter. What do you want.” Omori says with a whisper, clearly bothered by how much he’s being studied. He also doesn’t give two shits.

,,Uh- Can I at least have your name? Or can I call you fella? Or do you prefer buddy? Or or maybe-” Kel got excited coming up with names, thinking just what to call this new person who he has no idea who is and why he looks like a younger, monochrome version of his best friend.

,,Omori.” Rolling his eyes, Omori says, not wanting to deal with this.

,,Okay! Well, Omori, I was about to tell Sunny about Hero! You know Hero don’t you my best big brother. He’s coming from collage, I told you, Sunny!” Kel explains with a loud voice and Sunny just nods along.

,,Well, he’s coming later than expected, so I’m running some errands and want you to tag along! But now seeing you have Omori here, he can come as well! If he wants to of course! I wouldn’t force people t-”

,,I’ll come.” Omori interrupts. God, this Kel is so far worse that the Kel he knows from headspace.

,,Alright! Well, uhm, I need to go to Othermart to get an order from the bakery and then I need to go to Gino’s to get an order! I should’ve been done already but decided to get you… Two instead!” Kel smiled.

,,Yeah sure. Let’s- Let’s get going, Kel. We don’t want your parents to wait any much longer- Let’s just-” Sunny hushed him out of the way so he and Omori could go outside. And they did. Wow, another surprise for Kel. Holy shit so much stuff happening today.

They decided to finally make their way to Othermart with Kel talking a hole into both Sunny’s and Omori’s head, whining about how his mom is cleaning the house for the third time this week just so it looks perfect, which bothered him. 

Sunny thinks that is way too much cleaning, Omori thinks maybe Sunny’s room would need that. And he was there for about five minutes. Well whatever, he can do something about it whenever else.

As they start passing the Faraway Park, Kel looks to the side only to notice Basil standing and just kinda looking around. ,,Sunny, Om…Omoro? Omo? Omo, look! Basil! Let’s say hi!” Kel suddenly said as he grabbed them both by their wrists and tugged them to Basil.

,,Wait hold on Kel we can’t take Om-” it was too late because Basil turned around when he heard the noise and froze.

,,Uhhmm-” he started but was soon cut off by Kel.

,,Hi Basil! I just saw you and decided we need to say hi! This is Omo-something btw, Sunny’s… I don’t know, friend? Say hi to each other go on!” Kel being energetic was going to be the death of them. All three of them.

,,KEL?!” Sunny let out before slapping his mouth. Omori rolled his eyes and turned away from Basil.

,,Omo?! That’s not nice!” Kel scolded him and went to face him. Omori didn’t think much of it than to think he’s glad he didn’t end up with this Kel instead.

,,I’ll just… Leave-” Basil said awkwardly while Sunny was fidgeting, trying to find words and with a blink Basil was gone. ,,Wait- That could’ve gone better. Oh well!” Kel laughs and leaves Sunny in despair. Omori wants to go back to headspace.

Anyway they continue their way to Othermart, finding a coin on their way, which can totally be used to hurt someone… Or they can make a wish later. Maybe Omori will use it to wish to return and never come back here, it’s but suffering.

They almost raid Othermart, people stare weirdly as two Sunny’s casually make their way through regals. Kel gets his bakery order, sniffing inside to smell fresh, crispy bread and it takes every fiber of his cruel being to not devour it right there and then.

Omori steals an apple as they leave the gods forsaken place, and that is Othermart crossed on the list. And it took one seven people staring and one apple robbery, that’s good…. Right?

Sunny is trying his best to not cry and Omori is playing with his knife. Kel is beaming with happiness as they enter GINO’s. The entire scooter gang is here, Sunny debates on leaving Omori behind and running away. Kel doesn’t let him.

So they get a few weird stares from Kim, Vance, Angel, even Charlene and that weird kid Mikhael. Aubrey is sitting there, confused, why two Sunny’s casually walk up like nothing is different. She looks them up and down, one visibly shaking, trying to hold himself together and the other eating… An apple core while holding a knife.

She feels like that pizza had some shit drugs in.

,,Actually, you know, Hero’s nickname comes from the Hero sandwiches! Not because he did anything cool, haha…” Kel says, chuckling in embarrassment as if he’s getting second embarrassment.

,,Lame.” Omori lets out before throwing the small wooden part of the apple on the ground.

,,Pick that up, young man. That is not cool.” Gino comes in with Kel’s very much pizza order of sandwiches and makes a disappointed face at Omori.

,,And you look like your wife just divorced you, left you and took the ki-”

,,Okay that’s enough Omori we need to leave BYE GINO-” Sunny yells out before grasping Omori by his top and dragging him outside. That leaves Kel profusely apologizing on Omori’s behalf, the scooter gang either laughing with their mouth full or staring in utter disbelief of what balls Sunny’s close has and Gino standing in shock, trying to not crumble down like a burnt pizza.

Today is going great.

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Rushing back to Kel’s house to get away from the public eye, Sunny holds his head down in shame, Omori is… Well, being Omori, and Kel is asking a bunch of questions towards him, like why did he say that, why be so rude to the pizza guy and such. Omori wasn’t showing it, but he probably felt annoyed. Hell, even Sunny was beginning to be annoyed and that was saying a lot.

Omori was no longer being dragged by Sunny because Sunny really couldn’t have been bothered to drag him. Omori didn’t even need to, struggling his way out because it was just uncomfortable.

Finally, Kel’s house was in view and before they all knew it, they stood in front of it. Kel looked at them and took the orders from Sunny, who was carrying them the whole way.

,,Well, guess we’re back… Sorry for making you carry my stuff, Sunny!” Kel says with some joy in his voice. He’s probably just excited for Hero to be home.

,,Yeah well we need to go Kel by-” Sunny was quick to take Omori by his shirt again but Kel managed to stop him by taking his other free hand, which almost made both Omori and Sunny fall and throw their ass on the ground but it sometimes is like that.

,,Now Sunny, why don’t you come with me? I think Hero would love to see you out after so long!” Kel smiles and Sunny just uncomfortably shuffles and somehow manages to get out of Kel’s grip.

,,I’d love to but I kinda have him with me so it’s a no.” Sunny nods his head towards Omori, who just squints his eyes at him. If Sunny made Omori angry or offended him, Mari will be at his bedside the next time he’s waking up.

,,Uhm… Can’t Omo…ri? Omori just go back ho-”

,,No.” Omori doesn’t let him finish because why would he, cutting him off mid-word to reply and shut him up. Kel looks at him with a puzzled look.

,,Why not? It’s just next to-”

,,No.” Omori says the same thing, hardening his tone. Somehow. Sunny is also confused on how Omori did that. Like holy shit he barely spoke ever.

,,That isn’t a reason! Give me a valid one!” Kel shouts, then bringing one hand up to his mouth to silence himself, looking around if it brought any unnecessary attention. It didn’t.

,,No is valid enough.” Sunny was switching his eyes between them and caught what seemed like a small aura around Omori. Now he isn’t sure if that’s what Kel is also looking at, but it makes Sunny panic. The aura is still unsettled, flashing in and out as if showing Omori is on his last nerve before becoming angry. And boy of boy does Sunny not need to see that. He doesn’t want to, not in his worst nightmares. And those are a lot to talk about already.

,,Okay Kel let’s not push it either me and Omori both go with you or we leave. Just- Please stop pushing it…” Sunny said with an uneasy tone in his voice, as if he was trying to hide the fact he was scared. Spoiler alert, he failed.

Kel was looking at them both, Sunny trying his hardest to not crouch and look small and Omori trying his best to not let anger consume him since his eye was twitching. He would say he listened to Sunny more, but it was his gut feeling telling him he shouldn’t be pushing more. 

,,Okay fine you both can come. But you need to help me distract my mom, she’ll be angry I took so long.” Kel smiles and Sunny basically flips out.

,,So you are telling me to waltz-” he gags as that word, internally at least, “in there and be like HEYYO look at my twin or something? I kind of don’t want your mom to see someone who literally looks like me.” wow. That was a lot of speaking on Sunny. His voice hurts now, ouch. Big ouch. He should never talk again, he thinks. Too bad literally everything hates him.

,,But it’s a perfect distraction! What do you think Omori?” Kel switches his gaze on Omori who looks very much uninterested. But also dead-inside. Scratch all other words, he is dead inside.

,,Don’t care.”

,,Wow you helped me like Alexander the eight.” Kel says, rolling his eyes. Sunny didn’t know he was capable of that. Neither did Omori.

,,The joke is that Alexander the eight is dead by the way” Kel giggles at himself. Was that actually funny for him? Sure it’s a little haha funky but not?

,,I don’t think there was Alexander the ei-”

,,That is not the point, Sunny. Now come on!” he gets behind the two and starts pushing them towards the front door. Well there's definitely no turning back now, Sunny dreads while Omori just. Exists. He probably hates this though.

Soon enough, Kel is standing by the door and clicks it open, swooping in and letting Sunny and Omori go right behind him. Omori, however, sick of Kel, decided to quickly hide in the closest room, that being the dining room. Sunny thinks. Not like he remembers.

Kel closes the door behind the two of them, briefly looking for where Omori went before loud, angry footsteps started approaching.

,,Kel’ What took you so long, to get a bunch of groceries!” Kel’s mom yelled, seriously unhappy. God, when did she send Kel off for her to be THIS mad?

,,I’ll have you know today is very importan- Oh! Sunny! I almost didn’t see you here.” she hushed Kel past to the side to get closer to Sunny, Kel now being free to leave the room, leave Sunny to deal with this. But he didn’t, what a good friend he is.

,,I haven’t seen you in forever! How are you doing, hun? Look at you… You look so thin, have you been eating properly?” she takes Sunny’s face into her palms and caresses him, not that Sunny minds but it’s unexpected, especially after so long.

Kel resists the urge to giggle and watches as Omori suddenly emerges from the small kitchen hall and disappears into the stairs room. Well, as long as he doesn’t break or steal…

,,Ah- Uh, yeah… I’ve been… Eating.” now that is not good lying, Sunny knows that, Kel knows that and his mom does as well. But to Sunny’s mercy, she decided not to push it.

,,Alright dear, I’ve heard you’re moving soon! Is it exciting? I know it’s a little scar-”

,,Okay mom, we should get going!” Kel makes sure the groceries don’t fall from the table before going behind Sunny and pushing him towards the stairs room to take him into his room.

,,Now- Hey! Kel, I wasn’t done talking to Sunny and especially not to you-”

,,See you later mom!” and that was it. They were out and on their way to Kel’s (and Hero’s) room. Alongside Omori, wow, he really does just appear whenever he wants.

They made their way up to Kel’s room, closing the door too softly, which isn’t like Kel, but oh well, people change.

,,Well, here we are! My and Hero’s room!” Kel says excitedly before hopping his way over to his boombox which he got Sunny doesn’t know when. Kel’s side is messy as always, at least from what he remembers, and Hero’s is decorated in shiny prizes.

,,I got this baby about a year ago, let me play you my favorite-” Kel says as he presses a button, making obnoxious music play. Sunny covers his ears a bit because the noise hurts and Omori makes his way over to Kel’s bed, looking up at a Spaceboy poster. Ah..

,,It’s my favorite! Mom doesn’t let me play it loudly because of Sally.” Kel says before turning the boombox off as Sunny uncovers his ears, looking at Kel, confused.

,,Oh! You don’t know who Sally is, right? Well, guess what! I’m a big brother now! Sally's my baby sis!” Kel says, making happy gestures and smiling brightly. He probably loves being a big brother. Kel looks over to Omori, who still just… Stares.

,,Oh, are you looking at my Captain Spaceboy poster? Man, it’s my favorite one! My mom tried to make me get rid of it but I managed to talk her out of throwing it out. I also have some old comic books if you want to look!” that gets Omori’s attention.

,,Yes, please. I’d like to see.” Omori says with almost a whisper but also not? It’s weird. Sunny doesn’t want to think about it too much, it might hurt his head.

,,Let me dig them up…” Kel says, going to his closet and digging for the comics, that are under more comics and some old, broken figurines, toys, accessories, who knows what else. Finally, after what seems like an eternity and was in fact just 30 seconds, Kel victoriously hands up some old Spaceboy comics and hands them towards Omori.

,,There you go! Don’t rip them though, they’re rare!” what’s right about that no one of the three knows, but sure. Omori just nods in response, putting his knife away, which, wow, and opens one of the comics up. It’s one of the very first, Sunny notes mentally. He gets behind Omori a little to see, because holy smokes, these are old. It starts off slow, introducing Spaceboy a little, his crew, what they get on in daily life.

Childhood. 

,,KEL?! THERE’S A LADY ASKING FOR YOU!” Kel’s mom suddenly calls out, tripping up all three of them, even Kel,who was reading the comics along. They look at each other, Omori sets the comics back down on Kel’s bed before taking his knife again. They don’t know how to sneak Omori back out, but well, that’s a problem for very-near-future them.

Soon enough, they’re all pushing each other down the stairs, nearly unknowingly making Sunny have a fucking panic attack before making it safely down. Not today, Sunny thinks… Victoriously???

Omori doesn’t leave them this time, probably having in mind to give someone life doubts, today, but who’s anyone to stop him? Sunny could try, but alas he does not want a knife in his chest. Or head. Or arm. Anywhere, actually.

And seeing, near the front door beside Kel’s mom, standing Polly. What is she doing here? Both of them look at the trio, who they thought was a duo. Both of them stare for a moment at the chromatic boy before Polly speaks up.

,,Hello… Uhm, hope I’m not a bother but…” she starts as the small party comes closer, ,,but I was wondering if you know where… Basil is? He hasn’t come home yet and I’m worried…” she says, lowering her head in shame.

,,We said hello to him a bit ago in the park, but that’s a while already…” Kel says, thinking about where Basil could’ve gone off to.

,,But we can keep an eye out!” Kel smiles at her, making Polly give him a small smile back.

,,That makes me feel a bit better… Thank you.” she nods her head in thanks, clasping her hands together and promptly leaving, shutting the door behind her gently.

Kel’s mom sighs. ,,She looked awfully worried.” Kel nods along, Sunny just tries his best to make Omori seem invisible. He cannot live this.

,,Can we go look for him? Please? Mom?” Kel makes puppy eyes. That’s on being a dog person.

,,Mhm… Okay. Just be back before dinner, Hero will be here as you know. Be careful you lot.” she says after a moment of silence. Kel yaps out loudly in joy before grabbing Sunny by his hand, opening the front door with force that was almost enough to break said door. Omori just stood there, looking at Kel’s mom, who looked back at him, looking him up and down before her stare turned confused. 

,,And you, young man… Who looks too much like Sunny, are..?”

Sunny suddenly bolts back in, grabbing Omori by his arm and forcing him outside.

,,Ah- Sunny?! I was speaking to whoever this is!”

,,I am your hallucination.” Omori says in a dead voice. Here we go again.

,,Excuse me?” Kel’s mom says in disbelief. 

,,Maybe you’re schizophrenic.” he says, making Sunny turn around.

,,Can you stOP-”

,,WHAT DID YOU SAY NOW?” Kel’s mom is probably having the worst day of her life.

,,He said you’re high-” Kel says on impulse, looking through the door and helping Sunny push Omori outside.

,,KEL-”

,,BYE MOM!” Kel closes the door, clearly frightened by what he said.

Can this get worse..?

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There is now a fuming demon behind the door they just closed and one is standing right beside them. Not the ideal situation, certainly not for Kel, because when he returns, it will be a fucking parade, on top of that Hero will know. And Sunny has to deal with the other demon, or as he thinks of him, spawn of Satan, electric boogaloo.

,,What was that?!” Kel exclaims, looking at Omori, who shrugs and turns away.

,,Hey- Don't ignore me?! You fucked up!” Okay that’s new. Kel swearing? Shit’s real.

,,And so did you.” 

The silence is real. It’s upright painful if that could be said. Because Omori was right, Kel was slowly getting furious (how Sunny could tell was by the slight red aura around Kel getting stronger and stronger, but that’s just his hallucination) and Sunny was uncomfortable. Can’t they just go find where Basil is, lead him back home and call this a day? The sun is already setting anyway, they should part ways soon right?

…

Right?

…

,,Well- That doesn’t matter! You straight up told her she is schizophrenic!” Kel yelled back as Omori started slowly walking away from the house, taking a path to the small crossroad. Kel was quick to follow him in rage as Sunny decided to stay a bit further.

,,Well, you told her she was high.” Omori makes a point and Kels hair stands up. Not literally, just imagine it.

,,Do you know how angry she will be?!”

,,Yeah, at you. You live with her, I don’t.” Omori raises another point, standing almost in the wide street where any car could run him over. 

Sunny almost wishes.

However, before Omori takes another step, Kel stops him by pulling on his arm, maybe a little too harshly. 

,,Look, no matter how angry you made me, I wouldn’t let you get yourself killed.” Kel says with a certain sincerity in his voice and Omori brushes it off. Sunny doesn’t.

It’s just a little curious how Kel is so careful even towards someone who looks like a monochrome version of his best friend, knows him for maybe an hour or two at worst and already got into a very serious and heated argument. Kel just seems to be like that: Caring, simple.

If only everything was simple.

,,Whatever.” Omori shakes him off himself, gripping the knife. Sunny is surprised he didn’t slash yet, just like he did at Aubrey. But it’s better to not think about that, the universe seems to hate him and he doesn’t want to call it in.

,,You know what. We both fuck up, let’s both apologize later and also come up with an excuse later. Now we have to-”

,,Find Basil, yeah we know Kel let’s get going.” Sunny blurted out like nothing. Okay wow, another wow and a third wow, what even. Sunny isn’t close to Basil, well at least not like he used to, so why is he rushing it?

Is it the neverending feeling in his rotting heart that he knows he left Basil and now he feels like he needs to make up for the 4 years that he locked Basil away from himself when he knew very well they both would have probably coped better in the other's presence? Or is it just that the day can be over quicker?

…Probably the latter, yeah, that must be it.

,,Yeah, you’re right. So, to the park we go.” and… So they did. Almost without a sound, like a silenced video, they started walking to the Faraway park which was just in their reach. Their footsteps were too loud, but the neverending silence was uncomfortable.

Sunny felt like drowning in it.

Too bad he can't, right?

Kel suddenly took the lead the second they reached the first step into the park’s grass, going back to where the entrance to their old hangout spot used to be.

,,This is where we saw Basil, where could he have gone…” Kel ponders before looking around on the left side, Sunny moving to the right quickly and Omori standing by. He doesn’t blame him though.

,,Maybe he wandered off… Into the trees and-”

,,And died.”

,,AND GOT LOST.” Sunny looks at Omori with a bit of anger cooking up inside him. If anything in the world is cruel, it’s Omori. It’s getting on Sunny’s nerves, and on Kel’s most likely as well. God what would he give to send that demon to be a part of him in his head again and not here.

,,But this isn’t even that deep, or big… Maybe he just panicked and saw something?”

,,SOMEBODY… HELP!” a shouting voice says, making them all look towards the only direction they didn’t bother looking through yet. It sounded like Basil, too much like Basil, and that scream was very much pained. Kel’s face fell in horror and Sunny felt his stomach drop. There’s trouble going on over there.

,,Okay it’s going through here- Sunny, help me look! You too Omori, lend a hand!” Kel says, almost like he was always the leader of their party. It would’ve been probably better if he was because honestly, Sunny didn’t know what the fuck he was doing half the time.

Omori rolls his eyes, not that they can see, before pushing through their asses into a very forgotten small path. He stops in his tracks before looking down beneath his feet, as if it was accidental, which had to be, right?

,,You found it! You’re so lucky, thanks! Now let’s get going!” Kel pushes him to the side, almost making him fall over in the process. Kel did not mean to, of course, but it made Omori annoyed. He could’ve been gentler.

,,Omori. Let’s just get going…” Sunny says in a low voice before slowly pushing before Omori, waiting until he’d get into a two-man line behind him.

,,No way I’m following you when it’s just us. Keep your ego low.” Omori would normally almost hold back a chuckle, but with this Kel around? No, no way that’s happening. Sunny just gives in as Omori passes him around and makes his way behind Omori, making sure to keep some distance, because it feels safer that way.

He almost walks into Kel, who decided to actually wait for him. Wow, so nice. Omori is kind of just standing by the side. Kel gives him a small smile before turning back and leading the way through random stop signs and cones Omori maybe had the want to slash apart. But didn’t.

Looking from behind Kel and stepping aside to see, there’s the whole Scooter gang and poor Basil almost like thrown off to the side, on his knees, covering his eyes and sobbing. Yup, something 100% happened here. But will they get to know what? Most likely not.

,,Huh- Ah! It’s that nerd, Kel!... Again… And the knife guy!!” Kim shouts, turning around to look at them.

,,And the guy who insulted Gino!” Mikhael turns around, paying all attention to Omori. Oh, so he isn’t invisible, this is suddenly many times worse.

,,Master is right, and the guy who insulted Gino!” Angel repeated as the rest of the gang also turned around, paying more attention now to them than Basil.

Charlene looked unsure about this whole thing, like she wanted to just… disappear. Poor her.

Aubrey rolled her eyes at them, taking a step forward, like the true leader she was. Wow, what confidence she has, something Sunny lacks and always had.

,,Kel. Sunny… You. What do you three want?” She says with a bitter tone. Wow, not nicer than yesterday. Kel rolls his eyes and also takes a step forward, not bigger than Aubrey did with her gang, but it counts.

,,We want you to finally stop messing with Basil!” Kel says with a firm tone, a serious tone. God, it’s not normal for Kel to be this put. But time changes people.

Death as well.

,,We weren’t even doing anything to him! He just started screaming out of nowhere.” Kim reasons, folding her arms on her chest and taking an almost fight-like stand. Maybe she tried to appear scary, but it surely didn’t work.

,,What she said.” Vance stands next to her the same way, trying to intimidate. There is left over taffy in his beard…

Basil, in the back, whispered something through his slowly coming down sniffling and sobbing, only for Vance to turn around. Sunny tried to ignore the red aura around everyone but them and Basil. He doesn’t need everyone to know he has hallucinations.

,,WHAT DID YOU SAY?!” Vance yells at Basil, who twitches and falls from sitting on his knees backwards to the side, sobbing starting up again. Vance could get scary, but there is still some left over taffy in his beard… But Basil is literally mid a panic attack, so he can’t be blamed.

,,Vance, cut it off. We have something else to deal with.” Kim grabs him by his shirt and he scoffs, turning back around. Someone really should tell him about that taffy-

,,I don’t believe you, any of you! Just look at him!” thanks Kel, bringing more attention to him doesn’t help. Angel rolls his eyes.

,,We weren’t even doing anything! We were just telling him to leave!” Maveric reasons, Angel nodding along, standing close by his master. Well… Is he really his master though?

,,He’s just being a drama queen, this is our spot, he wasn’t invited!” Angel continues, making the rest, even Aubrey, nod to what he said.

,,Your spot… so this is your spot now?” Sunny breathes out, taking a stand next to Kel, leaving Omori more behind, almost hidden. Hopefully forgotten by everyone else.

,,Oh, is Sunny taking a stand? Wow, never thought I’d see the coward take a step towards a fight.” Aubrey snickers, lowering her head.

,,This used to be our spot…” Sunny says, almost feeling tears welling up in his eyes and anger cooking in his veins. They found this spot. All of them. With Mari. He won’t let that be taken away.

,,Well, it’s not your spot now! It’s ours now!” Aubrey yells at him, making Sunny step back to where he was.

,,Now get the fuck out before we fuck you up.” Kim snickers, shooting Aubrey a look and her shooting one back. This situaton is one hell of a fuck-up.

Sunny almost wants to tell Kel to just grab Basil and go, but before he can make up his mind on how to word it, Kel speaks up; ,,No! I’m not leaving until you agree to stop bullying Basil!” Good god Kel.

,,Well, if that’s how you want it, we can just fuck you up! How about that?” Aubrey takes up her bat and points it towards them.

,,Come on, cowards. If you win, we’ll leave him the fuck alone, if not, you’re getting thrown to the pile.” Aubrey smiles, almost devilishly. She isn’t far from that at the moment. ,,You two against us six, can you really win?” oh, Omori is forgotten now? GOOD!

That’s until they all hear shuffling from behind Sunny and Kel, Omori making his slow way in front of the two, knife in hand, looking into its reflection. 

…Why does Sunny have a bad feeling about this?

,,Oh, it’s…” Aubrey stopped herself, not knowing Omori’s name. ,,He looks like Sunny but younger-”

,,OH MY GOD, KNIFE GUY HAS A BROTHER???” Angel exclaims, Aubrey a little shocked. What the actual fuck?

,,That doesn’t matter now. COME ON US!” Kim yells as they all get close to them, putting her arms up, Vance following. Mikhael gives them a laugh (which was… Beyond childish-) before putting his hands up as well, Angel doing the exact same thing as Mikhael. It’s getting tiring.

Before Sunny can protest, Kel throws his beloved ball from Omori’s left side right into Aubrey’s head, making her stumble back, so in the nick of panic, Sunny slaps Kim from Omori’s right side. Kim balances it out, and in anger charges forward to hurt Sunny in return, only for Omori to put up his knife and rotate it a little too perfectly to slash Kim’s cheek open up a bit, making red blood slowly flow down in little droplets, letting the sudden sting of pain electrize her body. She yelps as her fist falls apart and Sunny instead of a fist-full gets only mildly slapped into his whole face.

Sunny gets her off himself and she gets back to her place, holding her cheek and looking at it right after only to see her palm bloodied. She feels sick to her stomach and all her friends are looking at her with a horrified look on their faces.

First one to look back was Aubrey only to see the horrified face of Kel and Sunny (as if Sunny didn’t do the same to her, but he does have a bad memory, I mean he didn’t even remember Mari being dead until tomo-) and the dead eyes of someone. 

Omori is staring into her eyes, his blank, not telling a story, any emotion. Dead inside, like the pitch black void of nothingness, not even remorse for his recent action. It’s almost as if his action didn’t even bother him. The knife he is holding close to himself has red droplets falling down on the grass, leaving marks of a fight.

It hits Aubrey.

The psychopath here isn’t Sunny. It’s him.

,,YOU MOTHERFUCKER! YOU HURT MY SISTER, I WILL MAKE YOU PAY YO-” Vance suddenly charged from behind Aubrey, pushing her slightly to the side before coming at Omori with a fist. So unbothered, Omori extends his hand with his dirty knife, aligning it with where Vance’s neck would end up, making Vance freeze in sudden shock of a knife literally under his throat.

Vance trembled, fist still aimed at Omori. Sunny saw the red fade from the Hooligans, only to slowly gather up in Omori.

Omori himself wasn’t too sure of his actions, Lies, he was. He was made to protect Sunny, and if protecting Sunny means protecting that annoying ass Kel, he was going to do so.

,,Another step and you’re gone. No life jam for you.”

,,What’s life ja-” Kel gets shushed by Sunny, who just shakes his head like a mad man, hoping to get the point across.

,,He’s a fucki-fucking psych-psy-psychopath…” Mikhael stutters out as they all slowly start backing out minus Aubrey, making their way around him with caution to their bikes.

,,AUBREY!” Kim yells. ,,Come along, hurry!”

Aubrey stays still as Omori lowers his knife back. He was just about to murder his friend…

,,Aubrey!” Kim tries again, even kicking her bike to create more noise as everyone else bikes away in panic.

,,Aubrey please..” Kim faltered. ,,At least come back unharmed.” and she was off.

Aubrey stood there in shock for a moment before letting out an animal-like screaming, falling to her knees, making Kel, Sunny (and Basil!) twitch in sudden fear.

,,WHY??!”

,,Aubrey-” Kel starts, only to get cut off.

,,Why do you guys keep coming back?!” she yells. ,,Why can’t you just leave me alone?!?”

Sunny just stood there, guild consuming him. Maybe he should’ve never opened the door.

,,Sunny, why did you come back?! Why did you come back now?” Sunny doesn’t know himself. Maybe Mari possessed him and made him open the door for Kel, sure that sounds less crazy than having an entire world inside his head… Probably.

,,Aubrey, I just- We just want you to stop messing with Basil. What’s your deal with him this randomly??” Kel questions, pushing Omori back behind them since he already caused enough trouble as he is. Well, Kel wouldn’t say it but him existing is enough of a problem. Sunny thinks it too-

,,Why do you make me the bully?! You’re fucked up as well! Both- All three of you!” good god Aubrey will remember Omori forever now. Sunny should just pack his bags and run away at this point.

,,No one was here when Mari died! No one! NO FUCKING ONE! YOU ALL LEFT ME!”

There’s a small ring of guilt in Kel’s heart.

Basil slowly stood up, still shaking from crying. ,,Aubr-”

In an instant, she got up and started cornering Basil between herself and the end of the small bridge going over the nearby lake.

,,Aubrey please-” Basil breathed out, his hells almost hanging over the end of the bridge.

,,Shut up. Don’t even get me started.” she let out with a lower voice, raspy from her screaming before.

,,How DARE you still show your face to me. Especially after that!” she took a few steps back, Basil making the most of it and getting himself off the very edge of the bridge. Sunny and Kel slowly came forward with Omori standing behind.

,,Aubrey, please…” he hold his hand out, wanting to touch Aubrey’s shoulder and talk.

,,GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME!” she turns around in shock and anger, pushing him away from herself only for Basil to stumble at the end of the bridge and fall right into the warm lake water, holding his head up high and a hand reaching towards the sun only for him to still get swallowed.

,,AUBREY WHAT THE HECK?!” Kel’s nerves set on fire, coming close to her and letting his ball roll around from him. Sunny’s heart picks up and follows him.

,,I didn’t- Kel wait-!” Aubrey tried to reason and Omori almost saw Sunny standing in case of Aubrey for a split second. ,,SUNNY, GET BASIL. AUBREY, THAT’S SO MESSED UP!”

Sunny slowly made his way to the end of the bridge as his heart picked up even more. His ears began to ring, his throat closed up-

,,Kel I didn’t mean t- Sunny can’t swim!” and he jumped in without second thoughts.

For a second, Omori thought if it wouldn’t be better to let Sunny outright die. He doesn’t have to protect him from shit, he also gets to die and the truth stays hidden forever. I mean it benefits them both, Sunny doesn’t get to live.

,,THE OTHER GUY WHAT THE FUCK GET THEM OUT?!”

,,I MAY HAVE FORGOTTEN SUNNY IS DEADLY AFRAID OF DROWNING-”

,,KEL YOU ARE WORSE THAN ME!”

,,SUNNY JUMPED IN THERE HIMSELF, YOU PUSHED HIM, AUBREY! IF HE DIES IT’S ON YOU!”

,,I KNOW!”

Omori lets go of his knife and sprits towards the free end of the bridge before diving down to get them.

His heart rate picks up, his throat closes up, his ears ring, his nose fills up with water, drowning him from the inside, his limbs go numb.

Well, that’s one way to go.