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Pomme closed her book and looked back on her siblings. Tallulah hasn’t left Chayanne's side, it is weird that she can still tell who Chayanne is from all of them. She sighed and looked up at the stars and saw the northern lights flash, Pomme likes to call them aurora borealis.
“How far has mom gotten her castle to? I can’t wait to see it again one day” Pomme thought, memories of all of the fun times she and all of her parents had.
Pomme feels guilty for leaving, but she sees that this is the best way to keep everyone safe from… It.. She still remembers the red eyes of that thing. She doesn’t know if it followed them.. She really hopes so..
“Deep in thought again, huh Pomme?” Dapper asked while sitting down next to Pomme.
Pomme nods her head and Dapper sighs.
“How do you think dad is handling this?” Dapper asks, looking at the stars in the sky.
“Dad Bad? He.. I am not sure.. I hope he is ok.. You remember how he reacted to our little house prank yeah?” Pomme said, a small smile coming on her face.
Dapper let out a chuckle “Yep! He looked like a mess… Do you think that he might be like that but worse?” Dapper asked, still eyes to the sky.
Pomme let out a small hymn like to say yes. They went quiet after that. All of their other siblings having fallen asleep around them, they managed to get wool from a sheep and all of them now had a pillow and a blanket.
“Do you think… Do you think the song dad used to sing to you had any meaning?” Pomme asked, Dapper turned to look at Pomme confused.
“You mean.. You are my sunshine?” Dapper asked, confused.
Pomme nodded “Yeah, I don’t know why he only sang it to us but didn’t the red in his clothes get brighter the longer we were with him?” Pomme asked.
This put Dapper in deep thought, this made them sit in silence for a bit. Dapper hasn't put much deep thought in it.. that song has only made him feel much better.. That was the last song his dad sang before he.. ran. Dapper feels sad not leaving a note behind but at least he left his top hat behind! He knows his dad will take good care of it.
Dapper and Pomme heard a noise from behind them, when they turned to look they saw Tallulah looking at them. She was smiling in the little nest they had built. Being in that nest made them feel safe. It was small enough to take everywhere but big enough to fit all of them in.
“What are you two doing.. we need to go to bed! We must continue our walk tomorrow!” Tallulah said in a tired voice before falling back to sleep.
Pomme and Dapper chuckled. Dapper went to lay down next to Richarlison to keep him warm while Pomme took her time.
Pomme had found an old camera and a backpack. She took a picture.. While these weren’t nice memories, she wanted to show them to their parents when they went back.
Pomme put the camera and pictures in the backpack and put it lean against a tree stump. She put her diary on the tree stump and went into the nest.
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“Dear diary… To whoever reads this..
I’ve brought a book with me while all of my siblings are on the run. I want to document all of the adventures we have gone on.
I started to write this a few days later because it took me a long time to find this book. I found it in a dungeon that me and my other siblings raided. Tallulah was having a bit of a hard time because of her asthma while Chayanne was showing his warrior heart. It is funny how we left so fast we left our stuff behind but we are strong together.
But as the days went by the more we started to miss our caretakers. Tallulah started to miss eating avocado toast, saying ‘the avocado toast we make doesn’t taste the same as the one papa Phil makes’. Chayanne is picking up all of the stuff needed for him to cook but he doesn’t have that interest anymore to cook..
Ramón and Dapper are still fighting, some things never change. They really keep our spirits alive with their playing and funny pranks… But I can see that Dappy is also missing his dad.. I am also missing him. Ramón is still mad that he had to leave his mustache behind, though he is interested in how his dad reacted to that surprise.
Dapper doesn’t want to talk to us anymore as much, he is sitting there alone with tears in his eyes. I’m really worried about him. He thinks I don’t see it but I can see his tears everyday… Like father like son, covering his emotions in hopes that the spirit won’t die. I wish he’d open up to me more, but I understand why he misses dad Bad… I do too…
Richas is freezing because he doesn’t have his football shirt on anymore, he is always close to Dapper. For some reason Dapper gives off natural heat… (maybe that’s how he can spit out fire). When we are just the two of us he is sobbing… He keeps telling me how much he misses his dads.
Leo isn’t any better… Her shell is the most cracked and dirty of us all. I am worried about her. She is a free spirit, but I don’t know her much… But I can tell she misses her parents a lot.. She didn’t get to see her dad Foolish before we ran. She is glad she took so many photos and hid them in the dragon’s mouth.. Leo knows her dad can find them there.
But we need to keep running, it is still out there… I don’t know where but I can feel it watching us.. We miss our stuff.. But we had to leave them behind so we could hide better and they wouldn’t get in the way if we needed to run away fast.
I will protect everyone at any cost. Especially my brothers and sisters, I hate seeing them like this. I remember when we were happy, smiling, laughing & giggling. I’m sorry.. I wish I could fix everything. What would our parents do… What would they…
I’m so sorry.
I will never leave them.
Yours truly… Pomme ”