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June 2019
Abel closed up the last box in his room which mostly had the small things he had in his bedroom including the few books he owned, the apartment had been pre furnished before he moved in except for the mattress but he was leaving that for the next tenant who moves into the apartment, the rest of his clothes and shoes have been packed, the few plates, bowls and cutlery a long with the coffee maker he had will be donated since Benicio and his siblings have them and they have an Electric Tea Kettle so he could still have coffee when he’s in his Secondary Form, all the towels he had were boxed up too last night after he turned off all the outlets and lights in the bathroom and kitchen. He had fully cleaned the apartment from top to bottom the day before and slept in his old bedroom for the last time there putting the dreamcatcher into the box before heading to bed and even though he was in his Secondary Form Abel slept with his Seth plushie, the plush toy works even better than the Dreamcatcher from Elymas.
Thinking of Elymas brought a pang of guilt to Abel, it had been the three weeks leading up to today’s move after his ‘tiny cycles’ as in the two weeks he is in his True Form are called were done for this month because Elymas helped him find this place and move in he felt like he was just throwing away everything Elymas did for him into the trash! It took a lot of reassuring from Boris that what Abel was good for him, a sign moving forward and that Elymas would understand the reason when he eventually tells him that he’s moved out from it which for some reason felt even harder than gathering the courage to tell anyone about his True Form. He just didn’t know if he could ever do it.
Benicio and Boris had already put the other boxes into the car with a sigh Abel grabbed the box, stood up and walked out of the bedroom, switching the light off as he walked past the chairs in the living room he suddenly he needed to take a deep breath then exhaled remembering the first night he spent in the apartment, how surreal it was to have a real roof over his head of his own and how safe he felt when he slept in a bed again after living on the streets and crashing on Elymas’s couch some nights but on hiding just how bad his nightmares were a few nights where he’d sleeping with a rag in his mouth to muffle any whimper or cry, in the morning he’d wash his face before Elymas got up pretending he was fine. When he was in Secondary; his Rebel angel Form and was sleeping in one of the guest Rooms at the house he forgot to put a rag in and Boris heard him on his way to bed and all the wolf had to do was stroke Abel’s hair and slowly the angel calmed until he was peacefully sleeping again, the next morning Boris told him about it then Alice suggested he sleep with Seth in Secondary Form to see if he helps Abel didn’t think it wouldn’t work but to his surprise he didn’t have a single nightmare only good dreams! So he started sleeping with his bedtime plush even Benicio said he even sleeps with Conductor sheepy if he woke up from a extremely bad nightmare….he couldn’t believe he just told him that, so every night Abel slept with plushie Seth in True and in the Rebel angel Form.
When Abel got to the front door, he moved the box into his right wing so he had a free hand to turn the knob, opening the door but before walking out he turns around to take one last look of his old apartment, he kept seeing small flashes of memory then wiped away the tears forming in the corners of his eyes when did he start to cry? Why was he getting emotional about it? He switched off the light before walking out the door and closed the door locking it up behind him, entering the elevator he pushes the button that takes him down to the ground floor to give the keys back to the landlady.