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Micha could be friends with just about anybody! As long as they stuck around long enough to know him of course! It was hard to connect with the other kids in his class, even before he was taken to the hospital. They all spoke too fast or overwhelmed him easily.. But it was okay! Because he made a friend! A super duper nice one too!
Micha had made one whole friend! One whole friend! And he could talk to him while he was at the hospital! He met a ghost on Minecraft…even if the ghost insisted he WASN’T. Micha knew already, there was no need for his new friend to lie to him. He named Mr. Ghost Regect! If he could send pictures through Minecraft, he would show Regect the drawing he made of the two of them. Once Micha was out of the hospital, he would be able to play with Regect SOOOO much more!!
The highlight of his day was logging onto Minecraft in hopes of seeing Regect again, with the brand new laptop his parents bought him! They even said that when he’s out of the hospital, he’d get a whole pc! Then Micha would be able to install mods and play them with Regect to surprise him! They’d all have so much fun, and once he was back at school, he could show all of his classmates who Regect was.
The beeping of the heart monitor filled the small white room Micha was housed in, and Micha tuned out the beeping; it was annoying anyways. Instead of doing nothing, he opened his computer and loaded up his Minecraft world.
Oh he couldn’t wait to see Regect again.
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This was never supposed to happen. Micha wasn’t supposed to grow close to Regect, that just wasn’t how this was supposed to work! Regect was scary, he was someone you shouldn’t cross, he was an ENTITY for a reason. Couldn’t the kid just pretend to be scared of him? That would at least appease whatever gods sent him down here so he wouldn’t be…rejected.
But he couldn’t lie to himself when it came to enjoying messing around with the kid. For a nine year old, Micha knew how to make Regect laugh out loud. They’d hang out all day until it was time for Micha to head off to sleep or get more tests done on him. Regect felt his heart break a little more each time that Micha told him he had to go. But it would be fine, he supposed. It wouldn’t hurt to have a small friend right..?
Even if that sinking feeling in his gut wouldn’t go away, it would be fine.
Regect, and Micha, would be okay.
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“CMON CMON CMON REGECT!! I WANNA GO MINING WITH YOU!!”
Micha tugged at the ghost’s(?) arm, pulling him towards a hole in the ground. Regect didn’t remember seeing it earlier, but it was here now! But the whole feeling about the cave made Regect feel…odd. He didn’t want the kid going down there. He could find Micha another cave to mine in, surely he could.
“Hey uh, kid? Could we go somewhere else..? Uhm. I already mined here! Yeah..! So the cave is basically empty hah..”
Regect began to walk away, holding onto Micha’s hand as Micha’s wings twitched slightly in curiosity.
“WOAH!! You go mining?? That’s so cool!!”
Regect just nodded, feeling better as they walked away from that weird hole in the ground. Surely it was nothing bad right? Whatever that hole was, it wasn’t in Regect’s mind anymore, as he was teleporting both of them to a brand new cave far away. Micha didn’t even seem to mind either, meaning that Regect didn’t have to lie any more than he already did. Which was great!
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Micha was complaining a lot more recently. He was dizzy, he was more confused all the time, and he had become a lot more irritable. Regect was beyond concerned, was this really what was supposed to be happening? Didn’t Micha go to those hospitals while wishing to be cured?? What on earth was happening?? Regect wished he could just come out of the screen and take care of Micha himself. Whoever Dr. Thatcher was, he wasn’t doing anything good for the kid that Regect sometimes called his own.
But Micha assured him nothing bad was gonna happen, and that these were just some kind of side effects. This would all blow over soon enough, and Regect would be able to rest easily knowing that Micha was starting to heal. At least he hoped.
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Regect had just built a new house. A mansion for the two of them to live in together. It was HUGE! Regect knew that Micha loved his bigger builds, so of course he had to go all out on this one right?? But as he was leading Micha inside to give him his tour, Micha stopped. He stopped walking entirely.
“You good? What just happened?? You like. Froze for a sec. …You good? You alright?”
Regect stared at Micha, worry overcoming his senses as the boy looked side to side, before speaking to him.
“I have to get off now..”
He froze. Micha had to go..?? Already?? But there was still so much left to do..! He couldn’t just leave Regect here again.. Alone.
“WHAT?? Why?! I just built this I-I just built this I-I wanted to show you around..! I wanted to..show you around i-its like. Big. It’s a big place its got like a bunch of rooms and stuff.. I-i think I got a pool somewhere.. I-its not the best pool but-”
“They’re moving me to a new hospital.”
….
“..Oh. Right.”
Regect shuffled uncomfortably to the side, moving a little closer to Micha in the process. This couldn’t be something bad, right??
“But it’s not a bad thing!!”
“Yeah yeah its not a bad thing..! It does- it doesn’t sound like a bad thing y’know! I think..”
“But I might be gone for a bit..”
Regect mumbled to himself. Some kind of understanding, but disappointment colored his speech and made him begin to stutter. The nervousness was obvious in his now fidgety body language. Then Micha said it. That. That dreaded sentence.
“Will you be here when I get back..?”
“O-of course..! I won’t move- I’ll wait for you to come back then I’ll give you a tour of the WHOLE place..!-”
Micha had left the world before he even knew it.
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The rain never stopped. The cave they went mining in together stayed empty. Was this some kind of cruel punishment? Had he not been enough for Micha..? He had waited years. YEARS for him to come back. Was he that bad of a friend..? Did Micha grow tired of him..? He tried his best, he swears he did..! Was his best not enough..?
Regect hated the rain. Regect hated alliums.
He hated caves as well.
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“Yo Regect?? You good? Stop zoning out you dumbass, we have work to do.”
Ze called out to Regect, carrying a couple of wood blocks to stash in his inventory. Some kind of hole was blown into the side of the house, and they were all repairing it. Regect tore his gaze away from that singular purple flower on the ground, yelling back at Ze.
“Fuck off dude! I’m too handsome to work anyways. You’re just a hater.”
Regect scoffed, turning away from the flower and going to return to Ze and Moe.
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Hes. Still here.