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It was currently 3am, everyone was asleep…. Okay the kids were asleep and a few adults. Sun woke up from his neck flaring up again. Cleo and Muffin were asleep right next to him.
“Fuck, my neck hurts again. Where’d I put my cream again?” Thought Sun as he sat up, he grunted in discomfort, he looked around his space and sighed when he remembered his cream was in his work bag, which he left downstairs in the kitchen. Normally he would have it in his room but he got distracted with making Dazzle a snack earlier. Sun took a deep breath as he swung his legs around and got up from his bed. He slowly and quietly made his way downstairs to the kitchen. He squinted his eyes (I’m making Sun need glasses, he keeps it secret though so he wears contacts, some how. just because I can), he forgot his glasses upstairs, he sighed in annoyance. He completely missed the fact that Moon was standing in the kitchen eating a snack, completely frozen mid chew. He didn’t want to startle Sun.
“Why’s Sun awake? I’m sure I was quiet making my cereal,” Moon questioned himself, he watched Sun blindly feel around for his work bag.
“Where’d I put it?” Sun murmured to himself, “oh wait, found it.” Sun picked up his bag and rummaged around and picked up the small reusable squeeze bottle for makeup, the light red color of the cream can be seen (if the lights were on). Sun squeezed some onto his hands before rubbing it a bit then massaging his neck. And while he was at it he applied the cream his other joints since they started to flare up as well. The kitchen light was suddenly turned on. Which startled Sun and made him drop the bottle.
Sun turned around and saw Moon standing by the light switch holding a bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios. He had a puzzled look on his face.
“Sun? What’re doing awake?” Moon asked Sun, he set his bowl down and picked up the bottle of cream. He immediately turned it around to see wtf it was. It had no labels or even a name which already set alarms off for Moon. He looked Sun once over and noticed Sun wearing two knee braces, elbows braces, and wrist braces with his pjs.
Sun became slightly panicked, he wasn’t supposed to be caught, and the one time he decided to sleep in his braces no less.
“U-um, just uh…grabbing something from my bag,” Sun whispered, not wanting to wake any else up. His hand was slightly raised like he was waiting to take the bottle back from Moon.
Moon narrows his rest Sun and crossed his arms over his chest.
“Sun. What’s this?” Moon held the bottle up. “And why are you wearing all those braces?” Concerned Moon, he wanted answers. They said they wouldn’t keep secrets anymore and this looked like a secret to him.
“U-um…. It j-just-just uh-…lotion?” Sun lied, it was a terrible lie obviously, they don’t have skin to moisturize to begin with. Moon narrowing his eyes in suspicion, he pulled his sleeve up to start tapping on his little arm screen, he was scanning Sun for anything wrong with his body. Sun nervously fidgeted with his fingers. He hesitantly reached and grabbed the bottle from Moon and teleported away before Moon could complete his diagnoses.
“Wha- SUN!” Moon yelled as he started to look around the house to find Sun. “Sun get back here!” Moon rubbed his temples and typed back into his arm to teleport Sun back, but Sun must’ve figured that out after the whole goose thing a few weeks ago and turned it off.
“Shit.”
Moon walked to Solar’s room and knocked on the door.
“Solar, I need help finding Sun. He teleported away from me when I asked him something in the kitchen. I can’t teleport him back, he turned it off.”
Solar grumbles as he opens his bedroom door, decked out in Jack skeleton pj pants (a gift from Jack), looking annoyed and tired from the 3am wake up call.
“Moon. It’s 3am, what do you mean Sun teleported away?” Solar rubbed his eyes, the commotion waking up Cosmos too. He came out of his room in a blue Dino onesie (because he can)
“What’s this about Sun?” Cosmos walked over to Moon and Solar, yawning.
Moon sighed as he started to explain the last few minutes.
“Okay so I was in the kitchen making myself a bowl of cereal-“
“Why are you eating cereal at 3am?” Solar interrupted, Moon grumbled in annoyance at the interruption but continued on.
“I was hungry, but that’s beside the point. As I was *saying*, I was eating my Honey Nut Cheerios in the dark, because I didn’t wanna wake anyone else up from the light. Sun came into the kitchen and rummaged through him work bag, he put something onto his hand and started massaging it into himself, which non of us should be able to do because we don’t have skin.”
“O-Kay? What does this have to do with Sun leaving?” Cosmos had asked, more awake now.
“I accidentally spooked him when I turned the light on and he dropped the bottle he held. It had no label or anything on it. I asked him what it was and he said it was “lotion”. For one, we don’t have or need lotion because no skin. I tried to run a quick diagnosis but he teleported away before it finished and now I can’t find him!” Moon rubbed his arms, he’s worried for Sun.
Where did Sun go?