I never thought my legs would be able to move this fast before but here I was rocketing down the hallway to get to the main room where the wedding was being held. Wisp was running beside me, not making a sound as her paws landed on the ground and trying not to run under any curtains or low hanging plants as Ozul was flying overhead, giving me information that I never asked for.

“They are called Changelings. A nasty bug like race that has the ability to shapeshift to anyone or anything they want as long as they see it before and remember it. They are also able to drain the energy from anything by contact. They can sap a little bit at a time with simple touches but get a lot more from more intimate acts such as kissing and what not. Leeches the lot.” Ozul explained. That would explain why Nuc kissed me, she wasn’t being flirty, she was hungry for my energy! “Better be careful around them, you especially kid.” Ozul said to me.

“First off, don't call me kid. Second, why?” I asked him, still having plenty of breath through my seemingly endless sprint down the halls.

“Well, you’re the son of Celestia, Celestial of the Sun, making you half-Celestial, which for the Changelings a literal walking gold-mine of energy. Any Changeling that would feed off of you could last for years on you alone, and become addicted to your energy.” Ozul explained. I frowned at this, not liking what I’m hearing as I rounded a corner and stopped when I saw… her.

“Aww, you come back for more?” Nec asked in a sweet tone as she stood in front of me with a smile. “Seems I’m too irresistible for you huh?”

“Fuck off you skank.” I told her before attempting to get by her only for her to block me still. Ugh, seriously!?

“Now why should I do that?” She asked me before frowning. “It’s that girl from before? What do you see in her?” With that she stepped back and in a green flare of fire the woman before me was… Ange?! “Sure she looked alright, but I’m more.” I began to tremble with anger, I can’t believe this bitch changed into Ange! She spread her arms wide and grinned, her teeth were like a predator. “Come, I’ve only tasted a little and I want more! My mother would love to-”

She didn’t finish as Blake, coming down the hallway beside her, punched her in the face so hard that she spun around a few times before falling down, knocked out. There was another green flare and the being in front of us had black skin, insect-like armour like arms and her eyes was a solid blue colour. Ozul was right, they do look like people size insects.

“I saw you change!” Blake yelled at her before looking at me. I was about to say something but she was guarded. “Ahhh no! I don’t know if you’re you and not a bug. Tell me something that only Isaac would know or eat fist.” She said, holding her arms up.

“You and Camilla had drunk sex before you two hooked up.” I said to her, blinking as I did. “And for some reason, you're afraid of snakes.” I quickly added. I watched her face turned red after this before nodding.

“O-Okay… you’re Isaac.” She said putting down her fists as Nuc groaned a bit which Blake stomped her which got a gasp and groan from her. “Jeez, these things are tough!”

“Guessing you already ran into some?” I asked with an arched brow as I looked down at the downed woman.

“Yeah… let's just say I already ran into them…” Blake said before looking around. “If this is what noble weddings are going to be like then I'm sticking with normal ones thank you.” I shook my head before Ozul got my attention.

“Hello~ people are in trouble. One of them is possibly your maybe or not girlfriend.” He pointed out to me. I frowned at this before looking back at Blake.

“Come on, we both have to get to the others.” I told her, getting a nod from her before we both broke into a full sprint. The two of us ran down the hallway, turning around corners and sometimes running into our ‘friends’ in which either Blake or I yell out a question that said friend should know. None of them got it right and got a Blake fist which knocked them out.

We continued on before we came to a stop when we saw a guard in the hallway. They turned around and I saw it was Roz, now with some bruises on her face.

“Roz?” I called out to her, getting her full attention. She simply stared at me for a few long moments before speaking.

“Hello Isaac. Seems you two are on your way to the wedding?” She asked, sounding less happy than yesterday. Blake nudged me a little.

“Uhh, who's the guard chick?” She asked me.

“A friend I met yesterday. Kinda stuck with me as a guard despite me not wanting any guards with me, she turned out to be good company.” I told Blake simply before looking at Roz. “Yeah, we're heading over to the main hall and check on everyone.” I told her.

“Right… this might be a bad time but I'm getting bad vibes from her…” Blake warned as Roz nodded.

“You're a good friend Isaac… sad to say…” She pulled out a sword and pointed at us. “I'm not allowed to let you through.” I stared at her with wide eyes, having truly not expected a guard the palace to turn.

“I thought you said she was good!” Blake asked me.

“She was!” I snapped back as I stared at Roz, no I couldn’t tell if this was Roz or… at this moment I pieced it together. “You… were masquerading as a guard this entire time…”

“Guilty as charged.” She said simply as she stood there. “Have been for the very beginning before you lot came around… sorry about Nuc, she’s a bit needy.” This made me frown a bit, Roz sounding like she knows Nuc personally. I growled at this, having had just about enough I could take today and it showed as well, both my arms lit ablaze in an unstable inferno that managed to shock the living shit out of Blake.

“Holy shit!” Blake yelled as he backed away. Roz seemed to take a step back in surprise.

“That’s… you’re full of surprises, aren’t you?” She said, gripping her sword in her hand.

“Yeah, you done fucked up!” Blake yelled as I stared at Roz with flaming arms.

“I've had about enough of this!” I said before slamming both fists down onto the marble floor, setting it ablaze and creating a wall of the raging inferno before pushing towards Roz, making her step farther back only for me to keep pushing it. This hallway is going to end soon. Roz soon had her back to the wall, her cool demeanour now breaking as she was now panicking at the flames closing in. There were no windows, she was trapped.

“Uhh… Isaac… Maybe you want to calm down there…” I heard Blake said to me. “You’re kinda setting the castle on fire!” I didn’t listen to her as I pushed the flames closer, seeing Roz look at me in fear and soon closed her eyes. I clenched my fists, having the traitor then and there but… I sighed and when I did, the flames died out, leaving me a little winded. I heard Blake sigh as well as Roz, now the flames died down, fell onto her knees and were breathing heavily. “Jeez, here I thought it was my shop all over again…” Blake said, reminding me of the last time I was close to losing it. I shook my head and looked up to see Roz without her helmet on and instead of the wispy red hair I thought she had, her hair was a more solid red colour, and some dark black pointy ears poking out. I guess due to the fear she reverted back to her normal self. Blake helped me up and I thanked her as we both looked at the Changeling.

“Why… why did you stop?” I heard her ask. I took a deep breath and sighed.

“The major reason, I'd rather not be labelled a murderer.” I said to her, rubbing my wrists a bit before saying. “And to be honest… I wanted to believe you were still my friend. I know when others lie to me and what you said to me wasn't a lie, you've been truthful to me the whole time.” I said to her. She looks up at me, the same Changeling look stared back at me only her eyes were red as she smiled.

“You are full of surprises…” She said before sitting down and looking at us. She then nodded down one of the hallways. “That way… that’s the fastest way down there.” She said to us. I arched a brow at this and looked down the hall before back down at her, seeing that she was wounded from cuts and slashes, no doubt from earlier fights.

“Blake, tend to her wounds while I go to the main hall.” I said to Blake. She looked at me with a frown.

“Uhh, you sure about that?” She asked me before whispering. “Unlike you I haven’t met this one before. How would I know she’s not going to try and stab me in the back?” She asked me. I groaned and said.

“Blake, just trust me!” I said to her with a tone that made her know I was beyond serious with this. She pulled back from me after this and sighed.

“Alright alright… but if I end up dead in the hallway I’m sooo going to haunt you.” Blake said as she made her way to Roz, me rolling my eyes at her before going down the hall Roz had mentioned. I didn't know why or how but I felt rejuvenated, as if the earlier running didn't happen. When I managed to reach the main hall, the doors were opened enough for me to burst through them with ease, the sight rewarded to me was less than pleasant.

Inside there was more of those Changelings, their armor was black and green in colour as some of them pushed some nobles in the corner scared beyond belief. Near the altar was a man with short blue hair and wearing a royal guard outfit and had a dazed look in his eyes. In the middle of the room was a tall woman with black skin, same as as the other Changelings, but with long sickly green hair and in a black and green dress. I didn't pay her much mind as I saw near her was my friends bound and gagged in some gross green goo… and Ange was there, knocked out.

“No…” I said as I saw many cuts and bruises, tears that littered her dress. Someone hurt her… they hurt Ange!

My entrance was heard, some of the bug soldiers attempted to attack me both lethal and not. Before they're weapons could even touch me, my arms bursted into the inferno as it did before. My anger skyrocketed, beyond the point I thought impossible to reach. Their weapons either burst into flames or melted off the handle.

They hissed and pulled back as it also drew the attention of the one in the dress. She had a black crown on her head and her eyes was the sickly green colour but the difference was she had a black iris in the middle of her eye.

“What do we have here? Some pest that found itself in here?” She said before looking at me. “Oh wait, you’re him, the boy with enough energy to last a lifetime.”

“If she would’ve heard, I would say that it was a bad idea to call you that.” Ozul said as he landed on the door above.

“Quiet you. Isaac you need to keep a calm head.” Wisp said to me. I frowned even more at this as the Queen of the Changelings, I think, made a hand motion and a few of the soldiers flew over to her.

“Take him and lock him up, he’ll be my personal tank of energy. Oh and find me that disappointment of a daughter of mine.” She said with a wave of her hand, the soldiers pointed spears at me and made their way over to me.

“Calm Isaac…” Wisp said to me.

“Wisp you’re always the patient one… but right now I don’t think it’s a good idea to be calm. I say torch them.” Ozul said to me before adding. “The bugs I mean. Not the others.” I couldn't care less than I do now for what he said. My breathing getting heavier as I closed my eyes, fist clenched with rage… before darkness took me.

-Blake-

“She what?!” I asked Roz as we ran down the hallway towards the wedding. “I never had a mother when I was growing up but that’s fucked up!”

“Yeah well, let's say my mom has a messed up head.” Roz explained as she ran beside me, looking like her guard self instead of her Changeling look. As it seems, Roz here is one of many daughters of the Queen of the Changelings. Each of her daughters is skilled in some sort of magic and said to be able to be queens in their own right. Then comes Roz, who isn’t that skilled in magic and is part of the military, something her mother despised her for. Roz was treated more like a thing than a daughter or sister.

“Again, why stay in that place?” I asked, rounding a corner.

“Sense of duty.” Roz answered before adding. “My mother is cruel but she didn’t toss me out, so I had a place to call home for a time- Not this way, this way.” She said as we did a sharp turn before running down a different hallway. It was longer sure but we didn’t run into any guards or anyone.

“You know this place very well.” I said to her.

“Of course I do, the plan of sneaking into and slowly syphoning energy from people was my idea. My mother took it as an invasion.” Roz said back, making me a little more iffy with Roz after she said that. I frowned a little before asking.

“Did you take energy from Isaac when you were with him?” I asked her.

“Will you promise not to punch me if I tell you?” She asked back. There was a pause before seeing we were reaching the room.

“Fine, I won’t punch you.” I answered her.

“A little, not a lot to be noticeable but enough to get by.” She answered truthfully. “I sap a little bit from anyone that comes near me, unlike my sister Nuc I have way more self control than her.”

“Right… this makes me trust you less.” I informed her.

“As it should.” Roz said with a nod. I frowned at her but didn’t ask any more as she spoke. “Say… is it just me or is it getting hotter?” She asked.

“Hey, I don’t trust you and I’m taken.” I pointed out before realizing that it was getting hot in here… really hot. “Oh that’s what you meant.”

The closer we got to the door the hotter it became, it got to the point when I was starting to sweat. “Ugh, one of the reasons I came out here was to get away from the heat.”

I didn’t say anything as we got to the doors and saw… the handles were melting. We both looked at each other as we sweated. Luckily the door was ajar for us to push open… what we saw was… something.

Everything is on fire. The seats were on fire, the decorations were on fire, the food that I had somewhat helped more were on fire, Even the ice statue was on fire!... right before it turned into steam.

In the middle of the room was a man, glowing as if he was the sun itself as he stood in the middle of the room. Any and everyone that was conscious at the time was staring at the figure in the middle of the room with fear in their eyes… and sweating like crazy. All the soldiers in the room were either backing away from the sun figure or burning alive. One of them, a tall woman who was standing back shooting beams of magic at the figure, only for the magic to catch on fire as well!

“How does magic catch on fire!” I yelled out.

“I don’t know! But the one doing the magic is my mother!” Roz yells before adding. “I kinda wished she gets burned!” The burning figure raised his hand and a stream of fire shot out towards the woman, only for her to narrowly deflect it and in doing so made the beam melt through the wall and continue on outside. The figure frowned even before yelling, a constant barrage of flaming orbs fired from his open palms.

“Let’s hope he doesn’t burn the room, or castle, down!” I yelled as I looked over and seeing some Changeling soldiers standing in front of a group of nobles before looking at Roz. She nodded and the two of us made our way towards the soldiers, which were only two. They soon looked over at us, one of them yelled.

“Roz!?” One of them yelled.

“Sorry!” Roz yelled back as she punches him in the face as I did the same. When we did that I looked at the nobles.

“Well?! Run!” I yelled as they all booked it out of the room. Both Roz and I went over to my friends and worked on their bindings. Even through the heat the bindings were hard to break. “Ugh, what is this stuff?!”

“Binding gel, organically made from Changeling magic! Almost impossible to break due to the magic.” Roz yelled as she wasn’t really doing anything. “I can’t break it!”

“Why not?!” I yelled back at her as she looked at me with a frown.

“What part of ‘I suck at magic’ did you not understand?!” She yelled at me. Right, forgot about that. I looked down at the bindings and put my hand on it, thinking of the way to get this thing off… then my hand started to glow a dark white and blue colour. The green glow disappeared and the bindings started to melt. “How… How did you-”

“Later!” I yelled as I tried to move the others away. We got a few of them out and when I got to Angelina the heat increased to the point of being painful. Roz stared at something behind me with wide eyes as I turned to see the sun being right there. Oh no…

The Sun being had an aura around him, one that basically melted any spell thrown at him by the Queen who was furiously trying to take him down. The Being looked down at us, his eyes bright as the sun itself. His frown softened though when he saw Ange but… why? I looked between the two of them and slowly moved out of the way. I didn’t know what’s going on but I didn’t want to be extra crispy. The being knelt down in front of Ange before raising a hand to touch her, I was about to stop him but was too late though instead of him burning Ange… nothing happened. As this would happen Ange’s eyes slowly opened.

“Isa...ac?” She muttered at the fire being. I blinked at as I looked at the fire being. Wait… the temperature calmed down drastically and the being's light dimmed revealing it to be Isaac in tattered clothing. He was breathing heavily, tears in his eyes as he caressed Ange's cheek.

It would be a touching moment… if it wasn’t for the Queen marching over to them. “Now… this time I got-” She was cut off when there was a bright pink light from the other side of the room. “Oh come on!” She yelled as the light expanded. I had to block out the light with my arm as this happen.

-Isaac-

I groaned as the pink light of fuck you was now dissipating from my eyes as I looked down to see Ange, who was now blinking her eyes a number of times. What just happened?

“Ange… are you okay?” I asked Ange, who groaned as she closed her eyes in discomfort. I didn't care what was happening around me or my suddenly destroyed clothes, I needed to know if she was alright. She moved her arms over her eyes before letting a little whimper of pain. Her arms were covered in cuts and bruises.

“I’m… sorry…” She managed to speak out.

“D-Don't move, I'll get you some help.” I said to her, wanting nothing but her good health. I was terrified, having never gone through anything like this and seeing Ange like this… It hurts me.

I looked around and now saw the room was now very, very burnt as there was some guardsman now coming in to help out. I got one of them to come over to take a look at Ange. I didn’t leave her side as the guard was talking a look of her, wrapping her arms up with some wraps on her arms. The guard told me that Ange will be alright, but she shouldn’t do anything laborious.

“Hey! Where’s the Princess?!” One of the guards yelled which soon got an answer above us.

“Up here…” We all looked up to see mom, hanging upside down in some green goop. Looking very displeased. After some time and some effort, the guards were able to get mom down all the while I was by Ange as she was recovering, refusing to leave her side even for just a second. I soon saw the guard give Ange some wrappings for her eyes, which the guard said that it will help her eyes after the bright pink light. Soon the guard went off which allowed Ange to speak.

“So… I overreacted yesterday?” She asked.

“I wanted to go after you to explain what really happened but… I soon passed out after you left.” I told her with a sad expression. I soon felt her hand move over my own. “I wouldn't ever in my life think of cheating on you with anyone else… I love you Angelina.” I said to her truthfully. I saw her smile at this before leaning onto me. I smiled at this as the two of us stayed like that before I took a glance around at everything. The others were slowly waking up, some of the nobles came in to get checked by the guards and mom talking to some guards. She looked like the image of a leader but I saw a few signs of annoyance of her being strung up in a goobag.

On the other side of me I saw Roz… in chains with four guards around her.

“Hey hey what do you think you're doing!?” I yelled as I got up, getting the attention of the guards and Roz, who looked surprised. The guards looked at one another before one of them spoke.

“Uh, holding the prisoner.” He answered me.

“They saw me in what I really am.” Roz said before one of the other guards jabbed a spear near her.

“Quiet you!” He yelled, earning an eye roll from Roz.

“Would you stop that! She isn't a bad guy, she's a friend!” I yelled at the guards quite angrily might I add. This got a lot of attention from everyone else around us as the guard looked at the other three who didn’t know what to do exactly.

“Uhh, well… you see.” The guard said before another voice spoke up.

“What’s going on?” Mom asked as she came over us, a little annoyed in her voice.

“Princess, Uhh… you see…” the guard stuttered before mom looked at me before saying.

“Let her go, she is in no position to attack.” Mom said to him.

“My princess… you sure?” The guard said to her as she arched a brow and look over to the body shape imprint in the wall.

“I’m sure.” Mom said to them before they looked at one another again and uncuffed Roz, who began rubbing her wrists soon after she was freed.

“Thanks, mom.” I thanked her with a little smile.

“No problem honey…” She said with a sigh. “This may not sound all that nice but… I want this day to be over.”

With that mom walked away from me as Roz walked up to me. “You didn’t need to do that… but thanks Isaac.” Roz said. I arched a brow at this before she looked away. “I’m… not good with this okay.”

“Wasn't going to let the guard lock up my friend.” I told her with a little smile before I glanced back at Ange, who is just a little away from me. Not wanting to leave her on her own, I walked back up to her side and grasped her hand lovingly, to which smiled at me for. I looked over and saw Roz looking around at the place before going over to the wall and just lean there.

The next while went by quickly and soon the whole city was now in less panicked like state. Lydia informed me and the rest of us that her brother and the real Cadence are going to do a simple, small wedding for the two of them in the coming week. Saying after everything, the invasion, imprisonment, the brainwashing, the… everything, they just want to get their wedding over with before something else happens.

Mom had a few questions for Roz which were quick and simple to answer and after a quick recap I can sum them up with ‘Fuck her mother, she’s now exiled, she has no idea what she’s going to do now.’ in that exact order. That was about an hour ago, now however me and Ange exited the infirmary room where I insisted on taking her. I ended up having to walk her out via wheelchair as I didn't want to risk anything.

“Are you sure you're alright now? I can still see you wincing every now and again.” I said to her with worry and concern.

“I am Isaac, thank you.” She told me as she puts a bandage hand over mine. “Really, I think I’ll be alright after sometime.” I smiled at her as I pushed her along. After a while I soon found Roz by herself in the hallway. She saw me before pushing herself in front of us.

“Isaac… I… I came to say sorry for… everything.” She said to me. I was taken by surprise at this but nonetheless said.

“It's… fine. You were practically dragged into all of that by your mom.” I said to her.

“Yes… kinda… sorta… no… most of this was my idea but…” She looked off into a direction before reverting to her normal form. “It was much more less...this.” She explains before going to a little explanation of her plan. It was basically to sneak into cities and siphon energy from people. The way she explains the plan it would take time but it wouldn’t hurt anyone in the long run. “She just blew it up to something bad.”

“Wow.” I said, slightly taken aback by this. Though I'm more confused as to why the Queen would ditch a solid stealth plan and go for an all out war. “That's gotta suck.” I said only to be nudged by Ange. “I'm bad at this, I know.” I said to her.

“No, your right… it did suck… a lot.” She said to us before giving me a smile. “But luckily after this there’s no way I’m going back. I’m done with my mother and my family…”

“So have any idea what you're going to do now?” I asked her. She thought about it before answering with shaking her head.

“I don’t… I don’t know what I’m going to do…” Roz said as she looked off with a sad expression. “Can’t be a guard when everyone knows what I am.”

“Do you at least have a place to stay?” I asked her, not liking the idea of leaving Roz helpless like this. She shook her head at this, much to my own displeasure, fuck. Wait… “I think I can help remedy that, there's a house back in the town I live in, it's just about finished being built. I can probably pull a few strings.” I said to her. This brought a smile to Roz’s face as I felt Ange’s hand on my own. I looked down at her and saw her smiling, which made me smile as well as I looked back up. “I can pay for your train ticket to town, my mom decided to give me some… I guess allowance would be the right term.” I said, which only served to brighten her mood even more.

“Thank you again, Isaac.” Roz said before looking around a bit. “I uh… guess I should go pack then… Huh?”

“Yeah, me and Ange are going to do the same. Hopefully our room didn't get damaged during the attack, it would suck to have to buy replacements for all the clothes. Not to mention the suit I was supposed to wear.” I said, reminding myself of the tux I had rented out. With that said the three of us headed off to go pack. Luckily our room wasn’t trashed during the attack and nothing needed to be replacing other than maybe the windows as they were smashed in. I had to watch my step while I insisted that Ange just sit tight in the wheelchair, she didn't argue with this as the glass was literally everywhere, I feel sorry for however cleans this up.

I decided to not only pack my own things but Ange's as well. The clothes she bought were simple, a couple of spare jeans and some modest blouses. She even had a sundress, she said she had planned to go out into the city for a stroll but that was before all that went down. It wasn't until I got to the underwears that I stopped.

“Uhhh…” I couldn't find any sort of word other than that to show my confusion. Amongst the spare panties she had brought was… well I wasn't exactly sure what to be honest. It looked like a thong that bordered the line between what a thong is and a g-string.

“Isaac? Is something wrong?” I heard Ange asked me.

“Well…” I said before showing the cause of my confusion and blushing face. I looked over and blinked that I forgotten that her eyes were still covered for the rest of the day. “Nothing, nothing just… thought I something.” I said folding the piece of skimpy underwear and putting in her bag. When I zipped up, I sighed and began carrying the bag before picking up my own. I silently thanked my celestial boost of strength as it was quite heavy carrying the two bags if I wasn't so strong at the moment. When a knock at the door caught my attention, I dropped the bags and went over to answer it, opening enough to peek through.

“What?” I asked out before seeing that it was mom on the other side. I opened the door fully and said. “Oh, hey mom. What's up?” I asked her while Ange hummed to herself happily.

“Hello dear, I was hoping if we could speak for a moment… alone.” Mom asked me quietly. I blinked at this before glancing at Ange.

“I'll be back in a little but Ange, don't worry.” I said to her, getting a nod and a thumbs up before I looked at mom as she and I walked out the door. She closed it soon after I exited the room. “So what's so important that we have to talk alone?” I asked her with an arched brow. Mom didn’t say anything at first, seeing her rub her hands together for a few moments before speaking.

“Isaac… how much do you remember after you confronted the Changeling Queen?” Mom asked me. I arched a brow at this as I began to think.

“Well… not much now that I think about it.” I said to her before continuing with. “I got so mad at one point that I sort of lost consciousness and the next thing I knew I was kneeling besides Ange and my clothes were in shreds.” I said with a confused look.

“I see…” Mom said as she looked off down the hallway, deep in thought. “I… never really told you anything about your father… haven’t I?” She asked me

“Other than he was a dawn titan. Other than that I can't recall anything else.” I said to her, rubbing the back of my head as the subject at hand shifted to my father, which only served to make me feel awkward but I endured. Mom nodded again before looking back at me.

“Well, during your loss of consciousness… you tapped into your father’s side of your being.” She explained to me. I blinked at her in surprise.

“What? So… I'm like half Dawn titan as well as Celestial?” I asked her, to which she slowly nodded before I looked off, the images of the main hall covered in soot and half burnt down fresh in my mind. “So what does this mean?” I asked, slowly looking back at her. Mom hummed to herself before saying.

“It means… that if you get angry… like really angry, you’ll tap into your Dawn titan side.” She explained before adding. “And this has me worried.”

“So I'm a danger to anyone.” I said in a hushed tone as the realization dawned to me. If I were to lose it again, a worse outcome is very possible.

“Yes, but I also saw you regain your control of yourself.” She said, frowning a little. Must be due to the fact she was hanging upside down during all this.

“What? When?” I asked, unsure of what she meant by this. She smiled at me before answering.

“When you were with Angelina.” She answered. I blinked at this as I remembered regaining consciousness beside Ange, on my knees and caressing her. She brought me back? “I know that you’re confused… But just know that, even if you are in your Dawn Titan state, you know of those who love you and you love back.” She said to me before bringing me into a hug, a very tight one at that.

“Uhh, a little tight mom.” I said to her with an audible struggle.

“Let me have my moment… and sorry.” Mom said as she loosen her hold on me. I sighed at this before she soon let go of me. “I'll be seeing you and your friends off at the station.” She said before leaving me to go back into the room. When I opened the door, I was greeted with Angie scrambling to get away from the door, leaving me to arch a brow as she smiled nervously. I wasn't mad at her, it was kinda cute. I just hope the train ride home is uneventful, I need a nap.

End of XXIII

Author's Note

Holy shit. Two months? Damn... my bad