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Mary walked into a room full of her siblings. If you could call them that. It was weird how their lives had turned around so much.
On the left sat Diego, Lazaros, and Ben who were all working on their english homework. Ben had already finished of course, but he was always willing to help the other two as they learned. Allison, Stella, and Vanya had formed a girl group on one couch. They were whispering to each other, and they would burst out laughing not long after. Then Klaus was laying on the table talking to Colt about how to deal with the voices. As usual Slip sat as hidden as possible in a corner sulking. Then on the floor sat Luther, and Five looking grumpy. Both sat glaring at the girl gang formed on the couch.
“Hey Normie, what’s the plan for today?” Stella asked with her incredibly clever nickname.
Mary was the only one that didn’t seem to have an ability, and Stella seemed intent on reminding her. Mary knew better than to give in to her petty insults. “Well as you know, Sir Reginald asked us to hang out.”
“Get on with it already,” Slip demanded.
Giving a slight exasperated look at Slip, she continued, “So the topic of today is becoming closer as a family.” Certain people shot glares at her again, and there were groans. “Don’t shoot the messenger guys. So we’re actually playing games today.”
Klaus’s arms shot up as far as they could go, and a muffled, “Yay!” was shouted. Him being face down, this looked quite silly, but they paid him no mind.
“Ever heard of two truths and a lie?” One to seven had no idea, while the rest did. Mary gave a quick explanation. “Sound good?” There was a murmur of yeses.
“I’ll start,” Colt spoke up. There was a twinkle in his eye, and Mary knew this would start of quite interestingly. “My first word was a swear. I once outed a couple while they were still a secret. I told about a teacher’s affair that I heard about through his thoughts, and spread it around the school.” There was a general consensus that the last one had to be the lie.Stella believed it would be the one about his first word being a swear. “Nope, I never outed that couple. I kept that one to myself.”
“Ooooh, Colt’s a bad boy!” Vanya managed to get out with a giggle. Slip snorted, and Colt’s cheeks became pinker.
“I go next!” Lazaros called. “I had first kiss.” A couple ‘ooohs’ went around the room, “I had girlfriend. And…” He seemed to look to the side to think out the words. “I eat fifteen oranges in one time.”
“It’s, I ate fifteen oranges in one go, but close enough,” Ben interrupted. “Was it the girlfriend one?”
“No, it’s the oranges. Fifteen too many,” his accent got thicker with his enthusiasm. A couple people giggled at his excitement.
Mary looked around. “Who’s next? Slip? Want to have a turn?”
He gave a bored look. “Why not. Alright, let me see.” For a moment he looked at the roof. “I once nearly died, I’m really good at playing the piano, and I killed a man before I came to the academy.” As dark as it seemed, somehow they seemed to have expected that from Slip.
“Was it the Piano one?” Luther asked.
“Nope.” Slip popped the end for a dramatic effect. “I’ve gotten no where near dying. I’m not stupid enough to get myself killed. Nor injured enough to nearly die.”
Five decided it was his turn. “Okay, I hate Stella, I hate Reginald, and I hate Pogo.” Stella’s middle finger went up.
“Easy!” Diego shouted. “You do-don’t hate Pogo.” Five glared at him. Who didn’t Five glare at though?
This was getting a little too negative for Mary. She was trying to think of a way to make it more positive when, Stella, and Allison started screaming. Shortly after Vanya, Diego, and Klaus followed. “Mouse!” They were shouting. Mary grinned, and picked it up. She’d seen it around, and it was friendly.
“That thing could have a disease! Get it out of your hands before you start spreading whatever it has!” Came from the chandelier. Atop it sat Five looking terrified. Colt, Mary, and Slip lost it. They had grown up with rat issues so one mouse wasn’t a big deal.
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“Should I ask why you have a knife in your bag?” Klaus asked.
Mary’s eyebrow went up, and a smirk fell on her face. “It’s a dagger. And no you shouldn’t.”
“Alright. My lips are sealed.” Klaus stalked off to go bug someone.
Mary really enjoyed Klaus’ fun exterior, but she was worried about him. One time she’d woken him up to make sure he was ready before Reginald wanted them there for breakfast, and she found him having a nightmare. It took her six minutes to calm him down. She could only hope Klaus would go to someone when the ghosts got too bad. Whether it was her, Ben, Colt, she didn’t care as long as Klaus had someone to go to. Not many people seemed to notice which was what worried her a lot.
Bumping into someone, she found Stella on the floor, and mad at her. “Get out of my way Normie.”
“My names Mary. Hope your brain can comprehend that,” she called after the dark haired bob that seemed perfectly in place at all times. For the pure fury in the girl, she sure was small.
Suddenly Diego raced across the hall. “Where’s my dagger!”
Klaus walked by with a cup of milk, and pretended to zip his lips as passed.
As she neared the kitchen she spotted Stella again, then Slip suddenly appeared beside Mary. Most likely only due to Stella’s presence. It still bugged Slip that he wasn’t always able to go invisible. “What, are you stalking me now?” Mary asked.
“Just trying to find out what your power is. Maybe it’s talking to animals? You’re sure fond of them.”
“Nice to see that you’re not fully self centered Slip.” She called as she left for her room holding her breakfast. “ I doubt you’ll find out my power if I don’t know what it is myself.”
She closed the door behind her, and let out a sigh. Nearly jumping, she spotted Colt sitting on her bed staring at her. At this point she was convinced she would never be used to living with fifteen people. Fourteen if you didn’t count Pogo.
“You lied,” Colt spoke straightforwardly. “You just thought you were glad he didn’t know about your power.” Mary didn’t know how to respond. She’d kept the secret for her whole life. Even living with people with abilities didn’t make her want to share her own. Now Colt was glaring at her as if she’d betrayed him. In a way she had. She had multiple times she could have told him. “How could you lie to us?”
“I’m sorry. It’s just…” How could she explain it to him? “I don’t trust Reginald. I told you that from the start.”
“Yeah I get that!” The blond haired boy’s voice raised. “But you could have told me! Apparently you don’t trust me either!” Apparently he had enough, because he stormed out.
“Wait, no, please wait!” It was too late. He was already gone. A tear fell down her face, and she quickly wiped it away.
“Trouble in paradise.” Slip spoke before he slipped out the door.
Mary threw the porcelain statue she had made at the door.. Instantly she regretted it. Falling back onto her bed, she wondered how she could fix this.