There’s Something In The Factory!

Just do your best that’s all anyone can ask for…

But Sometimes it doesn’t feel that way…

Creepy but cute

Jacob leaned against the counter, finally a break! He looked through the kitchen window to see his coworker, and also crush, Autumn as she was working her job in the café… well one in many part time jobs she has. She looked real cute in the uniform and apron, he looked away before anyone noticed. Jacob heard the door ring the bell, he looked over just to see… a little girl? By herself? She had black hair in two low pigtails, hazel eyes- and you could really see the blue and green in this girl’s eyes- a long sleeve hot pink top, and denim shorts. She looked about in kindergarten, maybe 4 years old. Jacob found himself getting a little worried, there were only two reasons that a girl this young would be by herself alone; she was lost, or there was something wrong with the parents.

Jacob was about to go to her, but before he could open the counter. “Hey sis!” Autumn called. The little girl’s face turned from a neutral look, to an extremely contagious smile. “Sissy!” The little girl singed as she ran to her nineteen year old sister to tackle hug her. Her tiny little arms just barely came up to her waist, as she giggled and squealed with delight. Autumn bent down, picked the little girl up, spun her around and laughed. “So how was school?” She asked, as she set her down at the barstool counter.

“It was so much fun!! Cindy wasn’t being mean to Lilly, Monty and Carla caught a frog at recess, and Penny and I made a friendship bracelet for Nugget!” The little girl said.

“That’s great Lelu!” Autumn said.

“Excuse me!” Jacob looked to another customer, “where’s my Oreo cheesecake?”

“Oh, sorry! Uh, Lelu, hang on I gotta to work. Stay here, don’t talk to any strangers, and I’ll be right back,” Autumn said.

“Yes Ma’am,” Lelu confirmed, as she set her backpack in the barstool next to her.

Jacob watched Lelu with curiosity, Autumn had a sister? Autumn doesn’t talk about her family much, but why didn’t she ever mentioned Lelu? Wait… If there could’ve been a lightbulb above Jacob’s head, it would be going off right about now, that and Jacob could’ve sworn he heard a triangle dinging in the background. Maybe if I watch Lelu, be nice to her, she’ll put a good word in with Autumn for me. Jacob looked back at Autumn, blush dusting his cheeks as he saw her kneading the dough for the pie crust. “Ooooh!~” Lelu sang. Oh, PECK! Jacob looked back to Lelu as she gave him a very excited look. “Do you like my sissy! Are you, her boyfriend!?” Lelu exclaimed. If Jacob bared any sort of resemblance to a vegetable, he would most certainly be a beet right now.

“N- No!!” Jacob said, flustered.

“Oh! It’s okay, I won’t tell… I’m good at keeping secrets, shh,” Lelu whispered, winking.

Jacob chuckled, cute kid. “My name is Jacob, I’m your sister’s co-worker,” Jacob said.

“I’m Lisa Lucy Hailey, but everyone calls me Lelu,” Lelu said, taking some materials out of her backpack.

“What’cha got there Lelu?” Jacob asked. Lelu held out some thin yarn thread material, one red, another blue.

“Which one do you like?” Lelu asked.

“Hmm, that’s a tough one, but I think I’m gonna have to go with this one,” Jacob pointed to the blue one.

“Yay!”

Jacob chuckled again. “What’cha ya doing there?”

“I’m making a friendship bracelet. I had one earlier today but Buggs stole it today at lunch. I think he was expecting to grab one of my cookies though, he seemed mad that I told him he couldn’t have one.”

Jacob’s smile faded; she wasn’t being bullied right? “And… what did you do?”

Lelu fell silent, and all of the sudden started giggling uncontrollably, like some villain laughing. She uncovered her right wrist to reveal a green, pink, and purple bracelet. “You fool! Now we’re best friends forever!” Lelu said, pridefully. Jacob covered his mouth from his laugh attack, and pounded on the desk a little. If that was not the cutest way to deal with a bully, he didn’t know what was!

Jacob watched as Lelu’s tiny little hands wove through the materials. “So… how’s school? Ya got any friends?” He asked, trying to break the ice. “Mph!” Lelu nodded, “I go to the new kindergarten school that just opened up! There’s not that many kids going there yet, and there’s only two teachers working there right now. But the principal’s daughter is my best friend!” Lelu’s hands made quick work of the material in her hands, as the blue and yellow thread started to bear resemblance to a bracelet. She must’ve done this a couple of dozen times if she can make a bracelet that fast.

“Hold your arm out,” Lelu smiled. Jacob reached his arm across the countertop and as soon as he was within her reach, Lelu started to tie the bracelet around his wrist. “There!” Lelu beamed, “we’re friends now!” Ah! My heart! Jacob thought, Lelu was a very sweet little girl. Lelu reached into her bag and pulled out some crayons, some paper, and started to draw. Jacob squinted at the paper. Weird… he thought, that paper is all yellow and crinkled, how old is that?

“Is Sissy gonna be done with work soon?” Lelu asked.

“Yeah, it shouldn’t be too long from now, why?” Jacob asked.

“Lisa wants to talk to She when we get home, but she doesn’t want to leave me alone here,” Lelu said. Wait what? “That and I kinda need help with homework, we’re supposed to draw our family.”

“Wait, wait, wait… who’s Lisa? And by ‘she’ do ya mean your sister?” Jacob asked confused. What the heck did this kid just say? ‘Lisa wants to talk to She when we get home’ what does she mean by ‘she doesn’t want to leave me alone here? As far as Jacob could tell, Lelu came in alone… right?

Lelu shook her head, “no, I mean She… the lady that lives in my closet… her name is She.” Jacob felt his pulse beat a tad bit faster… did… did he hear that right? Nah, she’s… she’s gotta be playing here. She’s a kid they have big imaginations. “So, this Lisa and She people… friends of yours?” Jacob asked, trying to play along. Lelu nodded as she continued to draw, so far, the drawing had what appeared to be Autumn and Lelu side by side. “So, what they like?” Jacob asked.

“She has pretty black short hair, red eyes, and another pair of arms on her back. At night She would be at the foot of my bed and listened to me talk, but back when Daddy wasn’t asleep yet he would come in and yell at me for still being awake, She would look at Daddy with an angry look on her face,” Lelu said.

Jacob listened in silence… wait a second… ‘when Daddy wasn’t asleep yet’… oh god… please don’t mean what I think you mean. Calm down man… “Huh,” Jacob nodded, “are you drawing your Mommy and Daddy?” Jacob shifted his attention towards the drawing. “No, this is a recent family drawing. Lisa, She, and my Sissy tell me Mommy and Daddy gone to sleep for a while,” Lelu explained. Oh! Jacob thinks he found out why Autumn doesn’t talk about her family much. “Oh, um… do you miss them?” Jacob said, hoping to keep what actually happened to her parents as far away from Lelu as possible.

“Umm…” Lelu started, “I miss my Mommy a lot, Sissy, Lisa, and She do too.”

“And what about your Daddy?”

“Not… really…”

Wait what?

“My daddy was… kinda mean…” Lelu said sadly, “he always made me and Sissy really uncomfortable, he would always yell, shout, and sometimes even hit us with his bottles full of that juice he loves so much.”

Jacob felt his heart drop at the words. He looked back at the kitchen, with Autumn finishing up the Oreo cheesecake, he then looked at the bottles of liquor that they would dress some of the food in sometimes… Autumn would never even touch a bottle, she always refused, even to the manager… no wonder. “Oh, Autumn,” Jacob said under his breathe, he turned back to Lelu and her drawing.

Jacob’s eyes widened. The drawing now had some lady on the right side of Lelu, it was just as Lelu described; short black hair, with one red eye covered the other came with a red smile the lady had a black strapless crop top of some kind, with a raggedy black skirt that went below the knees. But the way she looked was nothing compared to the arms on her back, Lelu was drawing some black sticks on the back of this person, with black balls for the palms and black sticks for fingers, not as detailed as the arms at the lady’s sides were. This lady’s skin was black, and Jacob didn’t mean the race color black like his… this lady’s skin was ash black, dark grey was her skin tone. Lelu put much more thought, care, effort, and detail into this person in comparison to how she drew her and her sister. Yo! Bruh! What the peck?!

It was then that Jacob was starting to become scarred, no kid would have an imagination like this… right? That’s gotta be She… he thought. “I still don’t understand why Daddy did what he did to us… he said he loved us, but I don’t see anyone else’s Daddy’s hurt them like he does with us.” Lelu looked like she was about to cry. Jacob decided not to push the subject any further, he didn’t want to make the kid cry. He gently rubbed Lelu’s head. “Yeah, I don’t know how he could do that to you or your sister… but the important thing is, ya’ll are alright now right?” Lelu looked up at him, and smiled. “Yeah, at least he won’t be mean anymore when he wakes up!” Lelu said hopeful. …HUH?!

Jacob withdrew his hand to his side of the counter. “… Huh?” He squeaked. “Yeah, Lisa told me that after she came back from her trip! I hope Mommy will wake up too so that we can all be together again!” Lelu exclaimed happily, as she continued with her drawing. Now judging by Lelu’s previous reactions to talking about her dad, Jacob knew he should leave it be and just move on to something else… but damn it! Curiosity is going to kill this cat! “Lelu… what do you mean… Lisa went on a trip? What kind of trip did she go on?” He asked. Lelu continued happily with her drawing and swung her legs back and forth a little. “One night, Lisa and I went for a walk around our neighborhood, Lisa wanted to stay out until the moon and stars came out so we waited. When we came back Daddy was there with a big angry face. I tried to explain to him what happened but he yelled at me and said ‘Lisa is stupid and fake!’ then he grabbed one of his juice bottles and he hit me…” Lelu explained sadly, “Daddy kept shouting and yelling at me, Lisa got really sad and upset and then she just… disappeared.”

Jacob felt like he was listening to some scarry story you would hear around the campfire. Only this time… he didn’t think it was just some kid using her imagination to cope with having a crappy dad. This felt real… very real.

“The next day, when Daddy left for work, he was gone all day. He didn’t even come home to eat dinner. He was gone for the entire weekend and then Monday as well. Lisa was gone for a long time too; I didn’t see her since the night when Daddy hit me and made her sad. Finally… Lisa was back home! And she had news about my Daddy!” Lelu said.

Jacob was on edge here… what did Lisa tell her? “And what did she say?” He asked, trying not to sound anxious, but it was kind of hard at this point.

Jacob saw the finished drawing. On the left side, next to Autumn, was a lady of some kind. There were no feet, it looked like the lady was floating. The lady was wearing a pure white tattered dress that was as white as her skin. But her lack of feet and pure white skin was nothing compared to the red crayon Lelu paused marking on her. There was blood… it had to be blood, there’s no way it was anything else! There was blood coming out of the thing’s eyes, a big stitch in the bottom right of her dress with more red blood coming out, blood all over her lips and- Oh God! There was a thick heavy black line in the white lady’s throat and blood splattered and dripping all over her. With no other of Lelu’s friends that she’s told him about… there was no doubt in his mind that this was Lisa.

These things Lelu has been telling him about are not something a normal kid would think of! And from what Jacob can gather, Lelu doesn’t even know that her dad was being abusive to her or her family, or even understand life and death yet for that matter!

Lelu paused her crayon strokes and looked up at him, still smiling. “Lisa told me he’s sleeping now… just like my Mommy…” Lelu said. WHAT THE F-!?

Jacob felt his heart skip a beat! Lisa killed Autumn’s Dad?! Jacob was frozen and didn’t say anything. Thoughts were swirling in his head. He loved ghost stories and the paranormal as much as the next guy, but to actually hear an actual experience happening to one of his friend’s family! Oh Boy!

“Jakey?” Lelu called out to him, “are you okay?” Jacob snapped out of the trance he was in and drew his attention back to the child in front of him. “U-um… Yeah! Yeah! All cool bruh!” Jacob stuttered. Lelu looked at him worryingly. “Are you sure?” She asked. “Yeah! Hey listen, it’s all good-“

“YO! Snake Jake!” Jacob jumped at the nickname that only one person uses. He turned his attention to Felicia who was holding some large trays of pastries in each hand and heading up the steps to the second floor. “Your break ended like, 10 minutes ago! What’re you doing!? You gonna help me out or what?!” She shouted at him. Jacob breathed a heavy sigh, part of it out of annoyance and the other part relieved. “I’m coming! I’m coming!” Jacob said, he turned back to Lelu, “my break just ended so, I gotta get back to work.”

“Aw! Okay…” Lelu pouted.

“I’ll see ya around Lelu.” Jacob held his fist out to her and Lelu bumped him back.

She giggled. “Okay, bye-bye Jakey!” Lelu waved.

Jacob picked up trays from the window to take to table 23, and started to make his way to the stairs. “Bye-bye Lelu!” He said back smiling.

“JAKE!!!” Felicia called.

“COMING!!!” He yelled back in annoyance, and stomped up the stairs.

For the rest of Jacob’s shift, he couldn’t stop thinking about his conversation with Autumn’s little sister. If he was going to be honest, he kinda wanted to forget about the whole thing. But he had a reminder on his wrist. The blue and yellow bands that Lelu weaved for him… a total stranger, who she knew nothing about. Lelu was a very sweet and nice kid, but the friends she had…

Autumn’s shift ended and she finally came out with the Oreo cheesecake. “Sorry, that took so long sir! Here you are.” She said, as she handed the old man his plate. “Oh, your fine! I could see you had a little one there. She yours? How old is she?” He asked, conversationally.

“Oh, no! She’s not mine! I’m too young to have kids, that’s my little sister. She just got out of kindergarten.”

“Oh… do you watch her all by yourself? What about your parents?”

“… They… have to work a lot of hours. So, I help out with my sister…”

Jacob was listening in on the conversation. That was the same lie that Autumn told the manager and the rest of the staff. Her parents are barely around, they work a lot, she hardly sees them. Jacob can’t help but wonder why though. Why would she lie about that?

Autumn finished her conversation with the old man and went to grab her bag out of the locker room. When she came back, she hugged Felicia goodbye and went to the counter. “Lelu! Come on! We gotta go home!” Autumn called. Lelu perked her head up, and started to stuff her crayons and folder in her backpack. She crawled out of her barstool, her feet were dangling as she carefully reached the bottom, and then skipped over to her older sister. They were out of Jacob’s hearing range, but he could see the old, yellowed, crinkled paper that had Lelu’s drawing in her hand. She showed it to Autumn, who crouched down to Lelu’s level. Jacob was waiting for some kind of worried or scared reaction from her but instead, Autumn gave a warm smile and kissed Lelu on her head, receiving a squeal and giggles of delight from the tiny child. Then Autumn took Lelu’s hand in hers, and they left the café together. There was only one reason why anyone would react that way… she was used to it, she knew!

Jacob stopped cleaning the table, and went to clean the counter off, but something caught his eye. It was folded up yellowed notebook paper, and in a hot pink crayon it read; To: Jakey; Love: Lelu and Lisa. Jacob did a double take, and realized what it read. His eyes widened as he quickly unfolded the paper.

It was a drawing of Lelu sitting at what seemed to be the counter, across from it Jacob assumed was himself… but behind him… was that thing from Lelu’s drawing. It was Lisa… only now… her black and red mouth was curved up into a smile. In the hot pink crayon like written on the outside read;

Thank you for being our friend!

Kanna Origins Part 4

Sorry this one took longer than the others, but college assignments have been hectic, and on top of that I’ve been suffering from writers block… But Here It Is!!!

Just some Charcoal drawings I made in class. They’re both dedicated to the most popular Japanese urban legends.

The Daughters of the Snow Queen

Yukime and Yukina are her eldest twin daughters and then there’s her youngest, Holly

Who she never got to meet

Can some tumblr veterans explain to me how I put links in words? Like for comics; some will have “first/previous/next” and once you tap or click on it then it will take you to the pages you clicked on, does anyone know what I’m talking about??? And if so then please help me figure it out TnT

This was a paid commission by one of my neighbors, who is a hula dancer instructor! I loved the way this turned out, and it’s my first time drawing a bonfire with procreate! And don’t ask why but her name is Ānuenue!

Chapter 1

An unusual friend

Briar Sanders was in the lunch room, waiting on her best friend John to sneak past the grumpy old lunch lady, find the mini fridge, and get back with the chocolate pudding he keeps claiming the lunch lady hoards.

“Dude, really?” She said, in a “you must be joking” tone.

“I’m telling you Bri; she keeps a whole stash of it instead of giving it out to students,” John said.

“You know if you get caught, she’s going to kill you right?”

“If she does, please surround my grave with the very pudding, I tried so hard to get.”

“Okay, would you like for me to play despacito at your funeral?”

“Please.”

Bri giggled. John was always overdramatic. But if he did get caught the lunch lady would kill him. Maybe then he’ll stop leaning on me for help. He needs to learn to clean up his own mess, Bri thought. “Psst! Bri!” Bri turned around and saw John with an armful of chocolate pudding. Bri’s eyes widened. Holy Peck! He was RIGHT?! “I know what you’re thinking; the noble hero has slain the beast and brought back the monster’s treasure,” John said, using a silly deep voice.

“Not even close,” Bri said smiling, “but I hope you plan on sharing the beast’s treasure with a fellow citizen, brave adventurer,” Bri used the silly deep voice as well. John laughed, “be my guest.”

As Bri picked up a cup of chocolate pudding, she turned to John. “I hope you’ve been working on your parkour,” she said smiling, knowing what John would say, “I’ll be testing you after school today.”

John stopped and froze as his eyes widened with a spoonful of chocolate pudding hovering just outside of his mouth. He forgot… again. What else isn’t new? Here comes his ‘see what happened was…’ Bri predicted. “Well… see what happened was…” John set his spoon down.

“Called it! You forgot!” Bri said smiling smugly.

“No! I didn’t! I just… forgot…”

“You’re the one who asked me to teach you parkour, so why?”

“I just did okay? You can teach me after me and my family get back from spring break.”

“Fine!” Bri said, rolling her eyes. She didn’t know how anyone could NOT be so excited by parkour. Bri’s father, the chief of the town’s police, was someone who she looked up to, someone who she wanted to be when she grew up. So, she tried to learn all there was to learn when it came to police work, including tracking, laws, street smarts, she wanted to learn parkour to use when it came to catching crooks, and many more things that she needed to learn in hopes to fill in her dad’s shoes one day. Her dad and his partner, her godfather, Deputy David, taught her almost everything they knew at the age of at least six. John thought it was awesome and begged Bri for two whole months to teach him how to parkour like her.

Bri brushed off her thoughts and picked up her can of Grape Soda. What could go wrong with some fizzy grape juice and some chocolate pudding? “Ew,” John said.

“Oh hush. Or should I remind you of the time you ate ketchup with salad?” Bri said this, knowing he would be quiet.

“Never mind it’s cool,” John’s smile all of the sudden faded when he saw what was on the can. “Look, another one,” he said sadly. Bri turned her can to the side. On the side was a little girl, who looked about nine, with strawberry blonde curls in pigtails, she had an orange top with a red skirt. She was hugging a fully grown man who had a strawberry blonde beard and work duds. On the photo said:

MISSING CHILD! Elaina Everheart. Call Police if you have any information.

“Yeah… Another one,” Bri said with a sigh, as she set her can down, “I’m getting a little scared John. Kids under fifteen are disappearing left and right, and this is one of those towns where nothing happens!” John looked at his friend. He was hardly ever serious, but even he could not deny that this was terrifying, that and he hated seeing his friends scared or sad. Then an idea popped into his head, remembering his best friend’s favorite candy.

“Hey you like taffy, right?” He said. Taking out some taffy that was purple and pink out of his pocket. “Um hello? I don’t like taffy, I LOVE it!” Bri took a piece out of his hands and took a bite. “Mmmmm! This is so good! Where did you get this?” Bri asked. It tasted more like bubble gum than taffy. I don’t see a wrapper, or what company it’s from. Wait… now it’s starting to taste a little weird. Which it was, it was now tasting like the after taste of cheesecake. Bri looked over to John, he was chewing some of the taffy too, and he had the, “this tastes super weird” look on his face. “I found it in the mini fridge along with the rest of the chocolate pudding,” he answered. “Is it tasting weird to you as well?” Bri asked. John nodded as he put the rest of the taffy down. Yeah, good idea. I can’t eat this either.

Bri heard giggling and looked up, no one was there. She looked at John, he heard it too. They were both expecting the popular girls to come over and make fun of them again but, there was no one. Guess we just imagen- Wait! What’s that?! There was a black figure that went past the janitor and into the hallway. “Did you see that too?” John asked. Bri nodded. It could just be another student. But it was way too short. “You think we should check it out? It’s too short to be student,” she asked. John looked happy. “Something exciting in child prison? Let’s go!” He said. They got their stuff and walked towards the exit.

“Hey! You punks better get your butts back into those chairs!” The janitor said.

“But we need to go to the bathroom,” Bri lied.

“Then why do you have your stuff, hmm?” He asked.

“Because we only have four minutes left in here?” John said.

“… fine,” the janitor gave in.

Bri thanked him and the duo hurried down the hallway. After three lefts and a right or two, Bri held out her arm to stop John. There was a little girl with black braided pigtails, a very old black dress, and pale skin. She was turned away from Bri and John and was walking off. She looked too young to be in junior high, she looked about eight. “Excuse me, little girl?” Bri said, grabbing her attention. She jumped and turned around. Her eyes were really blue, most blue eyed people Bri has meet or seen were usually like a grey-blue color. But this little girl’s eyes were as blue as pool water. She had a necklace that was as deep blue as her eyes, and a soft, sweet, and gentle voice. She looked at them for a moment and then she shook her head, muttering the words, “nah, no way.”

“No way what?” John asked. The little girl looked shocked. “Are you lost? Where are your parents?” He asked.

Bri kept looking at the dress, she’s seen a little girl in a dress like that in a history book somewhere before. “We can help you,” Bri said bending down to meet her level. She’s quiet, I hope we don’t scare her. “Nice dress, are you part of a school play or something?” She asked conversationally.

The little girl leaned to the left, they still stared at her. Then she leaned to the right, they still stared. Finally, she screamed, “AAAAAAHHH!” John and Bri jumped back. “NO WAY! CAN YOU GUYS REALLY SEE ME?!?!?!?!” She yelled.

“Uh, yes of course we can?” Bri answered. What kind of question is that?

“AAAH! How is this possible?!” She asked. Bri and John looked at each other with confusion.

“Eyesight?” John guessed.

“No! Humans can’t see ghosts! Not unless- unless- how- wha- did you-“ the little girl stuttered.

Bri and John looked at each other again, confused and shocked. “Did you just say ghost?” Bri asked. Is she trying to pull a prank on us or something? The little girl started to say crazier things and she didn’t know what was going on. Neither did Bri or John. Ok! This is getting us nowhere. “Alright well, little… girl, child-“

“Agatha, or Aggie,” she said.

“Aggie, we’ll help you but you don’t need to make up things like you being a ghost. Come on, we’ll take you to the front office, we can call your parents there, and-“ Bri reached for Agatha’s hand but it went right through. Bri jerked her hand back, she looked at John, who was just as stunned and shocked as she was. Bri reached out again, trying to touch the girl’s face, her hand just passed through just like it did before. “I’m not making this up!” Aggie said. Clearly! “I’m dead! I’ve been dead for- what year is it?” She asked. “2017,” John answered. “Right so that’s-…Wait WHAT?!?! That’s, that’s………… that’s three hundred years,” she said in disbelief. “You’ve been dead for that long?” Bri asked.

The bell rang. Time to go to class. “Hey we’re off to class, do you want to come with us?” Bri offered. Aggie started to float, “Yes please! I love learning!” She said excitedly. Huh, I guess that makes sense, since only boys could go to school to learn things in her time. But still, this is the first time I’ve ever met a kid her age that wants to learn.

“Hey Briar,” said a soft but evil voice. Bri knew that voice, Addison. Her backpack was ripped off her arms and Bri turned around. It was Addison alright, and her “friends”. One of the most popular girls in Bri and in John’s grade. “What are you guys doing? Making out?” Addison asked in an obnoxious tone. EW! John and Briar were always assumed a couple, Bri never knew that being best friends with a guy would be such a big deal. “Ew!” Bri and John said in unison. They looked at each other, it wasn’t often that they said things together, but then they turned back to Addison. “We’re just friends! For the bazillionth time!” Addison laughed, “well I’m sure you won’t be needing this Bri.”

Bri got annoyed and felt her temper rising, “I said my FRIENDS call me Bri, those who aren’t my friends just call me Briar.”

“Sheesh, so formal,” Addison said, “oh, wait.” Addison reach into Bri’s backpack and pulls out Bri’s phone. “I need another of these,” she said.

Bri got really mad, her whole life was in that phone. Texts from her dad, photos of family, and what happened to her mom. “Why do you need another one?! Your Dad has already bought you several other phones!” Bri exclaimed.

“And I need some gossip, your phone has some right?” Addison said. She tried to get the face ID for the phone by holding it in front of Bri, but as soon as she held it out, Bri tried to snatch it away. Addison held the phone up. “Don’t make me drop it!” She teased.

“Give it back PECK NECK!!!” Bri swore. Now it was Addison who got mad this time. Addison pushed Bri on the ground and kicked her in the stomach. Even for a spoiled barbie doll, Addison’s dad made her take self-defense classes in his paranoia that she would get taken one day for being a rich kid. Of course, Addison never used it on anyone bad, she only used it to beat up other kids when she didn’t get her way. The fact that she was a cheerleader and was used to practicing and using her legs didn’t help either. She could easily beat anyone up, whether it was other girls or boys.

John ran up and shoved Addison to the ground, Addison’s friends were cheering her on as she got up and punched John. “Wow! Your weak Sanders. Guess it is like mother like daughter, no wonder she died from tha-“ Addison had the wind knock out of her as something punched her in the gut. Bri looked up to see Aggie floating and shoving the big bad bully on to the ground. Addison’s friends were frightened, not seeing the source of what happened, and they ran down the halls screaming. “He- HEY! Don’t leave me here!” Addison yelled at them as she joined the screaming girls and ran off too.

“Peck necks,” Aggie said. Aggie looked at Bri and got a worried look on her face. “Are you okay Briar?” Aggie asked. She held out one of her hands to Bri. It was a habit so Bri took her hand, and it didn’t go through. “How?” Bri questioned when she was on her feet. “I can decide whether or not I want to touch something or someone,” Aggie explained, “sorry Briar, I didn’t want to hurt her I just got mad at the way she was treating you.”

Bri smiled. “It’s okay. Normally we would get in trouble for this but the fight ended early. John, you okay?” She asked.

John got to his feet, “I think one of my tooths are loose but other than that I’m fine. Also, Aggie, don’t say Peck necks.”

Bri rolled her eyes, “she’s already dead, let her some fun.”

The bell rang again. “Second bell we might want to go,” John said. He kneeled to meet Aggie’s level, “do you still want to come to class?”

Aggie floated again and laughed. “Yesss! Let’s go!” Bri picked up her backpack and her phone, “Alright, follow us Aggie. History class is next.”

“Coming Briar!” Aggie squealed in delight. When Aggie flew next to Bri, she smiled as she held her hand. Bri looked down and smiled back at her.

“Call me Bri,” she said.

⚠️TW! Flashbacks of child abuse & PTSD⚠️

Kanna Origins: Part 6

Uncle Reiji has a chat with Kanato, and Kanna learns something about her father; he doesn’t care too much for children…