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Nox the bat 🦇 I made a friend for @twyz oc Hog Nox is blind in his blue eye

The new school year had recently rolled around, Chelsea the Ray’s youngest daughter now starting high school, now a week in. Something she hadn’t been overly thrilled about, however the youngest saw no point in complaining. School was seen more of a chore than anything, following the repetitive mundane routine. Wake Up, Dress, Breakfast, Head Out the Door, Repeat….Repeat….Repeat…

Thankfully the first week had concluded much to her relief. Gloria, the Rays second youngest, noticed something was wrong with her sister. She had been more tense than usual, normally she’d let it go but she could tell something had been nagging her baby sister and now she needed to know what. 

After dinner, Gloria ventured down the hall down to Chelsea’s room, stopping for a moment to think, staring at the periwinkle door to ground her thoughts. Her blue orbs falling on the old measurement marks slashed across Chelsea’s door frame. The memories of helping her father lineup little Chelsea against the wall struggling to get an accurate height, as the little youngest would fiddle and fidget, stretched a smile along her rosy face. Gently she did her usually two, three, one knock, to let her sister know it was her, waiting for a response.

“Come in Gloria”, Chelsea spoke from her desk.

Gloria made her way in, walking over to her sister peering over her shoulder.

“Algebra?” she smiled placing on Chelsea’s shoulder

“Yep, fun stuff” Chelsea sighed, looking up at her sister.

“You were right, Mr. Lance is a jerk”

“Told ya, the guys are not the nicest or the brightest” she responded.

“Yeah he didn’t take me correcting his math lightly” Chelsea snickered, flashing her sister a toothy grin. 

“Hehe yeah. The guys getting paid to teach and yet he can barely do that” Gloria smiled lightly ruffling Chelsea’s hair.

Gloria hopped onto Chelsea bed lightly tapping the spot beside her. The youngest followed sitting cross legged looking over at her sister.

‘What’s up?”

Gloria took a deep breath, letting it out as she scooted closer to her sister. “Hey you know you can come to me for anything right?”

“Yeah, why? Something wrong?” Chelse questioned, tilting her head.

“Well it’s just since you started school, I’ve noticed that you’ve been….a bit tense…Is everything okay?”

Chelsea gave a curious blink, “Yeah everything fine” she spoke adjusting her bowtie, “probably just school jitters. Sorry if it looks like I’ve been on edge”, Chelsea gave another smile, “and that’ll probably wear off since it’s the weekend. Pa said we’re going over to Uncle Slap’s and hanging out with our cousins. So it should be fun. I’m hoping for a barbeque. And I’ve been wanting to hear the Jamies side of the story about the blowing up the science lab.”

Gloria wasn’t buying it. Not in the slightest, but she knew Chelsea all too well and knew this was the most she was going to get out of her. She gave a supportive smile and nodded, pulling her in close, “Alright then. But remember my rooms right down the hall if you ever wanna talk okay?”

Chelsea, though not one for embraces, smiled and leaned in, “Alright”

“Wait he blew up what?”

…

Monday had rolled around again, and Gloria decided to keep an eye on her younger sister. Seeing if anything was truly wrong…or perhaps she was just being nosy, and her gut had been off. During lunch she spotted Chelsea sitting with Benny, and a new girl. She took a moment to study. Sandy hair, freckled cheeks, dimples, lime eyes, a light pink blouse, and a headband. She seemed friendly, sitting with the two, only then did she see Chelsea’s body tense, seemingly staring daggers into the newcomer. Gloria noticed the tightening of Chelsea’s lips, a habit she often did when she was annoyed, and the subtle scooching toward Benny. If only she could hear the conversation. 

…

Chelsea suppressed a frown, forcing a friendly grin at the new girl, who had taken a liking to her best friend. A liking she wasn’t fond of. Not to mention this strawberry blonde was a yapper, steering the one-sided conversation every which way. Benny had turned off his hearing aids, and somewhat smiled along, something Chelsea wished she had the power to do. Much like her father she wasn’t a social butterfly, and found herself fantasizing about duct taping the new girl's mouth shut. Her focus only regained at the sight of the new girl leaning closer to Benny and playfully tugging at his shirt. 

“I was so pissed, like , can you even believe that?! And so then my Uncle totally–”

“OKAY!.....Benny and I are going to miss our next block….We should get going”

“Class doesn’t start for another 10 minutes” the girl responded, moving closer to Benny.

“Well I don’t like being late…Earlier the better” Chelsea forced out grabbing Benny's hand and practically dragging the teen to their next class.

“I’ll come!”

Chelsea rolled her eyes, her grip on Benny’s hand tightening as she walked. Benny didn’t mind and quickened his pace, his cheeks slightly blushing at the sudden hand grab. 

…

Luckily the last and most dreadful block arrived. Chemistry. Chelsea was actually quite fond of the subject only she’d be sharing the class with the new girl. And today was a lab, much to her dismay Benny had been paired up with the new girl, and she was paired with the Karen of a neighbor's son, Urhighness. Who thankfully had grown more tolerable throughout the years and his time with the Rays. 

Benny hid a frown that had been tugging at his lips as he now had to endure the new girls rambling and her constant need to be next to him…Practically joined at the him. 

Chelsea now with a set of goggles read the lab report, following the procedure with precise precision, occasionally glancing over at Benny and his lab partner, feeling her grip tighten around her pencil. 

“You okay Chels? Something bugging you?”

Chelsea blinked, snapping from her gaze, “Nope…everything's peachy Ness….”

“....Right…So ya got the test tube?” He commented looking over the lab sheet.

“Yeah sure, here” she said, her eyes back on Benny.

Ness chuckled slightly, shaking his head, “Someone's jealous,” he muttered under his breath.

“Me? Jealous? Please” Chelsea clapped back, shooting him a look. 

“What? Can’t I point out the obvious?”

Chelsea shot him another look, before uttering a comeback she heard the new girl's overly animated bubbly laugh that made her snap her pencil. 

“Way to contaminate the work station, Chels”  he remarked, gently taking her snapped pencil and tossing it out, giving her one of his. 

“You’re upset your boyfriends is clearly being hit on, understandable but can we deal with your drama another day please”

Chelsea squinted, “He’s not my boyfriend he’s my best friend”

“Yeah okay. Keep telling yourself that. Because your face says otherwise. And tell your cousin that I said thanks for blowing up the old science lab, this ones a total upgrade ” he snickered.

….

Thankfully the end of the school day came, and Gloria, Chelsea, and Benny had decided to walk home together. Benny listened to music through his hearing aids, while the two sisters chatted. 

“So how was school?” Gloria asked,

“Fine”

Gloria’s face fell for a moment, but she quickly recomposed herself before Chelsea could notice, “So I noticed, a new girl sitting with you guys at lunch, what’s her name?” 

Gloria noticed Chelsea’s jaw tighten and body tense, “Cindy, can’t tell if that's her actual name or a nickname.”

“So…you two friends? Or…”

“Not friends. She's more like a tick than anything” Chelsea remarked with a slight glance towards Benny, that didn’t go unnoticed by Gloria. 

“Okay noted…I saw she was close with Ben–” 

“No she’s not. If she was close with him she’d probably bother to ask about him instead of talking about herself for a straight hour”

There was a sore nerve. 

Gloria saw Chelsea’s face flush each time she mentioned Benny. She knew all too well Benny had a crush on Chelsea since the 3rd grade but couldn’t help but smirk at the thought the feeling was now mutual. 

“Okay so she’s full of herself. Just try and avoid her like the plague. Or better yet dump her on Urhighness” 

Chelsea smirked at the idea, “Ya know you might be onto something”

…

The following week Chelsea managed to get a word out in conversation and mentioned Urhighness, immediately catching Cindy's attention curious as to who he was.

“He should be over– Hey Ness. This is Cindy” Chelsea grinned, motioning to her.

“...Ah yeah Cindy…I’ve heard a lot about you” he responded.

“Oh really? I’m sure they were all good things right Urhighness?”

Ness forced a smile side-eyeing Chelsea, “Many things…And I just go by Ness now…You can drop the Urhigh” he responded, shaking her hand noticing her tight grip. 

“Oh and he also thinks you’re really pretty,” Chelsea smirked, locking eyes with Ness.

“Awww thank you!” She smiled and pulled him into a tight hug.

Ness nervously chuckled, glaring at Chelsea awkwardly returning the hug, silently mouthing “fuck you” 

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Roz