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Warning: This entry contains adult themes and language not suitable for young audiences.
Author's Note: I realise now that I haven't given away any of the kids traits! It's half out of laziness half out of they-really-don't-matter-that-much. I'll post them in the next chapter for those interested.
The kids came home to find lots of strange humans and people going in and out of the house. Between homework and after school activities, in Lesath's case not blowing up the house, they had both completely forgotten about Auriga's birthday. It was "the most important party of this woman's life!", or so Sarin had told them. She had also mentioned something along the lines of "Don't fuck it up" and "I'll lock you in the bathroom for the rest of the night if you cause a scene".
Lesath: Don't you think your mom is going a little overboard with this birthday party thing.
Lesath: She's letting weird species into our home! Who knows what galaxy this thing came from! What if he wipes us all out?!
Becrux: That humans the DJ she hired, Les! Stop being so paranoid!
Lesath: Is that pizza? Forget everything I just said. This party is going to be amazing!
Becrux: You're ridiculous! I'd hate to see what you're like on your birthday! Come on, let's go find my mom!
Momma Astro was having a grand old time with Caph. Everything was perfect, Caph was here and Pax wasn't, everyone was having a good time...
Until she remembered that Becrux was going through a phase in which she didn't like anyone with her mother unless it was her father, and that was never going to happen. She had started going through it ever since she started school, seeing all her friends with their parents together. It was hard for her. So seeing Caph with her mother was an unwelcome sight.
Auriga: Hi sweetie! You remember my friend Caph.
Becrux: Ha! Friend. You don't have to lie to me, mom, I'm mature. I know he's your boyfriend. I'm not a child!
Caph: Maybe I should go get some punch...
Auriga: No, you stay. Listen, little Miss Maturity, whatever tv show you picked up this bad attitude from needs to stay there. I'm very sorry you wish you knew your daddy better, but that's his loss, not ours. Caph makes me happy, he's better than your daddy ever was.
Lesath: Stop it! You're hurting her feelings!
Becruz: I don't need you! I'm leaving! I bet daddy would never talk to me like this!
And so she rode her little bike all the way across town and up the Crystal Mountains, and it dawned on her that she didn't really know anything about her dad. Other than the fact that he was obviously very wealthy.
It was already very late, turning back would be admitting her mother was right. As she rang the doorbell, all she could imagine was the door swinging open and her dads face beaming down at her, his arms squeezing all the loneliness out of her. Auriga was constantly working, Sarin didn't care, and Lesath...
Lesath: Hey! Wait for me!
Becrux: What are you doing here? You want to get in trouble too!
Lesath: I wanted... to make sure you were ok. So I followed you.
No one answered the door. It was obvious no one was home, the lights were all off and the driveway was empty. It was hard not to be filled with disappointment. But she couldn't let Les see it, not when he had biked all this way. Sarin wouldn't get on him, but Auriga certainly would.
Becrux: Well, looks like no one is here. Guess Sarin is right, nobody wanted me.
Lesath: That's a dumb thing to say. I'm here because I want you! I mean- You're dad is dumb anyway. How many of your ballet recitals has he been to? Zero! Your mom tries to make it to all of them! Who needs dads, I bet my dad is on another planet by now.
Becrux: You're so right! Let's go home. We can camp out in our tree habitat.
It was there that they both had an epiphany.
Becrux: You're my best friend, you know that Les?
Lesath: R-really? You're my best friend, too.
Becrux: We don't need anyone so long as we have each other. Who cares about grown ups. We don't have to leave this place for anything.
Lesath: Well, what about when your mom makes pancakes...
Becrux: Fine, but that's it.
Lesath: What if a racoon sneaks up here?
Becrux: Maybe we should just go inside now before anyone notices.
If she wasn't cooking or trying to solve major issues with her kid, Auriga was basically pumping up. It took a lot of strength to bring down the bad guys in town.
Lesath: Are you almost done? You said you would play with me over an hour ago, Bee!
Sarin: Can't you see she's got better things to do, kid? Shouldn't you be mixing together all the chemicals from underneath the bathroom sink or something?
Becrux: I'll be up there in a second! I've got her right where I want her!
Sarin: Wait, what?
To preoccupy himself while he waited, he decided to put some of his chemistry concoctions to good use and set a prank in the bathroom.
Lesath: Heh heh, let's see how big and bad she is after she get's out of the shower today! I'll go clog the toilet so she has to come fix it.
Sarin: Damn kids. 'Oh, I think the toilet is broken or something'! You're the one that did this, why don't you fix it, you little shit! Great, now I smell like shit. I better take a shower before it settles into my skin.
Sarin: Wait a second... What the fuck! MY HAIR! MY GORGEOUS HAIR! This can't be happening...
Sarin: LESATH. I knew I should have dumped him in the trash can when I had the chance. That little shit.
It was already birthday time again for the kids and Becrux hadn't asked for anything. No party, no cake, nothing. Auriga was concerned.
Auriga: Honey, your birthday is coming up. Don't you want all your friends over for a party?
Becrux: Nope.
Auriga: Well, we can at least buy you a cake and have a little one just for the four of us.
Becrux: That's okay. I think I'll just stay home and practice my chess techniques.
Les had other plans.
Lesath: What do you mean you don't want to have a party? We're going to be TEENAGERS. We have to have one last party before we get too old to have sleep overs and the anxiety of dances and hormones!
Becrux: I just don't feel like it, Les...
Lesath: But I already invited everyone! They're downstairs in their pajamas already!
Becrux: Fine! But don't say I never did anything for you.
Lesath: That's the spirit, Bee!
Becrux: What's going on between Les and Peggy?
Judith: Didn't you hear? She has a crush on him! I think she's going to try and smooch him!
Becrux: Liar! He would never smooch Peggy! She's a total mean bean! Take it back!
Judith: I'm just telling you what I heard! Stop hitting me!
Becrux: Tell me what else you know!
Judith: Okay, okay! Rumor has it that she asked him to go with her to the festival of science but he turned her down! When she told him she wanted to be his girlfriend, he just laughed!
Becrux: Why?
Judith: He said she was too late!
For some reason this information made Bee uncomfortable. Who did he like? Peggy wasn't some chump off the playground, she was cool. Her parents had more money than anyone else in Lunar Lakes.
Becrux: So your party is turning out to be pretty fun! Haha! What was with Peggy? She was being really rude to you. Like you wronged her, or whatever. Not that I'm saying you did, it was just weird.
Lesath: Yeah, I guess. She's just a bully sometimes. Kept saying I was hitting her too hard with the pillow.
Becrux: Oh? I thought you might have like hurt her feelings and told her you liked someone else or something. That's so dumb, right? So dumb.
Lesath: Are you okay, Bee? You're starting to weird me out. Let's go to the tree habitat and set up our sleeping bags before all the good spots are taken.
After an unrewarding interrogation from her best friend, Bee met back up with Judith.
Judith: Well?
Becrux: Nothing! He avoided the question completely.
Judith: He's a boy, what do you expect. Why do you want to know so badly anyway?
Becrux: Why? Because! Because... maybe... maybe I like him! Okay?
Unfortunately, Lesath came in at the wrong part of the conversation. He knew eavesdropping was a shady thing to do, but he couldn't help it.
Judith: I knew you did!
Becrux: Well don't tell anyone! I don't want anyone to know! Especially you-know-who!
Judith: Yeah, I won't! It's not like he's listening to us right now. Ha ha ha!
Making the excuse to use the bathroom before bed, Lesath ran into the house. He was heart broken. Who did Becrux like? He could of sworn it was him... but maybe he made the whole thing up in his head. He had been too confident! She was just being nice to him the entire time. Whoever this guy was, he'd just have to be ten times better.
But all that drama had to be put aside briefly because it was already time for a certain someone to put on his big boy pants.
Becrux wasn't far behind!
And so the hormones took over.
Becrux: Wow, you like... really filled in, Les!
Lesath: You think? You look really good too, Bee.