Shelby, unlike two weeks ago, walked through her front door of her home after her family. Violet, her little sister, was in the living room and Her mom, Fae, was in the kitchen as she heard the front door.
"Violet?" Fae spoke out stepping out of the kitchen to investigate the living room and towards the door "Shelby?" She looked over surprised at her daughter who she thought was in her room.
"I thought you were in your room?" Violet looked up, from her phone, to see her older sister coming through the door.
"Um, no I was at the arcade" Shelby said not really wanting to go into details and reveal anything about Azur.
"Alright" Fae said and stepped back into the kitchen to clean up from dinner "are you hungry?" She spoke out.
"No, I'm fine. I ate there" Shelby answered back.
"SHELLY" Shelby heard her little brother, Willy, yelled out as he saw his older sister and ran into her legs.
"Willy!" Shelby said laughing at her little brother and picking him up into her arms.
"I missed you" Willy said with a pout
"I'm sorry" Shelby said giving Willy a pout back and looked up at the clock to see that it was close to willy's bedtime "how about I read you a story to make up for me not being able to spend time with you?"
Willy smiled brightly at the thought of his older sister telling him a story. Willy wiggled out of Shelby's arms and pulled her by her hand towards his room that was closed to their parent's bedroom. Shelby helped Willy get into his bed. Willy laid comfortably as Shelby sat right beside him.
"Ready?" Shelby asked
"Yea" Willy said with a bright smile on his face. Willy loved the attention he got from Shelby, although he felt her emotions, he didn't understand them.
"In a world like ours, their lived a young boy. Unlike people you know, like violet or mom, he didn't have powers" Shelby spoke softly and calmly.
"Like you?" Willy asked and Shelby gave him a small sad smile. Shelby nodded.
"The little boy went on many adventures with his twin sister. They were young and powerless, but they were also brave.
In their adventures, they stood up against dragons, aliens and monsters"
"How did they do it if they don't have powers?" Willy asked concerned for the little boy and girl.
"They had small machines on their arms that the little girl made with science. One the boy's right arm he had a laser and, on the girl's, right arm she had a sonic waves generator" Shelby said answering her brother's questions. Willy yawned as his eyes began to drop. Before Shelby knew it, he was fast asleep.
"Shelby" Fae said from the door fame after willy fell asleep. Shelby looked up towards her mom. It didn't slip Shelby's mind about what they spoke about. Not even when she was with Azur. She still enjoyed being around him but the constant thought of the conversation with her mom stuck in her head.
"it's real" Shelby said without hesitation "You may not believe it but this place I tried to tell you about is real" Shelby walked out of the room slipping by her mom "I may not be able to prove it, right now but I will"
Fae sighed as she watched her daughter climb the stairs to her room. Fae bit her lip as she felt emotions coming to the surface. Frustration, fear, sadness, and regret,
"Mom?" Violet asked who was on her way to her room noticed her mom standing their looking upset. Violet heard what Shelby and her mother were arguing but she didn't really know what about.
"I'm fine" Fae said with a small smile "why don't you go ahead and go to bed" She suggest to her small daughter.
Fae went into her bedroom as her husband, Carlos, teleported into their room. A small smile appeared o Fae's face and the stress she had a minute ago vanished. She wrapped her arms around her husband as he wrapped his around her.
"What's wrong?" Carlos said with his chin rested on his wife's head.
"Shelby and I argued the other day after the dinner" Fae answered "I think I made it worse. She didn't even come home until eight-thirty tonight"
"Fae" Carlos said, "You do remember what's going on with her right?"
"Yea but- "
"No buts we won't understand it. Shelby unlike Violet and Willy hasn't gotten her powers. Maybe things haven't been going to well with her" Carlos suggested
"I don't know but that's a possibility" Fae thought "but it's unlike her to stay out so late"
"Maybe she's made more friends finally" Carlos said "Other than her cousin"
"Maybe" Fae said as she let her husband go and they get into the bed "I'm just so worried"
"I know" Carlos answered as he turned off the light and wrapped his arms around his wife who sighed in comfort.
Upstairs, Shelby felt so uncomfortable now. She couldn't even stop thinking about the argument worse now.
Shelby laid on her bed and shut her eyes as the sleepiness overpowered her.
Weeks turned into months of having Azur around and Shelby was completely different. She hung out with Azur the most compared to where she uses to stay in her room almost 27/7.
Shelby and Aur have even spoken about going into the other world. They just had to wait until the perfect moment, which was when they were both going to be out of school for about two weeks.
It was only a couple of days till school was out. Shelby was supposed to talk to her parents about going somewhere for two weeks. She hadn't thought of an excuse without bringing up Azur, but she didn't have anything.
Azur was sitting with Shelby as she was explaining that she didn't really want her parents to know about him being her new friend. She didn't mean anything bad by it but when it came to her family there was just another story there.
Maybe it was because she felt even more different. Comparing to her younger sister and little brother.
"So, your parents don't really know about you having me as your friend?" Azur asked a little hurt by the information he was given.
"I just never wanted to tell them so I could just keep you as my friend." Shelby explained
Azur looked in Shelby's eyes and couldn't look away. They got along so well so far that it was hard for them to be away from each other.
You could say they liked each other more that they think but they never put any, or much thought into it.
"Then why don't you just rip the band-ad right off?" Azur asked
"Because they'd want to meet you" Shelby said "And I don't want them to scare you off"
"I promise after everything we've talked about that you won't be able to scare me off" Azur said that looking into Shelby's eyes causing her to blush.
"Okay, I guess after the last class since today is a half day that you can come meet them" Shelby said and stood up as the bell rang for their next class.
"I'll walk you to class" Azur said and grabbed some of her books that was still left on the table.
"You don't have to do that Azur" Shelby said, and Azur looked at her as his eyes dilated.
"I know but I want to" he said as they walked to her next class.
After school, Azur meet Shelby by her car. She was biting her lips and thinking. Azur was walking up to her.
"Ready?" Azur asked looking at a worried looking Shelby.
"I guess I am" Shelby says and Azur slides into the passenger seat.
They both arrived at Shelby's house.
Shelby was shaking a little with anxiety. She was nervous but thankful that her parents weren't here yet. Azur followed Shelby to her room.
"So, this is my room" Shelby said biting her lip "Sorry it's a little cluttered and messy. I don't normally have anyone come over, so I've never worried about it"
"it's okay. It's not that messy. You should see my room" Azur said, and Shelby giggled.
Shelby and Azur sat on the couch sitting talking. Azur started telling Shelby the story of how he first started discovering his superpowers when Shelby heard the front door from downstairs.
"Shelby?" She heard her sister from downstairs. She heard steps coming up the stairs.
"Yes?" Shelby said and opened the door.
"Do- Oh who's that?" Violet asked noticing Azur.
"I'm Azur" Azur stood up and held his hand out to shake violet's hand.
"Violet. I'm Shelby's little sister" Violet shakes Azur's hand "Is he staying for dinner?"
"Um yea I was planning to be introducing him into mom and dad" Shelby said
"I'll tell mom we have a dinner guest then" Violet answered and ran downstairs.
"Alright, we'll be down in a little bit" Shelby tells her little sister as she sat some papers in front of Azur.
Shelby was excited to share more of what she knew with Azur. She had a clear smile on her face that was there. Her eyes twinkled talking about something no one else would understand. Azur was equally happy.
Shelby and Azur both looked from the papers into each other's eyes.
"We should probably go wash our hands for dinner"
"Yea" Azur agreed and got up from where they were sitting on the floor.