Sharon takes Medallion and Este to their rooms in the hotel, "We eat early in the morning. I will come wake you up. The other children will be at the park, I'll go introduce you if you're shy, but for tonight. Get some sleep." He tucks them in one by one pecking the top of their heads good night after giving them a gummy before bed.
It will knock them right out.
Toya stands resting his arms on the balcony railing talking to Ariel, "You managed to save a few people, they don't want to come back?"
"No, and that's okay with me, they can travel amongst themselves. It's not boring at all. They would never want to come here, I do have only one child who is begging to be let out, they might not welcome you, but if you wish to see it and save the child I am all for it." Ariel says.
Toya nods.
He climbs Ariel's back and he laughs seeing the world from above until he cannot see it anymore.
They arrive at the city and the people all look at Ariel.
"Aslan!"
Ariel laughs, "That's my father's name, I am Ariel his son. We are here for Staria." He sits down to get comfortable.
Staria runs and hugs the lion.
"What did they do to him?" Toya asks squatting down to hug the boy.
"He's the next Alpha in line, no one wants an Alpha anymore. He heard them plotting to kill him."
Toya nods, "Well, at least we saved him in time. Let's go."
Ariel takes the boy and leaves.
The people that stay are amazed when the castle is lifted and the territory is increased.
They arrive at the hotel and Toya let's him sleep in his room.
"I'll watch him." Ariel says.
Toya nods.
The others come back too, but they didn't come back with anyone.
Charlie sitting in the living room by herself smiles when everyone is here.
"They're off to bed. They always sleep early." Sarah says bursting Charlie's bubble.
"Oh, that's sad." Charlie says.
"Have you talked to your mom lately? You said you were going to take your siblings to see her." Sarah asks snuggly to her blanket.
Charlie sighs, "She forcefully tried to take them from me so I can ask Colin to let her in. I asked him and he said no, he took the kids back and I haven't seen her since. She calls to talk to them but I think my sister is old enough to see what's going on. She wants nothing to do with our mother."
Sarah sighs, "I wish my mom was out there instead of in here. I am so sick of being her stupid puppet. I am never going back to that house. I can't believe I expected her to change after we got the new house."
Charlie looks up with her interest peaked, "What is your mother like?"
Sarah covers her face for a moment, then looks up to answer the question, "You decide for yourself, I'll tell you things that happened, okay?" She waits for Charlie to nod.
"So, this one time I was in my room cleaning up my space and she enters standing at the door and just looks me up and down and tells me to stop using the healing cosmetics I help Luna make. I ignored her because I like the way it smells and it really makes my skin so soft. A week later I find all my things missing, I ask her what she did with it she says she threw it away, but I can literally smell it on her, so I let it go and I made new ones but put it in my finished hair moisturizer bottle. She walks in on me because I'm not allowed to lock my door and I used it on my hair. Luckily I was done lotioning my body, she looked me up and down and took all my cosmetics leaving the hair moisturizer. I ignored her and kept using the ointment for my skin and hair because I had nothing else. A week later she looks nice actually thinking I don't know she's using it too, than she gives me a scissor and tells me to cut my hair. Which I was excited about and Mira gave me the fade and spiky hair make over. I go home and my mom was furious telling me to shave my entire head off, I should be mad right? But nope I was ecstatic sitting there letting her shave my head.
"From than on I started steaming my hair and face in boiling water with a purifier pallet in side. I washed my hair in the same water right after and the water would be gunky and black. I told Mira and she told everyone and they all did it. My mom was pissed seeing all the women with shaved heads thanking me for the steam idea. She decided to give me my things back so my hair can grow back faster. I than decided to make my own original hair products and I asked Rex, Toya, and Luna to add healing essence. It didn't grow my hair at all for like 2 weeks, mind you this is before all this, we were just new here. The thing wasn't working at all until suddenly my hair started growing rapidly after I stopped using it. My hair was thick, strong, my sculp didn't itch any more, my headaches had stopped. No more black gunk when I wash my hair. The colour was back and it was shiny.
"Everyone begged for the product and used it for two weeks and their hair grew out. They shaved the children's heads and used it on them to grow their hair back, because the formula heals your sculp penetrating really deep into the skin and it starts from the inside first. It was so cool. Every body loved me. They would sit next to me, complement me. Ask Luna for more, but Bella said we can't over use it, the normal products will work more effectively now. So they gave it away to Camp Royal for the children. Murasaki always prioritises children. After that my mom started telling me my hair was too much, it's too wild.
"I went to Luna and asked her to teach me to use the hair dryers and all those stuff. All the girls taught me their own special tricks to take care of their hair. They even gave me my won cosmetics bag. I started taking care of my hair. When she saw what I was using she stole it, I told Luna and they decided everyone including men gets their own bag, when my mom found out she didn't get one she was angry and asked why, they told her to use the ones she stole from me. She told them she threw it out. It's outside the shield. Luna gave her a bag for my sake. I kept getting praises for weird things.
"Than my breasts grew and my mom wouldn't let me wear a bra, I was embarrassed about it I went and asked Bella what I could do, she told me to exercise with Luna. She can't wear bras either and so she exercises to keep them from sagging. I started exercising with her. She gave me my own weights so if she's late or busy I can exercise alone. I did that in secret. 2 weeks later I noticed my pants were now tight, but I ignored it thinking it's all in my head I didn't eat enough to gain weight. So my mom started telling me I was a fat ass, I noticed Luna had nice curves too, it honestly looked good, I asked her for advice. She told me Dodge used to call her a fat ass too, she stopped doing leg workouts and realised after a while that Dodge was flat assed, she didn't have to worry about what she was going through and stopped caring what anyone said. We worked out together and Cinna, Terra's brother told me I look nice in front of my mom.
"She found out I work out with Luna and nearly lost her mind. She yelled at me and told me I look like a gorilla, I looked like a man, I looked like Hercules. I cried myself to sleep that night and I was so upset I woke up in the middle of the night to try and runaway buyy Cinna was on guard duty he said he followed my scent, I smell really nice. I told him I was leaving and he should tell everyone nothing. Cinna told me to go to Moon with the others instead. His brother was with him. Terra said no so I begged Mira to come along.
"She happily said yes and we spent some time at moon, I was the one they sent back home if they needed something, or wanted advice from Thomas. I went back a few days after to go and get Luna's new bath salts so Rex and Toya can wish for them, she was unable to use her power for too long so she used it for essentials only. The people there were really filthy. Those salts honestly helped us. They smelt so bad too, it was disgusting, you wouldn't say that about them now. They look good now.
"My mom must have heard I was here and the first thing she said when she saw me was I look like I swallowed a pig. I had gained weight and my face gained weight first. I was also wearing a bra, I don't have sensitive skin like Luna so I can wear one. My mom was furious and told me to stop. I think she thought I was back for good or something but I left and didn't do anything she said.
"At Moon I had shaved off the elderly's heads and using the product I made. Luna had added a label with my name on it. I was happy about that. It took time for the elderly to grow their hair back but after two weeks there was no more black gunk. I helped a group of women who took care of the elderly. We would sometimes make the room a steam room so their bodies got exposed to healing essence more. We were using the ointment on them as lotion and it helped alot because some of them started walking on their own. I would take them to walk a lap around the mall once in the morning and once before dinner. It really helped out alot.
"I had to than go back to get a new Healing essence imbued block of wood, it took weeks for Luna to finally have the thing saturated enough with healing essence. I was rummaging through Luna's things because she passed out before finishing her sentence but she told me where the key to her locker was, I went to the camp without wearing a bra to avoid trouble. My mom came to see me, more like check up on me, she saw me and she did this weird thing where it was like .. I can't explain it, but she took a step back and looked like she was looking at a stranger. She awkwardly circled me and told me to cut my hair, lose some weight and get rid of my chubby face. That hurt me to the core because I was thinking the same thing. I sat down with Rin right after and told her I wanted a quick fix method.
"She told me her mom used to sleep in this face slimming mask, secretly wear a waist cincher under her clothes. She told me women gain alot of weight after a baby so that's what they wore. I asked Luna if her mom used those products. I want one. Luna being such a friend did it with me so I wouldn't feel any more embarrassed than I already did. No one knew our secret." She giggles.
"I went to see my mom after 2 weeks because she had started calling too much. I entered the building and everyone flocked towards me asking what I did to look so good. I didn't get it, I didn't see it. I told them I lost weight and they all looked at me like I was crazy. I didn't realize I didn't lose as much weight as I thought. I just lost it in the upper body. I honestly hated having such crappy genes to gain weight so easily but lose it slowly. Luckily Luna is like me. She thanked me every night for the idea.
"I decided to spend the night and I originally slept in my mom's camp. So I spent the night there. All night I was constantly being complemented and told Cinna has been following me around since I got back. My mom didn't say anything. The next day she gave me this dress of hers that was so ugly I died inside at the thought, but to be the perfect daughter I wore it and it was so tight I was shocked. It was open and the sides but my curves made the opening wider, luckily I had a super flat stomach or either wise it would have been a disaster. She said I should walk barefoot to stretch out my feet, Knowing I had bad sores all over my legs, I never wore dresses. Not ever, but I had been helping the elderly with the same condition I had. The marrow eater disease, that's what I had, in a few years I would be unable to walk at all, but the self-made methods were helping. Luna was the only one I told about this. She never tells anyone anything. When the others found out they were shocked, I was shocked to find out she never told them anything.
"I wore the dress and enjoyed strutting around without shoes on. To say my mom was pissed about the attempt to embarrass me failing is an understatement, she was furious, the dress was supposed to be tight and the extra fat disgustingly protrude on the sides. My grand mother is fat, I told her the truth and she asked Cinna to help her exercise since. The entire day I was getting jealous stares and eyes, usually I was the one making the face."
Charlie raises a hand to ask a question, "How did the dress fit your mom?"
"My mom is super skinny, you'll see her after this winter. Any way, I was sitting under a tree when my mom approached me giving me socks and shoes that don't match, I wore the socks but the shoes were too big they were hurting my feet I took them off after I fell in them trying them out. Kevin was there, the twins father. I told him my mom got me the shoes as a gift, that's what she called it, so Kevin took the shoes off my feet and told my mom it was nice of her to give me a gift but he's noticed that I've matured quite a lot in a short space of time, since the clothes and shoes I used to wear don't fit he'll take me shopping. I took all the clothes and shoes I wanted. He's such a cool dad he picked out my underwear for me, and carried the box of disposable underwear to my own tent. He asked me to change out of my dress because it was very inappropriate, my jaw dropped, I told him my mom made me wear it this one is hers, I don't own dresses, I never wore a dress since I was like 6 years old. She should be getting scolded.
"Kevin told me he's not scolding me but he'll talk to my mom. I wore the sweatpants Dodge always wears, she has them in all colours. Luna and Rin and team Cargo pants. Mira is always wearing dresses or a skirt, her dad picks out her outfits so when he's not around Toya picks them out. Toya makes her wear pants even when she doesn't want too.
"So after I got my own tent Bella came to see me and talked to me about my periods. Lily gave her a date and told her to give it to me, basically the next day, to avoid me getting embarrassed they told me early. She told me all about hygiene."
Charlie raises her hand, "What exactly did she say. I might need to have that conversation with my sister one day. Bella told me I should expect my period next year. It will take time for my ovaries to get better, I'm glad I found out early there was something wrong."
Sarah nods, "She told me about when to wear a disposable underwear, showed me how to make it sit well and fit comfortably around my thighs. She told me to not say my period is over until it's really over, sometimes the heavy bleeding stops and a day or two after a small drop appears, that's the last day of my period either wise my period tracker will give me wrong dates, she told me sometimes your period will be early or late but than return to normal it happens to everyone.
"She told me to change the soap I use during that time and use hygiene soaps for that areas protection. I take those from the mall, no healing essence in them I use them as they are, she told me to always shave after my period, always, because if the blood can stick on a piece of cloth and be hard to remove same concept applied to the hair around that area, so I shave once a month after my period so there is no bad smell, if there is one after I shave I should come to her it means something is wrong. I also upgraded to the stronger deodorants and I change my wash cloths often. Told me to never have sex with a boy because it means I'll get pregnant so I must reject boys that ask me out or my mother will embarrass me and they will run away from me. Which was no joke at all.
"After that she left and I fell asleep in my own tent alone and it was so nice. I showered and wore the disposable underwear and the entire day I didn't feel anything at all. I was wearing white and I felt nothing. Until my mom asked in front of a group of boys why I was given disposable underwear and Bella was in my room for so long. I swear I died of embarrassment on the inside but I smiled, I refused to let her know, I told her it was in case it happens I go on my period. Maybe Lily told her something." She coughs and drinks water.
"Everyone looked at me and started flooding me with tips, the cravings I could relate too. Anything else I really didn't. Bella told me period pains are not something she can heal away I shouldn't come running to her about it. My mom looked disgusted with me for some reason. I ignored the look on her face, I'm the only one who noticed anyway. She went to my room and was so angry she couldn't open my cabinet any more. The new camp was so cool. I opened the other cabinets except the one with the open packet of disposable underwear. She looked red eyed, like she wanted to burn the clothes but Kevin himself got those for me so she couldn't. Instead she told me to try them on instead I slammed the door shut and ignored her. She can't open the door so fuck her. I sat at the table eating little food, suddenly my crazy appetite was gone.
"That evening I showered in peace and changed the underwear, she told me to throw the underwear in the bin for the underwear specifically, incinerates them instantly no one will know. I called the others and told them about the new tents and I was told to come back I'm needed here, the elderly are not eating right, and reject anyone else's help. So I packed my bags and went back to Moon after I told only the leaders."