Family

{ Chapter 2: New Beginnings }

{Perturbation- (noun) An uneasy state of mind usually over the possibility of an anticipated misfortune or trouble.}

January 19th 2020

Ranboo POV

I was shaken awake by Phil. He opened the door and I unbuckled myself, I nearly forgot where I was. I took my bag and got out of the car. I looked around. We were on a Hill away from any town, there was a long driveway down the hill. We were in a forest. The Pine Trees surrounded the house, it was a 2 story cottage. Everything was coated in white snow, maybe 4 inches of it. We walked to the door of the house Phil opened the door and it felt cozy inside, it was much warmer and there was even a fireplace to the left of the door that was in the dining room, to the right there was the living room that had a TV on the wall, then there was a small kitchen with a bar, right next to the kitchen was a stairway to upstairs I assume. I took it all in and then I noticed there was a boy in the kitchen looking at us, I started to shake, what if they do hurt me?

"Hi dad and Ranboo..?" he said with a questioning voice. I nodded to him to tell him he did get my name right.

"Do you mind showing him to his room?." Phil asked the boy. I started to panic more, my breath picked up, what if he led me to a basement? What if these people kidnap kids? I know nothing about them. I wish Bill was here. The boy nodded to Phil and I followed him up the steps. There was another living room with just 2 couches in the center of a room and a small table. There was 1 door on the wall away from the stairs, when you came up the steps there was a door on the right then right beside the stairway there were 2 doors.

"Sorry for the mess," the boy laughed. I just giggled. I was fine with messes I was used to way worse. He lead me over to one of the doors by the stairway and opened it.

"This is uh your room!", I looked around. It was too good to be true, there was a king size bed to the far right of the room, a desk, a PC and some small decorations, there was a walk-in closet too, There was a big window in the center of the room with an amazing view of some mountain ranges.

"Thank you", I whispered to the boy. He smiled and then he left the room. I wasn't sure what to do first I placed down my bag and got my blade out and placed it in the nightstand drawer, I got out my old clothing and put it into the closet, I sat down onto the bed just taking it all in really and then I heard yelling down stairs and footsteps coming up the steps I began to panic my flight for fight kicked in, I'm not a fighter. I jumped into the walk-in closet and got under some blankets that were in there. I began to silently cry, the more I cried the more it hurt, making me cry more. Then I heard my door open. That's when I started to shake again, I placed a hand on my mouth to cover up my noises and weeps.

"DAD HE ISN'T IN HERE!" I heard an unfamiliar voice yell.

"Tommy, go down stairs and see if he is down there." Phil said I could tell it was him by his voice. I wanted Bill here, he would calm me down, he cared about me, I missed him so much.

"Ranboo?" I heard Phil say he walked towards the closet door. I began to panic more. My breath was shaky and so was I, Like I had no control of myself. was he going to hit me, drag me? Kill me? I hated how I hated people, I was always scared of parent figures because of the orphanage and foster homes. He opened the door. I put my hands over my face to block in case he was going to grab me when he looked under the blanket, the blanket was then lifted I backed up but to my surprise, I wasn't hit. There wasn't any noise, all I felt was Phil looking at me. He sat down on his knees in front of me.

"Ranboo?" His voice was laced with worry. He cared. I put my arms down onto my knees and looked at him with tears in my eyes. Phil took my hands lightly and I pulled away because of the sting I also hissed.

"Did that hurt?" I nodded. He looked just below my eyes and got closer to me, he whipped my tears away and he hugged me. He hugged me. He fucking hugged me.I felt so nice it wasn't like Bill, Bill was careful when he hugged me, this hug was comforting and I felt protected almost, Like Phil cared about me.

"I'm not going to hurt you Ranboo, I never will." I dug my face into his shoulder and nodded I was still shaking but not as much anymore, I felt reassured. I felt Loved almost. But I knew it was fake. He let go and stood up.

"Dinner is ready if you want to come down and meet everyone" he smiled at me. I got up and wobbled to my bed. I took in a few breaths after I was calmed more. I went down the steps. The kitchen smelled of Pasta, it was comforting in a way. There were 3 boys. The boy that showed me to my room earlier was cooking, a blonde haired boy was sitting at the table waiting I sat down at the table and waited until the boy was cooking while waiting the blonde boy sitting a chair down from me spoke to me.

"Hey Ranboo? Right?" I nodded to him, not wanting to talk too much.

"You like women Ranboo?" He asked the boy cooking and Phil laughed and so did he, I had never thought about that before so I just shrugged.

"Who's your favorite woman?".

"Knock it off Tommy", Phil laughed and I giggled.

"What do you do for fun Ranboo?" The kid cooking asked me.

"I um write a lot" .

"Oh fun I like to write too."

"Andddd done!" the boy finished

"TECHNO" Tommy yelled, I jumped at it but I didn't do anything. Everyone got up and fixed them a plate of spaghetti. I did too. I was hungry but I didn't want to eat. I sat down and Boy with long pink braided hair and glasses and pig like ears came down stairs and grabbed a plate and sat down everyone talked about there day and soon everyone was done and picked up my nearly full plate and dumped it Along with everyone else, I hate wasting food, I turned on the water grabbed a rag and began to wash the dishes hissing in pain as the water touched my hands Philza stopped me.

"Ranboo you don't need to wash the dishes, I do that" He smiled and pulled my hands back I just nodded and dried my hands off on my shirt.

"Did they make you do that at the orphanage?" I nodded slowly and he looked mad. I just kinda stood there awkwardly and left up the steps. It was nearly 10pm. I really just wanted to leave the awkward situation. I walked upstairs and laid in bed and couldn't sleep. My mind was racing I was scared they were going to hurt me in my sleep ,I missed Bill, it was the 1st night sleeping alone in a while, Bill has bad nightmares where he can't tell what is real and what is not, I would comfort him and we slept in the same bed often. It was 3am when I finally fell asleep.

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