3rd Degree Burns

0.6 - Monster

TW/CW: mental/verbal abuse, deadnaming, misgendering, mention of school *shudders* eurgh, swearing ofc, actual physical fighting :0

1st person (Karen's POV)

'Ugh, oh my goshhhh! How could i be so forgetful??? Ugh Alyssa's school year starts soon! I need to get her stuff.' I walked up to her room and opened her door without knocking, she doesn't deserve privacy. "Get the fuck up from your desk and get dressed for bed. We need to leave early tomorrow to go on some errands." "Okay.."

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1st person (Arson's POV)

"...up...w-k- u-...." I slowly open my eyes and see Karen, my 'mother', at the foor of my bed. "H..huh?" I was too out of it to have realized what she said a few moments earlier. "I said get up you fat fuck, we need to go school supplies shopping for you. Be lucky I'm actually going to be spending money on you, the only reason I'm even doing so is because you need some new things this year." 'Wow mom... so generous...' "Okay.."

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I finished getting dressed in my ranboo merch, blue jeans and banana socks; damn I be lookin' fancy today. Karen said we had to go school supplies shopping today. Honestly, I can't even remember the last time we actually got new stuff, been like maybe... 5.. years? How that even works I don't know. Surprisingly I always had the right stuff for the new year but I guess this year i didn't.

I walked down the weirdly slippery wooden stairs to the kitchen. Like usual, Karen was sitting in her usual seat with her smug looking face. I wonder what she has planned for today... Probably something along the lines of: 1. Misgender Arso- I mean aLySsA, 2. Be a bitch, 3. etc...

Moving on,

I made some simple toast, just toast. I also had a glass of water, I'm a basic bitch yes i know. Anyway, I finished breakfast and went to go my hands. When I got out of the bathroom I saw Karen waiting by the door.

"C'mon, let's go." With that she went outside and entered the car. I followed her and also got in the car. She started driving towards Walmart. It took about 20 minutes before we got there. The car was silent the entire ride minus the radio rambling on about the latest political updates.

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We've been in this walmart for half an hour and have not gotten a single item of school supplies. Karen has been looking at all the cheap fake jewelry she brags to her friends about. "Hey uh ma?" She turned to me with an annoyed look on her face. "What? Also its MA'AM to you." Right. "Okay uhm ma'am? We haven't gotten any of my school supplies yet..." "Right, yeah uhm here's some cash, go buy your own stuff. Oh yeah, also, here's your school supplies list, Alyssa." Sue handed me 100$ and the list. My mom may be a bitch but she does have a great paying job. "Okay, I'll meet you at the 5th register in like 30 minutes?" "Yeah, yeah, whatever." With that she shooed me away.

I walked over to the school supplies isle and put everything i needed in the cart. I realized i would still have some money left and had an idea. I was going to buy some hair gel, pinkish, brownish, redish like dusky coloured hair dye and, once i got home, i was gonna let the inner hair stylist in me roam free doing whatever i wanted.

I walked over to the self checkout and scanned every item, while proceeding to feed the 100$ bill into the machine. It gave me my change and i was set to go. I put everything in a bag, minus the hair stuff, i hid that in my ranboo jersey's pocket.

I realized 30 minutes had passed an i ran to register, 5 where my mother was waiting.

"Did you get all of your stuff, sweetheart?" She was wearing her kind smile though I could tell it was fake, genuine smiles are very different from fake ones. "Yep." I opened my plastic baggy and showed it her, she nodded and asked if I had payed yet. "Did you pay for your items yet?" I simply nodded and watched her continue to buy numerous bottles of beer, cigarettes and MANY fake jewelry items.

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By the time we got home, it was already noon so mother decided to cook some pasta and tomato sauce for dinner. While she was downstairs I decided, 'Hey! Wouldn't this be a good time to finally dye and cut me hair?' No, it would not be a good time, do I know that? Also no.

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By the end, my hair just looked like a dusky red-pink furball but honestly i felt so gender I didn't even care. I started styling an outfit to go with my new look. I came up with a nice yellow turtle neck underneath a plain white tee with some pale bleached jeans. I looked so fucking cool omg- Anyway, back to where I was.

I soon realized: 'Oh shit, mom's going to see me like this, I'm actually going to die.' And faster than you can sing the alphabet my gender turned into pain and dread to when she would call me down for dinner.

I started to come up with ideas to hide my hair; what if I wore a hood? A hat? WHAT DO I DOOOO????

3rd person

"Alyssa, sweetheart! Food's ready." Her sing-song voice echoed throughout the rooms straight to where Arson sat. Arson decided they would just go up and confess what they did to their hair.

The angsty teen walked out of their room to the hall leading to the stairs. They contemplated their decision for what seemed like hours in a matter of seconds but ultimately just walked past the other rooms to the stairs.

Walking down the stairs, xe knew what was to happen, as much as xe were not too excited.

"Alyssa! Here, take a seat- wait a second.. What in god's name did you do to your hair?! You look horendous!" Arson took s deep breath before replying to her thoughts. "I'm being myself! You can't just keep denying who I am, I'm not your 'little girl'. I'm a fucking boy for god's sake! I identify as boyflux and I will dress how I want." Seems like Arson made a mistake because right as he said that, she threw a punch right at his face. He fell back and started to defend himself by kicking his so-called 'mother'.

As Arson was starting to tire out Karen, she said something that froze him in his tracks.

"YOU'RE THE REASON YOUR FATHER LEFT US! YOU'RE FOLLOWING IN HIS IDIOTIC ALPHABET STEPS AND BECOMING JUST LIKE HIM, A MONSTER!"

A/N: Hey look! I finally updated lol. Anyway, hope you like this chapter. Sorry it took so long, I was struggling with a writer's block. :'D So whad'ya guys think about the lovely angst seen today in this chapter? Sad isn't it.. Soo uh hopefully I might be able to actually keep up a consistent update schedule soon. See ya guys next chapter!

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