~°Cosmic Heroes short stories°~

¬°Cosmos' Childhood°¬

(Context: Cosmos is 8 and is born without markings)

"Wake up hunny. You've got school." A female voice said. "Ngnnn..." Cosmos grunted sleepily. Cosmos really didn't want to go to school. He hated it so much. "Can I stay absent today, please?" He begged as he slowly sat up. He rubbed his eyes anr loker at his mom. "Sorry baby, but you were absent yesterday. I don't want your grades to drop any lower. It's Friday, just one more day." She tried to reassure him.

He sighed sadly. "Okay." With that his mother left to go get his lunch ready. Cosmos got out of bed and left to the bathroom to brush his teeth. He looked at himself in the mirror with a frown. "I wish I didn't look like this...I look awful..." He grabbed his toothbrush and spread toothpaste on the brush.

He brushed his teeth without looking at himself in the mirror. All he was nothing, but a disgrace. When he finished he washed his brush and rinsed his mouth. He walked out of the restroom and back into his room to change into casual clothing. He lastly put on his socks and shoes and left his room. He made his way to the kitchen where his mom was packing up lunch. "Hey sweetie. I made you're favorite for lunch." She showed him his lunch box. "Oooh! Macaroni and cheese!" He said as his mood lightened a bit.

She closed his lunch box and packed into his backpack. He got his things together and made his way over to the door. His mother followed. She bent over to kiss him on the cheek. "Bye sweetie, hope you have a good day at school." Cosmos kissed her on the cheek. "Thanks mom! Love you!" He said running off to catch the bus. "Love you Cosmos." She smiled. The bus opened the doors to allow him inside.

Once he got on he immediately searched for his best friend. "Cosmos! Over here!" Aura, his best and only friend called out to him. He quickly made his way over to her. She scooted her and her backpack over to let him sit down. "I brought the stuff" She whispered to him evilly as she began to open her backpack. "Noooo you didn't." He said in somewhat disbelief. She pulled out a small stack of lined paper and few crayons. 

"Hehehe...we can make paper poppers, fortune tellers. OOH OOH we can play Charlie Charlie!" She whispered at that last part. "But that game is cursed!" He gave a concerned look. "Awe but it wil be fun!" She laughed. "If it makes you feel better we can just play Tic Tac Toe instead?" She suggested. He nodded and grabbed a purple crayon.

"X or O?" Cosmos asked as he set up the game. Aura grabbed a red crayon. "Mmmm...O!" She said. Cosmos drew and X on the top left side of the square. Aura drew an O in the middle. This game continued on for about 17 minutes before they ended up with 2 full pages of Tic Tac Toe.

"AW C'MON YOU WON BY 1 POINT? I WAS SO CLOSE!" Aura raged almost breaking her crayon. "You won last time played, its only fair I win this time." He laughed. The bus came to a halt which almost made the two children fall forward. "I really don't wanna get off...can't we just hide in here till school's over?" Cosmos sank into the seat as other kids started getting off.

"They'll find us in here. You know that. Remember the older kids who tried it?" She began to pack her stuff up. Cosmos put on his backpack. "Yeah..." He said in a sad tone. They got up from their seats and followed the other children. "Y'know if they ever give you trouble you can always have me help. Those suckers need to be put in their place!" She said hitting her fist against her hand like she was punching something.

They got off the buss and walked into the building. "I know, but you can get hurt, they're pretty mean." The two children began walking to their class. "I can be pretty mean too!" She punched his shoulder in a playful manner. "Ow!" He laughed at the remark. Once they made it to the classroom, they placed their backpacks on the chairs and went to pick up their breakfast and sit at the back of the class.