Slime-Cycle (Humble Beginnings)

11. A 'little' trouble

Charlie laid comfortably in bed. The only noises made were the quiet shuffles of charlie under his covers.

The clock by his side read 11:46. He had gone to bed after a strange day at both work and home. The cause of those strange occurrences laid in bed along with him, waiting for the perfect time to come out.

After a moment, the same thing that had happened the night before reacurred. His blanket, slowly shuffled it's way away from his body, and off the bed.

Once again, a slimy tendril stretched from Charlie's body over to the blanket. Now out in the open, it slowly slinked back towards charlie, slipping under his shirt and disappearing.

A moment later, green liquid began covering him. It wrapped around his arms and over his chest. Eventually enveloping him whole, completely covering his body.

After a second, two black beads blinked open in place of eyes. In an instant, a shirt, shoes, hair and a full set of clothes appeared over the figure of slime. A stick popped out of its head as it sat up straight on the bed.

Slimecicle sat there for a moment, before a goofy smile made it's way onto their face.

They looked around for a moment before shuffling over to the side of the bed, making sure to try and keep his residue to a minimum. They looked down towards the floor, and at the green splotches in which he placed their feet last night.

A contemplating look covered his expression, "hmmm. Charlie noticed the mess I left last night, which isnt good, since I'm trying to be discrete." They monolouged to themself.

He leaned forward and put a hand to his chin, "do I have anything that would keep me from leaving traces..." he asked themself.

They sat there for a moment, just thinking about what they might have that would help their predicament. After a second, Their face lit up as a smile appeared over their expression.

They put their hands on the edges of the bed to support themselves as they lifted their feet. The slime making up his feet moved and warped, then, from it appeared a set of yellow slippers in the design of an animal called pikachu.

"There we go!" They said with a smile as they placed their feet on the ground. For a moment, he sat there wiggling his toes in the slippers, a goofy smile covering his face.

They stood after a second, looking down at their feet to make sure everything was in order. He smiled, looked up and walked out of the bedroom.

As they walked out of the bedroom, they looked over the rest of Charlie's apartment. The blue night light shining through the balconys glass door was almost soothing. But, slime didnt need soothing, hes fine!

They continued toward the balcony door, stopping a foot infront of it. He slowly looked around at his surroundings, "watcher,.." he began. "I'm just going to go for a walk. Nothing more." They paused. "I promise I'll be careful, and also discrete."

They stayed silent for a moment, "yeah hes definetly fine with it." They concluded with a smile. Stepping toward the door, he opened it and stepped out onto the balcony.

Slowly closing the door behind him, he inhaled as they turned to the rest of the city. He had a content smile on his face, being outside was always enjoyable for him. Although he would have preferred to be in the woods they knew so well from about 300 hundred years ago. For now this was good enough.

Looking around, they walked over to the edge of the metal balcony. Placing their hands on the railing, they leaned over the edge to look at the ground. After a second they leaned back again and looked down at the slippers covering their feet.