To the moon and back •a zodiac story•

Home within a day (Ch. 35)

"And I can go anywhere I want, anywhere I want, just not home"
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!BLOOD AND DEATH MENTIONING IN THIS CHAPTER!

NO ONES POV (???):
What... what does it mean to feel comfort? This was only a word Aries assumed was often misleading and overrated to the reality.

com·fort
/ˈkəmfərt/
: A state of physical ease and freedom from pain or constraint.

Seemed pretty silly to him. The thought of someone putting in so much effort for someone else would be inevitably useless.

And yet, it was what he craved. To feel the grand feeling of being at ease and free from any and all pain.

To no surprise, Aries was not one to open up to this and admit his thoughts of this to anyone. He was guarded....

Aries grew up in a busy household from the second he entered it for the first time to the last time he left it. He had a total of 8 siblings, two parents with full time jobs and himself.

As the oldest sibling that still lived in the household, he grew up as an independent boy, caring for his younger siblings as if they were his kids.

The few times that their parents were home, they would often be too tired to talk to the children or were simply too busy to help.

Aries had an distinct memory from the round age of 12 years old. His parents were both home, weirdly enough, and had gotten into a rather aggressive fight, accusing either adult of being a bad parent.

As things began to escalate, Aries would slickly and quietly round up the 5 younger siblings and would lead them to the furthest room from which their parents were.

There, he would close the door and lock it shut before sitting down in the corner, hugging the younger 5 close to him.

Aries was good at this, being a source of comfort... but more importantly, who was there to comfort him?

No one. Was the answer. Aries knew this all too well. Too this day, he would often find himself in a corner by himself when feeling any kind of negative emotion, only having himself to hug him.

This, to no surprise was seen as a concern for the rest of the zodiacs that lived with him considering that they had no way of helping their dear friend.

But now... in this moment, Aries couldn't do anything. He couldn't just go sit in a corner until he felt better.

For, in front of him stood the one and only Lyra. The girl brought back deep, supposably surpassed memories to him.

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Blood... this was blood.

The blood of a loved one, smeared all over his now dirtied face.

Horror.

"W-Wh-What" Aries stuttered.

His mother, the women of absence in his life, lay quietly on the hard wooden floors.

She was quiet, so extremely quiet, enough that you could not have heard the beating of her heart if you listened closely enough.

For it no long beat.

His pale skinned face, slowly lifted to the eyes of a murderer. He faced death himself as he stared it in the eyes.

Then, there was a girl, one standing slyly behind the tall figure of the criminal, one soulless enough to rid his entire family of existence, except for him.

A grin spread from one cheek bone to the over with manic in her eyes.

Aries couldn't speak, words he wanted to say never came out. "W...w...why" was all he could manage to get out.