Wish You Were Here

Wake Up

The brothers surrounded themselves around the diamond panicking. No one knew what to do.

"Oh gosh!" Out from behind the sound system came Crimp's voice. She rushed over to the diamonds and took the cap off of Floyd and then Branch's because Velvet wasn't able to punish her now. John pulled Floyd out and supported his head with his hand. My heart was shattering at the sight of his lifeless body.

"I built the hideout Floyd. Except for the ten story water slide." God please no. I dropped to my knees beside Floyd and buried my face into his neck while I cried heavy amounts of tears. Someone's hand was rubbing circles on my back while the only thing heard was my sobs. Why does this world hate me? Why did it have to take my best friend from me?

"But... how will we shower?"

"Floyd!" Cheers were heard and I shot my head back up to see Floyd's eyes open and his body gaining its color back. My sad sobs turned into joyful tears as I threw myself back onto him with a hug.

"You can't do that to me you asshole!" He tightly reciprocated my hug by sitting up and wrapping one arm around my torso and one behind my head.

"I'll never leave you again, Veneer." I heard Viva and Poppy 'aww' at us but I let myself untangle from Floyd so he could have some time with his brothers. I stood up and placed my hands out so he could use me as a crutch to support himself back up.

"Can you stand?" He looked at me with an adorable smile and giggled.

"Not even five minutes and you're already taking care of me again." Before I could say anything, his brothers all brought Floyd into a group hug and I took this as my opportunity to look for my sister. I saw her fall off the platform but I didn't see her hit the ground or hear any kind of crash, where is she?

I walked up the stairs and saw a pile of clothing which consisted of all the same items Velvet was wearing. My hands dug through the pile until I saw something that made my eyes widen. It was my sister but she was back to being a Troll again. Her body was unconscious and she had an open wound on her ankle presumably from the needle I stabbed her with. Her hair was in a slicked back ponytail that curled on the end, and she wore nothing but a white bodysuit.

"Velvet, come on. Wake up." I gently shook her body in hopes of her simply waking up. I know she's alive because her chest is still rising up and down. Poppy appeared behind me and looked over my shoulder to see Velvet.

"So this is your sister?" Velvet wasn't waking up and I'm giving up trying to wake her. She wasn't going to budge but I can't just leave her here. Besides, she's a troll now, she can't do anything to us.

"Poppy, could we possibly... bring her back with us?" Poppy opened her mouth to speak against me but closed it after agreeing.

"I guess she's not much of a threat anymore. But, if anything happens, you have to take responsibility. Deal?" I shook her hand and placed Velvet on my back so the three of us could go back to the brothers. When we got closer, John was the first to point out the new troll that I was carrying.

"Who's tha- WOAH?! Is that her!?" An awkward expression was on my face because to them, I was carrying their kidnapper but to me, it was my sister.

"Guy's, Velvet his sister, don't worry." Floyd's words shocked me. I'm sorry, he knew? What?

"Veneer, explain later. We need to get back home." Bruce gave me some time to figure out a story when he said that, thank god. I don't even know how to start explaining to them. Floyd walked over to me and whispered.

"I learned so much about you from her." I raised an eyebrow at what he said because what else was there besides Velvet being my sister?

"Oh yeah? Like what?"

"Like when were you ever going to tell me that you were a Nepo baby?" He smirked and my face flushed. Shit, I almost forgot about that. I was only on stage for about a year or two of my life with Velvet and I hated almost every second of it except for the beginning. In order to make Floyd feel what I was feeling, I teasingly threw a comment back at him.

"And I learned something about you too through Crimp. Apparently, according to you, I'm a cutie~" I was now walking away from Floyd to let him resonate with the knowledge I now had so I didn't get to see his reaction, I just know it was a good one.

Everyone got back into Rhonda with Floyd being the last one. I laid Velvet down on a couch and no one was daring to go near her. Understandable I guess. I sat on one of the other couches near the back and Floyd sat down right next to me. John, followed by everyone else, came over to me expecting an explanation. Poppy and Branch already knew the story but they still sat down in front of me. I feel like a daycare attendant about to read a book to a bunch of children. I cleared my throat and began

"As we all now know, Velvet is my twin sister. John, the night you found me, it was the day after I ran away from her."

"Why'd you run away?" Clay tilt his head which made me giggle. Not only did it feel like I was talking to children, they all looked so intrigued like a curious child.

"Me and her had a fight because she found out I refused to go on a TV show with her that would've made us more famous than we already were. We were both child singers and it was fun at first, but about 2 months in, I began to hate every second of it. During the fight, she threw a chair at me and I got scared and ran." A few gasps were heard upon hearing that my own flesh and blood would do something like that. She may have done that to me but because I was so young when it happened, I forgive her. I sort of got over all of this a long time ago. She definitely held onto that grudge though and told me through that song of hers.

I continued my story and told all of the brothers about some of Branch's embarrassing moments while I watched him cover his face. I told them about the time I caught him making out with Poppy 'in secret' and the time when he turned into a rock zombie. Near the end of my stories, I felt a weight on my shoulder. Floyd had fallen asleep and was resting his head against me. I think everyone took this as their queue to leave because they all got up and went off to do their own thing.

I shift my body to get more comfortable and Floyd fell off my shoulder and face first into my lap. Okay then. There was a book on the seat next to me so I picked it up and started reading it while petting his head in order to kill time. We're not too far from Troll Village so I'll have to wake him back up soon.

About twenty minutes passed and Rhonda, who was still being driven by Tiny, came to a stop. I placed the book back down and watched everyone leave. I used a hand to shake Floyd awake but he just whined and nuzzled his nose into my stomach.

"Nooo..."

"Have you been awake this whole time?" I looked down to see his sleeping face slowly upturn into a smirk because he clearly couldn't contain it.

"That's it." I stood up making him fall off the couch and release a yelp while he landed onto the floor. He sleepily rubbed his eyes and yawned with a stretch.

"Morning, sunshine." He was making direct eye contact with me and had a smile spread across his face. My heart skipped a beat while I observed him. Almost all the color in his body came back despite a few white parts on his roots. If I'm planning on taking Velvet to the hospital, I may as well drag him along with me and see if Doctor Moonbloom can run a few tests.

Velvet was still unconscious on the couch where I left her so I grabbed her and placed her on my back again. Floyd stood up and followed behind me as we made our entrance into Troll Village.

It's just now occurring to me that I have my best friend back and he isn't going anywhere.