Royals Highschool (NEW) / empires S1/ Wither husbands

Chapter 7 - oh no people (pt.2)

Fwhip pov:

"How about everyone introduces themselves? Like with kingdom and everything?" Sausage asked the group. "I kinda lost track at this point in time. And it would be great to have everyone memorised by Kingdom and name" he added smiling sheepishly. He looked so embarrassed. I couldn't stop myself from chuckling at him. Very quiet and hidden of course. But I think he picked up on it. I looked around and saw Pearl and Gem glancing at Sausage giving each other a mischievous look while doing so. They can't be up to anything good.

This seems like Sausage's problem.

I started looking at the others at the table. Everyone was nodding at Sausage's idea and looking at each other to see who will start. Sausage's idea was great. I couldn't remember anyone's name. They kept looking at each other for almost 5 seconds until someone just decided to start the chain. He started off with a lot of confidence.

"Hello I am Joel Beans. I'm from Mezalea. And this is my wonderful girlfriend" he said pointing at the fish girl while smiling at her. She understood what she had to do and immediately started introducing herself.

"Hello i am Lizzy Shadow-Solidarity from the Ocean empire. Im half axolotl and im the older sibling" the pink haired girl said.

"Technically twins actually. We hatched from eggs. I am Jimmy Solidarity-Shadow. Same as Lizzy from the ocean empire. Even though I will be taking over the cod side of our empire because I'm a Cod hybrid" the boy introduced himself. Almost as if he felt the need to tell everyone he isn't younger than his sister. Of course. I would also not want to be the younger sibling. That would mean constant annoyance from the older sibling. Luckily I'm older than Gem. So I'm the annoying older sibling. Even though Gem acts more adulty.

"I'm Scott Major. I'm from Rivendell. I'm an elve with ice magic" the cyan haired boy introduced himself. Showing of his Magic by making a few ice sparks. He looked like Elsa doing that, reminding me of the days I spent having sleepovers with Gem, watching movies having fun. And a non dysfunctional family.
Scott pointed at his brother next.

"I'm his twin. Xornoth. My magic is powerful, but we still haven't gotten an idea what the magic is called" he said unamused and a bit annoyed at his brother. His expression showed he was rather bored.

"Im Joey Grace. Im a parrot hybrid. I'm from the Lost empire." the boy said. The moment he finished that sentence he turned to look at Xornoth again. Why is he so obsessed with him ? He's a jerk. How could anyone be obsessed with a jerk ?

"Where's that ?" Asked the fairy. Looking curious. Joey looked away from Xornoth (with an eye roll mind you) and back at the group.

"Near Mangrovia" he tried explaining the location now "it's in the jungle? Like if Mangrovia is here and the jungle is here then the Lost empire is there" he started pointing at different places on the table trying to explain about where it is.

The rest nodded as if they understood it, I in fact did not. "Anyways please continue" said Joey, trying to dismiss his bad cartography skills.

"I'm Sausage Myth from Mythland. I can control dark magic" Sausage told the group. Magic? Wow. Magic is. It's amazing!
TO STUDY!! I could study Sausage! Yes magic is not cool or anything... It's just weird and unpredictable and it tears families apart. Who would like that. Pff not me. Who cares about magic. Maybe he can help me with my research though...

"I'm Pearl from Gilded Helianthia. I am the farming princess at the moment" she smiled at the group.

"I'm Gemini Tay of the Crystal Cliffs. I'm a wizard." My sister said proudly. Imagine being proud of being the principals kid. What a nerd.

"I'm Fwhip Grimm of the Grimlands. Yea." This made many people turn their attention to me. Oh no. I looked around and even the neighbouring tables stopped chatting and turned to look at our group. Saying I wanted to disappear was an understatement. I sunk back in my chair. It was as if everyone was too stunned to speak. Why me? Why does this always happen to me ?

"Continue on" Gem said looking at Pix. I felt so much gratitude towards Gem. Her wanting to shift the attention away was so nice. Maybe we could really be siblings again?

"Oh yes. I am Pixl Riffs. I'm from Pixandria or the Copper empire" he smiled looking at the next person in line to introduce themselves. In a way to say: your turn.

"I'm Kathrine Blossom. I'm from house Blossom. My magic is I can magically sprout flowers." She showed it off by planting a little flower in the middle of the table. In a vase of course. Surprisingly I never noticed it being there. What's even more surprising is that it was an empty vase with only water in it. What were mom and Gem thinking? What kind of design choice was this ?

Gem was fazed and excited. Of course she would be. There were new people with cool magic types. She loves meeting new people and there's basically nothing she wants more than to learn about different magic types. How can she be so social ?

"I'm Shubble or Shelby Berry from the Undergrove. I can sprout mushrooms. And I know how to cook" she said proudly. Being able to cook is something really special though. Not many people in our age group can do that.

"Then you'll be our cook!" Lizzy decided on saying. It sounded way too serious but also not serious at all. Like a royal declaring something as important or special.

"We still need a cook, don't we ?" Sausage asked Pearl, Gem and me. They nodded and laughed I just nodded.

"So let me understand this again. How many sibling pairs do we have ?" Joel asked the group. He sounded a bit surprised because there were quite a few. I don't think this is too normal either.

"2" was Scott's answer. Only counting him and Xornoth and the Fish siblings.

"No" Gem said. Immediately. What? No.
Gem don't be stupid. My expression must have shown my thoughts cause Sausage immediately looked at me in a worried way.

"Wait we have Xornoth and Scott, Lizzy and Jimmy. Who else ?" Joey said almost mockingly. He didn't get why Gem disagreed. Lucky for me.

"Well- " She started. I could see where this was heading. I tried looking at her in a way to tell her not to say anything. But decided to hide under my hoodie in the end. My hands were shaking and fiddling with the strings of the hoodie. I could hear my heart beat and a ringing in my ear. Oh no this can't be happening. This is it. I don't want people to know about the family problems or that I was left behind. I don't want questions. My breaths became faster and I almost didn't hear Sausage speak up.

„— was nice talking to you —school starts early —Goodnight! — see — tomorrow! Let's go —" Sausage said quickly. Too quickly. I didn't understand most of it. It still sounded so muffled. Like a faint ringing. Almost like blood rushing through my ears at too high speeds to hear anything. But he managed to stop Gem before she could say any more. He came closer to me and smiled at me. He touched my hands to stop me from fiddling. „Everything is alright" he whispered before grabbing my hands softly and pulling me along, away from the table.

Pearl and Gem were glancing at each other before saying goodbye and following close behind.

A mumbled "Thanks" is all I could say. I wasn't even able to look him into the eyes. Instead I stared at our intertwined hands. How embarrassing. He's so nice and does something like that to help me and i can't even look at him.

"No problem" he responded trying to sound happy and cheerful. I'm pretty sure I saw a frown meant for gem before. A calmer expression probably being on his face as we walked towards our room. In a quick pace.

"You need to talk this through with Gem. You are clearly feeling uncomfortable when it comes to telling others about how you're related" I nodded and looked back at the ground

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The Fandoms website is saving me tbh.
Sorry for taking so long to update. I'm actually thinking of switching up the upload dates to once a month. What do yall think about that ?

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