Henry Is Missing

Identity

Henry was finally able to calm down. The fact it took so long was a surprise to Liam, but he was simply glad Henry was able to.

"How do you feel bud?"

Henry laughed, shook his head, and shrugged. "Not good."

"I could probably guess that."

Henry shoved him lightly, in a light hearted manner of course. But he still managed to make Liam fall onto his side

They both laughed a bit.

"You have to like, stop doing that now," Liam said, still laughing. "You are way stronger than me now."

"Yeah. Remember when I smacked you in the shoulder and you literally fell over?"

"Of course I did."

Henry burst out laughing, nearly doubling over.

While he was busy with his laughing fit, Liam noticed something on the ground. A book maybe? Although he doesn't remember the last time Henry willingly read a regular book on his own time. It had a green hardback cover, and its pages looked yellowed. It wasn't the same notebooo Henry wrote in when he forgave him, that one was much thinner. Plus the cover of this one had odd symbols along the border and the middle.

Never mind that, he had to go.

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Henry picked up the Green book, flipping past all the previous already filled in pages, many of which predated him finding it in a thrift store among all the other ageing diaries. A green hare hopping into his lap as he looked into his first addition to the book.

His personality was made up of his friends', as he had struggled for many years to figure out who he was. Why find out who you are when there are perfectly fine traits right in front of you? It's why he clicked so easily with Liam, he had studied him and when he finally approached he was able to figure out from there what Liam acted like. He had repeated that with Drew and Jake, taking small bits of their personalities until he couldn't take any more without becoming them. The only traits of his that weren't stolen was his awkwardness, love of anime and manga, and love of anything fandom. It was a struggle to find some originality of course, but he got there eventually.

Keeping all his stolen traits in line however was hard, there were simply too many to just remember them. So he had to write down everything. Eventually, his stolen traits became his, and he no longer needed reminders of who he was. Sure, he forgot sometimes, but everyone acts differently in different situations!

His identity was safe and sound, no need for worry!

A/N: got obsessed with NPMD, hope the inspiration doesn't leak too much into the storyline!