The Mental Project

Chapter 1: Boxten's not Boxtening

"AAAHHH!!!!"

Glisten's eyes snapped open as he heard the scream of a certain music box toon echo through the halls and rang in his ears. Just another night of Boxten screaming his head off after he woke up from a nightmare per usual..."SHUT UP!!!!"Shrimpo yelled out as he stomped out of his room and into the hallway. Soon everyone, including the ones upstairs, all came down and started to yell and scold Boxten for waking up the whole dang building.

Glisten rolled his eyes and went back inside his room. Before his door closed, he could see Boxten's face. His eyes were guilt ridden and fearful, tears pricked his eyes. Glisten almost felt bad for the music box...Glisten collapsed onto his bed and covered his ears with earmuffs. The silence lulled him into a peaceful sleep.

[Day 1 of subject showing symptoms]

Everyone was waiting at the table in the kitchen, besides Shrimpo complaining about having to wake up so early for breakfast and Toodles having a screaming and gambling for items match with Gigi and Poppy, everything seemed decent. Well...besides the fact that Boxten's seat was empty. Gigi took and chocolate bar out of her head and raised an eyebrow while looking at the empty chair, "Isn't Box boy supposed to be here by now? I thought he would've woken up by now." Everyone murmured in agreement, it was a little odd that Boxten wasn't here. But maybe he'd just overslept...

Boxten finally came to the table, his face was less than 'my sleep was mid because I got a cramp when I turned around'. He had faint bags under his eyes and instead of his regular purple t-shirt, he wore a red hoodie. Everyone's eyes darkened when they saw the hoodie, they knew what that meant when he wore it...he cut himself again...

Vee rolled her eyes and sighed, "Boxten you know the drill, roll up your sleeves please." Boxten growled at her and sat down to drink a cup of coffee. "I didn't cut myself again Vee, I just felt cold this morning." Dandy let out a sigh and looked at him, "Boxten please, we know why you're wearing the hoodie. You're not fooling anyone." Boxten stiffened and glared at Dandy but reluctantly rolled up both of his sleeves, there were no new cuts after all, just the old scars of his old cuts.

"See? Does that satisfy you? Does it make you feel better about yourself?" Boxten questioned coldly and bitterly as he pulled his sleeves down and continued to nurse his coffee. Dandy folded his arms and narrowed his eyes at Boxten's tone, "Ok, then why were you here late?"

"I overslept."

"Those bags under your eyes begs to differ."

"I don't know why they were there, I slept fine." Shrimpo sighed loudly, "I HATE-"

"Oh my [*BLEEP*]ing God Shrimpo can you ŞĦŨȚ ŲP?!" Everyone let out a soft gasp as Boxten's eyes went wide, "I-I didn't mean-" "Go." Boxten looked at Dandy in confusion, "Wha-" "GO." "Fine..."Boxten's voice cracked slightly as he stormed off, small tears pricked his eyes as he went into his room and closed the door.

"What the hell....why did I say that?! I didn't mean to I just...." Boxten let out a sigh and laid down on his bed.

"No one cares about me.....they never cared about me..."

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Started a new series to kinda replace the Piggy's world au a little bit, this isn't really fanon to the Shattered Mirror series btw. And also 'CHOOSE YOUT CHARACTER' Is out! Please vote on who will be the main character, Rodger or Glisten?