Returning home

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     " it's been bothering you hasn't it?" 
" what has?"
   " being back here and not going to see your old home,"
   " haven't thought about it at all, now go back to sleep spirit,"   I brushed off the coment, but he had been right, I have been wanting to go back there, wishing I could find something I used to have, or at least see my mom again, but for me to go there after so long and find out they had died in that crash would be too much for me.  

    ~ beep beep beep~  the alarm clock  not even bothering me, but someone don't like it because it was thrown against a wall shortly after, the crash waking us all up. Sluggishly everyone got dressed and got something to eat, we had planned on helping with a special assignment today, but she doesn't remember what it was right now, how we live around Niya and not go insane is beyond me. Claire uses the portal stone to get us there, but I wasn't ready for what was waiting on the other side. We had appeared on a roadside, Claire told us that a stray gateway has been there for months, and we had to figure out why. She had just started to analyze the portal when a sense of déjà vu hit me, along with an Eire feeling in my stomach, one that felt all too familiar.   I walked up the hill to the road to read the sign, not only did I know this place, I crashed I this place, it was my hometown. "I know why it's here," Claire just looked at me confused, "this is where I had first crossed into the other world." Claire walked up to me almost seeming as if to help comfort, but she grabbed one arm and twisted it behind me back, and Niya had her daggers to the sides of my throat. " what are y'all doing?" " open your mouth," I was confused but slowly did as told and Claire looked and then let me go," what the hell was that about?" " the only things known to pass through a stray gateway are reapers, and if that was the case then you were going to become an enemy, but you didn't seem to have darkness in you," " what darkness," Niya chimmed in quickly," the back of their mouths have this black space were it's like a black hole that they use to devour familiars." We had waited for Sophie to get to us, she came with a strange little pendant around her neck, she released her fire and the pendant glowed, her flames changed into a dark blue hue, and surrounded the gateway, it crisscrossed around it and sealed it up. " hey I got an idea lets get somthing to eat," Niya always was hungry after an assignment, but I didn't want anyone here to recognize me," hey why not just head back," Claire seemed to catch my discomfort but she was hungry too, and she isn't the most reasonable when hungry.

     I had remembered a good Mexican place that I had never eaten at so I won't be noticed by the workers, " how about burritos, there is a taco hut near the square."   They just kinda nodded and walked along, occasionally I had to duck down out of sight and put up my hood so I didn't get noticed.   We got to the square and had to wait for the slowest light ever to change so that we could run across, just as my foot touched the sidewalk, the door to the taco hut opened and my old friend walked out.   "Hey dude watsup?"  I froze and didn't have anywhere to go, so I look up and wave, " seriously dude pick one hair color," he said as he walked off waving, both confused and slightly wondering why he didn't freak, I followed Niya and Claire into the restraunt. " so how did that guy know you," " we were friends back before everythig, but he didn't act like I've been gone, more like he had seen me recently," we ate and I had been mostly quiet while I was trying to think about what had just happened, having to avoid some hot sauce as Niya attacks her food like a crazed animal. " hey you guys, do you think while we are here I could go by my old house," they looked at me in shock of the question, then kinda glanced at each other,"you havnt been here for months, are you sure it's all still there," Niya said just before Claire punched her on the arm to shut her up, " look we can't tell you that your not aloud to, but we know that it isn't exactly safe if everyone there thinks your dead," " I won't go in, I just want to see it again," they nodded and we finished up our food before heading out.

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