Earth

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"Earth, this might sound a bit strange, but why don't you sleep on Luna's bed?" Jupiter asked as the group of grown-ups and Earth stood in the corridor which connecting all the kids rooms.

"Well, I'm 14 and Luna's 11, we're different heights," Earth explained.

"Okay, all we need to do is move Luna to his bed," Saturn said, "right? Right?"

"Saturn," Jupiter said grabbed his husband shoulder, "We have been on earth for less than a day and Venus fell out of his bed, Luna got knocked over by Phonos and Deimos, we discovered we're married, and Helios became a criminal. What part of this make you think anything will be easy?"

"I haven't willing become a criminal," Helios argued before putting the phone into his pocket, "but I don't regret it."

"Get off!" came a yell from Mars' bedroom.

Mars stomped out of his bedroom almost as red as the planet.

"Phobos and Deimos wouldn't get off my bed," he complained.

"Can't you just pick them up - they're dogs?" Helios asked, half patronising, half confused.

"Why don't you do that then?" Mars snarked back, truly annoyed.

"Fine, then I will," Helios said, giving Mars the death stare.

Helios went into Mars' bedroom with Mars following him while Saturn, Jupiter and Earth went into Earth's bedroom.

Earth's room had a brown carpet with a green mat on the floor. The sides of the room were blue with dots of white and the ceiling was black with star constellation decorating it. The bed was in the middle of the room and had Luna sprawled out on it. Earth looked at the parents before grabbing two books of the shelf and hitting them together.

Luna didn't move an inch.

"How did he not wake up?" Saturn asked. Earth shrugged his shoulder.

"Let me get the brush from the bathroom," Jupiter said.

"I am going to go and grab a pot from the kitchen," Saturn said.

"Or we could just pick him up?" Earth suggested to an empty room before looking at Luna, "Nah that screw face stole my bed, let him have it."

Jupiter walked into the room with the electric toothbrush and held it to Luna's ear.

No movement.

Saturn walked into the room with a pot and hit it.

No movement.

Helios came in with two dogs and put them on Luna.

No movement.

"If I couldn't see his chest rise, I would think he was dead," Jupiter said.

"No, Luna's just a very heavy sleeper," Earth replied before contemplating.

"What is it Earth?" Saturn asked.

Helios had left after dumping the dogs on Luna, he was probably asleep by now, lucky guy.

Earth had a mischievous smile on his face and ran off.

"Should we be concerned about that?" Saturn asked.

Jupiter had no clue at this point.

"Sorry, just need to grab something," Earth said, re-entering the room with a bunch of wet tissues.

"What are you going to do, Earth?" Jupiter asked.

"This," Earth said as he rinsed the tissues above Luna's head, making him wake up with a start.

"Ehh, wha?" Luna mumbled, blinking.

"Get out," Earth said.

"Ehh?" Luna mumbled.

"Jupiter can you carry Luna to his room?" Earth asked, almost shoving his younger brother out of bed.

"We could have done that the whole time," Jupiter muttered as he and Saturn left the room.

"Not as fun though," Earth whispered to no-one.

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