A Small Glitch

Closet Man

"Ann! Ann get back here!" Anti called as he chased after the little girl, winter coat in his hands.

"Never!" Annalise giggled, glitching away from Anti when he got close.

"Oh, we're playing that game." Anti chuckled before glitching as well.

"Glitch!" Annalise said before glitching again.

"Just put your jacket on!" Anti huffed. The two ended up glitching all around the house, landing in the bedrooms, the bathrooms, the kitchen, the dining room, the library. They glitched everywhere but the office and basement since Annalise knew she wasn't allowed there.

"What are you two doing?" Dark asked when Anti and Annalise ended up in the living room, green and orange pixels falling from the sky like snowflakes. "The bus is going to be here any second now."

"I'm trying to put Ann's jacket on, but somebody doesn't want it." Anti gave Annalise a playful glare.

"Annalise. Jacket. Now." Dark ordered in a soft tone.

"Okay, papa." Annalise said, taking the jacket from Anti and slipping it on.

"Now, that's just rude." Anti pouted, sitting down on the ground.

"You know that you're not supposed to be glitching unless it's an emergency, right?" Dark said to Annalise.

"Yes, papa." Annalise nodded.

"Why does she listen to you in the morning?" Anti was still pouting.

"We're just doing good cop, bad cop. Sometimes bad cop wins." Dark chuckled as he held out his hand, helping Anti to his feet.

"Bus here, bus here!" Annalise cheered as she looked out the screen door.

"We're coming." Anti said as he and Dark took Annalise's hand and lead her out of the house.

"Hello, Mr. and Mr. Powell." The bus worker greeted the two men after they reached the bus.

"Morning, Pam." Dark watched as Annalise climbed up the bus steps.

"Hey, Pammy." Anti noticed that the worker was giving him a strange look. "Something wrong?"

"Your eyes are green." Pam said.

"I..."

"You left your colored contacts in again. I told you that you need to make sure they're out when we leave the house, it's great for advertisements on the TV, but outside of that it looks weird." Dark chuckled, giving Anti a pat on the back.

"Oh, my bad." Anti's laugh was a little forced.

"Bye, daddy! Bye, papa!" Annalise yelled from her seat, waving.

"Bye, Annalise." Dark said while Anti waved both arms, making the girl giggle.

"We'll see you later." Pam said before going to her seat and the bus leaving.

"You left your eyes green?" Dark sighed the moment the bus was gone.

"We were glitching a lot." Anti protested.

"Annalise's eyes didn't go orange." Dark said as the two of them headed back into the house.

"Did they?" Anti and Dark both stopped at Anti's question.

"I didn't check." Dark said with fear in his voice.

"Shit! How do we explain orange eyes on our child? She doesn't wear colored contacts, she can't, she's three!"

"There has to be a way to check." Dark started running his hands through his hair. "The camera!"

"The camera?" Anti paused. "The camera!" Dark didn't get to say more before Anti was gone.