No More Freshness

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  Heya. I'm...  I'm going through a rough time; I'm sorry fo' any inconvenience ta y'all.

  Enjoy.

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  "Um, Error brah? I-I don' tink y-yer s'pose ta open dat yet. See- d-dats on part 3, weez on part 2 still." Fresh exclaimed. They were currently trying to make brownies for their mother, as she had been extremely stressed and worried lately. Who wouldn't be, with what has been happening.

  Ink was now awake, but still in the hospital, and Error and Fresh had been allowed out. Fresh had to be closely monitored, though, and couldn't walk. Error visited Ink daily, just as Deccy came by every day to visit Fresh.

  "Yeah, I know, Fresh, but I want to get this done as fast as possible. You can't do it by yourself, and I've got to go in-, " Error looked at the clock on the wall, "an hour, at the greatest. Oh, you need to take your 3:00 pills, you're already late."

  Fresh sighed and coughed before rolling over to the counter. He reached for his medium sized tub that had all of his medicine in it. It was sad, actually: each of the brothers had their own medicine tub.

  The colorful skele grabbed the four bottles that His mother had scrawled '3:00' across the lid of. He had more medicine than both of his bros combined to take, and that didn't even include his arch-enemy: shots. He had to have 4 shots every morning, and he didn't even know why; no one would tell him.

  He took the pills and rolled over to Error, who was looking to be on the verge of smashing a bag of fudge powder. "Th3 D@rN tH!nG wOn+ 0p3n! " he yelled, glitching as his anger took over. Fresh grabbed the bag and opened it with ease, which made Error grumble angrily.

  "Shh, Error brah, yer gonna all up'n wake up ma!" He said, his voice barely getting louder. Error didn't understand how his brother could possibly stay as quiet as he did, but he thought it had something to do with how he rubbed his neck every time he talked for too long or above a whisper. He sighed and nodded.

  "I know, I know. Hey Fresh, has Geno woken up yet?" He asked. The trio had stayed up late watching movies and talking, besides Fresh, who fell asleep before the second movie was finished. Magic deterioration makes a kid sleepy, after all. And extremely pained, but only Fresh knew that part. He suspected that Deccy had figured it out by now, but he wasn't going to say anything. He was already hiding the fact that he had broken their skele-promise, so that was enough.

  Fresh rolled into the living room to see Geno sitting up and staring at the wall. He seemed to be seeing something that wasn't there, but it obviously wasn't good. Geno was crying and looked pale, if that was possible. Fresh rolled faster, ignoring the worsening pain in his empty eye, and grabbed Geno's arm carefully.

  "G-Geno bruh?" Fresh looked into Geno's eye and willed his own eye light to stay still. Though it was still shaky, Fresh focused. Geno freaked out and grabbed Fresh's shirt, lifting him up and glaring at him with a hazed eye light. Fresh cried out in as Geno tightened his grip and rammed Fresh in the chest with his knee. Dust poured out of Fresh's shirt and he willed himself not to cry.

  "E-Error, help.. P-please." Fresh whispered. Geno seemed to come out of his trance as he dropped Fresh and gasped. Tears flooded his eyesockets, and were even worse when Error rushed in to the sound of Fresh's sobs.
  "Geno, what happened? No, tell me later, get Mom!" Error yelled as he picked Fresh up into his lap. The doctors had taught him what he needed to do if Fresh ever began deteriorating faster and their mother wasn't around. While Error didn't know if this was the actual deterioration, he knew that Fresh's ribs were  and mostly gone, so he made sure to keep Fresh from curling in on himself.

  "I know it hurts bro, but that'll hurt worse." He told Fresh before Geno and Cq ran in, telling Error to bring Fresh to the car. Seeing as Fresh was extremely lightweight, this was easy. He rushed out to the car with both of them following after.

  Once in the car, Fresh placed his head on Geno's lap, looking sleepily up at him. Geno looked at him sadly. "I'm so s-sorry brother... " he whispered. Fresh smiled slightly.

  "S-sokies, b-brah, I-I know ya, " Fresh coughed, causing dust to fly out of his mouth, startling Geno and Error both and causing Error to crash. This had been happening allot lately, but it still made Geno cry at seeing both of his brothers so broken. Fresh continued. "I-I know ya din't mean it.."

  Geno looked away and out the window. He couldn't stand to see Fresh still trying to hide his emotions and pain even when they where too obvious to hide.

  Fresh grimaced as they hit a speed bump, and held in a scream. He tried to sit up, but Error held him down.

  "No, bro, you can't do that."

  Fresh would have growled, but they had pulled into the entrance. Error pulled Fresh carefully out of the car and carried him to the entrance.  After the doctors had grabbed Fresh and ran him to a room, Geno looked at Error. Pure fear showed in his expression, but also..

Love.

  Geno hadn't seen that in Error towards Fresh ever before. It was a sight to see, that's for sure. Error caught Geno looking at him and sadly smiled.

  "I made a promise to him as a baby bones. I may have broke it, but I intend to correct that mistake and re-initiate it. Nothing will stop me from that. "

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Exactly 1000 words. I pushed myself ta get dis out.

Sorry if I'm not on much, ya know, answering late, things like that. I try to answer everything I can, but... 

Things can change faster than you think.

One day, you can be sitting in your room, doing nothing.

The next, your in a hospital room for the 8th time that month.

Slot happens, so hold on to whatever you have, even if it's not much. Trust me..

-Oopa out..