Grey Axaeus

Collin 2

Writer's note: This isn't exactly what I hinted at in the "Next Time," portion of the last part, but I was writing along and I was like, "This is enough for a part by itself!" Sooo, here it is!

Grey Axaeus

By: 8R3D_P3N

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Collin 2

Collin woke up to a series of loud, blaring beeps the next morning. He reached his hand out, his face still buried into his pillow, searching for his alarm clock. He took a guess and moved his hand downward, but he didn’t find the clock. He instead plunged his hand into what felt like a lot of soft, animal fur. He lay still, feeling the strange hair, until he finally gave up wondering what it was and turned to look at his hand. He jumped back a bit as he saw the strange being that called himself Axaeus sitting in front of his nightstand, Collin’s hand lying on top of his head, feeling his hair. Axaeus simply reached his own hand up and clicked the snooze button down, silencing the alarm.

Collin took his hand away from Axaeus’s head and brought it back under his blanket. “Have you been sitting there all night?” Collin asked him.

“What else would I do?” Axaeus questioned back. Collin sat up in his bed, his hair slightly messy from the sleep. “What do you do now?” Axaeus asked.

“Now I get up,” Collin turned to sit on the edge of his bed, “and take a shower.”

“Shower,” Axaeus repeated, the same way he had repeated the word “Sleep,” the night before.

“Yeah,” Collin confirmed, standing up and walking over to his dresser, pulling one of the drawers open. “The bathroom is over there,” Collin pointed to an open door on one of the walls, and Axaeus looked over at it. He stood up and walked slowly over into it. Collin then heard various sounds come from it—the faucet turning on a few times, the shower turning on and off, and eventually a toilet flush.

Axaeus walked out with a puzzled look on his face, muttering under his breath, “Strange…” He looked at Collin, now holding his clothes for the day. “The shower is a place to clean your body?” Axaeus questioned further.

“Yup,” Collin answered, walking past him into the bathroom. When Collin turned to shut the door, he noticed Axaeus standing in the doorway. “Uhm… I’d kinda prefer to be alone to do this.”

“Oh, right.” Axaeus stepped back, “Since I already know what you’re going to do, it’d be a waste of time to watch you.”

“Y-…yeah, that’s it.” Collin granted Axaeus the wish of being correct, as he closed the bathroom door. Collin took a deep breath as he turned around and started undressing. Sure, it seemed as though Axaeus was just curious, but he could see how he might become a nuisance one day. Where did Axaeus come from? Had he never been in the human world before? Why else would he be asking the simplest questions about what a shower is?

All of these thoughts circled around Collin’s head as he stepped into the shower and began to clean himself of the previous day’s filth.

After he finished his shower and got dressed again, Collin stepped out of his bathroom. In an instant he noticed that Axaeus was no longer in the room. He turned his head back and forth, and then started to pace around the room, but he was gone. A practically full grown adult couldn’t hide in his room. Collin looked back into the bathroom, thinking that maybe he snuck in, but he couldn’t find him. Collin panicked for a quick second, and then relaxed. Maybe the being left back to the fourth dimension or wherever it was that he came from. Maybe he could go back to living his life normally.