Cycles

Part 2: Into

A/N: If you're reading this chapter before the first... well, why? Go back! This directly continues off of the first one so... yeah. This chapter in particular is what gives this story its rating and warnings so... if you don't like that... turn baaack... Ahem.

'Famous scientist Dr Jeffrey Andonuts proposes to local celebrity and teacher Paula Polestar Jones.'

That was the phrase which echoed through Ness's head.

Huh. Huh.

Huh. Yeah... yeah... you know, that's cool. Yeah, yeah, it's nice... it's nice that Jeff could take care of her. It's great, that Jeff has fame, and, and the money, and, and loads of friends, and love, and now the person that Ness loved with all his heart... it's okay, it's fiiine —

It was not.

In fact, Ness frequently found himself with thoughts such as:

"FUCK ME!"

"NO! NO! NO! THIS IS... THIS IS ALL JUST ONE GIANT NIGHTMARE... SO WHY CAN'T I WAKE UP?!"

And, of course, "I THOUGHT HE WAS GAY!"

Sadly for Ness, some future research would inform him that Jeff was not actually gay, but rather bisexual. Bi...sexual. BISEXUAL!

Ness spent a month teleporting all over the world, searching for something, anything, that proved this was a hallucination, or a dream or just... not true.

And then... he saw the party. All his friends and family gathered round to celebrate the happy couple. Ness stayed there - in disguise, of course, hoping for some indication that maybe there wasn't really any love between the two.

But when he saw the two passionately kissing more so then Paula had ever done with him, any hope of that being true was quickly shattered.

Along with his heart.

But that wasn't even what really got Ness. No one... missed him. His name... didn't come into conversation. At all. Ness followed everyone he knew - his mother, his sister, Picky, Poo, Jeff, Paula - heck, even Frank, Apple Kid and Tony, hoping desperately that someone would make some comment about him.

Not a word.

Ness... didn't know what to think. After all the things he went through - all the things he did for these people and all the things which they did to him... his fate was... to be forgotten?

Was he really that insignificant? Was his presence really that... irrelevant...

This... proved it then. No one... ever cared about him. Ever.

He was sad... and angry! He did all of this, all of this, and his fate was to be forgotten?! To have his love be... stolen, taken from him?! He suffered for these people! He suffered because of these people!

And now he was just... dust in the wind...

... finally accepting the reality, the psychic returned to Lumine Hall.

He wasn't exactly happy thou—

"DAMN YOU, JEFF ANDONUTS!"

The walls of Lumine Hall crackled before the words appeared in sync with the enraged psychic's voice.

"You knew all this time, ALL THIS TIME, you were just waiting for the opportunity! All this time, I can't believe I never even saw it! I truly am an almighty IDIOT!"