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  After opening the door, I found Drew waiting on me.   “Hey Alice! You look like you are in a better mood, something happen?” They asked with a smile.   I smiled up at them, a little shy still, wondering if I could trust them.   “Ah, I get it cutie, come with me, lets go sit down in the living room on something comfy before we discuss things and get to know one another.”   Without even waiting for an answer they grabbed my hand and started leading me through the house. My heart did a little flip flop in my chest. I didn’t know why though, stupid ears were probably giving me away. I gnced up quickly to make sure Drew didn’t notice. Thankfully she was unaware of my plight.   Eventually we made it into a rather comfy, if rge living room. There was a L-Shaped couch thing, a love seat and a recliner all surrounding a fire pit with a TV hung above it. I stared at drew with a questioning look.   They chuckled a little in response, “Yes I know, not quite as audacious as you were expecting hmm? I told you, me and my family did not really get along and I am gd I no longer have to deal with them. Here sit down” They sat me down in the love seat while they sat next to me in the recliner.   “So, history lessons then yes?” there was mirth in their eyes as they digested some sort of inside joke. “My name is Drew, if its not obvious I go by They/Them pronouns. I figured you were struggling to come up with words in that cute head of yours.”   I giggled, a little girlish thing that had me blushing up a storm.   “Judging by that reaction I was right! Haha!” They ughed out loud this time and I swear an arrow went straight to my heart. I was blown away by how full of life they were. Nothing like how I had lived the past two decades of my life. It was amazing. I quickly caught myself staring at them and continued listening to their story. “You are quite the expressive fox aren’t you?” they asked, staring at me, something hiding behind their eyes. “Anyways, my family is some sort of tech giant, they were pnning on having me inherit their business but could not get over me being non-binary. So they disowned me the only way a rich family can. They gave me enough money to live and not go looking for them. They made it quite clear that I hold no pce in their family.”   My eyes widened in horror as I stared at Drew in shock, “That's horrible!” I almost yelled, then blushed when I realized that no only had I interrupted them but that I had almost yelled at them.   Drew chuckled at my reaction patting my head a little in response, “I’m over it cutie, this happened several years ago, hmm about the time I turned 18? I may have gotten a little wild with my errr shenanigans.” they grimaced at that “Some of those turned out horrible.” Head pats good - wait, did she say bad shenanigans? “Bad shenanigans?” I asked.   “Oh yes, but that's enough doom and gloom from me. What about you cutie? When I found you, you looked like someone had killed your best friend.”   Anxiety coursed through me as I remembered Vic’s warning, people will look at us differently, Drew might kick me out. I don’t even have anywhere to go because all of my identification was for Vic.   “Calm down cutie, there is nothing you can say that will make me think badly of you. But I want to help. Let me help please?” They looked at me pleadingly   Could I trust them? Something about the look in their eyes made me want to believe that I could, and if I couldn’t well, I’ve never been good at pnning. So, taking a deep breath I shakily expined in a soft almost whisper, “I, um, I am… gosh this is hard, I am one of five different personalities that made up the original body… um. Not this one, the one on my ID um, Vic’s ID. Vic was the main front, he was the one that took care of the day to day. I couldn’t front cause I’m a girl and Vic has a mans body…” I rubbed my hands on my arms and continued “So uh Al, thats another personality, helped us come up with a pn so we could all front. We would all become non-binary ourselves… Seamed like a good trade off. No one would be super content with the body but…” Taking another breath feeling colder and colder “but we could all front comfortably in the body… They are my family… We don’t have a good retionship with our parents either… So no one knew about our… condition? I think Al called it D.I.D. or dissociative identity disorder…” Tears were starting to pool in my eyes now.   Suddenly Drew pulled me into a hug softly stroking my hair calming me. “Its ok, I am not sorry I asked, but I can only imagine how hard this is to expin, take it at your own pace ok? I’m not leaving ok?”   Nodding, I took a deep breath and continued, “So, when this thing happened with the world it felt like we broke apart… none of us were able to hold onto one another.” More tears as I tried to hold it together. “But the worst part was waking up… There was nothing there… Nobody else in my head and and… and… well, I felt like I lost my family!” I Started crying harder now, sobbing at the memory of when I first woke up.   “Its ok Alice, I’m here” Drew continued holding me as I sobbed.   Pulling myself together, I managed to smile at my most recent memory, Al, calling me cute through a staticky phone. “I don’t think… that… its permanent though… Al was able to call out to me earlier, that's why I was feeling better.” After saying that though, I realized what that might mean for Drew and I held my breath tears still in my eyes.   What would they do? Would they kick me out knowing that I still had my head mates? I just told them that for a majority of the time they knew me I thought I had lost my family. That's what my head mates were after all, my family. I couldn’t get rid of them. Never! But would Drew still keep me around after knowing this? I didn’t know them super well but I wanted to be their friend…

  ShyCirci

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