We're Siblings?!

Aphmau's POV:

Yes. I should forgive him. I may have thought he didn't deserve it, but that wasn't the real Ein. I'm willing to give him one last shot. But, I can't just remove all that trauma from my brain in an instant. I need time to...warm up to him.

"Aphmau?" Aaron said, holding my hands. I didn't even realize he came up to me until now.

"Are you okay?" He asked.

"I-I'm fine, I just thought I saw something." I lied. This is one situation that I'm so glad that Aaron has memory loss, not saying I enjoy it, but if he did remember Ein...I don't want to think of what he'd do.

"Are you sure? You were screaming a lot."

"She was sleeping! A-And when we got home she had a nightmare and started screaming!" Melissa covered. Glad she caught on. Zack went upstairs, probably to get Ein. I still don't want Ein touching me though. I saw Ein come down behind Zack, looking like a nervous wreck. If I still firmly believed there was no one behind that mindless Ein, I would've saw something different. Another thing my brain does whenever I have to take my stupid heart medicine, it not only makes me hallucinate, but it manipulates things I see, such as this. Ein looks nervous, but to me, he has a devilish smile, and staring at me with vengeance glistening in his eyes. It scared me, but now I definitely knew it was the medicine.

"Hi Aphmau..." Ein said.

"Uhm...Hi. L-Long time no see." I said, awkwardly.

"Well yeah, that's because I was dead." Ein said bluntly.

"Hey, I feel ya. Takes a second to come back." I said, trying to lighten the mood. Ein only gained a sadder face than he did before, if it was possible.

"Uhm, I'm sorry for how I acted before, I just got startled is all." I said.

"No, I understand. I would probably react the same way if I was in your shoes." Ein said awkwardly. Then there was a moment of silence, so I collected myself and calmed down, trying not to be scared. Of course, my body didn't want to listen though. I started to shake really hard, and immediately tried to stop when I realized I was. I guess Ein noticed before me, because he didn't look surprised when he noticed me hold my hands together.

"I-If you want me to leave for a bit, I don't mind." Ein said shyly.

"No! No, you're fine here. Besides, if I ever warm up to you, I'll need to get close to you. It won't help if you purposely try to avoid me." I explained. He simply nodded his head and leaned on a wall. We both just kinda stared into space awkwardly, trying not to make eye contact. I sighed out of boredom, and tried thinking of something to say. Before I did though, Ein said something.

"So...Why were you in the hospital all this time? I heard your friend healed you." Ein said.

"Oh, well I guess you missed that part. You could say...I got into a fight. I won, but miserably." I said, trying to make it vague. If there was anything I didn't want to talk about while Aaron was literally right next to me, it would be this. Garroth may have told him about what happened when he was a big wolf at starlight, but he never mentioned the fight, so I hope I never have to. I hope it's the one thing he never has to remember. I wish I could forget. It would make my life so much easier.

"Oh, that's cool. We both got into a fight." Ein compared. I chuckled a little, but Aaron tapped me on the shoulder. When I looked at him, he had a mixed expression of worry and anger.

"I want to talk to you later." He whispered. Y'know, maybe if I really didn't want Aaron to remember that stuff, I wouldn't have just bluntly said I died in from of his face.

"Well, now that you guys are more comfortable around each other, I have some 'news'." Zack interrupted.

"What is it?"

"Well...you guys are, in a way...Siblings." Zack said. I'm sorry, what? His words echoed in my head in slow motion to take in every single word.

"In a way...Siblings."

"Siblings."

I know I always wanted a sibling, but EIn?! Of all people?! This is gonna be a lot harder to put our past behind us now.

"What?!" Ein exclaimed. I guess he didn't know either.

"Not by blood, but I did adopt Ein. So that technically means your siblings, right?" Zack asked. I thought, trying to find any ways that he could be wrong. All of a sudden I started getting a headache. Maybe it was just the stress now getting to my head.

"So, we're sibling-not-siblings?" I asked.

"What?" Ein countered my question.

"Y'know, we're like siblings, but not by blood. Sibling-not-siblings." I explained. Ein burst out laughing.

"Man, you make the weirdest names for things like this!" He laughed. He calmed down by taking in a large breath and sighing it out slowly. The pain in my head started intensifying. It was starting to get annoying.

"So, I know it will absolutely take more than a day for you to finally accept me, even if that wasn't me back there, I wanted to know if you wanted to do something with me and 'Dad'?" Ein asked, using quotation marks when he said dad.

"Sure! Besides, I have to get to know the both of you." I said tired. This headache was really getting to me. I started feeling dizzy. I was getting tired. I just wanted to sleep right about now.

"Aphmau, you okay?" Melissa asked, looking at my tired face. I couldn't even concentrate on hers because I was paying too much attention to the pain. My eyes grew heavy. I could barely open my mouth. It warlike my brain was shutting down.

"Aphmau?" Zack asked. I blacked out. I heard someone familiar call out my name in the dark void I was stuck in once again.

"Good to see you again, Blaze."

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