Weird

Dad is acting a little strange right now. I woke up to him pinching my cheeks, and laughing with a weird smile on his face. I also had to barge in while he was showering, because he would not leave the bathroom, and because he was about to miss the school bus. I found him pinching his cheeks in front of a mirror. It took me so long to drag him away from the mirror, and I had to help him get dressed. We barely made it to the school bus on time.

I sighed in relief only to see dad stare at his reflection on the window. When we got to school, dad sat in a corner alone and started to play with stuffed animals. He pet the stuffed dog until Garry slowly limped over. Gary was wearing a red t-shirt and blue shorts. Dad turned till he was looking directly at him.

"Can I play with you today?" Said Garry with a hopeful look in is eyes and a big bright smile.

"Hmmm," replied dad nodding his head.

Garry started to play with the other stuffed toys dad wasn't playing with. Dad continued staring at him. Dad lifted his hands and grabbed Garry's cheeks and pinched them once. Then he picked up the stuffed dog and started petting it again. Garry started to stare at dad, Then he reached out and pinched his cheeks.

"That is payback okay?" Said Garry with a smile on his face. Dad looked confused, and just nodded his head.

"Why don't we play with some blocks." Said Garry after seeing a spider crawling on the teddy bear he quickly threw away. Dad ignored Garry and stared at the spider. Then dad stood up and walked over to the discarded teddy bear. The spider was crawling on the teady bear's nose. Dad put his hand near the spider, and it crawled onto his hand. Then he put the spider in some tissue and squashed it, and then threw the tissue in the trash bin. I stayed at a safe distance the whole time.

He walked towards us like nothing happed and turned to face Garry, who was staring at him in admiration.

"Okay, lets play with blocks," said dad casually.

They walked towards the blocks and built a tower together. I helped pick up every stray block, but I missed Alex already. Dad's teacher is so boring, all she taught today was the alphabet song, and it seemed to me that most the kids already knew it.

Alex always leaves at the worst times. Now I can't talk to dad at school anymore because Garry is always with him. I feel like a ghost right now, while floating over dad's head.

At lunchtime dad didn't forget me, he passed me half of his lunch. It was a delicious cheese sandwich. I had to eat it quickly so that Garry didn't notice anything weird.

I tried to play games on my phone but the graphics were too bad, so I put my phone in my poket.

When we got back to the orphanage, a loud repetitive music started to play. It was dad's phone.

"Hello Alex!" Said dad with a smile on his face. Alex still remembers us unlike the last time he disappeared.

"I had fun, you?" Said dad after a short pause. I did not have fun today, today was boring.

"Why?" Questioned dad with a worried look in his eyes.

"Ohh!" Said dad after a really long pause. It was a sad kind of ohh.

What are they talking about? Before I could ask dad to put the phone on speaker, he hung up.

I felt my phone vibrating so I answered it outside, and flew deeper into the forest surrounding the orphanage.

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Angel left before I could ask him if the tooth fairy really exists. I had been wondering about it since Garry told me about it. I also wanted to tell him about what Alex said about his new school. Well I guess I can talk to him later.

I walked to my bed and sat down thinking about life. Life is so weird, people are weird, I am weird. Just as I was about to think about something serious, someone barged into the bedroom.

"James come help." It was Joshua was wearing an orange t-shirt with blue jeans, and he was holding a broomstick. His twin brother was nowhere in sight, and he interrupted my convention with myself.

"What's up?" What does he want? I just want to think alone with no one bothering me.

"Ace needs your help." He said that like It was a normal thing.

"With what?" I replied and he looked at me like I was crazy.

"With dinner!" shouted Joshua. He seemed to be a little mad at me but I don't know why. I only asked him a simple question, why was he getting annoyed.

Oh, I forgot that I normally help Ace with dinner everyday. All those new memories made me forget about this chore. Also, why do I have to help Ace make dinner?

"Okay!" I shouted back at him and ran downstairs to help Ace.

Ace was smiling as he took the bread out of the cupboard. I could already guess what he was making today, bread pizza.

"What do you need my help with today Ace?" He had already taken out the bread, what else could I do?

Ace pulled out a grater and a block of cheese. He showed me how to use the grater by grating some cheese into a big bowl. Ace passed me a block of cheese, a grater, and a big bowl. So Ace needed me to grate the cheese.

"Stop when you're close to the end of the cheese and I will help you with

the rest." Said Ace while doing something else at the same time.

He told me to stop when I was close to the end, but I grated the whole thing by myself.

"Thanks for always helping me James," said Ace after he saw the grated cheese.

"You're welcome," I replied with a proud smile on my face.

The food finished quickly and it was very delicious. I tried to save Angel some food, but he was taking a long time to get back. So I ate all the food on my plate. He had some snacks upstairs anyways.

While I was heading upstairs, Emily stopped suddenly and turned around to face me.

"Why was Alex not at school today?" She asked the question while avoiding looking at me in the eyes.

"He changed to a new school." I replied and then she walked away with a frown on her face.

It got really late and I could tell because it was really dark outside. I was worried beause Angel still wasn't back. It was way past my non existent bed time, and I couldn't wait for him any longer, so I brushed my teeth and put my pyjamas on.

After waiting for a little while for Angel to come back, I closed my eyes ready to fall asleep and forget about him till tomorrow, but I heared a loud sound

It was the sound of the room door opening. I opend my eye hoping it was Angel, but it was just Ace. He went to his bed started to stare in my direction.

Ace curled upe in a ball but continued to stare at me. I couldn't sleep like this, but all my courage from yesterday disappeared. It went somewhere that I couldn't find. I tried to close my eyes again to sleep, but I could feel his stare even with my eyes closed. So I opened my eyes again, and stared right back into Ace's eyes.

"Ace can you hear me?" I asked in a whisped hoping Angel would get back soon.

Ace blinked and continue to stare in my direction. I turned to face the wall but I could still feel his eyes.

I closed my eyes again and after what seemed like a long time I opened them. I saw Angel sleeping at the bottom of the bed. The feeling of being stared at seemed to disappear, so I closed my eyes and feel asleep.