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Chapter 3: Meeting the Famiy - Day 1 fin.
I looked at her and nodded. We walked up to the door and went inside.
"I'M HOME!" underfell_girl yelled.
"Welcome back" a voice called out.
"Yay Mom's back!" another exlaimed.
"Food`s here!" another said happily.
Several neopets came running towards us. I ducked behind underfell_girl when I saw them. There was a Red Techo, a Red Ruki, and a White Grundo. They all stopped when they saw me. The Techo walked forward. "Who's this Mum?"
"This is Kristal_293. I adopted her today." she said steping to the side, which left me exposed. "Kristal_293, this is Grell_of_Fell (The Red Techo waved), Bells1425 (The Ruki waved exstaticly), and Belladona_of_Fell (The Grundo shyly waved.)
"Hello." I waved. I looked closer at thier outfits. The Ruki Bells1425, she seems familiar noticed.
"Do you like fashion too?!?!?!?!" I took a step back. "Mom got me this dress after she adopted me!"
I started to say something when underfell_girl smacked her forehead with her hand. "I forgot to give it to you!"
She hands the bsket with the soup in it to Grell_of_Fell. "Go ahead and get everything set up, please Grell?" Grell_of_Fell nodded and headed to the kitchen.
She still had a couple of shopping bags, which she then handed to me. "I got this for you, before I went to the pound."
I looked in one of the bags and gasped. It was a Fisherman Zafara Outfit!!!! I looked up at her.
"You got this for me, without knowing if I would even say yes?"
She nodded while smiling at me nervously. "I knew I might be getting ahead off myself. You see, when I get nervous I either cook, draw, crochet, or shop. I was wondering if you would say yes or not as I walked by the clothing store, so I went in and started shopping. I got you a new toothbrush, toothpaste, pajamas, and a hairbrush. You know grooming essentials."
I was shocked. She bought me stuff without even meeting me, without even knowing if I would say yes. What was the catch? Maybe she thought if she gave me this stuff I'd say yes. Or maybe she is just saying it now to make me think she would have. Or maybe- She put a hand on my shoulder and I flinched.
"Sorry, you spaced out there for a minute. Is something wrong?"
I looked down, my eyes getting misty. "If I had said no, what would you have done then?" I asked her quietly.
She put a hand to my chin, so she could make eye contact with me.
"I would have given it to you anyway. I had bought them for you. Nobody else."
I felt the tears forming and looke down again. She pulled me into a hug. I sniffled into her shoulder for a moment before pulling away, smiling slightly.
"Thank you, underfell_girl. Thank you for everything."
We both smiled, then jumped slightly when Belladonna_of_Fell yelled that the table was set and that she was ready to eat.
We laughed and walked toward the kitchen. I set the bags down by the doorway in the living room, so they wouldn't be in the way. As we walked through the doorway, I saw everybody sitting down at the table, or rather tables. It was two tables, a blue one and a red one, pushed together to make one long table. There were four chairs. I wondered where to sit when underfell_girl groaned.
"I forgot to another chair! I am such a dunderhead!"
She motioned me toward the remaining chair.
"I will sit over there, on the Traditional Shenkuu Cushion by the Lovely Table. But only for tonght." she looks at Belladonna_of_Fell when she says that, who just giggles and nods.
"Oh no, that's ok, I can-" you start to say.
"Don't worry, Kristal_293. She`s probably kicking herself for not getting another chair." Grell_of_Fell sighed.
"Yeah she did the same thing when she adopted me from the program on the Virtupets Space Station." Belladonna_of_Fell laughed.
I looked at her. "You're adopted too?"
"Yeah, though I was technically created to her speci-fica-tions." she stumbled over the word. "Or that's what I over heard the workers saying as they brought me out to her. I am four days old."
"Oh, well I am glad you never had to deal with the Pound."
They had been dishing out the soups while we were talking. I had a bowl of Negg Soup. I had never had that before. I took a bite hesitantly and practicaly moaned. "Oh my gosh, this is so GOOD!" I took another, bigger bite, smiling as I savored it.
Bells1425 chuckled. "It's one of my favorites as well." She was eating Starberry Soup.
"What's that?" I asked wonderingly.
"Starberry Soup. You should try some."
I nodded. I ended up trying several different ones. Negg Soup, Starberry Soup, and Golden Juppie Soups were my favorites. Actually, we all like the Golden Juppie Soup. It is rare to get, I think. After dinner, underfell_girl washed the bowls. I offered to help but she waved me away saying that it was her turn at washing the dinner dishes. I shrugged, walking into the living room. I picked up my bags and looked around.
"Oh hey, you still need to pick a bed." Bells1425 said excitedly. "This home doesn't really have bedrooms so we just have them grouped together in the one room."
"Oh, that's ok. I shared a room in the Pound."
She smiled. "I remember. I think I saw you there before. underfell_girl adopted me from there four days ago."
I looked up at her. "That's why you look so familiar!"
She giggled. We enter the bedroom which had three beds.
"Me and Belladonna have been sharing the Basic Blue Bed. Grell doesn't really like the Esaphagor bed. Mom got the Antique Iron Bed today."
I looked at her. "Which bed do you want?"
She looked at the Esophagor bed then the Antique Iron bed. "I would really like the Antique Iron Bed but I can sleep on the one of the others if you prefer it"
"Thank you but I think I would like to try the Esophagor bed. If that's okay with Grell."
"It's fine with me! I'll share the Basic Blue bed with Belladonna!" Grell_of_Fell said hurriedly from behind us.
We both jumped and then laughed.
"Great, so here's the wardrobe. You can hang your clothes up in there, the bathroom is down the hall to your right. You can put your toiletries in the cabinet. Towels are in the chesterdrawers and so are the wash cloths."
I nodded and walked to the wardrobe. The wardrobe was an Kreludan Wardrobe shaped kind of like an Orange Grundo. I opened it and found some room to hang up my Fisherman outfit. I grabbed the bags with my pajamas and toiletries in them and headed to the bathroom. I put my toothbrush and toothpaste away and found the towels and washcloths. I drew a bath and sank into the hot water, reveling in the heat. After I got clean, I dressed in my pajamas, which were a pale ice blue, and went back to the living room. Belladonna_of_Fell was playing with some toys over by one of the windows. I walked over to see what all they had.
"What are ya playing with Belladonna?"
She looked up and smiled. "A Snorkle Balloon. It is my favorite out of all the toys!"
I looked at it. It was a rounded Snorkle shape and was kinda krinkly looking. Then I looked at the other toys: a cheese yo-yo, a Snowbunny yo-yo, a Krawk pirate ship, a- is that a pirate plushie?!
"What is that?" pointing to the pirate plushie.
She picked it up. "Oh this, it's a Pirate Hissi Plushie." she held it out to me. "Would you like to play with it?"
I wanted to but what if it was one of the others favorite? What if they got mad that I played with it? What if-
"Kristal?" she looked worridely at me.
"Um," I looked at it longingly but held back. "If nobody else minds I would like to play with it."
She smiled at me. "Nobody will mind. We don't really play with it. I think Mom was going to get rid of it if nobody played with it in the next few days."
She handed it to me. It was so cool! The hat, the jacket, the whole pirate ensemble was so awesome! I loved it. We ended up playing with the toys for 2 hours. We didn't notice Grell_of_Fell walking towards us.
"Hey, it's time for bed."
Belladonna_of_Fell and I both screamed. Grell_of_Fell laughed then apologized for startling us. I looked at her then at the Pirate Plushie. I didn't want to part with it. She noticed this and said tat if I wanted to, I could bring it with me. I looked at her.
"Are you sure?" I asked tentatively.
She smiled and nodded. Belladonna_of_Fell sighed and headed to the bathroom.
"I'll go and get a quick bath then." she said over her shoulder.
We nodded and went to the bedroom. I put the plushie on the Esophagor bed and then waited for Belladonna_of_Fell to finish her bath so I could brush my teeth. When we were all ready for bed, underfell_girl came in to tuck us in.
"Goodnight y'all, I'll be back tomorrow afternoon."
I sat up. "You're leaving?"
She nodded. "I'm going to check on the rest of our family. The coolmusic_girl and the electroswing_girl groups."
I nodded. I had forgotten that she had the other groups of Neopets.
"Oh right. I'll see ya tomorrow then. Goodnight underfell_girl."
The others all said goonight as well. She smiled and turned off all but one lamp off. I was secretly grateful. I have severe panic attacks if I'm suddenly in a pitch blackroom. I curled up under the covers, cuddling my new plushie close. As I drifted off to sleep, I was grateful that underfell_girl had asked me to be apart of her family.