//------------------------------// // Introduction // Story: The Dazzlings and the Human // by evanim26 //------------------------------// It was a quiet morning is what I would say if it wasn’t for the loud yelling in my house and the source of it was two of the three teens I decided to care for. “Girls, girls, what’s the matter?” I say getting in between them and separating them as well “aria is being mean to me again!” Sonata said “That’s because you are being stupid as usual.” Aria said as I pinch the bridge of my nose in frustration with the both of them. “aria what have I told you about being mean to sonata?” I said But she just crossed her arms and turned away from me but I put a hand on her shoulder and turn her back. “don’t turn away from me, first you apologize to sonata, now.” I said She huffs with her arms crossed but still turns to sonata “I’m sorry.” She said emotionless but sonata took it and nodded then walked back to the room they all shared but before aria walked off I stopped her “now we discuss your decreased allowance.” I said and aria was very angry at that. “What?!” She yells but I put my hand up and she just huffs then stomps to her room and slams the door as I sigh and flop on the couch in the living room. “That girl is out of control.” I say to nobody leaning back on the couch ‘how did I get here?’ I think to myself thinking back to the time I met them ____________________________________________________ Back then I was walking home from work not really paying attention to the world around me but then I heard a noise come from an alleyway I was passing by and as curiosity took over I stepped into the alleyway expecting to find some sort of animal but what I actually saw surprised me. There were three girls high school age digging in a trash can and pulling out scraps of food and their clothes were dirty all over the place, after some time The one with orange hair came out with an unfinished piece of pizza and offered it to the others. “No way am I eating that!” The one with a ponytail said so the orange hair offered it to the one with pigtails but she just shook her head then the orange hair shrugged and threw the pizza back in the trash can and that was when I decided to make my presence known. “Excuse me?” I said as they all turned and looked at me with my hands up in to show I mean no harm. “who are you?” Orange hair asked i came closer slowly while still holding my hands up “I’m sorry if i startled you I was just wondering if you need help.” I said but they weren’t convinced and looked at me suspiciously. “why would you want to help us?” The pigtails girl said “Because you clearly need it.” I said and they all looked at each other then I put my hands down “look I have a pretty big house with more than enough room for you, I can help you if you want me to.” I said “We don’t nee-.” The orange hair one was talking but the ponytail girl cut her off. “we would love if you helped us, we haven’t showered or eaten anything good in days, please help us.” She said with pleading eyes as the other glared at her. “Alright if you three come with me I can give you a nice home and food, follow me don’t worry I don’t live far.” I said walking off ushering the others to follow and reluctantly they did, once we arrived at my house I let them in and guided them to the kitchen where they sat down at a table while I made them food. “So what were you three doing out there all alone?” I asked and right before the ponytail was about to speak the others shushed her and the orange one spoke for her. “we were kicked out of our school and home by mean people, we have been surviving by ourselves ever since.” She said. “Well that’s just awful, what kind of people do such rude things?” I say making their plates then handed them to the three girls as I sat down with my own plate and ate with them. After we were finished eating I gathered up the plates and washed them in the sink before returning to the table. “now listen since I don’t want you three out there on the streets again I’m gonna make an offer, how about you three stay here with me and you can stay as long as you want.” I say as they looked at me with confusion but before one of them could speak up I put my hand up stopping her. “But you’ll have to clean up and do the chores around here, I get paid enough to give you three an allowance but you must clean or I’ll decrease your pay, understood?” I say and they all looked at one another, then the orange hair nodded followed by the pigtails and the ponytail girls as I nodded in agreement. “Now how about you tell me your names?” I said and they all looked at me. “I’m adagio.” Orange hair said first. “I’m sonata!” Ponytail said cheerfully. “I’m aria.” Pigtail said in a bored tone then I nodded and stood up. “From this day forward we all will be living in the same house, my name is Eric pleased to meet you all!” I said and they all nodded. ____________________________________________________ ‘That was a month ago and so far they all sorta warmed up to me though during those months they weren’t well to put it in a word friendly’ I think closing my eyes to rest a bit but was awoken to adagio gently shaking me awake. “Eric I can’t seem to find my orange brush anywhere, have you seen it?” She asked. I pointed to the kitchen table and she walked over and found it under the table “thank you Eric.” She said before leaving as I got up. Once I entered the kitchen I looked over at the sink and saw the dishes weren’t clean and I grumbled as I walked to the bathroom and opened the door to find adagio brushing her hair, then she turned to look at me. “what is it Eric?” Adagio said then turned to look back at the mirror. “The dishes aren’t done and it’s your day to do them.” I said as she put her brush down. “can’t I do them later, I have to fix my hair.” She said grabbing some ointment and rubbing her hair with it. “Fine, just make sure they get done.” I said walking back to the living room sitting on the couch then turned the t.v. on to a episode of ghost adventures, while watching the show I glanced up and watched adagio walk to the kitchen to wash the dishes. Once she was done with the dishes I went to the their room and opened the door to find aria on her phone and sonata reading a magazine. “hey I’m going out to grab a bite, want to come?“ I said as sonata nodded and got up and left then I looked over at aria but she shook her head and went back to her phone as I shrugged and left. In the living room I walked to adagio “me and sonata are going out to eat, want to come?” I said and adagio nodded and joined sonata at the front door as I grabbed my jacket “why are you putting that on?” Sonata asked “Cause it said it might rain today so you never know.” I said as we headed out the door and to a diner that wasn’t too far from us but was still a bit of a walk, once we did reach the diner I got the door for the other two and we entered. After choosing a spot A waitress came over and asked us what we wanted “I’ll take some waffles.” I said as she wrote it down then asked the girls. “I’ll have a corn dog.” Sonata said and the waitress wrote that down to. “I’ll have the same as him.” Adagio said then the waitress nodded and left. Just then the door to the diner opened and in came a group of teenagers, one of them was pretty loud I noticed as I looked at them then back at the girls but there was something wrong with them as they had slid down trying to make themselves shrink “what’s wrong?” I asked “Nothing it’s nothing.” Adagio said but I wasn’t buying it and came closer “adagio, sonata, what’s the matter?” I asked but they shushed me then one of the teenagers came over, it was a girl with orange and yellow hair and she looked straight at adagio and sonata. “adagio, sonata is that you?” She asked Neither of them were looking at here then the others came over to our table “I don’t believe it two of the worst people ever in a diner.” A girl with rainbow hair said “even I’m mighty surprised to see you two again.” A girl with a cowboy hat said. “What are you two even doing here?” A girl with purple hair said as both of the girls ignored them so I spoke up “they’re with me.” I said then they all turned to me shocked. “and what are you doing here with them?” Rainbow hair asked. “We’re getting food.” I stated as a matter of faculty then a pink haired one got in my face “getting food huh I bet you’re secretly working here to steal the secret formula!” She said which made me confused. “what?” was all I said until she was pulled away from me. “Don’t mind her, just answer this, why are you with these two?” The fire hair one said and I was a little more confused “because they needed help and I helped them?” I said confused but the cowgirl shook her head. “you can’t trust them.” Cowgirl said and I looked at the girls then back at them. “what are you talking about?” I said. “They’re evil dude, first chance they get they’ll turn on you.” Rainbow hair said but I shook my head “what do you mean evil, when I found them they were digging through a trash can looking for food.” I said which made most of them gasp and look at the girls as they were still looking away “I brought them to my home and fed them, they have been living with me ever since.” I said as they looked back at me. “Is that what happened to you after our battle?” Fire hair asked but they didn’t answer and I was just confused “battle? What battle?” I asked the girls but they didn’t answer me either so I got up and looked them straight in the eye “adagio, sonata, what battle?” I asked sternly then adagio looked back at me “can we talk about this later please?” She said but I wasn’t having it “no we talk about this now.” I said. “It was just a silly band battle we had which lead to us getting ran out of the school.” Sonata said then the rainbow hair girl slammed her hand on the table “you’re only telling a part of the story, tell him the whole thing.” She said but I got up and got in front of her “please leave this to me, you and you friends go back to your tables.” I said but they didn’t go. Then I got in front of adagio and sonata “go now.” I said and they all turned and went back to their tables, once I turned around i got on one knee “tell me both of you, what happened.” I said then adagio and sonata got up and pulled me outside the diner “alright fine, me, aria, and sonata tried to use the power of music to take over the school but we were defeated and chased away by the students, there happy?” Adagio said with tears in her eyes. “You tried to take over a school with music?” I said confused but they nodded so I just went with it “if it’s as simple as that why didn’t you tell me sooner?” I said then sonata looked at me “cause we were afraid you would kick us out after learning the truth.” She said but I just hugged both of them at the same time “if you think something like that would instantly destroy what we built up all these months then your both airheads.” I said as they were surprised but hugged back. “Just next time tell me the truth first then we’ll see where it goes from there, alright?” I said and they nodded then we headed back into the diner and got our food and as we ate fire hair girl came over “hey listen I’m sorry for what happened to you.” She said and the girls just nodded “it’s fine.” Adagio said not even looking at her then continued eating as the girl walked off then I smiled at adagio. “that was nice what that girl did.” I said “I’m sure she’s just like the others though no matter how nice she pretends to be.” Adagio said while eating as I shook my head and continued eating myself, once we were done I paid for the meal and we got up to leave but before we did I went to the table the group of girls were at. “Hey I know you guys have history but please be nice to them I’m sure you could be friends if you try.” I said and walked off followed by the two girls as we walked all the way home. Once we got home I put my jacket up as adagio and sonata went back to their room but before sonata went back she gave me a peck on the cheek “thank you for not tossing us out.” She said then left as I stood there rubbing my cheek shocked she just did that, then I shook off my shock and went to my room to sleep but not before noticing a strange smell in my room but I just shrugged it off and opened a window then went to my bed to sleep.