1 Acoustic grey.

CLANG!!!

The ceramic plate fell hard on the floor splitting it into several shards.

Clay with foam smeared hands glanced at Thgil and seeing her annoyed look, cringed.

He quickly made to squat and pick the pieces of ceramic from the floor when Thgil stopped him and asked,

"What are you doing?"

He turned his head and glanced at her, his eyes centered around her neck, then answered in a subconscious voice.

"Trying to pick all these things up before they hurt someone."

"So they can cut your hands and you can have an excuse not to wash the dishes."

O.....k, so what if he did have that in mind but Thgil obviously would just bandage it and tell him to continue with the dishes.

She pushed him aside and said,

"Get me a parker and after then continue with the plates"

He got the parker and handed it to Thgil then walked to the sink to continue washing the plates.

He was glad Thgil was gathering the shards, he wouldn't want to do it himself with Thgil standing behind him, watching him.....

He looked towards her and his eyes landed on her neck again.

Then he averted his eyes when Thgil stood up and walked through the door on his left.

He sighed with relief then he had a thin string of guilt in his chest,

He had been ditching her in school and at home too, it wasn't her, it was him or rather it was the spider, HER spider.

Thgil, a black and red haired eight year old girl, with emerald green eyes, eyes which looked like they had a reason to exist....

She was a highly spirited girl, whom was good at associating with people.

Although she didn't like associating.

Her style of clothes was weird, yet cute and would remind of a cartoon.

Red shorts with a jumper and a white short sleeved shirt, and a sleeveless jacket.

Her mostly dark and red hair, done in a pixie bob, with a black hat.

For those of you that didn't get the hint, the guy's nose grows longer each time he lies.

Her parents having died when she was two years old had to move in with her stepmother.

Her step mum wasn't bad, but as her stepsister and her dad got back from a holiday.

They started leaving her out, making her feel like she wasn't part of the family.

Like many times when it was time for dinner they'd only serve three plates, forgetting her.

And for a three-year old that was well much to handle.

So when her grandmother had come for a casual visit, she had taken her along, going home.

She and Clay attended Hommi middle school, the most cheapest school their granny found to save money for herself.

What to do though, you had to pay school fees for the first year.

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Clay, unlike his name was a blue haired, five years old boy, with dark blue colored eyes so dark you wouldn't be able see it unless it was reflected on by light.

He was bright, cheery and energetic, the dream son of every parents, plus his ability was a really helpful one.

Galare, ice, although he had two fatal weaknesses that you could say would ruin his life.

First was the irrational fear of spiders and second was his problem of doing things with out proper thinking of the pros and cons.

Clay felt guilty of ditching Thgil in school, he'd been avoiding her for the past two days.

But he did have an excuse, when ever he and Thgil were goofing around talking about everything.

A spider crawling out behind her neck always interrupted them, making Clay go ballistic.

The first time he'd seen it was two weeks ago.

Thgil had just won another round of cards and she was laughing at his face while he glared at her.

That's when he saw it; the black eight legged, multiple red eyed tiny monster crawled out from under her short mess of black and red hair.

It had only come out for a short period of time, no less than 0.5 seconds.

And then it went back in again, Clay wasn't even sure that he had really seen it anyways.

But then through out the entire day, he had seen it, on Thgil's neck, shoulders and hair.

He had gone running to his granny many times to complain but she had turned him down saying he was overreacting, maybe he was, but who knows.

And besides Thgil didn't look like she was bothered about how he kept avoiding her.

And maybe Thgil didn't know that there was a spider living in her hair.

Because she always had a bewildered look whenever he screamed pointing at her neck.

'Maybe..... but I should wash these plates quickly before anymore breaks'.

Today was a bright hot Saturday, the sun was being a little too harsh.

The compound was empty, Thgil wondered why, usually children with old car tires.

Toys and stuff would run around making noises and trouble, but today was different.

'Why so silent?'

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