Buttons, a Coraline inspired story

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I heard Rednex fall off the nightstand I left him on. I forced myself awake to pick him back up. I saw a black widow and a waterbug dragging him towards the door
"What the-" I mumbled, getting up to grab my shoes to kill them. A silverfish, caterpillar, ant, butterfly, ladybug, and pill bug crawled out of the cracks to pick up Rednex. They all ran away and I chased them downstairs to the living room where the spider picked the lock and opened the tiny door. They all managed their way through with Rednex in a shiny blue tunnel. I was in awe, I haven't seen the door before yet it was so cool. I crawled through, following the bugs and Rednex. I didn't see where they went with him but I just saw an identical living room on the otherside. Why does this place look just like our place... but backwards? I heard humming from the kitchen, the song seemed familiar. It sounded like a song mom made with dad, I never really caught the name of it but I used to hear her saying "Why do you feel so far from me?" while singing. I followed the humming to the kitchen where I saw mom making food. Didn't she say she would go shopping in the morning when I came home?
"Mom?" I ask, trying to get closer to her. She turned around and she had black button eyes with white string holding them onto her face. She was smiling and happy
"Hello, dear. Glad you're awake just in time for dinner," she smiled. Lunch wasn't very filling and I didn't get to have dinner so I was starving. I would care less if this lady would poison me
"Who are you?" I ask
"I'm your other mom!! I live in a world where your biggest fantasies come true!!" she exclaims
"My..." I blushed thinking about Stan "Biggest fantasies?" I mumbled
"Yeah!! By the by, will you tell your other father and other uncle that dinner will be ready? Your other father is in the garden and your other uncle is in his study," she smiled, pointing at the wooden bowl she held. I nod and head upstairs to the study, not believing that another version of my dad would be here.

"Hey, uhh..." I knocked on the door. Uncle Germy opened the door but he also had black button eyes. His thread was pink instead of white much like his eye colors. But if that logic stands, wouldn't my other mom have blue string?
"Dinner is ready," I say, observing his blue suit
"Great, just in time to serve the mister and mistress of the house," he smiled with a monotone voice
"I'll be down, make sure the mister knows. He should be growing your favorites as we speak," he nods
"My favorites?" I asked
"Daisies," he answered
"How is that possible? It's winter," I comment
"Mistress made it possible, she wants you to be as happy as you can be!!" he exclaims, picking me up without struggle and letting me sit on his shoulders. He made his way downstairs and put me down in front of the back door
"The table will be set by the time you come back," he smiled before opening the door for me. I walked towards the garden full of white daisies. They were beautiful, especially under the night sky. I admired the flowers, not paying attention to the figure following me. I felt a familiar tap-tap on my shoulder and saw my dad standing right behind me. He also black button eyes but his strings were grey like my eyes. Mom always said I resembled my dad more than her.
"Hey, champ," he smiled with his dull voice
"Hey, dinner's ready," I smile back
"That's good, are you enjoying the garden?" he asks
"Yeah, it's nice," I nod, looking at the daisies again
"I'll go inside, feel free to come in whenever you're done," he says before walking inside.

I took my time around the garden before going inside to see my other family sitting at the table, waiting for me
"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't think you guys would be waiting," I frown
"It's ok, we're patient," other mom smiles. I sat down at the head of the table, weird that it was the only seat available. We ate a Thanksgiving feast with a cake at the end. The frosting on the cake was in cursive and spelled "Welcome Home" with a double loop on the second O. I had an uneasy feeling seeing the double loop. I refused the cake and they understood. I got up to go back to the door but the other uncle picked me up and took me to my room.
"Good night... don't let the bugs get to your head..." he mumbles, closing the door. I didn't want to sleep, despite the bed being the softest thing in the world.
"Yknow, that butler is right. We shouldn't bother him," I hear. I turn around to see one female figure, one male figure, and one unidentified gender figure on the other side of the room. The female had a red ladybug shell on her back, the male had a waterbug shell on his back, and the unidentified gender had four red spider legs sticking out their back. They each had black button eyes with red string
"He should be happy enough to listen to what we have to say," the ladybug girl smiles
"No, we should leave him alone this time..." the waterbug guy frowns, fiddling with his sweater sleeves
"If he doesn't listen to us, I'll take him back to his home myself," the spider growls
"What do you want me to listen to?" I ask, sitting up
"You're way happier here, right? You don't have a mom who is busy decorating and arguing with your uncle, you have your dad even though he cheated on your mom with his coworker-" the ladybug starts
"Mom told me he cheated at Monopoly," I say
"Nah, that's just to save your innocent brain," the ladybug smiles
"I feel bad, we shouldn't manipulate him..." the waterbug mumbles
"It's not manipulation, the mistress said so!!" the ladybug exclaims
"Mistress said that it's not manipulation unless one of the toxics were here," the spider sighed. The waterbug and the spider both look at the ladybug
"I'm Positivity!! Toxicity is way worse than me!!" the ladybug yells
"Toxic Positivity, you're Toxic Positivity. Mistress said to not let the toxics talk," the spider huffs, crossing their arms
"Fine," Toxic Positivity huffs, copying the spider
"Mistress also told Guilt to stay back and let me handle it," the spider says, glaring at the waterbug
"She said that Oppressive shouldn't be taking the lead either. Mistress said to let her handle it the first night. She said for them to lead tomorrow night and then Anxiety," Toxic Positivity scoffs to the waterbug, pointing to the spider
"I just wanted to check on the kid," Oppressive scoffs back
"I just wanted to help," the waterbug pouts
"I wanted to make sure the kid was happy," Toxic Positivity smiles, looking at me
"I'm sixteen... I'm not a kid," I mumble, tired of their bickering
"Sorry, Rednex," Toxic Positivity shrugs
"That's not my name," I frown
"That's what you named your little doll," Toxic Positivity comments. I sigh
"Whatever, where did he go?" I ask
"Oh that explains the name!! Anyway, Toxicity has him. He wanted to make sure that Rednex was in safe hands before you go back showing him to the 'Gunsmokes'," Toxic Positivity explains, airquoting the word "Gunsmokes"
"I will deliver Rednex to your room while you sleep, Smokey," Oppressive sighs
"How did-" I start before the waterbug puts his hand on my forehead
"Shh, go to sleep... go to sleep," he mumbles, pushing my head gently into my pillow. My eyes felt really heavy, forcing me to sleep.

Guilt: I feel so bad!!
Oppressive: No need, hun. We only need for him to hate his world...
Toxic Positivity: I wouldn't dream of being here, I just like that it's free of that stupid witch
Oppressive: She can visit this world, you know!! Once he finds the key and that well, the witch will be able to transfer herself to this world!! She will stop our plan and eliminate us!! He needs to stay away from that stupid well... we need to alert Mistress about TV soon before... he interrupts. He can't remember about that time when Aldex and Sydney came by, he will be our death and the end of the world if he wakes up.
Toxic Positivity: Right, we can't risk that again... if he sees... the globe... he will raid the world and destroy it from the source...
Guilt: You both can't give out this much information yet, Smokey can still hear us... if he woke up with all this information, he will surely wake up... him...
Toxic Positivity: -sigh- Just let Rage know that they need to prepare for a fight. The strong ones need to fight against him
Guilt: You know how that went last time...
Oppressive: It doesn't matter how strong they nor the others are, he will be stronger than all of us. You remember what that stupid witch did to him after Rage knocked him out. He promised us that he will return the original Gunsmokes once he wakes up
Guilt: I dunno... I just feel so bad after I forced him to sleep... I just...
Oppressive: DO NOT!!! You must resist or else... you'll end up like the soulless...
Guilt: Hek-!! Sorry!! I'm sorry... I shouldn't feel guilt but it's just how she made me...
Oppressive: You're ok, just don't talk like that again
Guilt: Ok...

Soo... Doubt is the butterfly, Guilt is a waterbug. Sorry ;w;