MyStreet: The Emerald Secret (OC Character Added)

Saying Goodbye

"He doesn't have a temperature...And neither does she... Their vitals seem normal. But, I'm sure you've all noticed it." Lucinda says.

"Huh?" Kim asks.

"Yeah." Garroth says.

"Noticed what?" Kim asks.

"Kim, you haven't known Zane and Violet long, but look closely at their faces." Lucinda instructs.

"Hmmm. Kinda hard to see Zane's entire face with the mask on." Kim admits.

"H-hey!" Zane protests.

"You don't need to see his entire face to know something is off." Lucinda laughs. "See anything with Violet?"

Kim looks closely at me. "What is it?"

"Their eyes..." Garroth says sadly.

I watch myself glance at Zane's hideous green eyes and for the first time I wonder if mine are now green as well.

"Their eyes?" Kim repeats. "They look the same to me."

"They're not---" Garroth sighs. "My baby brother's eyes are naturally blue. And my baby sister's eyes are naturally purple, hence her name. But their eyes are green!"

"Oh!" Kim exclaims. "You're right! I didn't notice that before!"

"I think we were all too caught up in finding them that we didn't think to question it." Lucinda says.

"To be honest, I was just glad they were back safe and sound." Garroth says.

"We all were." Kim agrees. "Especially Aphmau."

"Zane, Violet." Lucinda asks. "What exactly happened with your eyes?"

"What are you talking about?" I ask.

"Your eyes are a different color!" Lucinda tells me. My stomach rolls. So my eyes really

are green... I wonder if they're the same minty color as Zane, or if my purple made them darker?

"They are?" I ask.

"Yes, they are. Does anyone have a mirror?" Lucinda asks.

"I do!" Kim exclaims. "It's small, but it should work!" She pulls a small hand-held mirror out of her pocket. "Here, Violet, look."

I take it from her and find a complete stranger looking back at me. Well, not a complete stranger, but this girl doesn't have a trace of laughter in her face anywhere. No smile, no sparkle, no twitch of my next joke, ready to pop out.

Just horrible, swampy-green eyes that glint as much as Ein's do.

"My eyes are green." I hear myself say as if from a distance. "That's my natural eye color."

"NO IT'S NOT!" Garroth yells. "Violet, please remember...."

"Look, Geroth, was it?" STOP. BEING. IVY!!! "I appreciate you... no, all of you, in helping us recover from the cold."

"But we DON'T appreciate you guys acting this way towards us." Zane says.

Stop interrupting me, you fat little nugget!

"What do you mean?" Lucinda asks.

"Well first off, Garroth here keeps screaming he's our brother." Zane starts.

"And even if he isn't screaming it, he's giving us this dirty look." I add.

"NO I'M NOT!" Garroth says. But when I glance over, his face is screwed up like a weird constipated mole's. "What?" he asks when we all stare at him.