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Key:

( ) = Verbal Sound Effect

[ ] = Artificial Sound Effect

* * = Silent Insert

{ } = Line Delivery

/ = Gendered Split

Almighty Adoption

[door opens and closes]

{overjoyed}

Shugi!

*speaker hugs*

It’s been so long since you showed up! Where have you been?

*listener states*

Aw, that sounds so cool! I wish I had been there!

*listener questions*

I’ve been great! Fourth grade is kind of hard, and they give me a lot of homework, but it’s okay! Mommy has been coming home really late these days. And Daddy has been getting angry really often. But it’s not so bad! We got ice cream on Saturday. I got three scoops!

*small pause*

Hey, did you bring that special game? With the little crystals and the board thingy?

*listener shows*

Yay! I love this game! Can we play?

*listener agrees*

Okay, buckle up! I’ve been waiting for this rematch!

*small pause*

Hey, can I ask you for a favor?

*listener questions*

No, not to let me win! I’m going to do that fair and square! I was hoping you’d come to school with me.

*listener questions*

Well, not very often, but sometimes, I maybe, kinda, told the other kids about you. And then Jennifer, I hate Jennifer, said you weren’t real! That you were an imaginary friend, and that I should grow up! But I know you’re real! I’ve had imaginary friends, and they aren’t like you! They don’t play real games, or hug me when lightning strikes, or hide me from Daddy when he’s upset! So, I thought maybe you could shrink down, I could put you in my backpack, and then I could show you to my class!

*listener disagrees*

Please? I promise that everyone will be on their best behavior! No eye contact or anything!

*listener holds firm*

(humph)

Fine. Full Scavotch! I win.

*listener acknowledges*

No, I’m not mad. I’m sure you know better. You always do.

*small pause*

Can I ask for an easier favor? If you won’t come to school?

*listener encourages*

When Mommy took me to school, she didn’t give me any lunch money. I’m pretty hungry now. Can you help?

*listener offers*

Pink stuff, please! The orange stuff is too sour.

*listener gives*

Thanks, Shugi! You’re the best!

(big bite)

Will you tell me a story while I eat?

*listener questions*

My favorite story! The one with the whale!

*listener baits*

What do you mean, you don’t remember that one! You tell it all the time!

*listener presses*

Yeah!

(big bite)

You were sailing the beyond place. Which, I always imagine as like, the ten-foot section of the pool, but way deeper! Anyway, you were sailing the beyond and you saw that levia… leviath… the whale thing!

(big bite)

And it had a planet stuck on its fin! Remember?

*listener denies*

How can you not remember this? It sounded so cool!

(big bite)

You said the whale was tired because the planet was really heavy! So, you sailed down to it, and took the planet off its fin! Then you carried it until you found a star to put it on! Remember?

*listener agrees*

You do remember? Wait, did you just trick me into telling the story myself?

*listener confirms*

Aw, Shugi! No fair! I wanted you to tell it! You do it way better than I do!

*listener asks*
Yeah, it was fun to tell the story. I wish I had cool stories to tell you. But I don’t save whales or lift planets.

*listener asks*

Would I like to? Well, yeah! But I don’t think I have time. I have to go to bed in like, an hour.

*listener offers*

I want to come with you, I really do, but, I can’t! I still have homework to do and a couple of chores! I can’t just go with you!

*listener questions*

Leave all that behind? I don’t understand. How would I-?

[door slams]

{Parent; Drunk}

Hey, brat! I thought I told you to wash the vacuum!

*character switch*

What? You didn’t ask me to do that.

{Parent; Drunk}

Are you back-talking me?!

*character switch*

No! I didn’t mean to at least! I can go clean the vacuum now if you want.

{Parent; Drunk}

No. I’ve got to teach you a lesson about mouthing off! Hands against the wall!

*character switch*

But-!

{Parent; Drunk}

Now!

*small pause*

Maybe this will teach you to-!

[eldritch horror sfx]

(scream)

[parent collapses]

*pause*

Shugi. You… are they… alive?

*listener assures*

Oh good! I was worried you killed them!

*small pause*

Thanks for protecting me Shugi! But I should go clean the vacuum. I don’t want them to be mad when they wake up.

*listener stops*

Shugi. You look sad. What’s wrong?

*listener speaks*

I know you’re not imaginary, Shugi! And if I didn’t know already, then this would be pretty good proof!

*listener questions*
Well I… I guess I never really thought about what you are. I just know you’re nice. That’s all that mattered to me.

*listener explains*

Eld-er-itch? Does that mean something, Shugi?

*listener clarifies*

It means you’re special? I already knew that too, Shugi! There’s no one else like you! I don’t get why you’re telling me this.

*listener states*

I’m special? No, I’m not, silly! I’m just a kid.

*listener explains*

Most people go insane when they see you? Wait so, is my mom/dad gonna be okay?

*listener states*

No?! But you said-!

*listener clarifies*

Can you fix them?

*listener asks*

Shugi, you have to fix them!

*listener questions*

They aren’t abusing me. That’s just what parents do to their kids. They love me!

*listener denies*

No, I…

*small pause*

Please, tell me you’re joking Shugi. I… They…

*listener denies*

{saddened}

Shugi… Am I a bad kid?

*listener assures*

I must be! Why would they be mean if I wasn’t? If no one else’s parents do this to them, then there must be something wrong with me!

*listener comforts*

Are we friends, Shugi?

*listener confirms*

Do you promise?

*listener agrees*

Earlier, when you said I could come with you, did you mean it?

*listener confirms*

Would I… would I be like you? Would I be able to sail around and help whales?

*listener confirms*

I… I think I’d like that a lot.

*small pause*

Will you, fix my mom/dad before we go? Even if she/he doesn’t deserve it, I don’t want her/him to be insane forever.

[magic sfx]

Thanks, Shugi.

*small pause*

Let me leave a note for my parents. I want them to know that I’m safe.

*pause*

Okay, Shugi! I’m ready. I left a note. I got my backpack! I’m ready to sail the beyond!
*listener asks*

Yep. I got blankets, snacks, my homework, a compass, and everything else I could think of!

*listener states*

The homework? What about it?

*listener states*

I don’t have to do my homework anymore? But, I have a test on Friday.

*listener clarifies*

Wait. So if I go to the beyond with you, I don’t have to go to school anymore?

*listener confirms*

{excited}

Cool! I get to go on adventures with you, and I don’t have to see Jennifer anymore? This is the best!

*small pause*

Let’s go! I want to see your house! Do you have a family? I need to know everything!

*listener offers*

Yes. I’m ready! Do I have to-!

[magic sfx]