Chapter 4.4 - Billy the kid

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Madrugada - Sail Away

All I see is my newfound friend
And all the things she grants me
Freedom is not among those things
And freedom is by no means free

Natalie had just finished her shift at the Zombie Restaurant and was heading home. She had not spoken to Billy since after he drank the potion.




She goes for a shower and changes to her sleepwear, as usual... "It is so comfortable to wear", she says. Then she goes out in the yard to talk to Billy.




Natalie: Hey Billy, how do you feel now that you have drunk the potion? Did it taste like flowers?




Billy: Oh, ma'am, it didn't taste like flowers.. It was more like soda, it was very sweet. Do you like flowers?

Ma'am? How impersonal.. he is your kid, Natalie! What have you trained him into?

Natalie: Not really.. I never cared much about flowers, and you can call me Natalie from now on.




Billy: Will I get a big bed like Aaron?


Natalie: Oh, sure, it is a little late now, but I will go out shopping for one tomorrow. I will ask Aaron if you can borrow his bed for the night. Don't worry about Aaron, he can sleep alongside me in my bed.

Billy: Oh, you are so kind, miss Natalie.




So Billy went to sleep in Aarons bed and Natalie read a bedtime story for Aaron. No demons were present and everything was good.







Natalie had her faults and troubles and was far from the perfect mother, but she did love her sons after all.. or so the story goes..




It was the middle of rainy season and a new year had begun. And of course, now that Natalie was convinced Billy would not return to his plush state, she sent him off to go to school just like everyone else. Life has become very different for Billy, now after drinking the potion. Lets just hope he will cope with all these changes and that the other kids at school will welcome him. So many new things, he was already excited to have used both a bed and a real toilet for the first time! Poor kid..




Lenore (in the blue jacket, thinking to herself): Hmm, there's a new kid here. I haven't seen him before.. He doesn't have angel wings like most of the rest of us.. and he's got funny looking clothes. And blue hair. Who has blue hair?? What a weirdo!




At home Natalie was practicing to improve her food making skills for the job. Since things seemed to be going so well in the household for the time being, it would appear that she had forgotten all about what Teresa told her about the chalice and the holy oils. They had no other purpose here now, but to stand on the table collecting dust..

Well, things were mostly alright. Natalie had a strange experience again when she sat down to eat her lunch...




Natalies voice: Don't tell anyone, Natalie, or the police will come and get you, and they will lock you up. Do you want that, Natalie? No, you don't want that.. you don't want that...




Billy is just finished with his first day at school, and is very fast to get home. Lenore is eyeing him as he leaves. Aaron is staying behind, because he has joined the boy scouts.




"Maybe I should join the boy scouts, too." Billy thinks. With Natalie at work, and Isaac at the art club, Billy had the house to himself. Billy wants to do what Aaron does, and is a little uncomfortable being all alone.




All the boys were tired and went to bed early, as they stayed up pretty late last night, Billy in his new bed. When Natalie was out shopping, she did try to find a lamp and bed stand for Billy that matched Aarons, but especially finding a matching lamp proved to be very difficult. The one shown here was the only one they had left of its kind at the store, but at least its the same model!




Well, in spite of Natalie being a little forgetful with the religious rituals (yeah, I'll call it that), the situation in the home seemed pleaseant and peaceful! Well, if you ignore the occasional mess of smelly clothes and spoiled left over food, I mean. So maybe the holy items and Teresas blessings worked. Leftover sushi? Well, I wouldn't eat that...




..and the boys are off to school again. Hurry up, Billy! Don't be late! Today is excursion day and you're going to the Theatre!




"Come along, Billy" says Aaron "we are going to the Theatre!". Of course, Billy had never been to the theatre, nor had he gone on an excursion before, so he wasn't really sure what to expect. But he had no choice, so a little nervously, he tagged along.




And it seems the bus to the theatre departs from the new school building at the edge of town.. a little far to go for the kids attending the old school building. Bus driver.. couldn't you just drive by and make a stop at the old school as well on your route?




Bus driver: No, I can't. The town council can't afford it, they have to save money!
That's a logic I can't quite understand.. you almost drive by there anyway.. and its just one extra stop! Really...




The kids finally making it to the Dreamland Theatre building..




Inside the lobby of the theatre building.




Billy, Aaron and Isaac really enjoyed the visit to the theatre. They learned quite a lot about the history of music and theatre in Dreamland, and got a quite rockin' perfomance by the local hair metal band "Nuclear Rabbit".

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