I was pretty sure that I saw all three of them flinch when I said that so damn casually, and I didn't judge them at all because my "real world" self did not like how casual I was with it either. Plus, I was pretty sure the reason I didn't have a bigger reaction to this was because this kind of thing happened a lot in this world.
I could feel that both of my minds were blended together at this point now, yet I could still know which memory belonged to which self. And I noticed that my DC self was more defensive and ruder because that was how you survived DC and mostly Gotham. Hell, I had even sold drugs a few times just so I could make some money so I could get stuff I wanted, and I didn't overshare like how I did in the "real world" because that could get me jumped, robbed, or killed.
"Meow."
"Hello there, Hexes," I said as I got off of the edge and walked over to her and picked her up. Then I put her on my shoulder, and she started to purr as she rubbed her cheek against mine.
"Oh my, Hexes is a good name for a cutie like her," Catwoman said as she walked toward me and Hexes. Then she started to pet Hexes gently, and Hexes let herself get petted by Catwoman. Then she slapped her hand away when she felt that she was petted enough by Catwoman, and Catwoman was confused and a little shocked. Then she started to laugh, and she said, "Oh, she's feisty, and she likes you a lot by the look of it, so you pretty much take good care of her~"
"Y'all get going if you guys want to catch Scarecrow, and I heard a rumor that there's an abandoned building on the next street that supposedly is where his hideout is now," I told them as I threw away my empty can of soda in a trashcan on the rooftop. Then I said to myself, "I got a long night ahead of me."
I went back inside and dropped Hexes off at my place. Then I went all the way down to the first floor to see if all the windows and doors were good so no gas could get in from them. Then I knocked on one of the doors to an apartment on the first floor.
"Yo, Mr. Caddell," I said as I knocked on the door again.
"What do you want, boy?" Mr. Caddell asked me as he opened the door.
"Scarecrow is around here, so you should close all your windows really well and stay away from them while keeping your gas mask with you at all times."
"So basically the usual."
"Yeah, and I'm going to tell the rest of the people in this apartment."
"Good luck on that, boy, and have a good night," he said as he closed his door.
Then I went door to door to almost every door in this apartment building. Then when I finally got to my floor, I stood in front of the last door—aka my front neighbors that played loud Hispanic music—and I knocked on the door.
"Ah, Gray, how are you, mijo?" asked Veronica with a slight accent as she leaned forward to kiss my cheek, and I kissed hers back like I always did because she taught me to do that.
"I am very good, Veronica," I said to her.
"Come in, come in, mijo," she said as she pulled me in and closed the door behind me. Then she pushed me to the kitchen, and she said, "Look, Sophie, it's Gray who knocked on our door."
"Oh, hello, dear," Sophie said as she walked over to us and kissed me on my other cheek that Veronica didn't kiss. Then she hugged me, and I hugged her back.
"Sona, get your ass out and come to greet Gray now!" Veronica yelled out to the halls to the room.
Then I heard a door get opened hard and fast, and I heard fast walks. Sona came out, then she basically threw herself onto me for a hug. "Hey, Gray, how are you today?" she said to me happily as she gave me a kiss on my jaw like she always did, which, now that I thought of it, was a little weird because I was 16 and she was 25.
"I had a very good day, Sona," I said to her as I kissed her forehead gently since she was like 5'5 and I was 5'10.
"What are you doing here at this hour of the night, dear?" Sophie asked me as Sona and I let go of each other, yet Sona kept clinging to my arms a little bit.
"Scarecrow is on the loose around this area, so I let the whole building know about it in case he lets out his gas," I told the three of them.
Now, my relationship with them was really good because they had been in my life since I was 11 years old since that was when I moved here. Veronica was a beautiful Latina woman that was about the same height as me. She was a very strong-willed woman that was not afraid of whopping ass, plus she cooked really good. Sophie was a gentle woman who loved to cuddle with people and was very soft-spoken. Sona was a very lazy girl that was very clingy to me, but I didn't mind it because I was used to it. Veronica and Sophie were married to each other and were really happy with each other. I think that Sona was like their girlfriend for reasons that I would not go into at the moment.
Now that I thought about it, they had been the ones that had really raised me because they were the ones that got me this big, and they helped get me into Gotham City High, and my style of clothes was the one that they taught me to wear, plus they taught me to cook along with other things, and they showed me what women were, so they were like the closest thing that I had to parents.
"Really?" Veronica asked as she went to their alcohol cabinet in the kitchen. There, she took out the vodka with a bottle of raspberry syrup. Then she went into the fridge to take out four sodas: three Squirts and one Dr. Pepper.
"Well, I think that you should stay here with us tonight in case anything happens so we can be together," Sophie said as she took out four cups and put them on the counter for Veronica as she added ice to all the cups and then mixed the raspberry, Squirt, and vodka into three of the cups. Then in the last one, she put the Dr. Pepper and some raspberry into the last cup that was for me.
"I would, but I got Hexes in my place, and I don't like to leave her locked up in my apartment because she's an outside cat," I told her as I took the cup that Veronica handed to me and took a sip of it.
"That damn cat," Veronica muttered to herself, yet I heard her.
"Well, I could sleep at your place with you, to keep you from getting lonely and scared tonight," Sona said to me as she took one of the cups from the counter and took a sip from it. "Not bad."
"That's a good idea, sweetheart," Sophie said to Sona as she petted her head, and I was pretty sure that she started to make a noise close to a purr, which was weird. Then she looked at me and said, "Do you have a problem with Sona staying with you tonight?"
"Nah, I got no problems with it," I said because I was used to Sona sometimes coming over to my place to sleep with me over the years, so I got no problems with it.
"Good because Sona needs to get out of the apartment even if it's just going to yours because that girl doesn't go out much," Veronica said as she drank from one of the drinks she made.
"I think it's called a NEET," I said to Veronica.
"Hey, I am not a NEET!" Sona said as she slapped my shoulder at what I said.
"Whatever you say."
"I am not!"
"Let's calm down now," Sophie said gently to the both of us.
"Yes, ma'am," we said to her as we stopped going back and forth.
"Oh, before I forget, there's some food here if you want some," Sophie said to me, and I was already in the plate cabinet and grabbing a plate. Then I served myself Puerto Rican rice and beans with pork chops because Veronica was Puerto Rican and Mexican, and from Ponce around the beach area of it, so she liked to cook both types of food.
Once I served myself some of the food, I sat at the dining room table. Then I cut the pork chop into small cubes and put ketchup on top of it all. Then I dug into the food. "It's good as always, and thanks for the food," I said as I kept eating it.
"You're welcome, dear," Sophie said to me as she sipped on her drink slowly and eyed me up and down.
"You always eat so much, Gray," Sona said to me as she went behind the chair that I was sitting on and wrapped her arms around my neck as she leaned on me and pressed her cheek against mine.
"You need to stop being so damn clingy to Gray," Veronica said to Sona as she shook her head at Sona and what she was doing.
"I really don't care if she's clingy to me," I told Veronica as I kept eating and didn't really pay mind to Sona.
"Gray, you better not eat until you throw up," Sophie said to me in a serious tone, and she didn't call me by a pet name, so she was very serious right now.
I said to her, "I have not done that in a whole month and a half, so I'm good," but what I said was a lie, yet they didn't need to know that.
"Gray..." Sona said this time.
"I'm fine, and I'm not going to do that because I don't do that anymore."
"Just because you don't do that in a month and a half doesn't mean you don't do it anymore," Veronica said to me.
I started to eat more slowly because I did have an eating disorder that was like a caveman mentality, as in eat until you got the feeling that you had to throw up. Plus, I learned to eat almost everything that I got a chance to eat, and then I would overeat a lot so I could go long times without eating because the orphanage did not feed us a lot like that, so when they did feed us, then I would just grab anything, then eat it until I felt like I needed to throw up. And when I met them, I still did it—just I learned to hide it really good until about a few couple months ago when I ate a lot and threw up all over the floor. Then I told them what I did because I made them worry a lot over me, and I felt really bad. Anyway, now I tried to do it less—just I sometimes didn't realize what I was doing.
While I was still eating, Sona went to her room to get her pajamas on so she could sleep with me. When I was done eating, I put my dish into the sink and washed it.
"See you tomorrow, mijo," Veronica said to me as she gave me a kiss on my cheek again.
"Have a good night, dear, and we both love you," Sophie said as she gave me a kiss on my other cheek.
"See y'all tomorrow, and I love you both too," I said as Sona and I went to my place across the hall.
Once we got into my apartment, Sona ran to find Hexes as I went to change my clothes into a cotton tank top and pajama sweatpants.
Then Sona came in with Hexes in her arms, and she lay down in my bed while she spooned Hexes, so I got in my bed too and started to spoon her too like I always had.
"Night night, Gray," Sona said to me.
"Goodnight, Sona," I said back, and we both fell asleep.
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[AN: Hello goblins, just wanted to give some role about his life in DC and a little bit about him and his flaws that he had like his ED because I don't see other stories where that MC don't have some disorders or really have any flaws and I don't those type of stories like that. Anyway the type of eating disorder that he have, are mostly common amongst people who eat anything they can get their hands on it because they don't eat that often or like how some kids eat as much a possible at school cause they don't eat at home so that is why I have given him that ED.
Image for Sona, Sophie and Veronice:
Gray built is like a mix of fat yet fit at the same time.
And his is 100 percent getting groom by Sophie and Veronica but he don't realize that because he think it normal to treat like that yet his "real world" is making him feel like it a little bit weird but he ignore it cause he love them a lot in both platonically and romantically because got his taste of woman from them.]