THIS TRANSMIGRATION SEEMS SOMEWHAT STRANGE...?

Jerry had finally detransformed a few minutes later after Jack passed out, only his long white hair and the red carnation mark on his neck remained.

Cutting his hair to shoulder-length this time, he did a front parting on his hair and made his hair to cover up from his ear to his neck. He had did it so to use his hair to cover the mark, for now, Dina had a fear but seeked to call it being paranoid.

Jerry was already 18, it wasn't possible to awaken again right? Right?! She didn't want to start the horror of heat! That thing was even worse than menses by facts!

Daren stared at his brother on the bed with a bandaged neck and then at Jerry who had his head lowered, Jerry had bandaged the neck up so perfectly. It obviously wasn't Jerry's doing when he attacked Gerald but Jack was controlling him, a powerful being like Jerry?

That didn't even need power nor spiritual energy to defeat his bro easily? Then who exactly was Jack? Daren mulled on.

Jerry had asked them to keep everything from Jack and they had agreed, Jerry was so strong how sure were they that he wouldn't hack them to death if they disagreed?

And even if they didn't there was no evidence, he didn't know how but all the video of what had happened had been mysteriously wiped and even if his brother reports as a Pure, with no evidence, it'd be coined as him being paranoid.

Dina sighed, he had asked Zero to wipe all the records of what happened, she really didn't know how to state her gratefulness to Zero, he was such a saint, helping her through her troubles. She knew how many times she'd have been doomed if there was no Zero.

She started criticizing all those Transmigrator protags in novels with cool systems but still cursed it, She'd never do that!

Without systems, she didn't dare imagine how most of them would survive, but still, those ingrates always ended up cursing their systems.

As she said, she'd never do that.

Well, unless her system was scum, but if it was a cutie like Zero, like hell she'd ever try cursing at such a helpful system!

Anyways, the issue on the table was having a discussion with Daren's brother, although he was the person that caused everything, the fact that they had hurt him was still there, therefore a strict apology was needed, at the least.

***

Jack woke up the next morning and didn't see any Jerry, only a pillow in his arms. He frowned, had he slept so deep that he didn't notice that instead of a Jerry what he had was a pillow in his arms??

Looking around, he seemed to be the only one still in bed?? How was that possible? He had always been a light sleeper, something was wrong.

Walking out of the room, he met Carl,

"Em, they're all in the dining room, can I enter?" Carl asked timidly.

"Sure thing," Jack replied.

Carl scurried inside immediately after Jack parted ways with him. Jack frowned, it really wasn't his imagination, if the flicker of fear in Carl's eyes wasn't enough evidence, the trembling of his body clearly was, what exactly had happened? Jack mulled as he walked to the dining room.

"Oi Jack, you really slept in ah, you were sleeping like a log and no matter how we tried to wake you, you just wouldn't wake," Frank said while stuffing steak with vegetables in his mouth.

The girls had left early in the morning, it seemed that one of them had invited them out to go somewhere, so it was only the guys that remained.

Nodding politely at Frank, he took a seat while checking out for Jerry but saw no one. Looking around, he saw Daren curled up in one corner eating quietly, which was unusual as he had always been really energetic.

"Where's Jerry?" Jack walked up to him and asked with a scowl.

Usually, Daren would have retorted back but now he didn't even raise his head before pointing to a certain direction, and just like Carl he was also trembling. He trembled so much that the fork that he used to point in the direction fell on the ground, just near Jack's foot.

Jack stared down at the fork waiting for Daren to pick it, nah, he wasn't picking anything for this nuisance.

Daren just took another fork and buried his face in his plate, eating quietly, stunning Jack. Jack raised his eyebrows, he suddenly wanted to test something, picking up the fork, he placed it in front of Daren, making him flinch.

"What's up with you?" Jack asked annoyed, why were Daren and Carl acting like he was gonna eat them up or something, seriously annoying

"N.. o.. t-thin... g, I'll take the fork," Daren said with a gulp while dropping the other fork he had taken and taking the one Jack gave him and then went back to burying his face in his food.

Jack stared at him for a while, before leaving to go meet Jerry, maybe Jerry knew the answers? To Carl and Daren's weirdness? And strange… fear of him, hm.

Walking up to where Jerry was, he saw him leaning unto Jerry on the railing on the veranda while staring into the distance as the wind harassed his figure.

His side profile looked so beautiful, with side highlights of pretty blue eyes, fair skin, and lovely white hair, hair….. that had grown longer? Just in a night? Was that even possible? Or was he...?

"Jack," Jerry's soft voice was heard calling out to him, his eyes looked so doting and loving... just too doting, like Jack was gone for a while and had finally returned.

"Jerry, did your hair grow longer?" Jack asked suspiciously.

Jerry was confused for a while before saying-

"Of course not you silly boy, it's just your eyes," Jerry said with a chuckle.

My eyes? Showing me a neck-length hair suddenly reaching shoulder length? And when did Jerry start having a front parting? Dividing his hair in the middle?

"Jerry what's going on?" Jack asked while walking towards Jerry and he swore he saw Jerry subconsciously tense up, he frowned at this, Jerry too?

"Jer?" Jack asked.

Jerry sighed heavily before he walked towards Jack and gave him a big hug, stunning Jack.

'Jack, even if you turn to a god please don't ever change. I fear what Gerald says might be true if that's so… even if it does happen, I'll always be here for you but please don't change too much, I fear things totally beyond my control.'

[Earlier]-

"I'm sorry," Jerry said with a deep bow at Gerald who had just woken up.

Gerald had removed the bandages, and mysteriously, his healing abilities were back again. He glanced at Jerry before walking up to the door, making Jerry raise his head and follow his movements with his eyes, just as he was about to step out, he said-

"I won't tell, I won't say a word, just be able to tame him when he does awaken and also be ready to accept him even if he changes to a totally different person you never knew, I hope you have that in mind."

***

Dina had mulled on this and couldn't deny that she was a bit scared, she wasn't the original pet that had stayed with Jack in godly form, she had stayed with Jack as a normal boy, if he really did awaken and change would she be able to condole it?

Would she still look at her little Jack with the same eyes? Or would he look at her with the same eyes? Would he see 'Jerry' or his 'pet'?

Would she see 'Jack' or 'Master', would they ever be the same? Their relationship, how big of a change would it have? For the first time, Dina's heart worried about a relationship with someone.

She was always good at acting, keeping relationships going, and always knowing what to do and not to do to control other people's feelings for her. Precisely knowing how to handle things in a relationship and even with Jackson, even if he didn't want her, she never feared him hating her.

Because, she knew what she had to do and when to do it, and even if their relationship was messy, Jackson could never come to truly hate her. She was a manipulative bitch who knew how to control other people feelings for her, that was why that even after stalking Jackson for years after they broke up, he hadn't felt disgusted or anything because she knew how to follow feelings of people.

But with Jack, for the first time, she felt she was in a real relationship, where her fears, sadness, anger and all showed, where she felt feelings that she had long lost, the feeling of not having a relationship totally under her control nor the feelings of the other under her control.

Knowing that the feelings in a relationship were real because two people had it and not because one controlled it all, the feeling of not having absolute control of everything in a relationship was refreshingly scary.

Dina sighed, she would have to do her best to open her heart and accept the new Jack if he came. Either way, acceptance was among the key factors that held a relationship together, she might not be in absolute control like always but that didn't mean she would just ditch the relationship.

If Jack became another thing she could always adjust for him, besides, true friendship was all about acceptance, and that was why she'd lost the ever-real one she had once had with Annabelle.

NEVER, would she make the same mistake.

***

Jack became surer of it, something was wrong but what was it? But Jer didn't want to tell him.

"Darling, let's go home, I don't wanna stay here any longer okay?" Jerry said coquettishly while pouting and staring up at Jack still in his embrace.

Jack's heart thumped, the guy in his vision had his pink lips pursed and his cheeks puffed out making him look really cute. His eyes stared up at him and only him, like he was his whole world… and his heart thoroughly melted, he sighed, really, this guy was his weakness.

"Fine, but when the right time comes you tell me what really happened and don't you dare lie that nothing did, accept or deny?" Jack said sternly.

"Accept~, " Jerry said while burying his face in Jack's chest, selling meng at Jack which was successfully sold. Jack flushed furiously, this guy was really too much for his heart.

***

After everything, the students went home, Daren who had acted all weird finally eased up and sent them all home with amiable smiles and good wishes.

The students all thanked him for his kindness and left, Carl stared at him a bit longer before timidly waving with blush and left, leaving Daren chuckling helplessly. Him and carl had really seen it, glancing at Jerry and Jack who were already outside the door, he sighed in relief, better keep my distance from now on.

He had learned his lesson, bitterly, his bro too, the two of them had really had it, especially his bro.

***

"It's got to be it right?!" Rita said with a wide smile at a stunned Jean.

It had been days after the party, it was a hot topic spreading through the school blog and masking other topics, not only had Jerry and others become really popular they were now known as the beau of the Normals in school.

Many commenters argued that students in other classes except arts had hotter males while others firmly stood that the art class had the hottest males ever.

Others were neutral, some saying that even if Jerry and Jack were the world's hottest that they were still Normals which really made it so they're not their cup of tea while the others told them to fuck off from THEIR cup of tea.

Jack and Jerry had it really hard, especially Jack, as a home-schooled person even though he was getting along with people well when it came to popularity or always getting confessed to by a person almost everyday, or asked out, or coming to his locker to see it full of stacks of love letters and gifts or always almost missing his classes/Jer due to the crowds of people crowding him most of the times he was totally hopeless.

Jack was so frustrated that he had once made a joke on going bald, and he had been seriously considering it until Jerry teased him that he'd look ugly and because of it that he'd go find a new 'husband' making Jack ditch all traces of the idea.

Jerry although not having it better than Jack always helped Jack, his was worst as in that he had been kabedoned up to five times and almost kissed up to three times, his own cases were up a notch to sexual molestations since his pursuers were mostly males.

Even Ancients were pursuing him! Many times he was glad that 'Jack' had awakened some of his powers so that he could pummel those bastards and at the same time hide it since any bruises from punches or other self-defense always healed in less than a minute.

He didn't know it but somehow he had become a feared gangster or something of that sort, it seemed the ones he had sent to the hospital spilled the beans, either way as far as the beans didn't reach the Johnsons or Jack, then he was cool.

It was so much that he had to start dragging along John, Drake, and even the fearful Daren to be able to survive and reach their classes. By a week, Jerry was so drained that he wanted to just kill the whole school population or something and Jack wasn't any better.

Dina was used to popularity but where she had come from at least no normal human would want to forcefully kiss someone or something, did they think sexual molestation was sexy?

The school wasn't even doing anything about it and she was too lazy to pursue it with them either, so they had made a sort of mutual agreement to leave themselves alone.

Anyways, it seemed the heavens heard their cries and finally gave them rest, the school holidays were coming up and it was finally time to go home!

Jerry and Jack couldn't be anymore happier, and as for Jean, they didn't know if it was because he was busy or that he had been avoiding them these days although Jerry was adamant about the first one but they hadn't seen him for a long time so no one knew his feelings about the upcoming holidays.

And maybe it was better since hanging out with him with all the school drama around them would be difficult. He had managed to completely cover that incident up even from Jack and as for the red carnation flower tattoo, he had also always made sure to cover it with makeup.

***

Jean sighed, he really had been avoiding Jack and Jerry, these days, not only was Jack's popularity growing, his was too. He wasn't conspicuous like Jack and Jerry but maybe it was because his project was so insane that even the critic professor, Mrs. Janet just had to praise him.

At that he could only laugh if they all knew that this was a piece of cake for Jerry he wondered how their shock would be.

Either way, the reason he was avoiding those dual these days was the fact that seeing them together, especially with Jack could result into a serious issue and might even turn into a family scandal for the Johnsons.

Yes, he was told to say that Jack was his family friend but no matter how hard-hearted he was blatantly denying his brother to the whole world was plain heartless and he couldn't possibly do that.

Also, if he did accept it, it'd turn into a family scandal against the 5th most powerful Ancient family in America and he dared not dare his father or the consequences would be much, his father was obsessed with reputation

and that was why he had hidden Jack.

The world knew about all his other children except Jack and if rumors were to spread one day about Jack's origin, it would be really something, their family power might even drop to 7th place not that he really cared but his father did, and a lot.

That was why these days he had been careful, treading carefully on thin ice to avoid that but... looking at his giggling bestie who probably didn't know the disaster that she might just bring him, asking him if he was related to Jack casually.

Firstly glance around, good, no one's listening, second, although heartless, he could tell her to bug off. He really didn't want to, Rita was his friend and their relationship was really deep, deeper than Jerry or his other male friends.

"Rita…" Jean started while slyly taking the phone from Rita's hand and standing up, raising Rita's chin to look right at his eyes he said.

"Don't go about saying things you're not sure of, this could cause my family problem you know?" Jean said calmly.

Rita's heart was beating so loudly, she really, really liked Jean and Jean doing this to her, teasing her poor heart like this… although she did hear most of what he said, her loudly beating heart didn't let her hear the rest, but like a good little girl she was she responded curtly with a 'yes'.

"Let's go eat now, okay?" Jean said while coyly deleting all pictures of him and Jack from Rita's phone.

Later when love-struck Rita would find out, she'd cry in horror and curse at Jean, it was already so hard to get pictures of him but the bastard heartlessly deleted it!

She also learned her lesson on the seriousness of the matter and decided not to pursue it, at least her female friends had long forgotten about it and no one brought it out to post.

Jean who had deleted any posts of such before it went viral: Of course, BESTIE *sneer.gif*

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