Roxy_the_foxy I hope you like the rewritten version! It's gonna be turned into a book at your request.

Let's take The Classic Antihero Geno and thrust him into college. Or try to. Course he's gonna be different since his beginning is slightly different.

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"Geno you don't have to go. I-I mean you can but what about your condition? What if something happens and I'm not there? O-Or, what if bullies somehow latch onto you?" My mother rambled while reluctantly packing my things.

"Mom, I am going to be fine. There really isn't anything you can do about this. I am going. That is final. Lexi and her brother will be there too. Ah, st-" Interrupting my own sentence, I groaned as the box in my hands slipped from my fingers. It banging against the ground with a soft thud.

'Thank the stars this box doesn't hold anything fragile.' All it was filled with was papers and other stupid sentimental shit anyway.

Putting a couple of my blankets into a box, "It's still not like you have to go. Your brothers don't want you to and I can't even fathom how you are this old already. Time just flew by without my knowing. It feels like it was just yesterday that we went to your final doctors appointment." She reminisces a happy smile on her face, "But you cant get too stressed hunny. As the doctor said, 'You're severe coughing episodes can return at any time. You're magic can go haywire and damage everyone around you unless you're anxiety turns it into a full blown panic attack.' Ok hunny?" My mother closes the box, taping it shut, before turning to my taller form. Her eyes widened, her occupied mind already forgetting how tall I was.

I roll my eyes, "I'll be fine. I can handle myself Mom. If there was anyone who taught me that then it was you." My smile soft as I took my emotional mother in my arms, "Dad can't get you, me, or my brothers. He's in jail for a reason Mom." It was true. Dad had owned a drug business and often came home drunk, high, or whatever the fuck in between.

I may have been born with erratic chest pains that caused severe coughing attacks. But I wasn't born with paranoia or the constant twitch of my hands whenever their not preoccupied.

My Dad had it all, money, a family, happiness not matter what form it was in. But the moment he decided to come home and beat his wife and kids is when he lost it all. No matter how much he wants to take it back he can't. Not like he can anyway.

A knock sounded at the door, startling my Mom, "Oh stars! That must be your brute of a friend Lexi!" She huffed as she gently pushed away from me and headed out of my room.

My arms fell to my sides as I bit my tongue to keep from saying anything. Lexi wasn't a brute per say. She just had a strange way of speaking and was absolutely unbiasedly blunt with every single person she's met. I know she's of the older sort. Not always there in the head when she gets going but, she isn't a brute. Just a kind soul that doesn't really give a flying fuck wether you're monster, human, or from an alien planet.

I was stacking more boxes when someone stepped into my room- old room I guess now.

"So, you're really off to college?" Error's voice hit my ears as I turned to him in surprise. He wasn't really home anymore with having a gang to take care of. As much as he denies it, I know he enjoys them. A bunch of misfits being reckless and carefree.

"Thought you would be with your buddies in that gang you're helping." A small smile of gratitude for Error being here lit up my face as it morphed into a condescending smirk that obviously got on his nerves.

Errors face twisting into a scowl, "I'm not helping a gang Geno." He grounded out as he glowered at me.

I shook my head, my arms crossed in amusement, "Whatever you say. But yes, I am really off to college. Mom has already tried to talk me out of it except I am not that easily swayed."

Error leaned against my old doorframe, "A lot of things could go wrong." Error tried to point out.

I held up my hand, "As I have said to Mom, 'Mom, I'm going to be fine. There really isn't anything you can do about this. I am going. That is final. Lexi and her brother will be there too'." Repeating word for word what I had told our mother.

"I'm not Mom." Error grumbled more to himself then to me.

"But you are acting like Mom." I pointed out not really as a jab but as a reminder that he is the younger one of out of the two of us. He shouldn't need to dot on me like a mother hen.

"Can't I be concerned for you? Really, if you hated me that much then you should've just left me to Dads awful scrutiny." Or as Error really meant to put it. 'You should have just let Dad beat me instead of you most or the time.' But I could never do that. Error was my brother. If Dad taught us anything then then you never let anything you hold as yours get hurt.

"I think you scrutinize yourself enough, Error." I chided as I turned away from my brother to examine a rather heavy box that held my art supplies, "It's not like Fresh isn't any better with that either. You both beat yourselfs around when you don't have to- need to. It's not healthy." Grunting as I lifted the weight, "It's useless to think about the past as if it's the present. Apologize, Forgive, and Forget. Now move before I crush you with this box." Turning to my brother who had indeed moved from doorframe into the hall.

"You're not a philosopher Geno. Seriously, you don't need to leave or go to college. We have all the money in the world ever since Dad went to jail. A life of luxury is what awaits us now Geno." Error followed me as I headed down stairs.

"Hey! Moma, where's Ed, Edd, and Eddy?" I internally groaned as Lexi's voice drifted through the house.

"I'm not this Moma you keep referring to me as." Mom hissed.

Their voices fading as I headed towards the back door. I wanted to delayed being referred to those cartoon characters Lexi keeps referencing. Error had a similar idea since he was still following me, "Why do you keep her around?" He hissed quietly.

I smirked, "Because she has you on your ass more often then you like. She also has a weird fetish for sticking you with the brawn for brains characters and me with the brains for brawn characters." That among other things that Error doesn't need to learn yet. Lexi was a gateway into a much bigger picture that I couldn't even begin to fathom.

Course Fresh, Error, and I weren't Eddy, Ed, and Edd. That'd just be inconvenient and idiotic to even suggest. Was Ed even Error? Or was I? Blasted memory with my rattled, scarred, skull never helped me.

"How did she even become your friend?" He inquired as I loaded the box into my mini van.

I turned after pushing the box into its space, "I met her when we were in preschool. You should remember her Error. She did babysit you." Striding past him as I headed back into the house to gather more boxes for my departure.

Error, snapping out of his stupor, scrambled after me in a haste, "Sh- you're kidding right?" He sputtered as we headed back upstairs.

Snorting a laugh at him probably wasn't the best idea but he helped me gather boxes nonetheless, "No, I'm not kidding. I believe she was a teenager at the time..." I trailed off as my mind wandered back into the past as I tried to remember Lexi as a teenager. My body going on autopilot for a moment.

I couldn't remember much. Her purple fur with the voice of a siren accompanied with eyes that sparkled if you looked close enough. Lexi, was the prime example of a female that didn't give two shits. One could come from a river and the other from a forest of deadly beasts. She'd placate them in a matter of seconds if she tried hard enough. Her wild hair, white tank top, ripped black jeans, and often footless feet. An almost walking contradiction of good and bad.

"G-n-."

Lexi had saved me and my brothers quite a few times when we were younger. I believe she saw herself in us during those times. Absolutely reckless, carefree, idiots with a criminal for a father and a submissive manipulative women for a mother. I never got out much as a kid either because of my chest pains and the doctors having panic attacks when my magic would spike. Fun times.

"-e-o?"

The irritating wolf monster decided I was close to her heart at some point in fucking time. Whenever that was. I'll probably never know because I don't care enough to ask. Is that a bad thing? Probably. Do I care? Fuck no. My soul decided that she was interesting enough to keep around anyhow. I don't trust her- anyone really. I won't. I refuse that torture of getting back stabbed. Besides, if you knew someone was going to hurt you from the beginning then is it really getting backstabbed?

"GENO!" Error hollered in my ear, cutting off my train of thought.

"What?!" I snarled, glowering at my brother.

Error glared at me, "Maybe if you payed attention then you would've noticed that we are done packing your shit." He spat vehemently, eyes blazing as if I had ignored him for hours. Which has happened accidentally before. My family knew I didn't mean to shut down. It just- happened, I guess?

"Sorry." I scratched the cover over my right socket. Fresh had called me a pirate once upon a time. Now he was more vibrant with his wording. Also barely home like Error. He probably wouldn't even see me off not that I cared. Even if I cared a lot.

Error shook his head, looking more morose whenever I blanked, "You have nothing to be sorry for Geno. It's all Dads fault!" He hissed, eyes glaring at the ground with fists clenched tight.

"Error cal-"

"Oh hey!" A light, thickly accented, voice interrupted me, "It's Ed and Edd!" Lexi's happy face me greeted my scowling one as I turned my head, narrowing my sockets at her, "Just got done bombarding yer Ma with questions. I think she likes me!" Giving my brother and I a wide toothy grin.

Error snorted, effectively distracted from our earlier 'argument', "More like she hates you. Always has, more then likely always will." He nodded to himself as if satisfied.

Lexi's eyes focused on my brother, an amused smirk lighting up her features, "I didn't peg you to be a Billy to my Mandy. Unless ya wanna be Mojo Jojo although, that's from another cartoon altogether." She mused in lighthearted banter.

Error didn't realize this though. Opting to glare at the offending wolf, scrutinizing her like he always did.

Blocking them out. My eye light traveled around the home I grew up in. The place I thought of as safe.

Once college was out of the way then I could- would return home. I'd be gone for a couple of years as my brothers did whatever they liked. Mom wouldn't have a care in the world now that Dad was in jail. She'd be free to do whatever she wanted, possibly finding another husband that would be better then Dad.

My sockets closed as I tilted my head up to the sky.

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To be continued. Because I am turning this into a book that you all will hopefully like. Despite my lacking of motivation lately.