\u201cMelvin Glopnik, clean your room!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m busy.\u201d Melvin said, an empty beaker in one hand, bunsen burner in the other.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m your mother, and I say your room is a mess.\u201d Agnes Glopnik frowned and tugged sourly at her dark hair. What was it with all the experiments? Honestly, sometimes she didn\u2019t know why they\u2019d had a kid in the first place.<\/p>\n
Melvin hated having his concentration disturbed. Especially now he\u2019d finally gotten the bunsen burner working.<\/p>\n
He found that these experiments helped take his mind off always feeling dislocated. Living in a different town every few months, needing to deal with new people, it made his head hurt.<\/p>\n
He understood it was necessary, and he was learning from it, but sometimes this constant moving got to him.<\/p>\n
\u201cMelvin!\u201d Agnes Glopnik said again. \u201cAre you listening?\u201d<\/p>\n
He sighed. Clearly this wasn\u2019t working. He muttered quietly. She shimmered and was gone.<\/p>\n
It was all fine, he thought, to spend time living among humans. Every young demon goes through the training. It just required altering human memories, which was easy. But it didn’t always work out.<\/p>\n
He peered into the beaker, examining the small dark haired figure inside. Now where was he?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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