9 Chp 8 - Everlasting friendship

3rd person POV

"I wonder where Vincent disappeared off to," Kai curiously looked around.

"Maybe he's just a bit late," Reo suggested

"I hope he gets here soon the bell has already rung, luckily the teacher is late today as well, if he hurries he might get here in time," Reo rested his head on his desk as he silently savoured the moment with his friend.

Reo just liked to savour every moment with his cheerful friend, every moment with Kai was important to him. He wouldn't know what he would do if something happened to Kai. Though they had a rough start that just made them even closer. My eyelids felt heavy and I eventually fell asleep and Kai's face disappeared from my view.

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Flashback - Reo POV

The click of the camera woke me up from my slumber, a small smiling face greeted me he had a lollipop in his mouth. Who had dared to wake me up? This person had even been taking pictures of me without my permission!

"Who dares to wake me up from my slumber?" I opened my eyes fully and lifted myself from the table sitting up.

"Sorry, you just looked so perfect for a photo..." Kai rubbed the back of his neck as he looked sheepishly at the ground.

"That does not mean you can take a photo of me without permission," I crossed my arms and glared at him trying to hold in my yawn.

"Well I thought I could ask after you woke up, and if you didn't like the photo I could delete it?" He looked up from the ground innocently with big wide eyes.

His eyelashes fluttered as he blinked, looking straight at me.

"Well that just isn't how things work, and in the end, you have woken me up by taking a picture," I let out a sigh, I wanted to go back to sleep but I didn't want him taking any more photos of me.

It was best to scare him away or something before going back to sleep.

"Well I'm sorry about waking you up but, how about you look at the picture I took?" He brushed over everything and showed me the screen of the camera.

I really did look peaceful in the camera, it seemed he had pretty good photo-taking skills.

"I don't like it," This photo made me look too vulnerable.

"How about I send it to you?" Did he only hear what he wanted to hear?

"Didn't I just say I didn't like it?"

"But that doesn't mean that you don't want the photo?" The weird stranger tilted his head.

"Fine, sure but after you have to delete the photo," He took out a phone with a phone case that had a collage of pictures of a single puppy stuck all over it.

It looked horribly homemade.

"Just put your contact here, I'll even let you choose your contact name," Was choosing your own contact name really such a thing to be so happy about...?

I quickly typed in my information as well as my name.

"Put something more interesting for your name! Or add an emoji to the end of it," He exaggerated

I looked at him and then looked back at the blinking cursor wondering what I exactly I was supposed to add.

"I can help you if you want?" Well, it was his contacts it didn't really matter what he had me as right?

"Okay," I handed his phone back to him and I looked over at the phone as he added something next to my name.

He put a tilde and then a heart symbol next to my name.

"Do you want me as a contact as well?"

"...Sure," Maybe it would come in handy someday I didn't know.

"Can I pick my own name?" He was a bit jumpy and seemed quite energetic, this would be my chance to learn his name.

I handed over my silver phone, after unlocking it and going on my contacts. In the end he had put his name as 'KaiKai'. I assumed that his name was Kai.

"So do you want to be friends?" Kai asked, fiddling with his hands.

Maybe deep down I had always wanted someone other than my brother Akuma to be my friend. My brother had been ever-growing more independent after he had started to stop waking me up in the middle of the night.

Maybe he growing more apart from me wasn't a good thing, he was a bit mischievous sometimes. Right now I had the opportunity to make a friend, but did I really want this guy to be my friend?

"I'll get back to you on that," I replied

"W-well okay..." Kai looked down at the ground avoiding my eyes.

My heart tightened, I didn't really interact much with anyone other than my brother.

"Actually I'll get back to you now," I couldn't leave him hanging like that.

Kai looked back up slowly.

"Let's be friends," I held my hand out meaning to shake his hand.

But he just went forward and hugged me. I wasn't sure what to do with my arms, I carefully wrapped them around Kai awkwardly. I felt a warm feeling in my heart, couldn't we just continue hugging forever? Hugging him was just pretty nice. Wow.

...Hadn't we just met? You should stop trusting people so easily, you know what happens when you do. You get manipulated.

I hurriedly unwrapped my arms from around him and desperately pushed him away. I was being too trustful already wasn't I?

"What's wrong?" He looked a kicked puppy who had been left out in the rain.

Your trust issues aren't an excuse to push someone away!

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Flashblack in a Flashback?

Actually in the past there had been someone who I had liked in the past except for my brother. His name was Xander. He looked just like a doll, and overall was pretty charming and cute.

Xander's smile could light up the whole room. I don't think there wasn't anyone in the school that didn't like him. I actually had a pretty big crush on him, he was really kind to me. Slowly my feelings got stronger for him. I didn't tell anyone about these feelings even Akuma.

It was just a crush that would never be fulfilled. But just like a dream instead of me confessing, he had actually confessed to me instead? Of course I accepted, we were then known to the school as the schools cutest couple.

My brother liked to tag along with us sometimes. When we were alone he sometimes asked me to do some things for him and I was happy to accept. I was pretty sure I would do anything for him. One smile and I would melt. I was madly in love with him.

Gradually I started to trust him more than my brother at some point. With a few words he could make me feel guilty about something or ashamed about something I had done.

The moment he started crying I rushed to comfort him I wanted to stop whatever had upset him. Soon I had been doing everything for him. I didn't notice I was too in blindly in love. My brother had noticed something a bit wrong. But I got angry at him if he mentioned it.

His words made me stop trusting my brother, I started to only trust him. His innocent appearance made me think he did no wrong.

Whenever something went wrong it was never his fault. Eventually I had been manipulated into hurting my brother. It had all been just for his amusement.

"You're the worst! Why do you keep saying bad things about Xander!" I shouted at my brother at my brother.

For the first time in forever I saw him cry. Tears streamed down his face. His teeth were gritted.

"Why can't you trust me? Just listen to me for a moment Reo!"

"Maybe our parents were right to name you Akuma! You really are a demon!" I had hit a soft spot.

Akuma had a hurt expression I hadn't ever seen him so hurt before. He was faking this right?

"Don't try to make me pity you looking all hurt like that!" Him looking hurt further intensified my anger.

In my anger I pushed him over, and he let me he didn't bother resisting. Tears streamed down his face despite being pushed over he didn't make a sound.

"You really think I'm a demon?" His voice was a bit shaky

He clumsily stood up and ran away. Only then did I start to feel bad, maybe I had been a bit harsh I had been a bit out of character then. Actually I felt really bad. Then Xander came running in, looking innocent as usual.

"What happened I heard shouting," He had a worried expression as he put his hand on my shoulder.

"I don't think I feel like talking right now…" I looked at the floor and started to walk away.

Had I been blinded by love? Was Akuma really right? But I don't think Xander had done anything wrong. Maybe it had just been a misunderstanding between them. I looked back and saw Xander standing unsure if he should follow.

He seemed to have conflicting thoughts, because I had said I didn't feel like talking. It seemed he had finally made his decision he came and ran up next to me. He had decided to be with me but not talk.

His expression was clouded with worry. I was glad to have Xander. It had really felt like a dream when he confessed to me. Maybe we could all talk it out and it would be okay. We continued walking for a while not saying anything.

His big wide golden eyes looked up at me. His eyes looked like one of an angels.

"You don't have to worry about it," I ruffled his hair.

I didn't want him to worry about something that was between me and my brother. He didn't need to get involved. I wrapped my arms around him, I loved hugging. He seemed a bit surprised but quickly hugged back.

I instantly felt a bit better but I still needed to reconcile with my brother. The longer I left this the worse it would get.

There had been someone who could make me who had spent my whole life with my brother start to stop trusting him. I didn't know how exactly how he did it but I knew what he had done was bad.

Our relationship had been the worst then. But my brother had really cared for me. I think it had made us closer after that then.

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I opened my eyes I didn't normally wake up during class. The dream had certainly been interesting, it bought back memories from the past. I shivered thinking of Xander, thinking of it his name was a bit similar to Xan.

But they acted nothing alike and Xan's hair was a pink silver and not black though their eyes were the same. Xander had been a bit more on the cute side looking a bit like a girl, while Xan looked handsome and had a pristine beauty that went well with his cold personality.

With my head still down from the side of the classroom I searched to see if Vincent had come yet but surprisingly he hadn't what had happened I wondered. Kai was concentrating on the class, he had a bad attention span for academics. So he had to try extra hard to pay attention.

There was no use worrying about it now, it was in the middle of class. I closed my eyes and went back to sleep this time not dreaming.

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Zane POV ( Aaron's little brother )

"How do you act so happy all the time Zane?" My friend curiously asked.

He wasn't short I was just tall. I had to look down to see him.

"I don't know I just feel happy all the time all the time I guess? I don't see a reason not to be happy about the life I'm living right now," I forced my usual smile as I looked at him.

"Well if you ever feel unhappy feel free to talk about your troubles to me," Lucas did a little pose, laughing a little.

I did a pose back, and his toothy grin grew even bigger.

"You know with you being taller than me it makes me feel so short, you're the youngest person in this year yet your taller than me," Lucas said in a joking tone.

"Don't worry me being tall make me feel like your short as well," I teased

"Hey~," He playfully pushed me lightly as he looked at me with the usual sparkle in his eyes.

I don't think I could ever talk about my troubles to anyone except for my older brother Aaron. Without him to talk to I didn't know where'd I would be right now.