- Mom, I'm going out. I will come back tonight. You want me to bring something back for the diner ? Say Romeo on the doorstep.
- No thanks but be here before your dad please, you know he does not like to wait to eat. She said from the kitchen.
- Yeah ... I know, bye Mom.
Without other formality, he hastily descended the dusty stairs of his building to join his friends, or just the familiar boys of his neighborhood, sit, like everyday, on the same bench, denatured by years of tag. They are noisy, like always, and Samy is the first to see him through his cloud of smoke. Pointing at him he tells him to join them and while walking more faster, Romeo makes sure that his bag is well and truly closed against his side.
- Hey dude ! It's been days since we saw you ! We thought that you had managed to break you of this hole.
- Not today Samy, it's already ugly enough to look to talk about it ...
- You have definitly screw up your exam right ? Say on his turn Jellal, rolling his umpteenth cigarette.
Of course, this question triggered general hilarity but Romeo smiled in turn because he knew he had passed his exam. The only reason he did not feel anything is cause he could not leave. Not alone. Assan was the older of the three and the most discreet too and ended mockery. Romeo thanked him by a look heard.
While the conversation caught quickly the same tone as usual, an other boy output of one of faded building.
His approach was assured as always and the three boys became silent, spying his gesture.
His poorly cut fell on his face, a childish face with adult eyes, peaceful blue eyes who had the gift of calming the torpor of Romeo the few times he had thought of drowning in distress. Like him, a bag was hanging carelessly on his shoulder but unlike him he did not care.
Romeo knew his contents, the same contents of his own bag, all the wealth of their miserable life that that they had shared since the departure always silently, secretly in the very belly of their sequestrator.
Lost in his contemplation, Romeo was brought back from the worst possible way but remains silent nevertheless.
- Yo, fucking fag ! Where are you going like this ? You're looking for your manhood, dirty queer ?! Screaming Jellal in order to challenge him more easily.
However the boy remained of marble and call him at this turn.
- No dude, I look yours ! I bring it back to you as soon as possible I promise. You know, belittle more beautiful than either is so GAY.
It did not take more for Jellal to lose his calm and quickly he put himself in a more disturbing position. Despite the Romeo's forced indifference, he felt that the situation could quickly degenerate and had the guts to react before his friend was hurt.
- Chill out Jellal, you know he not worth the trouble. Said Romeo, hand on the shoulder of disruptive.
- Cut it out, I don't need you to know how much he's a piece of shit.
During this time, the boy was gone and the street being loudly again. Romeo had seen the look of his friend before he disappeared and now he knew exaclty the place where found him. It was time to leave too.
- See ya guys, I need to go. Work. He clarified, however, at his friends who were not listening anymore.
While making sure that his bag was always with him, he left on the direction of a building a little further. Once inside, and after making sure no one followed him, he went down the stairs until ending up in the only underground car park. Head down, he went to a door condemned a priori and forced it with a shoulder blow before closing it behind him. After a few steps the dim light of a flashlight was notice to him. The boy with badly cut hair was there and smiled to him.
- It took you a while ... But, I suppose I'm happy, you miss me.