KID DARKNESS
Chapter One
I flip over another park bench and land on my feet. I run along, through a see of people in purple shirts. NYU students I think. I shrug and keep running. I stop at one of the crowds cheering.
I watch as a boy in black dances in the middle of the crowds.
He is amazing, the way he moves makes me look like an amateur. I watch as he stops to take a breather and grab a drink. I study him.
He has brown hair and brown eyes. He is wearing some of those baggy black pants, a leather jacket and a black top with white wording on it. As I look at him, our eyes meet. He frowns at me and I hold his gaze. Then his eyes softened from their hard gaze and he tilts his head a little.
I then feel a slight shove against my shoulder and a bag drop onto my foot. I break eye contact with the guy and look around and see my cousin, Robert 'Moose' Alexander III, looking confused as hell.
I gesture with my eyes for him to get out there. Then the guy in black decides to challenge my cousin. He spins on the ground and then stands, giving Moose a look to say that he can't beat that.
Moose puts his hand to his mouth and chuckles. I watch as he breaks out into a starter then gets into the real stuff.
He jumps up onto the nearby picnic table and does his thing. He leaps off as the other guy jumps up begins to twist and jerk around. I whistle under my breath as i realise that he will not take defeat well.
I hear the other people cheer around me for him and/or Moose.
"That skinny kid is really something," someone says from next to me as he watches Moose swipe coloured paper from some seller's table.
He then jumps up onto a seat and jumps around on his hands before hopping up onto his feet, bowing and then jumping backwards into some balloons. The balloons that were tied up, begin to float into the air.
"Who's gonna pay for my balloons?" the guy yells, "hey. Here! You want this guy!"
I turn around to see three police officers running towards Moose. I run and catch up with him just as a guy grabs his arm.
"They want you. Come on," he says, pulling Moose.
Moose follows the stranger and runs. I hesitate and look back at the guy wearing the black. He is watching me carefully, kind of like he is wondering what I am going to do. I growl and run to grab Moose's bag. I pick it up and run in the direction they went.
A hand grabs my arm and pulls me back. It's they guy in black.
"Uh...I gotta go," I murmur shyly.
"Yeah, I guessed. Are you a dancer?"
"Yes, now can you please let me follow them? I gotta give my cousin back his bag."
The guy lets my arm go and I go to move, but then stop.
"I'm Zailee Hinders. But you can call me Z," I tell him.
"Kid Darkness." He replies.
I grin and run after my cousin and the dude he took off with. When I lose which way they went I groan and pull out my phone.
-Moose, Where R U? I got Ur Bag-
Moose -With this guy Luke. Want me to come find ya?
-Yea. At the edge of the park. come get me?
Moose - B there in Min
I tuck my phone into the pocket of my black jacket again and lean against a pole. I think about that Kid Darkness.
He is most definantly a dancer. Maybe he is part of a crew. Somehow I get the feeling he just doesn't dance because he can, he seems like the type to have a group or crew of dancers at his back.
A car pulls up and Moose opens a door.
"Luke says get in."
I walk aorund the car and get into the backseat. I do up my seatbelt and sit back. I hand Moose his backpack and smile at him.
"Seriously good to see you Moose."
"You too, how you been?" he asks.
"Fine. You here for school like you and Cam always talked about in your senior year?"
"Yep. Finally huh?"
I nod in agreement and lean forward, looking at the driver. He is wearing a brown coat and a green shirt under it. I look down at his feet and gasp at the amazing shoes.
"You a dancer?" he asks.
"Hell yeah I am!" I exclaim.
"Good, we are going to my crew. The Pirates."
I gasp again and then smile, "are you serious?"
He nods and turns a corner into an alleyway. He parks the car and climbs out after grabbing a camera from the backseat next to me. Moose and I follow his lead and get out of the car.
He leads us to a warehouse and opens the door.
"Welcome to my house."
We enter and Moose nods, "it's...err..."
Luke presses a button and the elevator we stand on goes up. When it stops he turns around and opens a door.
"We call this the vault." he says.
I grin as i see lots of people doing their own style of dance. I watch as a boy does a double front flip and then high five his friend.
Luke introduces us to two spanish identical twins.
They go on about Moose's performance in the park.
I leave and go have a look around. I marvel at the amazingness of this place.
"Cool innit?"
I turn to see a guy with shoulder length black hair and a slight stubble. He holds out his hand.
"I'm Carlos."
"Zailee Hinders. You can call me Z."
He nods, "ya know, Luke built this place. He invited us in and we became a crew. Are you in?"
Before I can answer Luke yells out, "Z, Moose let me show you the club."
