My Life As It Is
Chapter # 1: Ritsuka and Soubi
He wore a black t-shirt and a pair of dark jeans. He had a black jacket-sweater tied around his waist. He had short black hair, black cat ears and a black cat-like tail. His eyes were violet and forever burned by the sorrow in his heart. He had lost his older brother to a fire a few years back. And only a year ago his mother had drowned herself. Now, he was seventeen and living alone. He was still friends with Yayoi and Yuiko. Yayoi was still his weird old self. Long black hair that transformed into white near the end, the same old ears and tail. Yuiko still had her pink hair as long as ever and her pink ears and her blue eyes. She was still Yuiko. She hadn't changed.
He sighed lightly as he passed his old school. His grade school. He was done with high school too. Since he'd failed grade eleven, he didn't want to do it again and there was no one to tell him he had to. He sighed and counted his pay once again.
"He ripped me off five dollars! Again!" Muttering under his breath he tucked his money into his pocket and continued down the street. Up ahead he could see what appeared to be cigarette smoke coming out of the alley. He shrugged it off, thinking nothing of it. Yet, the closer he got to the alley, the more of a weird feeling he got.
Standing in the alley he let the cigarette hang out of his mouth. His glasses were sitting up over his blue eyes. His silver hair was partially tied up where as the rest of it hung down and around his face. He wore a black sweater and a pair of jeans. He dropped the cigarette from his mouth and crushed it under his shoe. He pulled out the cellphone from his pocket, flipping it open.
He walked past the dark alley slowly as if something was waiting for him. Little did he know, it wasn't something, it was someone. His cellphone started ringing as soon as he had just barely passed the alley.
"Hello?"
"Ritsuka…It's been a while…" He nearly dropped his cellphone when he heard the voice, and recognized it.
"Why…Are you calling me…After all this time?"
"Just keeping in touch and catching up on old times, Ritsuka."
"Do you have to say my name in every sentence?"
"No."
"Then why do you do it?"
"I don't know."
"Why do you sound…So close?"
"Turn around."
Ritsuka moved his phone from his ear and stared at it confused, slowly, he turned around to face the way he had just come from. The moment he did, he saw him, standing near the mouth of the alley. His eyes glued to him. Ritsuka turned pink seeing the stare. Those blue eyes were far too powerful. His legs felt weak underneath him. He closed his phone, shoving it into his pocket.
"What…What are you doing here?"
"I was waiting for you…Ritsuka."
His eyes grew for a moment,
"Why?"
"Yuiko and Yayoi told me of what happened last year…I'm sorry to hear about it…"
"Sure, whatever."
"It's been a while Ritsuka…Do you wanna come get a coffee with me?"
He didn't answer at first. He was in no real hurry to get home to nothing.
"Uhm…I-I guess so…Yeah. Yeah, coffee sounds, great."