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A Troubled Past
Chapter Two: Lost and Confused
Wally had no idea where he was heading, but as long as it was away from the tree-house and his friends and family, he didn't care where he ended up. 'As long as it's away from here, I can end up in Europe for all I care.' The only thing that didn't occur to him was that since it was Christmas break, it was really cold outside, and he also failed to notice that there was a blizzard outside, making it that much colder from the intense winds whipping snow in his face. He had left the tree-house not even ten minutes ago and yet he was already regretting leaving. Part of him wanted to just turn around and head home, hoping that his friends would eventually forgive him, but another part of him, the part he listened to more, told him that he would regret turning around because his friends would still hate him. He was at a standstill on what to do because although he wanted nothing more to go to his warm and cozy house where he could be safe from the harsh weather, he knew that it was in everyone's best interest if he just left their lives forever. It was then that he remembered what Kuki had said to him. "I NEVER WANT TO SEE YOU AGAIN!" It was then that he realized that it didn't matter what happened to him, if Kuki never wanted to see him then he would respect her wishes and even though it would kill him to never see Kuki again, he would learn to cope. 'As long as she's happy, it doesn't matter what happens to me.' He didn't completely understand his feelings towards Kuki, but he did realize that he had developed a crush in the girl that was his complete opposite. He knew that whenever Kuki was unhappy, so was he, even though it was usually him that was the cause of her dismay; but in the end, he would always try to make her feel better which usually worked because he was almost always rewarded with one of her famous death grip hugs, but this time was different because he decided to get as far away from her as possible in order to make her happy.
A harsh wind brought him back to reality and he took notice of his surroundings for the first time since he started to think about returning home. He had somehow managed to wonder away from the tree-house and across town because he could no longer see a gigantic tree and he was seeing far less buildings than he would have seen if he were in the heart of the city. Wally had never been this far out in the city before and therefore had no idea where he was going, but he kept on trekking forward for he knew that if he took a break that he wouldn't have the willpower to move again. He was freezing and it didn't help much that he didn't bring a jacket and all he had for warmth was his orange hoodie. He just kept on moving forward, trying to dispel the coldness of the blizzard that he was walking through with thoughts of where he was going running through his head.
'Where am I even at. I guess it doesn't matter though because if I keep going at this pace, I know I won't live to see morning.' Wally thought as he continued his slow pace towards his unknown destination. As it drew later into the night, Wally was more desperate than ever to find some shelter that he could use for the night, and as he looked around, to his dismay he couldn't find anything that would be suitable protection for the night. He had to keep moving and he knew it, so even though his entire body screamed in protest, he continued moving forward. It was then that he saw something through the whipping snow and wind. He saw what appeared to be a building in the background, but that wasn't what caught his attention. He had been here before and he now knew where he was. Standing about 400 yards in front of him was his ticket to his salvation. In front of him stood an airplane that looked like it was getting ready to depart to who knows where, but where ever the plane ended up going was where Wally was going to start his new life.
Kuki was lounging in the main room of the tree-house along with the rest of her friends, excluding Wally, but she was too angry at him to notice. After all, he had broken her favorite Rainbow Monkey. It wasn't her favorite just because it was her first one. It also reminded her of someone. She also noticed that everyone else seemed to be pretty peeved for one reason or another. But what she didn't know was that everyone was also seething at their teammate.
'That imbecile. I can't believe we had Mr. Wink and Mr. Fibb in our hands and he blasted their bindings and let them get away.'
'I can't believe that jerk. It took me months to make that plane up to par with the original. And then he just decides to play with it. And what's worse, he completely snapped the wing off. Sure I could just glue it, but I can't cover over that crack. It's going to take me weeks to fix it now.'
'Ugh me head. Abby's gonna have to take some aspirin now. It probably wouldn't be as bad if Wally hadn't blasted music in my ears. Ugh, I sure do hope he feels good about what he did.
Kuki's thoughts, hover differed slightly than everyone else. 'Well I guess he didn't mean to break it, and he did try to apologize. Maybe I should go apologize too. After all, I did yell at him and told him that I hated him. Ohh I shouldn't have said those mean things to him. I better go say I'm sorry.' And with that, Kuki got up and left the room to go apologize to Wally.
She walked down the hallway and tried to figure out how to approach this. Usually Wally was the one apologizing to her, not the other way around. She now knew why he always had trouble apologizing, it was hard to do. She finally reached his door, but instead of entering like she planned, she decided to knock because she didn't want to barge into his room if he was mad; that would only make things worse. She knocked on a door and waited for a reply, but when she didn't receive one, she tried knocking again, but was once again greeted with silence. She then put her head at the door and strained to hear anything, and after listening for a few seconds, she noticed that there was music playing in the background. Whenever Wally was upset or sad, she noticed that he would just sit in his room and play music. That is when she decided to let him cool down and approach the situation in the morning, after all she was pretty tired. So she decided to retire to her room for the night and talk to Wally in the morning. At least it gave her more time to come up with a decent apology.
Wally was standing right next to the plane. He knew that he couldn't buy a ticket because he didn't have any money, so he decided that he was going to try and sneak on somehow. He couldn't get in the passenger part of the plane because they checked for tickets, so the only other place he could stowaway on was the baggage part of the plane. Luckily they were still loading the baggage on the plane, so he could slip in without being seen. The only problem was that after he managed to slip in, it didn't occur to him that the flight was delayed because of the storm and after the doors closed, and he was pretty hungry.
'Crud.'
He looked around, but he knew that it was very unlikely that people would put food in their bags, so until he arrived, he was stuck without food. So he shifted around as best he could to try and get comfortable, for he knew that it would be best if he got as much rest as he could.
'Ah crud, not here again.' Wally thought as he awoke to yet another dream sequence because he was once again surrounded by the blackness in his mind. As colors started to make their way into Wally's vision, he saw a different scene from the one that he saw the last time he fell asleep. This time instead of two silhouettes, he saw several of them, all of which appeared no older than fourteen years old. They were all gathered around in a small circle, and although Wally could see none of their faces, he could tell from the tension in the air that a traumatizing event had just happened. He had to strain to hear the voices of the people, but he managed to make out what they were saying as he moved closer to them.
"How did this happen?" A voice said from the small group. He couldn't recognize where he heard it from but he was certain that he had heard it somewhere before.
"I don't know how it happened, but we need to figure out who did this and why." Another voice spoke up from the group, and from the tone of his voice, Wally could tell that the person was the makeshift leader of the small group.
"But how are we going to find him? If you haven't noticed, we aren't that large of a group, and Australia is a large place, where should we start looking. Where could we start looking?" Another member of the group spoke out, and judging from his voice, he could be no older than Wally is now.
'Wait, did that guy just say Australia?' Wally was then interrupted from his thoughts by the leader of the group.
"You know as well as I do Bonzer that even though we may be a small organization, we have people and resources that people can't even begin to imagine. We will find who did this to Big Z, and once we do, we will show them no mercy." The mysterious person concluded, and despite the thick tension in the air, was rewarded with cheers and huzzahs from everyone present. Whoever these people were set out on finding whoever did what to this Big Z person, but before Wally could elaborate on it anymore, he felt the vision slowly fading from his mind.
He was startled awake by a shaking of the plane. He didn't know what time it was or even where the plane was heading, but from the turbulence that he felt, he knew that he was in the air heading to who knew where to start a new life away from his family and friends. He sighed and shifted around. This was going to be a long flight.
In the tree-house, it was still fairly early in the morning so no one was, that is except Kuki. She was lost in deep thought and couldn't get to sleep, so she stayed up the entire night just thinking about nothing in particular, but every once in a while, her thoughts would linger to Wally. She still needed to apologize to him about what she said last night, but she knew that now wouldn't be a good time.
'He's probably asleep, and I don't want to make him angrier than he already is.' Kuki thought as she rolled around in her bed to try and get into a more comfortable position, but try as she might she just couldn't get comfortable enough and decided to take a walk through the tree-house. She got out of bed and headed down the hall towards the main room where she noticed that someone left the TV on all night. She thought that it was Wally but remembered that he probably didn't leave the room that night. So she turned off the TV and ventured into the kitchen to get a drink. If it wasn't so early, she would have made some breakfast but since everyone would still be asleep for the next couple of hours, decided against it. She continued her walk back her room, but took a detour and went to see if Wally was okay. She was standing outside his door and put her ear up to the door to see if she could hear if he was up or not, but was once again greeted with music. 'He must have forgot to turn in off when he fell asleep, after all he does that quite a lot. Shrugging it off, she returned to her own room and lay back down on her bed where she somehow managed to fall asleep right away, with the only thought of Rainbow Monkeys running through her head.
Wally didn't know how long he was in the plane but it felt like an eternity. After all the only thing he could do was sleep but since he slept for hours on end, and it was hard to fall asleep on uncomfortable luggage on an empty stomach. Plus he really had to go to the bathroom and thought that he was going to burst, so he did his best not to think about it. He was trying his best to keep himself entertained but to no anvil. All there was after all was luggage and the darkness of the room he was in. Wally was obviously not in a good mood at this point in time. He then decided to think on how he ended up in this situation in the first place.
'Oh yeah, my cruddy family and friends were all mad at me, and Kuki said that she hated me.'
His features instantly dropped when he remembered that it was because Kuki told him that he never wanted to see him again that he decided on running away. Sure he was upset when all of his friends and his own family were mad at him, but he wasn't upset enough to run away.
'Man did I screw up big time. Now Kuki hates me and it's all my fault. I didn't even tell her goodbye face to face. I may have said it in the letter but that's just like getting a birthday card without money. Sure it's thoughtful but no one wants it and it's just going to get lost someplace anyways.
'But maybe it's for the better, after all I don't think that I can handle saying goodbye. And besides, she probably didn't want to see me anyways.'
Wally was brought out of his thoughts when the plane jerked a little and figured that it was more turbulence, meaning that they were going to be landing soon. He was both excited and anxious about where he was landing. He was excited to get off of the stuffy plane and see where he was going to be, but he was also a little nervous because he didn't know how he was going to live here, especially since he was now homeless.
He waited for the plane to come to a complete stop and once it did, he waited until they finally opened the luggage part of the plane so he could get out, after all he was in there for over a day. He wanted nothing more than to just stretch his legs and go to the restroom. He was stuck in the dark before the door slowly opened to reveal some sunlight. He had to shield his eyes for a moment because after seeing nothing but darkness for over a day, his eyes had to adjust. When he felt that he could look again, he saw someone about to enter the cart. He quickly hid behind some of the bags as the guy started unloading the baggage.
'Great, I'm going to get in trouble if I get seen, unless...'
He quickly unzipped one of the bags and threw out the clothes and got in and zipped it up from the inside. The person that unloaded the bags walked over to the bag and was curious why so much clothes were scattered on the ground, but shrugged it off since he didn't know what suitcase it belonged to. He would just take it to the lost and found later. "Whoa, tis sure is a 'eavy
one."
He picked up the bag that Wally was in and roughly through him to the ground so he could be put in the airport baggage claim, but before anyone else got a change to pick him up he quickly unzipped the bag and jumped out and ran away.
He didn't get very far though as he took in his surroundings. He was in a big city with towering skyscrapers, an ocean that seemed to stretch on for miles and a lot of people walking around him, but that wasn't what caught his attention. In the distance he was a bridge. But it wasn't just any bridge, it was the Sydney Harbour Bridge and he knew it was it because it was not only connecting what he knew was Sydney and North Shore, but the Sydney Opera house located right next to it gave it away. He had finally come back home. He looked at the picture he took with him, it was of Kuki and him, where she was hugging him and he smiled one of his rare smiles. He sighed as he headed out to start his new life.
Kuki was starting to get worried. It was already three in the afternoon and she still hadn't heard or seen Wally. Sure he may have been upset last night, but he wasn't one to hold a grudge, especially against his friends. He should have come out at some point, if not to eat to at least go to the bathroom. But every time she went to his room and listened at the door, she was only greeted with music. She was starting to get worried. And she also really wanted to apologize because the longer she held it off, the worse she felt.
She was sitting in the main room with everyone, excluding Wally and Nigel when Nigel just entered the room, muttering to himself.
"Hey Numbuh Three, can you go get Numbuh Four? His parents called my dad and say that they want him home...now." Nigel ordered Kuki, but she didn't mind. Now this gave her a legitamite reason to see him. So she ventured to his room and knocked on the door, but was once again greeted by silence.
"Wally?" She asked through the door but only heard the music so was used to hearing by now, so she tried opening the door to discover that it was unlocked. She peered her head inside and was confused as to why she didn't see Wally. She entered the room and glanced around, and decided that since he was no where to be seen, that he wasn't in the room. She was about to leave the room when she realized that Wally's stereo was on, but he wasn't in the room so she figured that she would shut it off. As she climbed onto Wally's massive wrestling ring bed, since his stereo was up there, but noticed something odd about it. Although it was hard to tell since Wally only used a pillow to sleep on, it seemed as though he hadn't slept in it last night. And she also noticed a letter labeled 'To who it may concern' and was curious as to what it was and picked it up. She opened it and proceed to read the letter.
Dear whoever may be reading this:
By now I am sure that you have realized that I have gone missing. There is a reason for this, but first I must apologize.
First I would like to apologize to my family. I'm sorry that I've been such a disappointment to you as a son. I should have done better in school and paid attention in math class instead of falling asleep and goofing off. And I'm also sorry that I had to be you're brother Joey. I should've played with you more and not ignored you like I did sometimes. Grow up big and strong, but don't turn out like I did.
Nigel. You have been the best leader that anyone could ask for. When you saved me from those bullies all those years ago, you reformed me. Instead of being the coward I was, I wanted to be brave like you were. This may not necessary be a good thing, but you made me who I was today., and I will be forever grateful to you. Don't worry, I'm sure you can find someone better than me anyways; one that won't mess up missions.
Hoagie. You were and are still my best friend and that will never change. We had good times and bad times together, but I will remember them all the same. I could have been a better friend towards you during the time we knew each other though. I was a jerk sometimes and made fun of you for being smart. If it makes you feel better, I was pretty envious of you and how smart you are. Sorry for breaking you're plane. Try to find a better friend; one that won't break everything that he touches.
Abby. I never told anyone this, but I thought of you as the sister that I never had. You helped me with my homework and also helped me out a lot on missions. You were always by my side whenever I needed an extra hand. You and me also taught those dogs a thing or two. We made a pretty good team. Sorry for always bugging you and giving you massive headaches, but you won't need to worry about that anymore.
Kuki. You were truly my best friend, (although I would never tell Hoagie that.) I did hurtful things to you all the time, and yet you forgave me when you should have been mad. I made fun of you for liking Rainbow Monkeys, and yet you always forgave me. I don't understand how you could always be so cheerful and forgiving, but that's what I like about you. Yeah, over the years I have developed a crush on you, but I was too afraid that you would reject me. You would be better off with someone else anyways, after all you could do so much better than me. Someone like you deserves the best, and what am I but an idiot who goes around breaking treasured items. I hope you find whoever makes you happy because even though it will hurt me, it doesn't matter as long as you are happy. I will miss you.
Now I'm pretty sure that you're all confused as to why I wrote this letter. To put it simply, I am no longer apart of you're lives. I won't get in the way anymore and I won't be there to mess up you're lives either. I have run away.
Love Wally
P.S. Don't look for me because by now I'm already long gone.
Kuki was at a lost for words. Wally just admitted his feelings for her. She was so happy that she started crying tears if joy, but that is when she remembered the end of the letter, and the words which tore at her heart and made it rip completely in two. I have run away. Kuki continued crying, but they were not tears of joy, but of anguish. She was sobbing uncontrollably and yet out a heart wretched scream before the world went black before her eyes and she passed out.
A/N: Only thing to say is I've changed my pen-name again, but this time I'm going to keep it at this. It's Tzhora (or Sora spelled fancy.) I'll have the next chapter out soon, - Tzhora
