A.N/ thanks for the follows it really encouraging, please leave reviews or messages of things to fix or events or characters you want to see in the future! I also want to apologize for taking a while to update i had a family emergency in my home town that's a 10 hour car ride away. Ill try to update more often.

I turned down the road for Leon's house. Leon lived with his father, a younger brother and his younger sister. His small house with peeling dull blue paint came in view finally. I stood up on my bike and pedaled harder, Leon's door opened. Within a heartbeat I was flipping over through the air with a yell, I felt my foot catch on my handlebars and my palms began scraping on the pavement. My face smashed down and then for my finishing move the rest of my body flipped over and my bike went with it, my foot still hooked on the handle bars.

I lay on the road stunned while sound rushed around me, three pairs of violet eyes stared down at me.

"Oh sorry, heh I guess I left that lead pipe in the road" a heavily accented voice said. Ivan, Natalia, and their aunt, Irunya had made a semicircle around my head . Ivan was a 6'3 Russian immigrant and Natalia's older brother, Ivan was cruel and built like an Nfl player. One of my friends, Ravis gets bullied by him on a daily basis. Irunya is the opposite she's a sweet motherly woman who took her sisters children to America with her when she was 18 for a better future, Irunya raised Ivan and Natalia since they were infants.

"Why would you put a pipe in the road in the first place?" I croaked out, I realized I was still laying on my back so I pushed myself up on my elbows.

"A dog was trying to piss on my flowers so I threw the pipe at it." The cruelty of this might be shocking for an outsider but this wasn't for anyone who knew Ivan.

"You ok?" Leon asked leaning over to me. Ivan and Natalia left as Lan, Yao, and Yong arrived. Lan and Yong are Leon's younger siblings, Yao was his dad. "Ya I'm fine." I said getting up to my feet too fast, my vision blacked out for a second then went back to normal.

"Come on let's get you cleaned up." Yaoi said grabbing my elbow, being mindful of my scraped hands and leading me to his house. "Lan, get his bike please." He called.

"Piss off old man, I'm going to Kiku's." she yelled then began skipping off down the street. Leon walked into the bathroom with me and Yao while the hydrogen fizzed on my scraped palms and Yao wiped blood off my chin and under my nose. My hair was a ruffled mess like it normally was and my clothes were dusty, of course this had to happen the day I tried to look nice.

"We should probably get going when your done, I brought the bike inside so it wouldn't get stolen." Leon informed me.

"Thanks." Leon was never very talkative around Yao and he wasn't the most talkative in the first place. So I wouldn't make him feel obligated to talk.

"Alright kiddos, you can go now, Emil's as cleaned up as I can get him."

"Thanks Yao, have a nice night." Leon was sliding on a red jacket when we walked out the door, that jacket always brought out the amber in his eyes.

"Bro you looked so fucking funny when you fell. Sorry bout my old man." He said with a chuckle. Leon and me would always laugh at each other when we did something stupid but only when we knew that the other was fine. Leon got the bikes out and we set off in the comfortable silence we always fell into, neither of us were one of those types of people that needed constant conversation. We made the ride across town quickly with the cool mist from the evening keeping us cool. Ravis and Lilli were there too, Lilli was a short blonde girl would start her freshman year when school came back in session. She and Ravis were going to the same movie, a few other people were there too but none of them I recognize. The movie was some Jackie Chan rerun. The only part I payed attention to was how he leaned close to me and held my hand, he was scared of the dark but he'd never admit it.

After the movie it was dark outside, it gave me that weird feeling in my stomach that you get when something feels wrong.

Leon and I strolled down the street to Antonio's Diner. Leon worked there as a busboy on some nights and I spent my summer working there too. Antonio's Diner was a restaurant run in the front of Antonio and his cousin's house, it made authentic Italian and Spanish food for a great price especially with the employee discount. Antonio was a kind and generous man and so was his cousin Romano although Romano had a cold exterior, despite the fact that I quit working not long after I started working they still gave me the discount although that may be partially from the circumstances that I quit under. Leon got the enchiladas and I stuck to the classic spaghetti.

"Let's take this to mayflower field and spend a few hours out there." Leon said, I just nodded, secretly I was worried that Lucas would get worried about me but I didn't want to show it. After a short bike ride to mayflower field we were spread on our backs stargazing. after pointing out a few constellations we decided that our food was cool enough to eat. We made quiet conversation with voices barely above a whisper about our futures, dreams and other things like that while we ate feeling like using regular voices would disrupt the serine environment.

After finishing all we wanted from our overstuffed Styrofoam containers we went back to stargazing, this time comfortable silence settled gently over us like it often does. We basked in the cold moon light enjoying each others company with only the connection of intertwined fingers while long strands of grass tickled our necks and faces. Our serine paradise was ripped ruthlessly from our grasp by the hellish screaming of what sounded like a woman going through the worst thing that could be inflicted on someone. Leon and I shot up and scrambled to our feet then within a heartbeat of each other took off across the field heading for the woods where the wail was still echoing. I arrived before Leon and I was instantly paralyzed by dread, why didn't we go get someone instead of putting ourselves at risk, what of we couldn't do anything to help this woman. Leon arrived behind me and began pushing me forward instinct telling me to run, to trample anything in my way and get as far away from these demonic woods as possible. "Leon I think we should find someone else to help." I said knowing by the look on Leon's face that I was wasting my breathe.