Howdy guys, Sky here and my bed has just been deemed unsleepable. Lol, I let my dog eat her bone in my bed and now the stuff is all over it and there's probably stains in it, I'll have to vacuum it or something...Well, anyways, enjoy.

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"Lucas? Lucas, you're daydreaming again," Lucas looked over to his left to see Ness giving him a concerned look. "What were you daydreaming about?" Lucas pondered on wether he should answer that question or not. It had been a few weeks since...He couldn't even think of his name.

"Oh just...thinking about when I first met...him..." Lucas answered quietly. Ness' expression softened and he nodded. Lucas stared down at his test. He had yet to answer one question and wasn't up to doing math at all. He missed Toon Link dearly and was in a depressed like state when the boy had suddenly dissapeared one day...especially when he still had a few cracked bones. Lucas sighed a shaky sigh and looked up from his test paper.

Everyone else had their pencils tapping and scribbling against the paper, the teacher was sitting at his desk , just enjoying the rare moment of silence in the roudy class room and Ness was giving him a worried look. Lucas glanced back down at the test and noticed that a few drops of water had soaked into the paper. He reached a hand up to his cheek and felt a moistness signaling that he had cried without noticing. Lucas vigorously rubbed the water marks away from his cheeks and wipped the tears out of his eyes, focusing on his test.

Three questions into the test, Lucas' mind drifted off to wether Toon Link was okay or not. He caught himself and went back to the test, focus not really on his side at the moment. It took Lucas a moment to realize that everybody was waiting on him to finish. Feeling rather embarrassed, Lucas rushed through the rest of the test, probably getting half of the questions incorrect. Lucas turned his test in and fiddled with his fingers, trying not to attract any more attention.

"Are you okay? You've never cried..." Ness trailed off, making sure to keep his voice as low as possible. Lucas side-glanced at Ness and shook his head slowly, indicating a 'no'. Ness placed a hand on Lucas' shoulder and gave the blond a sympathetic glance. Lucas knew that it was kind of PDA, but he decided to nuzzle Ness' hand and sink into his seat, trying to make himself as small as possible.

"I'm worried about him..." Lucas muttered quietly. It was quiet enough that Ness almost didn't catch it, but he heard it and didn't know what to do.

It was a typical day at Ness and Lucas' school. It started with loud students, managing to always talk over the intercom, then first period, the disruptive students would piss the teacher off to no end, resulting in endless warnings and referrals after referrals. Then second period would come, again, the loud, disruptive students would piss of the next teacher. When forth period rolled around, Ness was greeted by Lucas' distressed behavior. The poor kid looked like he was going to have a heart attack right on the spot.

"Whoa, what's the matter?" Ness asked, grabbing Lucas by the shoulders and forcing his blond companion to look him in the eyes. Lucas just started talking a mile a minute, Ness failing to catch a single word he said. "Slow down and speak English please," Ness interrupted, tightening his grip on Lucas' shoulders. Lucas took in a noisy breath before latching himself onto Ness.

"He's gone Ness!" Huh? Boney? Or that...kid?

"Who, Boney?" Ness asked. Ness really wished he hadn't said that, for Lucas immediatly separated from Ness and gave him a slightly angered look. Ness shied away from his angered friend, something he normally wouldn't do, but when Lucas wanted to, he could bring up the most intimidating look anyone would set their eyes on. Not because of his looks, but because the fact that he never really pulls expressions like that off. It was just scary when he did.

"No! Link! That kid you hung out with last weekend," Lucas answered, furrowing his eyebrows. Ness didn't understand what Lucas was trying to tell him. Toon Link was gone, yeah he got that, but wasn't he a stray? Didn't stray's just leave and come back? You know...

"What do you mean by 'gone'? Don't uh...'strays' like him come and go?" Another slip up. Oops...

Ness had decided to go home with Lucas just to keep him company. The blond seemed like he needed it. The first thing Ness was greety by was something brown and then something pink and wet started lapping at his face. Lucas smiled and called Boney over to him to get the dog off of his friend. The brown dog wiggled over to Lucas, tail whapping anything within its reach, easily knocking a few things off of the coffee table. Lucas pat the brown dog on the head before walking over to Ness who was wipping his face clean of dog saliva and helped him up.

"Thanks," Ness smiled and looked over to Boney, his whole body endlessly wiggling from his wagging tail. The dog was all about happiness and love. Boney looked like he was seriously considering tackling Ness again, tongue lolling out of his jaws, giving him that dopey look. "Well Boney's happy to see me," Ness remarked, knowing that it was clear, but he decided to say it anyways. Lucas smiled and pat the dog on the head, earning a few licks on his palm. Ness looked over to the coffee table at the now messy pile of objects that had been swooped aside by Boney's tail and noticed a small puzzle piece shaped object connected to a metal loop.

"Hey, you found it!" Ness remarked, picking up the small loop and watching the puzzle piece made of metal dangle until it was swinging casually back and forth. It was one of Lucas' favorite things he had kept from when he was a little kid. Lucas seemed to sadden at the sight of the small metal object.

"I found it in the middle of the street," Lucas pointed out, taking the small object from Ness and observing it. "Probably from when he got hit by that car..." Lucas mumbled, Ness, only managing to catch 'Probably...hit...car...'. He decided that he'd ask later. "Well, are you hungry? I've got a few snacks here," Lucas offered, changing the subject himself. Ness pondered on that offer. Normally he'd eat a snack after school, so what was holding him back?

"Sure, you got some cereal or somethin'?" Ness asked with a wide smile. Lucas led Ness to their small kitchenette and opened a cupboard that held a few boxes of cereal. Lucas gave Ness the luxury of 'help yourself' and headed off to his room to put his backpack in its proper place. When Lucas returned, Ness had a bowl filled to the top with cereal and milk a spoon in hand. "You got a good taste in cereal buddy!" Lucas couldn't help but giggle a bit at Ness' 'addiction' to food. Hey, the boy ate a ton and ate like he had never seen food before.

"Well you're welcome Ness," Lucas smiled and sat down next to the raven haired boy who just shoveled the cereal into his mouth, Boney getting a kick out of Ness' messy eating habits, for a ton of food was dropped onto the floor. Once it hits the ground it goes to the hound.

Ness chuckled, "Boney could be the new Hoover Vacuume cleaner," Success. Ness had managed to get Lucas to laugh a bit with him. Ness then resumed to shoveling the cereal into his mouth, not minding that he was dropping truck loads of food onto the floor. The cereal wouldn't kill Boney. Lucas would pick a few cereal bits out of the bag and nibble on them, just enjoying each others company while Boney's loud snuffling and crunching occupied them. "You got any homework Luke?"

"Hm...no, I don't," Lucas answered. Ness grumbled something under his breath and returned to his food shoveling, mumbling something about math and english in between mouth fulls. Lucas swallowed his cereal bits and let his mind wander, already knowing where it'd go. He hadn't expected to find that small metal puzzle piece in the middle of the road, though, since it was so small, it was expected that it went unnoticed for those few weeks.

It took Lucas a moment to notice that Ness had finished eating and was staring at him. Snapping out of it, Lucas silently apologized, stood up and walked off to his room. Ness dumped the milk into the sink and placed the bowl with the spoon in it next to the sink, following Lucas. He entered the room and sat down next to his blond friend. Sometimes Ness wondered what went through Lucas' mind. He knew that that kid...what was his name? Whatever...he knew that that kid had probably been going through his mind these past weeks the stray had been gone.

"Do you think he's okay?" Ness knew who Lucas was talking about.

"He's a stray, they're a tough breed," Ness answered in his own kind of slang. Lucas smiled and turned the television on.

"Up for some Wii?" Ness smiled. Lucas already knew the answer.

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Okay, uh...I don't really know what to say. So you know the drill, if you're going to review, keep then kind, the self esteem's pretty fragile here. So peace out my friends :)