Me: Yay! Reviews are awesome!
Cross: Yes they are!
Me: You know what? I need to have a different name, people can't call me Cross cause of you and Crossrev is long
Me: So we should call you…?
Me: -thinks- I know! Call me Hana!
Cross: Which is not your name
Me: I wish
Cross: So we own nothing but the plot and ENJOY!
Cross had to think for a bit, how did she know him? Simple, they were each others first and best friend, but she couldn't say that. Why? Because then Brian would know but wouldn't remember the fun they had. "He's…" She trailed off but tried to be as normal as possible. Her friends tilted their heads in confusion until Brian put a hand on her shoulder, "we're childhood friends," he said.
"Alright then!" Maikee exclaimed. She motioned them to join the rest of the group. But something was still on Cross's mind.
'Why did he say that? He just said he doesn't remember, so did he lie?' She snapped back to reality when Tyron poked her arm. She glared and punched his arm in return.
"Pain!" He said.
"You know better than to poke me," she grumbled.
Tyron had a smirk on his face and sticked out his index fingers just inches from her stomach. "Ahh!" she screamed and grabbed a hold of his fingers, almost bending them. "Let go!" He pleaded and she did, "I didn't even touch you." Cross crossed her arms and sat on the grass far away from them with a pout on her face.
"I'm sorry!" Tyron came up to her and hugged her, "not good enough," she said. Tyron got everyone else to help. Maikee tried to drag her, AnnaLisa and Skyala pleaded, Mimi tried to threaten her, Akira and Mason simply enjoyed watching Tyron beg. Brian didn't try to do what the rest did, instead, he picked her up and brought her back to them. They all stared at the six-footer as he held the little five-footer like a kitten, Cross was blushing and even more when he set her in his lap.
"This is so you don't run away again," he said to her.
"I'm not the one who did," she mumbled quietly enough for her friends not to hear, but for him to.
Brian stared at her as she talked with her friends, 'this girl…' He was lost in thought. He heard someone calling his name, "Bri-Bri? You okay?" Cross looked at him with a bit of worry in her eyes. "Yes I'm fine," he simply said.
"Bri-Bri?" Tyron said, almost on the verge of laughing.
"Really?" Maikee said, "we're so gonna call you that from now on!"
"Don't even try," he said glaring daggers at them.
"So then why can Cross call you that but not us?" Skyala asked.
Brian pondered for a bit, "because…"
"I'm special!" The girl cried out accidentally and covered her mouth quickly.
"Sure," Brian shrugged.
"But calling you Brian is boring! Maybe we'll just call you Bri or something," Maikee thought out loud." The rest nodded in agreement, "so now we call you Bri!"
"No, you call me Brian."
"Yeah whatever," Tyron waved his hand as if in a shooing motion.
Kain was still annoyed that the teacher had stopped the one battle he had been waiting for. He spotted Brian with the group and thought whether or not he should ask for another battle. His thoughts were stopped short when a Pidgey carrying a pair of glasses and dropping them into the grass next to him. Shortly after he picked them up, a girl possibly a year younger than her was looking around as if she had lost something. Her ruby red hair was slightly messed a bit due to the wind, 'maybe they're hers,' Kain thought and walked up to her.
"Excuse me, are these yours?" He asked.
She looked at the glasses, then back at him, "thank you so much! I've been looking for them for a while!" She hesitantly took her glasses out of his hands and put them on.
'Orange eyes; that's new, probably contacts.' Kain looked at her and she looked back for what seemed to be a long time. Why were they just staring? Neither knew.
"AnnaLisa!" Skyala called in the distance. AnnaLisa looked at her friend and waved back. She bowed in thanks and went to go back to her friends. 'AnnaLisa. Interesting,' Kain thought as he decided to just head home for the day.
Everyone split up at the end of the day. "I have nothing to do when I get home!" Maikee said.
"Same here," Cross replied.
"Me too!"
"Oh no you don't, you're getting the math work done since you skipped out," Maikee scolded Tyron, who grumbled back. "I'm coming over Cross!"
"You know you don't have to tell me, just come on over!" She replied.
"True. By the way, when are your parents coming back?"
"Hm…" Cross started, "I got a letter from them saying they're research is going great and it'll be a long while before they come back."
"Again? That's like what? The fifth time they've sent that letter?"
"Yeah I guess, I kinda lost count," she sheepishly scratched the back of her head.
"Ah well," Maikee continued, "let's go!" And dragged her off as she frantically tried to say goodbye and keep herself standing on both legs. Brian on the other hand was a bit suspicious, not many parents would do that. Then again looking back on himself, he couldn't complain.
-Flashback-
The smell of booze filled the inside of the small house; it was so strong, that the eyes of an eight year old Brian started to water. He stood there as his parents cussed at him. Calling him names and slapping him hard enough for his face to bleed and sting at the same time.
'I'm going to run away, I've had it!' He thought.
When his alcoholic parents had passed out, he immediately picked up his bag and filled it with travelling necessities and brought his Eevee out the door with him. "We're finally out boy!" He whispered and they made their way to the edge of town.
"Hey!" A girl's voice could be heard. Brian turned and looked around but found no one, except for a little girl with an Eevee on her head, an Igglybuff in her arms and a smile on her face.
"It's you," he said.
"We've known each other for a year now and you still don't remember my name?"
"I'm leaving," and he took his Eevee with him.
"Why? Why are you leaving me?" He said nothing and the girl just stood there, crying her eyes out.
-End of flashback-
'So, I did know her…' Brian held his head in between his hands when he got to his apartment. It was now bugging him; he needed to find out who she was. As if his life kind of depended on it.
-At Cross's-
"I just love your place!" Maikee commented as she slumped down onto a purple beanbag chair.
"Really?"
"Yeah! I mean, no parents to boss you around and you're your own boss!"
Cross looked down a bit, "yeah I guess…"
Maikee noticed a bit of the sadness in her friend's voice and hugged her, "I'm sorry, I'm such an idiot."
Cross smiled and hugged back, "yeah but you're my idiot friend!" They laughed and let go from their friendly embrace, then proceeded to do what they usually did; eat whatever they could find and watch movies as they commented on many scenes. This went on for a few hours until Maikee had to go home and Cross went to clean up.
She changed into a pair of red flannel pants and a plain light blue shirt. She took out a box filled with memories, pictures and letters; except the letter from her parents. "I can't keep lying to them forever," she said to herself and flopped on her bed, "what's the point?" Cross fell fast asleep and was sent off to dream land.
Pretty short chapter, I've been getting a lot of writer's block right now cause of school and such. So I apologize if this chapter wasn't really up to some of your expectations! Review if you'd like and please no flames!
