Author: TippierCoffee
Disclaimer: I do not own—nor do I claim the rights to—any of the characters from the show Codename: Kids Next Door. All credit goes to rightful owner: Mr. Tom Warburton.
LTLY series: 1. Learning To Love You; 2. Again; 3. Alone; 4. Ever After.
OBS: I gave Wally's parents names. Mum: Kayla Beetles, Dad: Wilbert Beetles.
Enjoy :)
First kiss.
Saturday November 18th, 3pm.
Wally carefully guided Amber into Kuki's living room and sat her on a chair gently while kneeling in front of her. He kept wiping her tears with soft strokes of his thumbs until Kuki got a tissue out for Amber, which she handed to him, making sure to stay at a distance.
He gracefully passed the tissued onto Amber while mumbling for Kuki to find some ice for Amber's cheek and darkening skin around her eye, and while Kuki set to find that Wally locked eyes with Amber for a moment who just sat there looking a little helpless, but she at least didn't flinch in the slightest by the sight of him. He carefully took one of her hands in his and stroked her knuckled with his thump, while the other hand softly petted her shoulder to calm her and let her know it was okay. She was safe now, and both he and Kuki were there for her.
"You think you'll be okay?" He asked, curling together his tissue and tossing it to the table, before taking the ice bag Kuki had finally returned with, which he wrapped in a tea towel and gently placed on Amber's wound.
"I think so." She sobbed, giving a little hiccough. "What about you? What will you do if they call the police or something?"
"Pf." Wally snorted. "Trust me, I know their types. They've got too much pride, they will most likely never talk about this ever again. It's embarrassing for tough guys like them to be lay down by a single guy."
"Are you sure." Amber asked while darting her eyes between Wally kneeling in front of her, and Kuki who had taken a seat on a chair some distance away from her. "I would hate to see you being tossed into juvenile detention, or prison or whatever, just because of me."
"Nah, those guys won't tell. Just trust me on this one." He kept locking eyes with Amber feeling the worry subdue, just be replaced with a new worry.
In theory she was right, even though these guys seemed like the overly proud type who would never tell, Wally would never knew. But it was pointless to worry about now, even if he could be pledged guilty he had just helped a friend in need. Any friend of Kuki was a friend of his, so he felt like he hadn't technically done anything wrong, though he knew that it would probably have been smarter to find a mall guard or whatever. He hadn't thought of that at the moment though, who would?
He guided Amber's hand to the ice bag on her face before getting up and gracefully dusting off his pants, then he looked between Amber and Kuki. Amber's eyes kept following him both with curiosity and gratitude, while Kuki seemed to avoid him. It was almost as if she was trying to ignore his presence all together, although it seemed to be more than that. She looked absolutely terrified and Wally was sure he wouldn't be able to calm her down, because he knew it was because of him. Not that he minded her being scared if she was, he just hoped she would overcome it or at least tell him what had made her so scared and talk her through it or something.
He felt it was a bit unfair seeing her trembling while on the verge of tears when it was Amber who had just had a horribly scary experience and all she had done was watch him fight. Whatever, if she was going to get scared of him just because he could fight for the sake of his friends, or his friends friends, then so be it. At the very least he had done something, not that she hadn't but her participation had been minimal. Wally scolded himself a little then took one final look between the girls and then he turned around to leave.
"Where are you going?" Amber asked him, a bit of worry in her voice. As though she really wanted to ask him to stay.
"Just going to clean myself of." He mumbled with a little smile, showing his worn and bloodied knuckles to her. "I don't want to keep walking around with someone else's nose blood on my knuckles."
Amber gave a giggle while Wally left, and when he was out of sight she turned her eyes to Kuki who had been eerily silent ever since the whole incident had been going on. She kept her eyes locked on Kuki for a while, watching as her body started trembling even more and she started sobbing a bit more loud than she probably meant to.
"What's up with you Kuki?" Amber asked worried, yet she felt a little offended. Not that she wanted the attention of all of the world or anything, but she was the one who had been assaulted, and not Kuki.
"Nothing." Kuki lied with a little sob. "I was just really worried about you and I guess when we found you I just started breaking down because I couldn't really think what would have happened if we hadn't found you."
"Yeah." Amber sighed, smiling a little while feeling her heart speed up a bit. "Wally is really a good addition to your friend list Kuki. Just think, if it wasn't for him I might have been mugged."
"He was terrifying." Kuki broke down, feeling everything inside her turn and sink. She hated feeling like this when she considered Wally her best friend, but she could not shake the shivers or the image of his eyes burning with murderous intent.
"What are you blabbering about?" Amber asked in disbelief. "He was like a knight in shining armour, coming for the damsel in distress. If anyone was terrifying it was CT and his idiot friends!"
"And Wally." Kuki sobbed. "I've never seen him like that before. He looked ready to kill, actually kill, to make sure you didn't get hurt. While I do agree it's nice someone is there ready to protect people they care for, it's just really scary to see them become murderous."
"Get a grip Kuki!" Amber scoffed. "Wally was a hero and that's all there is to it. Was he rough? Yes, but guess what? If he hadn't been all three of us would have been beaten to pulps by now. Sometimes you just have to realise you have to become scary-looking to get your point across when it comes to people like CT."
"No Amber. I don't know what happened to Wally but it's like he changed completely, he became someone completely different. I couldn't recognise him at all and he really looked like he was about to kill that guy, which was just really terrifying to me."
"You should be more grateful. Or maybe you don't care about me at all?"
"What?!" Kuki squealed in disbelief. "Of course I care about you Amber, when did I ever say I didn't?!"
"Just the way you act you seem like you would have wished Wally never did what he did."
"Well yeah." Kuki admitted, knowing Amber would hate her for a couple of days for saying what she was about to say. "I really wish he had found a mall guard and told the situation to them instead so it could have been broken up without any trouble, Or maybe you're forgetting that Wally could actually get into really bad trouble if they actually do file him?"
"You heard what Wally said yourself." Amber scolded, not believing her own ears. "These guys have too much pride to tell anyone; how about trusting his judgement?"
"How about realising that he doesn't know the first thing about those guys?" Kuki cried, shaking more than before. "I don't want him to get into trouble because of this."
"But you would be okay with him taking his merry time finding a mall guard who would actually believe him? I could have died in the meantime then, but I guess that means nothing to you because you're so busy only caring about Wally ever since he moved in."
"That's not true!" Kuki defended. She still cared about Amber, and while she was very grateful Amber had never gotten more hurt than she had, she also really cared about Wally. Was it really so hard for Kuki to wish that this could have been done without Wally putting himself in a potentially dangerous situation? Was it really so wrong for her to be horrified by his behaviour when she had never seen him like that before?
"It doesn't really matter." Amber sighed, trying to forgive Kuki even though she did feel a little unappreciated by her and less important. "The point is we got away from there and no real harm was done to anyone who didn't deserve it, other than me."
"What's all the yelling about?" Wally's voice came form the entrance to the kitchen, the blood at the corner of his lips and on his knuckles now gone. The only way to tell that had had actually been in some sort of fight was his hoodie which had been torn a little and a subtle bruise on his left cheek, other than that he looked like an ordinary high school boy who was just sitting in the kitchen which belonged to his neighbour.
"We just had a minor disagreement." Amber stated, not wishing to get Kuki into to trouble. If Kuki wanted to tell Wally she suddenly found him terrifying because he'd saved Amber herself, then that was up to Kuki to tell.
"I something wrong Kuki?" Wally asked while sitting down and diverting his worried eyes to Kuki who was focusing only on the table while trembling ever so lightly.
Kuki simply shook her head never once meeting his eyes or letting out the slightest sound, but what she didn't know was that Wally had actually heard their conversation and he'd felt his heart sink into his guts when he heard Kuki call him terrifying and murderous. Not so much because she felt like that, he guess he could see it from her view, because what she said had been true; she had never seen the aggressive side of him that acted before thinking and diving head-first into dumb situations. He had just hoped, seeing as his bond with Kuki had become strong enough for him to consider her his closest most trusted friend, or best friend, that maybe she felt the same for him and would be honest about this feeling inside of her. Yet, when he had asked her, giving her plenty of room to confess on her own accord without pushing her in any way what so ever, she had let Amber take the heat from her and not said a word herself.
"Are you sure?" He asked gently, trying to press an answer out of her. She gave a small nod before giving him a weak smile, unable to hold eye contact with him.
"I think I just got scared about what happened to Amber. She's a dear friend to me after all." Her smile remained, however weak it was, but her eyes were still fixated to the table and not long after she had fed him her seemingly innocent lie she started twiddling her hands while focusing on them almost with a passion—Kuki was a terrible liar.
"Well okay then." Wally said, trying his best to hide his hurt. He really didn't mind she was scared, but something about the way she was lying to him right now just made him so upset and made him wonder why. "I guess I'll go home unless you need me."
"That's okay." Amber smiled, meeting his eyes and making his mood brighten. At least she could still look at him. "I think we'll be fine. Thanks for everything Wally, I really owe you."
"Nah, don't mention it." Wally puffed waving his hand nonchalantly. "I guess a friend of Kuki's is a friend of mine and I don't like it when my friends get hurt."
Amber laughed softly at his statement her eyes sparkling with gratitude while she kept looking to him with nothing but pure admiration, and Wally swore his heartbeat became so loud he was sure she could hear it and he felt his face heat up a little. He'd never really noticed how pretty Amber's eyes were before, but he could now. Ocean blue with the green tint just looking at him with kindness and affection and making his head spin in circles.
"Well" Wally connected his knitted hands on top of each other "Take care Amber. You too Kuki." Then he headed to Kuki's front door and left while hastily yelling See you Monday to the two girls.
Sunday November 19th, 3pm
Kuki sat in her bed, her back against the head rest while she absentmindedly watched one of her Rainbow monkey DVDs. She had all of the seasons on box sets, and they always seemed to cheer her up, but now she wasn't so sure. She kept seeing flashes of Wally taking care of CT and his eyes burning with all that hate. If she hadn't known him and had just seen him like that she would probably have been fearing for her own life because he seemed so full of intent; so ready to kill.
She lay down with a heavy sigh and a little groan. She hated thinking like this about Wally when she knew he wasn't that kind of guy, but she couldn't shake this uneasy feeling she had suddenly gotten for him. She hadn't even been able to honestly tell him about feeling scared of him, because that in itself had scared her. What if he'd snap and punch her or something?
That was something else she absolutely hated herself for thinking. Wally would never punch his friends, she knew he wouldn't. She knew because she knew him, but suddenly that all seemed to have changed just because he had this impulsive aggressive side to him she had never seen, and something within her had started questioning whether or not she actually knew him.
It was excruciating and saddening, like a part of her had pushed him far enough away, for her to have to build up some new trust to him with this knowledge in mind. The way he had left yesterday also hadn't helped her at all. Something in his eyes had been so sad, like he knew she was hiding something from him and it pained her, but hopefully not as much as it pained her feeling like she couldn't tell him anything. She wanted to be able to goof off with him again and talk about everything and anything, but maybe she just needed some time to accept he had this side to him. Some time to get over the initial shock of seeing him like this. Her train of thoughts were abruptly put to an end when her text tone sounded from her cell phone. She picked it up and looked at the display only to see the name of the one who was currently troubling her mind.
-Wally…- She bit her bottom lip softly and took a deep breath before opening the text. She wasn't really sure why, but it felt like something she had to do.
How are you doing? You seemed a bit off yesterday, you sure you're okay? Kuki stared dumbfounded at the text. A part of her felt like this text was actually meant for Amber, but that couldn't be, because their names weren't even close to each other's.
I'm fine. Just… A lot of things happened I suppose. Only half a minute passed before he replied.
Well, okay then. I just hope I didn't scare you or anything yesterday. I know it was cruddy dumb and stuff, I just don't want it to ruin our friendship. Kuki's eyes widened a little and she felt her heart pick up in speed while it fell into her stomach. He knew?
Of course not. She lied Can I maybe come over or something? Almost two minutes passed by this time before she got her reply, and when she did something within her shattered for reasons unknown to her.
I can't. I'm at Amber's, she invited me over. Did you know she lives in a mansion? I swear my jaw fell off when I saw it. Cruddy rich people. I only agreed to come because I thought I'd check up on her. Speaking of the devil, she just came in asking me who I'm texting, she also said hi. I'll catch you later k?
Okay. Kuki replied, a single tear falling from her eye as she fell back into bed while the rainbow monkey tune played in the background for like the hundredth time that episode.
Wally shuffled a little in his place, while accepting the orange flavoured soft drink Amber had brought up with her. He kept looking around in her room in front of him, not paying much attention to the shelve above his head. He would never have guessed Amber to come form a rich family, who had to have a care taker to look after her, because they both had overseas business quite often.
It wasn't like she complained or anything, but it did explain shy she sometimes seemed to like being the centre of attention. It was a little sad knowing she was an only child who rarely ever got attention, and whose love and forgiveness was more or less bought by parents too busy to be there for her most of the time. They didn't even know about what had happened yesterday or how she'd gotten out of it, not that Wally minded it. As far as he was concerned, the fewer who knew about this whole thing the better.
"Thanks for coming by." Amber smiled. "Checking up on me and all, you really are a knight in shining armour, slash hero."
"Don't you think you're exaggerating a little?" Wally chuckled. "But you're welcome. I guess I should also thank you for not freaking out and finding me scary after seeing me like that."
"Why would anyone find you scary for that?" Amber teased, Kuki's words form yesterday echoing vastly in her head.
"Kuki certainly seems to think I'm scary, or was it terrifying?" Wally blurted, a bit of hurt crossing over his eyes.
"You knew about that?" Amber asked surprised.
"I overheard. I don't mind she feels like that, I just wish she would have told me instead of avoiding it, or lying about it, or whatever it was she did."
"I'm sure she didn't mean anything harmful by it." Amber comforted, carefully placing a hand on Wally's shoulder.
He gently put his own hand on top of hers and stroked it softly while sending her a smile that she returned. He got that feeling of his heart speeding up all over again while his head started spinning and his smiled turned into a grin that no doubt looked ridiculous. He found himself focusing on Amber's eyes, the tingle in them which was all new, and it just drew him in and seemed to steal his breath. Her entire face was actually quite pretty when he thought about it, soft and nearly flawless. He wasn't sure how she managed to have it like that, but he guessed it might have something to do with the hundred of skin care products she had in her room. She really did take care of her looks, which came to show when you sat and thought about it, or noticed it.
"Can I confess to something?" Amber asked, snapping Wally out of his hazed mind, while he tried to forget his eyes lingering on Amber's glossed lips.
"Sure, what's up?" He asked, hoping he didn't sound too breathless.
"So, you know how I gossip and stuff right?" Wally gave a short nod, which Amber took as her cue to continue. "Well, I sort of feel embarrassed for admitting this, but we gossip about the guys on the sports teams, me and the other cheerleaders, and well… I kind of find I gossip a lot about you and how nice you seem, and how much I just love your eyes.
"Anyways. After yesterday I just found you've been on my mind a lot, and I know this may sound like me having that hero complex or what it is, where you think you love somebody because they saved you, so I've really been thinking it over and realised that you are one of my favourite topics.
"I guess, what I'm trying to say is that you just really opened my mind to everything you're willing to do for people you truly care about. You are really a true hero, and I'm not going to lie, I do have a soft spot for guys who do heroic things. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I might have fallen for you, but only just realised it yesterday, and I just wanted to tell you so I could get it off my chest and know whether you feel the same for me or not."
"Oh." Wally said, feeling a bit dumb, but he definitely knew something within him really liked Amber a lot. Especially after she had not changed how she treated him after what happened yesterday.
"What about Taylor Lautner?" He teased.
"Well. Even though I can't deny you are no Taylor I actually know you, and I think my chances are better with someone who actually knows I exist." To this statement Wally couldn't help but let out a chuckle while feeling how he got filled with an affection for Amber he definitely had never had before.
"Well." He stated, deciding it would be better to be completely honest with Amber. "I definitely feel something for you. I just don't know if it's love or not, but it definitely is some sort of deep affection. I guess I wouldn't mind trying to get closer to you and see if I can figure it out for sure, but even if it is love I need to warn you now.
"I'm not one of those cruddy PDA people, I don't exactly like showing my affection in public because I'm not a touchy type, and I guess it makes me feel vulnerable and weak, but if we end up, you know; dating or whatever, you need to give me time to get used to the whole public affection thing."
"I can live with that." Amber giggled with a blush, feeling her heart hammering in her ears, mostly because of what she was planning to do. "As for figuring out whether or not you just like me a lot or love me, I think I have an idea."
"And what's that?" Wally chuckled, turning his attention to her, just to be greeted by her hands softly resting on his shoulders and collarbone, then she leaned in and planted her lips on his, carefully and tenderly.
He felt their sweetness mixed with the taste of her vanilla flavoured lip gloss take over him, and when he found she was about to back away his arms acted on their own and wrapped around the lower part of her back so he could draw her back in and return what she had given him. Softly, carefully, tasty. It send shivers down his spine while he sensed their hearts synchronising somehow, yet somewhere in his mind—in the darkest, deepest chambers of his subconscious—something seemed to be reaching out for him. Almost as though he was forgetting something. Something important.
He shook it off and decided it was probably just his mind being scared Amber would find out one day without him telling, his hidden past which he would not tell her as of yet. Maybe one day, and maybe that unnerved him. That had to be it, because he definitely knew there was no one else in his life, so what could he possibly be forgetting?
Most certainly not something which was worth getting upset over. Maybe he should just accept this was happening and get used to the idea of Amber taking the spot as his girlfriend, slowly but surely, and it wasn't even uncomfortable or anything to him. So instead of listening to that almost invisible voice, he pushed it aside while proceeding to spend the day with Amber, getting to know her better as this new person of importance in his life.
Monday November 20th, 7.35pm
Wally walked on his own towards the bus sop, pulling his shoulders inward and upward so he could stop his mild shivering caused by the chilly weather. He had wanted to knock on Kuki's door, he really had, but he still felt upset about her not telling about her fear for him to him, and even though a part of him felt it was extremely girly to be this upset and offended about such a minor thing he thought he was allowed to. They were best friends, shouldn't they be able to tell each other everything?
He sighed heavily while pulling his shoulders closer into him, feeling a bit dumb for thinking like this, he'd just thought Kuki trusted him. Though thinking about it, she most certainly would have her own reasons or not wanting to tell him. Maybe it was to not upset him; it seemed like the most correct assumption when knowing Kuki and what she was like. In reality he probably shouldn't be boasting in his head about how dishonest he thought Kuki was, when even he had things he hadn't told her and never would.
Coming closer to the stop he saw Kuki already standing there and he felt his stomach sink. This was the first time they hadn't walked to the bus together ever since they met, which was a bit weird yet funny to think about. All the memories they had built up in their short amount of time were both hilarious and heartwarming, and Wally found he couldn't help but chuckle as he came up next to Kuki remembering that one time where they had been quarrelling about her love for rainbow monkeys, which had ended up upsetting and offending her so much that she had assured him she would never ever talk to him ever again, and she'd crossed her arms and looked away with an angry expression.
"Good morning." Wally mumbled to her, trying to read her facial expression, but she didn't even meet his eyes.
"Amber told me." She stated simply, her voice weak and distant.
"Told you what?"
"About you and her." Kuki finally looked to Wally, her eyes seemed watery and she looked like she hadn't slept that well. "Why didn't you tell me?"
"It just happened Kuki, give me a chance to even meet up with you. Not exactly easy when you decide to suddenly avoid me."
"When did I try to avoid you?" She asked in disbelief.
"Saturday, when we got home to you. I overheard you telling Amber you thought I looked terrifying while in that fight and that I scared you, but funnily enough you didn't tell me anything at all. So the one asking why didn't you tell me, should be me."
"You want to know?" She snapped, tears showing in the corners of her eyes.
"I would cruddy love to know" He scowled.
"Because I was scared of you. There. I'm not proud of it, because I know Amber was right in some ways, that you just did it to save her and that you were a hero in some ways, but I really wished you would have called the guards. What if you'll get into trouble?" She stepped into the bus, him following closely behind her.
"What kind of trouble?" Wally scoffed taking a seat next to her.
"Police, Wally." She hissed. "What if those guys had called the guard or the police to tell about you, and then you'd go into juvenile detention or something."
"For self defence? Fat chance. I think I'd more likely get social service or something."
"But you weren't defending yourself Wally!" She spat, a little too loudly for his taste. "You were defending Amber and you could get in trouble if those idiots actually ever told anyone. Especially for that death threat at the end, not the smartest thing you could ever do."
"Look Kuki." He whispered, trying to compose himself, while showing her a hand with his palm pointing downward as if to tell her to quiet her voice. "I know those type of guys too well, and you need to trust me on this one. Their pride and cocky behaviour, which usually makes them think they're all that, won't allow them to tell they got defeated by one guy alone."
"How would you know? You don't know them personally." She kept wiping away ever pressing tears while her body was trembling beneath her.
She hated to admit all of the things going on inside of her to herself. She was very worried for Wally and what he might end up in if he was wrong about what kind of 'type' those guys were, and she was still on edge knowing Wally had something like that inside of him. Not that she hoped he would ever hurt anyone unprovoked, but if what if he was willing to do more than just knock a few guys out to protect someone. What if he was actually willing to go to his death protecting someone, or worse; kill someone else?
It scared her so deeply and she found she was actually becoming uncomfortable sitting next to him. Uncomfortable knowing his strength and what he might or might not be capable of, but at the same time she also really despised herself for her way of thinking. Wally was a nice guy, he would never hurt a fly, this was something he had done because he had felt absolutely forced to. It had to be.
"Look." Wally at last sighed. "I know what these guys would do okay. I used to be these guys, why do you think my parents send me to boarding school to straighten me up? Did I enjoy punching them? Crud no. I had actually made a vow to myself that I would never fight again as long as I live, but I guess sometimes you have to do what you have to do for your friends. I am sorry for freaking you out, I really am, but I really wish you would have told me instead of being scared that I'd do something to you too. I don't hurt my true friends and let's face it. You're my cruddy best friends, which puts you on the top of the list of people I would never hurt."
"Along with Amber you mean?" She sighed, looking to him.
"Yes, along with her." He scratched his neck a little uncomfortably while letting people file out the bus. "I hope you don't mind the thing about us, it just kind of happened."
"Why would I mind?" Kuki snapped, a little too defensively for her own liking.
She didn't really understand why she felt like she did, but she really wanted to punch Wally while crying and screaming at him. She also wanted to do something to Amber, like telling her to stay away from Wally, but it didn't make any sense to tell Amber something like that, because all that Wally was to her was just a best friend. Maybe that was why she was feeling annoyed? Because she was scared Amber would get between her and Wally? Although that made even less sense, Amber wasn't one of those girls.
"You don't need to yell at me." Wally muttered annoyed. He hated how Kuki was behaving right now, because it was so unlike her. Or maybe it was just unlike the Kuki he was used to see, same as her not being used to see his rough side.
"I'm sorry." Kuki sighed, her shoulders slumping downward. "I guess I just worry about losing you because you're my best friend and I care about you."
"I care about you too." Wally defended. "You think I wouldn't have done for you what I did for Amber? I would."
"Not just that. I don't think Amber is one of those girls, I hope not anyways, but I guess I just don't want her to get between us."
Wally looked a little to Kuki, feeing how his tense body started loosing up and his eyes lost all of their anger. His head went from throbbing in frustration to suddenly spinning while he looked Kuki in the eyes. She looked upset and frightened, yet there was still that tint of a smile in her eyes and on her lips. It upset him in the strangest way and made his heart shatter while he felt a guilt settle in his stomach like a stone, before suddenly dragging his guts down which made him feel like he would fall to the ground, hard and helplessly.
Suddenly he found himself doing the strangest thing. Right inside of the school gates, in plain view of anyone getting off of the school busses, and despite him not being a touchy type, his body seemingly just acted on its own, and he blindly obeyed it. He felt himself take a step closer to Kuki, probably too quickly and too aggressively because she stepped back a little, but it could also because his eyes had grown determined which could be misinterpreted as murderous. His arms found their way around her shoulder and her upper back, as he pulled her in quickly and probably a little awkwardly and then he held her there in his unbreakable embrace, feeling her heart knock on his chest.
"I wouldn't let her." He muttered in her ear, holding her close. "You are my best friend after all."
Kuki gently embraced him back getting lost in the comfort of Wally's strength and warmth. She could feel tears burning behind her eyes for some reason while her heart both picked up in speed and shattered all at once, while her throat started clogging. She was unsure and confused as to why she felt this way right now, why it felt like she had lost something dear and important to her when it was just Wally. She didn't have feelings towards him in any way as far as she knew, so why was it she suddenly felt she had to suppress a tremble and tears from falling?
Wally pulled away from her while clearing his throat a little, then he held her at an arms length and gave her a gentle smile which she returned with her own somewhat saddened one. Maybe it would be better for her to keep a bit of a distance to him just for today, to fully accept he had that strong—yet somewhat scary—side to him, willing to go through flames to protect his dear ones.
"Hello." Amber sang as she came to them, a bit of a jealous glimmer to her eye. After all Wally had told her yesterday that he was not a touchy type at all, yet here he was embracing Kuki. "What's going on?"
"Kuki was just a little worried." Wally muttered, stepping over to Amber and placing a peck on her forehead which seemed to calm her down.
"Worried about what?" Amber asked.
"Losing us I guess." Wally shrugged, giving Kuki a little smile.
"Yeah." She sighed, while shuffling a little. "You're both my closest friends and I guess I'm just a little worried you might forget about me because you're dating. Wally was just telling that neither you nor him would ever do that."
"Of course not." Amber gleamed. "If it makes you feel better, maybe I can try and introduce you to that Ace guy, don't know if you know him? He has a weird Mohawk kind of thing going on."
"I know him." Kuki smiled, remembering Ace from her childhood. They probably hadn't been incredibly close back then, which had made them almost complete strangers to each other. "I guess I wouldn't mind, I used to spend some time with him during my childhood. It's always nice to make new friends."
2013 Rewrite. Originally written between October 21st 2010 - March 31st 2011. I hope you enjoyed this rewrite.
Criticism and/or advices on improvement is/are highly appreciated and welcome :)
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