"Lucas!" A voice screamed my name.

"H- huh…?" I groggily responded.

"Wake up!" The voice screamed again.

"Ugh… I- I'm awake..." I replied.

"Jeez, about time! It's two in the afternoon!" It shouted again.

"W- what?" I awoke from my sleep.

"You heard me, it's two in the afternoon!" The voice appeared as my mother.

I slowly opened my eyes to see my mother standing over me. She told me to get up and get cleaned up. I groggily replied okay and rolled off my bed, slowly getting to my feet.

I took a shower and got dressed into fresh clothes and walked downstairs not soon later. I sat down at the kitchen table with a simple sandwich was I slowly ate it.

As I was eating, Vice decided to sit across from me.

"Wow, you slept forever…!" He said.

Mumbling, I just continued eating my sandwich.

"Alright..." Vice sighed.

Vice got up and walked away. He told me if I wanted to go out later, just find him. I didn't really reply, just nodded softly, still half asleep.

I finished my sandwich and got up.

I walked to the front door and grabbed my bag.

"Okay… I wonder what to do today..." I told myself.

Once I opened the door, I walked down the street. Along the way, I texted Eclipse, Rex and Spark. I texted them to see if they wanted to do something, and only Eclipse replied positive, saying he'll meet me at our hangout. But the Spark and Rex texted back saying they were busy and couldn't. I shrugged at this, as Eclipse accepted, so I wouldn't be bored all day long.

So after reaching the park, I waited for Eclipse.

As I was waiting, I suddenly felt a tap on my shoulder from behind.

"Huh…?" I mumbled turning around.

Turning around, I saw Eclipse along with Shine.

"Oh… Hey." I said to them.

"Hey. Jeez, couldn't get your attention.

"Sorry, was in my thoughts." I told them.

"Ah. Well, we're here. Shine wanted to come along, so yeah." He said.

"That's fine. Ready to go?" I asked.

"Yep. Where should we go?" Eclipse asked back.

I thought a bit before I got up. As I was about to speak, Shine hugged Eclipse and spoke.

"U- um… Can we g- go somewhere that I wanted to go?" She asked quietly.

"Sure." I simply replied.

"Well, I w- wanted to meet with someone… I- if we can go there real quick." She said.

"Of course. Where is this someone?" I asked.

"At golden road..." She whispered.

"Alright, we can go there real quick." I told her.

She smiled softly and nodded as we began walking to golden road.

Once we arrived, Shine started looking around and soon scoped out a Zigzagoon. She walked up to him and they talked for a bit. Eclipse and I stayed back and gave them some space. While they were doing their thing, Eclipse and I talked among ourselves.

"Hey, I'm pretty surprised..." He said.

"Surprised? About what?" I asked.

"High school's just about here." He replied.

"Huh… Yeah, completely forgot..." I said.

"Anyways, what were we going to do today?" He asked me.

"Eh, I'm not really sure. I just wanted to get someone to do something with…" I told him.

"Oh… Well, we can possibly go to the arcade or shop or something." He said.

"We could do that. Hmm..." I started thinking.

As I was thinking, Shine finished up and walked to us. She had a notepad in her paw. Once she reached us, she spoke.

"Um… Sorry about that… I wanted to get this back. So, um, is it okay if we cancel our trip?" She asked.

"Why?" I asked.

"Well… I want to do something now that I have this back." She said.

"Oh, then it's fine." I replied.

"Thanks, sorry about this… But this thing is quite important for school… I nearly forgotten about it." She said back.

She looked at us before slowly walking besides us, and behind us, back to emerald city. Eclipse and I looked at each other and I shrugged. Eclipse replied saying that he wasn't that worry about her. Saying back if he was sure, he agreed, saying that she deserved some space. Asking why, he just replied saying he realized that he was slightly overprotective due to what happened to her back then.

I just nodded and looked at him.

"Well, shall we go?" I asked.

"Sure. Where are we going to go?" He asked back.

"Hmm… Hungry…?" I asked him.

"Huh? Yeah, actually. Quite so." He replied.

I nodded and began walking, telling Eclipse to follow. He did so and followed as we walked down the road. Not sure why, but walking down golden road felt really nice sometimes. So peaceful as the floor sparkled beneath our feet. Eclipse spoke to me about plans as I kinda stared into space. And my daze was soon interrupted when I was quickly grabbed by Eclipse.

"Lucas? You okay?" He asked.

"W- what?" I said, a bit startled.

"You gotta watch where your heading… Was about to run into a tree..." He rolled his eyes.

"Oh… Sorry… I was kinda in my thoughts..." I told him.

"You seem to do that a lot." He told me back.

"Um, no I don't." I sighed.

"Yeah, you think that… Anyways, come on. Lets get to where your taking us." He said.

Sighing, I shook my head.

We kept walking and soon reached the city again. I told Eclipse I had change of plans, and we were going back to my place. He seemed confused, since he was quite hungry, but I told him I just didn't really feel like doing that, and we would eat at my place. Eclipse was quite disappointed but accepted, since he would've wanted some food from a restaurant that he loved.

I just told him I'll pay next time, since I didn't want to hear his groans.

And soon, we reached my house. Eclipse walked in behind me and looked at me.

"Alright… Why did you want to come home?" He asked.

"First, I guess I'll get us some food…" I told him.

And after preparing some food, I sat down and looked at him.

"Okay, so… Now that Shine isn't with us, I had a bit of change of plans." I told him.

"And this change was?" He asked me.

"Well, I had something I was holding off on for some time now. So when Shine decided to go her own way, I think it's safer now." I said.

"Safer?" He asked.

"Yeah, I didn't want her to get hurt… And you seem quite experienced. So how about it? Want to go on this journey?" I asked back.

"Well… Sure, why not?" He nodded.

"Good. Lets eat then get ready." I told him.

He agreed and we started to eat, soon getting ready to go...