Hey Dark Gothic Lolita here!
It has been a while since I last updated in general and an extremely long time since I wrote any new material for KHR! Wow, it feels so weird!
Well, basically, I've been working on this for a while now and I really wanted to write another Skull-centric story because I think he deserves it. My last one was a one shot songfic, but I think this should be a multi-chapter story as well as AU. It's still set in Italy, don't worry, but I come forth bearing this story as a gift! I really hope you enjoy it!
I shouldn't really have to write disclaimers, but oh well. I don't own KHR or any of their characters. Apologies for any poor spelling and grammar.
ENJOY!
Flee in 7 different directions
Chapter one
"Fuck off Colonnello! What part of 'WE'RE OVER' don't you seem to understand?!" She hated this feeling so much. She hated the fact that he was able to worm his way into her life after she had built up so many walls, yet here he was, being able to knock them down just like that. Any other human and she wouldn't have even blinked. But with him? She was a wreck. She was in nothing but tears, her body shaking violently as she was sobbing. He made her weak and she hated that. I fact, she now hated him.
"Please, Lal! Just hear me out." He tried to bring his arms around her, but he forgot that she was the strongest girl in the school and she could very well look after herself. She grabbed his arm, twisted it and threw his taller body over her. His back slammed the floor, but not without letting a groan slip past his lips and he tried to open his eyes wider than they already were so that he wouldn't pass out. Lal released him before throwing a teary glare in his direction.
"Leave me the fuck alone, maggot."
She quickly ran away from him before anyone would come out of the classroom to see what all the ruckus was about. She was not going to her next class, fuck all of that shit. No, she was going to weep in the privacy of the outdoors while there was no out there yet. If it were last year or maybe even the year before that, she would have grabbed Viper and Lucy with her and they would have consoled her like they do to each other all the time. She can't even remember the last time she spoke to those girls.
She saw the unused door that no one took to the great outdoors and she knew that the only people who go out there are the smokers and junkies. Well they were all in class, so there was no way there would be anyone out there now, which is what she wanted. She sniffed as she opened the door and wiped away her tears. She could smell smoke and she scrunched up her nose before looking for the source of it. She found her guy.
On the black paint peeling railings, there was a teenager around her age sitting on them as he had his skateboard at his feet. He wore black skinny jeans with multiple chains that were hanging off of them and he wore an equal amount of silver links, bracelets and chains on either arm as well, as though he had something to hide. His fingers had been decorated with an assortment of skull rings as his left hand delicately held the little cigarette that was giving the place an awful smell. His white school shirt wasn't tucked into his trousers as expected, but he let it fly instead. His purple hair was a mess as though he had just rolled into school from dropping out of his bed.
Lal gulped. Not because she was scared of these sort of people. Oh please, she could eat them for breakfast if she really wanted to. She knew the back of this person anywhere. In fact, she had seen his back way too many times to be familiar with it. The way all seven of them had treated him in the past, as though he was some sort of pest. As though he was the shit on their shoe. She felt so guilty. She was also a main culprit as well which disgusted her. She was one of the big three of the group and she knew that her being here would make him want to kill her. That's if he had really gotten as dangerous as people whispered in the school hallways.
She was about to turn back around and leave without a word, or without him noticing her, but he turned his head and his purple eyes caught her own pale red ones. Her breath got caught in her throat as he stared at her. It was almost as though he couldn't recognise who she was. She didn't know whether she should be insulted or if she should be grateful for that. So far, he hadn't glared at her and told her to fuck off and go and fuck Colonnello or something along those lines. That made her feel even more guilty because he wasn't angry with her. For now.
He turned his head away from her and continued to take a huge drag of his cancer stick and blow the smoke into the air like he hadn't a care in the world. She gently shut the door behind her and decided that this could very well be a welcome out there with him. She took about three steps before his voice made her freeze.
"Just because I let you stay out here with me, doesn't mean you can come and sit here with me."
She had never heard him be so bitter before. It made her blood run cold and she questioned the past. Had they really been this hurtful to him? She thought it was just harmless fun, but by the way he was talking to her, it would seem that she was so wrong.
She couldn't even retaliate with words. She was shocked into silence and she had never felt more hurt in her life. Hadn't they been friends at one point? Heh friends. They never did treat him like one anyway, so why would he even want to be nice to her right now? He had every right to be spiteful to her. The tears were coming back again this time, but this was probably worse than her breaking up with Colonnello.
She heard him sigh and he began talking with a mocking tone. "I'm shocked at you Lal. No insults to throw at me because the 'lackey' was being rude to you? Or is it because Reborn and Colonnello aren't here to back you up? Oh, I've got it! Maybe over the past two years, you've changed. That you're not the same person anymore."
He didn't even bother turning to face her again. He heard her footsteps approaching him faster and faster and he was going to brace himself for huge punch that she would bestow on his face, then he would have to scare even her away from him. It never came. Instead, her arms wrapped around his torso and she buried her head into his back. He could feel her smaller frame shaking and he knew she was crying. He paused on his smoke stick and sat there, internally surprised at her actions, even if it didn't show on his face.
"Skull! I'm sorry for everything that I've done to you! Everything that I've said, every cold shoulder I've given you! I've been a bitch and I didn't even know it and I know that my sorry won't mean anything to you, but I'm saying it anyway! You know what? I broke up with Colonnello today." She let out an extremely bitter laugh, not even caring whether he was listening to her or not.
"I broke up with him and it hurt. It hurt because he was with another girl. But seeing you out here, like this, treating me the same way that I once treated you before the group finally stopped hanging out together has killed me. I don't even care about breaking up with Colonnello. Right now, seeing you is worse than all of that..."
She didn't know what else to say. She didn't know why she was suddenly pouring out her heart and emotion to Skull. It was true that when she had met him when they were young, she was intrigued by him. He was bubbly and playful. He could get severely hurt and not even care about it. She will never forget that time when they all went sledging on a hill that Verde had made for seven. Everything was going well until they hit a rock and they all went tumbling down the hill. Skull had been the only one brave to sit at the front, so he got the brunt of the hit. He had picked everyone up, making sure they were alright, passing out bandages to whoever who needed it. Verde blamed Skull for his broken sledge and ordered him to make a new one, to which he agreed.
Skull didn't come to school the next week or for the next 6 weeks in fact. Turns out he broke his ankle and needed surgery on it immediately. That had made Lal cringe at the time because she hated broken bones. Skull hadn't even cried and yet he was making sure that everyone else was okay. She didn't know why she had turned so bitter towards him. Maybe it was because when they were 13, she started having a crush on Colonnello. Well look where that got her.
She felt his warm hand on hers and she was surprised before he gently got them off of him. She stepped back and away from him, letting her arms fall to her side as he jumped down the rail. He stubbed out the cigarette on the ground and under his boots before he decided to look at Lal head on. She noticed that he had lost all his baby fat and it looked like he had purple eyeshadow. He seemed to make it work. He had an earring which was connected on a chain to the lip ring that he had. Lal would never admit this aloud, but Skull was actually hot.
He picked up his skateboard and sighed, looked up at the sky. "Do you have any gum?" She growled before digging around in her bag for him and she threw it in his face.
"There you go! I pour out my heart to you and all you can say is if I have gum. Thanks for that." She caught her packet of gum back as he hoisted his backpack on one shoulder, holding his skateboard with one arm and chewing on the gum. He threw her a glare that got her to shut up in a heartbeat. Skull never glared.
"I didn't ask for you to pour out your shitty emotions to me. Didn't even want you to talk to me to be honest."
Her eyes widened before he passed her by. She could smell the smoke and aftershave that lingered on his clothes that made her breathe in to savour the scent. She hadn't been paying attention to it before because she was in tears.
She looked down to the ground before she heard his voice again. "But, I forgive you. I'm sorry about you and Colonnello and while I'm still quite bitter to how you treated me along with the others, I would never make a girl cry. I knew you would get mad when I asked for the gum because that's who you are. Lal Mirch doesn't cry. She fights. See you around."
She turned around in surprise, but he was already gone. She stared the door for a long time before she decided to head to her class. She didn't have any lessons with Skull at all, so the only way for her to ever see him again was to come out here.
She snapped her fingers in delight. He'll get a detention for arriving late to his lesson and she'll get a detention for arriving late to hers as well! She'll get to see him at the end of the day!
She didn't know why this was so important to her. Maybe because now she wasn't trying to please Colonnello and she didn't have to try and hide who she was from other people. It was because of her crush on him and wanting to be like him that she was rude to Skull back then. Just because Colonnello did it, she too wanted to do it. Well no more. She was going to get her friend back. In fact, she was going to get the whole group back once and for all.
~x~
Skull was a rare species that no one knew what to do with him. They didn't understand where to place him, or what type of person he was. At first, when the group 'disbanded,' everyone thought he would fit into the goths, emos, loners and stoners. They labelled him as that. But then he took the loners label too far. He didn't even want to fit in with that large group of misfits. He hung out in places they hung out all over the school, but that was when they weren't there, like stoner's corner.
Majority of the school knew of his 'chance scale' as well. This was when he gave everyone 5 chances per year. If you were extremely rude to him on 5 different occasions, he would show you why you should never mess with him. He doubted his old friends knew about this. So far, they never see him to be rude to him anymore.
All in all, people fear him. It was like he wanted nothing to do with all the humans in school. Out of school he loved everything and everyone, but once he came to this hell hole, he had no time to deal with anyone's shit.
That's why when he heard the door open and he saw it Lal, he was not at all happy. He wanted to do nothing more than hurt her verbally the same way she had done in order to gain Colonello's attention. That guy was a bastard anyway, how had he suddenly joined in with the group? Oh he knew why. Because his dad and Lal's dad had been posted in the same place oversees and seeing as they're both from the same town, Colonnello was introduced into the group.
When Skull sauntered into his lesson over half an hour late smelling of smoke, he received a detention that he didn't really care for. It was a good way for him to do his homework at school so that when he got home, he could work on the bike that his dad had bought for him to fix up by himself. Him and his dad had been working on bikes and cars together since he was 11, but now his old man thought that it would be good for him to put what he has learnt into good practice by himself.
He ignored the stupid woman talking before falling into his seat which was by the window. It was a perfect spot for him to be seared at because this way, he got to look at all the free clouds that were passing by in the sky. They looked so aloof, yet connected. He sighed before feeling someone staring at him. He knew who it was of course. His ex best friend Viper. They had once lived next door to each other before her parents split up and she went to go and live with her mum in a smaller house ten minutes away.
They had done everything together and when people said they would make a cute couple, they would gag. Yeah sure they loved each other, but as a brother and sister! Their love was extremely platonic and they looked at each other in no other way. Yet look where they are now. They don't speak anymore and Viper blamed herself, while Skull also blamed Viper. It was her fault they don't talk anymore.
Viper had gotten mixed up with a group who called themselves Varia and because the sound of money appealed to her, she joined in with their illegal activity. Skull had begged and pleaded that she would stop, but she didn't want to. She had called him so many names, said so many things, but Skull loved his 'sister' so much that he wanted to see her safe. They were only 14 for fuck sake! Why was she willing to throw it all away for Belphegor, her boyfriend at the time?
Now she was regretting it all and Skull couldn't care less. When the whole group was being hurtful, she never said anything all because she was bitter about him not accepting her joining Varia.
Skull ignored her eyes on him and decided that now would be a good time to think about Lal. He would never forget that one time when they were all 11 and 12 and the girls were having their first girls only sleepover party, the boys were confused as to why it should be girls only. In the past, they had all invited each other to whoever's turn it was to host the sleepover.
The boys were adamant to find out the difference, so they had gone to Viper's mum's place. Luckily, her house was a bungalow, so Viper's room would be on the ground floor. There would have to be no spy movie shit and climb trees to peek. One by one, they all took a go to have a five minute watch of what was going on.
Skull of course was last, but he got the best view of them all. There she was, standing in only her underwear, was Lal Mirch. Her chest was no longer flat and she wore what must have been a training bra. She must have been the first girl in their class to have boobs! Her long hair flowed down her back as he watched her put on her pyjamas. He had to calm himself down before going back to the others and faking that he saw nothing. From that day onwards, Skull knew that he would never be able to get her out of his head. She was so beautiful.
"I wonder how filled out she is now."
Skull smiled to himself as the bell for the end of the lesson went off. He ignored Viper's calls to him. Well, that was new. She never tried to call out to him before. She would usually just try and stare in his direction. Oh well, he didn't care because at the time, she never cared about him. When he needed her most, she wasn't there for him.
As he walked out of class, he bumped into a couple and the girl almost fell over. Just as he was about to apologize, he heard her boyfriend yell out to him and he was none too pleased at the owner of the voice. In fact, the owner of the voice was the biggest bastard he had ever come across.
"Oi you faggot, just because you can't get a girl, doesn't mean you can knock over other people's."
Reborn.
Skull looked down at the girl and expected it to be Luce, so he was shocked to find that it was Bianchi from his art class there instead. If anything, Reborn and Luce had been dating since before Lal and Colonello had been and they were just as in love. Either reborn and Luce were over, or Reborn was cheating on her. Oh well, it wasn't his place to talk. It wasn't like he cared. But Luce was the only girl in the group to ever be nice to him while Fon we the only ever guy to be nice to him. In fact, they still hung out now, but he didn't know they were no longer dating.
Reborn helped Bianchi to her feet before looking back at Skull, as though he was trying to remember who Skull was under all that metal and makeup. He didn't even care if it was rude of him to stare openly like that, who is this guy? Bianchi then hit his arm and his attention was thrown to his girlfriend who was glaring at him.
"Don't call Skull a faggot! That's rude! Sorry for that Skull." He smiled at her and shook his head before going off so that he could buy some lunch. While he was still in earshot, he could hear what Reborn was asking Bianchi and it made him laugh.
"That's Skull? How do you even know him anyway?"
The fact that Reborn couldn't even recognise him made Skull grin.
~x~
Detention. It was one place that Lal had never been in and she was happy to avoid it. She knew that sometimes, her behaviour would have made her end up there, but she was able to dodge them all. Now she was happy that her first time having a detention would be worth it and all for it. Who knew that the reason why she would be happy to be in detention would be because she would get to see Skull? If you told her this yesterday, she would have laughed in your face.
She pushed open the room door and she saw heads turn to see who their latest companion would be. Some stared on in surprise while others knew that it was only a matter of time before little miss violent would get a detention too. She didn't care for them. They weren't the ones that she was looking for. Her eyes scanned the room looking for the one person that she had been waiting the whole day for.
"Hey Lal? You planning on moving anytime soon?"
She jumped before turning around to face the owner of the smooth tenor voice. It was Skull, standing there in all his skater boy glory. He looked down into her eyes and she couldn't help but wonder when he had gotten so tall. There was a time where he was the shortest of the group, but now he has shot up. He was probably the second tallest, behind Verde now.
"S-sorry." She moved to the side and hung her head down as he passed her by. His scent lingered around her nostrils once more and she couldn't help but breathe in deeply. She might have looked weird to anyone else around here, but she didn't care. She turned and saw him sit down at the seat by the window, furthest away from everyone else. She remembered when he had always wanted to be the centre of attention, he spoke of how great he would be. She remembered his stunt man dream, that he was going to be a daredevil. He had some crazy obsession over ghost rider and he wanted to be like him.
Lal smiled to herself when she thought of the way Skull used to light up when he spoke about it. Verde would just snort before poking his nose back into a physics book, Reborn would say something rude before shining his toy guns and cars while Colonello would outright laugh. Luce would chide everyone, Viper would glare at the three of them and Fon would tell Skull that he shouldn't worry. Well what was Lal doing? She couldn't even remember.
The teacher then walked in behind her. "Sit down Lal, you're going to be here for the next two hours. I hope you have some work." The girl rolled her eyes before going to look for a seat. She raised her eyebrows before pondering if she should push her luck by sitting next to him. Actually, why is she asking that? She's Lal Mirch and she'll do what she wants!
She made her way around the tables and through the other people as she made her way to the same table to Skull was at. She dumped her bag on the table, but that didn't even make him look up. It was like he knew she was coming.
"You took your time."
She sat in the seat next to him and smiled a little bit. "So you knew I was coming to sit next to you?"
He turned his head away from the window and she didn't realise how captivating his violet eyes were. He smirked at her and she could feel her heart soaring in her chest. How was it that he was able to make her feel like this when she hadn't even spoken to him in over 2 years? In fact, why did Skull even make her feel like this? It hasn't even been a day since she broke up with Colonello, yet her heart was fluttering like this. How crazy.
"Well of course I did. I'm pretty sure that you weren't just going to leave it there when you saw me smoking, were you? I know you Lal, even if we haven't been friends for a long time now." He sat back in his seat and watched her. He saw the blush rise up on her face and she turned away from him.
"So anyway, what do you want? How are the others these days?"
Lal frowned. Either he was just joking about or he really didn't know that the whole group had split up. He was the first to leave the group after all. It was funny because everyone thought it would have been Verde to leave first. Well he was the second anyway.
"We don't hang out anymore Skull. The group has...gone their own separate ways. Ever since you left...things just weren't the same anymore. Verde started hanging out with the smart people because he felt that we were too stupid for him. I'll show him stupid, I'm a straight A student as well." She stopped when she saw the amused look that Skull was giving her and she felt her cheeks start to glow.
"ANYWAY! Viper started hanging out with Varia, though I think as soon as her and Belphegor broke up, she stopped hanging out with them. Luce and Reborn broke up and now Reborn is with Bianchi. I don't know what Luce is doing now. Now you know that me and Colonello are over as well. Anyway, enough about them, what about you?"
Skull raised an eyebrow at her in question. He didn't really think that she would bother asking him anything to do with him. He looked into her eyes and saw that she was being dead serious. Her eyes were trained on him as though she was going to listen intently.
"Wait, you want to know about what I've been doing? Me? Skull?"
Lal actually laughed before she stopped because the teacher glared at her and the other students were staring at her as well. She glared back at them all which made them turn around before she looked up at Skull again with a smile.
"Yes, you maggot! Come on. Tell me. How is your whole stunt man thing coming along? Or are you trying to be the next Tony Hawk?" She put her foot on his skateboard and moved it back and forth with her foot while still looking at him. He gave her a sarcastic smile before shrugging his shoulders.
"It's coming along great. I've been entering stuff like dirt bike competitions, skateboarding competitions and bmx ones too. You know, extreme sports. I might be getting an amazing sponsor if I'm able to win the finals that are coming up next month." He paused when he saw that she was actually listening to him.
"But why do you even care? Why all of a sudden? You just want a friend to comfort you because of Colonnello? Is that it? Because the others aren't around anymore? Tell me." His eyes turned cold as the words were knocked right out of her. She had never seen this side of Skull before and it was shocking to say that she didn't know whether to be scared, cry, shout back at him or be turned on.
"Skull...Oh Skull," she whispered gently. Before she could even think of what she was doing, she wrapped her arms around him yet again. She didn't know what was wrong with her today. She was never one for hugs, yet here she was, hugging Skull TWICE today! She is really losing it. Or maybe this was all a dream.
Skull suddenly felt warm again. Like he had been touched by an angel. It had been two years since he stopped caring about anyone in this school. Since he stopped caring for a lot of things. But here he was, in the arms of his crush and he never felt better. His arms wrapped around her waist and he squeezed them before they pulled apart.
"I care because I'm sorry. Everything that we did to you...I'm sorry. You know what? I want to come to your finals next month. Do I need a ticket? How much is it? I want to see you doing what you love because in the past, I never really got to."
He watched as her eyes sparkled and he had never felt more loved by any of his friends in a long time. "You want to come to my finals?"
"Yes."
"Lal, what's up with you? You got girlier."
"Maybe so, but that doesn't mean I still can't knock you out you know."
"There's the Lal I know, but I would like to see you try. I got strong too you know. I'm not weak anymore, Lal." She didn't know what it was, but the way he said her name made her feel weak and she was never happier that she was sitting down instead of standing up. He was making her blood rush and pound in her ears.
"If that's what you think then. Anyway, shut up, I have homework to get on with." She heard Skull chuckle at her behaviour and she couldn't help but smile. Skull was slowly warming up to her and she was definitely warming up to him as well.
~x~
"Hey Luce, what's up?"
The said teen looked up at the boy who called her and she smiled up at him before he took his seat next to her. He passed her a box of chocolates which she was grateful for. She had been craving them all day and now she finally got what she wanted. She savoured the wonderful milky taste of the chocolate as she swirled it in her mouth with her tongue, smiling with glee as she ate it.
"So when are you going to let anyone know? I mean, as much as I like being the only one to know, you need to tell him, not me. Oh yeah, thanks for telling me that you and Reborn are over."
Luce waved him off with a huff as well as looking sheepish. "Sorry, I kind of forgot."
He sighed with a small smile on his face. If there was a childish human, Luce won it right off the bat. She gave babies a run for her money. She was so sweet, so innocent, so how was it that she was tainted by something so...bad? It baffled him.
"I don't know. I don't want to tell him. What will he say to me? Do you know what he will say? I know he barely loves me. He just wants to make Bianchi jealous. He doesn't really love me."
"Has he told you that he doesn't love you? Wait, if this is how you feel, why are you even dating him?"
"Well, no because he doesn't have to. At the time, I was using him to get over Reborn and now I've fallen for him."
"But that's not proof enough." Once again, Luce huffed as she crossed her arms over her chest and she shut her eyes in frustration.
"Skull," she said, starting to get annoyed. "I don't need him to tell me that he doesn't love me as proof. I can see it in his actions okay? He. Doesn't. Love. Me." She stuck another block of the expensive chocolate in her mouth and she melted once more while Skull rolled his eyes next to her.
"I think that you should still tell him."
"And I think that you should mind your own business. Shouldn't you be practising for the finals next month? Why are you bothering a pregnant teen?" She plopped another cube in her mouth as she watched Skull ruffle his hair. There was suddenly a smile on his face and she couldn't help but smirk as well as be curious. It was rare to get a smile out of him. It became rare as of 2 years ago.
"Okay, so what's got you smiling like that."
"Not a what, more like a who."
Luce blinked in confusion, but not confused enough to not carry on eating. She tried to think of any people that Skull might have a soft spot for in the school, other than herself of course. She had never let go of her friendship for Skull as she was the only one all those two years ago to try to get him to come back and hang out with them again. It may have failed, but they remained friends. Best friends even because Viper had decided to be a bitch.
"Oh my gosh! Lal spoke to you!"
"Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner!"
"Tell me, EVERYTHING!"
Skull laughed as he looked over to where there were other children playing on the swing sets and all the other things that they have in a park. He looked at the light setting sun and knew that they would all be going home soon. He had promised that he would meet Luce out here to talk to her after his detention. It was their thing. If one needed to talk to the other, they headed to the park. It reminded them of the good old days, before things went wrong 2 years ago.
"Well as you know, I like to go for a smoke in our 3rd period-"
"Yes and I wish you would stop."
"And I wish you would stop interrupting the story." She said a quick story and let him continue. "Anyway, I heard the door open and when I looked back, there was Lal standing behind me, all teary eyed and shocked. I ignored her of course, I didn't know what the fuck she wanted. She wanted to come near me, but I shunned her. Then she hugged me- DON'T SAY ANYTHING!" He noticed the way that Luce looked like she was going to burst from happiness when she heard that they hugged.
"She started apologizing and shit and I told her that I forgive her. Then I saw her again in detention and we had a better conversation. She wants to come and see me at the finals next month. Oh and her and Colonnello broke up. Can't say I'm not happy."
"Finally, you're going to get the girl! You have to ask her out soon enough before another guy comes and snatches her away from you! She might be violent, but she has a ton of guys waiting for her."
"Nah, I don't think that I will you know?"
Luce's eyes almost popped out of her head when she heard him say that. Was he crazy?! This was a girl that he had been in love with since they were 11. She was the only who knew because she was the only girl who had seen the guys watch the girls. She hadn't told the other two that the boys were watching of course, she wanted to see what would happen. So when Lal had stripped down to her underwear when Skull just happened to be watching, she couldn't help but squeal in her mind for the unsuspecting Lal.
"And why the hell not?! You've been in love with her for ages!"
"I'll only ask her out if you tell your baby daddy that he's going to be a baby daddy."
Luce went silent and glared. She really wanted Skull to be happy and get the girl of his dreams, but she didn't want to tell her current boyfriend that he was going to be a father! The words that he will yell at her, telling her she should have taken the pill and all that would just scare her. She well and truly did actually love him, even though at first, she was dating him just because she wanted Reborn to be jealous. Now look where that got her. She fell in love with the guy.
She thought about it. If she told him, she could just tell him that it was okay and that she knows that he wouldn't have to pitch in or even know the baby if he really didn't want to. She could raise the baby on her own, no big deal. She wouldn't care if he left her for someone else or screamed curses at her. She was going to raise her baby with love and that was all that mattered. It wasn't her baby's fault, it was hers. She should have been more careful.
She sighed before eating the last chocolate. She saw Skull smile. She knew that he knew that she had given in. "Fine, I'll tell him. But you have to be at the scene. I'll tell him in private obviously, but you have to be around a corner or something. Then when you finally get the balls to ask out Lal, I'll be around to give you support. Deal?"
Skull gave her a one arm hug and grinned at her. "Deal for sure. How did your mum take it anyway?" Skull knew that Sepira, Luce's mum was probably the most laid back parent on Earth, though she was strict on a few things. He was pretty sure that teenage pregnancy was something that was serious.
"Oh you know, she cried. She said all the typical things that a parent would say. She then called my dad on the phone and he spoke to me saying that I should have waited and if this guy even loves me. I said yes of course. I know dad will want to meet him when he gets back from his trip. Oh well, both mum and dad said that it's done now and that I'm not aborting."
Skull nodded, happy that they weren't angry. "Yeah, that's what I would say as well. Anyway, I better go and you better go too. In fact, let me walk you home, it's getting darker now." They both stood up as they headed into the direction of Luce's house.
The streetlights came on as they were walking in silence. "Skull? When did we start to fall apart?"
The said boy was silent for a while before breathing heavily through his nose. They had been the best of friends, all seven of them. Then Colonnello came and it was the eight of them. It was probably the pressure of school and the cliques being formed with hormone activity on top of it as well.
"I want the group to get back together. This is our last year, we can't just leave it all like this. There must be a way to get back together."
"I don't know Lu. I mean, I know I should let bygones be bygones, but sometimes it's hard, especially when I endured with all their shit for 3 years before I finally decided I'd had enough of it all. Viper, I know wants to talk to me, but she hasn't got the guts to come up to me properly and say anything to my face. Lal has already found her way to me. Reborn doesn't remember me-"
"What? What do you mean?"
"I bumped into Bianchi today and he called me a fag. Bianchi hit him for being rude and said hi to me, before saying my name. When I was walking away, Reborn asked her if it was really. The guy has been so wrapped up in his world of being 'cool' that he's forgotten what one of his old good friends used to look like. It's not like we haven't hung out in 20 years as well, so he has no excuse. He is the person I want nothing to do with. I haven't seen Colonnello or Verde in a while either, so I don't know what my status is on those two."
He kicked an empty can that was lying on the ground as he watched it drop by a gutter and Luce just sighed. She was the peacemaker of the whole group, literally like the mother. Skull knew that she would make a good parent because she was so motherly.
They both walked in silence once more, taking in the air and the night. They stopped outside of her house and she smiled at him. "Thanks for walking me home. And for still being friends as well." She waved at him as he watched her walk into her house before he turned around and started for his own. He smiled. Today had gone pretty well. He set his skateboard on the ground before pushing himself off on it into the night.
So how was that? Did you all like that? In fact, did you all understand where I was coming from? So basically, they've all been friends since they were kids, you know, the ORIGINAL acrobaleno, but Colonnello became friends let's say around when they were like ten. Because there's only technically supposed to be seven of them, the story name is 'flee in SEVEN different directions' because they all split up. GEDDIT?!
Good, so I hope that was a good enough start for you all! Because I'm in my first year of university, my updating will be very inconsistent, so please bear with me okay!
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