EDIT: Scene added

The boy sat on the curb of an empty street watching a brunette boy wearing olive green overalls sat across the street staring back at him with interest. It took a few minutes before he finally ran across the street and took a seat beside him.

"You're quiet aren't you?" the small boy smiled then huffed out a laugh "It's ok, I like to talk a lot. So I think we can be really good friends. Don't you?"

The boy stared at the other silently unsure of what to say.

"I'm six years old. How old are you?" the boy asked leaning closer.

"five…" he responded

"No way! But you're taller than me!" he exclaimed with wild hand gestures. The boy simply shrugged. "I'm starting first grade, you?"

He simply nodded "I am too"

"But you're five!" he said loudly with a huff

"I'll be six in December…"

"I hope we go to the same school then" the brunette laughed standing up before stretching a hand out his chubby finger open. "Do you want to play with me at the park?"

His quiet eyes simply stared up at those bright coffee eyes who stared back at him with open friendliness. He looked back at the giant white home behind him seeing a woman with long dark hair wearing a simple white dress sitting on the porch with a book in hand stare back at him. She smiled and nodded.

So he turned back and hesitantly took hold of the boys warm hand.

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The next morning Kevin walked to school in silence.

He had had a hard time trying to explain his nose injury to his father. His father was a very persistent man, yet somehow he managed to slip away with the distraction of a phone call his father had received in the middle of the argument.

It wasn't over. It wasn't near the end of the discussion with his father. Somehow he had to manage to cover his false story.

His chest ached from the pain from the fact that he was flat out lying to his father. He had been lying for years now. Sure he was used to it, but that didn't mean it made it any less easy.

He just had to get by these final years of high school and it would all be over. He had come a long way and he wasn't giving up now.

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Boring, it was all he had to describe his day in school. It was all so bland and uneventful. The only good thing about this particular day was that not even Eddward nor his goons made any attempt to approach him in any way.

This however left Kevin feeling slightly on guard. This was all too unnatural and was simply nerve wracking for his own good.

"Hey Kev what's up? You seem a little paranoid, is it Eddward again?" Nazz stood close to him while she waited for him to finish up getting the textbooks he would need to take home.

"Sorta…" he quietly answered.

"You do realize that they haven't touched you not even glanced in your direction at all today right? Maybe they become bored with you!" she chimed happily.

"I sure hope so…"once again silence.

"Kev, hey Kevin what's up? Tell me the truth, because you don't seem too happy?" she questioned with clear concern in her tone.

"It's…" he let out a big sigh before closing the locker and averting his eyes to think for a moment. Should he tell her? About what happened yesterday? What he said to Eddward? Kevin shook the thought away thinking he was being silly. "It's just my dad, don't know how to explain this" he pointed to his nose.

Nazz bluntly staring at the injury with anger "It's simple, just tell him the truth. Tell him exactly what's been going on since freshman-."

Immediately Kevin blocked whatever she was about to say. "SHHHH! What if someone hears you and tattle-tales on you! You'll never see the end of it."

Nazz pulled off Kevins hands from her mouth "If it means you stop being the center of Eddward's attention, I'll take it"

"Stop it Nazz you won't be able to handle it" Kevin looked sadly at her.

"How do you know I can't?" Nazz then looked around the halls and lowered her voice into a whisper "I'll tell on them, I'll do it one day Kev. For sure"

No words could describe the amount of admiration Kevin felt for Nazz in that moment. Just by looking onto those pure crystal clear blue eyes, he knew she wasn't lying. She would do it one day.

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The ginger boy sat in his messy bedroom with his headphones on trying to relax a moment from studying. He stared at the ceiling but found that his eyes were burning from sleep deprivation and decided to close them for a moment. Taking deep slow breaths to realize his mind took him back to the previous incident.

The pain he had felt surged through his body once again, his lungs felt clogged, and his heart rate sped up. He saw the dark figure staring intensely down at him with such dark pained eyes. The expression wasn't angry. Maybe... annoyed or something else…why?

"KEVIN!"

His eyes shot open and stood up lighting fast from the scare. He grabbed onto the table trying to steady himself as he felt his vision black out and becoming dizzy.

"Kevin I'm home I brought… you alright son?"

"I've told you to knock several times already dad" Kevin whined "and yeah you just scared me is all" Kevin stood straight up facing his father.

"Oh um…did I uh interrupt something?" Kevin father looked around the room.

Kevin slapped his hands onto his face completely embarrassed by his father assumptions "GOD DAD NO! I WAS STUDYING"

"Alright, alright, come down stairs for dinner I brought fried chicken." Kevin's father chuckled leaving the door open behind him.

Kevin watched his father disappear down the hall before looking back at his desk for a second catching his breath. He closed his eyes trying to forget the event and Eddwrad's unreadable expression before standing up and following his father down stairs.

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"Kevin…" Mr. Barr finally spoke breaking the calm silence both shared in the living room. Kevin looked up from his book on the foundation for robotics he had been so focused on, knowing what was coming.

"Yeah dad?" he asked.

"About your nose…" Kevin father announced flipping through the television channels.

Rolling his eyes Kevin responded "I've already told you I tripped on my way back home and didn't haven't time to catch myself properly." He sighed and continued to read his book.

"Kevin, I know when you're lying" Kevin father stared at him firmly.

No, no you don't dad Kevin thought slouching down into the couch seat. "I'm not lying dad"

Mr. Barr sighed "Look at me Kevin Thomas Barr" and Kevin obeyed looking straight at his father's worried face knowing his father was serious when he called him by his full name. "Can you look straight at me and tell me you're telling me the truth?"

Kevin had done this several times in his life, he was good at it. So he locked his light green eyes with his father's chocolate brown ones. "I'm telling you the truth, I swear on my mother's grave."

There was silence for a long moment before Mr. Barr groaned out defeated and continued to flip through the channels on the television. "Alright son, but if you are hiding something you're not going to hear the end of it you hear me Kevin."

"Yeah dad" Kevin flipped through his book, reading the paragraphs. Yet the words on the pages didn't make sense, didn't have meaning. It was like he couldn't read anymore, and it frustrated him. Lying to his dad caused him so much anxiety sometimes he couldn't even breathe right.

He breathed in and exhaled slowly. He repeated this discreetly until he felt his panic start to just hoped everything would be over soon.

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