How awkward is it to have a past lover and or current crush come up to you out of the blue. How would you react? In pure happiness or in pure shock? Both or neither? Would you blush or would you try to avoid everything they said, their eyes as they stared into yours? Would you have cold feet and tell them you need to go, or both talk to each other as if you've been friends forever? What if you were their past lover, or current crush? How do you think they would feel? What if, you'vve never seen this person before, but you know, that somewhere you've had an image of them in your dreams, or you think you've known them forever? Once again, how would you react?

The tent seemed to not be a tent at all. In fact it wasn't, it was a building underneath a tent tarp material. I sat outside staring at the building, throwing rock at it. Windows turned on every now and then and looked out but no one would have been able to see into the darkness that was down on the surface. It didn't even look as if people even came out here. Dirt ground, dead bushes, and cold air, and the sound of wind seeping in through the rips in the tent.

"You were at the show." someone said from behind.

I turned around to look to see who it was but there was no one. "Yes I was at the show." I looked up at the dead tree I was sitting on and saw a little boy handing from a branch.

"You didn't like it either." He said jumping down next to me. He was short, with a braided pony tail and cat ears. I looked at him weird for I had never seen such a thing. "What are you looking at?"

"...Sorry...never seen something...quite like you."

"You're joking right." he laughed, "I'm on of the most popular species other than humans. But they're dying slowly. They can't keep up with the growth." He looked at me, my face full of confusion. "You are serious...you're one of those dull boys from the farm land that got destroyed."

My eyes went wide and I quickly turned my head, "What?"

"The farmlands on the outskirts...they got destroyed, didn't you hear?"

I started to shake as I now realized why I was to leave my village. "Why?"

"...uh...new complexes." He looked at me confused, "you okay?"

I stood up and walked started to walk back to the building and the little boy ran up beside me, "Hey! What's with you? Didn't you hear about?"

I stopped and looked at him opening my mouth to speak, "O--"

"Of course he didn't"

My head shot up and she was there. My eyes wide and speachless.

"Ash, shut up he was gonna say something." The kid blurted out in a rude tone.

"Well excuse me Murt but he was going to slow." She sighed and crossed her arms.

"It's not Murt anymore I told you."

"I will always call you Murt just like I did as a child."

She looked at me, "So why didn't you know, tell little Murt here."

I blinked and looked at him, "The outskirts don't rely on news, nor electricity, we don't hear of the outside world."

"Only dream of it." Ash added. "Either way, coming to the inner you've probably been having weird side effects...such as...blacking out?"

"Only countless times."

"Ah..well then it's a miracle you're not dead yet." She grabbed my shirt collar and dragged me down the mini flight of stairs that led back into the building.

"We'll go see Toro."

Murt jumped in excitement, "Haven't seen him in months!"

I blinked and stared at her infront of me.

"...Toro?"