Prepare yourself for a heart-rending moment!
Lync: You're going to make me cry.
Shadow: I want to see this.
Yumeí: *punches Shadow on the arm* Show some respect.
Volt: I agree with her for once.
Dream: Yeah, before this gets too ugly, maybe we should just tell this part of the story.
Lync: I'm leaving, before I break down completely.
Lync looked at the advertisement on the screen again.
Come live on New Vestroia! An open world full of new opportunity! Buy a ticket pass on Alpha City now!
It was a cheesy ad, but it seemed promising. Lync was very aware of how much money it would cost to live on New Vestroia. If his swift, mental calculations were accurate, then he had earned just enough money from two years on the black market to live in Alpha City. It would mean leaving his homeworld, but he would get a new chance at life. Lync had admitted to himself that working on the Black Market was beneath his potential, and now he could go and restart.
The only twinge of regret he had was that he didn't have enough money to bring one more person...
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Lync double checked the supplies in his bag for the twelfth time. He triple checked that he had his pass in his back pocket, then began writing a note:
Mother and Father,
I will be long gone by the time you read this. Don't bother trying to reclaim me as your son once you learn where I have gone.
You thought I wasn't good enough for you. You never denied it. Well, you should have paid more attention to me, then maybe you would have realized how beneficial I could have been to you.
I am leaving Vestal. It was never truly my home here. I will make myself a new home, my own home, on New Vestroia.
I won't be coming back. You have lost your only son through your own doings. When you regret neglecting me, and think "if only", then my revenge will be complete.
Next time, maybe you'll think about the consequences of abuse.
~Lync.
He folded his note in half and placed it on the clean surface of his desk. Then he realized that the door was open, and someone was standing in the doorway.
"Lync, what are you doing?"
He turned around and saw Elrin looking at him, her brow furrowed in concern. Lync sighed.
"You know what I'm doing. I'm leaving. For good this time."
"Why?" she asked, walking closer.
Lync looked into his eleven-year old sister's lovely, innocent face. He felt immensely sad that he couldn't take her along, save her from his parents. But this was where she belonged.
"I can't live here any longer," Lync answered, turning away. "Our parents don't care about me. Every time I walk in the door, they look down on me, like I'm some piece of trash. They don't talk to me anymore, but I hear them talking about me, behind my back, saying how I'm such a terrible son. But I don't need them to survive anymore. I can live by myself now. And that's what I plan to do. I'm going to New Vestroia, to live my life."
Elrin sadly looked at the bags Lync had piled on the floor. Lync knew that she would miss him, but she wouldn't stand in his way. So unlike his parents would.
He stepped forward and hugged her. Elrin hugged him back. They stood there for a long moment before she whispered, "You're only thirteen."
"I'll be fourteen in a few weeks," Lync argued. Elrin was quiet. Lync pulled out of the embrace and put his hands on her shoulders.
"I promise, I'll still make contact with you."
Elrin nodded. Lync dropped his hands and bent down to retrieve his bags. When he all had them secured, he rifled Elrin's hair one more time, opened the window, and began to climb down.
Yumeí: What were you climbing down?
Lync: The side of my house.
Yumeí: But-
Dream: Yumeí, I don't have time for technicalities. I woke up at 5:30.
Mylene: You always wake up at that time on weekdays.
Dream:...Yeah, but I'm still tired.
Volt: Review please.