The evil behind two faces

Chapter 3:

"How I met Axel" by Demyx Yamanouchi

Axel and I met at my first day in kindergarten. It wasn't exactly the day of my life, as my mother and me just moved into town because she had gotten another job. I didn't feel like going to kindergarten, the only moments I felt safe was when I was around my mom, and she would leave me there. Alone.
When we walked through the hallway to the classroom, my mood brightened a little as I saw a lot of toys. Once inside mom said bye to me pretty quickly and told me that when the pointy things on the clock above the door would be on the same place, she would be there again and take me home.

The other kids were staring at me, watching my every move, making me feel nervous. Luckily the lady told us we could go out and play, and so I wandered around, trying to figure out what kind of toys were there and which kids looked nice enough to play with.
In the end, I walked up to a boy who was sitting in a corner, all by himself. He was playing with a firemans car, driving it back and forth in front of his feet. His hair was an unique color, nothing like I had ever seen. It was one of the brightest red I've ever seen. At first, he wouldn't look at me when I talked to him, but when he looked up and I saw his eyes, I was very surprised. Compared to his hair, his green eyes stood out as very bright. His eyes were a bright, light shade of green, with some darker spots in them.
I asked him what his name was and hardly got an understandable answer. I decided he was nice enough to play with and grabbed a police car. The rest of the time that day we played with the cars together; me running around in the room and him not moving from his spot.

At some point, when the pointy things were nearly touching, the lady told us to sit down on the benches near the windows and listen to the book she was reading. Soon however, I found myself looking from the door to the cars outside and back to the door. The redheaded boy, who I learned, was named Axel, was watching the lady intently and seemed to love and absorb every word she spoke. I finally saw mom walking into the building. I wanted to jump from the bench and run to her, but the lady told me to remain where I was.

When the book was over, the story had ended, all the kids except for Axel jumped to their feet and ran for the door. As I knew mom was on the other side of that door, I did the same. Soon mom hugged me and asked how the day had been. I told her everything and tried to find Axel somewhere in the crowd of moms, dads and other kids. When I didn't find him, I looked back to the bench, where I found him. I ran towards him and invited him over to my house to play. With big eyes he looked at me, obviously surprised that I had asked. I repeated the question and he nodded. It was hardly noticable, but he nodded. I grabbed his hand and pretty much dragged him to the car.

When we got home, mom gave us some lemonade and a cookie, asked about our day and then we went to my room, where Axel didn't know where to look. When he found out about my fishbowl, he kept staring at it, following the fishes with his eyes as they swam around.
After I told him their names, we played with my cars. I had the exact same firemans car as the one in kindergarten and Axel couldn't stop driving it around.
As he drove the thing around, I couldn't help but stare at him from time to time. Somehow he fascinated me. Just how he moved, how he touched my toys, it seemed that he was afraid to break anything by just touching it.

After playing like that for a few hours, my mom came to bring Axel home. He said he lived just down the street, but mom insisted on bringing him. So with the three of us, we walked outside and to Axel's house.
The house looked pretty much like ours, not the biggest one in town, but not a small one either. The door opened and we were faced by a tall man, who appeared to be Axel's father. He kind of scared me, he looked mean and his voice sounded not very nice either. Axel seemed to be somewhat afraid of him as well.
Just before he walked inside I quickly wrapped my arms around him and hugged his thin, yet somewhat tall frame to my smaller body and held him tight for a few seconds. Then he walked inside, a small smile on his face.

That very day, I knew that Axel and I would be friends, and nothing less is true.