Chapter 31: Suspicion; Faulty Return
He walked toward them, his golden eyes glowing at a distance. They all stared at him, walking towards them, seeing what he was. The silhouette slowly disappeared against the walking figure, revealing what he was.
"An Umbreon?" Alex asked.
"Yeah," Glaceon responded, "He is an Umbreon."
"What's wrong with his eyes?" Tracey asked.
"Nothing," the Umbreon answered, still at a distance. "It was just the way I was born." It stayed silent until he came to the group, sitting in his own little group. He looked around at everyone there, meeting eyes with everyone. "I'm like any other Umbreon, only difference bein' the eyes. Despite it, nothing else is wrong with me. I'm Lenard."
After a few minutes of exchanging names…
"So I heard someone passed away…" Lenard started.
"Yeah, Luke's girlfriend…" Alex answered. Lenard looked at him.
"Your roommate's girlfriend, is that right?"
"Actually, he's my roommate," Glaceon responded, putting a paw on his chest. "It's actually his parent guardian."
"Ah, my mistake. You two a gay couple now or what?"
"Lenard!" Glaceon yelled out, blushing. Absol and Alex smirked in enjoyment. He eyed at Alex and Absol, trying to get to stop.
"Kidding…kidding…" Lenard flicked an ear for a bit. "So does anyone have any—"
"No," Alex quickly responded.
"Oh, well hopefully someone knows before it's too late." He looked over at Alex and what was furry on his lap. "What's—"Sorrel's head popped out from his lap. "…Who's that?"
"This is Sorrel, just a shiny Vulpix left to us presumably by a shiny Ninetails."
"Wow…'wonder why they left them—"
"She." Lenard eyed at Alex.
"…'wonder why they left her out to you."
"That's what we're trying to find out also."
"Damn, that's a little too much, don't you think?"
"I guess…we just have a lot in our minds right now, at least…most of us." Lenard wondered what he meant, looking at the others. He stopped at Ivan, taking off his hat and wiping off the lint. After he cleaned his hat, he spotted a fly and kept eye at it.
"Shoo!" Ivan said lowly, trying to hit it away with one of his front paws, "Go away!" He failed the first three swings then later got both of his front paws in action. He swung quickly at it until he fell down. He quickly got back up, putting back his hat on.
"You don't say…" Lenard responded.
"Yeah, it is too much…" Luxray responded. "From everything everyone has told us, there's nothing we can piece together." Luxray thought a little harder until he gave up and lied down on four paws. "Wonder where Manetric's been…"
"Who?" Lenard asked.
"Just a friend, a little tall, kinda yello—" Luxray cut off, his eye widening.
"Kinda yellow?" Lenard asked. Luxray didn't answer back to his question. He rose up, his head down still. "…You alright there?" he asked.
"Yes," Luxray responded. "I just…have to leave for a while… I don't want to talk about it, seeing there's already too much right now…"
"Uh…well…if you want to talk about it…" started Alex, "…then I'll be around… Just don't freak out Sorrel."
Luxray didn't respond but only left from the group. He didn't walk in the house; he ran off instead of walking in a random direction. According to Alex, he wasn't heading to the direction of the bar.
"You think he's alright?" asked Lenard.
"Hell, I dunno," Glaceon responded, "Probably not. Don't know how his problem could be bigger than Luke's…"
The sun was still up, slowly dropping down from its highest point. He didn't even look up to the sun, probably because it was still too high up; around 1:30 or so. The water hardly reflected the sunlight up high, still giving its blue color against the sun and sky.
His head was still down, looking down against the water up on the valley, Valley Cut, not concentrated on the water, the sun, or anything around him.
He yelled out, his head rising up for the yell, and coming back down in silence. So much rage was within him, almost wanting him to claw at someone, almost kill someone. He moved alone and isolated for this reason. He didn't want to claw out or kill out; not at the bar, not at the house, not at any of the friends he knew…except for one.
"How the fuck could you do this?!" Luxray yelled out to the sky. He screamed out, releasing all of the electricity he had, an attempt at a discharge of all the energy he had. It was unknown if anyone could have seen it; but he could've cared less.
He stopped the discharge, hoping the heat within his was all out. All left in his mind, was on others. How could he tell them? Who should he confess first? Does that little shiny youth kid have anything to do with this? He couldn't answer the last question; he first decided on answering on the second question.
"…"
Absol, Glaceon, Alex, Leaf. Those were his options. Luke…he had to tell last. He couldn't tell him first…he was afraid of what could happen. He narrowed down the choices to four from…six, including Luke and Alex's girlfriend…seven if including Sorrel.
…Who should he tell first?
…
About one year…
…I'll try to make it all up…
-K9DL