“Yeah. Minutes apart won’t make such difference. How about you try skidding into the corner, yeah? I bet your old gears won’t shook off that easily."830Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmZ6t1CfAH8
"I don’t came for this streets.”
He raised his eyebrows having me said that.830Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCnF8oDcwA2
“I’ve took you long enough, man. Broken helms and knee bruises won’t do me good. You’ve got to give me some credit here.”
I shrug in discomfort. The old cockroach still wipes the mug shot beer. I called him cockroach being an old loaf, never had to leave the bar and sniffing his way to nirvana without being killed.
“Do I smell a gang baldy never taking his eyes off you?”
I eyed the man cockroach been talking to. The man smoke his weed and stood after I’ve got caught eyeing him.
“My place, man. Don’t screw it. Can’t handle creeps like that.” The old cockroach backs off in an instant when the man finally sat down beside me.830Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZKOGHXPmSW
He’s incredibly same as my height, baldy with black tights with smothering grins of craving wolves of highway. What does this guy need me for?
“This town runs grandeur. Taking shits in the middle of the day and taking house bunnies in the middle of the night. Made me not want to leave this place.” The man waves his cigarette, another bartender gives him the shot.
“… and shits aren’t stable as it seems so what else I could take off if not the gears, huh? Maybe the whole –“. Then, he smacked my head right off the bat unto the bar. “- whole owner itself.” 830Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV6QNvS7jZU
I spit blood, wiping it from my mouth and then, mumbled. “The thing with your gears, man? They cannot be fixed.”
Seconds made it fast for me to figure it out. He’s the gal I bumped into this morning after racing me down the highway. I took off his mirror for not knowing what to use it for.
He smirked in delight.
“We’ve got a foul mouth over here.” The damn guy’s bodyguards surrounded me, ready to beat me up. I smirk on how this asshole managed to be a big damn baby. I crack my neck and shoulders hot for a fight. They had messed with my bike. Now, they’ve got to mess with me.
Right after bat seconds, my head spins after the baldy knocked my chin up, same goes for the guys aiming at my stomach and hips. I shrug and grin in humor with trails of blood all over the cuts and mouth. They clearly hated me.
Now, I am down.
Greg, you weak bastard.
….
I just don’t get it.
If you have that courage to die, why didn’t you try changing yourself first? Do you really die that easily? Or does everyone have this nature of being weak?
Or so I’ve thought.
“Leave”
Huh? Since when did I open the front door?
“Hey, man! How long has it been? Wow! You’ve gotten quite tall. I used to be taller back then.”
I can’t keep my hands from scrabbling my eyelid. It was wasted. Wasted enough coming upfront a person I would love to see. Someone, apparently, I don’t know.
A man in a dark suit lifts his bowl hat and breaks a huge smile at me while barking gleefully with one of his upper left tooth gone but hey, he still talks. And Wow. He looks ridiculously happy.
I give him a scorned look. Maybe I needed another drink. I slam the door. Quick.830Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtCcnx4H8zV
“Come on, man! How can you shut the door on someone right after seconds of opening it?!” 830Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRNzQvC1PJI
And that man yelling keeps banging my door down.830Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJqrasUd7DJ
“Seriously, man! I’m talking here! I’m talking here!”
Seriously man, lay off! I’m sleeping here! I’m sleeping here!
“All right, man! You leave me no choice! I’m going to slam the door down. March right in and punch you right on the face.”
Pfft.
I heard a loud thud. Three times.
That throws me off. Should I call the police?
Nah.
But damn, does he ever get tired of knocking doors?
*bang* *bang* *bang* *bang*
*thud*
HOLY SON OF A BITCH – Is he mad?
“Knock it off, will you?!” I’ve nearly shouted. But right on front of me is a girl, looking confused herself.830Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDu5QxZ6ZyP
“I’m sorry. Who are you?” 830Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3XZIBY1AJ8
The girl pointed herself, unable to speak. But the man showed up, otherwise, breaking through his sweat.
“Man, you got me some serious worked up in ‘ere.” He remarked while clapping his hands to remove the dust.
I only stare at him. Now, how do I bust this man-alarm and finally be gone for my silent slumber.830Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTsRNGIzkMC
“James. Uh. Greg. I’m Mike. The bald toto back then. You know, the toto of the Little Busters?” He looked at me in twinkle eyes, trying to make me recall something.
Uh. Do I have to say something?
Figuratively, he tried to spice something up to make me make some kind of long lost feedback they’d suppose I used to have. He added.
“See, I always yelp like ‘All of ye be gone for you all pay the price. We’re unbreakable. We’re the main force. We’re the little busters! Right, captain?”
And then, he demonstrated some kind of helluva knows break dance to match on what he just said before. Some sort of action style thingy most watchers would buy.
We paused in awkward silence.
This man has no idea I’m not into his shits. I aim my hand on the front door but the man blocks me from closing it.
“You know. Just hear us out, all right?”
Damn it.830Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpxTtS8dCmS
“Don’t bother”
I still forces to close the door, he reluctantly forces, too, NOT to close the door.830Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOv9KZIuCbG
Then, I sighed. “Aren’t you going to punch me on the face?”
“Wait. What?”
“You screamed plenty a while ago you’re going to march in and punch me right on the face.”
"Huh? Why would-?” Then, his face lit up upon recalling this event and give me an evil smile “Yes. You owe me one! Here -!” 830Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUOcBwwh39S
He did not notice he already let go of the door and I started to swing it close down but he yell promisingly.
“Let’s go on a trip!”
Huh?830Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb6BL3wvxR2
Oh God. This time. My nerve wrecks out. Just how long does he plan to bother me? And this bastard. Never once his smile faded. Ohhhh, I really want to punch his face blur.
“No.” 830Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡowfEkHBYZs
I pointed out in quick rejection. 830Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmFmtpnwH1p
“Isn’t that a little too unfair? At the very least, you should have asked me where we are going. Right?”
The man impatiently demanded. I bore my eyes on that man telling him to piss off.
“I’m Michael Humpton Shramley. In case, you don’t really remember me. I’m a childhood friend. We used to play back when we were kids at Georgetown. And this woman beside me is Erinaline Lloyd. Erin. The girl who loves to chase you way … way back.”
The woman called Erin slightly gave a timid smile and gave Mike an indignant stare after Mike finished her last line.
“I don’t really expect you to forget us that easily but …” Mike tried to revive his cheerful glow. “Here we are. The evolve delegates of the Little Busters. Surprise!” He chuckled.
Right. Little Busters. The cartoon league group we used to love to watch back then. The little heroes of justice. A procreation like the Justice League or the Avengers or Dragon Ball. We had loved to imitate them. Feeling high and never feeling low. I used to be the captain and they’re my co-members. So, finally I get to meet these guys. The one Scarlet loved to meet way back. This is now getting annoying.
“Mike?”830Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3d0lYlQZvf
“Yeah! Finally, you remembered me!”
“All right. How about you two go on this little fun trip of yours without me. You can walk away and forget that we have this conversation and I get to close the door and sleep. How’s that? Sounds like a real deal, yeah?”
Call me pathetic or what but I won’t be in the mood not more than a thousand years to contemplate or the merriment ‘cause no one will ease the boredom I have indulged deep within me. I’m a bum. Got that? I am now fully pledged to that. And it just started a year ago.
“I find it hard to understand why won’t you come? You’re pathetic!”
That’s Erin. The white dressed girl. I can feel her eyes staring at me in loathe. Just like a brat who won’t learn to accept any rejections. And I can see she’s about to vent to waste all her desires just to make me say yes.
But nonetheless, she’s absurd.
"Fine by me. Are we done here?”
I harshly retorted.
It seems my two visitors redden in rage. But they can’t blame me. Their plan is the silliest driven out of their contemporary agreements but they’ve taken the motive to take this seriously and this is they should get. Because of my arrogance, Erin finally blurted no one ever attempted on me.
“Stop being an asshole. Scarlet’s gone for godsake!”
She scowled at me in hatred. Mike, who happened to be astounded shook Erin’s shoulder in panic.
“Erin, why the hell would you say that? You’re making this worse. You promised me you won’t tell anything about Scarlet during the whole trip?”
“Our trip isn’t started yet!” she complained in haste.
“Then, how about when we’re in front of James! We’re supposed to have this trip to have fun.”
Truth be told, my eyes remained that dull. I can feel it. I didn’t find this behavior unsurprising since Scarlet always crosses my mind even at this very moment. The only difference would be someone actually told her name in front of my face and that is the sore part.830Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSGeqiXv7M5
The bickering between those two seems monotonic and voiceless. And damn it, I hate this feeling. Right now. I did not notice myself moving my hands accordingly and finally shut the door on their faces, which probably leaving them completely silent.
I thump my forehead on the shut door and fall on my knees. I felt that weak and left that exposed and vulnerable. Why can’t I think of anything? Scarlet’s name is all I could engraved of. Hearing it from another party still rouse the ache I’ve been keeping ever since then. And I didn’t hate it. This succumb my thoughts and it stings like hell in mind.
I rest my back at the front door. And I knew it.830Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwjAOahQNcE
No one would ever attempt to knock this door again.
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