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VII

VII ( Saturday the 1st of June 1957. Flea Market, New Orleans, United States of America. )

Two years into her new life in New Orleans, Louise made her first friend. In the summer of her seventh year of life, Louise met Andrei John Hughes.

That day started as Louise and Neil going to the flea market with Louis to sell the food grown in the cypress community. Every once in a while there will be a surplus of food grown that would be sold in the flea market.

Louise was told her and Neil to watch the food at the stall from being stolen because he was going to look for things needed for the cypress community. While doing as told she spots a boy with the most interesting hair.

He who had the brightest color of wild orchid hair she has ever seen, and with the most stunning matching burgundy colors eyes to go with them caught her interest. His nice English with a distinctly Romani accent helped keep her interest.

Wondering why a boy who looks at the age of eight is wandering a flea market alone, she watched the boy see what he's doing. As she watched the boy she noticing him stealing from the other stalls.

Thinking he will come to her stall next to steal from her made her wait for him.

When he tried to steal from her stall, she grabs his arm and set him in a chair next to her. Then start on her own interrogation of him.

He seems vaguely amused that she kept on asking him questions, and too occupied by her to do anything like run away from her. She didn't mind him finding her amusing, because she was far more interested in him and his hair to let him decided it was time to go.

Wild Orchid wasn't a natural hair coloring, yet he insists that it was his natural hair coloring that made him more interesting to her. Looking at his hair root, eyelashes, and eyebrows made her believe him. So, she didn't ask about his eyes color, thinking it was that color for the same reason his hair is that color.

"Why so much interest in my hair and not that I was stealing from the stalls?" He asked her not five minutes after questioning him.

"Because it's not my problem that you are stealing from them as long as you're not stealing from this stall I don't care." And he laughed at her answer for three minutes straight.

She didn't get what was so funny so she told him to. "Stop laughing."

" Why?" He asked with a sly smirk on his face.

"Because," She said with a scowl on her face.

"Because what?" He said to taunt her.

"Because I don't get what's funny," she says pointing at him in his face.

"Well this was fun but I have to leave now." He says getting up and walking away from her.

Still interested in him she looks for Neil and found him watching her and that boy interacting together. She asked him to watch the stall for her and he said yes if she does something for him later. Agreeing to his terms she went after the boy.

After searching for him for two minutes she found him four-stall away from her stall and began to follow him.

It only took him a second to realize she hadn't stayed behind and throw an amused smirk over his shoulder that made her huff at him.

The kid, because he was more of a child than Louise had ever been herself, huffed out his obvious amusement with her and proceeded to try to ignore the fact he was being followed.

As he tried not to look like he was trying to escape her, she realized she can easily keep up the pace with him. Until he realized he could not lose her. Where he then stopped and look at her pointedly.

She politely for her answer his unasked question by grabbing his arm.

" You're very talented in stealing and you're evading need a little work." Was her deadpan response.

"Thank you but why are you bothering me?" He said with an unimpressed face. "Can't you stalk someone else?"

She actually thought about her response to his question. Since Louis and Neil were here at the flea market today and Istas, Luthor, Halona, and Lynda were at the cypress community she didn't have anyone to bug. And begging Lynda was not an option right now because she needs to spend time away from her to find something to do without her.

And finding him to a bug would give her something to do on her own and it was a good thing for her to do. Because everybody else had their own things to do most days by themselves and Lynda was in the process of doing the same, they might not have time to spend with a lone-girl like her.

Louise had never been alone and not having something to do at the same time. It pays for her to have a schedule and list of things needing to be done and things to learn to do.

At home, she had already done all the arts and crafts things, read all the books, and practiced all the things she learned from her clubs.

At the cypress community, there wasn't anything much for her to do.

There was little else to do on time, and that sucks for him to be her new interest.

"I actually have nothing else to do that's as interesting as you are right now." She informed him dryly, shrugging a little at his incredulous look that answer earned her.

Andrei smiled at her unattractively for a few moments longer, but eventually gave a kind of shudder-shrug and shoved his hands into his pockets. "Okay buy." He says trying to walk away from her again but she was still holding on to his arm, so that kept him in place.

Letting go of him she stated to him that. "I will find you again." And then walk away from him for once.

"Wait...why?" He asked standing there.

"Because you're my new friend." She said over her shoulder not looking back at him.

It wasn't until much later, when she was at the cypress community and listening to Lynda tell her about her project on finding something to do when she was not around, that Louise absently realized she call him she's a friend and that she didn't know his name.

And that made her smile for some reason, noticing that smile she decided on making sure she finds him again.

Author's note

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