19 years ago
L.A. Suburbs
The clear blue skies, the sun scattered sunlight through every small space in between. Humming bees filled the warm air of that Summer day.
A girl around 8 to 9 years old watched her parents argue.
The park was fairly empty, except for a few boys playing basketball.
Her mom told her to go away and her father became more upset by the minute.
She left them there raising their voice at each other.
Sadly the girl was used to the way they confronted each other. She had learned to tone down those pitchy voices.
She was more terrified of what others might think if they saw and heard what she had witnessed all those years.
The boy with a purple t-shirt had been peering at them every time he turned to retributive the ball.
From a far they appeared to be a normal family, one he had always dreamt of.
When they got louder and the girl's sad face became clearer he realized they were actually arguing.
The poor girl looked anxious.
The irony, a foster kid feeling sorry for a middle class girl.
The ball rolled her way and he ran up to get it.
They smiled to each other.
"Hi, I'm HeDi, what's yours name?" He asked.
The girl had cute short hair with a yellow bow on the side framing her pretty face.
"I'm Shen Yue, nice to meet you."
He nodded giving her a sweet smile.
"you want to shoot some hoops?"
She said yes and the other boys didn't really like the idea, but went along with it.
Shen Yue was terrible at basketball. HeDi didn't mind, he actually found it entertaining to teach her a few of his tricks.
The boy was very patient with her perhaps it was that sadness in her eyes he recognized as his own.
He could imagine the loneliness she she felt around her parents.
Yue had to go after her called her. Her father had left before them which only made her transferred her anger towards the girl.
Shen Yue bid goodbye to HeDi not knowing that destiny had already done its thing.
Shen Yue lived near and was back almost every other day to play.
They got into a routine of playing ball. HeDi later walked her a few blocks down her street.
The two kids genuinely enjoyed each other's company. In a way they both came from broken home.
They became inseparable. They attended to the same elementary school, but different class.
Shen Yue always said hi and sat with him at lunch.
They were not the talking kind instead she drew her sketches and Dylan listen to music.
Somehow they knew all they needed was to contemplate silence, to hush those demons and be at peace with their shadows.
The only time HeDi was a chatter box was during basketball.
"You're getting good Little Shen." He said one day Yue had finally shoot a hoop on her own.
There was something so sweet about them. There was no pretense or double motives. It was a pure friendship between a lonely girl and an orphan boy.
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The Advisor
Fanfiction[completed] The Untame Wang #9 is an NBA basketball player with a short fuse. Shen Yue is a counselor that needs to help him face his darkness to shade light to his life, so she thinks. Misunderstood Dylan Wang wants nothing to do with anger manage...
