The Drummer And The Actor Book 1

(Special Chapter) Chapter XV

'Why is this chapter special?' You may be asking. Well, it's from a different perspective! It's from Retz's perspective. (Don't ask why I'm doing this I just felt like doing something different.). Also, if you didn't notice I keep changing character names, Kally's name to Violet, I'm having a hard time settling on names because I keep changing my mind.

My alarm wakes me up at five o'clock. I roll out of bed (quite literally) and land on the ground with a thud. My back hurts, my head hurts, my joints hurt, my everything hurts. Including my feelings, I'm always hurting in one way or another.

(Okay, but who else feels like Retz)^

I get up off of the floor, my knees pop and crack as I do so. Even though I'm only eighteen years old I feel like I'm fucking eighty. I throw on the usual hoodie and sweatpants and head downstairs to make breakfast. This is what I usually do every morning, my parents don't care what I do, why I do it, and when I do it. Isn't that just fantastic? Oh, to have parents that love me! I turn on the kitchen light and throw a toaster strudel in the toaster and grab a Monster from the fridge and crack it open and take a sip.  This is how I get my energy, sleep is for the weak.  Fall asleep at three in the morning and wake up at five, two hours is quite enough sleep for me, I mean look at me!  I'm fine and functioning!  Who am I kidding, I need fucking help.  My toaster strudels pop and I frost them and eat them slowly.  I call Khai, it just seems like a good idea, we do this almost every morning at the same time.  I guess you could say that Khai is kinda emotional support to me, xe're the only one who knows who I truly am.  On the outside, I seem okay, and a bit overprotective, just a smidge.  But on the inside, I'm a fucking mess.  A mess who cries themselves to sleep every night while watching anime, and dreams about the days that they'll finally find someone who loves them for who they are and will love them no matter what.  But that still has yet to happen, it's only a dream, and that's all it ever will be.

"Wassup Retz?" Khai says as xe picks up the phone.

"Y'know, the basic."

"I feel you, bro, I feel you," Khai says sadly, I hear music playing in the background. Khai lives alone. Khai's parents are both overseas so it wouldn't bother anyone in their house if there was music softly playing.

"Okay, so, I was wondering if you wanted to come over to my house and kinda just chill after school. Killua, Violet, and Gon are going."

I mean I guess, I have nothing better to do with my life. I'm sure it'll make me forget about the pain for at least a little bit.

Time passes by as we talk to each other on the phone about anything and everything, Khai talks to me about Violet and homework and we geek out about video games and anime. It's six o'clock and I throw on my shoes, grab my backpack and I'm out the door. School doesn't start til' eight. The cool air hits my face as I walk down the sidewalk, I walk around two blocks to Khai's house and wait outside for xem. Xe come out of the house and we walk and talk on the way to school like we do every morning. The caffeine is starting to kick in now, and I feel as wide and awake as any normal person with a normal sleep schedule would feel. But, of course, I had three Monsters. Yes, I know it's unhealthy.

There's nobody else in the front of the school, of course, it's only six-thirteen in the morning.

"So, how did you and Violet end up getting together?" I ask, it's a question that I've been meaning to ask Khai ever since I knew that xe and Violet were dating.