Friend
Time felt incredibly slow that summer, it wasn't fun when the only person he could talk to was his friend Kyle. Kyle wasn't real, I don't think, but the more and more he told me about this Kyle the more I began to hope that maybe he had someone in his life other than himself.
He sat on his bed thinking about his mother and why she had left him here with his monstrosity of a father, and why he couldn't have just stayed home all summer with his sister. Things weren't all so bad though, he had Kyle with him for most of it. he liked to talk to Kyle when his father was passed out drunk on the couch downstairs. He seemed nice, he liked cars and Kate bush, sunsets and pink tulips. He wasn't the same as most of the boys he had encountered before though, whenever he was with Kyle he felt a spark, one he'd never felt before. A bad spark.
But Kyle was his only friend at the time so he really thought nothing of it. They both got bored and decided to go to the park. he had to sneak past his dad though otherwise he may have gotten both of them into big trouble. He walked down a small narrow road that led to a old back ally that him and his dad used to take when walking home from soccer practice years ago, the memories of that day drove him to tears as he stumbled down the path, covering his face with his hood as people walked by out of embarrassment.
His father liked to pick on him for crying, according to him it wasn't very 'manly' I don't really understand why he said that though. He was only 11 he wasn't even a teenager yet? Even Less a man? He never really understood why his father spoke with such immaturity but he always felt as if it was normal, I mean his mother was never around for most of his time, so he never really had any feminine influence in his life. It was just sports, arcades and rock bands.
His hood flipped up from the slightest breeze every few seconds that really started to annoy him. But just then the sky began to rumble and a green swirl grew slowly and faintly across the sky, the expression on his face faded to a confused and concerned squint as he turned to face Kyle. He wasn't blinking, moving, he had just stopped. It took him a minute to realise what was happening again, until the sky completely faded to green everything stopped.
