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A city journey

A black Mini car parks near to a 24 hour clerk shop. Coming out from the right side of the car is a young looking man with pimples in his forehead. Looking around, observing the environment around him.

Around him is a small town with people walking around in smart clothes. This one guy he notices is wearing a black leather jacket and black jeans, along with a woman, underneath her jacket is a dress. He can see it from her legs as it reaches near the end of it. The town seems small.

"Hey... hey!!!" The guy feels distracted, doing his observations of the environment, he couldn't hear another person's voice. The other's person's voice is coming from the car.

"Hey Danny! Danny!!!" Danny wakes up from his trance. Danny, a boy with black long hair, clean shaven and brown skin, puts his attention to the other person. A woman next to him, his sister.

"Are you awake?" Jen asks in an annoyed tone.

"Awake, of course I'm awake." She laughs at this, she knows he doesn't feel awake when he was doing his usual observations, she knows he has a tendency to do that when he gets out of a car.

"You sure are huh. Anyway, you need to go to that nearby shop and buy us something before we go to Red City." He sounds annoyed about this and he gives her a look she doesn't even want to look at.

"Look I know you don't want to leave London but this is our chance for something new. For the both of us."

"For the both of us, or maybe for your education in Red City."

"Look... you know I know how you're feeling right now but it's something I can't stay away from. I've been taking care of you since you were on diapers along with your father."

"Who's gone now. Even mom abandoned us Jen. It's just us." Jen feels sympathy for him, moving into another city is hard for him. Hell, hard for the both of them, she's not only trying to adapt to moving to a new city where she'll be doing her education in, she'll also be handling her education and little bro who is now 14 years old. She's 19 years old. The course she's doing is video game programming. She's been interested in programming when her father introduced her to it. Years later, she would discover video games. While she sees video games as fun, entertainment value, she learned how they were created. The more curious she looked into it, the more she decided she wanted to be a video game programmer, wanting to work in companies that she wouldwant to work in. She'll be doing the course for 3 years, meaning three years in Red City.

"I get you. Come on bro, it'll probably be during my time in uni. We can come back to London during our holidays. Besides, it's just us against the fucking world." Danny laughs at that, seemingly agreeing with her.

"Yeah, us against the fucking world. Alright I'll go to the shop sis."

"You better, see ya bro." They give each other a brofist before he goes inside the shop; Johnny's Ration Den.

Johnny's Ration Den, a place where Danny and his family would go to for rations, it's also a place where next to it is a restaurant where Johnny's chefs serve food to their customers and shoppers. Danny always like the people there but his reluctance coming there was out of insistence that he didn't want to leave London and of course the man himself, Johnny.

He gets a basket located next to the door to get what he and his sister needed from there. Johnny, making Siu Mai on the table, notices him.

"Danny my boy. How you been?" Johnny started as a chef in a Chinese restaurant. He was a master at making dumplings. His dumplings was the reason why people would always go to the restaurant. However after working in the place for 3 years, he was starting to become dissatisfied with the pay and also the work treatment him and his colleagues were getting. He decided to leave and using the money he earned from his job, he decided to open up his own place, a combination of restaurant to continue serving his food and dumplings, as well as a shop. But the question that everyone gets into their minds was: 'Why does it have the word Den?' For him, it's a lair where all his inventory and food comes in. It's the place for people to go to for people who are a fan of his work. Johnny met Danny's parents when they first moved to London from the Philippines. His parents had no idea on the environment and that it was completely new for them being in a country different than their original home. Johnny loves talking to new people so he decided to give them some lessons about the world, London and the cultures surrounding it himself. He even taught the couple how to speak English.  He loved Danny's family and he not only welcomes them in his shop, he also goes to them whenever he can and that is why Danny and Jen are always comfortable with him cause he's basically the cool uncle everyone would want to go to.