Chapter 3: A Sad Goodbye

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Lloyd's POV

After a while it was finally time for us to go.

Rumi began to talk to her parents, "Mom, dad, meet my new friend. He's going to live with us!"

They stared at her shocked. After a minute her dad said, "Sweetie, that's nice and all, but you really should have talked to us first. What about his parents? Their probably looking for him right now."

"He doesn't have parents. He lived in a school until they kicked him out for not being good enough. Now he lives on the street."

"That's horrible." He looked at me with pity.

"What's your name, kid?"

"Lloyd."

"What's your last name?" I paled. I'd been avoiding my last name. I knew it would come up eventually since they were going to be taking care of me, but I thought it would happen later. Like when I was already there.

Quietly I said, "Garmadon."

They must have heard me because soon Rumi's mom said, "Would your father happen to be lord Garmadon?"

I nodded worried about what was going to happen next.

Rumi's mom looked at Rumi and said, "I'm sorry, Harumi, but he can't live with us."

"Why," Rumi asked the question I'd been wondering this entire time.

"Because he's the son of lord Garmadon. His father's a horrible person, and so is he."

"But he's not a horrible person. He's my friend."

"Would a good person be so bad that they got kicked out of their school?"

I quickly said, "I wasn't kicked out for being bad. I was kicked out because I wasn't bad!"

Rumi's mom didn't believe me. "You're lying. No school would kick a child out for that."

"But he's a good person," Rumi said.

Rumi's mom's gaze turned toward her. "I'm really sorry, but he can't be trusted. He's a villain just like his father."

No matter how hard we tried me and Rumi couldn't convince them. Eventually I gave up, and asked if I could say goodbye to Rumi. They let me, but they told me that if I even thought about hurting her they'd make me regret it.

I asked Rumi tears forming in my eyes, "Can you promise me something?"

"Yeah. What is it?"

"Promise me that you'll never forget me. That no matter what. You'll never forget our friendship. You'll never forget this time we spent together." I handed her a small green gem. It was one of the only things my mom had given me that I still had. She told me she'd found it on an expedition, and that whenever I looked at it I would remember her. She'd been right, but now I knew that she wasn't coming back, so why should I keep it?

"I want you to have this. Something for you to remember me by, so that you never forget, and if you ever see me again you can show it to me and I'll know it's you." She handed me a bracelet.

"For you to remember me by. So that you never forget our friendship. Because what's worth remembering a friendship if your the only one?"

I smiled. "Thanks. Now I'll never forget us."

Tears escaped my eyes as I said, "Now goodbye. I'll never forget you." And with that we went our separate ways.

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