The Depressed

Friends

My next class was actually lunch period. Since I skipped English with Ms. Lapis because of the talk with Teto. I was actually glad. English isn't my best subject. Or my favorite. But Ms. Lapis is really kind. But we had a test today. So yay for skipping English Class!

I sat down alone at a small table with aKero. Who was now, my friend. He seemed to have an ice cream cone with a banana. I loved bananas. What the heck? I looked at him oddly as he picked up his banana and extended his arm towards me. Oh. Cool.

"Thanks."

"Your welcome. And I sorta know that you like bananas."

I forced a grin and took the banana from his hand and chopped it into slices with my plastic knife and dumped them all into my fruit salad with orange slices already in it. I had even more bananas. Which was okay. 

"So how's Akio?"

I clenched my hands into fists when aKero asked that. I grabbed my plastic knife and pointed it at him. 

"Never EVER will you ask those questions."

aKero laughed and nodded as I lowered my plastic knife and continued to eat my fruit salad of oranges and bananas peacefully.

aKero was the one who broke the silence. I was getting really annoyed with this kid, honestly. I'm still glad I had a friend. Even though he was the cause of the disappearance of my friends. Well. Beggars can't be choosers. And I was begging and desperate. Ever since that happened.

"So now that we're friends. Why don't we talk a little about our life? Like, family? Unless it's too personal. Then I get it."

I was silent for a second. Thinking about what I should tell aKero. The only interesting thing is that when Ren died when I was 5. So. We were friends I could tell him that.

"My older twin brother. Ren. He died when I was 5."

I paused to choke my tears back down.

"We were on an adventure in the forest. I fell asleep on his back. When I woke up I heard his scream. He was gone. But he left a trail of blood. I followed it and found him injured on the head badly. I couldn't find out more. Because I blacked out from loss of blood."

aKero nodded and was silent to process all of this. My eyes welled up in tears.

"How were you the one bleeding in the first place?"

"aNaitu scraped my knee and it was bleeding on the adventure."

aKero nodded and rolled his eyes and glared at his sister.

"You know he may not be dead. He could still be alive."

"Your the second person that told me that! But it can't be true!"