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1 Gathering Close Returns.

Consistency makes me remember my cycle into depression. Pulling away from focus and normality, holding your heart desperately calling out to find some kind of happiness.

I like thinking about my friends, thinking about if they genuinely like having me around. People say I can be annoying.. I try not to take it to heart, but it seems impossible not to.

Me and Xixi sat on a bench in a public park. My black and blonde hair swaying in the wind.

"Do you want to go get something to eat?" XiXi asks awkwardly.

"Sure, but we need to pick up Roche." I replied, taking deep breaths of the cool autumn air. XiXi grabs his flip phone from his pocket, calling our friend, Roche.

"Hey, where are you? Me and Miles want to go eat somewhere, and he insists on you coming" XiXi says on the phone, occasionally glancing over at me, wondering why I always want to include Roche.

"Oh, I'm at my Dad's, I can bike over to you guys though." He says, XiXi's phone isn't on speaker, yet I listen in, smiling lopsidedly. "Where are you anyway?"

"We're in your Dad's town, well the shopping centre near it" XiXi replies, the sun was going down. "We can come pick you up, Miles got his car back."

"HE'S FINALLY UNGROUNDED?!?!" Roche exclaimed, a muffled 'Don't Yell Please!!' came from the background, Roche replying with a 'Sorry!'. I giggled at his excitedness. "Let me go ask my dad, I'll call you back." He said, hanging up.

"He's asking his dad." XiXi said, putting his flip phone back in his jacket pocket. Plugging his earbuds back into his Ipod, listening to a Punk band.

"I'm so excited! It's been so long since we've hung out with Roche!" I said happily.

"Since you've hung out with Roche. You were the grounded one." XiXi says reminding me of my previous 3 week ban of seeing friends. I give XiXi a playfully annoyed look, rolling my eyes. I quietly grabbed my car keys from my pocket, unlocking the car doors, the lights flashing twice.

In the car I turned on a band we both like, turning it to the volume setting 7. When we turn to the neighbourhood Roche's dad lives in, it looks like an older part of town, vines and weeds growing everywhere.

"Rockie's dad is so fun" I giggled in the driveway, hoping they'd see him.

"We love Rockie's dad!!" XiXi replied, opening the car door.

Roche's dad and him walk out the front door.

"Xiao, Emile, hello!" His father says to us walking out, waving at us kindly. Him saying our real names kind of hurt, I don't hate my name, I just like Miles over Emile.

"Hello Mr. Stone!" I said to him, smiling.

Roche walks over to us in his usual dirty black converse and black jeans, with a black loosely knit sweater. He usually wears a plethora of necklaces I've given or made him, I don't know why he wears so many, but it's honestly really cute.

His black and red shaggy hair featherly moves in the wind, looking dead, his necklaces jangling quietly.

"Hey, Miles.." Roche mumbled to me, his voice sounded hoarse, like he hadn't spoken for a moment. I smiled happily, I really missed hanging out with him. "Hi XiXi"

"Helloo" XiXi replies smiling, standing beside me, waving at Roche and his dad. Roche said bye to his dad and we were on our way to the shopping centre.

"Ooo We should go get pizza then get that gooey cookie cake for dessert" XiXi suggests, Roche looks immediately interested, looking at me for my answer, I agreed and we drove to the pizza place way farther down than the shopping centre.

"Woah fancy? When did you get a job Miley?" Roche asked me, calling me Miley is something he's done for ages, I never questioned it.

"My mom gave me a credit card, told me to go wild then find a job." I replied looking cool.

"Miles, I don't think that's how credit cards work..." XiXi replied unsurely.

"It literally is, believe me" I said, getting out of the car, stopping the music. XiXi rolled his eyes, putting in an earbud.

We walked into the restaurant, getting greeted by an employee asking us how many people we had, I somehow confidently said three of us.

People often say trios never work out, and that may be true, but what I have with my friends is a spiritual understanding of each other. We all understand who we are to each other, and that no matter what we're all we'll ever have. At the time, I didn't know Roche had a different understanding. He saw me differently.

"What pizza should we order?" Roche asked, he sat close by me, comfortably, XiXi sitting on the other side of the table.

"I want cheese" I said plainly, not wanting to exactly challenge my palette. The others looked at me with a familiar expression.

"I'm getting supreme! With wings!" XiXi remarks, ready to order. We decided on three medium pizzas with toppings of our choice, and XiXi got his wings, we all got soda, and got mozzarella sticks.

"Do you even know how much this will be...?" XiXi asks after we've all finished, suddenly a bit concerned.

"I didn't even look at the prices..." I said sheepishly Xi has a tendency to act more responsible, but it's probably a good thing. He lectured me anyway.