*Luna's POV*
I look behind me to see this man who looked to be no older than my age, and foreign definitely, he looked Japanese I believe.
"Are you okay?" He asked, "No not at all, but for the sake of this conversation yes," I said feeling slightly stupid on the inside, I don't want him to think I'm weird or something.
"Is it okay if I sit there?" He said gesturing to the spot next to me, "Sure I don't care," I said feeling a bit better knowing that there's someone up here with me and doesn't seem like some old creep.
I noticed that my voice was slightly shaky and I was still crying a little. "Going back to our previous question, I actually feel like shit right now and I just want it all to end, all I want to do is jump off this fucking build and feel no more pain anymore," I said starting to break down a little bit more. "I'm sorry your feeling like this, and please whatever you do, don't jump off here, believe it's not worth it," he said gently.
"I'm Riki by the way, but my friends call me Niki," Niki said introducing himself. "I'm Luna," I said quietly.
"I know this sounds really stupid and it's okay if you say no but can I please have a hug?" I say mumbling the last part feeling slightly embarrassed that I'm vulnerable right now. "Sure, come here," he said putting his arm over my shoulder and pulling me close to him. I hugged back and felt comforted, safe, just feelings that I don't ever get to experience.
We stayed like that for a few minutes then we both pulled back. "I don't think it was stupid for you to ask that I hope everything gets better for you," he said quietly. "Thank you for that Niki, I wish everything can get better for me but it sucks when your mom calls you worthless and treats you like a piece of shit when she's really the piece of shit," I said realizing that I was venting to a guy I just met. Come one Luna! Get it together you're better than this! "Oh God I'm so sorry, I feel bad that you have to go through that at home," he said. "It's okay I promise, I'm used to it at this point, I think it just got to me today and that's probably the reason I broke down," I said. "Anyways, are you new here I never seen you at school before?" I asked. "Oh yeah, I moved here from Japan last week. I ran away from my parents and I'm currently staying in a small motel," he said quite casually surprisingly. "Oh God that's how I feel most days, to just run away far away from here," I said "Yeah, my parents didn't really care for me at all, just neglected me so I saved up a lot of money for a while and studied English for a while and I ran away here," Niki said.
"Do you happen to be staying in the motel right down the road from here?" I asked, "Yeah," he said. "Cool, that's actually right by my house so we're kinda like neighbors now," I said smiling softly, maybe I'll finally have a friend. "Yeah I guess so," he said also smiling a little.
"I know this might be seem a bit quick since we like just met, but do you wanna be friends?" I said feeling a bit awkward inside I don't want him to think I'm weird or something. "Sure, it would be nice to have a friend around here," Niki said.
That evening I actually I felt happy for the first time in a while. Usually I'm not one to trust people because they just end up talking shit on me or backstabbing me but he actually seemed genuinely nice. And no! I don't like him as a crush I just met him!
