Amore. (boyxboy)

♡ One: How we met ♡

(Austin's POV)

Me and Neko were always best friends from the start. He's always been there for me since most of my family was rather... un-present.

I used to be in a family of 4, my mom, dad, sister and me. We were such a happy family until one day when I was only 2, a fire burned down my house and took my dad and sister down with it as well. Me and my mom were able to escape but even though I wasn't injured, I was still hurt emotionally. I've never felt pain like this before.

After the fire, me and my mom decided to go to her/our hometown in Tokyo, Japan, after the tragic incident and stayed there for about 3 years and finally headed back to America. I still hadn't recovered from the tragedy but my mother always reminded me that everything would be fine.

Every  time she said that though, i felt as if she were wrong. Growing up, I've never had a friend. I've never had anyone to spill my emotions onto, never had someone to hug. Well, that was until one day, I met someone. Someone too special to even describe.

Me and my mom had went to the store to do some shopping and just as we were getting ready to leave we saw a woman and her son struggling with some stuff. I pointed it out to my mom and she ran right on over completely forgetting that she left me in the middle of the store with 4 pound bags, which was heavy at the time for a noodle-armed child like me.

I saw my mom helping the lady out but something caught my eye, and I went right after it. I ran over to the little boy trying to help out with the heavy bags (which were only 5 pounds but that's heavy when you're only 5 years old) "here, let me get that for you!" I said happily, smiling a lot. "g-gracias..." the little boy said, shyly smiling a little. "I'm Austin, by the way, but call me Aussie. Anata no namae wa nanidesu ka?" I said, the boy tilted his head at me and I realized what I just did. "Sorry! I meant what's your name, I keep reverting back to my language by accident." I said, feeling a little embarrassed.

"I'm N-Neko, what language was that?" He said. 

"Love the name! It's Japanese, my first language." I smiled brightly as I struggled to hold the bags but didn't show that I was basically dying. "That's really cool! I've always wanted to learn another language, can you maybe um.. t-teach me?" He asked and I smiled brightly. "Of course!" We shook hands and slowly turned into a hug and our moms stared at us in awe.

"They're going to be amazing friends, I can already tell."

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