Alone together

ATTENTION! I'm not a native English speaker, I translated it from Italian. If there are any mistakes please let me know so I can correct them (and also improve my translation skills!)

I don't know where you're going, but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

I don't know where I'm going, but I don't think I'm coming home
And I said I'll check in tomorrow if I don't wake up dead

Life in Ninjago was frenetic.

If possible, Kai was even more frenetic. Stubborn, rebellious, troubled.

Tired of carrying on and, at the same time, tired of feeling empty. For months he had been feeling a huge anguish that was destroying his heart.

Cole, Zane, Jay, even Lloyd. All of his best friends had achieved their lives, had understood what to do with them; they had their own dreams, their aims, and they were giving their best to fulfill them.

But not him. He was like a bird in a cage waiting for being set free. The point was... was he really gonna be set free?

He felt like a ghost, a husk getting by on indifference; no ideas, no plans for the future. Did he have any ambitions? Believe it... He was lucky just finding a job as a warehouse worker in the littlest and most unknown supermarket in the whole Ninjago City. He couldn't ill afford big dreams like becoming a famous inventor or creating a new software for the Borg Industries.

He took his phone out of his jeans pocket and checked the time. 1:58. In the morning.

Great, he got lost in his own thoughts. Surely Nya would tell him off the next day, nevertheless, the boy didn't worry about that: he was used to his sister's tirades, knowing that she did it because she cared about him. However, his mind was somewhere else in that moment.

He looked at his glass, filled with beer and placed on the bar counter in front of him. He had taken two sips maybe, that beer tasted awful; as if he could expect something different from the dive bar he was in.

A dismal one, exactly like people around there. Including him.

He turned around when he suddenly heard the door open. A new customer showed up in the bar, managing to catch everyone's attention. It was a very attractive girl, it seemed almost wrong that someone like her decided to go in such a place.

She completely ignored the gross whistles of some men and headed for the counter where also Kai was sitting at.

The brown-haired boy stole a glance at her. The first thing standing out was her reddish flame-ish hair tied up in a high ponytail, but also her soft and elegant features grabbed the eye. When he met her gaze, he saw that she was staring at him too. None of them turned around, they actually linked their eyes together.

Skylor, on her side, found that boy interesting, and not only because of his beauty. Of course that one played a good role - she was a girl after all -, but she felt there was something more.

She had no idea of what, intuition was guiding her.

This is the road to ruin
And we're starting at the end!

Breaking the ice would cost her nothing, she had already lost what she could lose, so come what may.

«This beer really tastes awful as your grossed out face says?» she joked pointing at the glass in front of Kai.

«Only if you don't hold your nose» the boy answered with her same joking tone. «If you do it, the taste gets a little better... Something like bitter sparkling water, I guess.»