Identical Opposites

Chapter Twenty Nine

After dressing Mira in a jeans jumpsuit with a red shirt underneath, I brushed her hair and tied it in a braid. Jun was fixing his hair in the mirror as I pulled my long mess of black hair into a high ponytail, grabbing my cap from the table.

"Wait." Jun stopped me "Wow, you kinda look cool with the blonde roots"

"Shut up, Jun" I scoffed and glanced one more time at my reflection in the mirror, there was at least 5cm of my original dark blonde hair that had already grown out. Its the reason Mira has been playing with my hair a lot very recently.

Jun grinned "Come on, it's 10." He walked outside and ushered for Mira to follow him quickly. After we returned to the hotel room yesterday, Jun sat at his laptop for less than thirty minutes and had already figured out which school it was that Robin goes to so now we were heading to it. It was quite far as Tracy told us but Jun insisted we walk the whole distance so that we walk the path that Robin takes everyday. In the early morning, as we were staring out the window to see Robin leave for school, we saw Aunt Penny and all her kids get into the car and drive off but Robin was no where to be seen which meant that he left early to go on his own. Does he enjoy being on his own that much or does he really hate Aunt Penny?

Probably a mixture of both.

As we walked down the streets, Mira obviously started complaining so I had to carry her. If we don't arrive soon, I'll be the one complaining next.

"Ah, wait!" Jun ran towards a small local comic store. "Excuse me," he knocked on the door as he entered.

"Hello young men." An old man got up and greeted us in English.

"Do you happen to know a boy this tall," Jun raised his hand up to his heads height "With black hair who attends the school at the end of the street? Uh, he's British and looks a bit like...me. He's 17 and uhhh listens to music a lot." Jun seemed to be troubled, trying to find something unique about Robin's appearance.

The old man laughed "I'll assume you're talking about Robin, the kid who passes by here every two days. He's a huge fan of comics isn't he?"

Jun brightened "Yes him. He's our younger brother."

"Is he? Well you do look a lot like him. You're the older brothers he's told me about." The old man smiled "He must've been ecstatic to see you."

"He told you about us?" Jun asked in surprise

"Not much. That boy only mumbles a sentence every three days or so but I collected a bit of the stuff he says here and there and assumed that your parents died so you were all separated and he doesn't like the family he is with right now."

Jun nodded slowly and faced me before looking back at the old man "Yes thats true. Does Robin have friends? That he comes here with?"

"Nah, I've never seen that kid with anyone his age. Anyone actually. Five years I've known him, he's always hanging alone."

"Even in school?"

"I wouldn't know, son, but I've had packs of students come by at the same time he was here and none even acknowledge him."

Jun frowned a little "Thanks a lot, sir. Good day." Jun nodded in respect and walked out as I followed him. "Robin doesn't have friends." Jun told me as we walked again "But at least we know Ms. Russo is there. I wonder how she's like."

The school was right around the corner from the comic store so we headed straight to the office building and requested to see Ms. Russo. After giving us visitor passes, we were told where her class was and left on our own.

"My school would never do something like that." Jun scoffed to himself as he looked a the visitor pass "They'd probably do a three day background check before they let you in." He exaggerated "Anyway! Great this one doesn't."