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Chapter 2: A little black cloud

After a few hours the boy starts to head home, it's an uneventful walk, he's not interrupted as usual, most people choose to be away from him if they can be, but about halfway home a strange thing happened, someone said his name out loud, now this was strange as he knew virtually no one and even less knew him, especially his real name, so this worried the boy for a multitude of different reasons, one being that there was in fact nobody around who could have said anything. This began to set of the boy's paranoia as he had no idea where the voice had come from, he backed himself up into a wall and looked around for a few minutes, calming himself he quickened his pace to reach home just that bit faster, and he couldn't help but notice some weird black smoke or miasma starting to form on his hands and then flying up above him, creating a black cloud.

The boy reaches home and lets himself in
"Where have you been? You were longer than you said you were going to be"
The boy made a generic excuse rather than saying that he was spooked and had also been talking to someone and got distracted because they weren't there, his dad wouldn't believe that story anyway. The boy headed upstairs to his room and shut himself in, just as usual, and began his work, he went through many different shows and programs studying how people behave and all the things he needs to do to give himself a personality, this is what he sees, be calm, never get angry and just bottle that up, avoid human contact, learn to live without it, blend into the background and finally that he should always be kind. The boy knew that he could achieve all of those things and hopefully with the help of Black as his friend, they could live happily, the boy also knew that on the inside he wasn't really anything, just a name and a face, everything he told anybody was a lie, none of it was true, his whole personality is just a mismatch of references to things he's watched, some more obscure than others, but if you look close enough you can see it, and if you were to really uncover who the boy was, you'd leave him too, he was a shell, but now with Black, his shell has a body inside of it.

Time passes and it becomes night, longer still and the boy has not slept, it's 4 in the morning and he needs to get up, he turns to the side, picks out some clothes and gets ready, he grabs his phone and heads out the door. He travels the same road he did previously, except for today he stops, on that on street, he stops for well over an hour he can't work out why he couldn't move for that small 5 minutes he did, was it someone he saw? A house that had meaning? He couldn't remember nor did he want to, he continues on hoping to reach that place in time, but interrupting him once more, a voice that called out his name, the boy went through the same process as last time and more of the strange cloud was created above him once again. This was now starting to worry the boy, he needed guidance, and then from behind him, footsteps