-A Little Help- (KuroKen)

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If you see me randomly posting these chapters again I'm just fixing spelling mistakes <3

-Slight mention of eating disorder-

(Kenma's POV)

"You should try to make some friends this time Ken." My mother spoke to me quietly like she was trying to avoid airing my secrets. Although it isn't really a secret. We've moved around quite a bit due to my dad's job and each time we move nothing changes, I still never make friends. The first school I went to was the worst because I was heavily bullied so I was happy to leave and my mom was happy to get me out of there. However, I think that the more we moved around the more she noticed it wasn't the other kids it was me. I don't make friends very well so I doubt that Tokyo will be any different.

Moving half way through the school year didn't help either. Summer break was already halfway through which gave me a limited amount of time to settle into my new home. I picked up one of the boxes with my name on it while my mother bent down to pick up a bigger box next to me. "We might be here to stay this time so please at least try." She picked up a box labelled kitchen and left. It didn't matter to me if we were here to stay or not and it wasn't about trying hard to make friends, I simply can't talk to people, not that she would understand.

My room was relatively small, compared to my previous one that is. Most of my furniture was brought over and set up yesterday by my dad who has been living here for about a week before my mother and I came. My bed was in the corner of the room next to a window seat. The window seat was cute and I enjoyed having windows in my room to look at the stars. Luckily for me this room had two, one looking at my neighbors house and one looking out to the front yard. On the opposite wall was a small desk for homework and across from my bed was a tall dresser next to my closet, but that was about it. The walls were off white and the floors were dark wood. Everything was bare. It looked like a hospital room with the three simple pieces of plain wooden furniture. I placed the last of the boxes for my room on my bed and began to take out my decorations.

It took about an hour and a half but I finally turned this plain room into something more fitting for me. I had a small red rug by my door to match my red comforter that now decorated my bed. My desk supported a small desktop computer which my parents got me for school, I mainly used it for games though. My dresser and closet had been packed with the clothes that barely fit me anymore, I would have to get my mom to buy me new clothes. My walls had a few posters from video games and shows I'd enjoyed but compared to previous rooms of mine, it was still pretty plain.

Each new move left me with less and less stuff, not because I forgot it or anything I just threw things away over time so I wouldn't have to move it so much. I felt like each new house felt less and less like home to me. I looked over at the clock on my desk. 10:30 pm. Normally in the summer I wouldn't sleep till around 5 am, if I slept at all, but unpacking left me pretty tired so I was looking forward to some sleep.

(Kuroos POV)

I had been staring out the window in my living room all morning. Todays the day. A new friend was moving in next door and according to my mother he is only a year younger than me. While I had a lot of great friends and I was making plenty of new ones as a 2nd year, I never had one that lived so close to me. Most of them are at least a twenty minute car ride away. It wasn't until night that my new friend pulled up in a small moving truck. The bigger truck had already come earlier this week but sadly I hadn't seen a young boy with them so I assumed he was coming later.

Surely enough at exactly 8:57 pm the car pulled up and a small boy hopped out and began to grab boxes from the car. If my mother hadn't told me he was my age I wouldn't have thought he was. He was short and very thin. It was hard to believe he was 16 years old. I watched and waited for them to be done carrying in the boxes, I felt it would be rude for me to get in their way. As the young boy and a lady, I assume his mother, came out for the last boxes I walked into my front yard to greet them.

"You should try to make some friends this time Ken." I heard the lady whisper slightly to the boy. Oh! That's gonna be me! I was eager to tell his mom that I would be his friend, I could barely wait to run over and meet the boy. However, as I began to walk through my yard I heard her say, "We might be here to stay this time so please at least try." Now, that wouldn't stop me from introducing myself at all, in knowing that this boy would be here for a while only made me want to make him my friend more. However, the look of pure annoyance on his face made me stop in my tracks. Yeah... maybe now's not such a good time.

(Kenma's POV)

I woke up around 8 in the morning which for me was very early, but I did go to bed early so it makes sense. I smelt breakfast from my room, eggs and bacon I assume, and while my stomach did growl indicating it wanted food I couldn't bring myself to go eat. Lets see, if I woke up at about 8 I should be able to make it till at least 2 pm before I get too hungry. I decided to hold off on food and instead grabbed my psp from my desk and began to load up a game to play.

At about 10 my mother came in and told me I should get outside a bit and enjoy the rest of the summer weather. Normally I would have ignored her but the smell of breakfast still lingered in the house and it was making me hungry so I took my psp, still in my pajamas, and went to sit in the backyard. We have a few lawn chairs set up around a table covered by the shade of the house, at least I could still enjoy my game. Or I thought I would have been able to. Until I noticed something out of the corner of my eye, a boy with black hair poking his head over the fence.

"Hello!" He beamed at me with a smile even though our fence wasn't necessarily that tall he was still about to see over it with ease. He is tall. I tried hard to make my mouth move. Just say hello back, just say it, say hi he's waiting, he's gonna think you're a freak if you don't respond. I just stared at the boy while I could feel a small anxiety attack forming inside of me. I expected him to insult me or at least send a rude glance my way but nothing of the sort happened. "That's okay you don't need to respond." Huh, well I didn't expect that. "My name is Kuroo Tetsuro I'm your neighbor! My mom says you're going to be going to be a 1st year in high school, is that right?"

For some reason the anxiety I felt inside my stomach just moments ago was beginning to dissipate. While I still couldn't seem to think clearly enough to form any sentences I was able to nod my head yes in response. This seemed to delight the boy and his smile grew. "That's so cool! I'm a 2nd year in high school so we will be in school together." I simply stared at the boy not knowing what to say. I took in his appearance, his hair was messy it looked like he hadn't fixed his bed head from the morning. His eyes were dark brown and he was clearly tall enough to see over the fence with ease, unless he had a secret stool I didn't know about. "So," He began to speak again, pulling me out of my train of thought. "Do you play volleyball?"