He looked at him surprised when the blonde placed his hand over his mouth and made a sign for him to be quiet "there's no need for that, I'm not going to hurt you." he was skeptical of that remembering how badly he had beaten the other boys, he watched as the blonde rolled his eyes "don't look at me like that, they attacked me first so I defended myself, don't judge me as if you know the full story when you weren't even there."

He felt bad when he heard the hurt in the blonde's voice, he must have had people judge him a lot and he could relate to that, so he moved to say sorry but forgot the blonde had his hand over his mouth, he tapped his hand and it was the blonde's turn to give him a skeptical look before he slowly removed his hand.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you."

The blonde's eyes widened and he jumped up to his feet moving away from him "don't apologize, you didn't hurt me."

He could see the blonde shifting on his feet and decided not to push the matter as he stood up, he moved to brush off his clothes but only got wet mud on his hands, then was when he realised his clothes had been soaked and he had mud on them, he sighed and moved to the opposite side of the bridge from the blonde so he could was his hands.

"What's your name?" the sudden question after a long period of silence startled him and it took him a minute to get his bearings before he answered.

"Kaleo.. my name is Kaleo, what's yours?" he asked as he moved from the end of the bridge to go lean on the cold wall, the blonde turned around to face him.

"It's Koi." the boy spoke quietly as if he was ashamed of his name, Kaleo thought it was weird and kinda cool in a sense.

"That's cool."

The boy huffed and moved over next to him to lean on the wall "stop lying, it's stupid but your's is the cool one, it sounds foreign are you a half?"

Kaleo looked at him strangely and looked away "Maybe, I don't know." after that the conversation seemed to die out and the two boys stood in silence.

There was a loud sneeze and Kaleo raised his head to see a startled Koi watching at him "that was loud, I think you caught a cold." he shrugged and looked away from Koi, even if he did, there was nothing he could do but wait it out, he felt a shiver go up his spine and rubbed his hands up and down his arms, he could feel Koi watching him but kept his eyes forward.

"Do you want to come by me?" he looked at the blonde with an arched brow "don't give me that look, the rain is pouring, you're soaked, you're on the verge of catching a cold and my house is nearby so you could get somewhere warm to stay."

He felt a bit weird, he had no memory of being in someone's house so he wouldn't know how to act or what to do so he came up with the first excuse he could think of "I don't want to impose." he had heard many people say it to their friends when he was in the ally and now was his chance to use it.

Koi gave him a look as if he was stupid "Don't worry about it, it's impossible to impose on the person that invited you over and also I live alone so it's no big deal."

Kaleo felt stupid he tried to come up with a better excuse but nothing came so he sighed and nodded, before he knew it Koi had taken hold of his hand and was pulling him along as he ran from under the bridge and into the rain.

The rain poured down on them as they ran through a crowd of people with umbrellas who gave them disapproving looks and yelled at them when they bumped into them, he looked at there hands for a second before looking up, they continued to run even going through traffic and dodging cars until they turned into a large building.

They ran through some people one of them calling Koi by his name but was swiftly ignored, only stopping when they were standing in a large box, that seemed to move when Koi pressed a button, Kaleo felt his body move on his own and was caught by Koi who just looked at him with a smirk on his face.

They got off the box and walked to the end of the hall, where Koi pulled a key out of his wet pants pocket and stuck it into a key hole, that allowed them to open the door, Kaleo didn't remember seeing something like this before but felt that it was something normal.

He followed Koi into a very large room, with a very tall ceiling the room made him feel small, he looked around to see a bed tucked into a corner in the large room, it was big, next to it was a counter with different things scattered all over it, next to the bed there were clothes scattered all over the floor.

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He looked to see a large shelf all the way on the opposite side of the room taking up a whole wall for itself and was covered in books, there were so many that some were piled into high stacks on the floor, next to it was a desk with only a computer on it and a chair and next to that another chair.

He moved to walk but his foot bumped on something and he looked down to see the floor had risen for the rest of the room but a small section by the door was lower, he looked to see wet sneakers kicked off right on the lower floor and stooped down to take off his worn shoes.

When his feet were bare he stepped up on the raised floor and moved to follow the wet footprints on the floor, he walked until he reached the bed and turned to see Koi in what appeared to be a small kitchen, the room was even bigger than he first though.

Across from the kitchen was a table that was really low to the floor with cushions around it and on the wall sat a large TV with a stereo set, a gaming system and a DVD player, he remembered seeing them in stores he would pass by and watch as the people tested them out so he knew what they were for.

He looked back to where Koi was but was but didn't see him there so he turned and found himself jumping into the air when he saw Koi standing right behind him with what appeared to be a towel, Koi smirked at him and handed him the towel before pulling him along, they walked just a little away from the bed to a door he hadn't noticed before.

Koi opened the door and inside he found a bathroom, the floor was covered in tiles with a drain in the corner of the floor, a bench and a weird contraption on the walls next to it was a tub, and a little bit in the corner was a toilet across from that a sink.

He turned to look at Koi who pushed him into the room "take a quick shower when you come out I'll have some clothes for you and then you can wait while I take my shower before we get something to eat."

Koi turned to leave the room but he grabbed his arm and the stunned blonde turned to watch him with a curious look on his face, Kaleo found himself feeling embarrassed as he pointed to the thing on the wall "what's that." Koi arched his brow and told him it was a shower "how do I use it?"

Something seemed to cross the blondes face before he lead him over and quickly showed him how to use it before leaving the bathroom and shutting the door behind him, he sighed as he watched him go before sighing and stripping off his clothes, he dropped them in a basket that was near the door and moved to the thing Koi called a shower.

He picked up the hose and turned the nozzle watching as the water sprayed out before turning it on himself, he smiled as the warm water engulfed him heating up his freezing body, it felt so good he was making some strange noises as he scrubbed his skin down, he watched the dirt run down his skin and move to the drain, he quickly scrubbed his overly oily hair and then it wasn't so much black as it was brown.

He felt as if he over did it so he quickly dried his skin off and wrapped the towel around himself, before slowly pushing the door open, he looked to see Koi walking towards him as he stepped out the bathroom, he just glanced at him without a word as he moved into the bathroom and shut the door behind him.

Kaleo stared at it for a while and then turned going for the bed, he looked to see a packet that held underwear in it, he opened it and pulled on the stripped material that was soft to the touch and reached his mid tight as it clung to his skin, it felt really good and he smiled.

He reached for the other clothes, which seemed to be a large grey sweater and loose grey pants, both of them were just as soft as the underwear so he wasted no time in pulling them on, he saw a pair of socks and pulled those on to before returning to drying his hair, as he did he found himself moving across the room the the shelf that was over flowing with books.

He reached and pulled a random book from the shelf and sat back in the chair that was away from the desk, he slipped the pages skimming over the words, some he could understand but the big ones caught him by surprise.

He knew how to read, he would swear it by god but it was just that he hadn't really read anything in a long while, the last time he remembered reading something other than expiry dates stamped on food packets was when he was with the old woman he shared an alley way with, she couldn't see quiet well but for some reason always had a new book so she would ask him to read to her and he would oblige.

He remembered her chuckling to herself when he got a word wrong and would ask him to spell it, swiftly correcting him when he did, he thought of her as his mother, but when she vanished he didn't even feel the need to cry some how he felt accustomed to people leaving him behind even if he had no memory of it or them.

He was slipping through the book when he heard the door open and looked back to see Koi coming out the bathroom fully dressed with a towel thrown over his head, he was wearing similar clothes to the ones he was wearing, except they seemed to fit him better and he was in all black with his sleeves pulled up to the elbows.

He got up and put the book where found it and then made his way to the kitchen where he saw Koi standing in front of the counter pouring a delicious smelling stew onto two large bowls of rice, he moved to the small table to sit down when he was told to, he stuck his feet under it and watched as Koi moved around the counter with two trays in his hand, one carrying the two bowls and the other held two glasses with a brown liquid in it.

Kaleo watched as Koi placed a bowl in front of him along with a glass and handed him a spoon then sat down after placing down his own things and moving the trays to the side, he looked at the dish ans couldn't help but smile but looked up at Koi who quickly told him it was Oyakodon before digging into his bowl, they both eat and Koi laughed every time Kaleo would make a delighted sound from eating.