“Careful Kage, you’ll spill juice on your skirt,”

Mother rushes to my side her long snow white hair trailing behind, the early morning sunlight that breaks into our dining room window, reflects off her hair as mother crosses the light’s path,

“I’m not a child anymore, I wasn’t going to make a mess,” I pull away the jug of orange juice from the woman now attempting to take it,

As I do however the juice splashes up, a few droplets landing on my sky blue and white checkered skirts, 

“You see what I told you Kage,”

“It’s not my fault you were the one that rushed at me,”

“But was I wrong though,”

“ugh, mom, sometimes you are impossible to argue,” I pull back from her attempting to wipe the stain away,

“It’s fine, it doesn’t even show,”

“What do you mean, I can clearly see the mark Kage,”

“That’s cause it’s wet now, let it dry,”

“And what if it becomes an orange mark?”

“Ima be late for school mom bye,” Ignoring her I grab my royal blue school blazer, hung on my chair by the dining room table,

Draping it across my white school blouse, I flash an apologetic smile to my mother hurriedly pressing out my home…

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Frreeett♪

Fwwweeeett♪

Birds chirp happily perched upon the trees by the sidewalks,

The sun hasn’t fully come out yet, so it feels slightly cold and gray, but I don’t mind,

In fact rather enjoying walking at this time, if get tok cold I simply step into the rays of the sun and warm up,

(Yeah, it’s weird, sue me)

I live close to my high school so I walk every morning…

The–

“–Morning bitch!” a person shoves me hard, almost making me crash into a lamp post,

“You gotta stop doing that Lyra,” I annoyedly push back at the girl,

“You looked like a zombie walking there so I had to, you know, push some life into you,”

“Were you waiting out for me?” I roll my eyes at her previous statement 

(I must have zoned out for real, because I didn’t even notice when I passed her house)

“Mhmm, 

We should walk together from now on, Kage”

“I know you’re only saying that because Apollo has a girlfriend now,”

“Really?

I didn’t notice” Lyra replies sarcastically,

“Speaking of girlfriends, where’s your sister Lyra, has she left yet?”

“Karina is still home,

One of her boyfriends has a car so she’s waiting for him,”

“One of?”

“You know how Karina is,” now it’s Lyra’s turn to roll her eyes,

“She’s my best friend, but sometimes even I get surprised at her actions,”

“Smells like a fake friendship to me,”.

“Don’t be jealous Lyra, you know my third or fourth best friend,”

“Nah, you’re my girlfriend Kage,” yawns Lyra jokingly

“Girlfriend?”

“In that skirt you are,” she tugs it,

“First of all, you’re wearing one too, and secondly I wore pants yesterday”

“Yeah, but you weren’t this cute yesterday either,”

“Stop it your making me blush,” I drawl sarcastically

“Attitude,” she shoves me again as a response 

“You know if Karina said that to you, you’d all happy and shit,”

“No, I’d be the same as I am now, also you need to stop thinking that Karina and I are anything besides friends, you just said she has boyfriends, plural.”

“But I see the way you two look at each other, 

It’s different.”

(…….)

“I guess you have point…

Lyra, I’ll be your girlfriend for real if it means you’ll Believe Karina and I are just friends”

“….

Nah I’m good, but thanks for saying this on record though,” Lyra gloats revealing her recording phone,

“You–”

“Haha,

Pinoki and Apollo are going to love this,” the girl cackles sprinting forward ,

“Keep up!

And don’t let the wind blow up your skirt!” she blows a kiss back at me skipping away into the distance……

(I should have anticipated that)

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 The sound of chartering begins to pour in as I enter the school grounds, 

It’s Still early so classes haven’t started yet, but I like this early hour as it gives me time to practice–

“–Yo,” someone calls to me leaned up by the gate,

“Yo” I respond

“Yo,” he says back

“Yo”

“Yooo”

“Yoooo”

“Yo”

“Why did we start doing this in the first place,” I smile extending my fist to a short young man,

“I can’t remember either to be honest, I think it was Darius who started it,”

“…..

Did you happen to see Lyra pass already Pinoki?”

“I did but she didn’t notice me, and I didn’t call out to her,

When Lyra is in a hype mood this early I know it can mean nothing good,

But on the topic of Lyra,

Did you ask her yet Kage?”

“No, and you were supposed to ask her,

I got Karina, Darius Apollo and you Lyra, 

Don’t try to push your responsibility on me,”

“Oh yeah, my bad” Pinoki tries to pretend like he’d forgotten,

“Hhhhh,” I sigh at him,

“Your laziness unparalleled bro, you need to maybe dial back on all those adventure RPG videogames,

Hopefully your other skills aren’t rusty,”

“They aren’t, and don’t hate on gaming Kage, you should try it sometimes,”

“I’ll get it around to it…

Now come on let’s get over to the practice room,

I even thought of name”

“Finally,” rejoices Pinoki,

“I was getting tired of calling it ‘the project’ this name better be good Kage, what is it?”

“….

What do you think of the name….

Requiem?”

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(The Happiest Days Of Our Lives)