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Can
"What's wrong with Can?"
"I do not know..."
"It seems like he's lost or something, Can? Hello! Earth calling Can!"
I heard them talking then and suddenly a blow.
"Auch! Why did you have to hit my head?"
"Because you haven't paid attention to us all afternoon." My sister replies.
"I was thinking..." I answered, which is true. My thoughts are wandering and I don't know why.
"You can think?" My sister asked in a surprised way.
"Yes! All the time, but I can't discuss it with you because you are girls!" I get up from the table, feeling offended and went to search for my friends.
It's been a few hours since I got the kiss back. Which has me a bit confused, is it really true that if they kiss me and then they return it with another kiss, then it is equivalent as if no one had kissed me?
I say 1-1 = 0...but why do I feel that these calculations I am doing are wrong? It is as if something did feel right.
Besides that going back to being a "not kissed" is something I'm not very excited to be. That makes me think that maybe nobody likes me as he said...
Ahh! Why am I considering that man's cold words? I shouldn't have even listened to him!
I walk annoyed, kicking a can for several meters.
"Can!" I hear my name being called in the distance, when I lift my head, I see Ae, Pete, Good and Pond, all of them are well-dressed, on the other hand, I am still wearing the dirty football team uniform.
"Hey!" I yelled and run towards them.
"Where were you? Why do you still have the team uniform?" Ae asks me.
It seems that his anger towards me has completely dissipated. Although I had no idea why he's mad from the beginning...
"I was fixing an issue." I answered, adding mystery to my voice.
"Hey, do you think that girl likes me? She looked at me in a very strange way." Says Pond, completely ignoring what I said.
"I said I was fixing a..."
"In addition, the way she smiles is typical of a woman in love."
"They are your imaginations Pond, she was smiling at the person behind you." Ae responds, also ignoring me.
I put my hands in my pocket and lower my head, until I remember Good, my faithful friend, he will listen to me.
"Good! Today I have given a lesson to that fool, Tin." I tell him with pride.
"Tin? Who is Tin?" He asks, I had forgotten how short my friend's memory was.
"Tin, you know...my rival, my mortal enemy, my nemesis." I tell him with even more pride and puffing out my chest.
"I thought your mortal enemy was Mrs. Proy's dog."
"Yes, well, he is after the dog. I'll fix that later too...let me enjoy my victory first."
"Tin? Did you have an argument with Tin?" Asks Pete while approaching me, I see him worried, maybe he is worried about his friend.
"Yes, but don't worry I have reserved my fists for another rival worthy of me!"
"What happened?" He asks and I see how he scans me with his gaze.
I can't tell him that I was kissed by that fool and then "un-kissed" by him again. It's very embarrassing and I don't want anyone to know.
"Let's say that your friend took something from me and then returned it, as it should be..." I mumble with superiority.
"He took something from you? That's weird, Tin doesn't do those things..." I hear him mutter. At that moment, in which Pete starts talking about Tin, Ae approaches us.
This friend...he really doesn't let any name other than his own come out of Pete's mouth.
"Well, he is not the best person in the world, yesterday he left me outside!" I said with crossed arms.
"Tin is a difficult person to deal with but when you get to know him well you will know that he can be very kind."
I doubt it. But I guess like as his friend, Pete sees him differently.
We are sitting eating at a large table,Pete and Ae queue to clear their plates, I find myself next to Good and Techno, our coach.
I devour everything in my path, meat, cold cuts and salads because my hunger was slowly killing me. The camp dining room is full and if I don't eat quickly, the possibility of repeating dishes will be over, so I don't even have time to breathe.
"Can, eat more slowly." I hear Lemon say.
Tell me, who is the oldest between us again?
I wince with my mouth full because I can't speak.
"Ahh! Brothers..." She says to the air.
"There she goes...another victim." I hear someone said.
Victim? What do they mean? All eyes point to someone five tables in front of us. When I see it well, I see that it is Tin who looks seriously at a girl with shaking hands...who have, is that a piece of paper in her hands?
Few seconds pass when the girl starts crying loudly and runs out of the dining room, we all watch her go and how Tin continues to eat as usual...I do not understand what happens?
"That demon, when will he stop being so cruel?" I heard someone said again, but this time, the voice sounds familiar.
"P'Money?"
"Oh, little one! You're here and...all dirty..." He exclaims as he looks me up and down.
"It's that I played a soccer game today."
"Oh now I see."
"I don't understand what is happening?" I ask as I turn my eyes to Tin.
"That boy is an idiot, he rejected another poor girl, I don't know how many are going this month, he have sch a handsome face but horrible attitude..." He sighs and then starts gossiping with his friends.
Why would someone confess their feelings to a person as conceited as Tin? Besides, even if he kissed so well, I could just improve mine with a little more practice, if I had proposals I would definitely became good at it.
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Tin
The alarm wakes me up at 6:30 AM, it is still dark and everyone is still sleeping but this is the time when my day begins. It is already the third day of camping and here are only two more left...two more and everything will return to normal.
I get up and poke my head into Pete's room, he still sleeps like a baby. I went to the common room and see a lot of dirty clothes that we should send to be washed, so I take the clothes one by one and place them in a bag.
A particular T-shirt catches my attention, it is full of mud, and just by touching it you can notice the poor quality of the fabric. I look inside and it doesn't even have a brand label. Then, I remember that they come from Can, from that night he stayed to sleep here.
I could leave his clothes dirty like this and he will get to a point where he would only have dirty clothes left and will have nothing to wear...that would be fun.
However, as I think about it again, a feeling inside tells me not to do it, I think for a while until I finally decide, so I put his clothes in the same bag as ours to take be washed.
I walk through the grass, the dew is still impregnated on them. Pete doesn't know this view because he always wakes up later than I do, but all these days I've been getting up early to enjoy the scenery.
The lake is really beautiful without so many people around it, the peace that exclude is unique. I may not be able to convince my friend to change his mind but anyway I think all this will not have been in vain.
I walk along the lake and see ducks and other birds in the distance. The sun begins to rise slowly, it is a unique moment that only repeats at this time in the day.
Simply incredible.
"Hey, come here..." I heard so I fix my gaze in the distance and on the path that connects the lake to the ground, I saw a boy who talks to the water of the lake.
I slowly approach him. That shrill voice is so familiar...
"Come on, just stick your head out, I want to see you..."
Is he talking to the lake? When I think he can't be any more weirder, he comes out with these things.
I stopped, I should go back....yes, go back, I already said I was not going to get more involved with this fool in any way.
However, I can't help but be amused by his attitude, he really is talking to the lake!
I keep walking towards him and I've gotten close enough to hear him clearly and see how he puts his hand in the lake with his head so close to the water that he could fall if he makes a wrong move.
"Come on, your friend stuck his head out but you don't?"
Now, I think I understand who he is talking to, he is not talking to the lake, he is talking to the fish that sticks their head out of the water...well at least that's less weird than talking to a lake.
He doesn't really mind showing himself to others, even though they have probably laughed at him many times because of how he acts.
Was that a positive thought about him? Well...yeah, but that doesn't take away all the bad stuff about him, which is a lot.
"Oh, thank you very much!" He exclaims when a fish raises its head to the surface.
He really is a special boy.
"He does not stick his head out because you order him, they do it for lack of oxygen, it must be because in these depths they don't find enough."
Can turns around and is surprised to see me. For a second he looks serene, his features are like those of an innocent child, with smooth white skin, but it only lasts a second because he frowns when he recognized me.
"What are you doing here? You will scare my friends!" He exclaims.
"Are those fish your friends?" I can't help raising an eyebrow at the ridiculousness I just heard.
Anything that I find adorable about this child is ruined because of his poorly developed brain...wait did I say that I think he is adorable? Forget about it.
"That's none of your business!"
Things couldn't be more foolish, he, himself just said that they are his friends!
"You should get out of that way, the wood is not stable and I doubt that you can breathe underwater like your friends." I warned him.
I don't know why I do it, I should let him do what he wants because this stubborn man is not going to listen to me anyway.
"You don't tell me what to do!" He shouts louder, then when I thought he finally listened to me even for once, he begins to jump on the wood that with each jump makes a louder screech, really, a damn immature child.
"See? I do what I want!!"
I turned around, about to leave, I can still hear his jumps, him screaming then a huge screech and...nothing.
I kept on walking, he seems to have shut up, maybe he finally realized that he has been acting stupid.
I take a few more steps until I feel that the calm that surrounds me is too much because when I am near that child, there will be surely no calmness.
I turned around, he's not there.
I quickly approached closer and notice from that a huge piece of wood is missing on the road.
That idiot!!
"Can! Can!" I shouted the idiot's name, hoping he is somewhere else as I approach the wood and try to see him underwater, but nothing, there is no answer.
Can is nowhere to be seen.
I feel my heartbeat on my neck and without a second thought, I jump.
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