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The person in front seemed just as startled as he was, his attention never left the other blonde haired boy, any move the other made he had him in his sights at all times. The young adult?? had brown eyes with a dark blue jacket, he seemed worried, like he didn’t know what to do, like he wasn’t prepared to see anyone else here.
“Hey, are you, uhh... exploring this place as well?” The blonde haired adult sounded on edge.
“No” his only response was quick, coupled with a slight tilt of his head to the left. He looked at the other slightly less on edge, he didn’t seem like a threat, just as startled as himself.
“Then what exactly are you doing here...?” His question was laced with worry and slight annoyance this time.
“Why exactly does it matter to you?”, he responded with a bit of anger, mainly directed at the others tone.
“Uhh security is tight on this building and you don’t seem to care, if you did you would duck under the windows instead of just walking past without a care” he responded in a condescending matter of fact tone.
“Yes, and? It’s not like there isn’t multiple exists on this floor alone. From his view several broken windows led to the outside.
“Are you stupid, did you not see the gates surrounding this place on the way in? there’s only one way in and out of it” his tone was clearly annoyed and slightly angry at this point.
Caught off guard without any knowledge of the outside of the building itself, he just looked to the ground for a short second. Then turned back behind him only to notice that the building looked completely normal, none of where he had just come from existed anymore. Now worry, actual panic set in for the first time, this wasn’t a new section of his labyrinth but something else entirely. His attention was then taken to the sound of others outside the dilapidating building, he was quick to pick up on it, faster than the other adult by at least a few seconds.
“Well fuck, this is on you, it’s your fucking fault security is here-“
“Shut it” He snapped at the blonde haired adult. His response was quick and rage filled and his voice low as the other was wasting time, “we should then run, to be blatantly honest I don’t know how I even got in this place so I do hope you remembered the way out”
“Uhhh, fucking fine, follow me” the other then turned around and started running back the other way.
They took several corridors passing severely graffitied walls on the way out. The other led him to a broken ground floor window, they jumped out. Once on the grass the security car was visible but nobody was inside so they were most likely going through the building.
After two minutes of running, a fence with a hole cut into it was visible. The hole was most likely cut with wire cutters and was located behind a bush to hide it as much as possible. They both climbed through and he was then led into a side street busy with people.
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“So exactly how...did you uhh get into that place?” The blonde haired adult sounded very interested, all anger and annoyance gone from before.
“I am not obligated to tell you anything, I don’t know you and you don’t know me so why does it matter?” He was straight to the point, voice still low with a clear edge to it.
“Umm, ahah what’s your name?, I didn’t catch it, I’m Joey” he asked his question with a nervous laugh changing the previous one asked, Joey clearly felt worried for a short second.
They were both walking aimlessly to the east, Joey obviously wasn’t a threat so following was harmless.
“Yami” It took him a few seconds to answer but he eventually did.
“Where are you from? I’m living in Brooklyn currently” the others tone was fast to change, he sounded happy to even mention Brooklyn. To answer his question he needed to have an answer and that’s one he lacks entirely, “I do not really know to be honest....”.
Joey was quick to try and help him out, “Oh, I can show you around this city if you want, I have a few friends I can introduce you to at my university, they are pretty amazing people.”
Tilting his head towards Joey as to signal that he was thinking about it, he then answered, “that would be nice, I do not even know the name of this city, I am not from anywhere you would know.”
“Now you have me curious, this is world famous New York City”, he practically yelled the last section which got the attention of several bystanders, “also Time Square is like just up here.”
“I will follow you, also what is Time Square?”
“Oh man now imma have fun explaining all this to you ahah.”
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After a good half an hour of walking through random side streets and back onto the main street out of the Hell’s Kitchen district all the while explaining New York City to Yami, they found themselves looking at the center of Time Square although it’s less impressive in the light of day it’s still surprising for anyone who hasn’t seen it before.
“Why is this place famous, all it happens to be is advertisements“
“Ah not really Yami, some of these restaurants and shops are also pretty well known world wide, that’s why people come from all over to see it, trust me it’s way better in the dark.”
“Should we then wait for sunset?”, he then looked up, looking at the colour of the sky and where the sun was to help tell what time of day it is, “we are roughly several hours off, the buildings are in the way so it’s rather difficult to tell”
“Ahaha I have a phone you know, it’s like 2pm so I can’t say you're wrong because it gets dark quick here, especially in the winter.” Joey seemed to find his lack of knowledge on technology rather funny. “We should go find something to eat Ya know as it’s way past lunch.”
“I do not need anything” he stated matter of factly. “Yeah but I sure as fuck do so I guess you are coming along for the ride too, I know this cool place off to the side over there.” Joey was quick to drag him along through Time Square and off into a side street.
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“I am so gonna take you up the Empire State Building because your in fucking New York City and you can’t change my mind.” In between eating Joey kept pointing out locations famous in the city that are easily accessed close to them. “Is it the one that’s incredibly famous?, you mentioned it being in all the city skyline art” he was still confused on what buildings are what and why they are famous.
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“We are being followed” his voice was almost a whisper as to not alert whoever was following that he was on to them. “Wait what do you mean-“ “it’s the same guy from before, we have been down four random streets and he is still behind us.”
“Uh ok, ok we should like run to one of the busy streets, we aren’t too far off the Rockefeller Center.” After saying it Joey bolted to the end of the alleyway, this made the other person speed up as well. Yami on the other hand, side-stepped into the shadows and disappeared only to step back out in front of Joey and dragged him around the corner faster than the blonde haired adult would have been able to on his own.
They ended up running into the busy hallways of the Rockefeller Center, positive they weren’t being followed anymore, Joey then pushed Yami into the wall, “how the hell did you even- what was that” this got the attention of several others waiting at a nearby store front. Yami then took in a breath only to sigh “Must I explain, as I do not know how to even begin”. “You...you-HOW is that even possible”.
“I suggest you let go of me and then maybe I can attempt to explain what exactly happened” he made sure to look Joey straight in the eye while playing with his own eye colour as to pull the ring of gold inward as to look more intimidating. This in turn startled Joey, “ok what the actual fuck”
“YOU TWO! break it up, this is a public place so watch your language while you’re at it too” one of the nearby security personnel made sure to get their attention. “I apologize” Yami responded with a quick nod of acknowledgement, Joey on the other hand backed up a few steps from Yami then quietly said sorry, too startled to snap back with something witty in response.
“I’m just gonna walk that way for a bit, aha yeah” Joey then walked further into the corridors, this earned a confused tilt of the head by Yami who didn’t understand what he was doing and why.