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Hachi has been Cathy’s best friend since before both could remember, sure, some things rocked the boat, like when the original trio with Kat had to become a duo due to Kat moving away, but nothing ever truly tested their friendship.
Until the first Saturday after Cathy turned thirteen. Hachi, at the time, didn’t know why what happened happened, but he does know what happened.
It was meant to be an average Saturday, go to the movie theater, see what was released, if nothing good, the local arcade, after grabbing some fast food. Hachi rolled up to Cathy’s door in his wheelchair and knocked. Cathy came rushing to the door, ready to open it.
They had styled their hair differently, but it was starting to be summer so that made sense, what didn’t make sense, however, was what they said to him, “Hi Thomas!” which was immediately retracted with, “Hachi! Hachi! I have no IDEA where that came from! I’m sorry!”
“Relax, it was an accident!” Hachi tried calming them down.
“Let's just go to the movies and forget what happened ok?”
“Fine by me!”
This happened multiple times, and certain new traits showed up until Cathy found out what was wrong, they were Cathrine Parr and admitted it to Hachi. Hachi laughed it off and told them to not call that again, and they agreed to not call him Thomas again.
But Hachi knew, deep down, that that Saturday was when they started having some gears turn that was not their own, but Parr’s.