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The sound of my annoying alarm clock wakes me up every morning. Every morning is the same as the ones before. I get out of my bed and I start to get ready for school. I continue with my normal morning routine of getting dressed, brushing my teeth and ignoring my uncle who bitches at me every morning. I get my bag and walk out of my room, heading towards the front door.
"Phillip, make sure you wash your shit after you're done using it." My uncle said as he downed another beer.
"My name is Felix uncle Thomas."
"Yeah yeah Felipe." That was a normal thing for him. Calling me a different name every time. I walked out the door and went to school. I don't live far from La Habra high school so it wasn't a long walk. My uncle's daughter's, Sabrina and Samantha, were at their mom's house for the week. I'll see them at school in a few hours. As I walked towards the school cafeteria I heard someone call out to me.
"FELIX!! FE FE! IX!" I turned to see Naomi yelling for me as they walked with Jiro. It's funny how I met them this year and yet we all became close friends. I waved back as Naomi and Jiro became closer. Naomi is the same age as me and a bit shorter than me with tan-ish skin. They have short dark brown hair with green and purple ends and brown eyes. They are wearing their varsity sweater like always and a dog tag that had their name on it. Jiro is shorter than Naomi and a bit darker than them. She has short dark hair, almost black with brown eyes and glasses. She has her usual dark blue sweater on with black pants. I waited for them as they walked into the cafeteria first and followed after. We all sat at our usual spot. Jane and Robin were already there before us. Jane with her dark medium hair in a ponytail and cute hair pins. Today she has on a black shirt with sheer underneath and dark gray pants. Robin with their short blue and pink hair with their red and black striped shirt and black baggy pants.
"Morning!!" Jane said in her normal happy morning voice.
"Morning.." I said as I sat down. The others said their mornings and their hellos. Naomi sat next to me and Jiro climbed over the other seat to get to their normal spot. They started talking or watching something on their phone. Naomi got up and went to get some breakfast and came back a few seconds later. The rest of the morning was normal. Me, Jane, Robin and Naomi went to our first period, History. Then I went to my second with Jiro. Then my third with Becka and Jeremiah. My fourth went a little bit differently. We had a sub, he is pretty chill but nothing else. Lunch came along, Naomi and I skipped our histep…Again like usual. Naomi and Jane agreed to go to Northgate as Charlotte and I tagged along for the food. Northgate isn’t that far from the school, its also next to a Taco Bell, Pollo Loco and a Wabagrill. Once we got to the Northgate Naomi, Jane and Charlotte started to get excited and yell. I looked to see a slightly older guy. He is tall, dark hair with blue strands, and a work uniform with bi pins.
“Markus!!!!!” All three of them yelled. They ran up to him and started to introduce him to me and me to him.
“This is Markus, Markus this is Felix!” Naomi said as me and Markus shook hands.
“It's nice to meet you, I've heard a lot about you.” I said as I tried to not be awkward about it.
“Same here. Alright well i have to get back to work, bye.” Markus said as he waved and walked away. We all looked around, got something, paid for it and left. When we got back, the bell had already rung for everyone to go to lunch. There were students walking in and out of the school, mostly out, getting something to eat. The ones who have cars already left to get something from fast food or something from home. As we sat in our normal spot by the gym, the same group of guys passed by, calling us the suicide squad as others in the group sat down and starting eating. Although someone new passed by. He looked a little scrawny, brown hair, brown eyes, light-ish skin with a few scars here and there and looked to be 18ish maybe 19. He passed by, scared the group and walked over to the nearest tree then sat down. He didn't have any food that he got from the cafeteria nor did he bring any. He just took out his phone and a notebook. He started writing stuff down as he looked up to the group then onto his phone.
"That shit was ass clenching-" Jeremiah started as what he said took me out of my thoughts.
"I'm sorry what? Like I zoned out and that's all I hear, what the fuck?!" I started laughing as the others did too. "Anyways, is there like a new kid or something?"
"I don't think so, why?" Crystal asked as she looked up from her phone.
"There's a new kid sitting over there..let's go talk to him. Looks like he wants to be friends or something." I suggested as Naomi looked over my shoulder to look at who I was talking about. Jiro, Becka and Charlotte looked over their shoulders to see. Robin and Max just stayed where they were, Jeremiah and Jane looked over then back to each other. Most of the group didn't want to go. "Looks like I'll go alone-"
"I'll go, I feel social." Naomi said as they stood up. I smiled and stood with them.
"Good luck." Sky said as we walked over to the guy. Me and Naomi walked in front of the guy as Naomi became friendly with their words.
"Hey, I'm Naomi and this is Felix." Naomi said with a smile and I did the same with a little wave.
"...H-hey.." He quietly said as he closed his notebook and turned off his phone.
"Do you want to come sit with us?" I asked but he quickly got up and walked away. "Oh- and he's gone…"
"I'm now gonna try to be friends with him."
"I'll join you!" Both me and Naomi said as we tried to come up with ways to become friends with him.
"Failed?" Jiro asked.
"Yep" I said.
"Figured." Jiro replied. "Ganna try again?"
"YEEP!" Naomi said.
"Fucking hell."
Later that day in my next class with Naomi, we saw "question kid" there. He sat in the back of the class next to my seat. I sat in my seat and Naomi sat in the one next to me.
"Oh! Hey kid!" Naomi said to the "question kid" next to me.
"Oh..you're a-also in t-this class." He said. Both me and Naomi nodded. Our teacher called the role.
"Naomi Molina…..Tobias Rogers…….Felix Santiago……" She went down the list as a few kids whispered here and there.
"So you're Tobias-"
"Call me T-Toby." Toby cut Naomi off but they didn't seem to mind.
“Nice name!” For the rest of the class both me and Naomi tried to get closer to Toby. When we would ask a question, he would give a short answer and never any details. If he doesn't want to share then that's ok.
“Oh yeah I forgot, I will be leaving for Tulsa in July. July 19th.” Naomi said. Toby immediately wrote something down and seemed interested.
“T-tulsa Oklahoma?” he asked.
“Yeah, I'll be living with my older brother and his girlfriend. I can’t wait to get out of this shitwhole and out of the family that wont leave my shit alone.” They sighed and yawned.
“Do you have any plans on leaving La Habra or California in general?” I asked Toby.
“yeah..I want t-to move out in-into Oregon.” Toby said as he continued to barry his head in his notebook.
“Cool !” As the rest of the class went on, he seemed to just keep his distance. As 6th rolled around I found out that my last class was shared with him. I sat next to him and tried to start a conversation.
“Hey, sorry about me and Naomi being too blunt or bold or loud in general.”
“I-it's fine. I'm not that s-social so it's kinda nice t-to have something change.” Toby said, giving a small smile to them.
“Do you have friends from your old school?” I asked.
“No, A-again I’m not tha-at social….” He said he sounds a bit upset by that.
“Well, me and Naomi can be your friends..if you want.” He smiled at that.
“...sure.. You ha-have to know that I have turrets and I can't feel pain.” Toby said.
“Ok, we don’t mind. Also just saying that most of the group has depression, anxiety and some form of ADHD or OCD. We joke about it to cope with the fact that we have it. So it's just a small FYI.” I explained to him, I understand that he has it and that it's hard to deal with. But I'm sure the group will make him feel welcomed. After class, Toby seemed to be in a rush to get home. Don't know why but he was. As I walked out of my class I was greeted by Naomi and Becka, they had the same 6th period.
“R&D! R&D! R&D!!!” Naomi chanted.
“COO! COO! COO!” Backa chanted. They both locked their arms in mine and started dragging me to the bench in front of the library.
“Aaa- whatsapp! Why are we chanting R&D and COO?” they let go of me and they looked back excitedly.
“I'm trying to get the position of R&D. aka; Research and Design!!!” Naomi said while jumping up and down.
“I want to get the COO position! They don't do much but I still want the position.” Backa said, sounding excited.
“..MBA stuff?” They both said yes at the same time.
“Ohhh ok. Well I'll be walking home now.” I said my goodbyes as I ran into my two cousins, Sabrina and Samantha. Naomi also tagged along because we go the same way.
“Hey Sab and Sam! Haven't seen you two in a minute.” Naomi said.
“Yeah it's been a while!”
“How’ve you been?”
“I've been alright, you two?”
“Good.”
“We like it at mom’s house.” The three of them were engaged in a conversation while we walked. We walked to Sab and Sam’s mom’s house. Aunt Sarah. Naomi was about to walk to their place when Sam piped up.
“Hey we found an old gaming system!”
“Yeah and we wanted to play it with you!”
“Leave Naomi alone, Im sure they need to get going-”
“Cool, Your mom doesn't mind if i stay right?”
“No.”
“She’s been wanting to meet you!”
“Yeah Felix talks about you a lot to our mom!-”
“Shhhhhh! They don't need to know that!” I whispered to Sam.
“Sorry!” They both whisper. The girls unlocked the door and dragged Naomi straight into the living room. The twins said hi to Aunt Sarah, introduced Naomi to her and ran upstairs to the room that i stay in. I walked into the living room to greet Aunt Sarah.
“Hey Aunt-”
“Heyy Felix! I see your sisters have a grip on your little friend.” She said, happy to see that I have friends…although she was weird about it.
“Yeah…wait Sab and Sam aren't my sisters. They're my cousins.”
“Yeahh but at this point why not just say that their your sisters,”
“Fair point. We do act like siblings.”
“Speaking of which, I got you something! Look at the kitchen table.” she said as she got up and followed me into the kitchen. I saw an envelope on the table with my name on it. I picked it up, looked back at her then at the envelope. I opened it and took out the paper that's inside. Adoption papers? It then clicked.
“..Are you adopting me? Like, as your kid?” I turned to face her but she was already hugging me.
“Yes, I've always wanted a son and after we started looking after you I wanted to adopt you.”
She hugged me tightly. She then lets go.
“Now go upstairs, your sisters are probably trying to convince Naomi to follow them on their tiktok or instagram.” I just smiled and nod.
“..ok…mom.” I walked upstairs to my room and to my surprise nothing chaotic happened with them.
“Felix!! I hope you don't mind but I already set up the old nintendo.” Naomi said. They were sitting on my bend and my sisters were behind her, going through a box with old games.
“Uncle Richard had this stuff.”
“Yeah, before he disappeared.”
“You know uncle Richard was never really around much. Honestly I assumed he was Thomas’s old friend.” I said as I sat next to Naomi, also looking through the box.
“He was.”
“We just called him that.” The twins say. I always found it funny how they would finish each other's thoughts.
“Ohh ok. What kind of games are we going to play first?”
“Well Naomi suggested Majara’s Mask, I wanted to play… what's it called again?” Sam couldn't remember the name.
“Sonic, you wanted to play one of the old sonic games. I want to play pacman!!!”
“Let's play something that he wants to play first, we did invade his room after all.”
“Alright.”
“Fair point.”
“I kinda want to play Majara’s Mask..” I've never played any of the Zelda games before fo I want to give this a try.
“Alright, I’ll set it up.” Naomi placed the old game into the nintendo. It appeared on the screen and Naomi clicked play. . . .
. . . . Cannot play . . . .
“Shit…” She mutters. The twins are still looking through the box of games.
“Here, let's try this…” I took the game out, blew on it to dust it off and then placed it back in.
. . . . Press Start . . . .
“Look at you Fix-it- Felix!” Naomi joked and I took the controller from them.
“I fixed it, I play first.”
“Alright, if you die then you gotta hand it over.”
“Alright alright….Radar..”
“You ass! I wrote my name in cursive and all of a sudden I'm Radar.” I laughed as Naomi cussed me out.
“Oh, is your dad ok with you staying over?” I asked as the games into plays.
“Yeah, he’s fine with it.”
“Ok good, I didn't want you to get in trouble.” Mom enters my room.
“Ok Felix, I’ll have you get your stuff from Thomas’s place over the weekend. Also, I'm making spaghetti for dinner. Is Naomi- Naomi are you able to stay for dinner?” Mom said then asked Naomi.
“Yes, I'm able to stay till then. Thanks again for letting me stay.”
“Yeah, you're welcome here any time.” They talked for a bit before she left. Something about the game feels weird… Its a bit glitchy. I looked at the save files and there's only one left open on there.
BEN . . . . . . . . SCORE 469
ARD . . . . . . . . SCORE 666
NEW GAME+ . SCORE 000
“Looks like Richard’s save is on here.”
“I thought that he would have deleted it before he went missing..” I clicked on New Game. It set up the intro again. It was alright at first but Link’s character looked a little different. He had brown hair.
“Wait, isn't Link blond?” Naomi asked.
“I don't know..you’re the one who plays any Zelda games.”
“..I’ve played this game before but..I thought he always had blond hair.. Maybe its because the game is old? Or the lighting of the game?”
“Yeah..maybe.” We continued playing through the game. At some point I messed up and died. Naomi took over and started playing.
“..mother-”
“Hey, watch your mouth.” Sam said as Naomi died for the 20th time already.
“I thought you played this before.”
“I have, but I never said I finished the game nor was I good at it.”
“Fair point.” A few hours passed and the girls got a chance to mess with the games,after we ate then our mom sent Naomi home. Later that night I couldn’t stop thinking of finishing the game. It puzzled me. Why was his hair brown..why were some items missing..and why do I feel like I'm being watched? I just shrugged off the feeling and closed my eyes. Eventually I drifted off into dreamland.
To be continued...