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"Come on Rudo!" Regto calls, opening the door and holding it open for me. Waiting for me to come on along with him to who knows where, we don't go out often. Usually he leaves me be at his house or let me go around to get a healthy amount of sunlight on my skin.
It's shocking to me that he cares this much to be honest, cares for my health at all. No one ever cared as much as he did, and no one ever will.
Maybe that girl will though, the one I met a few weeks ago.
But that is one big fat chance.
Huffing a little, I scramble over to Regto, the one who has been taking care of me for about a month now and look up at him with a small frown. "...?"
"We are going to get some small fire works, or something." Regto thinks aloud, answering my question in the process, "depends on the price I guess, but I saved up for this time of the year!" He adds, smiling to himself as he gazes down at me.
Which, turns out, to be more confusion from me.
What is around this time of year?
I mean, the only big thing that happens during the long and kinda horrible days before meeting Regto was those big booms outside my dark and cold house back when I lived with... those people....
Thinking about them sucks.
Hate doing that.
Let's not do that.
Yeah, no doing that.
So I never knew where the big booms came from, but I heard laughter so maybe it was a fun thing that I was never worthy of experiencing.
Other than that, what are fireworks???
Blinking, I stare up at Regto as he realizes I have no idea what he was truly talking about.
Regto's face changes, looking weird, like he was sad. But why be sad? "Kid, ya seriously don't know what Fourth of July is?" He asks, voice soft and gentle as he kneels down in front of me.
With a tilt of my head I respond with a- "no."
Regto sighs, looking like he wanted to hug me but doesn't. He figured out a long time ago I don't do well with hugs, probably never will. But he hopes. Or tries to.
"Come on, it's easier to show you, but it's a holiday."
"?"
"Wow, you know nothing do you?"