03 - The return.

Todd was sitting on the sofa at Nny's apartment, covering himself with a blanket. It's been five years since the owner left without even saying where he was heading. The house stayed quite clean thanks to the boy who was visiting it twice a week and sometimes, when he had to run away from home, he lived in it. C.'s house was in Squee's neighborhood so he had always a view of it from his own room where he had still lived. He was only fifteen but he mentally had grown up already since he had to manage at his home. His mother had not changed a bit and his father, well he had been working as usual but he began to beat his son frequently. But all those hits were for nothing and that's why that night Todd was sitting at Nny's place - he did not want to get his father in the way.

He was humming a birthday song for himself since that day he was turning sixteen but obviously no one in the house cared about it.

"Happy birthday to me... happy birthday to me.." he whispered and couple of minutes later fell into a deep sleep.

"Fuck." a sharp voice entered the silence of Nny's house when its owner had problems with getting inside. A few moments later he was standing in his living room quite surprised that his house stayed so clean for five years time. But it was impossible. Someone must have been tidying up. But who? Suddenly he heard a noise. A calm sound of breathing, coming from the sofa. He recognized a figure of a boy but had no idea who it might have been. The stranger moved a little and shivered because of the cold. He wasn't afraid, his dream was peaceful and happy like none of Nny ever had.

Johnny reached for a knife that was still stabbed to one of the walls. Stranger meant an enemy and enemies should have been destroyed. He approached the sleeping boy and raised the blade but then his guest woke up and automatically screamed jumping out of the sofa.

Nny had a feeling that he had known this voice and lowered the knife looking at the boy who was hiding in the darkness. They were both silently looking at each other and the only hearable sound were boy's short gasps.

"Who are you?" asked the raven-haired man and suddenly felt that the stranger was hugging him.

"It's you. It's you." his quiet, short whispers made Nny feel strange. "Johnny... I said I would wait. See?" at first the man had no idea what his guest was talking about but suddenly he realized...

"Squee" he smiled less than splendidly. After a few moments of thinking his healthy arm clenched around boy's body. It was quite an unusual behavior for Nny and actually very surprising to himself.

"I missed you." the boy cried in Johnny's sweater "I thought you would never come back..."

But he did came back and he was also surprised that someone remembered him thought five years had passed. Had this meant that there were people who really cared about others? Nah. Todd was his Little Squee. The one that had never been hurt by Johnny C. and who was different just like Nny was. There was no doubt that they were connected in some way.

"Yeah." the raven-haired smiled a bit wider and nodded "I missed you to, Squee. I missed you too."

End of the so called prologue. Something more enjoyable and mature will loom up from the darkness but not in categories suitable for children nor young teenagers. Thanks to everyone who enjoyed. :3