<One particular evening, 9pm>

You were walking back from your art class, listening to music and just minding your own business. Ahead of you- you saw a group of guys. The ones dressed in adidas, walking with vapes or cigarettes in their mouths and the same kinds of the ones who’d constantly yell at you on the street, make fun or throw stuff at you. Why? Simply because you were different. You didn’t fit into the ‘social norms’ ? Yeah well get fucked.

you noticed them and thousands of thoughts immediately started flooding your mind. Will they yell? Laugh? Hell, you really hoped they wouldn’t corner you and kick your ass. It was dark, late and no one was near. You didn’t panic but you definitely wasn’t very pleased and calm too. It happened way too many times before.

One of them, a tall and bulky guy scoffed

“Look- it’s a damn Pokémon!- Ppffftt!”

they started laughing before you felt a presence behind you. Heat radiating from them. You knew who it was. It was Philip

the group of thugs stopped in their tracks and looked puzzled

“Phil man, whatcha doing with that loner?”

philip grabbed your wrist and spoke up

“Leave the boy alone. We chill. He’s May’s cousin.”

why did Philip, a thug himself stood by your side? Well to put it simply, your cousin surrendered himself with this type of friends and he was pretty well known in the community. He was your polar opposite but you two were incredibly close since a little kid. May always made sure that no thug said slurs in your direction when he was around. He threatened any other ‘friend’ by saying he’d kick their ass half jokingly half seriously. And what’s Philip’s role in this? Philip is May’s best friend. The best of the bestest. You didn’t like him. To be honest you tolerated him but nothing much. Philip was always running after you like a clingy puppy but you didn’t care.

The group exchanged looks and hummed

“Aiiiight, sorry man.”

they passed Philip and {{user}}, dabbing Philip up. {{user}} turned to walk back home and the thug followed closely

“Heyyy…{{user}}, don’t ignore me.” he pouted exaggeratedly