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"Aiden!!! Be back by dark!"

This was the last thing he heard before darting out the door and down the street. His mom was almost suffocating, but he kinda liked it.

Aiden turned a corner and tripped, flying into a stack of garbage bags, almost dropping the grangy mannequin in his arms. He whimpered, checked it over, and apologized to the doll. Aiden cradled it to his chest and jumped out of the pile laughing at himself. Tripping and getting up was good, something only people who walk can do. Now, most people take this for granted... But not Aiden Sparks. He couldn't walk after the age of three, but a miracle gave him his muscle strength back just a year or two ago.

He began walking, weary of his now shaky legs. He had all day, it was only noon. The sun, though.....OH how it was hot.

((wow, no answer))

On the way to his hangout, Aiden waved at several people working lazily in their fields. He came across a river and splashed across the most shallow part he could find. It was cold and refreshing, putting him in an even better mood.

"So Mr. Kuro, would you rather go to dad's house, or can i go see Seth?" he asked, turning the red-headed doll to face him.

a squeaky voice erks out "Lets go to the toy store!.."

this out burst startles aiden causing him to shiver in his skin, was his ears deceiving him? his eyes dart from side to side seeing if anyone was around then pulls the doll closer to his face. surely dolls can't talk, it has to be his imagination...but just maybe....possibly....

he pulls even closer into the doll and utters something to the extent of "was that you" under his breath and listens intently to the doll. "you betcha! Lets go to the toy store for I can take a peep at those Bratz dolls."

Aiden drops the doll and nearly falls back untill he bumped into some figure towering over him. he looks up to see Seth grinning down at him. "you ok little boy" he says out of the side of his mouth in the same tone of the squeaky voice he heard earlier."It was you" aiden says as he jabs him in his ribs and Seth stammers back chuckling. "no sh!t sherlock, what are you doing on this street alone anyway...and just what is that thing" he says as he pokes at all of ligaments and block shaped head.

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((sorry deamon-dude, you know I don't go in the dojo))

((haha you did great!!!))

Aiden smiled sheepishly and punched Seth in the arm, turning so the mannequin was out of his sight. "None of your know how... leave it alone. You've seen it before."

He then looked around Seth-then circled around him-apparantly looking for something. He was squinting and scratching the back of his head. "Hmmmmmmmm."

Seth felt like Aiden's piercing eyes could see right through him, he shoots his hand up with a guilty expression on his face and freezes. "ok dude, if you look at me even harder I'm gonna have to charge ya". Aidens serious posture is shattered with small chuckle, Seth was good at breaking tension and seeing any moment of crisis as an opportunity.

"whats eatin ya forest? you loose something?" Seth always jokingly picked at aiden and his legs like that, using nicknames such as "Forest" for forest gump, tin man, Mr.roboto, or "4play" for completly different reasons. but he always made it very clear that he was the ONLY one who could do so....

"Seth, how come you always gotta pick on the poor kid?" a shadow asked, coming up behind Aiden and wrapping him in a hug, "Good to see you again little buddy. How is your mom?"

Lulu stood a little shorter than the already tall Seth, with blonde hair and big blue eyes. She had her own style and her own personality, and really didn't care who opposed her. Lulu was the only girl in Seth's gang, and had no problem with that. Yes, she was a bit outnumbered, but she had more than once bashed all of them in the head for doing something stupid.

Aiden arched his neck to look back at her and smiled.

"Hey Lu, mom's great, and she wants you to come visit sometime soon... she said something about babysitting." his face scrunched up in a funny expression and he chuckled. "That could be scary or fun." Seth laughed hysterically at this, but stopped short at Lulu's death glare. It was AIden's turn to laugh at him.

"I'm hungry... can we get something to eat?" this was more a statement than a question, and Aiden didn't wait for an answer. He ducked out of Lulu's grasp and ran towards town, his shoes sloshing water everywhere.

"babysit?...I can't believe they trust her over me..." Seth murmurs to himself as he sags over in posture. he pokes his chest out as he runs his fingers through his chin hair, "I'm a good role model right?". a remark that was caught by no ones ears. Aiden and LuLu were half way down the street, leaving Seth to ponder to himself.

He ruffles his hair and smirks as the two small dots leading ahead of him begin to fade into the sunrise. "You two sure are in a hurry to spend all of MY money!" he yells out in a joking matter as he catches up to the two.

Lulu laughed as she chased after Aiden, Seth's figure becoming a shrinking dot. She turned sharply, running backwards a moment and called, "C'mon slowpoke!" She spun back around and caught back up with Aiden. For someone who used to be paralized, he could run like everyday was a marathon.

Aiden did hear this and he laughed, shrugging his shoulders.

"You have the money, why not spend it on us?" Lulu laughed and nodded. "he's right, you know you love us!"

They began running faster, trying to lose Seth. Aiden shoved the doll in his small backpack and charged past Lulu, only for her to catch up to him in just a few seconds.

"ICE CREEEEEEEEAAAAMMMMM!!!" he yelled, causing his voice to echo several times.

hey..*cough* you guys..*cough cough* wait *cough*..up. he rest his forearms against his knees and pants. "man I gotta stop smoking".

he finally makes it down the street to the local ice cream parlor and the smirk is quickly whipped off of his face as his whole mood gets flushed. Their were small patches of blood on the concrete, surrounding a flustered Aiden on his knees. Lulu is knelt over him, trying to clean out the gash on his knee as Aiden can't bare to look her in the eye. Seth shoves his hands in his pockets and begins walking over to Aiden, with horrible posture as usual.

Aiden sees Seth hovering over him and quickly looks down to tinker at his leg braces, avoiding all eye contact. "*sigh*" he couldn't say, you shouldn't push yourself so hard, because he knew he would be lieing. In fact, he loved seeing Aiden push himself. Seth admires his ambition and hard work....he just hated seeing him fall along the way. When Aiden started walking, all of it came so sudden....and every time he fell it was just a reminder of how precious this gift was.

Seth looks down at Aiden with a warm look only Aiden could pull out through the layers of walls Seth put up between him and his emotions. "why do we fall Aiden?" he says as he lends his arm down to him.

Aiden winced as Lulu dabbed at his bloodied knee and sighed.

"well, you see, gravity pulls us to the ground-" he stopped and pushed Lulu's hand away "That realllllly hurts!" his face set in a slight pout and his legs were shaking pretty bad.

Seth chuckled nervously and shook his head. "Getting too much like me." AIden almost looked up at this but shrugged his shoulders and ignored the comment, hiding the twinge of excitement. He'd love to be like Seth in many ways when he gets older... if only he could get over his problems.

"Don't think you're bringing me home like last time! We're still going to get ice cream and lunch. It's just a scrape- ouuuuch."

"Stop moving so much Aiden and it will be alot easier," Lulu scolded and tried hiding the smile slowly creeping up. Him tripping right now was good in a way. He was getting very fast and him tripping at least showed he was... almost normal. You could only be so normal and hang with thier group.

lol Totally wierd cuz i chose 4 that to happen just b4 i read this... you're only supposed to be in my character's head, not mine as well!!! Getout mar-mar!!!! THis is kinda creepy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seth flicks Aiden on the nose, "no smart aleck, we fall for we can get back up. you can't weight a person based on how many times they've fallen . everyone falls every now and then, its only human. When climbing towards your dream its natural to trip and stumble along the way, its what you do after the fall that determines what kind of man you are."

he stoops over and gives Aiden a soft jab in the shoulder. "so, are you gonna keep whinning on the floor or stand up like a man and help me spend all of money "

((yeh deamon dude, I have hiddrn cameras put up in every room of your house including the showers. nice birth mark by the way

"Wow..." Lulu said, picking up the garbage from Aiden's knee and tossed them in the garbage behind her. "I hate it when you get all creepy like that Seth. You talk like that and people may think you actually finished school..." she teased, helping Aiden up slowly.