I changed back into my own clothes and changed out of those clothes that girl let me borrow as soon as I got home, fortunately the old bastard was away at work, or perhaps just being a drunkard, I honestly don't give a fuck as long as he's gone.

I placed that medication that was given to me in a table, somewhat tempted to throw it away.

I've grown to learn how to live without medicine.

If I was sick or ill, I just put up with it, and usually it goes away on its own. But she probably paid for it or some shit, so I guess I should just keep it. As I folded the clothes and placed it in a bag, I started remembering what brought me to a random stranger's house in the first place.

Before Rick could get anymore violent and kill me by beating me to death, I ended up punching him. If only younger me could see this.

After that I locked my room and took some of that same money Jonas and I robbed with our friends. I had kept it nice and saved for times like these, when I needed to leave my house for a long time.

I spent the night roaming in the streets, I ended up having to fight off some muggers. They tried to rob me but I fought back, they had no idea I wasn't planning to back down.

Since they were a whole bunch of dudes I quickly lost the fight, all I remember after that is being beaten up and stabbed, blacking out afterwards. I'm surprised I'm still fucking alive.

Probably cause I woke up in the house of a girl who ended up going to the point of having a doctor stitch me up.

I thought as I looked in the mirror and looked at a stiched that replaced the stab I had a few nights ago.

Gotta admit I don't understand why she bothered to help me but I guess I should be thankful.. Then later on some weird kid kept calling me uncle. The fuck? Whatever, after getting most of the money I had robbed, I'm not planning to not do anything about it. I'm gonna go get some money again.

This is gonna be tricky though, I'm gonna have to be sneakier since lately, I've gotten into a lot of beef with the police so pretty much a majority of them know me because my gang and I keep getting pulled over by the stupid cops. Not that those dumbasses are gonna stop us either way. Nobody ever will.

I looked through my drawers and grabbed one of my masks, if I want to be sneaky might as well keep my identity as hidden as possible.

~

I headed to the nearest park in my area, sliding my hoodie to my head to avoid getting attention from people as I walked around, looking for people to pickpocket.

I saw a man sitting on a bench, busying himself on the phone with whom I assume was his spouse. I took the chance to quietly and casually pass by his bench before grabbing his wallet and running off with it.

"Hey! Somebody stop that kid!" He shouted as he noticed his wallet was missing and he saw me running off with it. I ran as fast as my legs could carry me, luckily I was fast so the guy had given up after a few seconds of going after me.

I kept running until I stopped by some shop. I panted a bit as I leaned against a tree to catch my breath, getting startled when I felt someone tug at the back of my sweater.

"Hey uncle!" I heard a young voice greet me. I turned to see the kid from the girl's house. Blake was his name, I think.

"What the hell are you doing here?!" I asked the kid, but I spotted some cops from the corner of my eyes.

"I saw you running from a guy! Are you playing tag? Can I join pretty please?" He begged. Before I could even respond to the kid's stupid questions, the cops saw me and quickly took out their walkie talkies.

"Robinson is near Liam's gift shop with a younger boy. Are you getting this Officer Dan?" The cop said through his walkie talkie.

Shit.

I couldn't leave the kid who was probably being looked for by the girl behind, so I took the kid's hand before running away. Blake laughed, having a blast and being completely clueless to what was going on.

"Why are we running? Are we running away from the cops? Why?"

This little kid was bombarding me with dumb questions, and it was giving me a headache. But it was obvious he was TOO young to be bluntly honest to.

"Because." I simply said as we continued to run.

"Are we playing tag with the cops now?"

"Yeah, that's exactly what we are doing." I replied sarcastically, of course the child didn't catch the sarcasm and he giggled. "If they catch us we lose, and we don't want that, do we?"

The boy shook his head. "No."

"So we need to hide well from them."

"So we're playing hide and seek now?" He asked as I pulled my hoodie down and slid in my mask to hide my identity better.

"Ohh. Cool mask, you look like those cool villains I see on TV!"
How ironic..

I glared when I heard someone call me and I saw who it was. I spotted Ray, a rival gang member who spotted us and flipped me off.

"You think you're so tough don't ya Robinson? And who's this little guy you got with you?" He shot an evil grin as he walked over to our direction, dropping his can of beer before bending down to be Blake's height. Blake whimpered as he hid behind me.

"I don't like him." Blake mumbled as he peeked at him a little, before hiding again.

"Neither do I." I said between gritted teeth. Things would've probably gotten ugly if it weren't for Blake being here.

"Fuck off before I regret letting you leave." I threatened.

"Yeah, fuck off, before we beat your ass." I heard a voice I recognized say.

My friend Jordan, along with a few others had walked up to Ray. Ray started to back away, and with a glare he slowly started to retreat. He walked away, giving us an 'I'll be back soon,' look as he walked away.

"Good thing we arrived, I see you can't go around kicking butts with kids around." Jordan grinned as he gestured towards Blake.

"I'm no little kid, I'm big and tough too. My dad has told me so." Blake said proudly. The gang laughed.

"Who's this kid?" Jonas asked, patting the kid's head but he moved away with a sassy look on his face. "Don't tell me you called us just to be babysitters for him."

"I didn't even know this squirt was following me until later on." I told them.

"Isaac's my uncle." Blake said as he wrapped his arms around my waist.

"Aww would you look at that, he's hugging you!" Jordan mocked.

"Shut the fuck up." I told them as they were laughing.

"He really likes you, what kinda sorcery are you using on him, Isaac?" Jonas joked since let's just say.. apart from my gang, I'm not the most likeable person out there, and I definitely don't have the best reputation.

"I don't know, probably the same sorcery you used on me to be friends with you." I spoofed as I shoved Jonas.

"Blake." I heard a voice call for Blake. "Blake, where are you? Please come back!"

It was the same girl who let me sleep over at her house.

"Hi auntie!" Blake shouted and waved when he saw her. She gasped before running up to him.

"Blake!"

She said before pulling him into a hug, looking away from him when he saw me."Who are you? How dare you try to kidnap him, you creep!" She lunged at me, probably not recognizing me with the mask.

"Woah, woah relax, I didn't kidnap anyone. It's me." I said as I caught her before she could attack me. I pulled my mask off, her eyes widened as I did so. She looked really confused now.

"I followed him!" Blake stated proudly.

"Exactly. I was planning to take him back to you, but-"

"Blake!" She scolded.

"I was worried, don't ever do that to me again!" She said as she hugged him. She looked back at me once she was finished talking to Blake.

"Thank you for letting him stay with you.. I don't know what got into Blake." She chuckled weakly. I shoved my hands in my pockets.

"Why hey." One of friends Alfredo smirked as he walked over to her.

I rolled my eyes. He flirted with every single girl alive.

"If your nephew needs an uncle, I'm here." He winked.

She laughed faintly. "We're good, aren't we Blake?"

"I already have an uncle either way." He said grinning at me. I sighed as I heard the gang behind me hoot loudly.

"Don't tell me.. Y'all are dating?" Jonas asked, with an eyebrow raised. She quickly shook her head.

"Oh no, not at all! We.. don't even know each other!" She chuckled nervously. I shot a glare at William when he wiggled his eyebrows.

"Anyway.." I heard Audrey interrupt.

"We didn't properly meet back there. So hi, I'm Audrey." She said as she stuck out her hand.

I just stared at it, which I'm guessing had the others thinking I didn't know what to do or something.

"You're supposed to shake hands," I heard Jonas tease.

"I know how to shake hands you dickhead." I snapped as I looked back at him, before taking her hand and shaking it.

"Nice to meet you... I'm Isaac." I almost wanted to slap myself after that, she already knew my fucking name. Fortunately she didn't seem to mind, and just had that friendly smile I was used to seeing on.

I'm not the biggest social butterfly outside of my gang so I'm not really used to being friendly.. or whatever regular people are like, and I definitely wasn't good with holding conversation with random people. But Audrey wasn't "random people. After what she did for me, I know I should cut her more slack. Not everyone was as nice as her. I'm going to try to be nice to her, not that I'm going to have to for a long time, this is probably the last I'll see of her, or at least I'm sure.

"Blake and I are actually going to head to the park now if you want to come with us.." Audrey all of a sudden asked me.

"Ooh, she's asking you out." Ryan whispered. I shoved him and ignored his words. I hesitated before I finally spoke up.

"I'm.. actually busy.. I have to-"

"Please." The kid begged. Blake tugged on my shirt and I'm guessing tried to drag me to their side but I didn't budge.

"Uh.."

"He'd love to go." Alfredo butted in, are you kidding-

The kid grinned. "We're going to have so much fun!" He beamed as he clapped his hands together and bounced up and down. Shit how much sugar does he eat to have so much energy?!

Well.. I guess I had no other choice now. I shot Alfredo a death glare before walking with them.

Great..
Just great.
Can't wait.