Michael/Red's POV

Over the course of the past few days since I ran away from Doogle I've been searching for a place to lay low and live. Currently I'm sitting inside a small indie coffee shop using their free wifi and trying to find a place to rent a cheap apartment.

I see two people posted an add for a room in their house. They're looking for a fourth roommate. It says they have a nice basement down there with lab equipment. I look at one of the pictures they posted is that an Iron Man suit? No way! This lab is amazing! Man I'd really love to be Roommates with them. They seem like some pretty cool people and it looks like their interviewing for new roommates today.

-Timeskip-

I arrive at the address that they posted online the place is really fantastic in person. It's a very nice modern looking home that probably costed a fortune. I'm not sure why they'd want roommates though for someone to even afford a house like this they'd have to be very rich. I walk up to the door and ring the doorbell.

I patiently wait till a man around the same age as me answers. He's dressed kind of strangely considering he's wearing sunglasses when he was just in doors. Is he blind or something? "Are you here about the online add?" He asks.

"Yes, yes I am. I'm Red." I say as I shake his hand. I figured going by "Red" a nickname my old boss gave me would be safer than saying my names Michael. He looks at me kind of funny. I have to admit he does seem oddly familiar. Have I met him before? As he stares at me I take a moment to look at him. He's got a ponytail and an amulet made of gold hanging around his neck. It's a very expensive piece of jewelry from the looks of it.

"Well I'm Sky. Nice to meet you why don't you come on in." He says.

"Thanks." I follow him in to his house. The colors seem to be mostly red and white stripes like a candycane or something. It's a bit odd, but I can't complain about the color red.

"So tell me about yourself Red." Sky says as we take a seat in the living room.

I hand him an application that I made at the coffee shop about 20 minutes ago and then quickly ran over to a local library to print it out. "I actually made an application listing all my skills." I tell him. He picks it up and reads it.

"It says your birth name is Michael." Sky asks skeptically.

"Yeah, but everyone calls me Red. I don't exactly know why I guess it's just the hair." I tell him.

"Same my real names Adam, but everyone just calls me Sky." He says.

Sky continues reading the resume.

Name: Michael Vacktor

Age: 20

Date of birth: 05/27/95

Previous employment: Grocery store cashier, waiter at IHOP

Skills: Genius, good with cars, photography, good at making funny videos,

And of course I uh left out working at Doogle

"You make videos? Some friends and I sometimes do this Minecraft thing, it would be cool if you could join us sometime." Sky says.

"Yeah, I've considered doing videos for YouTube or something like that. Wait did you say Minecraft I love that game." I say. Sky smiles at me before speaking.

"I can already tell you are going to get along with Barney, Ross, and I fantastically." Sky says.

"Wait just like that I'm your new roommate?" I ask him.

"Yep. You're perfect. Just one rule don't touch my budder." He tells me. Budder? Oh. I remember him. That time at the aquarium. I forgot why I went there, but I think I was with someone I just can't seem to remember all the details. He was wearing sunglasses at the time and gave me some gold called budder.

I'm actually kinda shocked that Sky choose me to be his roommate so quickly, but I'm also kinda relived this means I have a place to stay and hideaway from Doogle. Plus I can make some new friends who are well uh strange.

-Timeskip-

Their old roommate Ross has moved out trying to "find himself" after he went through a recent "change" he said something about "swallowing" something that made him a "squirrel" I really hope that's a metaphor, but something inside me tells me Ross was being serious when he said he was a squirrel now. Anyways. Over the course of a few weeks I settle in nicely to my new home. A new "roommate" named Preston moves in. I put "roommate" into quotes since Preston lives in our backyard in a house he built himself. I've learned that Preston is a bit odd. He has many jobs I'm not sure if it's cause he's skilled or if it's cause he's horrible and he keeps on getting fired. I'm going to go with the latter. My roommates and I also have a common interest in making videos especially Minecraft related videos. Sky has become quite popular in the Minecraft community and I myself have became quite the YouTube sensation.

Making videos and working on science projects is fun, but when my emotions start getting out of control it generally leads to problems and I don't know how to fix em. I'm unable to sleep sometimes, unable to get this fear and dread that something might happen to my friends or something might happen to me. A part of me deep down wishes I could be blank emotionless and that I wouldn't have all these fears lingering in the back of my mind all the time. I wish I could open up to someone and talk about this, but I'm kinda in an awkward situation I'm not like normal humans and my backstory isn't something I could tell people. Besides who'd believe me? If I told people that I was a mutant I'd get locked up. And I don't know if I can truly trust my roommates either. Besides I can't burden them with my problems. I need to find a way to stop this pain and misery that constantly fills my mind. Maybe then I could finally focus.

I mean just yesterday I snapped at Barney for no reason and I kinda enjoyed it... That's not right that's really messed up. I'm also so impatient lately and I'm so isolated. Sometimes I feel slightly indifferent not like I don't care just like impartial to things that I'd normally have an opinion on. Or how I have this weird desire to stare at the sun without blinking or looking away. Or even this weird flirtatious desire. I've never been a flirt and I don't know why I am now? Or the constant fear that Doogle will find me and hurt all my friends. The fear that keeps me awake at night and prevents me to sleep. I...I...I....

I've finally decided. I just can't take it anymore. I need to rid myself. To rid myself of this pain and finally be free. That's it I'm destroying my emotions.

(I know the chapters are getting kinda shorter it's just cause I'm trying to get these parts out of the way and move onto other parts of the story) (I can always revisit these parts by having flashbacks and stuff like that)