"Haruu!  How are you honey? Come inside, come inside, it is so cold outside! And you need to get ready for your job at the club, also Tane sent your job for today!" Now, before you wonder what he means by job, and when it was mentioned as "things" in the old chapter, it was not dirty, it meant that we sold like knives and guns. We run a legal business in the club where we sell knives and guns for self-defense with a licence from the government.

"O-oh right, thank you." I said and he took off his pink blanket and draped it over me and dragged me inside. Inside, I saw my older cousin, Felix on the couch, crying as usual with a bottle of half empty wine in his hand. Eyeiner poured down his face as he made quiet sobbing sounds, it was our second Christmas without our family. I went up to him and yanked the bottle out of his hand and yelled 

"Is this what our family wants!? For us to sob on a couch on Christmas and smoke weed!? Hell no! Get up, we are celebrating today!"

Felix looked up at me, a bit dazed and shocked but then he looked extremely hurt. Geni walked over to me and hugged me from behind, towering over me with his huge height difference.

"It's okay, Haru. If he does not want to go anywhere today, he does not have to, but instead I can go with you and skip today's shift."

"Thank you, Geni."

"No problem, it's what best friends do."

he released me from the hug and I walked to my room, a bit hurt, 'wow, we are only best friends after all we have done?'

I walked to my closet and put on some things and then walked out to see Geni sitting on the couch with Felix watching something.

"Geni?"

"Oh! Haru! Let's go, but before we go, I have a question. Do you mind that I invited a friend?"

"No, of course not! Please invite who you want!"

"Great! Well, his name is-"