I was always stressed out about all the little things that meant nothing; like how stupid I was compared to Alferd, how dumb I looked when I was falling for him and most of all the ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING CAN FRUIT. 

I had never known many people, he and I had been in the lab for our whole lives. The staff at the lab were… um yeah… They didn’t give us any form of privacy.

It was fun sometimes, staring out of a window, seeing tiny people from the hill the lab was built on. Seeing them in their normal, 

every day,

As I was with string-thin needles piercing through my right shoulder, the side of my neck and an other on the top of my spine.

I never had freckles. 

But all the tiny needles stabbed in different places  -depending on the experiment - covered me in a constellation of reddish dots. 

Only now that I was free, could I imagine they were cute, tiny, neatly placed freckles

Or maybe a mysterious birthmark Alferd and I had the honor to share…

Anything but the scars of careless testing on our fragile bodies.

I started liking Alferd, 

so many times I saw him standing up for me than I could count… 

he knew the consequences…

He knew that that obvious scar would be his punishment…

He knew that he would be my knight in shining armour …

He would save a girl with no sense of belonging… 

He would save me…

He saved me. 

I always thought that we were just test subjects, one boy and one girl and that we didn’t need or want to be friends but he was always so stupidly selfless and I was a stranger to him! 

He saved me from many scars and, although I started out hating him, pushing him away. 

He was like the moon to me.

He gave motion to the waves of my numb emotions. 

As time grew older.

We grew closer.

I was that young teen that had crushes 

- actually only one crush but still.

When the chemical started spreading I was so scared and confused. 

We were free but at what cost?

 Alferd and I were the only ones left... I’m not sure if the chemical did spread through the entire world but I’d never been anywhere else and the lab wasn’t the best place to learn geography! I am happy that the first time I stepped outside the lab I tripped on a pair of keys that gave me this random home. I think I am very lucky honestly, if I hadn’t found those keys I would had been murdered by now!