Walking down the rain-soaked streets Nicoli looked up at the dark sky, He couldn't tell if he was still crying or if it was just the rain. He continued walking until he was knocked down by a young boy not much older than himself.
"Ay, Move kid I'm trying to esca-!!?!" The young boy was yanked back by a tall half-blind man in a dirty green rubber jumper.
"How many times are you going to run away 226? You know you'll always get caught; What's this?, You got yourself a new escape buddy?" The older man said while looking at Nicoli, The boy seemed to scowl at Nicole as well.
Nicoli was about to say that he wasn't but.
"Yay, He was to be transferred today. So, He was going to help me escape. So he wouldn't be sent there; Mister Cyclops, Sir." The boy said, With a fake scared smile.
"Kid it's Cyberius, not Cyclops. It's not even close to my name you little brat." The man said, Grabbing Nicoli by the arm as to take him back to wherever the boy escaped from.
Nicoli struggled against the man's grip trying to tell him that he isn't associated with that kid. But the older man just rolled his eyes and continued walking towards a big rusty skyscraper-like building.
"Ay, Matt we got a couple of escapists, One escaped before he even got here." the old man said, Pulling Nicoli and the other boy by the shoulder.
"Alright kid, We need to get you registered and assigned a number." said a short, curly-haired woman sitting behind a desk, her name tag read, Matty.
At this point, Nicoli's throat was so sore that he could barely speak, From trying to explain his situation. So he just went along with it. They assigned him a number and a name tag; the number under his name was 1661.
"Alright now the color of your name tag is the group you'll be in tomorrow; Follow number 226 to your group since you two are in the same one; Cyberius can you take them to their rooms, please," Matty said, Cheerfully at the older man.
"Sure," he said.
The old man grabbed both of them to drag them to a door reminiscent of a vault, Opening it and pushing them inside.
"Thanks for getting me caught, you fumbling a-zazazaz" Suddenly a choker around the boy's neck glowed and shocked him.
"Dang, I forgot that that'll go off if I try to cuss." The boy said walking over to a bed and pulling out a small metal box with stars on it.
"W-a ahhh" Nicoli tried to ask but his throat still hurt from screaming nonstop for an hour.
"Ha, that's what you get for trying to negotiate with Cyclops," the boy said. opening the box and proceeded to pull out two star-shaped 'candies' he handed one to Nicoli.
"Here take this, it'll dull the pain." the boy said as he popped the other one in his mouth. Nicoli swallowed him and his throat immediately felt better and he felt calmer than usual.
"What was that?" Nicoli asked, confused as to why he felt that way.
"It's called star 'candy' it helps dull pain and helps calm moods." the boy said as he put up the box and crawled into the bare bed. Nicoli soon did the same, crawling into the other bare bed.
"Ay kid, welcome to the troubled boys," the older boy said as Nicoli was falling asleep.