A week after the 'mysterious hand incident' Gliz experienced with Leon Panetta in his opportunity to see his parents, the experience toughened Glizoline a little bit in a mental standpoint. He's not to the level his uncle requires of him, yet he's getting around to it.
(Gliz narrates to himself…)
"I had been asking uncle Roscoe for months to let me see my friend, Bryce. At the time I didn't notice much, but each time I'd asked, he changed topics, he eventually cracked for a reason I didn't expect."
"So… You wanna see your friend, huh?" Uncle Roscoe asks with certainty of his answer.
"Yeah, Bryce and I have been friends for years, ever since my father disappeared, can I go visit him?" Gliz asks his uncle Roscoe.
Uncle Roscoe puts his head down and answers him, "Yes" with the sole idea that he may train harder after this. "I'm not your kidnapper, You've been training so hard lately, I personally believe you should take a break and well, if you want to spend some time with someone who can motivate you to become better, that's a birthright." Uncle Roscoe explained.
Gliz gives his uncle a softhearted smile before whispering "Thanks!" Then I ran out.
Grabbing his bags after making his way to his 'new' room, he checks out a picture of his mom he packed giving a demure smile.
"My mom was always a schmaltzy, delicate, and liberal woman. Just take a break from working." Gliz says in his head as he gazed at his mother's image.
Gliz finds his phone that he's neglected for a while in his book bag , he turns it on to find numerous messages from Bryce ghoulira in his phone, around 34 messages from the last months.
He smiles knowing his friend was worried, if Gliz could describe Bryce ghoulira in a few words, they would be: Brazen, Cocky, social. Yet Bryce still has a schmaltzy side of his own, for his family and friends, folks he sees as those at least.
Gliz sees a message of Bryce inviting him to his house to talk, which he never got a chance to see before, so, he calls Bryce who answers in a disagreeable tone, which Gliz thought of as odd, since he isn't usually like that.
Bryce Quickly realizes who called him as he looks down, his eyes light up and he feels solace.
"I'm so glad you're alright, meet me at the unfazed Purlieu in a few minutes." Said Bryce in a hurry.
"The Unfazed Purlieu" is a coffee shop made for the community in his town, A place where people can find sanctuary and comfort in a time of distress or generally. It's generally thought of as the ideal place for finding love, finding a friend, or reuniting pals and family.
The Unfazed Purlieu is a large-scale building, as large as perhaps a mall.
[Gliz narrating to himself]
That day, he introduced me to perhaps someone amazing.
As Gliz makes it to the outside of this coffee shop, he's surprised to find out that it's even a coffee shop, and not a large mall, he's confused on where to meet his friend and attempts to call him back.
"Yeah? Who is this?" Said a female voice Gliz didn't recognize.
"Who is this??" Gliz answered back with concern.
"I'm your worst nightmare if you don't answer my question, WHO ARE YOU?" The female voice warned.
Surprised and confused, with a small bit of concern, Gliz rushes inside this huge mall sized coffee shop to search for his friend.
The voice sounded like mumbles and whispers to Gliz as he searched and searched around the mall for his friend. This all comes to a halt when a six foot man bumps into him. He was wearing a slate colored hoodie and black pants.
"Whoa, sorry there buddy!" Bryce says as before he recognizes Gliz.
Gliz looks up and realizes who the man who bumped into him was, he's the one he was searching for all along.
"Bryce, buddy?? Someone has your phone!" Gliz informed urgently.
Just before he's about to say something, he gets interrupted by a woman who jumps from above, and right next to Bryce, with a few others following her.
Bryce takes a look behind him then introduces everyone, but first introduces the girl who jumped from the banister first.
"This is Aika Genji, she's pretty determined in everything she does..." Bryce says as he stands next to her.
Gliz gawps at the sight of Aika Genji, so much so, one of the others gets angry instead.
Bryce pushes Cessair off of Gliz before he introduces him, "This angry dude is Cessair Arron, an angry man with a soft heart, seriously, you wouldn't believe what he did for…" Unfinished as Cessair interrupts him, yelling "Heeeyy!" With a glare.
A young man comes from around the corner wearing the same attire as Bryce and the rest of his new friends, which catches Gliz's eye as he didn't come around like the rest of them.
Bryce turns around wondering what caught Gliz's attention, a Quiet kid named "Ned" who said "Hi." As his hands were in his pockets.
Bryce stares at Ned until he decides to introduce him. "Oh yeah, Gliz, this is Ned.. he's quiet and he won't tell us his last name, but we've all learned to accept it, anyway." Bryce states as he scratches his head.
"You doofus, you say that as if you didn't join just two months ago." Aika says in a discrediting tone.
Bryce has no response to Aika.
"So, you guys met two months ago?" Gliz asks Bryce, eagerly wanting to know.
"Yeah, well these guys have been friends for years, I just met up with them in a random encounter here some months back, sometime after you disappeared, wanna tell me about that?" Bryce asked and stated confidently.
"Whoa, you disappeared from your friend, man?" Cessair asks Gliz with intrigue and anger.
"Yeah, but…" said Gliz before he's interrupted by Aika asking "How could you do that, Piero?" With anger.
"It was only for a bit and my mom forced me to go to another town with her." Gliz yells in annoyance, being irritated by the other's constant questioning.
Bryce's eyes light up after hearing Gliz's excuse for disappearing for months, then says "Do you know how worried I was, Gliz? Also, isn't your mom always busy with work or something?" In a serious tone.
(Gliz Narrating his thoughts)
Ah, Bryce… My friend, my best friend, my brother. The popular guy in school, the guy who gets all the girls, the guy who you'd assume he thought of himself as "First-class" or above everyone else. He has that side of himself, but really, he's a deeply caring friend to who he deems "True" and not fake. When we met, it was at a Halloween festival in our school, it was sometime after my father disappeared that we met. I was sitting alone, felt like I had nobody in my life. He was willing to throw away his whole life of being the "cool guy" for just one friendship with a Quiet depressed kid, he told me. Minus the depressed kid part. Ever since then, we've been like blood brothers, we had a sister, we mourned her, we never forgot her.", while in thought, Gliz is smacked on his shoulder by Bryce, who says "You ready to know what we do??" In a serious tone.