Hell Meets Earth II

-Taro-

A man named Max made things even more difficult for us all. It started out as a rather windy day before the typhoon hit land. Robin managed to track me down once again. She started talking about random things and I just toned her out. I don’t know why she keeps following me around. I tried to tell her to leave me alone, but she’s ignoring me by this point. You know, I’m starting to understand why Matt tries to avoid her when he can. All I could do was look around for a way to escape.

This time, it came to us along the road.

“Robin?” a man’s voice asked. Robin and I looked up to see a man with black hair and dyed blonde tips looking at from across the street. She paused with big eyes. I looked back and forth between them for a minute. Robin slowly covered her mouth.

“Maxxie?” she asked. The man ran across the street to us both. When he got close enough to us, his jaw dropped.

“Robin, it’s really you!” he said. I turned to Robin with a confused look on my face.

“Who is this?” I asked. She smiled and patted me on the head.

“This is another dear friend of mine,” she said. “His name is Maxxie!” I turned to the man with the weird colored hair.

“Hello there,” he said.

“Hi…” I mumbled. The three of us stood quiet for a pregnant moment. Should I leave now? I have just met this strange me? It would seem rude to just come up with an excuse and walk away now. Robin tilted her head.

“How did you find me, Maxxie?” she asked. “It took Matty months to track me down.”

“People just said that you were around,” Max said. “Anyway, what are you doing hanging out with a kid?” Robin put her arm around my shoulders and grinned.

“He’s my friend!” she said aloud. I quickly shook my head. Maxxie raised an eyebrow at me.

“Is that right?” he asked.

“Yep!” Robin said aloud. I mouthed “no” and shook my head. Max pushed his bangs from his forehead.

“Whatever,” he said. “It’s cool. Listen, Taro. I need to tell Robin something in private.” My ears perked up as my eyes widened. Too bad, this crazy woman didn’t seem to take a hint as she pulled me closer to her.

“Whatever you want to say, you can say it in front my friend!” she said. I finally managed to push her off.

“It’s okay,” I said. “I have to go meet my friends.” Robin pouted, but I looked away. She sighed and dropped her shoulders.

“Alright,” she said. “I’ll see you later.” I turned around slowly, but walked away as quickly as I could. I’m almost happy that Max came and got me away from Robin. Still, my mind with back to him. Who was he? Why was there something sad about him? I didn’t expect to learn the answers during the storm.