Chelsea sat on the hospital bed and Nova visited her. She seemed shocked to see her there.
"Where are your parents?" Nova asked since she never saw Chelsea's parents.
"Dad is dead, mom is usually busy with her boyfriend. She's gone on a vacation with him since one month now,"

"Even when you're in the hospital?"
"It's been like this since dad died,"

"You must feel alone at home,"
"I wasn't always alone,"
"Oh yeah, your twin. Did he fall sick or something?" Nova took a cup of coffee.
"He committed suicide,"

Nova looked at Chelsea, "Why?"
"Because he was trans and people around him didn't like it,"
"A trans girl?"
"Yes,"
"Then, you should use proper pronouns. She was trans,"

"It doesn't matter anymore. He isn't here and he'll never be,"
"It's just kinda disrespectful. She gave her life on it, you know,"
"Yeah,"
"What exactly happened, though? Do you want to tell?"

Chelsea told her everything about Ryan. From her being bullied, to the spreading of rumours and how Ryan liked Malcolm. Nova listened to her.

"Who had spread the rumours though? Malcolm?"
"No, I don't know who did that but that definitely wasn't Malcolm." Chelsea said.
"I see,"
"Chelsea smiled, "So, you came to meet me?"
"Yes. Actually, I need some cash. You have some on you, right?"

Chelsea's smile faded, "Oh, yes, I do. How much do you want?"
"How much do you have?"
"About $1500,"
"These will do," Nova took the money and left immediately.

Harry sat in his room, reading a yaoi manga when suddenly the door opened and Jaden walked in. Harry threw the manga under his bed and looked at him. Jaden held a Spanish to English dictionary and a Spanish Grammar workbook.
"Hi Jaden," Harry said.
"Hey Harry, ready?"
"Yes,"

Harry and Jaden sat opposite to each other at the study table. Jaden taught Harry one topic of grammar and then gave him a worksheet to do by himself. He would help him wherever he would feel stuck or confused. Jaden came to his place everyday to teach him.

"Harry," He opened the door and Harry got confused whether to close the site on his computer or pull up his pants. He panicked and got up, his earphones popped out and his room was filled with moans.
"CAN YOU LIKE FUCKING KNOCK, DUDE?!" Harry wore his pants and then switched off his computer. 
"I'm sorry!" He closed the door.

Jaden had a timing as bad as Harry. He would always come to his place when Harry was watching porn, masturbating or reading yaoi mangas and he never knocked, like ever. They both were getting very uncomfortable by each other's presence,

"Hey Harry, don't tell me you touch yourself everyday,"
"Well, I'm a fifteen year horny ass healthy teenager. What do you expect?"
"Play some sports, maybe?"
"Or get a girlfriend?"

"I'm sure no girl would want to do it everyday, though. This could be a problem, you know? You can go infertile or impotent if this carries on,"
"What can I say? I guess I'm addicted,"
"That's why I said play some sports where you can sweat and relieve all that stress so that you don't have to touch yourself,"

"You play sports. You don't touch yourself?"
"Never. I've never done that,"
"You're fricking boring,"
"It's better than being an addict. It's gonna make your penis shirk,"

"OH MY GOD, REALLY?"
'Well, it was a joke but I guess he believed it?' Jaden thought.
"Yeah, it's—It's true,"
"Help me get rid of my addiction! I cannot afford to lose even an inch of my dick!" Cause that's all you have, Harry.

"How can I help you with it?" Jaden asked.
"I DON'T KNOW! JUST DO SOMETHING!"
"...I'll think about it,"

Jaden went back home, thinking of ways to help Harry. He sat in front of his computer and searched, "How to get rid of masturbation addiction,"
Google had his answers.
"Leave yourself with less alone time, hang out more with your homies, get fucked cunt!" Those were some good tips. Jaden wrote them down.

"What are you doing?" His elder sister, Gloria Smith, tapped his shoulder and looked into his notepad. Jaden hid it out of refelx and blushed, "ITS NOT FOR ME!"
"Seriously Jaden,"
"No really! I'm helping out a friend!"
"He's addicted to masturbation?"

"Yes!"
"You know, I once helped a friend who was addicted to masturbation,"
"How did it go?"
"I'm addicted to masturbation too now,"
"...Erm, leave yourself with less alone time, hang out more with your homies, get fucked cunt!" Jaden read his notepad.

"Yeah, I should get a boyfriend. What about that friend of yours?"
"...He's fifteen...You're fricking twenty six. No way in hell," Jaden got up and went out.

He reached a park and sat on a bench. He took a deep sigh and looked at the sky "I need to keep Harry's company to reduce his addiction I suppose?"
"Mom, what is that dude doing" A little girl said. Jaden looked at her and saw a guy with black hair and glasses, standing there with a trumpet.

"Isn't that Ralf Kaise? I've seen him in our mathematics class," Jaden said to himself. Ralf took the trumpet towards his mouth and blowed. It produced noise and all the pigeons around him flew away,  shitting on him. Jaden started laughing loudly.

Ralf stopped and looked at Jaden. He quickly looked away and covered his mouth.
"Excuse me" Ralf approached Jaden.
"Y—Yes?" Jaden said.

"Do you know how to play a trumpet? I can't play it. I want to play it in such a way that all those birds around me fly away happily but I don't understand where I get wrong." Ralf said. Jaden found his accent a bit difficult to understand. Plus, his voice was soft and he spoke fast.

"Is this your hobby?" Jaden asked since he couldn't understand shit.
"No, I just saw the MC of an anime playing this so I got inspired," Ralf said. Could you please speak at a slower pace?

"Oh, anime? It's quite popular nowadays," Jaden said.
"Excuse me—I LIVE ON ANIME and food...and books...and cubes," Ralf said. Oxygen has left the chat.

"I thought we live on oxygen, no?" Jaden was slowly trying to understand his words.
"Nah, it's supplementary"
"You'll die without it,"
"You die happy,"

"You've got good logics,"
He's good much good stuff down there too.
"I give up. I'm not a music guy," Ralf kept the trumpet back inside his bag and took out a cube from his pocket. He sat on the bench with Jaden and started solving the cube.

"Is that a Rubik's cube?" Jaden asked.
"Only kids do the normal Rubik's cube, it's a Rubik gear cube," Ralf said.

"I don't know much about them but this one looks impossible to solve" Jaden was right. It was preordered from future.
"I can solve this in eleven point two five seconds"

"You have that big brain," I bet his brain is not the only thing that is big in his body, Jaden. You might have got hold of a suitable dating candidate.

"You're a Canadian, right?"
"Yep,"
"You speak French?"
"Erm, no. I speak Spanish,"
"Nah, I'm more into French. It's the language of romance,"

"Is there someone here who genuinely likes Spanish?"
Erm, Harry?
But now he regrets liking it.

"Done," The cube was solved.
"How in the world did you do that?" Jaden asked.
"There are proper codes for solving this and if you know that, you're the boss,"

He solved another cube within ten seconds. He was improving every second. That day was not away when a Rubik cube would be solved by his mere touch.

"YOU ARE SO COOL!" Jaden picked up the cube.
"I know, mate. But it's nothing really. Once you know the codes behind it, you'll laugh at people who can't do it" Ralf said.

"Can you teach me too? This looks so cool" Jaden said.
"Sure, let's start with the basic Rubik's cube" Ralf handed him a cube, "Now, follow my instructions"
"Okay," Jaden looked at the cube.

Ralf gave the instructions and Jaden followed, "I'M DONE WITH TWO LAYERS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE!"

"See? Easy right. Once you're done with this we'll do something more awesome" Ralf said.
"You have more cubes?" Jaden asked.

"I have an entire collection of them. I collect different types of cubes. I'll show you if you ever drop by my house" Ralf said.
"I WILL!" Jaden said.

Nova walked towards the other end of a dark street by herself, dressed up in a black hoodie. She reached a dead-end and looked up, "MJ,"
He jumped down from one of the trees, "Well, I had a feeling someone interesting was going to come here."

"I heard you can find anything about anyone,"
"You've heard correct. But hey, did you also hear that I charge people heavily?"
She passed him $1300, "Will this do?"

He looked at the money and then at her, "What's the catch? Ryan Nolan? That file closed ages ago,"
"How do you know?"
"Gut feeling,"

"Then, do you know who spread those rumours,"
"I know,"
"TELL ME!"
"Well, I'm sorry, I can't,"
"Why can't you?"
"I have my reasons,"

"I'll pay you double,"
"You're bidding on my worth?" MJ laughed.
"Triple,"
"That's not gonna work on me. I ain't a politician, bro,"
"Four times,"
"I'm not up for sale~"

"Ten times!"
"Eh?"
"I'll pay you ten times! Now tell me who—"
"Sleep with me and I'll tell you."
"What?"

-To be continued

Nova Rodriguez
All I Want is you baby