"Hey little guy."

I went down on my knees from where I was sitting, wincing a little, down enough to reach the height of the boy, now clinging to Lorenzo's leg. He was at most five or six and had ginger blonde hair and pale skin. He wasn't skinny but a rather a squishy plushie in human form. By all means I had to restrict myself from getting hold of the cute little human and my injured leg worked in the favour.

"Where's your mum?"

"I...I don't know." The kid sobbed, clinging to the dark jeans covered leg. I looked up at Lorenzo and he seemed stunned, his fair features almost pale as might have walked over the habitat of vampires and werewolves in the forest.

"Leave my foot." He said in a weak voice but didn't wriggle himself out of the little guy's hold. It was nothing but an adorable sight watching the two boys, even though Lorenzo didn't seem to enjoy having the little company.

I looked up from the little guy back towards the older one, his eyes were at me as well as if pleading to him help out of his struggle. It earned him a nice slap on his knees, "He's just a kid loser. Don't make him cry now. "

I turned my attention back to the clinging kid, his eyes were filled with unshed tears. "Where did you see your mumma last?"

"I...I- don't know."

"Just try to remember, will you? " Lorenzo asked him a little too bluntly.

The boy started to sob harder, but spoke, "We- T-hey were... s-setting.. up a tent. Mumma said we will... have barbecue- Mummaa...!"

"Can't you be a little more compassionate, he is a little boy."

"But that got him to talk, didn't it?" The bastard smirked still looking down at the kid with his forehead scrunched and face pale, I wanted to punch him but he was partially correct.

I sighed,"Now we have to find his parents. Let's go," I said getting on my feet, but they didn't seem to agree on holding my weight as I almost tumbled into the blue haired guy besides me.

"You can barely walk, let alone begin a search party."

"I'm perfectly fine thanks." I told him straightening myself up. I tried to hide my wince as I took a step forward.

"Whatever, I'll take your word . You know what, you take the kid's hand and I'll support you."

"Okay." I agreed, extending my right hand towards the kid, he was  clutching tight at Lorenzo's waist.

"No, I like the blue guy." The kid pouted. That made me laugh. Man how could this little human be this adorable.

Lorenzo finally took hold of his small hands from his waist and went down on his knees, "What's your name?"

"Harry Potter."

Lorenzo left a frustrated sigh,"Can you tell me your real name? Please?" He added the last word as an afterthought.

"M-umma told me... not to tell strangers my name." He replied in between his hiccups now that he had stopped crying.

"But then how are we supposed to find your mumma?" Lorenzo asked him, this time keeping his words tender in the attempt of making up for his earlier bizarre behaviour.

"I can tell you her name..."

"Which is?"

"Isabelle, but dad calls her darling, and aunt Christie calls her Bella and I call her mumma or mommy when she gives me a candy. " The little guy chattered on, in one breath, his sobs ceased already.

"Well, Raphael can you tell me which way you came from? Did y'all bring a car? " I asked, as I glanced at the little boy's bag pack with a name tag attached.

"How... how do you know my name?" He looked up at me almost scared but more so curiously.

"I'm a magician." I said making some weird finger manipulations in the air.

"Really?! Can you make a bunny sing a rhyme? You know Mr. Brown can do that." His eyes shined brightly as he looked up at me. Making me regret bringing up the magician thing at all.

"Edwards can show you some magic once we find your mum, okay? So tell me which way you came from?"

The kid nodded and releasing his hands from Lorenzo's hold started to look around, until he found a familiar path.

"There." Raphael said pointing towards a little path, it was covered with thick mass of trees and their giant roots were spread all across the little opening making it look even more thick, but still it appeared walkable enough for us to pass through.

And so we began into the little opening. The kid held onto Lorenzo's index finger, while his other arm supported me. I tried as much as I could to not lean on him, but it was practically impossible. After walking a little distance ahead I started calling out Raphael's mum.

"Isabelle!"

"Bella?" Lorenzo helped in as well, having a tight hold which wasn't so much required around my waist.

Suddenly he looked down at the little guy, pulling at his hand, trying to gain his attention.

"What?"

"Do you eat a lot of mint Ice-cream?" Raphael asked looking at Lorenzo as though he might have seen his favourite Anime.

"No, why?" Lorenzo asked quizzically, with his look at Raphael he might be finding him amusing, but looking at the both of them was weirdly cute.

"Then why is your hair that way?"

"Ughh...I dyed it that's why," Lorenzo groaned then looked at me to help him escape from the scenario and then back at him, "Also, it is not mint it is called sapphire blue, kid."

"Fuck." The pain in my leg sent a jolt through me, right up my spine, making me almost go down on my knees. I did not want to appear weak and accept the fact that I couldn't walk anymore, but my body didn't seem to oblige.

"I-I..can't anymore E-nzo." I winced again as the name slipped through my tongue, I looked up at him, still holding onto my knee but he didn't seem to mind.

"Let's just wait here. We are far enough and his parents must be searching as well." Lorenzo said as he supported me and made me sit on a nearby joint of rock.

"How did you get hurt?" The kid had finally left Lorenzo's side, to come and have a look at my injured leg.

"Edwards here, was giving lessons on how to turn into a Koala and climb a Maple. Interesting I must say, right?" He sarcastically asked the little guy which seemed to had peeked curiosity in the loser's story.

If my leg wasn't injured I would have sprang over him, strangling and his corpse to be buried in the midst of the great Amazon size jungle we're in, but right now he had things in his favour.

You just fucking wait Frost.

"You really are a Koala? I thought you were a magician." The kid asked, shaking my injured  leg with his tiny bits of hands, curiousity at his peak.

Lorenzo was enjoying this whole scenario thoroughly, "Magicians can turn themselves into anything they want. Ain't I right, baby Blue?"

Now I had literally reached my ultimate limitations. "Oh ofcourse. You know what Raphael I can even turn Mr.frost into a cock. Oh wait but he is one already. Aren't you Mr. Frost ?" I smirked highlighting my eyelashes as I blinked them at him.

"Beautiful choice of words in front of a kid." He gaped at me and then at Raphael as though processing what I had just called him, now that shut him up for good.

"Are you guys best friends?" The kid said, face palming himself like an adult. "Then why do you have to bicker like my parents?"

"NO WE DON'T." We both said almost in unison looking at the tiny human in front of us.

"Friends then?"

"Not exactly. " Lorenzo said making me look up at him. Why did that hurt, a tiny bit?

"Oh I get it now, that is why you fight like Mommy and Daddy."

"What? What do you understand?"

"You two are together, aren't you?" He said giving us a look, that reminded me of Felix.

" No. Doesn't your brain function too much for a kid?" Lorenzo sighed, being worked up way too much. "Kids these days." He said shaking his head.

Raphael then gave his cute gummy smile and signalled Lorenzo to get his ears close to him, "Can I tell you a secret Mint hair?" He tried to be as inaudible as possible so that only Lorenzo was able to hear him but adorably failed, "You know Zoey and I were just friends too." He snickered in Lorenzo's ear like he had just told him the most hilarious of things.

"Zoey who?" Lorenzo asked him straightening up in a tiny voice, their little game of 'secrets' still in swing.

"My girlfriend." Raphael said in his proud obvious monotone, and then pouted again like it was some fact.

Oh god

I started laughing, and almost tripped from the joint of rock I was sitting on, I looked at Lorenzo, seemed like he was planning to commit a suicide mission by strangling me to death and then leaving my corpse with Raphael for his parents to find. I couldn't hold it in, his annoyance gave me more boast to something which wasn't even that funny. 

"What now?"

"You look and sound like an eighty year old in front of him boomer!" I continued laughing.

"So I am an oldy, huh?" He said with a wicked glint in his eyes. And he started doing the thing I was most scared of ; the bastard started tickling my sides.

"Enzo stop! Please!" I looked in between at Raphael and the kid was having the time of his life looking at my assault.

"Enzo huh?"

"Lorenzo. Lorenzo. I'm sorry. Stop.. please...." I said between my giggles. I couldn't breathe and he didn't look he like he was gonna stop anytime soon.

"Raph! Raphael!" I heard a call coming from the blanket of Maples ahead.

"Stop Lorenzo! I think Isabelle is here."

"Uh huh. I'm not falling for your trick." He said continuing his assault.

"Shut up." I punched his shoulder and quickly took hold of one his hands for him to stop. Well that gained his attention. "Listen."

"Raphael? Honey?"

Now the kid's ears had also perked up in attention. "Mumma!" He called out. " Mumma I'm here."

"Oh my boy." A lady with the same ginger blonde hair as Raphael, almost in her mid twenties sprang from the mass of tress from behind us, followed by a man of around the same age. The little guy ran towards her and she pulled him almost immediately in her hold.

Isabelle eyes' caught the two strangers looking at them.

"Mumma, I met a magician and that boy eats a lot of mint Ice-cream. And you know they are dating. They fight like you and Dad." The boy spoke in one breath. Leaving all the four of us embarrassed.

"You shouldn't speak to adults like that, Raphael." The man said in a stern voice ruffling through his son's hair. 

"But it's true dad! The magician can turn into a Koala too."

"I'm sorry. Please don't mind him."

"It's alright. He's a cute kid." I said pulling at his cheeks lightly.

"You were going to show me magic, weren't you?"

"I'm sorry we'll get going. Thankyou, you guys for taking care of him." Isabelle smiled at the pair of us.

"But I want to see magic mum!" Raphael whined as his parents led him through the small path, swinging like a little pendulum, through the Maples.

I smiled at the little guy's innocence.

Lorenzo's hand at my waist brought me back to the present. I looked at him to see he was already looking at me, his eyes crinkled as his face held a smile.

"You are smiling." I stated the obvious, that made him instantly drop the smile. I mentally punched myself but saved the picture in my memory.

"I'm sorry, what're your names again?" Raphael said panting as he dived almost in between the two of us, his parents waiting at a small distance.

"Lorenzo." He said messing with the kid's hair, his other hand now still a bit higher over my knee.

"And Edwa-"

"London." He cut me halfway before I realise I was saying my last name, which by the way was a habit I picked up 'cause of him. And for all I remember for the first time he had called me London.

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(A/n: So hello people!
I'm back, I mean I'm still quarantined but can't keep away from y'all for long, can I?

Guess who got a late, late b'day present? My brother got me a really big plushie. (which is almost his size lmao)

So don't you guys think Raphael ruffled some things up ;) I love that little kid btw. So tell me what do you think about our mint Ice-cream boy and the Magician...

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