*Back to present day Texas in a remote location pretty far away from Houston…*


    There is a man named Sukehito uttering words to a kid while behind his bar cleaning the glassware, “Hey Sora, mind picking up some ingredients?”


    Looking back, Sora said, “sure” with a smile on his face. So, Sora turned around and got up from his seat and went towards the wooden door and said, “Hey!” Sukehito then said, “what is it?”


    Sora followed that up with “can I use your jeep?” And with a disgusted expression he said, “Do you have a driver''s license?”


    Before Sora could ever say anything, Sukehito said, “Even if you did, I still won’t trust you to take my jeep to go to Houston even if it’s a straight road…”


    Sora stared at Sukehito with an angry expression while thinking to himself, “I guess I can just go over there like…” And before he could finish his thoughts Sukehito told Sora to be safe…


    Sora looked away and said “sure…” He opened the door and left to go to Houston.


    Along the way he started running to get some endurance practice and he thought to himself that “I’ll need to tell him that I’ll need to leave within 2 weeks to go back to my friends in Florida.


    After all, I have made them wait long enough.” And then he thought of the thing Sukehito told me last night about the reasons why he had to leave the bar from time to time.


    And that would be, to go see his family, he even gave me their address to see them personally.


    At that moment, I thought that seeing them personally would give me a good chance to meet them and see why Sukehito and I are so alike.


    And much sooner than later I arrived at the booze and snooze store…


    When I looked at the store I thought it was a pretty weird name for the people that worked there, they seemed much more professional than I expected.


    I gave them the list and they responded with, “this kid works for Sukehito, ha…” I looked at him with a blank expression and said, “what is that supposed to mean.”


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    He looked at me with a grin and told me that if Sukehito chose you, you are definitely someone that has a strong heart like he does.


    After that, he called someone named Sonia and a girl showed up right behind him. With curiosity on my face I looked at the girl and asked, “who is she?”


    The man looked at Sora and said “this is my pride and joy, she’s my daughter Sonia Pegasi, and I guess I haven’t introduced myself; As the proud owner of this establishment my name is Jade Pegasi, and what’s your name kid.”


    Following those words I responded with, “Sora Sadano.” After that Jade said with a grin, “Sora huh, you’re not from this country originally huh?”


    Sora proceeded to talk about himself, “I am from the U.S., but the reason I have this name is because of my…”


    And without a second chance to catch his breath Jade responded with, “Sora you don’t have to continue, It’s fine.”


    Then that’s when Sora came back to the present and took a look at his clenched hands realizing they were bleeding because of the tension that came from nearly saying those words.


    Then Sora cleaned it off by rubbing the blood off on his shirt and he said, “I guess I’ll take your advice.” As he said those words he looked at Sonia, noticing an impression that seemed rather familiar, almost like she was there that day.


    So, I asked her, “What’s wrong?” She looked at my hand and from that moment I could tell she also had a dark past.


    As soon as that happened Jade tried to break the tension by saying, “hey, Sora, why don’t you go with my daughter to Kobadera’s family?” Instantly, Sora responded with, “Why!”


    Jade told Sora that you’ll find out eventually, but the real question is whether or not you know how to make it to his family''s house.”


    Sora looked back with his eyes twitching, and sounding like he was denied any way out of the situation he agreed to it.


    Then that’s when he came up with a brilliant idea. However before he could even say anything Jade exclaimed, “don’t worry about it Sora I’ll take the materials to Kobadera, after all I do have my own car and I know you use your feet so when I go I’ll come back much faster than you.”


    Sora thought to himself, “he really wants me to go with his daughter…” So Sora agrees with a sarcastic smile “Sure.” While thinking to himself, “This man really just locked me in one position… Well played…”


    And then Jade leaves his counter with the materials and packs them into his car saying, “alright, you kids be safe you hear, and Sora, if anything happens to my daughter…” He then proceeded to take out a glass bottle from his car and crush it with his bare hands continuing his sentence with, “this will be your head if I see her hurt.”


    With a frightened impression Sora looks at Jade and quakingly says…


    “Okay…” And Jade responds with an okay as well. Jade proceeds to go into his car and hit the pedal to the metal to go to Kobadera.