New start 1.

- Ethans POV -

Ever since I moved to england, life has been better. More calmer, to be exact. It has been 4 years since Kaizer's death, and I'm slowly forgetting about it. About him. About everything.

I made quite a nice life here. I got some friends, a good paying job, and my own house. A real house! I had been living for a long time in a shitty apartment, so glad I don't have to anymore.

I found a new hobby that I love. Gardening. Planting my own flowers, plants, I just love it. It's so calming. I have dark blue rose bush in honor of Kaizer and my past. It had been really tough, like really tough. Dealing with all these deaths, secrets, I have tried to opt out after Kaizer died many times.

With the support of my friends, Kyle and Rosa, I've managed trough. I have therapy every weak and stopped doing selfharm. I actually feel great. Sure, sometimes I still have nightmares, but my therapist is so kind and understanding. She had helped me a lot.

I had turned 22 yesterday, so today I will celebrate my birthday with my friends, since we had to work yesterday. We all work as servers in a super expensive and nice restaurant. I had met Rosa in a library.

She came up to me with the same book I had in my hands and immediately talked her head off. It's like I was friends with her for years with how she talked. After that, we started hanging out a lot and she told me she could put in a good word for me for this job. I can not thank her enough.

On my first day of work, she introduced me to Kyle and we immediately hit it off. He's a more quiet type, nerdy. Not that he isn't handsome, because he is. No, I don't like him like that. After Kaizer, I just couldn't handle relationships. I've tried but whenever they would lean in for a kiss I just saw Kaizer jumping off. Or when we hugged, I saw Lucian dying. My therapist says that it is ptsd and that it is completely normal.

Of COURSE I haven't told her about my past. I just told her that whenever they leaned in, I saw my friend commiting suicide in front of me and when someone hugged me, I saw his dead body. Not exactly a lie... but totally not the real story.

Anyway, I've let my past behind me. I have a new life now, a new chance. I mean, I write my own story, right?

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I called Rosa and Kyle and told them to meet me at our favorite small cafe. It's so cute, honestly. It had ice cream, ice coffee, basically heaven!

After a 10-minute walk, I arrived. I walked in and found Rosa already there. She always gets to things way too early...

I slid into the booth infront of her and smiled.

"Hey Rosa."

She smiled happily back and practically screamed:

"Hey birthday boy! Finally 22! You're getting so old!"

I turned red with embarrassment as I saw some people glaring at us. I gave them an apology smile. Rosa did 't care and started renting about how her day went. I smiled, amused and listened to her. I don't know why, but she always comes up with these insane stories.

Like, she is talking about her dog eating trash and then suddenly talking about an alien invasion with a penguin leader? Like what.

After 7 minutes of her non-stop blabbering, Kyle sat next to me. Rosa immediately shrieked and gave him the same warm welcome she gave me. Again, people glared at us, but Rosa just gave them a bitch look.

You gotta love Rosa...

Kyle gave her a small smile before he looked at me.

"Happy birthday, Eth."

I gave him a grin.

"Thanks dude!"

Rosa wiggled her eyebrows at me and gave the most obvious smirk. I heard Kyle chuckling next to me as I flipped her off.

"Okay so-" Rosa started talking about what she had planned for my birthday. I swear, I had to make sure not to focus anything else or I would miss the whole conversation. After all the information, she grinned at me. I just nodded with a confused blick in my eyes, having no idea what she just said.

"So, you agree?"

"... I lost you at dressing up as cowboys and going to a strip club.."

Kyle chuckled again and Rosa handpalmed.

"You really can't listen, can you? Kyle, what came after the cowboy stripclub plan?"

I looked up at Kyle with a smirk as he just stared at Rosa.

"You lost me at the playground."

Rosa stared at us with betrayal.

"The playground was literally the first sentence I said!"

I couldn't hold my laugh back as I saw poor Rosa being grumpy.

"Don't worry, girl! We'll do all of those plans.."

She rolled her eyes but couldn't hold a smile back.

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... What the fuck.

I was currently at a swimming pool with Kyle and Rosa next to me. This was plan number 5 and the most embarrassing one.

I was wearing pink goggles, unicorn swim pants and diving flippers. The small children were giggling at me and the parents gave me weird looks. Rose was wearing a mermaid suit and Kyle was wearing spongebob swim shorts.

I yelped as Rose pushed me in the water. I dove up, but immediately regretted it as there were two splashes to be heard and a lot of water going over me.

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I laid on my towel and groaned as my stomach grumbled. I sat up and patted my stomach.

"I'm hungry as fuck.."

Rosa chuckled.

"Perfect! Plan 6 is going to a gay bar!"

I glared at her. How bad is this day going to be?

Rosa walked off to get dressed since she had to wash her hair and shit. I laid in the sun for a few minutes in silence before Kyle spoke up.

"You're really cute, you know? All dressed in pink."

He was trying to hold a laugh back and I glared at him. I took one flipper off and threw it at his face. I missed and he smirked as he chuckled.

He pinched my nose before he got up.

"I'm going to shower and get dressed too. See you at the exit?"

"Yeah yeah... get the fuck out of here already, smeagol.."

He gave a fake insulted look and grabbed his stuff. He waved and walked off. I couldn't helo but admire his glistening muscles in the sun.

Hey, what am I supposed to do? I enjoy all the small moments I get.