Capricon City (Bustling part):
"Was I wrong to leave my world? Mother, it's turning up more difficult here. I don't think I can continue!" Kevin drowned in a heap of thoughts to nearly regrets.
His body was very weak. This was the third day for him to live on an empty stomach in the streets of Capricon city and he could only move on very slow footsteps. He couldn't walk properly anymore.
In the night, Kevin was stuck on the lonely streets yet again.
Hunger had moved his mind from his fixed course of finding his father. However, one thing he was not letting go nomatter the hard knocks was the scrap old model computer in hands.
"I need to eat so badly, I am surviving," at the back of his mind, Kevin spoke.
He was just catching his breath on sunken eyes like he wanted to take a nap. Kevin was very weak and tired. Without a clear direction to take, he saw a dimly lit alleyway.
Dizzily, Kevin walked towards the alleyway, away from the brightly lit sides of the street to find a place to lay his weak body.
As he got closer, in a distance he saw a human who was busy feeding from a garbage can. Intrigued, Kevin killed two steps backward with a thought to leave while he took a more clear observation.
He noticed the man who was eating.
Hesitantly, Kevin forced himself to go and meet the man. As he took small steps slowly towards the man, accidentally his foot collided with an empty soda can, which made noise and alerted the absent minded busy man.
Startledly, the man turned his face quickly at Kevin and stood up straight from a garbage can.
"Who are you?" He stopped chewing and asked on a very keen eye.
Kevin kept quiet and stopped moving forward. Since it was only a few metres close to eachother, they stared at each other.
With a brilliant observation, the man realised this was just another hungry scared man who wanted to join him and maybe have a share of what he was eating.
"Don't delay your steps brother, my friend at the restaurant dumped quite enough today!" In a kind voice, the man called Kevin to join.
However, Kevin stayed standing. He moved his eyes from the man to the garbage can where he was getting his food and then back to the man. Abruptly, Kevin's stomach reported his hunger case in such a silent late night environment. The stomach made a very loud hunger cry.
"You don't have to wait any longer young man or else, there will be no other chance."
Even though Kevin had not met any welcoming human in Capricon city, with his sunk eyes, ashy skin and cracked lips due to personal famine, he had no choice except to trust the man's word.
Inside the can was a pizza box which contained pizza slices. The man picked a slice, stretched his arm and gave to Kevin. Hesitantly, in distrust Kevin took small steps and grabbed the pizza piece out of the man's hand.
The aroma was pleasant when he sniffed the pizza.
"It's fresh brother, you can take a bite," said the unknown homeless man.
Slowly Kevin took this human food to his dry cracked mouth and took a tiny bite for a taste. Immediately after the taste, in three qick heavy bites the pizza piece was all in his mouth.
"Easy homie, or else you're going to choke!" the homeless man laughed at Kevin's big appetite.
Kevin placed his object down on the ground and continued to enjoy the pizza. The homeless man noticed how hungry Kevin was and got the whole box out from the garbage.
With a few more pieces left, the homeless man placed the pizza box down where Kevin sat really quick and enjoyed quietly.
"It's obvious you enjoy eating pizzas," the homeless man said.
"You know the chef in that restaurant across the street is my good friend and whenever there's a chance, he fixes something in the garbage for me not to be hungry", talkatively, the homeless man conversed.
"Call me Suxes...."
"The more I liked my name the more I hate it. However, I can't just get rid of it because is my late mother who gave it to me."
"My mother named me Kevin Moore!" As he chomped, he responded willingly and calm.
"Kevin! Oh, its a cool name your parents gave to you right there _ Keep enjoying yourself my brother!" Happily Suxes exclaimed.
"Parents!" Deep within, it got Kevin Moore touched.
"This type of human food is the most delicious thing I have ever tasted", Kevin stated as he chomped the pizza pieces.
"It's cool how you're talking in an alien perspective hahaha..." Suxes joked thinking that Kevin was a fellow human, "of course, besides fries and chicken, a pizza is number one among fast foods _ I enjoy it more with extra cheese," Suxes proudly said.
Within minutes, Kevin had began to bond freely with Suxes.
"You seem to have great interest in old model computers. Do you?" Suxes minded to know about the scrap old model computer Kevin kept at the side.
As Kevin finished the last quarter of a yummy pizza in his hand, Suxes stretched his arms and picked the computer.
"You don't have to touch my object!"
But the object was already in Suxes' hands and he was observing it clearly. Kevin's trust for him was inevitable. It came naturally and automatically.
And since he gave him food to eat and treated him differently from all other humans he came across in the streets, at this moment Suxes was Kevin's hero to trust. He relaxed.
Kevin never went hard on him for holding the object.
"Wow...!" Suxes said, "this type of machine existed many years ago."
"Of course. Because my father must be old enough by now since it belongs to him," Kevin replied.
"Wait, help me get this straight.... You mean you inherited this from your father?" Suxes asked curiously.
"What do you mean by inherited?" The word was new to Kevin's ears.
"Hahaha....!" Suxes laughed wondering.
"What's funny?"
"Man...., this damn old thing is the most useless inheritance I've ever seen a father leaves for a child... hahaha," he produced more laughters.
"A father leaves for a child? I never told you he left it for me! It's my duty to protect it and make sure he gets it back, that's all," Kevin replied barbarically.
"Look, no need for you to pretend, Okay? I apologize I made you feel less of a person, but to be honest with you, you'll never get a dime out of this crap. I believe you've tried to sell it so many time and nothing good comes out of it _ I mean no one buys it."
"I don't understand what you're talking about," said Kevin and he looked aside.
"I don't want to call you a mad man but this thing right here makes you look like one. If you want I can take you to a scrapyard where there's many of computers dumped, and latest ones for that matter."
"That's incase you want to get one which is better than this one. Besides, you neither shave your beard, nor do you have shoes on your feet. What choice do you leave then for the people of Capricon city to call you? A mad man of course!"
Stuck in the mind, Kevin didn't know what Suxes was talking about. He had no idea that the object was called a computer until now from Suxes.
As Suxes observed further, from inside the scrap old model computer he discovered a hard disk.
"Oh, it still has this!" He looked closely at the hard disk.
"Maybe if this works we can get some money for another pizza. Let's go, I know where I can check it out," Suxes pockets the disk and leads the way
However, ignorantly, Kevin wasn't ready to leave his object behind. He picked it up and followed behind Suxes.
Looking behind, Kevin was very serious with the scrap computer in his hands. "Damn!" He shook his head speechlessly.
"Trust me when I say there're plenty in a more better version than this one you have!" In a friendly approach Suxes stated as they walked along but Kevin could not let go off his.
As they were on their way to the scrapyard, "My father's name is Sean Moore and I'm here to find him", Kevin told Suxes, "if you can help me find him I will be grateful."
Suddenly, Suxes stopped walking. He turned and looked at Kevin from head to toe. "For how long have you been hungry?" He asked him.
"For three moons and three suns," he replied.
"Hmm, I think now I understand why you're like this." As a city born, Suxes began to doubt Kevin's mental health.
However, Kevin had nothing wrong with him mentally. What Suxes didn't know yet was Kevin's true identity.
"So, are you going to help me find my father?" Once again Kevin asked on a serious note.
Suxes never wanted to open up to Kevin what he thought of him. He knew it would sound like an insult to him. Intelligently, he chose to go slow with words.
"How do you mean?" Suxes asked.
"When we get to where they're many objects, can you help me find my father? His name is Sean Moore!"
"Hahaha! Am sorry to laugh but that's kinda funny. Your father can't be found in a scrapyard!"
"Then where can I find him?"
"Stop it man..., I know sometimes too much hunger drives people crazy!" On the verge of anger, Suxes stated.
"Am not crazy. I want to find my father and see if I can convince him to come with me back home to my mother," Kevin cried out loud.
"One more thing; what you're holding is called a computer. Secondly, its not for this generation and third, stop deceiving yourself. You're just a shabby hobo who needs as much help as I also need. Understand that!" Suxes became a little tough on Kevin.
"You're not like other humans that's why I trust you," humbly, Kevin told him.
"Of course I know.... and that's why I've been on the streets homeless for three years and no one can employ me!"
Allover a sudden, Suxes became emotionally captured by sad memories which turned his eyes redish yellow. Kevin wondered what he had said that got Suxes into an abrupt distress.
Sorrowfully, Suxes turned behind and looked at Kevin. He fixed his gaze at him and said, "I am fourty year old now and I don't even have a proper place to stay. All my life was taken away from me. But you're lucky age is still on your side, you have a lot more time to fix what went wrong than I do."
A tear dropped out of Suxes' eye.