Kyle's heart sank and shattered into a thousand pieces, the rain felt numb to him as his clothing stuck to his body like a second skin. Kyle breathed heavily still recovering from the fight, the onslaught of the hose, and verbal lashing he received from the woman he played tonsil hockey with not several hours ago. Kyle sat there slumped in the street, rain pouring down his face, battered and bruised, with a man in a similar state next to him; in essence, a dumb ass sitting next to a dumb ass. He thought his rage hadn't blinded him, but yet it obscured him from the most obvious place and it was right in front of him.  He ran a hand through his hair and wiped it down his face, flinching slightly as he felt the pain in his nose again, now he realized his glasses were missing.

Looking around he found them not too far from where the car had driven off, he got up and walked over to them. Picking them up he scowled at how mangled they were, but he could fix them later, folding them and pocketing them in his wet pants. Turning around he walked over to where Nick was still sitting on the ground, [color=LimeGreen]"Look man...can we just agree that we were a couple of dumb asses and just leave it at that..."[/color] he reached his hand down to stand the boy up, when he didn't receive any response Kyle sighed and pulled his hand back. [color=LimeGreen]"Look, Nick, I'm sorry about what happened between you and Nori, but I had nothing to do with that, and it wasn't kept a secret from me,"[/color] he let that sink in a bit, [color=LimeGreen]"We were walking to the arcade, she saw you in the park and hid herself behind a tree, afterwards she told me that she stood you up...that she felt horrible about it and had been avoiding you since because of it; I'm telling you all this, because she [b]meant[/b] it when she told you she was sorry."[/color] Kyle wasn't sure if Nick was listening to him at this point, shaking his head he said his final piece, [color=LimeGreen]"If you want to wallow here in your deluded self-pity you go right ahead, but I'm going in to apologize, because frankly, we fucked up and she deserves at the very least that much."[/color]

He turned away from the boy, walking towards the shop and trying to wring out as much water as he could before he entered, looking back at Nick one last time, Kyle pressed forward and opened the door. A small bell chimed and Kyle entered the building the sudden temperature change was welcome, but he was still dripping wet, and water was pelting the floor below him. [color=LimeGreen]"Nori!"[/color] He called out, he wasn't sure where she had gone, but from the look on her face when she left, probably as far away as possible...maybe in the back? He walked over to the front counter and found an open door leading to the back area, inside he found the petite girl, dripping wet herself as she was huddled over, cleaning something off the ground, [color=LimeGreen]"Nori..."[/color] The girl finally looked up at him, his heart ached and he felt genuinely terrible, but he needed to say his piece, then if she wanted him gone... [color=LimeGreen]"Can we talk...please?"[/color]