"Lou, you wanna play?" Joey screeched from the middle of the street. Lou was daydreaming again. Wishing he was somewhere else- someONE else.
"LOU!?" Joey's voice pierced Lou's brain and he shook his head and turned to Joey.
"What?"
"You wanna play?" Joey held the football out to Lou. Lou smacked it away.
"Why? So I can be your blocker...again?!" His voice boomed. When you're 6 feet tall at 14 years old, there's not much else your friends want to do with you. Lou turned to go inside.
"Ah c'mon buddy. It's always a blast. No one even gets pissed that we always win cause of you. We've been friends forever Lou d-"
"Don't pull the friendship card on me Joey. I'm smarter than that. Just cause I'm big doesn't mean I'm a meat-head." Lou pounded up the stairs to his stoop and stepped inside.
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"Lou?" Joey whispered as he threw rocks at the third story window of the apartment building. "LOU!?"
"What?" As Lou came to the window, a pebble bounced off his face. "Oww."
"Sorry pal, look, me and the guys want you to come out. We're going to have some fun!"
"No."
"C'mon. Look, you bailed on football today. Just come out with us."
Lou grumbled, which sounded more like an earthquake to Joey, and stepped back inside. A few minutes later, he was standing in the night's embrace with his friends. Lou had to admit, he was a little worried about running into the Skulls, since some of it's junior members had such a problem with him in school. They had even quarreled a few times, however Lou was always unharmed. This seemed to set off the Junior Skulls a bit. They said things to him like, "You're gonna get it!" and, "Just you wait...we're gonna ruin you."
Joey quickly shook Lou from his rememberence, and brought him back into the warm comfort of the evening. Joey made a comment about going to Perez Park, and Lou quickly intervened.
"No way. Do you know what kinds of things go on there? Do you know what kinds of people- creatures- are there? No way." He repeated.
"Lou, we're going. If you wanna be a wuss, that's fine, but we want to go have some fun."
Lou sighed heavily and tagged along guiltfully.
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"Okay pal, this is for your own good," Joey mumbled as they entered Perez Park, and proceeded to turn to Lou and elbow him in the stomach. Lou was minorly affected, but more confused and told Joey to watch what he was doing. Just then, a group of Skulls came out of the shadows, swinging weapons and taunting, and Lou became frightened.
"What's going on?" Lou demanded heavily.
"You're just too much of a loser Lou, and I have new friends now," Joey explained, smirkingly.
"Joey, no-" Lou cried. A sharp blow to the back of his neck sent him sailing to the ground thunderously. Just before he blacked out, he head Joey faintly giving the Skulls directions somewhere.
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Finally coming to, Lou awoke in a panic. It was still dark, though assuredly much later. He immediately bounded back to his home, furious.
Upon arriving home, Lou clammered up the stairs and stopped dead in his tracks at the sight of his front door wide open. He slowly made his way to the entrance, and peeked in before stepping one foot into his home. Once he had, however, he hurriedly spun around the other direction and vomitted at the sight of his mother's tattered, bloodied body on the living room couch, almost completely naked. Obviously dephiled.
"Oh my G-" Lou stuttered as he forced himself through the remainder of the apartment. He found blood spatters and pieces of his father in each room, and no signs of his sister. The house, however, had icicles hanging from parts of it, and was much lower in temperature than normal.
He stepped over his father's mangled torso and made his way back to the front of the apartment in time for Paragon City Police to come bustling up the stairs and into the home.
"Jesus, what the-" One officer said as he gasped at the sight. He then saw Lou, mortified. "Son, are you okay? Son?" Lou wasn't answering, and then, in a flash, he let out a great cry - one that shook the building, if not the whole block it seemed- and stood before the officers.
"One thing you officers can count on," he said, "is that you have my full, and unrelenting support in putting a stop to the rising crime in this city. Now and until I am struck down. I am at the service of those in need. No more shall be victim or witness to what I have been as long as there is a breath in my body."
Lou charged out the door, past the officers into the night...unprepared for anything, except for his unyielding sense of determination.
((OOC: I'm new to COH and RPing altogether, but it seems like a lot of fun and I'm enjoying this. I'll be updating periodically, as I have about 7 or 8 characters already with full backstories and personalities. I can be found on Infinity Server most the time and am in need of some fun loving RP-ers who wanna help a "n00b". Thanks. handle=brandonxhopkins))
