KAI's POV
"Could I get another one?" I handed my glass to the bartender, perched uncomfortably on the bar stool.
"Don't you have any mates?" The old man beside me asked. We kept bumping into each other at that dim and somewhat shady bar.
I chuckled. Having a friend? That was out of bounds for me. Friendship, love, companionship were forbidden fruits in my life. I was destined to walk this road alone, from start to finish.
"You neither," I pointed out, and he chuckled, running a hand through his grizzled beard.
"I bet, I have more friends than you do. You don't have a girlfriend either, do you?" He took a hefty gulp from his whiskey glass.
"I'm still pretty young, love can wait a while" I echoed his movements, pretending to be absorbed in the bar's TV, broadcasting some hyped-up baseb
