Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.
-unknown

Please don't make me tell my story. Pleeeeeaaaaaasssse? It's real boring, I promise. Might even put ya to sleep and I'd hate to do that. So it's a deal? No? Damn. That's just no fair. Really not much to it at all anyway. Not much to my family either. They're there. I guess. Physically anyway. Never there much for me, but I guess that story's not a new one. Always felt like a bother to 'em and I don't think that's gonna change anytime soon, like in the next couple hundred years.

Since my folks didn't care one way or another what I did, I spent a lot of time in arcades, playing pinball. That's my favorite game and I'm real good at it. Rather do that than just about anything. I know, sounds pathetic but that's the way it goes. Kept my mind from not being cared much about and gave me something I can actually do good. And in the end, it's cause of that that I've got lucky more than once.

First time it made me lucky was after all the stuff broke loose with the Strikers and all. I was in the arcade as usual when some trouble hit and with the help of the Panteras I got outta it. Lucky for me that Miguel's so fast, saved my ass. Took me off to a hideout where I could be safe and I guess I just kinda didn't leave. Well, I did go get some of my stuff like clothes, but other than that, I didn't go home. Probably true that my parents still haven't noticed that. Oh well, that's the way it goes. Not even sure how they're doing at all and I guess it's not nice of me to say, but I really don't care.

Other way pinball's made me lucky is with that Chaos group. The brothers, not the sister. One brother in particular. The not nice one, Okanu. He caught us all and I was gonna be stuck there and things might've been bad for me except his daughter Lotanna and I hit it off. She's real cool and asked her dad if she could have me as a friend cause she was real lonely. He said that was okay so she had him put some games in a room, lots of pinball ones, and we spent a lot of time doing that. I was safer than most others, and I kinda feel guilty about that sometimes. But it was nice not being tortured and all that stuff. Like I have to say that for people to realize it, I know.

Anyway, I'm back home with the Panteras now and hoping things get better. Still gets hard with everyone that seems to want to be out to get us and for some reason these people think it's cool to go outside sometimes. And would ya believe they drag me around with 'em sometimes? Something about fresh air and all that. I like inside better, with pinball. But I guess I can live through some outsideness, I do like being around these people at least. Plan on being that way for as long as they'll let me.

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
-Randolph S. Bourne

It is in games that many men discover their paradise.
-Robert Lynd