[O] Smile Like You Mean It

God he was bored! There didn't seem to be anything to do around here, and he still didn't have many friends. At his last school he hadn't had friends either, well, he did have a couple, but he was mostly made fun of there for his odd dressing habits and the fact that he paints his nails and is Never, Ever, seen without the tiara crown that even now sat upon his head.

Today the sixteen year old was laying on his stomach on the grass, elbows propping him up, his feet lightly kicked the ground. In front of him laying on the grassy ground, was a coloring book, that happened to be from Disney, a bunch of different pictures in it, more then half of them were already colored. Next to this coloring book was a box of crayons.

He pulled out a brown one and started to color the Beast on the left page, adding different shades. He seemed to be quite good at coloring, but he had always been good at artsy things, he even drew good, but that usually bored him too much unless he was drawing a butterfly, which he seemed to love.

Nine hummed a song as he colored, and one would notice that a white ear bud was stuck in one eat, and a iPod happened to be laying next to him.

Today was a warm day out, nice fall weather, but far over some trees, dark clouds brewed, threatening to blow towards the school, threatening to rain, but Nine didn't even notice, too wrapped up in his boredom and coloring book to pay any attention to something so trivial such as weather, sides, it looked like he had some time before the clouds came closer.

Sighing, he dropped the crayon, staring down at the coloring book, biting his tongue lightly, but quickly picked a different colored crayon up before the boredom could set in.

Nine heard someone coming, though it was hard listening to music in one ear, but he felt the person nearby, but he didn't stop coloring, and amazingly the boredom was suddenly gone. When the girl spoke, he smiled, and sat up, legs folded under him.

"Thanks! Few other people say I'm pretty good too." He said, smiling. He brushed some of his hair away from his eyes so he could look at the girl better. He glanced at the picture briefly. Though he was good with art and coloring, his parents hadn't always approved of it, maybe it was because he liked coloring and drawing Disney characters and butterflies.

"I'm Nine!" He said, beaming cheerfully.

"It takes a bit of work... since I'm usually bored it's something to do and eventually I got pretty good at it. Just have to work at it I suppose." He said, not really thinking about it. He had always liked art, and it was his driving boredom that got him to be good at art.

When she mistook his name for his age, he snickered, grinning. A lot of people did, but it never bothered him. "Yeah, my name is Nine." He said, laughing cheerfully. "Nice to meet you too, Ana!" Hopefully now he would be able to get a friend, he loves having friends, it keeps his boredom at bay, and friends like to play with him.

He listened to her talk about it weird calling him Nine, and it defiantly was odd, since no one knew why he was called Nine or why people forgot his real name, but that didn't even bug him, but he smiled when she went on about, like calling him Nine but just in a different language.

He tilted his head to the side, curiously.

"Jiu?" He questioned, before a smile broke over his face "Sure! I don't mind."

He leaned back, pulling his legs up to his chest, wrapping his arms around his legs. He then reached into his pocket and pulled out two lollipop suckers, and handed one to Ana. "Want one?"

"So, Ana, my new bestest friend, do you like to draw or paint, or anything?" He asked, smiling.

"Mmm, yummers... I love fudge too! And its candy in my category! But it has to be chocolate or its no good to me." Nine said, wrinkling his nose and sticking his tongue out slightly, smiling. He snickered at what she said next and nodding his head slightly. He pulled the wrapper off his own lollipop, and sucked on it silently, enjoying the taste, while rocking back and forth, as if unable to sit still.

She spoke Chinese again and he didn't exactly understand it, he didn't really know any other language, but it was interesting to hear her speak it. She liked drawing cartoons she said, Nine liked to draw that too, though, he still preferred drawing butterflies and other little animals.

"You should show me some of your drawings sometime! And I can show you some of mine! Though, I mainly draw butterflies, like this one," he said, pointed with one finger at the butterfly on his face that had been drawn with a marker.

"Life gets sooooo boring, so I draw, its entertaining, and doesn't get that boring very fast." If he had found it boring in the past, then he wouldn't be drawing even now. He despised things that were boring. Like books, unless it was manga.

"Who's that...?" He looked over to another girl, who had a crow sitting on her shoulder. It was a bit odd, but look who was thinking that? He was a boy, who painted his nails, and wore a tiara on his head. He grinned, and then waved to the girl with the crow, to be friendly.