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Chapter 23

 " Hey, champ." I greet Hero and sit on the counter stool opposite him. 

     He looks up at me with his cigarette in between his lips. He smiles at me.

" What?" He chuckles.

" You're Hero. And a Hero is a champion." I tell him and shrug. I look down at the plate of toast on top of the counter. It doesn't look that bad actually.

" That's one of the worst definitions I've ever heard." He says and I playfully glare at him.

" You made this?" I ask, referring to the toast.

" Hero can't cook." Judah says as he walks past his kitchen door.

" Fuck you, man." Hero tells him. 

" I bet that tastes like shit though." I hear Judah mutter and he chuckles quietly. The front door shuts and I assume he's outside, standing on his porch smoking a cigarette.

" You can cook right?" I pout at Hero.

" Sometimes. I suck at it truly, Judah is better." He says and I pick up a t