The beginning.

I sat there, sprawled out on the couch watching the television. One of those cheesy three stars shows was on and I wouldn't say that I was forced to watch it, but I had lost my remote due to a game of door frame basket ball. Lesson of the story, is that you don't buy a two dollar remote unless you are looking forward to multiple trips to the store. Anyway, I was watching it because I didn't want to get up and turn the TV myself. That is five steps too many in my mind.
So I don't know the name of the show but so far it was about this witch homeless girl who dreams of being a role model or to be in the lime light. Then while she was talking about her dreams and goals she ran out of her cardboard box of a home towards the decorated streets to see that there was a parade in honor of the royal family. But then the prince couldn't be found cause he ran away and so while everyone is in panic mode looking for the lost son she decided to go and sneak to a vendor to get some food but then a guy in a black cape and ugly brown clothes grab her hand and runs off into the valley.
I'd tell you about the rest but around the time where she stopped throwing a fit and realize that its actually the prince the power cut off. I whip my head back on the couch arm out of aggravation, which I will admit did hurt a lot. Rubbing my head I try to walk towards the kitchen to get a flashlight from my junk drawer, but I can always rely on my own two feet on making me stumble in the darkness.
I open the drawer and looked to see if I could find my flash light, but being that it was pure darkness in my lousy apartment, I soon gave up. I don't have the patients to do this. But I do have the patients for waiting in a short line for a sub from a certain fast food restaurant inside a famous store down the road. I decided why not and headed out.
I step out of the apartment and walked down the stairs towards the parking lot. I stand there, hands crossed on my chest and ponder to when I'm going to get around to at least buying that bike I always say Im going to buy. I nod at the parking lot and began walking down to "massive shopping land".
/Time skip./
I walk into the lobby/shopping cart storing area, the fans blow their wind down upon me as I enter the actual store. I turn to my left and see the beautiful restaurant calling for my name. Their breads cooking in the ovens, and the delectable meats and veggies sitting in their containers next to the oils and other stuff in those squirt-able bottles.
I ordered my usual and took a seat next to the window. You know, the window that has the restaurants' logo plastered on it. I sat there, in the booth and waited for my sub to be done. But I was still able to see a fellow walk over to this restaurant. And I can tell you now, this guy was either wakko in the brain or was pulling a prank of a sort. He wore a cape that stopped at his ankles, and his pants.. They were vertically stripped, Blue and black and a black shirt... And his skin was grey? Along with these interesting things on the side of his face... I guess he caught me starring because he looked at me with an eyebrow raised.
Noticing that he caught me looking at him I looked down at the table quickly and rested my head in my hand, trying to be natural and to not look rude. Luckily this awkward feeling from the inside vanished when the man called my last name. I smile and practically skip over to the cashier.
"That'll be twelve dollars and ninety-seven cents."
"Sure thing."
I slipped my hand in my back pocket, expecting my wallet to be there, but unfortunately objects cant teleport...
"Oh... I don't have my money..." I chocked and looked up with a very sad excuse of a smile. The cashier looked at me, no, he glared at me and pressed the cancel button. He called the next name and put my sub right in the garbage. I bite my bottom lip and felt my feelings crush into one another. I sighed and put my hands in my pockets, walking towards the exit.
When the automatic doors slid open I witnessed how narly the weather is. Utter down poor being accompanied by thunder and Ill say lightning too. I move out of the way of the doors for the family behind me, which led to me being outside under the small sheltered section from the logo.
"Wwell you knoww wwhat Cro? I think that you're a -... No! Stay the glubbin' fuck out of my block! Cro? Cro!"
I watched that man again, yelling at his cell phone and throwing it at the ground out of anger. I stood there awkwardly as I watched him growl and kick the garbage can next to him. He looked up at me with steaming eyes.
"Its amazing how glubbin' idiotic someone of your owwn rank can be."
I nodded and smiled softly for a reply. I've heard plenty about his race. The trolls. I would have never thought about seeing one around here though...
"Wwhats your problem?" He asked, walking over to me, crossing his arms under his cape.
"No, no, I don't have a problem." I lifted my head up and smiled.
"Look here, lying isn't going to get you anywwhere... I tried." He looked up at the sky and then back at his broken phone.
"I'm not lying." I tried to sound assuring, but when he looked at me with a brow raised it made me feel like I was .
"Listen here. If there's anything I can do right, its finding problems."
I look down at my feet and laughed a little bit, I'm not sure why, but I did.
"I forgot my wallet at my apartment and I don't have a car... And on top of that my apartment has no power for some reason."
He laughed as if taking pleasure in my misfortune. I roll my eyes and skip to the conclusion that this troll is a joke.
"Wwell that sucks, but things could be wworse."
"Yeah... I could have that accen-- dentally dropped my phone in the road..."
"Uh? Yeah, I mean, I guess?" He looked at me as if I had just took a dozen of crazy pills and they started to take affect.  I smile and kick the back of my heel to remind me that I was really close to getting into a crazy relationship with his drama. That's if the magazines were right about their weird romances.
"Eridan, Eridan Ampora." He blurted out. I blinked to escape my thoughts and said my name.
"Wwell that's a lovvely name." He muttered as if he regretted to say it. I look down and blush lightly.
"Thank you. You have a very unique name Eridan. I never heard a name like it before."
He smiled proud and pumped up the collar of his cape.
"It goes with the personality."
I raised a hand to cover my mouth as I giggled which made him seem to go into a less tense state like he was earlier, talking to that Cro guy. I watched  Eridan turn towards the door and entered the building once again.
"Come on, its not like you havve anythin' better to do."
I roll my eyes and look back down at my feet.
What's an hour? Just don't do anything you're going to regret...
I felt a cold hand grab my shoulder and pull me into the building.
"Lets go, there are things to be done."
We walk fully into the store. The smell of produce fights the odor of the other shoppers and the cold air gives me chills.
"So. This is wwhere you humans often shop at huh?"
"Yeah... Its the most convenient place to get what ever you need for whatever you want to do. Its like  whatevermart."
"Wwhatevvermart?" He laughed slightly and walked straight a head, looking around at the things up for sale. I laughed a long with him and looked around too, seeing if there's anything that would catch my eye, something that I would want... That is, when I brought my wallet.
"Its no prawwnshop but it'll have to do I guess." He rolled his eyes, seeming to be very unimpressed with the store.
"Well... Do you have these fancy candles at your prawnshop?" I said, advertising the pumpkin apple spice scented product. He took the candle from me and gave it a whiff. The things on the side of his face drooped and then fluttered back to normal as he made a disgusted expression.
"No, wwedont havve any candles at our prawwnshop." He rubbed his nose and then looked down at me. I smiled proud and took the candle to put it back.
"We're better."
"Are you stupid?"
I felt something inside of me wince at that remark. He said it in such a serious tone that I think i went a bit pale.
"What? What do you mean?"
"You do knoww that you cant smell anyfin' underwwater right?"
"Underwater?" I looked up wearing a confused expression. He rolled his eyes and pointed towards those things on his face.
"Do you see these fins or are you blind?" He said quite snobbily. I rubbed the back of my head and looked at the rack of candles.
"I'm sorry Eridan... I never heard of a trolls with fins."
He snickered at started to unravel his scarf. Once he removed his scarf he pointed at these gills on the side of his neck.
"Us amazin' wwater trolls have gills and fins. But the most awwesome ones havve the ability to wwalk on land and livve in wwater."
I nodded with a smile as I walked past him to continue browsing.
"So Eridan, why are you here instead of your fancy prawnshop?"
"Wwhat does it evven matter?
"Well for small talk it matters..."
"Pft! Talkin' about wwhy I'm at this pathetic store doesn't matter! But my background on the other fin, does."
I look at the ground as I walked preparing myself for his speech.
"I am Eridan Ampora. I am the descendant of the Orphaner wwho is the most amazin' pirate wwho evver sailed and I---"
As he went on I started to take mental notes on his personality and his background, being that he wouldn't shut up about it for the past half hour. I noticed on how rude he can be, but I don't think he does it on purpose... I'm going to say that its safe to say that he only wants attention so he acts out to get it. And by the rude remarks he made so far I can also see that he probably doesn't have many friends...  Then again, I don't think he does it on purpose. Looking at his shirt I'll say he's an Aquarius, so this supports his personality.
If I remember correctly he's supposed to act out, hes supposed to be rude on accident. Its what they do. They can't help it most of the time... And who ever  tells them to change really is insensitive. Even though he is too, two wrongs don't make a right now do they?Aloof, insensitive, creative and independent. That's who you are Eridan. And that's okay.
"I mean wwhat the glubbin' fuck!" He shouted, startling me out of my trance. Being distracted-and clumsy- I tripped forward and hit my head on the metal shelves that were desplaying all of the bouncing baby toys. The ones that make those annoying noises when you walk by.
Luckily only two fell off the shelf next to me, but all the others started to bounce and began to sing me the song of their people. He stood there, glaring down at me with a face full of disgust.
"Owh my head.." I rubbed where I bonked my head on the shelves and felt the sticky substance of blood leaking through my skin.
"Get up noww. You're makin' a scene." He ordered but I just sat there and rested my head on the shelf behind me.
"Noww." He declared once again, but I decided to take a breath and stay how I was instead. He growled and yelled it now, which made me jump again. I look down at my hands, a little frightened by him at this point. Those teeth and that tone made me shake, and I'm not sure why. Why are my emotions acting up around this guy?
When I looked back up he was walking away, his cape fluttering behind him. I close my eyes, ignoring the other shoppers walk by. That is, whoever is left. It is fairly late so there wasn't as many people as there were earlier. Just pranksters and other young adults.
/skip/
I wake up due to a loud crash in the back ground. I jump and look around and notice that my environment was different. I was laying on what seemed to be a bed made out of lawn chairs and Eridans' cape was keeping me warm in the new area that I found myself. I looked around, eyes squinting. I noticed the fountains from the gardening section were on and were making the area much colder, being that we're outside. I look past the barred walls in the behind the fountains and see that its still raining outside. I always feel caged in the gardening section... I always have since I was a child, but not it was worse. I was alone, surrounded by bar walls and fountains and moss like plants.
I put the cape down next to me and I stood up stretching. I rubbed my forehead and notice that I had a band-aid on the wound. I walked over to a fountain to see my reflection but it was useless since the lights were off. I shrug and try to walk towards the door of the building so I could go home. It was nice what Eridan did for me since he didn't know where to put me, but I don't want to be here anymore. I want to go home and sleep.
When I found the slide doors I notice that they were off along with the lights inside. I gasp and started to bang on the glass to see if there was someone in there. I began to panic, I don't want to be here. I don't want to be in this cage. I don't want to be here. I want to be home. I don't want to be here.

"Oh, noww you wwake up." He said in a tone I haven't heard of yet. It seemed relaxed and kind of happy. I looked up to where the voice came from and there he was on a latter fiddling with this weird blackish box thing. At least, that's all I could see.
"Eridan, what the hell?"
"Oh hush."
"No, seriously, what the hell? Are we allowed to be back here? What are you doing?"
"Doesn't matter. You humans have to listen to me.  I'm royalty, remember?"
My heart sunk and I started to walk away from the doors towards the latter.
"No... No. No! I can't do this, I have to go home before I get in trouble with the law or something! Eridan let me out of here, I can't get away with this stuff! Im not ro-"
"Royal." He interrupted.
"You're not royal. I knoww. I havve your blood on my cape because I carried you back here. Your head rubbed against my chest and you smudged your candy blood on it."
His voice. It wasn't snobby like it usually was, no. It seemed weak, and kind of hurt in a way. Disappointing.
"Yeah... Candy blood." I muttered.
"Howw about you head back to the bed thing, I wwant to showw you somefin'." He said again, in that same tone. I want to say that I feel pitiful for him for some reason. I walked back over to the bed thing he had made and watching him walk over to me.  He walked up to me with a wand in his hand. I focused my eyes with his and gulped.
"Eridan. I am going home after this."
He nodded and lifted his wand up to the ceiling. The wand started to glow with a dim white light and before I new it there were stars growing across the ceiling.  I awed at the sight. It was like he created a replica of the night sky.
"Woah..."
He smiled at my reaction and then sat down on the chair bed. I followed behind him and took a seat next to him.
"How'd you do that?"
He looked at me and chuckled.
"Science." He grabbed his cape and wrapped it around our shoulders.
"You knoww... I'm glad you didn't get your sub."
I giggled  and turned my head towards him.
"I am too."
And that was the beginning of our blossoming matespritship. Every Sunday night we come to the wwhatevvermart and set up our little clubhouse, and look back on the day where the poor girl fell in love with the prince.