Fading Away

Chapter 1: The Corridor

"DAD NO!!" The tall boy named Micheal yelled to his father as he walked in with a bat.
"I SAID NO MORE GAMES!" He yelled straight back to the boy before swinging the bat at his PS3. The father then walked out of the bedroom like none of that had even happened. Micheal quickly ran to his now smashed game console that was laying on the floor to his dirty bedroom.

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Meet my dad, I have lived with him since I was four. My mom died after an accident while driving my aunt to the hospital. After that, I had to go live with my dad and lets say he has a drinking problem. He got it after my mom crashed and now he blames me for everything. Oh by the way, I'm Micheal. Just ordinary Micheal, nothing special. Today I turned 19 and I finally get to leave this place. Once you turn 19, you get to meet your "soulmate". I'm just hoping its not Jenny. She follows me around school constantly and is always talking non-stop. But anyways, we might as well get on with this crazy story.

The boy sighed as his father did something like this almost every day so he was kind of used to it. His dad only did it because Micheal refused to clean his room the first time his dad asked. He just wanted to end this day as quick as it started, it would also mean that he would find out who was at the other end of his red string of fate. After cleaning up his smashed game, he walked out of his bedroom after putting it in the trash can. His dad’s bottles were lying on the table so he had to pick them up since he knew his dad wasn’t planning on doing it anyways. He soon finished and decided to make himself some eggs. His dad started to call him from the living room so he put the eggs on low heat as he went out to him. “Yes dad?” He asked him. Micheal wasn’t paying attention to his dad, he just spaced out until he was done talking. He then nodded and quickly went back to the kitchen so he could grab his egg. He then put it on a plate and quickly ate it at the table that was in the kitchen. Once he was done eating, he quickly grabbed his bag and left, he could hear his dad shouting at him through the door as he quickly slid down the railing on the stairs that led down to the road. He hopped off the edge of the stairs and started to walk down the sidewalk while holding onto the straps of his backpack. The town was crowded as always which always made him super nervous. He soon approached a small restaurant and looked through the window staring for a while. After everyone had seen who was on the other end of the red string for them, they would meet up at this restaurant. “I’m coming for you tomorrow…” the boy mumbled before slowly putting his hand onto the window and leaning his head on it. All the sudden some guy ran past shoving Micheal to the ground. You could then hear police sirens as the cars followed the man. Micheal only saw a glimpse of his face. One eye was blue and the other was a red, his right eye had a small scar over it and his hair was a dark blue.  “WATCH IT!” Micheal yelled as he slowly got up and patted himself off scoffing at the man. After a few moments of watching the chase happen, he just turned around and kept walking. He didn’t have a certain place he was heading but he didn’t want to go back to his dad. 

After around five hours of just walking, he decided to go back home to his most likely drunk dad. “Yippee…” he mumbled before slowly opening the door to see his dad passed out on the couch. Boy was he glad, he just quickly headed to his room and quietly closed his door so he wouldn’t wake his dad. Finally, he would be able to figure out who it was and he would be able to leave this stupid house. He just turned off his lights and slowly laid down while covering up with his blankets and curling up in a ball. His dream was dark for a few moments before he saw a blurry person in his dream. The man had dark hair and was quite tall, he wasn’t expecting it to be a male…then it went black again soon revealing the place they needed to meet. But it wasn’t the restaurant…it was some dark alleyway? Wait he had been to this place before! He saw it while walking and decided to go in.

When the morning came he wasn’t as groggy as he usually was, today he had quickly got out of bed with no hesitation and walked to the kitchen to get breakfast. Maybe it was just a girl but it kind of looked like a boy. That's what he wanted to believe in his head anyways. “Dad I’m going out!” He yelled and before his dad could even respond to him, he quickly ran out of the door with some tofu in his mouth sliding down the railing of the stairs that led up to his apartment. He found it extremely creepy about the meeting place but maybe everyone met here and then went to the restaurant.

After a while he got to the alley and slowly walked into it looking around while still chewing his tofu. “Hello?” He said but it was slightly muffled from the tofu. A man’s voice could be heard from the entrance of the alley

“How cute, it's a kid. Look I don’t think this will work out Jr.” he said as he put his hands into his pocket. Micheal quickly turned around and froze as he recognized  who the man was.

“Y-You're the one who was running yesterday!” He yelled as he coughed out of tofu from shock. “I COULD REPORT YOU!” He yelled to him while backing up into the alley farther. The man's expression suddenly changed as he grabbed Micheal and pinned him to the wall covering his mouth with one hand.

“You wouldn’t dare…” he said now glaring at Micheal. He was now squirming around trying to get out of his grasp. He then stopped moving and quickly bit the man’s hand and he moved his hand away from Micheal’s mouth in pain. “Did you just bite me?!” The man said while holding his hand as it started to bleed slightly from how hard Micheal had bit it.