Destiny [YiZhan FF]

Chapter 40 - Happy Me (Last Chapter)

EGO POV Yibo

Recently I remembered something from my past. About my 10 year old self that felt like the unhappiest boy in the world. I was tired of having to work out every day. I hated my parents and just wanted to get away!

But since I was not yet 14 years old and therefore could not yet go to the Assassin Academy and I certainly did not want to my grandmother, because she would have sent me immediately back home, I had to come up with something else.

I took all my saved money, threw a dart over my shoulder onto a map and bought a train ticket to the place where the dart landed.

All alone as a 10 year old and only enough change of clothes for 2 days, as well as my last bit of pocket money, I sat on the train and imagined in the most beautiful colors how my life would be from now on. I imagined I would look for a forest, look for a nice place there and then build a small hut with my own hands and live there. Of course, I would also be able to feed myself and without any problems, right?

I thought, once I live in the forest, no one can do anything to me. Then I would be free and no one could order me around, hit me on the back with a stick if I messed up an exercise or yell at me if I didn't understand something. I was looking forward to my new life.

When the train reached my destination, I got off and found myself somewhere in the middle of nowhere. There was a tiny train station, actually it was just a small old locked house and in the tiny village there were only 8 houses and a small store where at least some basic food was available. The inhabitants of this village were moreover, all old!

To find a forest was not difficult, because the village was surrounded by it. I had to find only a suitable place, where I could begin with the building of my own house. The place for it was found then also fast. But how do I build a house? And where do I get the tools and materials for it?

To have a roof over my head at least for this night, I gathered all the long branches I could find and placed them diagonally against a thick tree trunk. On top of that I put several smaller branches with leaves and twigs from fir trees. I didn't have much room, but it would be enough for now.

When it slowly became dark, I retreated into my temporary dwelling. It was eerie and the later it got, the colder it got. In addition, there were all these strange noises in the forest. A lot of them really scared me. Like the cracking of twigs on the ground. Or when the wind picked up, the creaking and crunching of branches and twigs on the trees.

Shivering, I lay on the floor in my dwelling. Under me lay my jacket and with the only sweater I had with me, I covered myself. But I could not get a wink of sleep. Besides, there were always some insects crawling around on my body. And I have always hated insects. I was disgusted by them and I couldn't close my eyes just because of them.

To distract myself, I walked around a bit in the forest. Fortunately, I remembered my flashlight. My bad luck was that I had forgotten to bring spare batteries. So I had light for about half an hour. Then everything was dark and I couldn't find my way back to my dwelling. So all I could do was keep walking around until eventually I ran out of strength and was so tired that I just fell asleep on the cold ground under the trees.

When I woke up, I was roaring. Because my whole body hurt. I had laid in the night namely next to an ant hill and they have attacked me while I slept, pretty nasty. All over my body I had painful large pustules. I cried for an hour when I was finally back in my dwelling and could hardly move because of the pain.

And then hunger came, too. However, I had already spent my last pocket money the day before on a bottle of soda and a pack of cookies in the small store in the village. And without a knife, I couldn't build a trap for animals either. I was also slowly running out of soda.