Siku : The Unimaginable Life

Chapter - 2 : Alter Ego

"!!" "Hu-huh?"

"What!?, where am I-.?"

I just woke up but I was in a place that I didn't know.

"Ohh... just remember now... today was my first day of school...hmm...but...."

I was in a place that I don't know. It is too dark but I somehow felt the presence of light, nothing around me. I was there when I woke up but I don't know how I came. It is too quiet, it feels like sound can't enter or go out from this darkness. I tried moving a few distance to just see if anything new happened but nothing changed at all.

"Am I already.... dead?.."

The place looks too isolated, like a void or eternity. Death is the only answer when I try to figure this out.

"If I'm dead... then this means I'm in heaven or something?"

"So that is what it feels when someone dies?... Too different from what others think about heaven..."Keeping my hand to my chin, trying to figure out what just happened to me but... suddenly.

"Oii! Don't declare yourself dead yet." I hear a voice from behind... when I look behind to see who is on the pitch black but when I look I can't see anything at all. Too scared when I heard it and also being dark in the surrounding I cannot even see anything.

"Wh-what?!wh-who?" Even if I was too scared I needed to be a little brave to know what that was. My hands were sweaty, legs shaking. Felt like the voice had been heard but because of panic at the moment I didn't remember it. But no one replied.. I feel relieved and more scared, a strange feeling.

Suddenly I feel a cold chill through my spine... trembling my whole body...

"Oii, you don't need to be so scared." I again hear the same voice near my left ear. I look in the way the voice comes but also no one is there. It is too scary to sense it, I have no idea what I'm going to do now.

Trembling my voice "Oi...oii!! W-wh-who are y-you?! I-I-I'm not scared, yo-you know"

"Yo.. You don't need to be scared, talking to your own alter ego"hear the same voice again near my right ear.

"Wha-What?! Wa-Wa-Wait a sec? My alter ego?" Too confused to think but now kind of feel relieved to know that.

"Yea...Yea.. I'm your own alter ego."

I Felt relieved to hear that I was talking to my own alter ego but also confused at the same time. "So.. you're... my alter ego,right? Am I dead? Why do you come out? And where am I even?"

"Oii.. Hold your horse. I know you're confused but I came to tell you one thing and the question you ask now will be revealed one day."

"So listen." I started to see my own alter ego face. He is slowly coming out from the dark. With a look of something hard to describe with an unnatural smile. He looks just like me but his eyes are purple in colour and his hair is kind of longer than mine.

"Maxwell, listen. You're not dead. We're in an alternate demission. The incidents you just experienced now- the meeting of the black figure and the meeting of me, didn't tell anyone, even to your closest ones.. For now, I just manipulate all their memories so no one will remember the black figure and all the things are back to normal, even the injured students are all healed..."

"But why can't I tell anyone?" I ask as I'm curious...

He smiled with that same unnatural grin, then replied "The answer is simple, no one is present in your life, no one cares, you are all alone....from the start and will always be. So, it is useless to tell" When my alter ego said this to me I felt a little depressed but deep down in my heart I know that is true.

"Yea, I know, but is there another reason to not tell?" He doesn't say anything but with the same unnatural smile made it enough to understand that there is also another reason.

"Ohh, you'll be going to your own world soon. Just don't forget what I said"

"Yea, yeah... I know. Bye, Max 2.O" I said bye to him for now but before I left, I felt he was going to say something, he smiled in the same unnatural way and in the distance, a burning flame I could see.

But before I know-- "Ugh.. My head hurts... Where am I?" I think I have returned back to my world, when I look around to see where I'm..

"Wait...what?!!" I was in shock, and felt like I somehow came back to the same time before or after the incident or maybe he had changed the reality in some way.

"So my alter ego,Max 2.O, can also change reality. What a mysterious being,huh....?" While thinking this, I somehow figure or even it may be my theory but when the black figure comes to attack me, maybe he stops time or something and the reason for me thinking is because when the chaos in my class happened, no one came or even did not hear anything. How is this possible? It is totally a mystery.

I heard some footsteps coming from afar "Ohh crap!! All the students must be coming into their own classroom. I just need to take a bench and sit quietly for now.." I hurried and took my bag and sat on a bench. Waited for other students. Our class is kind of big and all the benches are arranged in 3 lines and each with about 9-10 benches each. And I sitted on the middle row and on the middle bench.

When I was waiting for others, I tried to figure out what may be the black figure, is the black figure even a human? Or a ghost?! Max 2.O just change the reality in some way but what about the black figure? I tried to solve it by myself but it was totally useless, just creating more questions for myself.

Besides the incidents, the classes go as normal, feel nothing strange. But I feel like I forgot something but can't remember at all. And it was already recess. Our recess is from 11:50 am to 12:30 pm. Most of my classmates are talking to each other, probably trying to be friends on the first day. I watched them for a few seconds, and then suddenly "ehhh!!! I just remember!. How could I forget my goal?!" I think to myself and just remember when my classmates are talking to each other. My goal was to change myself from scrap but how am I going to start is the main question.

I sitted with 2 more students on a bench, one in my left and one in the right, and I'm ready to start a conversation "uh.. He-hello? "Wh-What was your name again?" I think I just messed with my question to him.

"ohh. Hello, nice to meet you. I'm Steven" one of them sitting to the right said to me. " hmm.. I'm Travis" said one in my left

"Ohh.. Stuve... stuve.. Trai..trai... can you say it again?! I'm not good at pronouncing names.." Yeah, I'm a person who has some problems remembering someone's name. I think they will assume me as an idiot but somehow or other I become friends with them.How? I don't know but yeah I somehow make friends.. While I was talking with them..

Suddenly I feel a tense stare in my surrounding. The starch was too intense, made my bone tremble. It is only me but no one is affect beside me. I don't know what to do. My vision started to get blurred, cold wind surround me, the air around me get more dense, make hard to breathe. Feel like I'm drowning in a cold ocean water.

"Wh-what is this even happening to me?!!" Even though I feel like drowning, my throat feels too dry.

"You... are... al-...." Heard a high-pitch voice, maybe a girl or a kid voice but can't hear at all.. I started to lose my consciousness..

Before I know... I see water surrounding me, feel like drowning in the ocean... The scenes changed.

"Wh-what!"

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-To be continued.