Fools of Fate

Chapter 0

(You don't have to read this,
this is just a 'filler' honestly. This is like- very short and I dunno what happened to my grammar and my dang brain  😭😭😭)

18th of September, 20XX

3 students were at a local eatery, chatting about a game they played the past night. One was Peng, the second was Paulo, and the third was Torin. 12th grade students who are enjoying their lunch time.

"Why did Kupali have to die like that? Like, that was so lame for him." Torin whined, Kupali was a favorite character of his so he's acting like a fanboy who lost his idol. Paulo was quick to butt in, "Shut up, Toto. Everyone died in the end, you don't see me or Peng crying about it." Peng, who was just on their phone looked up at the banter, "Me? Oh, no I cried, I'm just sucking up my tears."

Paulo and Torin's banter quickly grew larger, with Peng sometimes being mentioned in the argument since they decided to stay neutral. It wasn't long before Peng decided to end it when they looked at their watch, "Psst, we gotta leave boys. It's almost 1, we don't wanna be late... Again."

With a final sigh, Paulo let his grip on the back of Torin's neck loosen, "Alright fine, I don't want Ms. Amalia to scold us..."

Torin, seemingly unable to learn his lesson, taunted Paulo, "Coward-" luckily Peng him shut up before the scene repeats itself again, "Can you guys like.... not fight right now? I really don't want to embarrass myself with all this commotion."

Torin groaned, "You're boring... C'mon, let's just go. Should we take a cab or do we just walk?" He asked which Paulo replied as he was checking his wallet, "We'll get there faster if we take a cab and- Unfortunately I don't have the money for that..." Peng nodded in agreement, sheepishly rubbing the back of their neck, "I don't have the money either, I spent it on ice cups... Sorry."

Torin decided to walk with the two on the way to school, since he doesn't want to spend 15 minutes waiting for them in the classroom. They spent their walk chatting, mostly about random stuff like how much Peng hates their siblings, "You wouldn't even believe it! I told him not to leave his plate so the cats won't steal his food and then he went 'well I wasn't talking to you ', I swear I'm gonna burn him one day." Paulo put a hand up dismissively, "Maybe you shouldn't... Your parents are pretty scary." Torin butted in, "Man do you really have to be a coward towards all this stuff, it's just a joke- Although considering that it's Peng we're talking about, he'd probably do it."

The three have arrived at a pedestrian lane, "Hey have you guys ever wondered what blood tastes like, like I know it's metally-ish but what about other people's blood?" Paulo let out a sigh as he pressed the bridge of his nose, "Sometimes you two genuinely concern me, how hard would it be for you guys to keep your intrusive thoughts to yourself?"

As the three began to cross the road, they forgot to check on both sides of the road. Sure there's traffic lights and street signs for that but some people just don't want to follow them. "So anyways I ordered this thing online that's supposed to help with stamina and to be honest it kinda looks like a sword and- OW!? Hey watch it!" A motorcycle was speeding and had barely managed to stop on time, it managed to bump Paulo's side pretty hard but good thing it wasn't worse than what would usually happen right.

People began crowding at the area, completely ignoring the traffic light that had turned green. Aside from the exclamation of pain, Paulo took the hit pretty calmly. Peng however, they had other intentions, "How stupid do you have to be to start speeding on a highway, did you know what we could report you for this. My father is a high ranked police officer and he will hear about this!" In all honesty, they sound like a Karen, but a lot of people would too if they were in a situation that almost got a friend severely injured.

As more people began crowding, more vehicles began to approach. Many vehicles tend to start speeding around this area since it's not a crowded place despite being a highway, the only reason it's crowded now is because people don't know how to mind their own businesses, most of them came to the place when others started talking about it.

From a large distance, a truck had lost control of its brakes. The driver had jumped off when it happened so now there's no one to steer it, it was slowly speeding up and moving in whichever direction it felt like moving at. It's surprising how it managed to move past traffic as if someone was driving it, the next thing you know, it was heading to where the crowd was.

Torin was the one who managed to notice first out of the three since Paulo was too occupied by the pain and Peng was... still at it with the motorcycle driver. He yelled out a warning which led to the bystanders panicking and running about like headless chickens instead of moving to the sidewalk, before he knew it, there wasn't any time for them to get out. The place was too crowded to even move properly, he managed to push Peng to the side which was easy since they were the smallest among the three. It was unfortunate that the timing wasn't the best, sure Torin managed to push Peng but he wasn't the strongest, that was Paulo's thing.

The last thing he noticed was Paulo trying to push himself up while having people constantly bumping and knocking him down, and Peng who was knocking other people down by tripping them just to get out, as expected from them. After that everything went black, all he could hear was beeping accompanied by screeching people, the truck's wheels, and some sort of cracking, he didn't want to know what made those cracking noises but he didn't hear any voice belonging to either Paulo or Peng which was just as bad. Were they ok or did they end up like him, his thoughts began fading away as he started feeling cold and his hearing deafened. It's odd.. He usually doesn't feel cold, not during this weather at least, he must be bleeding- that's the only possibility he could think of before passing out.

(So uhhh.... Idk about this one, it looks lazy at the start but then switched when there's only one perspective. I'm not really used with writing multiple people at once)