Dragon- Hero

Chapter 3: Couldn't. Get. Any. Worst

       Hey, you know that guy that said "life couldn't be any worst." I would love to punch him in the face and say Shut the hell up!

       After hearing that conversation, I walked around not even thinking about returning home because Ben could have shown up wanting to apologize or worse. I could have care less about CJ but to sell me out to a total ass. I needed some time to myself and walking definitely helped me. Just thinking about all the times I would wash the ink off my locker, the amount of torments I endured all year only to overhear my best friend also took part in making my life hell. High-school sucks. 

       I finished crying for a while now, I could still feel where the streaks of tears still left their mark even after wiping them away so many times already. I began wondering, how could I not see it; how could he fool me so so long; how could I have been so blind. I began to recollect on everything that ever that has ever happened between the two of us. From when we were kids having a laugh over a funny scene from a movie to getting picked on by CJ for the first time.

       My heart felt heavy and weighed on me like nothing I've ever felt before. I looked at my TimeX watch and saw that I've been walking until half an hour past four. The sun was still hanging high in the sky, still giving off warmth to the start of summer.

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       I turned a corner that I recognized as part of my neighborhood, you know living in a Cul-de-sac neighborhood, I living in the middle of the inclosed street. I see a police cruiser parked in front of my house and once again my stomach felt tight in a knot. I ran as quickly as I could, opened the door and I saw two cops. One of dark skin complexion, tall, bald, and muscular. The other was not as tall but still muscular all the same with a dirty blond mix with brown hair and sunglasses. I was confused as to why they were here but it could not be good.

        As I looked around the house searching for my mother wishing is was alright. It didn't take very long she was in the kitchen, next the the dining room, sitting in a chair crying her eyes out.

      "Mom?," I said in a confused state. Mom looked up and reached out her hand drawing me closer to her.

     "Oh, baby. I have something to tell you." I looked deeply into her eyes not knowing what she will tell me but I guess at the back of my mind I could already guess.

      "It's about your father, he's.....", trying to recollect herself or maybe trying to accept the the truth. "He's died." She started to explain.

      "The night he left." Catching her breath, "to go to the store, he getting robbed for everything he had on position. He tired to reason with the man before he was shot. He died soon after." Tears continued to fall from both our eyes, it seem to never stop. "The killer took your father's body and his car, soon later he dumped the body in the ravine and made his escape. That's why no one could find him. Until about noon the police came, I just got home and I was so scared baby I thought it was you. But it was you father who turned up 2 states down river." She held me tight crying into my shoulder , but I couldn't sit still I had to get up.

      That's no way for him to go out like that. My father wasn't perfect but why of all days does it have to happen to me.

     She waited for me to react or at least it settle in before she began again. But what could I say. In all honesty it hurt, it really hurt. My heart began to break again one catastrophe after another it just won't stop.

     One of the police officers coughed to let us know that they were still in the room. "Sorry to interrupt, I know this is a difficult time for you but my partner and I would still like to ask some more questions." My mother wiped away her tear and clear her throat. "Um, yes of course, ask away." Still wiping away tears from one eye to other.

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       It's after ten, I didn't bother to even check to verify the exact time. I stared at my computer and I wanted to escape from these emotions that were getting the better of me. Starting up the computer and logging into my account I would have loved to play but something was knawing at me. I couldn't shake it off. Closing my eyes, I tried to think of nothing but the darkness that surrounded me and focus on that. "Why does my life suck so much? What did I ever do to deserve this path in life?"

        As almost instantly after my plea, a voice, that was faint but could easily be heard as clear as day, came out of nowhere and as it spoke it spoke like someone was whispering into my ear.

Do you want to stay in this world?

       "NO!" Which was easier to answer than my math final.

      Given a chance where would you go and what would you be?

      Still focusing onto the darkness within the darkness, I concentrated on what it meant, the question it asked wasn't as simple. I opened my eyes and i saw The opening login screen to my character in Warriors Road. It then dawned on me "I want to go to a world where I am top dog, to be someone that cannot be bullied no longer. But I will be up being human to be something powerful and something at can be feared." Every word that escaped my lips cared great anger, sorrow but most importantly regret for my so-called friend and my beloved father. Everything was falling apart.

       Preparation completed... non-human origin. Powerful/feared status obtain. Processing..... Processing..... Processing..... Completed. New identity confirmed.

      As fast as lightening a heat overcame me. I felt woozy and sick at the same time. I had to go, had no idea where but I had to leave, now.