Destiny

Hello, my name is Matthew Bellamy and I'm 34 years old.  I live in an apartment and I've a son. His name is Colin and he's 5 years old. He's from my previous marriage with a woman who left me because I ''cheated on her''. Ha, of course. Me? Cheating?! The stupid twat, pff.

Well, where was I... Oh yeah, my son. Colin. He's the most beautiful human I've ever seen. He has dark, kind of black, hair and fierce blue eyes and the kindest face ever. I love him so much and he is my whole life, since he's the only thing I have, so of course he is.

My apartment is small; it has two little bedrooms, a tiny living room and a kitchen, but it's enough for a simple man like me. I don't need a big house since I live most of the time on my own. I work near the building of the apartment, and do autopsies. You know? Looking at dead people's body to find out if they died in a natural way or if they were murdered. Like they do in CSI and those other TV shows. I like my job because I don't have to talk to other people, and dead people don't talk either. That sounds weird, hmm? I'm weird, I guess. Maybe that's why I'm alone.

Colin decided he wanted to go to the park after dinner and when we both had our coat and shoes on we left the house. He grinned, poked me hard in my side and ran away. I sighed deeply, looked around me and ran after him. ''Be careful!'' I shouted when he neared the end of the street and he quickly stopped. I panted and walked to him, lifting him up and looked at him. ''Don't do that again, I'm too fat to run after you.''

He giggled, shook his head and hugged me. ''I won't, daddy, and you're not fat.'' I smiled softly and we walked further. Great, I even needed my son now to tell me I'm not fat. I'm so pathetic.

I sighed and put Colin back down on the ground when we arrived at the park. I sat down on a bench and looked at Colin who played with a few kids from his school. I smiled softly, looked up at the sky and closed my eyes. 'Please, Sun, don't burn my skin.' I prayed and sighed deeply.

But, of course, the Sun burned my skin, like it always did. I stood up, sat down quickly in the shadow of a tree and looked at my reddened skin. I touched it softly and hissed. Great. Stupid fucking pale skin, I hate you.

After our, nice, visit at the park we walked back home, Colin holding my hand tightly. ''Can we go there?'' He said after a few minutes, pulling at the sleeve of my shirt. I looked down at him and then to where he pointed. I frowned when I saw a little caravan and nibbled on my bottom lip.

''Why do you want to go there?'' I looked back at him and he shrugged.

''It looks funny!''

I shook my head and walked further, pulling Colin with me. ''Maybe another time, sweetheart, but not now.'' I looked at him and he pouted. ''It's late, you've to sleep.''

He whined and looked sadly at me. ''Pleaaase, daddy.'' I shook my head and looked away from him, because he fucking knew I couldn't say no to him.

And that's why we were at the caravan after a few minutes. Colin squealed and ran around the caravan. I sat down on the grass and watched the sunset until an old woman walked out of the caravan. I stood up quickly, grabbed Colin's arm when he ran past me and looked at the woman. ''I'm very sorry, I didn't know someone lived here.''

She shrugged and smiled. ''I love young kids.'' She said and my face screwed up. She laughed and smiled. ''Come in, please.''

I shook my head and stepped a bit away, pulling Colin with me. ''No, thank you. We'll just leave.'' I nodded and turned around but the woman stopped me.

''Come in,'' she repeated and I looked up at her. ''I'd like to tell you your future.''

I snorted, shook my head and lifted Colin up. He wrapped his arms around my neck and we walked away from the caravan, while the woman shouted, ''Your future looks very interesting, sir!''

Colin waved at the woman and I pulled his arm quickly down. ''You, tit,'' I said and he pouted. ''We'll never go there again.'' He sighed, nodded and placed his head on my shoulder.

When we got back home, I placed Colin in his bed and walked to my own room. I took my clothes off, crawled under the duvet and closed my eyes. I tried to sleep but the words the woman had said to me haunted me the whole time.

''Your future looks very interesting, sir.''

That was the moment I decided I was to visit the woman the next day.