"Do you think this is a game?"
The words echoed in my head. I've heard this phrase so many times before in my life. I couldn't take anything seriously. People would always ask if I thought everything was a game. I honestly didn't think that, I just loved to not take things seriously. I always said no because not only was that really what I thought, but I was also afraid of the consequences I might face for saying yes. There were times where I had wanted to say yes, just to see what might happen if I did, but I was too scared. It would be stupid of me to say something I might regret later on, or something that might be used against me later on.
Sometimes my smart mouth gets the better of me. Many people can't handle being around me and leave. I'm left alone to think up other things to say, to think up other ways to avoid taking things seriously. When faced with that sort of situation, I always find a way to get around it without having to get serious. I didn't think I would need to. We're all going to die sooner or later. Nothing we do in life will amount to anything. We're the NPCs of this world. We try to do as much as we can, but don't amount to anything when compared to the "playable characters". We NPCs are just back-up, tools to be used by the hero. So why bother trying?
For once, I was faced with a situation where I had to be serious for once in my life. There were no possible ways for me to get around it, no matter what I said, or what I did. They asked me that question that had haunted me for so long once more:
"Do you think this is a game?"
No more running away. I felt as though something inside me had changed. I felt a burning feeling inside me. I wasn't afraid. I wasn't going to dodge the question. I wasn't going to say something I might regret for the rest of my life. For once, I knew what I wanted to do. There was no doubt in my mind that through this, I would get the result I wanted. Everything I had done, everything I had gone through so far, was done to get me here, and I wasn't about to lose this opportunity. I was down to my last life, but I didn't care. Before me stood one of the hardest challenges I would ever face. If I could get past this, I could get past anything.
