It was a gloomy morning in the cafeteria at Port Huron High School, everyone sat down catching up on work they were procrastinating on or starting drama via social media. Tanner sat down with the others. He was gloomy again, bags were under his eyes and he was breathing relatively heavy. He wore his prized Babymetal T-shirt from Hot Topic under his favorite flannel hoodie that he also got from Hot Topic. He ran his hands through his dark blonde hair, pulling it. He sighed and stood back up, his hands covering his mouth as he walked to the bathroom. Tanner didn't like people, he had people he trusted a lot and really cared about, but he also felt as if he shouldn't be there, that him being anywhere causes a stir, like he's a plague spreading to everyone for no reason. He just wanted high school to be over, he wanted to travel and leave everything behind. He imagines that if he can run away far enough, nothing will hurt him ever again, thinking these things help distract him from days like these. He made it to the bathroom, puking in the toilet. Normally he'd be freaking out, but he was far too used to this feeling. He's experienced moments like this more times than he'd like to admit. When he was done dying in the bathroom, he decided to head back and see his friends, but they were already gone. He sat down in art class and continued his shitty day as usual.
Later on, the others played Uno after school, Ethan dominated the others with his pro Uno skillz.
"We need to find a different card game to play." Jocelyn said.
"Bet, I'll win every time, Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokémon, you name it." Ethan said back as he loomed over Jocelyn. Ethan looked at the time and decided it was time to head home. The others agreed.
"Pet Link for me please." Jocelyn said. Ethan saluted and walked through the doors of the school, the others left afterward. It was Friday afternoon, everyone was chatting up a storm in the group chat.
"_.its.ya.boi.eshan._: We playing Uno on Monday?"
"_.info.broker.jozzy._: Um no, we need to find something we can all win please, it doesn't even have to be cards."
"tanner.is.spooky: Oof, you could try pokemon through 3DS."
"_.info.broker.jozzy._: But you don't even stay after school and play with us you bum😂."
"tanner.is.spooky: The sooner I leave school the better tbh. I hate the place, and I hate the people, other than you chirren of course."
"_.info.broker.jozzy._: Speaking of leaving school, did you go home again today?"
"tanner.is.spooky: Nah, I'm trying to avoid going home early, I'm trying to get my PS4 back as soon as possible."
"roymyth: Greetings Ningens."
"tanner.is.spooky: Henlo."
"_.info.broker.jozzy._: Well, I'm pooped, imma get something to eat, later losers✌." Jocelyn turned her phone off and took some gold fish to her room and passed out.
"tanner.is.spooky: Imma go to bed, hopefully I have a lit dream about Fuka hehe." Tanner turned his phone off and tried his hardest to have a dream about his top crush of all time, Fuka Karasawa. He sorta got his wish. Tanner was hoping for something romantic to dream about, instead, he had a dream where she held him captive in some sort of cellar and would sell his organs on the black market for prophet, every time he was injured they'd grow back, though. Tanner wasn't complaining however, she could go up to him and stab his heart with the most painful knife on the planet and he would say thank you. He couldn't explain his emotions, things involving her made him unnecessarily happy, like that time she saw his Instagram message he sent her in Japanese, she even liked it. Just knowing that he did something to get her attention and make her happy made him happy. Troy got butthurt that Tanner and Jocelyn left the chat when he joined, he decided to go to bed and turn his phone off. He had a dream about everyone's future and dreams. In the dream, Tanner got eloped to Fuka on an uncharted island full of pink elephants and donuts, where nobody could find them. Troy woke up in horror after that part, he didn't even get to the others.
On Saturday, Tanner went to confession so he could go back to Church the next day. Tanner was Catholic, not the best Catholic, but still Catholic nonetheless. He had his religious beliefs, but also had his personal beliefs too.
On Sunday, Jocelyn was mowing the lawn, when out of nowhere, the mower stopped working. She looked down, trying to fix it, as she started tinkering with it however, she began to sweat a lot, she got very lightheaded too.
A few minutes went by and Jocelyn had felt even worse, she looked up and noticed the sky had mysteriously turned dark. She noticed raindrops falling from the sky, but they weren't moving. The raindrops remained in place.
"What in the-" FOOM. Orange flames began surrounding her body, a flaming typhoon. The flames weren't burning her, however, they felt lukewarm instead. She looked up and saw some sort of creature appear in front of her. It looked like a dog with a lizard's tail.
"Greetings mortal, I am Amon." It said.
Tanner was heading back from church, he played Spotify's playlist for Ghost, a Black Metal band he was very fond of, despite them having Satanic themes to their songs. He tapped shuffle play. After his free 30 minutes without ads pop-up finished, music started playing. "Square Hammer - Ghost." Tanner leaned back and relaxed. He loved this song, he loved this band, dark and intricate, they weren't necessarily satanists, they just have a lot of dark parodies of the bible in their songs, Tanner likes dark stuff like that, but not satanism.
"Are you ready to swear, right here, right now before the devil?" Their lead singer Tobias Forge sang. Tanner looked back up and noticed they were at a store, he was in the car by himself. He stared out of the window in his mother's dark blue car. He noticed a man approaching the car.
"Nah, he's not walking to the car, no way. He's probably doing something else." He looked back and noticed the man was walking even closer to the car. He had long brown hair and a beard. His clothes were dirty, he looked homeless. Eventually the man stopped in front of the car, Tanner was sweating up a storm. He pulled his phone up, texting his mom that there's a homeless Jesus outside the car. But when he typed the words, they weren't typing, like time wasn't moving. The man put his hand on the window, the window turning dark. Tanner was mesmerized by the dark energy, eventually passing out.
