Depth of the Ocean

INEXSPECTATUS

His heart is beating so fast, eyes so puffy, with red tears flowing, hair crumbled and pulled up in different ways; until, his forehead hits the wall. Blood all over his face. He lays down on the floor and closes his eyes. Then, he woke up. It was just a nasty dream.

It was a new day for Hiro, but it starts with a very bad one. He, then starts preparing food before going to school. He ate, took a bath and prepared his uniform for school. He packed his things and leave. His morning routine is as plain as it seems. While at school, he listen and take notes in the discussion and just wait for the dismissal of every teacher. During breaktime, he just sits around the corner and sometimes he doesn't even move his chair and just wait for the next class to start and wait for dismissal. Time's passing by so fast, that you don't even realize that it's already time for dismissal. Lastly, after going to school, he eats dinner with his family and goes to his bedroom. It was his routine. A cycle of his daily life.

His night seems to be longer and messier than this day. At night, it was as if he was swimming in an endless ocean, where he continues to swim and keeps waiting for someone to help; he slowly gets tired and stops swimming. He keeps hearing a voice. He tried to rise up, but those words keep pulling him down. And he can't do anything but to submit to the word 'cause he's getting tired of fighting. When he reached the depth of the ocean, it's very dark and for the first time, he asked.

"Just who are you?", having a gloomy voice about him

" I'm the sea serpent." The raspy voice replies.

"But why do you keep doing this?! Why?!" He asks angrily

Then everything turns dark.

He woke up and starts another day. He keeps repeating the same routine but as time goes by, he's weakened day by day, and got used on drowning in the depth of the ocean of his own thoughts, and bit by bit, his will to ever swim up again seems to decrease each day.

Another night enters, again, he tries to fight Serprnt's word.

"Why do you always do this? Why does it have to be me?", Hiro showing his frustrations.

"Because you're unloved, you're weak, you're ugly, no one likes you, and you can't fit to any group of friends, you're worst, that's why no one will ever choose to be with you, in short you're just a trash that no one ever likes.", the dastarted serpent answered.

"No! No! No!" Hiro replied with exasperation.

"Yes you are! You need to wake up to the fact that you're just like me, you are never loved, you are always alone, and no one will ever appreciate you. We just want to have beautiful things with us, but fate didn't give us a chance, and the one they called God doesn't even care about us. 'Cause if he loves you, he will never make you suffer like this." the serpent keeps on decieving hiro.

And then again the night passed.

A new day starts. Everything seems to be normal, but Hiro can't be seen anywhere. He didn't even prepare food for his parents. His parents thought that Hiro just went early for school and maybe he just forgot to leave a note or said anything to them. It was 6 pm and Hiro is supposed to be at home at this moment. One hour later, he's not home yet, so his parents got worried. So his mother went up to his room and was shocked. She see all Hiro's things for school at home. His bed was very messy and at the bottom of the pillow she saw a piece of paper.

"I'm really drowning, I can't swim up anymore, I wanted someone to help me but my mouth won't speak, and no one can ever notice it. I smiled each day but deep within, I've kept on fighting the voice that makes me surrender day by day. I don't know what to do, I'm drowned and I don't know if I could ever swim up again."

His mom cried after reading it, and his father immediately called the police to report a missing person. Few days passed and there's still no update. Hiro's parents are losing their hopes that their son was still alive. Later that day a knock in the front door was heard. The mother immediately opens the door and was shocked by what she saw. It was Hiro. They hug him tightly, they didn't ask or say anything but thankful that their son is alive. They prepare him a food to eat and let him wash himself first.

During dinner Hiro's parents we're closely staring at him and then he smiled and said, "You don't have to worry about me now, one thing I can say is that I have someone who can save me day by day, It is Bathala who helped me."