The Rabbit Hole

"I would miss you, Ace."
Casey repeated, in a more confident voice this time, raising her gaze to look me in the eyes. Her grey eyes were misty with unshed tears. I stared back at her, my glare falling to a blank, open mouthed stare. I felt trapped in her watery eyes.
All it takes to cause an avalanche is a pebble.
All it takes to create a tsunami is a ripple.
And so it goes that the minute differences in detail bring about the biggest changes.
This wasn't a story of the universe I was familiar with. This wasn't a story of the people that I knew in this life.
The people I was accustomed to weren't acting as I was used to. Yet, if I really peered down at them, I had found that at the core, they were the same.

Same souls, different casings. Same locations, different happenings.

I wasn't ready for the rabbit hole I was staring down into.

Ace Cadogan was staring into a rabbit hole he hated. His mother and her new partner were heroin addicts that were constantly trying to harass him with the drug too. His only endgame here was to die.
He may have had a cut and dry case there if not for his highschool's newest Maths teacher Acacia Robinson, or 'Casey'.
After documenting his suicide plan in the back of his maths book one period, very convinced that no one would find it, Casey confronts Ace and begs him to change his plans, hoping that she could somehow get through to Ace and get him to enjoy life again.