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I am tired.

Sitting alone at lunch on a Wednesday, I felt living was just endless torture. Halfway through the school week… I just feel like school is now just a pain to go to.

Looking out the window, I see a full-on bloom of colors outside the cafeteria. It is peak fall season, my favorite season too. It is not zero degrees all the time, but it is not humid like hell.

(Lunch bell)

Nice! I just have to sit through two more classes.

After getting up and looking around, I see many groups of friends leaving for the class together while laughing. Pieces of jealousy passed through my mind at the sight, and I also realize that I don't contribute much as a person as well. The good thing is that I am not being bullied.

I sigh and march on with my day.

2 classes later ~

I am waiting on the bus to drop me off at my house. I sit in the front for two reasons. One, my stop is one of the firsts. Two, I really don't know anyone on the bus. Without looking around, I can probably assume that some people are on their phones and the rest are talking with each other.

I look out the window without any choice. Currently, in 7th grade, I think about my future high school, is it going to be as hard as this? I freeze at the thought.

While admiring the boisterous noise in the back, I refocus on what I should do when I get home. I live only with my grandma because my parents died in a car accident two years ago when they were celebrating their 10th anniversary. Of course, my grandma couldn't believe it at first, and she tried holding her sadness and loss while hugging the naive and inquisitive 10-year-old me. At first, I didn't know what my grandma meant, but I realized. They will never be able to come home.

It hit me hard that my legs gave out at the realization, but tears dripped down like it was nothing. My grandma hugged and cried with me throughout all of it. As for my grandpa, he died before I was born, so I never felt such a heavy loss.

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I always ponder at people saying that typical main characters would have tragic family background stories. I have these stories, but I don't feel like the main character. Powers that defy any logic or reasoning make me both interested and jealous of that world.

As my vision refocuses on the current world, I notice my stop is near. I quickly double-check if I got everything. I hate the feeling and embarrassment of having to ask the bus driver for my items, even if the bus driver is very kind. I got off the bus.

Before I enter my house, I make sure that I always change my pessimistic mood. I try to come back home looking happy and positive to not worry my grandma. She and I have been under much tension, we both feel that we are slowly sinking underwater lately.

I enter my house looking different and positive. "Hey grandma, I got back home from school!" I announced it into my house.

However, there is no response. An eerie feeling hit me. I immediately searched around the house for my grandma; only to find a note saying. [Went to grocery shopping]

I let out a sigh of relief. Usually, we would order groceries online to be dropped off at our house or she would hitch a ride with our neighbors. However, I think she knows that we are slowly running into money problems, so we would have to conserve the money.

I sling off my backpack into my room and dive into the soft bed, melting away my problems. I would always wish for cool superpowers, but as always, I am just a normal human being. As I nearly fall asleep, my ears pick up a whoosh and humming sound near to me.

A beautiful blue portal attracts my nonexistent attention, the spiraling animation hypnotizes me. I crawl off my bed and tumble into the portal. My eyes close to sleep.

Feeling burning on my skin, I shoot awake in the greenest and organized grass field that is present. The first thing that hit me, I have the strong urge to piss. Darting around my wide surroundings, I make sure of my privacy without anyone's notice.

It is a comfort that hits home after my business.

Second thing, I didn't know the place. Greenfields that stretch for nearly endless, clouds that dance slowly across the sky, and two suns hang close together in the sky.

Wait, two suns?

It hit me. I am dreaming. Realization hits me that I am dreaming in this magical land, but I register further that I just pissed on my bed. I slap hard at myself to wake up and clean up my mess before grandma arrives home.

Embarrassed, I need to wake up now. (Slap sound effect.) I open my eyes to see the same scene. Staring shock around me, I have my triple realization, a different world.

Different world, I have especially wished for. To be a "hero" of a different world, to meet God beforehand, and to get isekai by truck-kun have been all of my dreams.

Wait, I neither didn't get to be the "hero" nor to be isekaied by truck-kun nor to meet God. My knees fall on the ground, and I feel scammed by my situation. I just got randomly transferred, as if God spun the globe of this world and teleported me where it landed.

Not all is lost, I carefully look around me. Seeing a dirt road stretching the land, I have to make a decision of where to head next. I decided why not just to my right.

While walking, I begin to pay attention to the small details: clean air, soothing wind, and ambient noises of critters.

On Earth, I have never been out of my city into the rural areas. I look up again casually and spot a wide flying animal, far up in the sky. I tense up for not wanting a battle against an animal who can fly. Although it is heading away, I feel scared and take cover in the grass.

I have never fought against any flying animals on Earth, but I do not want to find out right now, especially in a different world. Even against small insects like bees or mosquitos, they are deadly enough to be small and able to move freely in the air.

Relieved that it is gone, I walk down the dirt road again. I feel refreshed by merely experiencing this new world, and I leave behind the problems on Earth. Enervating school life, lack of friends, and rough life conditions are problems that I didn't want to deal with.

...Wait. Did I just leave my grandma…