1 Chapter 1: End of a Story

1st POV (Present time)

Today is currently Saturday, and it's time for me to recieve my 2nd end of semester report card with my parents. "Shit" is all I say after waking up. I feel like something bad is gonna happen, because I know the scores will probably be bad. 'Damn, I kinda regret not memorizing and study more about those subjects and did tests by guessing.'

I get off from my bed after thinking about a couple things like how to calm my parents down after meeting with the teachers and what snacks I should bring to school while waiting for my turn. After tidying the bed, I walked towards the bathroom and take a shower, brush my teeth and clean the bathroom floor. Then I get ready for the meeting at 7:30 AM.

It's currently 6:30 AM, so I got time to eat breakfast. I get out of my room and go down stairs and find out that my little brother is just eating bread and cereals at the dining table. 'Little bro must've come down to eat so he can start watching anime and play games later.' When my little brother wakes up early, it's either because he has school to attend or because he's exited to watch and play because it is Saturday or Sunday. "Hey Sam! How did your meeting with the teachers go yesterday?" I asked. "Well brother, if it weren't for you telling our parents that I didn't actually study and managed to pass most of the tests which made them scold me for 2 hours. It was fine I guess. Oh and also there is no more bread and cereal left, I ate them all." He said with a grin on his face.

The relationship with my little brother and me are strong because nothing is stronger than family. We would play games together, sometimes snitch on each other and we got each other's back when our parents were about to scold us. 'Huh, he's watching dragonball z again. Well that series is quite long after all.' I went to the cupboards near the table and bring out an instant noodle pack. Then I cooked it for myself.

After I finished eating, I see that my parents have finished getting ready. My dad and mom told me to double check the things I should bring. I do that and tell them that I am ready. 'Ready to face an huge amount of scolding after this meeting.'

(Time skip to school)

So far I hear some students laughing akwardly due to their scores and see some of them with crying while laughing 'Poor dude, hope you don't have to get scolded too much.' After 10 more minutes, it was finally my turn. I feel heavy walking towards the classroom where my homeroom teacher is in. Step by step I walk forward to the room with my parents at my sides and open the door. "Hello there Tristan, Mr and Ms Youthanasia. Please, take a seat." My teacher says with a joyful tone. Strange, why is she joyful? Isn't she suppose to be dissappointed at my scores due to how terrible they are? Unless...

"Ms. Youthanasia your son's grades are fantastic, all of it surpass the average score in his class which is 85.7. My jaw almost dropped. 'How the fuck is that even possible, I'm pretty sure I guessed most essays, tests and worksheets they gave me.' She then proceed to show me my report card and holy shit, what she said before was all true.

My parents show a relived and happy expression because after seeing this, because now they are assured that their son will pass the grade. 'I really need to tell little bro to not talk about this' After a while Ms. Pauling (the teacher) and my parents finished talking. "Son, we're happy that you and your little brother are able to pass. So today we're gonna go to the game store and buy 4 of your choice, 4 for you and another 4 for your brother. So text your brother to get ready, we're gonna pick him up." Dad says with a smile on his face. 'Maybe I was over reacting this morning.'

(King Crimson!)

After picking my little brother up, we both sit at the back of the car, while my parents sit at the front. I whisper to his ear and said "Dad is going to buy us 8 games that we want, 4 for you and 4 for me. So please, let's not talk about my report card ok little bro." After hearing this, he smiled and nodded at me before saying "Okay!" with an exited voice. My father looked at the rearview mirror chuckling at the sight of me and my bro's excitement. The trip to the game store, which is also inside a mall takes 45 minutes. And after that we finally arrived.

We first go to the 4th floor of the mall which is filled with various restaurants to eat because we have not eat proper breakfast. We pick an all you can eat type restaurant and picked the 1 hour pack (they can stay and eat anything there for 1 hour, anymore than that and they must pay for additional extention). We eat slowly and finally go to the game store in floor 3. We picked the games we want but then my little brother said something to me. "Brother" when he says brother instead of bro, it means he is serious about something. "Yes?" "I think we should pick 2 each, 4 is too much, and I feel guilty for this because we didn'y really work hard, we just got lucky." he says with his face lowered. I also agree with him, so after that we discuss what game we pick and go to our dad. "Huh only 4? Are you sure about this?" our dad asked with a confused face. But we nod our head and say "Yes".

After dad and mom bought our games we pass by an arcade. Suddenly dad speaks, "Why don't the both of you kids play at the arcade. Your mother and me are going to buy the large credit pack so you can play as much as you want until you use all of the credits." My little bro's eyes start shining. I don't even know how that's even possible.

And so we spend 5 hours in the arcade playing zombie shooter games like House of the dead 4 and HOTD 5 Scarlet Dawn. Because the arcade is new, all the shooter games pistol controllers works perfectly fine. And because of that we only need 5 tries to completely beat HOTD 4 and 5 tries to beat HOTD 5. After that we play more shooter games like Time Crisis series and Dead Storm Pirates. Other than that we also played various MaiMai machine, even though we suck at it and didn't use gloves to play it, we had fun. We also played some crane games and those 'drop a ball' type game. In the end we won a drone, a PS Vita, a 3DS, 3 Neco Arc nendroid figures and 31.560 tickets. With the tickets we exchange them for a new rice cooker, and 2 bicycles.

After playing, then shopping with mom, I check the time an it's currently 8 PM. So we eat at a McDonalds restaurant and finally decided that is's time to go home. But suddenly we hear an explosion near the McDonalds we were at. Some people got near the source to check what happen, while my family and other people with common sense stay away from there. After a while the security and firemen manage to put the fire out and keep the crowd of people away from the place of explosion, we hear that only a few are injured but no deaths. Soon I start to get that bad feeling I got in the morning.

After that I saw a drunk man walking passed us and I managed to get a look at his face. 'He looks wierd' is what I thought. Then we go to the parking lot in the 2nd floor and head home. After arriving at our house, one by one everyone gets out of the car. While I am the last one to get out, little brother closed the door and gave me a grin. 'This rascal, I'm gonna scold him later.' When I try to open the car door, it didn't open, I tried pushing it after holding the release button but it still won't open. Then I see dad with a horrified expression with his face. He tried to open the door from outside and it didn't work, he kept banging the glass window too. Before I get to know the reason why he acted like that. I heard a truck's honking sound infront of the car and inside that truck was the same person I saw at the mall.

The trucked then ram the car with me in it. My head got hit by the front seat, and I think I heard a crack from my body, I can also feel some of the projectiles hit my face and lungs and throa. I can hear my dad screaming and mom calling the ambulance. I wanted to scream because of the pain but I can't. 'Perhaps this is because I didn't study or work hard for those good grades? Or maybe because I used up all my luck in that free Arknights aniversary gacha pull and today's crane games. Damn, I didn't even get Skadi, but still glad that I got 3 Kal'tsit and 2 W.' After thinking about what did I do to deserve this, I can barely hear what my dad is trying to tell me.'Probably comforting me, that the ambulances is on its way or something.'

(Our main character is 16 years old when he died)