1 Prologue...

Well, what can I say? My life has been anything but good. Who am I, you ask? I'm Rai. I guess you can say I was forced to be an adult. I've never passed university, nor celebrate my birthday after I was 14. Why? My family isn't doing well. That man ran from our family when I was 15 and left my mom and me with nothing but our shabby house, a letter and a weird-looking bookmark.

What's in the letter? I don't know. I hid it. And, before you think anything further, I know I should read the content, it's been around two years since he left us, but I can't do it. My mom has no idea of this letter's existence. And well, I do think she shouldn't know about it.

As my head was wandering all over the place, I heard a soft scream. "Rai! come and eat." It was my mom in the room beside mine. Reluctantly, I moved off our shared bed to get dinner.

"Sit down Rai. Look!" She said with a smiling face.

I looked over, and it was a fancier dinner than I thought it'd be. It was McDonald's double cheeseburger along with some nuggets on the side, my favourite meal. Without saying anything, I gobbled down the burgers and nuggets. After a while, I glanced over my mom and through the edge of my eyes, I saw her smiling. She probably noticed my glance, I thought, as she opens her mouth.

"Do you know what day it is today, Rai?"

It's been a tough work as a Pizza-hut deliveryman for me. So I really didn't know what day it was. So I just tilted my head in confusion.

"So you did forget Rai, it's your birthday, remember! Your 18th birthday to be exact", Mom explained.

Oh, I guess it was my birthday. That explains the dinner.

Noticing the silence, Mom took out a present for me and said: "I know things weren't well this past few years, but please be happier, just like a teenager would" and with that she handed over a set of books. There were a lot of different titles in there that I recognised. A few were naruto books, there was one English novel book, some other comics and another appears to be.., Spongebob? I looked at my mom confusingly, and she said, "Oh yeah, the bookstore manager was nice enough to give that SpongeBob book for free."

Well, honestly I don't know what to say, and so I lightly said thanks and finally finished up with dinner. I then told her that I was going to sleep. I wasn't really going to do that, but I couldn't handle the awkwardness on the table. As I shifted over the bed, I continuously stared at the ceiling. I was bored and had nothing to do. So I figured... why not read the weirdest book here. As I zoomed over the selections of book, I can't help but be most interested in this Spongebob storybook.

As I scanned through the SpongeBob book, I noticed that it was a relatively thick 150 pages long comic, so I couldn't possibly read it all on one sitting. I figured that maybe I could finally use that bookmark my 'dad' left for me. And so there I was.. reading something I would've least expected that night—a Spongebob book.

I have to admit; it's been a while since I read or did something relaxing. So it was a nice change of pace for once. That is until I hear my mom coming over to the room. I couldn't let her see my first pick of the readings to be Spongebob. It'd be embarrassing. Reactively I immediately placed the bookmark to whatever page I was and quickly hid it under my pillow.

Just then, she entered the room we shared, while I pretended to sleep on my side of the bed. She walked past me to one of our limited tables in the house and started working. I looked at her with guilt all over my face. I wish things were different, but I guess it was too late to fix our strained relation...

I didn't know exactly how long I stayed awake, but I just lied there looking at the ceiling as though it was within my hand's reach... before I closed my eyes.

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Wait did I see that right, Spongebob!? Is this a dream?