After the accident

"Hurry to the ER!" A distant voice resounded, Androm just barely heard it. It sounded faint and distant, completely opposite to the strong gushes of wind hitting him while his head pierced through the air as he was moved.

Loud ringing haunted Androm, making his ears bleed and his mind to suffer a terrible headache. Even though the ringing was only happening in Androm's mind, his ears still suffered.

"Patient has 2 broken bones, over 90 fractures, and extreme blood loss!" The voice appeared again, now even more faint.

Am I.....dying?

Androm had many regrets in his life, he was an ordinary man turning 50 years old, he had 2 children and 1 grandchild, Ann, she was turning 14.

Androm was born into a middle ranked family, although they were only a few steps away from being poor. His father always returned home late, sometimes not even returning, such was the work of a doctor.

That all changed when his father found a good-paying job overseas, he left Androm, his mother, and his sister and headed overseas. A few months later, he returned and took them with him before going overseas again.

Overseas, Androm managed to have a good life. He was only 7 when he left his country. He and his family never suffered from overtime again, there was always food and beverages to eat and drink.

Androm was always at the top of his class, he mastered his second language, English, at only 4th grade. There was virtually nothing he didn't know.

That all went downhill.

His father cheated on his mother, forcing Androm, his mother, his sister, and his newly born brother to return to their home country.

I see...at least I managed to buy Ann her smartphone

Androm couldn't muster enough concentration to think more, as he closed his tired eyes, the pain slowly subsided, making him steadily rest in peace before he died.

Or at least, he thought.

***

Androm opened his eyes, and immediately looked around. He was in a small room, in front of him was a desk, a label on it that read 'Principal'. A woman sat on a chair behind the desk.

Androm looked behind him, three boys, were looking down.

"So, they drew a big circle on papers with a pencil, and shoved them into your face?" The woman, the supposed principal, said as she held a paper in front of Androm.

The paper had a dark grey big circle in the center, drawn by a pencil.

"Y-yes" Androm faked tears and cried, he remembered this situation. It was one of the many cases of bullying he suffered before he learned how to fight.

Through brute strength.

"I see..." The woman handed over the paper to him, "Do it to them".

"Huh?" Androm stopped crying, he took the paper and looked at the three boys, finally recognizing them all.

They were all part of a famous bully gang in his school, at least, in his class.

Their leader was the very reason Androm learned how to fight, even if it was only punching and kicking like a madman. Androm learned fighting from experience, being always sent home with a bleeding nose.

"You mean shove the paper in their faces?" He looked back at the woman, who just nodded in response.

Furiously glaring at the bullies, he took the paper and went through all of them, shoving the paper in their faces so hard they fell to the ground.

The three of them were sent home with a dark face, their noses grey.

"You can now return to class, if anything happened, you can report to me" The principal smiled at Androm, for which he smiled back before heading out of the room.

'Let's see...Is my life flashing through my eyes or am I reincarnated?

Did that car hit my head? Reincarnation is fictional' He slapped his face from both sides with his hands as he went up the white marble stairs.

' It is still a possibility, but I doubt it'

Arriving in front of the wooden class door, Androm almost cried. The wooden door was littered with stickers and whatnot, above it was a yellow metal plate labeled '4-D'.

'If I'm actually redoing my life, then I must not do my mistakes' He wiped the few tears that came out from his eye as he pushed open the door, greeting the warm sunlight and the face of his old classmates.

'A boys only school, that's what the Reyda school is. Technically, it is a boys only and a girls only school. Up until 3rd grade, boys stay in the girls section, then the move to the boys side of the school' Androm thought as he made his way to his friend, who he immediately recognized.

He moved the green wooden chair slightly back before sitting on it then pushing it forwards, his right hand supporting his chin, Androm looked at Ivan.

"Did you get bullied again today?" Ivan asked with a worried tone, not sparing Androm a glance, he already knew how his face looked, his eyes were instead on his textbook.

"Jeez, not even sparing me a look? Y'know how they are, but they ended up getting suspended for a couple o' days anyway" Androm took out his own textbook too after looking at the contents on the big monitor on the wall, the English subject was what's featured.

Reyda school was a Language school, each and every class featured a monitor and a projector to aid teaching, it was also located in Saudi Arabia, meaning its teachers were of varying nationalities, same goes for the students.

Ivan only sighed, he looked at Androm, "Yhael is worried for you. Besides, those scumbags are becoming more daring nowadays. My bag was stealed 4 times today!" He complained.

Androm smiled, reminiscing the memories with his friends, "Tell him to focus on his studies, much more important anyways. He gotta stay at the top of the class if he wants to become a doctor. And those losers are in for a real treat tomorrow, Imma make sure they don't touch none of us even again!"

While Androm only said the truth, a bit of lies were in the last sentence. His bullies were persistent, even after learning how to fight and defending against them, they started targeting his friends.

'I won't let them even think of you guys again' Androm's eyes turned sharp as an eagle, anger was present in them.

"Never again"