I Died like a Dog

It was a night like any other... Except that it was the full moon... and that is was raining lightly... and that it was my birthday.

The New York landscape had been particularly appealing nightfall approached as I envisioned the appealing display that was the cityscape before me.

I was packing up my things and getting ready to leave my office, when I see those that I thought to be my best friend and fiancee along with the other board members approaching the room. Around them were several of the building's security guards. 

Before I have the chance to speak up, the apparent leading figure in the remaining board members approaches, opening his greedy gullet and saying "Unfortunately Mr. Cole, for you that is, your services will no longer be required at Cole Tech. We will leave you to discuss the details of your dismissal with Mr. Jackson and Mrs. Hart" With that being said the board members leave, with only the guards and my 'family' remaining.

"Jin" speaks the traitor, "back when we were kids, I always knew that you would succeed in life, you had these amazing ideas, and it seems that dear Emily here, and the Hart family thought the same" 

"Dude, Derrick, what are you talking about man!? You're my best friend, with me through thick and thin, why are you doing this?!" I shout, still uncomprehending.

(A/N: You'd have thought that so many years in the business world would have shown him the greedy and opportunistic side of humans right?)

"I always knew that you were looking down on me like I was stupid when I couldn't see your vision! But now we know who's the real dumbass now, don't we?!" he chuckles after his affirmation and continues speaking "Now that I've taken your, business and all of your assets, you can thank your 'ex' fiancee for that by the way"

"I'm sorry Jin" says the bi*ch, "my family and I thought you were smart and all but we needed someone that could hold onto the family's investment better"

Fully enraged I charged, shouting and swinging a right hook at Derrick's face, he grabbed my fist, backhanding me across the face, which sent me straight to the floor. He placed his boot on my head as I lay there, struggling to get up. "You know Jin, why couldn't you just leave the premises calmly?" He put more weight onto my scull before I got a brief reprieve. That being immediately followed by a kick to my stomach, sending me crashing into the desk I had been using only minutes before. 

I stood up, beaten and bloodied, but I waited, waited for him to come closer. Then, in a surprising show of speed and agility, I kicked him in the stomach, causing him to have keeled over. But before I was able to press my attack several sets of arms held me in place, wrapping my arms behind my back and keeping me straight. 

Derrick, now clearly enraged, uses me as a punching-bag until his anger had died down. Barely holding on to life I stare at him in defiance, as he makes a gesture towards the guards to escort me off the premises.

I was launched into some random alley, crashing into a set of trash cans, upon my encounter with the floor. I lay there dying on the street.

I'm pretty sure some hobo took my shoes as well, while bleeding out I think over what I could have done better, what choices I had made that led to this terrible fate. As my consciousness faded, only resentment remained, and with my last breath I cursed the world and those that had taken everything from me.

POV MC: 

I woke up, at least I thought I did, only void surrounded me, I looked down finding myself to be without a body, simply floating...

I floated for a while, could have been seconds, days, decades, millennia. I̶̦͒ ̵̩͠s̶͔̆t̴̨̊a̷̯͘y̷͔͌e̵͇̓d̵̝̀ ̷̄ͅs̵̠͋ą̶̀n̴̡̈́e̷̖̔ ̷̫͝t̸̠̾h̶̻̃o̸̞͐u̴͓͛g̵̭͗h̷̫͘!̸̙̃ at least as much as possible. 

"That was some of the funniest sh*t I have ever seen, in fact it was so funny I think I should give you a second chance"