Chapter 1: Giant Spiders and Death

"Again, everything seems so wrong. Like I'm not supposed to be here. Every night this happens, but...why?"

I roll over on my side, facing the window next to my bed and look out towards the stars.

"It's getting worse, this feeling...somethings off...I'm...so bored!"

I laugh to myself.

"I'm starting to feel crazy, I mean...here I am talking to myself out loud. My boredomis gonna drive me insane soon."

I lean up from my bed and open my window, leaning out of it and taking in the night.

"I feel so bored here...ugh, this sucks. Maybe I just have really bad mood swings?" I ask myself.

I laugh to myself again before leaning out of the window even more.

A cold breeze sweeps my body, leaving me with goosebumps.

I sigh to myself and close my window, still looking out towards the sky.

I shake my head.

"I need to get some sleep." I say to myself.

I lay back down and close my eyes to rest.

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"Kiran! Wake up already! Don't make me come in there and get you!"

I slowly get up and pull my blankets off of me, with the warmth of the blankets gone I start to shiver.

'It's my sister Yuina, she's too damn energetic in the mornings'

I walk over to the coat hanger in my room and grab a robe. The warm embrace of the wool gets rid of my shivers in an instant.

I walk out towards the kitchen and see my sister sat down at table eating some eggs, toast and sausage.

"Smells good, Yuyu." I tell her.

She looks up at me and starts to make an angry face, although she's not very good at looking scary, her cheeks puff up and it only makes her look cute.

"Yeah well it tastes even better, sit down and eat already!" She shouts.

I raise both my hands, in surrender.

"Okay, okay, you win!" I say, laughing.

I sit down and start to eat.

"Are you having trouble again? About the...y'know..." She asks.

I raise my head and meet her gaze, I look at her puzzically.

"I heard you talking to yourself again, aaand I heard the window open too. Just tell me what's on your mind, pleeeaaase?" She starts to do puppy dog eyes as soon as she says this.

I quickly look away from her.

"I'm not falling victim to that ever again Yuyu."

I see her move from the corner of my eye. Before I realize it she's grabbed my head and forced me to look at her.

'...She's pouting.'

"I may be your little sister but that doesn't mean you can't talk to me! I'm mature enough to listen!" She shouts.

I put my hand next to her forehead, and before she knows it...

*THWAP!!*

...I flick her forehead in the dead center.

She quickly let's go of me and puts her hands on her forhead.

"Owwww!"

I smile at her.

"Don't worry about me, okay? You'll start getting bad grades if you worry about me too much."

She stares at me with a big frown on her face. She goes back to eating but starts to shoot daggers at me with her eyes.

We both finish our breakfast in silence. When I'm finished I go back to my room and grab some clothes, so I can take a shower.

"AHHHH!!" I hear Yuina screem in the next room.

I walk to the front of the door, grab one of my shoes and go into Yuina's room, peeking my head in.

"Spider?" I ask.

I see her huddled in the corner of the room, her eyes wide and lips pursed.

She looks at me and then points to a spot on the wall just above her dresser.

I flinch.

'That thing is HUGE!'

I waver a bit before walking towards a 5-inch spider on the wall.

When I get closer I slowly start to realize my shoe doesn't seem like a good weapon.

I glance at Yuina.

"You should probably get out." I tell her.

She starts to scramble out of her room, keeping her eyes on the slider the entire time.

When she finally leaves I look at the spider.

"I'm not getting anywhere near you got it? Stay there I'll be back." I tell it.

I rush to my bathroom and grab my spray on deodorant and run into my room and search my desk drawer. After a few seconds I grab a lighter.

'I new this day would come, thank god I prepared.'

I run into my sisters room and thankfully the thing is still there.

I get a few feet away from the spider.

'This is still too close for comfort...'

I flick the lighter on and put my deodorant can right behind the flame, and spray.

Flame erupts and hits the spider, and for a second I thought I killed it but no. It started crawling towards the floor fast.

I'm trying my best to keep the flame on the spider but it keeps moving.

Eventually it crawls to the floor and starts sprinting towards my feet.

"AAHHHHHELL NO!!!" I shout.

I sprint towards the far side of her room and grab a broom.

I start slapping the spider with the broom with all my strength.

After a few seconds there's nothing left but bug guts.

"This moment is gonna scar me." I say to myself.

I carry the broom out of my sisters room, out of the front door, and straight into the garbage can.

I walk into the kitchen and grab a LOT of paper towels and start cleaning up the mess.

I shiver to myself. My eyes are wide and my morning is ruined.

'She had a right to be afraid, she had a right to be afraid...'

Yuina pokes her head in to check what happened.

I glance at her and give her a weak thumbs up.

"A-All...good..." I say sheepishly.

I throw away the paper towels and get ba k to taking a shower. My thoughts still haunted by that thing.

Wile I'm showing the feeling from last night returns. The empty feeling that makes me doubt my existence.

"Ugh...again?!" I whisper to myself.

But this time, it starts to hurt. Like my emotions are all be pushed out at once I start to cry.

I feel the emotional pain but I'm confused.

"Why am I...? Why am I crying? There's literally no reason to be crying so stop damnitt!" I yell at myself.

But it doesn't stop. Among the water pouring out of the shower head there was more...the tears falling from my eyes.

*BANG BANG BANG*

"Kiran?! Are you okay?! I can hear you crying, what's going on in there?!" Yuina shouts.

I try my hardest to stop this overflow of emotion.

After I few seconds the tears stop but I can still feel the sorrow.

"I'm fine! Sorry I was just thinking about a sad movie I watched recently! Stupid right?" I shout to her.

She doesn't respond immediately but I can hear a sigh from the other side of the door.

"If you don't want to tell me, fine. But don't spin up some weak excuse, because I'm not falling for that!" She yells.

I hear her walk away and I start to laugh to myself.

"You can always see through my lies cant you?" I whisper to myself.

The waterworks come back and I have to stay in the shower for awhile before I can finally get back my bearings.

When I leave the shower I quickly realize Yuina is gone.

'Did she already go to school? How can she handle that student council stuff anyways? It seems like such a pain.'

I quickly put on my school uniform and grab my bag.

'...Although it never hurts to be early.'

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As I approach the school gate, I take a second to admire the scenery of my highschool.

'Summer break felt so long. I feel like I haven't seen this place in years.'

After a few more seconds I head inside.

I pull my schedule out of my bag and start heading towards my first class...math.

'Ugh, damnitt why'd I have to get math so early in the day?!'

When I get to my class no one's there. I walk up to the front board and see the classes seating chart.

After studying the chart for a few seconds I find my seat and sit down.

I hear a shout outside and see a group of students playing at the schools soccer field.

After watching them for a few seconds I set my head on my desk and start to sleep.

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*THUD!*

I feel a deep pain in my side and keel over, almost falling out of my desk.

"Ugh, what the hell?!"

I look up and see our schools local thug Kenji. The bastard likes to get on everyones nerves, but mostly mine.

'Honestly...the name really suits him.'

I stand up from my seat and meet his gaze.

"Really gonna start this on the first day? Come on Kenji, your better than this. People might start thinking you got a crush on me or something." I tell him, acting as casual as possible.

Whenever I insult him and act casual or shrug him off it gets on his nerves.

My other clasmates, start snickering. This obviously pisses Kenji off.

He shoots a glare around the classroom and everyone goes quiet.

He turns to me, and he is livid. I almost burst out laughing.

'His face! Oh god, his face!!!'

"Watch what you say you f*cking rat! You want to end up dead in a ditch?!" He shouts.

I just stare at him and shrug. Although this just makes him angrier.

He starts to wind his fist back and gets ready to punch me.

I'm not a very good fighter so luckily, our math teacher finally decided to come inside the room. Kenji immediately stops what he was doing. Before he turns around to go back to his class he hands me a note.

I look back between the note and him as he walks out of the classroom.

"Huh?"

I walk back to my seat and read the note.

"Meet me at the roof, after school. If you aren't there then I'll go after your sister."

My eyes widen in anger. I grit my teeth and clench my fists, crumpling the brittle paper in my hands.

As the rest of the day goes on my anger only gets worse.

Kenji has been making my life a living hell for a few years now. Getting his lackeys to beat me up, harassing anyone who gets close to me. Making sure I stay friendless.

And the worst of it all? Getting his rich dad to. change my grades. No matter how well I do I'll always have an F.

Kenji grew up rich and spoiled, and thought everyone in the world should serve him.

He started doing martial arts so he could make most people bend to his will, apparently he was enjoying that for awhile, but when I stood up for one of my friends by punching him his pride got hurt.

After that he's hated me for it, and went out of his way to make my school life hell.

But the thought of him going after my sister made me seethe with anger.

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When school finally ended I ran straight towards the roof.

When I got there Kenji was waiting for me with two of his lackeys with him. As soon as he sees me he starts grinning.

"Come here, now."

I march right up to his face and shoot him a mad glare He immediately starts laughing.

"Is that supposed to be scary?! Why would I be scared by an angry twig?! Ahahaha your so pathetic!" He says.

His buddies join him and start laughing too.

I stare down for a minute. Before looking back up at him.

I crouch down a little bit before thrusting my fist upwards, putting all of my weight into one uppercut, slaming my fist directly into his chin.

The punch caught Kenji completely off guard and he collapses to the ground.

Before I can do anything else his lackeys are throwing their fists at me.

Punch after punch, I start to keel over in pain.

When I finally collapse they start kicking me. Over and over, blood starts coming out of my nose and I swear I feal a rib break.

"That's enough, leave the rest for me." I hear Kenji say.

When they stop I take the opportunity to get up and get some distance from them.

Kenji starts walking towards me.

"You can really pack a punch you know that? You might actually have some talent, but do you know how to kick? No? Don't worry I'LL TEACH YOU!!" He shouts.

Before I can react he's already slammed his foot into my thigh and my knees buckle.

He starts laughing.

"Your so damn weak! You wouldn't be good even as a punching bag! Come on! I bet your sister would be better!" He laughs.

After hearing that I gain an unknown strength and charge at him.

"Get the f*ck back." I hear Kenji say.

He slams his foot into my chest and it sends my stumbling backward.

Right when I when I'm about to regain my balance I hit something. It's the bars that protect students from falling off the roof...and I'm falling over the top of it.

I glance back at Kenji and see his face full of fear before he turns around and runs.

Before I know it I'm falling down the side of my school.

Everything is going by slowly, I can see inside some of the classroom windows. I even locked eyes with one of the students.

'This feels...surreal...'

I feel my whole body go numb.

'I can see...the sky...'

I try to reach out for it but my arms won't move.

I can feel my tears gushing out, flowing down the side of my face.

'I'm...crying again...but there's no reason to cry...'

I start to feel pain, jolting throughout my body.

'Am I really dying? This is so unfair...what did I do wrong...I just wanted to be happy...there's nothing...wrong with that...'

I can hear a few screams and a lot of footsteps.

My eyes start to get heavy and the pain I'm feeling starts to go away again.

"I'm...sorry...Yuyu..."