I'm alive! Believe it!

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Darkness. Nothing but darkness. Not even a thought or an emotion, no feeling, just darkness. No sense of time either, it could have been a millennium or 5 seconds, you would not know. That's how Nick spent his 'days' in the void. He was in the void and he was the void. Then it happened, a spark of consciousnesses. And like a fire it spread through out Nick's mind, wherever that was located. It was a simple thought, a sentence, 'Where am I?' incredible basic.

He began to panic, feeling like he couldn't breathe, like he did not even have the lungs to do so. Nick was certain he had died, there was even a dramatic flashback! After what seemed liked like hours, he calmed down. Maybe he was in a coma, maybe this is the 'peaceful afterlife' he wished for. Either way he settled for his new life in the void.

"Wow you gave up just like that, eh?" a deep voice thundered out. The melodious sound seemed to bring life to darkness, all of a sudden the void of sheer blackness turned into a blinding white light. Nick was terrified, the calmness from before vanished into nothing. The speed of his thoughts accelerated to a nigh impossible speed. But soon he calmed down, this must be a dream in his coma, nothing more.

"Stop fooling yourself there, my child." The impossible loud voice chided.

"You can read my thoughts? Eh, of course you can, don't know what I was expecting."

"Of course I can my child, I am the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end, th-"

"Okay, but how does that concern me right now?"

"..."

"I don't really care if you're the burger king mascot right now, I'm dead, and assuming you are who you say you are, YOU'RE responsible for my death, so excuse me if I don't want to concern myself with you right now." It was such a random sarcastic outburst that even the voice was not expecting it. The 'voice' was dumbfounded for a brief moment, before letting out a sigh.

"You have every right to be angry at me, it was through my meddling that caused your poor soul to find its way to my abode. You were so stubborn about getting a job that your father prayed to me, prayed for you to find a job so you would finally stop embarrassing them."The 'voice' stopped its short speech to let Nick soak in the information.

"What do you mean by 'embarrassing them'?

"Well...through your ways of applying, getting rejected, and doing it all over again. It was the talk of the town, and so your father cried out to me in shame and it sounded so earnest...n'stuff. SO, I MAY and I repeat MAY have manipulated- not even that, I-I gently nudged, your manager into- uh hiring you... and getting you killed..."

Silence. Even with the blinding white light still there at full brightness, the feeling of the void crept in. Nick took a deep 'breath' in and out, trying to rationalize everything with the coma story. But he couldn't, not even in his mind could he accept that this 'entity' pretty much got him killed out of pity, and that his parents were the source of the problem. He could only chuckle, in seething anger. It felt as if the light was choking him senseless.

"But don't you worry my child, I have compensation for you. You may be reincarnated back onto earth-"

"No."

"...What?"

"I don't want to go back in time, nor do I want to be reincarnated again on earth. Let me go to the afterlife in peace, please it's the least you can do."

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