Chapter 1

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Death's POV:
I woke up with the sound of the alarm clock ringing and then I opened my eyes. I brushed my teeth and then went straight to the shower with my towel. I looked at myself in the mirror and said, "You're so fucking ugly," I went to my closet which has everything in it black. I put on my black skirt, my black t-shirt and my black leather jacket. I remembered when I was still with Jack he use to force me to wear something with color but I can't and I don't want to. My name, Death, was named after our dog. He died because he jumped at our terrace when my mother was still pregnant with me. I went to the table where all my makeup are, and applied some concealer and eyeliner. I wore my lipstick usually in dark color but now let's try dark pink. After I'm done with my makeup I put on my dark boots. It was long. After I'm done doing the things I should do I went downstairs and found my Mom, my brother and his friends waiting for me. "Death! What time did you slept last night?!" My mother exclaimed to me in front of my brother's friends. "I slept at 3:00 am," I replied while getting a toast from the table and walking out the door while any of them could say a word. When I got out my brother and my brother's friends followed. "Damn Death why did you do that?" Patrick said chuckling. I always liked Patrick, he's always nice to me and sweet. "I don't really know why," I replied with a little laugh. Patrick and I were always close as in super close. "So Patty Cakes who are these people?" I asked pointing at the guys, I've never met before. "Oh yeah, this is Dallon," pointing at the guy who is tall. Two inches taller than Jack. He put his hand down for me to shake but I just glared at him. "This is Spencer," he said pointing at the guy who has blue eyes. "Hey," he greeted with a smile and I just ignored it. "This is Jon," he waved at me and I didn't wave back. "This is Ryan," he pointed at a guy who has hawked hair and I have got to admit he's really handsome. But I don't really care. He said "Hi," and I didn't reply. I really don't like to reply to people. I just ignore them. "And this is Brendon," he said gesturing at a devilishly handsome guy with a big forehead. The devilishly handsome guy said, "Hello, Death," and me being me I ignored it. I'm 100% good at ignoring people except for Patrick, Andy, Pete, Joe, Gerard, Mikey, Frank and Ray. We went to school using Patrick's car, they sang along to some songs on the radio but I didn't join them. I put on my earphones and raised it to high volume. I was listening to Against The Current's song, Brighter, this song has a big meaning to me, this song makes me think of all the things that I should enjoy and not being afraid of it, of everything. The song reminds me of success and reminds me that everyone of us has a chance to be at our best cause there is a reason for us to change the world and everything in it.

"I want something more
A life worth fighting for
I don't need a reason
To set the world on fire
And burn a little bit bigger now
There's something beautiful
Hiding in the shadows
Let's set the world on fire
And burn a little bit brighter now."

My favorite part of the song is the bridge. It reflects me. It is because I can't wait, I can't wait like the others. If I don't do anything, how will I be able to achieve anything in life? How will I be the best? We arrived at school after 20 minutes. "Bye Patty Cakes and his friends," I said while kissing Patrick's cheek. And waving goodbye while walking fast to the entrance. I went to the entrance and walked straight to my locker to get my books and put it in my bag. I searched for my other papers and it wasn't there. So I went through my locker to see if my papers were there "DEAAATTHHH!" I heard someone scream my name I looked over to my left and found Brendon running with papers on his hands. He put on his hands on his knee while squatting and pointing his finger up that gestures wait hold on, "You walk so fast, you forgot your papers," he said handing my papers which I had been searching earlier. I almost cried because I was so worried, I thought I lost my papers. I hugged him, tight. "God I had been searching that this entire time. Thank you so so so so much," I said while hugging him. I felt his arms on my waist while mine are on his neck and then I let go. I thanked him again for the second time. "What's your next class?" He asked me. "Um English. How about you?" I replied. "Science, but it's just right next to your room want me to walk you?" He asked blushing. Why the hell is he blushing?! But who cares he's cute. So cute. What the hell am I thinking?! "Yeah sure," I replied to him. The walk to the room was very awkward. "I guess this is my cue," Brendon said. "Yes I guess it is," I said laughing. "But whatever, bye Brendon," I said while going in my classroom and waving at him. "Bye Death, see you later," he said while walking to the next door. I went inside my classroom and walked to my usual spot. "Good morning class," Ms. Miller said while entering the room. I hated Ms. Miller. She's a whore. I never liked her. Maybe she already fucked with Mr. Henderson and her students like what she did with Jack. She fucked with him.

The class ended pretty fast, "Ms. Stump, may I ask you something?" The whore said. Now the whore wants to talk to me ugh curse life. "What do you need?" I asked harshly. "If you were nicer I would totally answer that question," oh come on now you want me to be nice?! You just stole my boyfriend, gurl. I fucking hate you. "What do you need Miss Miller?" I asked mocking her voice. "I just wanted to tell you that I'm impressed by your grades," she said. Cut the shit, gurl. "Okay," I replied and walked out. I bumped into someone a bit taller than me. "Oh god I'm so sorry Death," he said. I looked up to see who it was, it was Brendon. "It's fine, what are you doing here, by the way?" I asked him. "I just finished class and thought it would be cool to you know, wait for you," he said blushing because of embarrassment. "You don't have to do that though," I said. "Come on let's get lunch," I said grabbing his hand and walking towards the cafeteria. I felt someone touch my shoulder and I looked at the person it was Pete. "Hey Pete, what's up?" Brendon greeted Pete and of course me being close with Fall Out Boy members I hugged Pete. He hugged back. "The table is there ma'am," Pete said while laughing.  He led us to our table where my lunch was already prepared. "Hey guys!" I greeted Gerard, Ray, Mikey, Frank, Dallon, Ryan, Jon, Spencer, Joe, Patrick and Andy. When I got to my seat I saw my food already prepared, "Aww who prepared this?" I asked with a smile. Patrick raised his hand awkwardly. I went over to Patty Cakes and hugged him. "Thank you so much big bro," he smiled and chuckled. School didn't last long and then it was already dismissal. I rushed off the classroom to see my brother and his bandmates patiently waiting for me. I walked over to them and we left the school.

Today was band practice day which will be held at our garage. Damn I have a quiz tomorrow, I guess I'll be the one adjusting again. The ride home was like the  usual, them singing along and me listening alone. We reached the house and I rushed off the car and went straight inside. I went to my room to change my clothes and made sandwiches for them to eat.

"Hey guys! I made you sandwiches and brought you some apple juice," I said holding a tray with sandwiches and apple juice. "Oh yes! This is what I like when I go here to practice!" exclaimed Joe. I laughed at him and said, "I have to go now. I need to review for my quiz tomorrow," they all waved at me and I left the garage and went to my room. I was reviewing about Ferdinand Marcos. He's an old Filipino president who declared Martial Law. Martial Law is the ability of the soldiers/police to control the country. It is stated in the book that Martial Law was declared because the Philippines became unorganized. There were so many things that happened during the Martial Law, like people dying and being tortured. I didn't like what happened that time to the Philippines and then, it is stated there that Marcos stopped the Martial Law when Pope John Paul II came to the Philippines in 1981. The Martial Law lasted for about 21 years. In those 21 years of suffering, they also lost the ability of being free and the Filipinos lost their rights.

"Honey, I'm home!" My Dad exclaimed. I rushed off downstairs to give him a kiss and a hug. "Look at my beautiful daughter," he said. I chuckled and called Mom. "Mom, Dad's home!" I shouted and then she came out of the kitchen and kissed Dad. "Call Patrick and his friends, tell them that dinner is ready," my Mom told me. So I went to the garage and heard Patrick singing.

"We're going down down,
In an earlier round and,
Sugar we're going down swinging,
I'll be your number one with a bullet,
A loaded God complex,
Cock it and pull it."

"Guys dinner is ready!" I said and they all replied, "We'll be there in a sec,"
I went back to the house and fixed the plates. Later on, they went inside and Patrick's friends greeted my parents and Patrick hugged Dad. We ate dinner together. We consider Pete, Joe and Andy family too. When we're done eating I washed the dishes and went to my room. After a while someone knocked on my door. I opened my door and saw Patrick smiling like a freak and then he smashed something on my face and saw cream. Damn he wants to play cake fight. Although the cream did taste good. I rushed downstairs and found cake I took some icing and put it on Patrick's face. I rushed to my room and locked it while laughing. Everyone saw what I did. I washed my face and went to Patrick's room where he was also washing his face in his bathroom, and I kissed his cheek and said, "Goodnight, Patty Cakes," with a smile and he said, "Goodnight, Nova," while laughing. I also laughed at him because my real name is Nova Death Stump but I prefer Death and I slapped the back of his head and said, "Shut the fuck up, Patrick," he laughed and I went out of his room and went to my own room. I closed the door and turned my lamp off. I fell asleep just by looking at the glow in the dark stars that were placed on my ceiling. If life is this good to me, what could happen? I thought to myself.

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