Gang of failures
Do you know when stars are always looking over you? Sometimes it's impossible to tell because of the clouds in the sky, but their judgement will always frown upon you no matter where you'll be.
I wonder, what's the difference between family and the stars? Well realistically, only one difference is to be noted. Although family will always be with you until death, the stars will always be separated from you even until the day you ultimately meet your demise.
The sun, it's a warm sphere of pure heat, it is the only reason us humans survived to this day. To those who warship gods, if the sun were to disappear right now, wouldn't everything on planet earth die in an instant? Your so called gods won't survive something like that either, isn't just bone chilling? Knowing something you look up to will disintegrate one day into mist.
My skin crawls just thinking of it, knowing one day everything and everyone will die. Even me....but if this is hell we're living in, what's beyond death?
We're living through so much pain and suffering already. It's a stretch to say death will be even worse after life, I salute to those who ended their lives early. I wish a wonderful death, no not in that context!
I just admire those who took their own lives, I'm sure they were more terrified to figure out what will happen further on in their lives than what happens beyond death. I can go as far as to say they're fearless, admiration is all I have to say for them...
I didn't wear long sleeves for tonight.... it's kind of cold. I should have worn thicker, it's not even winter yet and I'm freezing from the night. Is it too late to head back now? Yeah I'd say it is.
"What's taking them so long? I've been hear looking at the stars for 10 minutes now." The stars are so beautiful, you rarely get to see such a beautiful sight.
This brings me back to the old times...now I just sound like some sad boomer but it really is nostalgic.
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"Daichin! What are you waiting for? Come here before I drag your over!"
"Ah! Coming!" I was a pretty energetic kid back then, even with my dark thoughts.
I was as normally as I could be, hanging out with friends on weekends while focusing on my studies was something I did since I was just a toddler. I was the most popular kid in school and there's no wondering why.
I had the best grades, I was the most athletic, I was pretty good looking and my socializing skills were top-notch. However, being popular doesn't mean making friends would be easy.
You see, humans have tendencies to get...well jealous. While I was in school, over time my popularity grew over to other schools and most of my peers started to avoid me.
"He's so cute and handsome! But do you think I'm even worthy of speaking to him?!"
"Nah, I bet only a princess could ever speak with him! No way people like us could approach him normally!"
Did you hear that? They hold me so high to the point where I'm treated as a prince.
You'd think being so popular would help you make friends, but the hard slap in the face is life isn't that simple. Sure I'm slightly rich, my good looks speak for themselves, my grades are amazing and I'm willing to help anyone in a heart beat but there was an empty void I kept falling into... Could you guess what it is?
Of course you can, I've been pointing it out since the prologue...
Well better get to the punch, it's obviously friendship.
All my life I've been regarded so highly to the point although people wanted to be my friend, they were too scared to approach me. When I come to say hello to them, they get flustered and run away. I tired my best to make friends, even adopting a helpful persona in order to make friends but nothing worked as I had hoped.
People strive for popularity but they can't see past being popular around girls. Get too popular and people will start avoiding you, in the worst case scenario they might think themselves as "lowlifes" and you may even give them negative thoughts. You drive people to a false sense of security, or even insanity.
Those who want to beat you in terms of popularity won't give up until the deed is done. However they will never catch up to you.
"Damn! How the hell can I ever become as popular as Sugihara!? This is impossible!"
You drive them to insanity! They will try everything to be more popular than you, even killing you is an option if they're desperate.
I believed no one could be trusted, the moment you place your trust to someone, you're basically placing your life in their hands. They can break that trust easily with a simple assault, the scars all over my body is a direct result of that.
"You deserve it!" "You stole my first crush from me shitass!" "Think you're so popular?!" "How dare you steal my girlfriend from me!" They jealous drives people insane, I still remember those words which were so filled with hatred towards me.
I hated my life, why was I so popular in the first place? I never understood that part.
I wasn't particularly gifted, I was just...lucky. It takes skill to convert that luck into opportunities, and oftentimes those opportunities lead to success. I played my cards right, leading me to be successful in life despite the abusing from my male peers. They can't see it, I'm not naturally gifted and I don't have good genetics at all, actually they're pretty nice genetics but that's besides the point.
So....my origin, what was really wrong with it?
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"Ah sorry for the wait, homie!" Just when I asked myself that question, I could hear the voice of my childhood friend in the distance.
"Why isn't it the woman of the hour? What the hell took you two so long?!" I start off with a joking fun tone before quickly shifting into a more angrier one.
These two were always the one waiting for me, seems like time's have changed since then. Still was it necessary for me to wait 30 minutes here?! I think not!
"Sorry! Masaki and I were having steamy hot se-"
"M-Matte! You promised you wouldn't tell anyone! Also what possessed you to say that as a greeting with some!?" Naturally when it comes to such topics, Masaki is always the flustered one. I've walked in on them having...ahem sex multiple times in the past but I never really got off to it.
They were always wonderful sights but I never got excited to the point where I'd jack big money down there. Though I'm saying I didn't get an erection.
"Well it's your fault for taking so long to climax! I might have to start shoving cola bottles somewhere else instead of that bitch because of you!"
Hang on, the reason they took so long to arrive at this location was because Masaki took too long to squirt during the deed? Thank god they aren't directly addressing it!
"S-stop with that s-se-se....ahhh what are we even here for!?" That shy flustered side of her is a rare one. One you would be terribly familiar with if you live with her and her sex friend literally comes everyday to do shit.
Her expression is deliciously cute. Delicious as she looks exactly like a tomato which compliments her hair pretty well.
"Ah about that, I wanted to ask you something Ray-chan before we start."
"Hmm? What is it? Don't tell me that sex talk got you excited, but you were never one to "jack it" in your room." Why is this girl thinking sex is forever on a man's mind?! Though I will say our brains are hardwired for that shit.
She even opened a cola bottle and started chugging it! This woman's cola addiction is far greater than my apple juice one!
"So, after buying that cola bottle, how many private points have you saved up currently? Give me the exact number too."
"Hmm? Well last I check it was 154,660 I think? Let me guess you want to know about my private points so you could estimate the distance between the classes."
"Spot on cola addict! But there's another specific reason, I want to know if your class has some sort of "class representative" or something along those lines. You know, the people who govern our class back in middle school?"
"Ah I can answer this one Rayla-chan, I believe it is....Ichinose Honami correct and yourself correct?" Masaki speaks up which earns a raised brow from Ray-chan.
"You've gotten smarter last we met Aka-chan! Well yeah, me and Ichinose-san are the leaders of class-B. Though she's mostly the one who takes the initiative and I mostly just make some improvements in her plans."
This is interesting...I never thought about it clearly but that girl me and Ayanokouji saw that day was Ichinose Honami right? I never connected the dots but I couldn't anyway because of lack of proof I had. Now that theory has been proven.
Another interesting thing I've recently learned is how Ray-chan is in class-B...class-A is reserved for those who have the least amount of flaws in this school as far as I know. If that's the case then class-B has nearly no flaws before they ascend to class-A, what could be Ray-chan's defect in this case?
For all I know it could be her desire to drink cola everyday, surprised how she hasn't gotten diabetes yet? Yeah me too, it's miraculous!
"Hmm, thanks for that. I need some time to think over it. Now to the main reason why I asked you two out here! So want to get some dinner with me? There's still two hours before curfew so let's go out and eat, like the old times you know?" I break out into a warm smile which causes both of the girls to blush slightly.
"Y-yeah...sure. I have no plans for tonight so dinner sounds great."
"Well I guess I can spare my two hours!"
"And what would you have done with these two hours Ray-chan?"
"Search for the galactic empire to dominate the universe!" What the fuck?! T-that's extreme!
Although Ray-chan is pretty tough on the inside and outside, she has a lot of squishy weak points huh? She can be as dense as a black hole when she needs to but most of the time she's vulnerable to others around her. I feel a nice sense of warmth around her despite her jokes of sex.