"Hoooaaaaam....."
Another day started for a man in his middle twenties as the sun shone through his window and fell unto his face.
"Why do I feel like becoming a zombie these days..?"
He woke up lazily from bed and walked with slouched back to the bathroom to start the day.
He felt like life is meaningless for him. His everyday life started from home, which is a 3x4 rented room in downtown area to work in a small life insurance company as an agent that didn't give him many incomes.ย
"Waah!" He shouted a little as he walked past a mirror in the bathroom. He got shocked so much that his body got loosen up and tried to relieve anything he was holding in. He thought that he was seeing a ghost from the reflection on the mirror. Eye bags with a really deep dark circle and sunken cheeks also originally skinny body really looked like a zombie's face in the normal people eyes.
'Huft~ I really need to cut my overtime work and my late nighter or I'll really die of shock seeing my own face...'
Although he had a scary face with long limbs actually he had a severe introvert personality plus scaredy cat trait, it really made him easily to get shocked and scared.
'Get yourself together Lucius Nigel! Why would you get scared of your own face... Luckily there's no one is here'
Lucius steadied himself and got ready to go to work. Because of the near distance from the home to the workplace Lucius only needed to walk there. Everyone that he met on the way was avoiding or gossiping himself.
'Please don't look at me! please.. It's SCARY y'know...' thought Lucius as he walked with slouched back with head more down.
"Hey Lucy!" Shouted someone from the distance. The man has a bright smile on his good looking face with a straight back and fit body, he wore an expensive suit and an expensive watch. Everyone one that watched him felt like the sun was walking beside them and it warmed their inside, unknowingly smiles bloomed on their faces.
'Oh my God! here we go again, Will "Mr. Perfect" Douglas' thought lucius as he got shocked
Willberg "Mr. Perfect" Douglas is Lucius's classmate from high school. Will was the "Mr. Perfect" in everyone eyes back then. Good at sports and academics, good looking face and good style, came from renowned family. Not just girls, guys, parents, and teacher, everyone literally idolized Will, girls wanted to be his girlfriend, guys wanted to befriend him, parents set him as a standard for their child, parents set him as a goal for students. Nobody dislike him except Lucius.
"Hey.. Will..." said lucius powerlessly.
"Hey bro! What happened to you? You look so haggard and so powerless" said Will as he hooked his arm around my shoulders.
"Hmm.. nothing much.." said Lucius back.
"Take care of yourself bro, you're a life insurance agent for frickin sake! Who would want to buy our life insurance if the agent looks like the one who need it?" advised Will with a smile.
"Yeah... I'll try.." said lucius.
"Anyway.. you know today is the biggest deal of our life and our company too right?"
"I know Will..." Lucius answered.
'huft how can i forgot if you message me every night' Lucius thought inside his head.
"That's my boy Lucy! I know I can depend on you... So have you finished all the documents needed for later?" Asked Will.
"Yep..." Said Lucius nonchalantly.
"Hey what did I tell you about proper answer before, Lucy?" Asked Will with a smile that's not really a smile.
'Ah c'mon I just said "yep" once, and you called me Lucy lucy for so many times already' Lucius thought.
"Sorry Will, I slipped and it won't happen again" said Lucius helplessly.
" That's my boy Lucy! You still remember who gave you this job right? And now we are already white collar workers not high schoolers anymore, so we need to be professional all the time, right Lucy?" Said Will as he showed his perfect white teeth smile.
" So, earlier this morning the boss said we can go to the client directly, so no need to stop by to the office. OK! Let's go by my car right now!" As Will walked to the parking lot to get his car, leaving Lucius still pondering.
'Oh my god...please just stop all of this' thought Lucius frustratedly.
As Lucius walked slow purposely, so Will left him behind, he opened his cellphone to see any new message. He didn't realize he already walked through the crossroad even though the traffic light was still green. And from the north a truck was driving fast toward Lucius direction, and the driver didn't realize there is someone on his way.
When the truck was about 30 meter away from Lucius, did the driver realized there is someone walked across the crossroad, hit the horn loudly.
Lucius as soon as he heard the loud horn, he got shocked so much so he looked his left, he got scared until his legs gave up. Every second felt so long for Lucius, he can remember every moment of his life, from the most earliest memory he can remember as he was a child to his still cheerful elementary and junior high school to the darkest high school life. Every memories flashed by like an image and time walked so slow until Lucius started to lean back and drop to the ground on his back with his eyes rolled back and his mouth foamed with bubbles.
Fortunately the truck driver could turn the steer to the left at the last second, so the truck failed to hit Lucius and just flew past him right in front of him. The truck lost control which then hit Will's car with Will inside of it.
Unfortunately Lucius's heart stopped beating as he got shocked to death.
It all really stopped as he wished.