Hello, this is my first time writing a fanfiction. If you notice any errors, please feel free to give me constructive feedback. English is not my first language, so if you notice any mistakes, please mention them in the comment section at the end of the chapter. Let's begin the story!
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Word count: 2700 Approx
Also I know that, this isn't the best way to start a novel. It was an impulsive decision and nothing more.
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Betrayal
The Betrayal from Friends.
The Betrayal from Family.
The betrayal from acquaintances.
The Betrayal from coworkers.
The Betrayal from one's expectations.
The Betrayal from the world.
F*ck betrayals.
Life is full of betrayals, be it from friends, family or worse, from our expectations.
Well, betrayal is a very strong word. Deception, treachery, dishonesty, perfidy, disloyalty, perfidiousness and many more. There aren't as many synonyms for betrayal, as there are types of betrayal. To be honest, my parents were the only people, who despite scolding and punishing me, never betrayed my trust. They always had my back. They valued me and the choices I made and would always prioritize me. Now, after having a good growing environment, when we come out to the society. We come face to face with the harsh reality and know how cruel the society and world can be.
Well, I understand that few of us don't even have that luxury. They don't have an ideal environment while growing up.
Everyone has their circumstances growing up. This dog-eat-dog world doesn't spare anyone. Especially if you have no money, no power and no connections.
I am an Engineer, and unlike many others in my profession, I am not an extrovert. I am an easygoing guy, I don't take many things to heart. Even if they are heartbreaking for others. It may be because I am heartless. I'm cold and indifferent to many things, but I am soft at times. I am paradoxical, sometimes even I am perplexed by myself. I am kind and caring most of the time but there are times when I am cold and indifferent towards things which doesn't make sense. My reactions are paradoxical and I have no idea who I am when my true feelings contradict my very own personality what baffles me most is that deep down I know that this is wrong or very different from what I should have or would have done or shown. I have no idol that I am crazy over and there aren't many things that can sustain my interest after a few weeks. I always lose my interest in them. I'm a loner and haven't met many people with whom I can vibe. Sometimes I feel as if I am all alone in this world.
As to why talk about betrayal, the word didn't have much space in my life a few months back but now, it is staying rent-free in my life. I am a simple man, born in India, currently living in Germany for a project. My life is currently in shambles, I was betrayed by my team, well colleagues.
Betrayed by those whom I thought of as friends. I didn't have many friends, to begin with, and getting betrayed by the few I had left me all alone. The girl I had a crush on also got engaged with the guy who backstabbed me. Alone, all alone with no lover or any friends or family.
I am just a guy, who has a passion for cars. Cars are something that I have had an interest in since I was a kid. Even the cars of whom I was fond of, have had ups and downs throughout my life, my interest in them ignited when I was a child but dwindled in my teen years but it rose again like a phoenix when I was in college. Which brought me to Germany.
I'm in my twenties, I have a very long life ahead, I am sure that is what they will say. Anyone else in my shoes would have committed suicide or those who are optimistic or are afraid of dying would have just moved on with life, but not me.
I don't know how or why but, right now I am driving my Koenigsegg Agera R on the autobahn in Germany, the car I just so happened to purchase or borrow, some might say.
I was hoping to purchase Jesko, but it is way out of my budget, and so is this car. I had to sell my old car to buy it. I am going to miss my Porsche 911 for sure, to buy it I had to work very hard, but whether it was worth it or not, only time can say.
Luckily for me, there was some businessman who went bankrupt, well his bad luck was my good fortune. So his cars were on sale and I bought/borrowed them from the bank for way less than I had expected.
Well now there isn't much of a choice for me, but to see if I can bring out this car's full potential. If I can drive it to the very limit and stay alive. Luckily she won't betray me, if something were to happen it would be on me, just that my skills were not up to my expectations. The same old betrayal from own expectations. Unlike where it was the other person's fault and I had to take the blame, to the end debate.
Now this can end in two ways, first, where I successfully travel across the highway till the fuel tank is empty or it is very simple, the result, I don't get out of here in one piece.
I do need music now, don't I? Some light music should help lighten the mood.
I kept changing the music till I could find just the music to keep my adrenaline flowing, till I got.
This one is not bad. The weather is also good and the road is a bit slippery due to rain and the temperature is low. As for visibility, it's fine. I can make do with headlights. It's pitch black, but not darker than my mood, nothing I can't handle.
Well, the driving condition is not that good, but this can be seen as a test from the universe. If I can clear it then I am immortal.
An immortal virgin anyway.
Now that I am going fast, why am I even having so many useless thoughts? Several useless thoughts are popping up in my mind. Like what am I going to miss, if I were to not get out of this?
"Hmmm!"
For entertainment, I used to watch anime, read books like novels and comics or watch f1 or some other racing programs like Moto GP. Now that I think about it, I haven't watched any new anime or any show due to my work. So I am not sure about it. As for novels, I had recently finished reading LOTM. It was a masterpiece if I do say so myself. But I didn't get the chance to read its next book Circle of Inevitability. But I did read the author's other novel, The Throne of Magical Arcana. COI didn't have many chapters back then but last time I checked, it had more than 500 chapters.
I didn't get any time to spend on my hobby. After this, maybe I should just resign, but I am broke. After this car, I don't even have a house.
The future is futile, I don't have many options now, do I?
All I could do was sigh at myself and the prospect of my future now. My future does look bleak.
Just as I was going to sigh again, I heard someone say, "Interesting".
This was enough to give me a jumpscare, due to which I lost control over my car, but I was able to get it straight again.
"Who the f*ck are you?"
# There was a man, wearing a suit sitting in my car. Who just so happens to mysteriously appear in my car. A car going at 250 mph
"You need not worry about me, just concentrate on the road."
"What?"
"Never take your eyes off the road young man"
"F*ck"
That was a close call. I was very close to crashing into that car.
What is this? Who is this man? And why or how did he even get in the car?
"Don't stop the car, keep moving. You do wish to run this machine to its very limit don't you?"
After the last save, I did not take my eyes off the road and kept the car going. I kept accelerating.
Though I wished to stop the car and get this guy out. Since he said not to stop the car, I don't want to find out what is going to happen to me, for not following his instructions. After having analysed the situation, he is not someone to be messed with.
There is nothing ordinary about this. First, I was playing the game of life, where I was racing death. Then suddenly this mysterious magical person shows up in my car. I do have a few guesses though.
"No I'm not Yamaraj, Shinigami and neither am I Hades, a tureng, Grim reaper or Hel. I am just a normal passerby", the Unknown guy said.
I can bet my life on it, you are not normal. The term normal will lose its very meaning by calling you normal.
"No need to get stressed out. Just concentrate on the road and take this fine piece of machinery to its very limit. Unlike the Audi RS6, this car should be capable of going 420Kmph+ speed. Let's put it to the test"
"I don't care about whoever you are but, this car is going for one hell of a ride. Now is your turn to get off this car, just the way you came. I don't care if you are the Grim Reaper, well we can meet later If you are. But for now, you can just get out. If you don't wish to get hurt."
"No need to worry about me. The accident won't be able to kill me, nor would the destruction of the universe or Omniverse"
"So you're immortal. Good to be you"
"Yes," He replied.
Wait, "The accident? "
"Yes the very one that is going to happen now"
"What?" I couldn't process it. Yes, I talked about dying but who the f*ck is ready to die. I was hypothetically speaking. I am pretty confident in my skills to get out of this roller-coaster ride. Hearing him talking about us getting into an accident was a shocker to me. I wouldn't have been so nervous or panicked if it was coming from just anyone but this magical guy. I don't know why but everything this guy says, compels me to believe it is the truth.
It was just for a second but it felt like an eternity, I felt like I saw my whole life pass by. It was just a moment of careless and my f*cking luck.
It was late into the night when I got out to drive. I was driving just by relying on my headlights. So it was too late before I noticed it, a truck ahead had changed its lane.
It might have been because of the slippery road, but the truck ahead had skidded off its lane and had come into my lane, and stopped with its head facing my car. The sudden flash of its headlights on my windscreen blinded my vision.
It was all it took. By the time my eyes could adjust to the brightness, it was all over. Luckily or not, last I checked the speed of my car, I was going at 443 Kmph. To bring the car from that speed to stand still condition is very difficult.
This time I saw it for real, my whole life passing by. Well, there is a scientific explanation for it though, my brain couldn't come up with any solution to save me, it was searching through my memories to find a solution.
An Eternity later
I f*cking died. Well mind has never been so clear. I can't feel my body and my mind is crystal clear. So did I survive? Did they manage to save me, right maybe I was admitted to some hospital. That could be a reasonable explanation. Maybe I am in a coma right now. That's why I can't feel my body, but how am I thinking then? Aren't brain-dead patients, declared as being in a coma?
Never mind that I just hope they save me. I have suffered a lot to get that Agera, I can't stand to lose it yet. Wait is my Agera safe, the crash was very deadly but if they managed to get me out of there then the damage shouldn't be anything major. I did slow down, but that was one huge truck. It was blocking the whole road, I don't even know how many extra carriers were attached to it. I had no choice but to apply the brake.
Am I forgetting something? I don't know why but I can't remember....
"I remember it, wait what happened to that guy? Is he okay?"
Well, he did say that he was immortal and he was magical. I still can't figure out, how he entered my car. "Was he just a fragment of my imagination? Was I hallucinating and he was just an illusion caused by my mind? Maybe it was due to all the stress I have had"
After all, I wasn't afraid of him, I was shocked but not afraid of him. Maybe it was my imagination. Even the conversation we had was also something my brain made up, to cope with my depression.
"Well you are one interesting human", while I was busy with my inner monologue, I suddenly heard the sound of that man again. With the sound, the place I was in, which was pitch black, started to Crack like a web.
I heard the sound of glasses breaking, with web-like Cracks forming in the pitch-black space. With it rays of light, flood in from the cracks. It was all mysterious. The space was filled with the pillar of light, which was pretty blinding honestly.
After the light died down, I was standing in the vast expanse of space. Well, floating would be the correct term but I am standing. But I am not too sure, because I can't seem to find my body. I can see, I can hear and that's it. I don't see my body, nor can I feel the vacuum of space, tearing my body apart.
So how am I seeing, surely this is a dream. That's the only probable explanation, I can think of, or this might be crazy but.. Never mind, that's impossible.
"Well nothing is impossible, young man." said the Mysterious voice, "Yes, I'm possible right!" I replied.
"If you think so then yes. Now let's discuss as to why we are here" said the Mysterious man.
"Right, so why am I here?"
"Yes, so the thing is you are dead"
"Right, go on", I am dead, well this might be the most realistic dream I've ever had.
**The End**
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