It was a mostly peaceful night for me, dreams of me hanging out with friends and little sister, molly... However, the dreams soon turn to what I wished was nightmares... The sight of a burning house, lighting crackling in the background... And crying of my then 10 year old sister... I was only 16... And had watched my parents die to thunder and fire... Little did I know that wasn't some natural disaster...
My eyes shoot open and sit up, my breath coming in sharp pants my sweat cold, I looked around... I was in my room, my plastic gum gum fruit on my locker, a DanDaDan poster and a figurine of Denji from chainsaw man... I then saw my sister, her cold face looking at me as she was chewing on a stick of gum. I sigh and looked at her, as I said tiredly "Molly, no gum in the morning...", molly rolled her emerald eyes, her hair the same as mine, a light brown and the died blue tops on her hair "whatever... Just get up Sam..." she stated in a calm yet annoyed tone. I nod as I got up, put my grey one piece shirt and a plain red hoodie, as well as some tracksuit trousers and socks with pizza slices on them.
I got down stairs and cooked the breakfast, making my speciality, pancakes with biscoff spread. Once I finished making them, I slid Molly a plate, she stopped it with her elbow, she was scrolling through tiktok... Looking cold and empty, she's been like this since she turned 12... Probably because of puberty. I sit down and sigh...
"molly?"
"yeah numbskull?"
"are you okay? You seem off..."
"I'm fine!"
I blinked with surprise, she... Snapped at me... Molly never snapped at anyone... Especially me... I looked down and murmured "I... Sorry mol...", she look at me and sighed she, put her phone down "no... I'm sorry... I shouldn't have snapped... It's just..." she sighed and continued quietly "I'm just think that mom and dad are going to miss me being 13 soon...", I looked at molly, we never talked about our parents, or our family. Our dad's family were all dead and my mom's family weren't the best people, so, I had to stand up as older brother and support molly. I nod and pat molly's back" I know... I'm sorry molmol... Really..." molly sighed and leaned into me, she has a habit of tilting her body when she's upset or is seeking comfort. I sigh and check the clock, 8:30 AM, school time... I nudge molly as we both get out bags and walk to school, I'm in my last year... Meaning no more student privileges such as the free housing... I already had a job... But it won't be enough to sustain me for long.
As I get into school, I fiddled with my locker, trying to remember the dumb combination (it was 0106, my birthday). But I eventually got it open, as I put my books away, and closed my locker, hands covered my eyes as a girls voice said "guess who!", I chuckled softly and smiled "is it the idiot I call a friend?" I said snarkily back, the girl then said "hey!" as she removed her hands and spun me around to look at her, surely enough, it was my friend lily, she had dyed red hair, sea blue eyes and a cute pouty face.. I only say it's cute because firstly, it is, second, I had (and still do) a crush on her, not letting her know since she was my only other friend besides my 21 year old friend, Daniel, who had silver hair and had nitro from almost dying from a car crash. I chuckled and said to lily "what? You know I'm right" with a massive smirk, lily let out a small hmph and looked away
"nuh uh"
"yuh huh"
"no I'm not!"
"Yes you a-"
I get cut off by a arm grabbing my shoulder, I freeze up, my eyes dialate and lily glares at the person behind me... He then said "well, if it isn't the roach..." I know that voice... It was Angus... He was a line backer who since middle school had it out for me... And today was clearly another one of his 'off' days. He pinned me to my locker, smirking like a mad man "you still think you're hot shit? Working you're ass off... Why? Trying g to impress yer girlfriend here?" he stated, it hurt like a thousand knives... However, lily stop up to Angus, slapping his balding head and snapping "get off him! He's doing it for his sister!", after she said that, it was silent. Too silent. Angus looked at her, fury in his eyes but also shock as he turned and asked "you're sister? Why you're parents deadbeats?" I looked down and sighed "no..." I responded sadly "they're dead...". Angus looked at me as he put me down "well... Guess I'll leave you alone this time chump... But I'll kick you're ass tomorrow clear?" I nodded as I tried to catch my breath... Angus walked off and Lily walked up, asking "hey... You good Sammy?", I nodded. The first bell soon rang, I waved Lily off and went through the school day, going to classes, doing my homework during lunch and so on.
Eventually after school was out, I went to work, I was a photographer for the local news paper 'nitro daily', which talked about the sport of nitrobrawling, a sport based around nitro users to duke it out in a no-kill battle, after taking pictures of a match, I saw my buddy Daniel kicking ass, he essentially took his whole kit from satoru gojo from Jujutsu Kaisen (his favourite anime), he had reversal red and lapse blue, hell, he even has a hollow purple attack which he calls infinite impact, of course, being the gojo of nitro users, he kicked his opponents ass.
After I finished work, I went home, cooked dinner and put molly to bed, before going to sleep myself... I had graduation tomorrow... It was gonna be a long summer ahead...