Due to going to bed so late and not making an alarm when I wake up very slowly and with a lot of rolling around, of course doing this uncomfortably tangles me in my blanket which only covers up to my waist.
Too tired to care though I lay in bed and try to go back to sleep unsuccessfully.
In this half asleep state I hear my mom's shower turn on, this is the point where I realize that my door is open and she is going to see me laying in bed and not at work.
Thinking was hard in the half asleep state I was in, so I decided not to and just sleep the problem away.
Mum goes to work at 10 so it's probably 9.30am, my blinds are open so the morning sun is streaming through the window and warming me up.
I hear mum finish her shower, a few minutes later I hear walking.
My room is between hers and the garage so she got a clear view of me just laying in bed.
"what are you still doing here?!" oh she is angry "Don't you have work today?" she askes
"Not going" I say sleepily while looking at her from my bed.
I can tell she doesn't like my answer "why?!" she questions
"I have Leave" I lie
"And you have enough leave to continue taking days of work?!"she makes a good point I don't.
"Yeah I have enough" I lie again, I ran out of sick leave and holiday leave a while ago.
She gives me a look that only a mother can to a child there not happy with" Well, make sure to tell you're boss that your not coming in today"
"Already done" knowing full well that I haven't.
Not really wanting to argue while she should be going to work "If you're staying home you can clean up the house" saying that she walks to the garage to leave for work.
Still in bed, but sitting up now, I hear her open the door and say "The house better be clean when I get home" before I hear the door close.
Leaning back on the headboard I start to realize that I could have probably just quietly closed my door and she would have just walked past, "I could have also just gone to work" I think to myself.
I thought about why I didn't go to work and realized that I'm probably a bit spoiled.
Not really having a want for anything growing up due to a combination of how I was raised, lead to me not really having an urgency or direction with how I live my life.
I have always gone with what was interesting in the moment not really caring about the future as I've become used to it turning out fine.
This leading to my current situation of not being that interested in sticking it out with the traineeship even though it will lead to a good future.
It's not even a bad job, It's actually really good. It has interesting subjects to learn about very interesting people to meet and it pays super well, It's just.
I don't know I'm undecided.
Sometimes I want to work there, sometimes I don't. My reasons change for not going every week. "Am I depressed? I don't feel depressed."
Shaking my head I decide that it's time to get out of bed.
I enter the kitchen get some breakfast and watch an interesting science video on my phone to stop thinking about myself for a second, due to YouTube's shitty algorism It takes a while to find a actually entertaining one.
Finishing my breakfast comprised of greek yoghurt mixed with toasted muesli mix, I stop the video.
With nothing else to do today I decide to get it over and done with and clean the house.
Nothing much just cleaning up as the dog poop in the laundry, cleaning the dishes, putting the rubbish in the bins, vacuuming the carpets in mine and mums room and moping the floor.
Not that much but by now I'm pretty sweaty, I wasn't even going that fast and I'm already dripping with sweat.
Sitting in my gaming chair I turn on my desk fan to dry faster.
I decide to play games for a bit.
Some rocket league and noita, I look at the downloaded god of war wanting to complete it but not in the mood for dedicating the rest of my day to the game I decide not to.
At 1pm I hop of the computer and look at some TikTok.
Seeing some videos with couples got my thinking about my love life, which is non existent.
I had an actual girlfriend at one point, but not knowing where to take the relationship It ended after a month with one of her friends telling me that she wanted to stop dating.
Not wanting a relationship until I could actually pay for dates was my excuse until I got my traineeship. and since last year I just haven't had that many opportunities to talk to girls. It doesn't help that I don't use social media.
Watching more TikTok's I come across a LGTQB+ video, I don't really care about all the genders my sister is a bi so I've had plenty of conversations on the topic
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I actually think that any sufficiently advances race that is as successful as humans will, with enough freedom of choice eventually become very gay. As we progress, we become more divorced from our survival instincts, and what is attraction but a survival mechanism, it's only right that after becoming the master of our planet we would become the masters of who we are attracted to.
With saying this I can see the reason why men would be attracted to men and why women would be attracted to women, which man wouldn't find Chris Hemsworth attractive and which women wouldn't find Rihanna attractive.
I think It's time to stop watching TikTok to much brain rot.
Wondering what to do I look at my computer, I've wanted a new headset for a while.
I've got an old rig 800 wireless and I can feel how old it is, Compared to my Pc which is pretty up to date the headphones are in need of replacement, and I've been talking to one of my friends and he's been recommending a newer Samsung headset and I think todays the day to get it.
I get dressed with some nice shorts and a cotton shirt and walk into the kitchen to find my brother looking for something to eat.
"Hello" I say to him as I go to sit on the lounge room couch, ignoring the fact that he's only wearing his underwear
He looks over to me for a second and askes "Wait your home?" before going back to looking in the pantry "don't you have work?" Mark finishes, Unbothered by the exposure of his flabby gut and and hairy thighs.
"I got today off" I say as he switches to the fridge
"Oh, Ok" he says distractedly before leaning down to look at a lower shelf.
"I'm going to the shops to get a new headset wanna come?" I ask him pulling up the uber app on my phone
"Na, I'm halfway through a Warhammer match" he states before going back to the pantry and grabbing a box of shapes. Unbothered by his response I order an uber before watching my brother walk back to his room. He gives me one final look before he walks down a hallway out of sight.
I ordered an uber to Rockingham, it ended up taking 15 minutes for it to arrive.
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I wanted lunch so I ended up getting dropped off at HJ's near the shopping centre. Walking in I quickly ordered and ate a whopper meal.
Finishing the meal I started walking to the shops, The weather was nice today a nice cloud cover protecting everything from the harsh Australian sun led to me having a nice walk.
"RING RING RING" My phone started ringing a few minutes before I got there. Pulling my phone up I looked at the name "Dan", I thought about just not answering but realized that I would have to call him back later anyways so decided to get the call over and done with now. I walked of the footpath and leaned on a nearby wall to be able to hear the phone better before answering.
"Hello"
"Hello Chris, I've been told you weren't at work, are you sick?"
"No" I said feeling a bit guilty on the fact that I was healthily walking towards getting a new gaming headset instead of going to work.
Dan was actually really nice and helpful, his job was to be the person that checked in on trainees to make sure that there traineeships where going well. He is also the person workplaces call to ask where there trainees have gone if they haven't shown up to work This call was a consequence of me not calling work to tell them that I wasn't coming in today.
"That's good, I'm just calling to remind you that even if boring you have to go to work"
Feeling a bit chided I croaked out an "OK".
"After this call can you call message your boss and let him know if your coming in tomorrow?"
"Yep" I croaked out again.
"Okay, Thanks Chris. bye" Dan started to end the call
Feeling relived and thankful that he didn't question me too hard I gave a heartfelt "thanks Dan. Bye" before ending the call.
I leaned against the wall for a second longer before resuming my walk but Mood of the walk was ruined. The happy anticipation had turned into a bit of guilt.
With nothing else to do I decided to distract myself by enjoying the beautiful day. Although the footpath was busy I had plenty of space between me and the people in front of behind me, I let my concerns go as a appreciated the sidewalk planted trees and the cold ocean breeze that rustled the leaves of those trees. Feeling an especially refreshing cold breeze from my right confused me
"why wind is coming from a wall?"
Looking over I expected to see a exhaust fan or something, Not a portal floating in mid air with a kaleidoscopic tunnel leading impossibly deep into the building behind it.
I stood there with my mouth opening and closing. I have no words, it's mesmerising. I couldn't look away, my thoughts where jumbled at the sheer impossibility of what I was seeing. There was so many colours and things happing that I didn't realize that something besides air was coming out of the hole in reality.
"Ahhh!" I lets out a quick exclamation as something struck my leg making me flinch heavily. I started turning my head down and away while rising my hands in defence and trying to fall away from the portal but all I felt was stinging pian like that from fast moving sand before everything blacked out.
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POV. Random Bystander
"What the" I couldn't finish the sentence, my mind was to busy trying to comprehend what I was seeing. A portal of some kind has appeared to the right of the teen in front of me. I was to far behind to see it fully but what I could see was giving me nausea.
The teen in front of me is right in front of it, If he where to take a step and a reach out he could probably touch the thing.
I can see his eyes are wide and his mouth was moving uselessly.
It had only just appeared but the thing had already caused everyone to stop and look.
There were about 30 people in line of sight of the thing, some had stopped to stare and others where walking closer to get a better look.
Nobody had a word to say.
That was until a fast moving rock hurtled from the portal and into the teens unprotected shin "Ahhh!" The silence was broken. The wound was brutal, multiple cuts and scrapes and would leave a terrible bruise afterwards, already it was weeping a deep crimson blood down his leg.
The teen was in the process of trying to fall away from the portal before about 200kg of stone exploded out of it. The poor kid was hit by most of it. The stone was moving as if shot out of a cannon obliterating the poor kids body while launching him several metres back almost to the other side of the road.
There was no noise. The process was entirely silent beside the meaty sound of the rocks hitting his body, of his bones breaking of stray projectiles hitting windows and people across the street and his body landing with with a wet noise as he rolled for a metre before stopping.
"AAAAAAAAAA" I heard people scream, I might have joined them.
With no time to react a life had ended before my eyes, and all I could do was look.
I was paralyzed, I looked at he body which had a streek of blood leading up to it. It had multiple bloody rocks imbedded in it as t laid there in a growing bloody pool. I could see flecks of blood everywhere. My vision started to drown in blood as I started hyperventilating.
I stopped when something else came through the portal. People where still screaming and nobody would have approached the corpse or the other smoking form that landed next to it if the portal hadn't then winked out of existence.
I stood there unable to do anything as I watched people rush to the two forms splayed out next to each other.
I could tell that the other smoking form was a burnt looking human. I walked unsteadily towards the two bodies but then a blue screen appeared in my line of sight, but also not as I could see just fine.
Ding!
You've reached the age of maturity of you species, welcome to the system.
Feeling as if I was going crazy I tried to swipe the blue screen out of the way as it was distracting. I could see a few others doing the same as me, I eventually was able to swipe it away as I made it to the bodies.
Someone was performing CPR on one and the teen's face was covered in a jacked, someone had thrown up, and the pierced stomach of the kid was letting off a horrendous smell. I stood around feeling useless and with a rising nausea as I comprehended thought more on what happened. The road had been blocked by the crowd of people surrounding the bodies. I could hear them muttering, people asking what happened others answering, people where also talking about the system nothing as loud as the panicked screams earlier.
Feeling a bit stupid I said out loud "status" People gave me weird looks some even looked as if they had made realizations as I said that but I paid it no attention as I was now focused on the blue screen that showed up.
Status
Name: Simon
Race: Human
Title: N/A
Gender: Male
Class: N/A^
lv: N/A
HP: 78/80 R/d: 5%
SP: 65/90 R/m: 10%
MP: 128/140 R: N/A
STR: 6
DEX: 14
PER: 6
END: 9
VIT: 8
INT: 13
WIS: 14
General Skills
N/A
Class Skill
N/A
"Huh it's like a game" Was my only reaction before I passed out.