Chapter 1 - My Walk Back Home

This is Angelina Skye reporting. I am currently in the middle of a walk back home after school. Remember my self-introduction? Yup, I talked about the hating - Uhm... I mean disliking of taking lessons. That's because, as usual, today's lesson was as boring as usual. Nothing has changed just like any other day, apart from that unusually bright smile that came from Classmate xxxx.

Don't worry. I'm not putting 'xxxx' because I'm trying to omit it for the plot. I just forget the name. Hahahahaha. He's a guy, though. Average-ish, I suppose. He's not shy or anything, but just don't smile often. Pretty rare to see him smile today, probably a good day for him. Maybe he got himself a nice underwear? Who knows.

Anyway, I don't want to talk about him anymore. I don't really know him that well anyway. Not like I have anything against him, of course. Getting delved too deeply into someone I'm not too acquainted with, would be a bit strange. Furthermore, if I have no extra emotions or strings attached to with.

Again, I am on my way home from school. My transportations are pretty simple. From my home to school, it starts off with; a ten-minute walk or a similar ten-minute bus travel (due to longer distance road travel) to the nearest train station. Followed by boarding the train before alighting and boarding another stream of a train at another station (just beside the alighting of the mentioned train). Likewise, right now I am doing it vice-versa as I am heading back home.

This travel yields thirty to forty minutes of my time and is plenty short of a travel trip compared to some of my classmates that are significantly further than where I live. Usually, I would be listening to music or playing mobile games while on the way commuting to my destination.

Talking about mobile games, there are those kinds where 'gems' are provided daily in a set of thirty days package - subscription package whereby choosing it would lead to a more profitable sum than purchasing a number of gems outright. Normally, I wouldn't be spending any money on mobile games as it is a complete waste of my monetary funds.

However, after thinking of the enjoyment I had, backed up by the developer's constant release of events that were filled with generous rewards, I had decided to indulge a slight bit of my one and only entertainment funds on this game. I am pretty particular on my money but I had decided that some amount of entertainment is necessary in life.

The game was much different then compared to other games out there with stingy rewards and a meager sum of in-game items when performing transactions. However, no matter how much entertainment I get from the mobile game, price factor is always the utmost to consider before making any choices. I can thankfully say that this was at the price of five dollars for the thirty-day subscription package, something that I feel could be reasonable enough for my monthly leisure.

Anyway, on my way back from home, I decided to purchase a packet of mixed vegetable rice with some meat for my dinner. I would usually be buying dinner instead of cooking since it would be bothersome to cook a dish just for one person. It's really much more convenient to buy a dinner instead of eating something that I cook for me alone.

In the past, I would cook for both Mum and Dad dinner whenever I could. It's just that this time around, they are now up in the heavens. In the more literal sense, they are not alive anymore. Honestly, this has been a truly discomforting outcome to me, having me be alone in the house day in, day out.

It seems that on their trip for their honeymoon, they had encountered an unfortunate event and thus had led to their death from a car crash. Police reports came out as an 'accident' and proceedings of insurances was left to me, their daughter, together with their life savings.

It was so sad a day that I had initially thought of doing a suicide and become one together with my family that was up there in the heavens. However, at the end of the day, before I had managed to slit my wrists with a razor knife, thoughts of misery from both Mum and Dad came into my mind. Protesting me to stop what I was doing. I still remember it like it was yesterday...

Gritting my shattering teeth, with my body shivering to the coldness I felt within me. I felt considerably lonely, having to withstand the outcome of the definition to being 'alone'. I can never forget that very day. Three years have passed by since then.

I have overcome myself with resolve to live my life instead of ending it prematurely. I have to somehow bear this 'loneliness' and continue on with my life. Someday. Someday I will be able to live life with satisfaction. To have enough sense of fulfillment to carry both Mum and Dad. And to do that, I will do my best and keep my esteem as high as possible.

However, doing it is comparably different from saying it. There were times when I had a hard time sleeping at night, having to cover my blanket from neck to toe to ensure I gather enough warmth to overcome the coldness. Not like it's gonna' affect the result since the coldness is something that's within me.

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There were even times when I had long-lasting nightmares, only to be awoken while gasping for breaths, having deep slacks of perspiration all over my back. To overcome this, I have always tried to take deep breaths and calm myself down. Telling myself that I will be alright.

Is it true that the saying 'Only time will heal all wounds' really what they said it out to be? No. Time doesn't heal, it's what you DO with the time that does help out. Think of negative things and you will always be filled with negativity. Alright, Angelina! Think of positive thoughts! Think of the time where all the positive energy was overflowing within you!

That... was times when I had problems during the night. During the day, though, I had some problems with my school life too. It has affected and influenced my daily life. However much I wanted to overcome it, the environment that I am accustomed to with my parents that were with me has led to slight disturbance to my usual form of daily life.

I don't want to say it but... without my parents there for me, life sure is dull. Of course, I have been trying to get rid of those thoughts, however, they will always appear from within me. Those thoughts have always been pulling me down and have always been causing me to be under pressure.

Of course, with all this negativity push aside, it's not as though it's the end of the world. There are other people out there that most probably have even worse outcomes than mine and have the resolve and the will to live life to their utmost. I should follow their footsteps and do just that.

*Sigh* This became a rise in my negativity's heaviness all of a sudden, huh? Let's jolly well do our best to keep this off our minds, why don't we? I gave myself a strong push with my feet, giving myself a strong and confident resolution, embedding a large footprint on the ground. Since I'm walking past the kid's playground with sand on the surface area, after all. Hahahaha.

After walking past the kid's playground, my apartment can be seen from afar. Walking there would have taken only a few minutes with ease. While walking back, I reminisced all the times I had with my parents playing around the playground. Badminton, Cycling, Remote Controlled Helicopter. Even the fun stuff like the affixed rides that were on the playground, with a spring on the bottom of the 'animal' we were riding on. Balancing around while trying to shake our bodies and enjoying the bouncing of the ride.

Not to mention the memorable hopscotch and the incredibly fun swings we had back then. Those really were fun times. Even the times when we were out together, blowing bubbles through a bubble blower (was that what it's called?) making tons of them appear while chasing them happily whenever my parents blew them out.

I gave a smirk to myself as the elevator opened the door, leaving a pathway that leads to my home. I proceed on to the door ahead, inserting my keys before turning the door knob. "I'm home!". I shouted to particularly no one in the house. I have always been saying it to my parents when I reached home, and even now with no one present within the house.

It had simply become a form of habit but even so, it is something I plan on continuing for the ever coming future. It always leaves me with a strong impression that my parents would always give a "Welcome back, Angelina!" inside my mind. With the same case of "Take care out there!" in responce to "I'm off!" whenever I'm heading out.

My home has been left the same way it has been since three years had passed. I left it the way it has been since I fancy to keep it the way I want it to be. Changing it would offset the 'genuine' home I had always been in, thus leaving it the way it is would be the best way to proceed and live in this 'homely' environment.

While keeping my house the way it is, of course, I have also been tidying the house and organizing certain and various stuff. Cleaning the house to ensure that there will not be an accumulation of dust is truly a troublesome ordeal to accomplish. Especially during the period of Spring Cleaning, where I would be doing it annually in every nook and crannies.

Of course, being alone, it was difficult to accomplish it quickly so I decided to do it in separate intervals, giving myself time for a break. I came up with the planning of cleaning one area at a time steadily, instead of doing it while rushing it out. This way, I can set out the cleaning process in a more proficient manner.

Giving my surroundings a careful glance, I locked my door and took off my shoes while preparing to unload my bag over on the table just beside of the door's entrance. I began removing my school uniform shirt, a button at a time while heading off to the bathroom and get myself a change of clothes. I have always been wearing casual clothes at home, although they might be a bit skimpy. But since no one is at home, I decide to indulge myself in this attire as my daily home wear due to the humid weather my country is in.

Of course, during the night, I would change to my pajamas instead. Even now, I am still doing it and am not ashamed of admitting it. In fact, most adults do wear pajamas too so I assumed that it's nothing worth worrying about. Then again, it's mainly because of how comfy pajamas are to sleep in, that I always change into whenever it's bed time.

I would only turn on the air conditioner at night with a 2 hours duration set with a timer while having a fan in medium speed running in the background as my daily temperature cooling level. It has always worked efficiently in this manner and further conserves my electricity bills.

During the day, though, I would be only switching the fan on. Thankfully, today's weather isn't too awful and can be considered to be cooling. I looked over towards the clock and realized that it was still [4:10pm]. Considering the comfortable weather today, going for a quick nap might be pretty cozy. With a kitchen timer set aside on the table with a countdown of an hour, I decided to take a quick nap and get rid of my fatigue for the day.

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Author's Note: Hell yeah! We have finished this chapter. In the next chapter, Angelina Skye will be heading over to another world! How cool is that? Hahahaha.

Writing just this much has consumed a lot of my time, I am just so slow at thinking and coming up with the right words. Toooo slow! Haiz. I wish I can somehow quicken my pace.

Again, I hope you enjoy this chapter!

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