“Ayato, breakfast is ready, come here!” My mom calls out to me as I’m still laying in bed, not wanting to stand up. It’s the first day of high school, after all. After a few minutes pass, I finally stand up and go downstairs to eat my breakfast.

“You came finally. Honestly, I thought you overslept on your first day." My mom says as she places the plates and a glass of water on the table."I wish I did." I mutter under my breath as I sit down on my chair, looking at my breakfast.

After I finished, I put my uniform on and prepare to leave." Good luck, Ayato!” Says my mom with a smile lighting up her face.” Thank you, mom." I wave at her and then leave the house.

I'm walking down the street, not really paying attention to anything. It will still take quite a bit to get to school, maybe around 10 to 15 minutes. I see many students walking down the sidewalk as well. They are probably my upperclassmen since they are already in groups and they all seem to know each other pretty well. Finally, I'm here. I entered the school yard and I slowly walk towards the door until I notice many students mumbling in excitement. And as I turn around to look, I see a girl. Nice, long, straight, blonde hair and emerald green eyes. Everyone was stunned by her appearance. "Hey, It's Yokou Tobichi, look!" "She is so beautiful!!" " I heard she comes from a very wealthy family !" Girls and guys were just admiring her and ,as one of the group of girls didn't pay attention to their surroundings, they bumped into me. "Oh I'm sorr-" they very quickly stopped talking and all of them quickly walked right past me after I turned around to look at them. Yea, people usually avoid me. They did even when I was kid, but I have no idea why, honestly. Now I'm just kinda used to it so I just enter the school like nothing happened.

After the opening ceremony ended, we could go to our classrooms and meet our teachers. "Hey, look where you are going, you, idiot!" Some upperclassman says after I accidentally bump into him. I look at him and his face quickly turns from annoyed to unsettled and quickly walks away. Jeez, why does this always have to happen. I sigh and walk to my class and when I finally get there, many seats were already taken, but I notice one free seat next to the window, so I decide to go and sit there. "Alright, students, this is it for today, so you may now leave and we will start studying properly tomorrow, so please, get ready." "Yes, sensei." The entire class responds and then we all leave our classroom. As I’m walking down the hallway, I see Tobichi Yokou walking. She turns around and looks directly at me. It felt like she stared right into my soul and I wondered what did I do." Hey, Yokou, would you like to go to karaoke with us ?" She turns around and smiles at them." Ah, my apologies, but I'm quite busy today. Maybe later." She says with a very calm voice and then walks away. Well, that was strange, but there was nothing I could do about it, therefore, I just leave the school and slowly walk home.

I take out my keys, unlock the door and go inside. My mom already finished work today, because her shift started earlier then normally. She is working hard every day, therefore sometimes I take part time to help her out at least a little bit. After all, I would really like to help people, but they always avoided me. At least I can help my mom. She should come soon today, so I will probably clean around the house a little bit and maybe cook something for her.

"Hey, Ayato, I'm home!" My mom says cheerfully as she opens the door. "Welcome home, mom." I smile as I welcome her." "Sooo how was the first day at school?" She asks as she takes off her jacket and places it on a chair in the kitchen." Oh, well, it wasn't anything special, honestly." "Were you able to make friends ?" I look away after she asks. "Of course I didn't, mom, you know very well how..No, mom, it was just the first day after all." "Aww, well, you got a point there.. but, I'm sure you will make some soon, after all, it was just the first day." She chuckles and sits on the chair and I place a plate of food on the table." Here you go." "You aren't going to eat ?" "No, I already ate earlier." "Ahh, I see." We talked little after she finished eating, although she was tired so she went to bed after a few hours. Now it's around 10 pm and I think I should probably go to sleep. I walk to my room and after brushing my teeth and very quickly fall asleep after I lie in bed. Ugh what's.. what's going on? Where am I ? I look around. This place seems familiar, but I can't really tell why. I look above and the sky has a dark reddish color. Just what the hell is going on? Is this a dream? It must be. I hear a soft laugh behind me and when I look behind I see a girl. Her long black hair is covering her eyes, but I can see her red eyes beaming from behind her bangs. Red as the sky above us. She took a few steps towards me. I want to back up but I can't. I can't move ! What's going on?! She slowly walks towards me and she smiles. 

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    . I immediately wake up with a loud gasp.

"Ugh... I feel like my head is going to explode." That was the first thing I thought when I woke up. I fell asleep immediately after the weird dream, but when I woke up in the morning, my body felt weak." What the hell is going on." I said. I tried to stand up, but I fell on the ground quickly after.

My legs were trembling and so were my hands. My head was spinning and I couldn't think straight.

After a while, I managed to stand up and leave my room.

My mom could see that something was wrong, but I kept quiet. I didn't want her to get worried.

After all, she was busy with her own problems. She worked hard every day and I wouldn't want to make things even harder for her.

Ever since Ayato was younger, he wanted to help others. He wanted to be there for anyone, but he couldn’t.

People avoided him. Neither of the kids from middle school wanted to be near him.

They almost seemed as if they were too scared to be around him, so after a few years he got used to being constantly alone.

The only person that never looked away from him was his mother. He always could at least help her.

He took part time jobs and did most of the chores around the house just to help her. He enjoyed helping his mother, although he wished he could be there for more people, unfortunately…everyone always avoided him.

The cold stare of everyone else was the only thing he had ever received.

After a few hours, the lunch break was here and I decided to go and check out the roof.

I always wondered how it would feel, so I took my lunch box and headed there.

I opened the door and looked around.

Nobody was there so I found myself a random spot and took a seat.

I thought about the dream." Why did I get that dream ? Have I seen that girl before?

Do I know her ?" All these questions were running through my head at that moment.

Suddenly I heard the door creak open.

It was the same girl from the dream I had last night.

I quickly stood up in shock and I started quivering.

She looked at me." Your name is Ayato, right?" She asked with a very soft voice. "Yea that's me.. do I know you ?" I asked as she walked closer. "Um, how can I help you ? And more importantly, who are you ?" I asked her but she didn't respond and she kept getting closer and closer.

She stood right In front of me. I couldn't see her face because of her dark long hair covering her eyes. She looked at me after and I could see her bright red eyes beaming behind her hair.

"Could you do something for me ?" She asked while she played with her hair." What is it ?"

“Can you die for me?”

She grinned and suddenly she pushed me down from the rooftop.

So many thoughts went through my head, I couldn't even process what was happening.

I tried to shout but I couldn't.

" Am I going to die here ?" I thought.

"Is this the end ?"

Everything was so slow 

I was panicking.

But most importantly.

I felt

Fear.