I woke up feeling something like today would finally be the day. Today, I will finally tell him. My heart can no longer take it. I have to let this burden of my chest. I will see him in about an hour, as we take the same buss to our school. My heart is pounding as I walk towards the bus stop.

There he is, standing alone by the sign, as he usually does before i arrive. His dark hair, still in a jumble despite his efforts in trying to get it down, and his gray eyes, appearing so warm that i don’t even notice the cold winter weather. They fill me with courage. They make me feel like I can tell him.

But before I get the chance, the bus arrives. Exactly on time, it appears, after i check my watch. Did I stand here for almost ten minutes and just stare at him. How embarrassing. On our trip towards the school he sits with his friends.

They are talking about some game I’ve never heard of. You can apparently join with your character in the game and see things from their perspective. It sounds unnecessary to me, but who am I to tell them that.

In school nothing of interest happen, I talk to some of my friends about a school project we’re having in a month. As per usual, I am the Spellchecker/Info Searcher/Writer once more. It is a role I often have to take and I’m to tired of it to care at the moment.

After we have returned to our bus stop, I’m finally alone with him again, I take a deep breath and ask him my question.

“Henry, would you like to go on a date with me?”

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“Sure, I’ve got nothing this weekend. Would that be alright?”

“....Yes! Of course! This weekend. Sure. Yes.” I reply, astonished. That went way better than expected. We later decide that we’ll be going to a club on saturday.

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I am having the time of my life. Everything is going according to plan. We have taken a scroll around the lake and later went to ‘The Archer’, our local nightclub. I have somehow been talked into some kind of drinking game with Henry and two other couples. I don’t know if we won or not, but it doesn’t matter. This has been the best day of my life.

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Cold. I am so cold. 'What is happening? Why am I outside? Where is this? ...Am I breathing? I try to take a breath. I am not breathing… Why am I not breathing?'

I open my eyes to try to see what’s happening. 'Am I underwater? How did this happen?'

I start to look around and i see something that frightens me. 'Am I in Henrys car?' By now the edges of my vision start to close in on me.

'Is this how i will die, at 19 years of age with nothing done yet. This feels so stupid, I can already see the faces my parents will make when they get to know my fate.

So this is drowning. So this is how my life will end... But I have so much to do, so much to see. And now it has all ended.'

I take my last breath, and all I can feel is pain before it all goes dark.