On a warm autumn morning with a gentle breeze blowing, an ordinary youth was cycling on his way to school. As it happened, the youth had overslept. He was in a rush. Having just started university a few weeks ago, he was looking forward to the lectures of the day, as well as hanging out at the bar with his newly acquainted friends, maybe even having a beer with that cute girl from class.

That was not to be.

Earlier the same day, a young man had dropped his child off at the school. He, too, was in a rush. His schedule was tight now that he had to drop his son off at school every morning. He would probably have gotten used to it in a few weeks.

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That time had not yet come. He was tired, unfocused, and in a rush. So he took a shortcut across an unknown residential area in order to save just a few minutes, hoping to make it to work just in the nick of time.

Be it chance, or a twist of fate, the two would meet.

For just a second, the man stared into the youth's eyes..

And then he hit him with his car.