Samuel wakes up at 6:00 A.M. to shower and go to school, his daily routine has been like this for a few weeks already, and has gotten used to these events and the new life he started since he departed from his family. As he brushes up his long black hair to the side, he heads out and leaves his apartment. After leaving his apartment, he felt a certain cold inside of him, it howled away all the way through the marketplace and called for him. He sped up his walking due to the sheer coldness of the air and arrived to the University he was attending. After school he sometimes goes to his friends apartments to hang out, he usually walks alone while the friend is waiting for him but this time he felt someone or something watching him. He hoped the rest of the way to and from the apartment would write a fear of silence. Later, it starts to rain immediately after Samuel decided to leave. He hides in raincoat as things in today's day are falling apart. Nothing today, has ever happened to him at all from the time he arrived to Foolshope, he knew something was wrong and wanted to get to the bottom of it. He hears the coast by nightfall call for him, as it was sure to keep him dreaming, he understood though. As he walks along the coast he wondered to himself aloud.
"Sooner or later, I always knew something would go wrong, but why, why right now." Samuel knows that he has nothing going in his life right now too, his finals for University are a couple weeks left and he only has a few close friends to share this life.
He walks off back to the sidewalk to go back home but, suddenly, he feels that same feeling he got when walking to his friends house today. This time he is not going to let it go without seeing it. He quickly turns around and sees. Nothing...
"What?! that's impossible, I swore I heard it behind me, wait..." he squints his eyes and finally sees it.
A cloaked figure in the sea, not swimming, not floating, but standing on the water. He freezes and the cloaked figure vanishes in front of his eyes. Stunned by finally seeing the figure he twitches out of his static state and runs to his apartment as curfew was coming to a close at 9:00 P.M. He heads straight to bed and wakes up to the next day like any other day.
Samuel wakes up the next day and does his daily routine. He heads out and walks along the sidewalk. As he walks he does not feel the weight of eyes upon him like the day before. He continues and almost arrives to the University but runs into a man by accident.
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"Oh, sorry man, you good?" he asks the man. The man merely ignores him and walks along and then suddenly turns around to shout, "I'm fine!"
Samuel widens his eyes because all he sees is himself waving at him. He runs off and Samuel remembers what he saw yesterday about the cloaked figure and proceeds to chase him, leaving the day of University behind. Samuel, as he chases himself through the town, is stopped by stoplights and crosswalks. No one else sees what he is seeing right now and people start asking him.
"Hey dude, are you okay bro?" a boy told him with a bicycle questioned him. He waved him off and tries to keep his eyes on the man. Multiple people start trying to stop him from chasing the man now, all overlapping questions and criticisms as to why Samuel is chasing something only he can see. He gets away from all of them at last and catches up to the man, he takes a right into an alleyway, no one is there, he proceeds through the alleyway into a large park where nothing but cameras have been set up, like how cameras are set up on a movie set. He knows that the man has to be around here and also wonders if the man wants him to know something he doesn't. He ponders as to what he should do with all the cameras set up and proceeds to check the cameras for film or photographs.
"Where the hell is he? What does he want from me? Hey! You listening to me right now or what!? Man how long will this take there's like 20 of these" he shouts into the air angrily and continues to check the rest of the cameras. At long last, he finds a camera with a photo with the people from the town and a frame of a person missing in the middle, he turns it around and it says. "To all of the people of this great town, thank you for everything".
He looks up and sees that there is only one camera set up now. Perplexed, as he was, he walked to the camera and checked it too and it had nothing in it but film. Alas, he was left with only one thing to do with a camera. He stood in front of the camera and smiled with confidence. The camera was clicked. Samuel at this moment in time is dumbfounded by the events he has been in, he looks at the photo he grabbed earlier and now sees himself standing where the frame of the missing person was in the middle and looks up to notice the camera is gone and that he was in the alleyway this entire time staring at this photo. The people who were following him repeatedly asking him questions were also not there anymore and have always been walking through the town like they have been. Samuel believes now that the universe must be telling him something that he was made for the people to help them with something. He breathes in and out steadily, and goes back to the University, he was late to second period and was scolded for not attending first period. His friends asks him if he's fine.
"Yeah, I just have a lot of things on my mind right now, sorry for skipping first period bro", he smiles and his friends are glad, Samuel proceeds to go along with his day, like normal, just like any other day.