"I love you! Please go out with me!"

I am holding flowers, as I declare my love to my childhood friend. My heart is racing a lot, as if it will soon explode or leave my chest.

Her name is Eva, a brunette Spanish girl. No shorter than me, who is 5'4 feet tall. She also has beautiful brown eyes and has a body not many would envy.

I've been trying my best to find the best moment and situation to declare myself. And I bet this is truly my best shot. But, somehow I feel it's false.

"I-"

"WAKE UP!"

BAAM!

A scream wakes me up from my beautiful sleep as I also fall from the bed slamming my face to the floor.

"WHAT?!"

I scream back to whoever wakes me up.

"You are late to school! I have been trying to wake you up mijo!"

It was my mom who woke me up.

I look at the clock rapidly through my phone, I see it's 8:15 AM. I am surely late to school.

"Why didn't you wake me up even earlier mom!"

"You sleep like a log! Now dress up and run to school. And don't forget about your lunchbox!"

"Yes Ma!"

My mom, a very cheerful but strict short but very caring lady. I may not have won in genes because of her, but I am happy with it. Can't see myself as any taller to be honest, though I envy my younger brothers a bit who got more of our fathers genes, specially on the body part.

I take my sweet time preparing myself and take my bag with the lunchbox then run to school before mother holds the slipper.

I get to class as soon as I can, which ends with me being 45 minutes late. School is not that close to my home but not that far so I can run there, but I get easily tired so I just walk there.

At lunch time I get to finally see Eva and my other friends. We are all in different classrooms so we only get to see us at rest time, lunch time or after school.

"Hi there Eva! How was history class today?"

"A pain, as you can expect."

"Haha, I could guess that easily, history will never be your strongest."

"And I hope it stays like that."

Eva has never been that good in studies, yet her grades are decently good, at least better than mine.

"Heh, it sucks for you both."

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The pretentious friend is David, and the one besides him is Luis. We got to know them two in this school, it has been 5 years already of friendship.

"At least put in a bit more effort, it's our last year, you wouldn't like to fail just at the endline right? Especially you Axel. Or your father will take out the famous belt."

"Y-yeah, that's truly something I wouldn't want to face again..."

I truly say this in fear, my father hasn't been the best one, he is very strict on us. Especially me, since I'm the older brother, I have to show an image to my two dumb brothers to follow. It is unfair, but I have shown a bit more of development than my brothers thanks to him, though with those two he has begun to be more docile, so I don't have to fear the belt a lot now.

"Talking about failure, have any of you got your hands on the next exam?"

"Not a single thing, seems like they want to hold the exam a secret this year."

"Such a pain, exactly when we are the ones to graduate... could have cheated a little."

Cheating in exams for me is something normal, though I’ve shown development I have a hard time studying, new names and words are really hard for me to remember. So it's the only way for me to pass completely. I have been doing this since I was 9 to be honest. My parents should be proud of me because I can cheat myself out of school for many years. Because cheating sure is one thing but cheating without never getting caught is something to be awarded by and there must be a medal of such an achievement somewhere. But even though I cheat, I still study. It wouldn’t be good if I end up lacking knowledge overall.

"I will have to study more than I wanted this time..."

Is what I say but truly not what I think, I will infiltrate the school just days before the exam day and get my hands on a copy. I will truly have fun doing this again, it's been years since the last time I did something this crazy.

"Oh, by the way guys, what's the plan for tomorrow? It's Friday today but I have some stuff to do at home. Will help mom with cleaning the house."

"I am busy tomorrow, I have something to do."

Eva answers, staring at one side, she lies whenever she does that.

"I am also busy tomorrow."

"Sameeee."

Huh? All three of them are busy? Are they planning to do something without me? That's not fair.

"I see, then I hope you three have fun doing whatever you three will be busy doing."

I say as I just dig in my food. We do continue talking about school stuff, until the school clock rings and we all go to our classrooms.

Finally school ends and I am halfway free for a nice weekend. I run home as soon as I say goodbye to the trio with a busy weekend. Such party-poopers, I wanted to meet them and play some games with them. Hopefully we do this next weekend.

Once I get home I help mom clean the house, it's a family apartment. I have my own room and my two brothers share one, then mom and dad have their own, there is the living room, a bathroom and the kitchen. As said, a decent family apartment, but it feels enormous when cleaning.

It took a few hours but mom and I cleaned all the corners of the house. I am proud of my work, I'm getting better at cleaning now that I've noticed it.

But I am dead tired now, good thing mother did dinner before we started cleaning so it's just serving time. Or that is what I would love to say but I have to wait for my father, we eat together as a family or we don’t eat.

My brothers came back home before 8pm, as they have joined a football club they train and play with them. Some matches and training gets to a very late time some days. And not much later my father also came back home, then we had a pleasant dinner.

After brushing my teeth and having a good shower I get to bed as soon as my hair is dry.

Hopefully tonight I also have a nice dream and I'm not awakened exactly the second I am getting an answer, I need to get my hopes up somehow. Or that is what I truly wanted.

But tonight it was a nightmare. One that I didn’t welcome. As the dark sky illuminates, I stand in the center of the city, watching the bright rock flying to its destiny, me. A huge and menacing asteroid is falling on earth. Fast, burning everything around it the closer it gets. I only hear silence as I keep staring at it. As if everyone around was already dead.

Feeling like an ant who’s waiting for the human to crush them with the sole of their shoe. I accept my destiny in this dream. Waiting for my death. To finally wake up again.