1 The day I died (1/2)

I was running through the streets and back alleys of the poorest and most dangerous district of Nebula City. Behind me was a bunch of thugs pursuing me as if i had killed their mom. I'll stop you there i didn't kill their mom, let's just say that i had the worst luck ever recorded in a human being.

Wait i am getting ahead of myself, if i don't explain properly you'll be lost and blame the author right? It all started 2 hours ago. I live in the worst place ever, Coldstone district, a place where all sorts of unsavory characters abound, From Drugs lords to Mafia boss to pimps to petty thieves, well you get the picture.

My name is Samsara Yu 17 years old and high school dropout, yes i know the name is weird you can thanks my parents for that, not that you could find them, they died in my first year of high school from drug overdose. Rest assured i am not that sad about it i always knew one day i was gonna find them dead. My father was an immigrant From Continent Aso fill with hope when he arrived to this city but due to his illegal status and the fact that he never had a stable job he became a junkie, piece of shit human being; my dear mother was native of this city though with a pretty well off family but being the rebel she got with my father and drugs and here we are. My grandparents knew of me but didn't recognise the spawn of an asshole like my father as family.

After their passing, being alone and without support i had to quit high school and started working, it's been two years now, i worked at a small coffee in the mid-class part of the city the ”Sly Cat Coffee” , i didn't get a lot of money from this job but enough to rent an apartment for 500 $ a month in this shit hole district.

So i was returning from my day job dejected because i had just been fired. The reason you ask? an asshole client demanded it. Who was he? He was a second-generation son of a business man with an business worth billions of dollars. He was on a date with a beautiful girl named Mary whom I knew from my high school days and they came to the coffee shop where i waited. You can guess what happened, Mary remembered me from high school and was familiar with me so she started talking to me but it was just simple concern from an ex-class comrade because i dropped out so suddenly and she was the class chief. But mister self-entitled didn't see it this way, having always being the centre of attention since small he was pissed that the girl he had been wooing for the better part of one year 'ignored' him on their first date to talk to a worthless waiter. He didn't cause a scene though he was too smart for that. He waited after their date and came back with goons to beat me up and threaten the old manager of the coffee shop to fire me.

I let out a sigh, my clothes were in shambles and i had bruises on a good part of my face. I wasn't exactly the most handsome man but with at least my mixed heritage features i could be called nice looking but with that beat up i was like the Frankenstein monster.

'What i am gonna do to pay rent this month, thanks to that asshole i'll soon be homeless'

Finding another job you say? difficult! extremely so, a high school dropout without qualifications like me? I let out a derisive laugh at myself.

As my internal rant continued i forgot to pay attention and in this type of neighbourhood it was asking for death. When i shook off my mood i had already landed in a bad situation. I had wandered in a building in construction where i had the habit to come and think when everything went to shit. Only 100 m from me were thugs who seemed to be in the mist of an execution. Voices rose and gunshots were heard then it went silent. One of the thugs was on the ground dead with a bullet in the middle of his brows. I was so stunned that i missed the window to depart from here before they saw me. Alas it was too late, one of the thugs turned in my direction and...

Here we are in this situation, me running for my life and them pursuing me like enraged bulldogs.

This pursuit last for 15 min across the whole block before been stop by a dead end. I once again cursed my luck. I turned slowly and raised my hand in the air as sign of surrender and spoke calmly

”Guys I didn't see anything, i wasn't even there.” tried tentatively.