Black fire

I'm walking along the crowded streets as a sudden gust of wind goes by me,

" S-so cold.."

my voice was shivering as much as my hands

" I should've brought gloves."

Well.. it's not like I have any.

I finally make it out from the waves of people, now, infront of a convenience store

" Jesus, I thought I was drowning!"

I gasp for air, but instead, it felt like I was swallowing blocks of ice, holding my throat, I cough consecutively.

A tall man with a dark red hoodie comes up to me " hey, are you okay?" his voice didn't match what he was saying, with his voice colder than the winter air, he asked if I was okay..

Do I look okay??

"no."

I responded with a tiny frown that could barely be seen. I have no Idea why, but his aura kind of scares me.. I think I saw him grin a little. As he closes his eyes he says" I'm going to go inside now.." I think that sounded a little sarcastic, but whatever, it's not like it affects me in any way.

I go inside the convenience store after him remembering that I needed to buy gloves, suddenly, he ends up at the other side of the store,

" What the heck?"

I didn't even hear him move!

Let alone end up at the other side of the store?

I ignored it thinking that either he was extremely fast, Or that was another guy with the exact same hoodie and ripped jeans. After buying gloves from the surprisingly nice store clerk,

I headed to where I was originally headed, my mom's grave.

My mom died in a house fire.

People say it wasn't a fire, however, my tiny, black haired, eye bagged self was there, and it was clearly fire, the fire did seem a little wierd,

but it was only a little darker than other fires, this is the day my mother died in that fire..

And my birthday. Hm..?

Where the heck is that wierd guy? Did he already leave?

I sigh,

it has nothing to do with me anyways, let's get going.

I begin jogging on the sidewalk, I'll get there faster like this, and besides, it's not like the grave is that far anyways.

I jog for 5 short minutes, after passing the huge gate, I see it, finally I'm here after a year!

I sit down on the well maintained grass and talk to the gravestone keeping my mother,

" Have you been good mom? I know I haven't.."

As if my mom's spirit asked me why, I jumped to respond,

"Why? Well.. I have misfortume everyday, like for example, a month ago, I tripped on the tiniest rock the fell face forward and broke my nose, and a lot of small misfortunes fell upon me today as well! But, I won't bother you with them because they aren't worth listening to."

Then all of a sudden, somebody tapped my shoulder saying "But I want to listen to them. I'm curious.".

- To be continued ^^

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