It was like I tripped over an uneven ledge while walking along the sidewalk. My eyes tore themselves open and I shot up from where I lay. I was in my bed. My head was killing me, I reached up to rub my temples.
Funny though, I don't remember going to bed. Surely, this was my room, and this was definitely my bed. No one else I knew lived in such a shit hole looking house or have ratty torn-up sheets like I do.
This was definitely my house, I thought to myself as I plopped back down on the mattress. I covered my face with my hands and groaned in agony. Everything hurt to no end.
A flashback struck my memory and I realized the reason for my confusion.
"Died again."
I kicked off my covers in frustration. This happens every time. I'm the unluckiest kid in this town, I swear to god. And the worst part? No one ever remembers/ I've died countless times and each time I end up in my bed as if it never happened.
What gets me, though, is not my apparent 'immortality', but that I age normally with all my other friends. Despite my many deaths through adolescence, puberty still happened as if my life never once ended.
This shit is frustrating.
I got up and punched the wall. I heard a bang in the room next to mine.
"Kenny McCormick! Go the fuck to sleep!"
My parents. As if they cared I slept, as long as I kept quiet…
Grunting, I made it back to my bed.
I hate when this happens. It's never as much as my death that I hate as the aftermath. Its like a massive hangover, a hangover where you remember the night before, that is.
This time I was with my friends and a piano fell and crushed me. Sounds cartoonish, doesn't it? Well it is, like I said, I'm unlucky. And I guarantee it, the next day I'll walk up to my friends at the bus stop, and they won't remember. They'll remember the piano falling from the second floor window, but not it crushing me like a bug.
I turned over in my bed and rapped the tattered sheets around me. Sighing, I closed my eyes and attempted to sleep through the pain. Maybe one day they'll remember me.
But for now, this is just another day for me, as Kenny McCormick.