This was all too familiar.

The scuffed white crosswalk, the large vehicle…

But somehow, this time it was different.

My face showed no expression, I just watched, confused.

The figure before me waved a grin stretching from ear to ear

Why him? Why did it have to be the same man who had saved me before…

No

It wasn't him.

It was his shell being eaten from the inside by a…

Dark force

I outstretched my arm trying to grasp onto my friend. The melancholic hero.

The white haired boy I laughed and smiled with

But his soul has already been broken by black

Closing my eyes I accepted my fate. Maybe…maybe she will be waiting for me.