Chapter 1: Reincarnation
It had been supposed to be an amazing day. A day that I'd look back to and think 'Damn. What a great day.' It had been the last day of finals of my junior year of highschool and I had done pretty well in my own opinion. I had been invited over to this girl Zoe's party along with my other friends. I hadn't known the girl personally but I figured 'Why not? Where's the harm in going?' Those words came back to bite me. I couldn't have known then that today, would be the day I die.
I had gone to the party and had had a lot of fun. Alcohol had been brought too and while i said no at first I eventually gave up and started drinking too. I shouldn't have. I should've left. I should've done something. Anything but drink. It was my mistake and it cost me my life. But back to the party. I had been having fun. Music playing and we were all dancing and just generally having fun. It had been one of the greatest nights of my life. And also my last. At least in this life.
Hours later I still had enough sense to not let any of my drunk friends drive me home and opted instead to walk. I told my friends that I was going to walk and left the house. Zoe had lived pretty far away but I could walk it. It had been while I was walking towards a stop light that I had, in my drunken haze, mistaken the green light of oncoming traffic as the signal to walk. Ignoring the shout of the guy next to me, I walked out straight into oncoming traffic. The last thing I heard was the honk of a truck before I was consumed by pain. I could feel it. Every broken bone. Every bruise. All I could feel was pain. And then, I died. I didn't see see my entire life flash before my eyes. I didn't see some white light that'd take me to wherever I was going. I had just died. Unimportant and worthless. Unknown. My whole life made meaningless in that instant. No one would remember me. Not my so called best friends. Sure they would for awhile atleast. Then I'd fade away from their memory. That one kid they used to hang out with. I was meaningless. I was nothing. I hated it. In that moment, I wanted to be someone more, someone everyone knows, someone they'd think of and be like 'Hey, this guy mattered.' But I couldn't. Because I was dead.
All I could see was darkness. Just pure darkness. Nothing else. No God to judge me, no gates of Heaven and no fires of Hell. Just darkness. I don't know how long I was there. It could've been days, months, or even years. I just knew darkness. During that time I reflected on my life. The decisions I had made. The choices I made. I looked back and all I could feel was regret. I had wasted my life. All I had really done was read fan fiction. I hadn't made all that many friends. I had let my school work drop. I had low grades even though I knew just how intelligent I was. How much smarter I was then the others. Just how much potential I had. And I had wasted it. On brooding and thinking about girls and on music and on books and so much more pointless shit. I could've been someone. Maybe not someone well known. But someone that people would remember.
I wished that I could redo it all. Live another life. Make better choices. I'd actually take care of my body. I'd work out and I'd do well in school. In that next life I'd actually do something with my life. Become a writer or a teacher or something. But I would leave behind a legacy. I would leave behind something for people to remember me by. But I couldn't. Because I was dead and all I knew was darkness.
More time passed and I realized I had changed. I was angry. I was wrathful. Was this my Hell? To be tormented, alone in the dark with nothing but my thoughts and regrets?
Even more time passed and I had stopped being angry. I had resigned myself to being trapped there. Till eternity ends. And then, came the light. It was so bright it hurt, But the joy I felt in that moment outweighed the pain. I felt something big grab me. Screaming and crying started and It was so loud and annoying. 'Stop that. No one needs your annoying cries.' It was only after the bright light which had been coming closer and closer finally engulfed all of me that I realized that I was the one crying.
The light finally become tolerable and able to look at and I blinked at what I saw. Then I blinked again. And then for a third time. I just couldn't comprehend what I was seeing. Because I was being held by what seemed to be giant doctors. I looked down and realized that it wasn't them that were big. It was me that was small. Now I had heard of reincarnation. Believed in it really, But the time in the dark made me think I was wrong. But I hadn't. Because here I am, reborn. Although I thought you were supposed to lose your memory when this happens. Oh well. I'm not gonna complain about this.
I felt myself be moved into the arms of someone. Warmth engulfed me as I looked upon the smiling visage of my new mother. It was at that moment that the full implications of what I just realized sunk in. Through my shock I could hear someone say "What's his name?"
And my mother responded "His name is Alexander Achilles Black."
It was the last thing I heard before I passed out from shock.
So this is the first ever fanfic I've ever written. I'd really appreciate the constructive criticism. Thanks.