CHAPTER 3

The world is full of craziness.

Wherever you go, however much you wish for it to be as far away from you as possible, it always seems to reappear right in front of you.

Crazy people, crazy animals, crazy situations...It's all a package gift-wrapped with a big red ribbon and a card that says 'For: You'.

You might not like the gift, but you can't refuse it.

Walking back from school one day, a girl suddenly rushed up to me. She was wearing my school uniform but didn't look familiar.

She quickly held out her hand with an envelope in it. Her cheeks were a brilliant pink, her eyes averted from me. She mumbled some stuff as I hesitantly took the letter, and ran off.

Sighing, I looked at the front of the cream-colored envelope. It was simply addressed to me, no decorations whatsoever. I really didn't want to read it so I shoved into my bag and continued my way home.

Not long after, a drunk man staggered out of an alleyway, singing about alcohol and women, swinging a beer bottle in one hand. He saw me and began screaming barely distinguishable obscenities in my way, making rude and threatening gestures as I passed.

What did I do to deserve this?

Getting nearer to home, I was interrupted yet again, this time in the form of a cat. The black thing shoots out of a drain, yowling as if its tail was on fire, and lunged at me. Its caws buried into my clothes, piercing skin. I yelled and tried to shake it off. The cat stayed on.

A man appeared then, wearing peculiar clothes and a striped hat, calling for the animal. When he saw me and his cat, he quickly came over and dislodged the animal from me.

He began apologizing profusely, nuzzling his cat. He absent-mindedly walked off, cooing to the cat.

I don't even think he was apologizing to me.

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A/N: I wasn't really thinking when I first wrote this story. I just wrote what came to my mind. So I wasn't quite expecting myself to be writing 'philosophy'. This is a first for me.

And don't worry. This is probably the longest chain of 'philosophy' you'll find in this fic. We'll get on to the plot starting next chapter.