DannyMay 2020. Day Thirteen
"Regret"
Funny how this fandom doesn't very often need to warn for character death, considering the main character kinda is. Anyway.
Warning for character death.
Johnny should have stayed home that night./span/p
He shouldn't have called Kitty, told her to get pretty, and picked her up on his bike.
Oh, of course he would have been a miserable ghost, having to unlive only with his Shadow, and probably would have ended up doing something even more stupid than getting himself killed.
But if he hadn't had another fight with his asshole father that night and instead just headed straight to his room, maybe he wouldn't have called his girlfriend, and they would have lived together.
She could have gone to college, or something, and he could have gotten a job or… something else, anyway.
But here they were, arguing with the exact same appearance they had had for over two decades now. But even if he would have preferred they were both alive longer, and even if they could get into each other's nerves very often, a selfish part inside him was glad he was not alone with his rotten luck.
I didn't expect this to end up as an inversion of the prompt, but I still quite like it and think it's still within bounds.
Also, I was shocked to not see the any 13/(bad) luck related prompts today, since they usually are when I can participate, so I had to bring Johnny in.