p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"It was a typical rainy day in New York City. As Koda lay on his couch, he lay on the sofa and sighed. It was a long day as he was only 13 years old. While it was pouring outside, Koda sighed. "Looks like it's nothing but chores and cleaning" he got up and stretched while heading to the kitchen to get some water. "Ugh this headache is getting on my nerves."/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"He took a quick sip of water and felt a little better but decided the chores could wait and came to the conclusion that he just needed a short nap; he stumbled down the stairs as the young boy suddenly felt his head pounding. He put his hand on his forehead./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"He was burning up, and Koji groaned; He was supposed to go meet up with his friends later, but I guess he would have to cancel his plans after all as he plopped on his bed as he called his friends up to tell them the bad news "Hey guys sorry i'm gonna have to cancel the plans" They seemed a bit bummed but they understood and seemed ok with it./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="font-weight: normal;" /strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"He hung up the phone and swiped through his phone. He looked through all his apps and games on his home screen. "Hmm I haven't played Cookie Run Kingdom in a while I'll play that and I heard there's a new update" he then tapped the little icon and waited for the game to load. He saw the iconic /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"DEVSISTERS/spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" logo, which filled him with a strange nostalgia./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="font-weight: normal;"br /br /br /strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Koda felt a strong sense of joy coming from the main menu as the calming lullaby-like music made everything calm. Any anger that he had before was just gone. He felt his body melt onto his bed as he pressed "Touch to Start" As he heard the Christmas-themed music filled his ears as he hummed along to the tune./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="font-weight: normal;" /strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"He loaded in the game and looked around his Kingdom. It was full of weeds and trees so he clapped his hands. "Alright time to fix this place up" He had already beaten story mode, so he didn't have to worry about that and had all the time in the world./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="font-weight: normal;" /strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Koji had lost the concept of time as he was having too much fun while rebuilding his Kingdom and getting more trophies in ranked mode. He then looked at the time. It was about 7 P.M. "Dang I didn't even realize how late it was."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="font-weight: normal;" /strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"He turned off the lights and pulled the covers over himself, and got comfy; He sighed as his headache was getting worse, and he didn't have any medicine for it, so he had to suck it up and sleep through the pain./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="font-weight: normal;" /strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Hours later, it was about 3 in the morning, and the pain became unbearable, and he got up to go and get another glass of water. As he groggily climbed up the stairs, he contemplated just sleeping for a couple more hours and then calling the hospital in the morning or just calling them now./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="font-weight: normal;" /strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"While he was walking up the stairs, he missed a step and slipped. They felt his entire world slowing down as Koda screamed, but he didn't hear anything. He didn't feel anything. It was just silent./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="font-weight: normal;" /strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"He just laid there. He couldn't do anything else. His frail husk body stood still blood leaking out of his head. "Sorry Mom, Sorry Dad I guess I won't be coming to your wedding" And with tears streaming down his face, he takes his final breath.../span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong id="docs-internal-guid-da5cc4fc-7fff-b63e-bb5b-7ea29801e65a" style="font-weight: normal;" /strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"He took a quick sip of water and felt a little better but decided the chores could wait and came to the conclusion that he just needed a short nap; he stumbled down the stairs as the young boy suddenly felt his head pounding. He put his hand on his forehead./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="font-weight: normal;" /strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"He was burning up, and Koji groaned; He was supposed to go meet up with his friends later, but I guess he would have to cancel his plans after all as he plopped on his bed as he called his friends up to tell them the bad news "Hey guys sorry i'm gonna have to cancel the plans" They seemed a bit bummed but they understood and seemed ok with it./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="font-weight: normal;" /strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"He hung up the phone and swiped through his phone. He looked through all his apps and games on his home screen. "Hmm I haven't played Cookie Run Kingdom in a while I'll play that and I heard there's a new update" he then tapped the little icon and waited for the game to load. He saw the iconic /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"DEVSISTERS/spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" logo, which filled him with a strange nostalgia./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="font-weight: normal;"br /br /br /strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Koda felt a strong sense of joy coming from the main menu as the calming lullaby-like music made everything calm. Any anger that he had before was just gone. He felt his body melt onto his bed as he pressed "Touch to Start" As he heard the Christmas-themed music filled his ears as he hummed along to the tune./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="font-weight: normal;" /strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"He loaded in the game and looked around his Kingdom. It was full of weeds and trees so he clapped his hands. "Alright time to fix this place up" He had already beaten story mode, so he didn't have to worry about that and had all the time in the world./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="font-weight: normal;" /strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Koji had lost the concept of time as he was having too much fun while rebuilding his Kingdom and getting more trophies in ranked mode. He then looked at the time. It was about 7 P.M. "Dang I didn't even realize how late it was."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="font-weight: normal;" /strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"He turned off the lights and pulled the covers over himself, and got comfy; He sighed as his headache was getting worse, and he didn't have any medicine for it, so he had to suck it up and sleep through the pain./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="font-weight: normal;" /strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Hours later, it was about 3 in the morning, and the pain became unbearable, and he got up to go and get another glass of water. As he groggily climbed up the stairs, he contemplated just sleeping for a couple more hours and then calling the hospital in the morning or just calling them now./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="font-weight: normal;" /strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"While he was walking up the stairs, he missed a step and slipped. They felt his entire world slowing down as Koda screamed, but he didn't hear anything. He didn't feel anything. It was just silent./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="font-weight: normal;" /strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"He then felt a very sharp pain and screamed in pain as he tumbled down the stairs and hit the ground with a BANG! His entire body went numb. He couldn't talk; all he could do was think, "Wow this is how I die? Because I tripped and fell down the stairs, how embarrassing"./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="font-weight: normal;" /strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"He just laid there. He couldn't do anything else. His frail husk body stood still blood leaking out of his head. "Sorry Mom, Sorry Dad I guess I won't be coming to your wedding" And with tears streaming down his face, he takes his final breath.../span/p