His Life

Aloysius woke up with a great smile on his face. Snatching his clothes, he put on his clothes rapidly, which was easy since he had a slender body, and rushed to the dining room.

"Good morning," Aloysius greeted his parents as he smiled.

He sat down and began to eat his breakfast, pancakes with fruit slices placed to show a smiling face. Coming down from the stairs was his sister with her brown long hair swaying up and down. She had a smile similar to Aloysius's as she ate her breakfast as well. The Sun's light reached their house in Illinois. The light shined through their windows, giving the house a bright light inside as the two continued to happily eat their breakfast before heading to school. They then put their plates in the sink and grabbed their backpacks. Aloysius and Kasia both said their goodbyes to their parents as they headed to high school.

During the walk, Aloysius walked up a small hill on a street with her sister Kasia. The wind began to blow against Aloysius's brown flat hair and Kasia's long hair, making her blue eyes stand out more. Both of them thought of just going to school since every year, they have been going to school together. Aloysius appreciated the joy and company he had and felt when he walked with Kasia. They turned right on a corner and right there was Jackson High School.

"Why don't you do something with your bangs, I know they don't cover your vision but at least cut them shorter," Kasia suggested to Aloysius,

"Nah, I think they add a little style to me with my dark blue eyes. It makes me, stand out more, don't you think." Aloysius said to Kasia with a smile. They then both chuckled and opened the doors of Jackson High School, Aloysius and Kasia then went to their classes separately. The first class for Aloysius and Kasia is ELA. Aloysius was sitting in the class but then the speakers went active.

"Excuse us for the interruption, it seems that all teachers for every class aren't coming to school today due to the flu that passed around. Please be cautious as the disease may very well still be on the school grounds, thank you very much and stay safe." the speaker cut to static and then stopped.

Aloysius shoved it off as a coincidence and just ignored it. He then took out a notebook and a mechanical pencil from his bag and began to draw. Aloysius tended to have a mind of imagination and would draw and write his ideas on paper. One of his ideas was about a person who lost his "Everything" but then found new people. Aloysius continued to move the pencil gracefully and gently to create shades and lines. His creation was a person chained to a wall, the wall represented the past for Aloysius. As soon as he was finished, the door opened, and in came a substitute teacher named "Mr. F" as written on the board.

"Hello students, my name is Frank but call me Mr. F. Today, Ms. Stacey couldn't come in because of the Flu, rest assure that she is doing okay and well." Mr. F explained.

The same explanation was given to his sister Kasia who was on the opposite wing. As she was hearing the explanation, she kept fiddling with her pencil and then shaking it from the tip nervously.

In Mr. F's class, he was teaching about composition and grammar in both English and British saying, "This will be necessary when you learn Shakespeare's plays and sonnets."

An announcement was then shared through the speaker, "Excuse the interruption again, due to certain circumstances involving the Flu, we have decided to cut short the school day. All students must arrive at their buses or walk to their homes by 12:30 PM, have a good day everyone." the time currently was 9:40 AM.

Mr. F finished his teaching quickly enough for Aloysius to walk to his second class at 10 AM. The same went for Kasia who packed her stuff and went for her Mathematics class. She entered the classroom and sat down quickly to get the class started fast. The other students took the announcement as a free time gift and talked as they walked into the classroom. Kasia took out a math book with a pencil and some scrap paper to make sure she doesn't thing. But on her mind that kept appearing was Aloysius's face. She kept focusing to get the image out of her head. Like the snap of a finger, math class was finished because she couldn't concentrate. Her entire time was spent on trying to get Aloysius out of her head. Kasia started to put away her things but then saw that she wrote all the equations into one equation, the equation for the universe. It was messy so she couldn't identify what she wrote.

Aloysius's Math class ended as well and walked out of the classroom to Science class at the strike of 11:30 AM. He rushed through the large crowd of students that were acting as a wall to get to his Science class. After using the amount of force a Rhino would use to get through the crowd, he had made it. Aloysius followed the same procedure and took out a mechanical pencil and a notebook half-filled with 9th grade Science notes. Class started and Aloysius wrote down every single detail his teacher spoke about, organisms, classification, space. Everything the teacher spoke about was to give the students a general idea of the entirety of science. The clock hit 12:20 and students started to fiddle around as they waited for their cue to leave. The science teacher then gave an interesting idea before they left,

"Besides our universe, there are theories that multiverses could exist. The difference between a parallel universe and a multiverse is that a multiverse is a group of universes that make up everything, time, space, physics. Okay, it is 12:29, have a good day everybody, see you all one day." as soon as the teacher finished, the bell rang.

Aloysius got up and put on his backpack but as he was walking towards the exit, he kept getting pushed around by other students who were desperate to leave what seemed to them as a prison. Aloysius stopped walking when he got to a corner near the school. Five minutes later, his sister Kasia arrived at where he was at. They continued to walk down the hill while smiling on the inside. The Sun started to reach the middle of the sky and light glowed through the forest they passed by. In just ten minutes after viewing beautiful scenery on their way home, they arrived. Aloysius and Kasia greeted their parents, threw the backpacks on the couch, and ran up the stairs.

Aloysius opened his door and closed. He threw himself on the bed and smiled.

"Ah, how relaxing this bed is. It is fun when you have someone with you to go where you go. Experience the same things and arrive at the same place. Ever since 9th grade, I have left the role of being a loner since Kasia and I started going to the same school. What would I have done without her today?" said Aloysius to himself.

A knock on the door was heard and Aloysius got up and opened the door.

At the door was his sister who wanted to ask him a question.

"If you were to be given an item that could give you all the power in the world, would you accept?" asked Kasia

"Why ask?" Aloysius responded to Kasia

"I just want to know, it was a thing our teacher in ELA told us to do for homework," Kasia said, the thing is, Kasia was lying.

"Well, even if I were to fall into darkness, I would never accept it because," Aloysius paused and frowned as he looked at the ground.

"Because?" Kasia asked.

"Because I'm not like them. Our grandparents were broken and torn to shreds by that. I would never accept that! NEVER! I don't want my life to be destroyed and turn into one of them!" Aloysius yelled furiously.

"I know, I just wanted to make sure that didn't change your goal. Your humility is part of you that I like, Ayen." Kasia said as she smiled at Aloysius.

"I wouldn't call it that but thanks. By the way, why did you call me Ayen?" Aloysius asked.

"You'll figure it out," Kasia said as she closed the door slowly.

Aloysius smiled as he kept that in his head. His day went by normally, he was called for dinner, spent time with his parents and sister, and laughed. But each time, more light was brought into his life. As it became dark, everybody said their goodnights and went to their rooms.

The next morning was how it was like yesterday, bright and happy. Aloysius and Kasia both went out as usual. This time, Aloysius felt like he was being watched, he turned his head in each direction although there was no one in sight but Kasia. As they were heading for a crosswalk, Kasia insisted that she would go first to see if he can follow the pattern of her footsteps on each white line. Kasia went and jumped on each one, halfway through Aloysius was smiling and thinking what fun he was having. On the far side of the crosswalk was a truck that was going out of control. Aloysius didn't notice anything but at that last line, Kasia turned around and smiled, Aloysius saw the truck but before he could say anything Kasia's life was taken. Since there was no one around, Aloysius could only cry on the inside as he was shedding tears rapidly. The one thing that kept him alive was lost. Aloysius's eyes turned to a dull color, everything in his vision turned dull. The light that was brought to him was soon fading away. His world was soon losing its color, its detail, its happiness. The person in the truck just said sorry and left. Aloysius got furious but nothing good could happen if he argued.

Aloysius only had one idea, take her sister's body back to his house. As Aloysius cleaned everything with what he could find and picked her body up, he went back home while crying. The Sun became covered by the dark clouds, no light, no nothing. He turned to the corner at his house and knocked on the door. His parents answered only to be shocked. Aloysius explained everything to them. Nothing could cope with his parent's sadness and the same goes for himself.

His parents decided that they would organize a funeral, Aloysius agreed as he touched his sister's cold hand. Aloysius's day became slow and dull. When it became dark, it was darker than before. He threw himself on his bed and cried loudly into his pillow. Aloysius fell asleep after sobbing, but he fell asleep with an empty room next to him.

The life Aloysius had was no more. Everything crumbled to pieces, and he fully knew that being depressed and sad would be his life for now.