COINCIDENCE

{ ON THE SURFACE - 12 January, 2021 }

"Hey Ray, do you think coincidences are important in life?"

My grandpa looked at me with his honest blue eyes as we both sat at the hill and watched the sunset that gave rise to a beautiful view where the water of the ocean changed it's color to golden with the yellow clouds at top of us, he asked me a random question, I stared at him with my innocent blue-dragonish eyes and cocked my head and responded uncertainly.

"Coincidences, I don't know, coincidences are just coincidences."

I gave my half assed answer to him which made him burst into laughter, "<>".

My grandpa used to be a person who would laugh a lot, while he wiped his tears with his left hand he said.

"I expected that, you will not understand that as you are now, but remember coincidences are what leads you to your given fate in life, so never belittle coincidences, they can either destroy or raise your life."

He was always that kind of person who professed serious topics while laughing, he patted my chest-nut spiky hair with his big hand and ruffled it which made me happy after all he was my only family, I gave an innocent smile and responded.

"YEAHH!!."

"<

""

I swiftly opened my eyes and saw a white colored cemented ceiling in front of me, I removed the blanket which covered my lower half and lifted my right hand towards the back of my head and ruffled my hair and yawned after a good sleep of about half a day.

""

I stood up from my bed and moved towards the washroom and stared at my own face and half naked body with nothing on the upper half except of a pair of black vertical wings on my back, right below my left shoulder and black feathers which spread to my left arm, it was obviously not a tattoo, it was a <> which I had on my body since I was born and grew as my body developed, Even I didn't know the reason.

With a very hard and soar tone I talked to myself.

"Again, a dream of the past, it seems like he is still teaching me from the afterlife, hmmm."

I smiled and turned my head to check what time it was from the clock which was placed high on the wall, I saw that it was already aprrox. ten in the morning and released a sigh, at that moment I thought--

'It's already this late, the classes would have started a long time ago, well who cares, I will try to go before the lunch break.'

With that in my mind, I dressed up and ate my breakfast which was the leftovers of the last night and went out my room which was the room no. #402 in the boy's dorm, I locked the room and lifted my bag with my left shoulder and left for school.

I reached the school at about 10:45 a.m. and walked swiftly to class <2,'A'> which was my class, I opened the door by sliding it to the right and greeted the beautiful female teacher with black hair and green eyes in a loud voice.

"HELLO!! Ma'am.."

The teacher had a pissed look on her with nerves showing up on her head, she yelled at me in a soft voice.

"If it isn't Ray, why have you come to school, it is still night time, the school hasn't started yet."

I looked around in the classroom which had about more than 30 students in it and cocked my head and responded her with confidence--

"Well... then Ms. Eriko, what are the students doing here and why are you teaching if it's still night time, you all should go home then, ok... then , I am going home."

"Waitttt!!!!!..... that attitude of yours really irritates me.", she shouted loudly and released a deep sigh.

I turned back my head about 90 degrees with a grin on my face and asked.

"What is it ma'am? I am on my way to home, you should also gooooo.", I said in order to irritate her.

"Huhhh.... stop acting now, you are y'know, it isn't the first time, it's like you are skipping in the name of being late, do you know the consequences?."

She said while looking at me with a strict and sharp look on her face, I smiled and turned back and responded with a smug look on my face.

"I see.... so what are the consequences, a punishment, how many periods will I get to skip, or how many days, or maybe a suspension for more than a week, I am extremely excited."

My eyes sparkled with stars in my brain, I always looked forward to punishments as they were the best way to skip classes, the white chalk in Ms. Eriko's hand broke and she looked down on the floor and desperately tried to control her anger.

"Heh.. Heh... what will I ever do to you, now go quickly to the principal's room, or I might kill you by mistake.", she said the first half laughing, but suddenly her hair flew in the air with anger and her eyes looked at me that indicated danger, she was seriously pissed and might actually kill me, I moved away from her and went outside the classroom and shut the door, I went to principal's room with a smiling face.

{ DURING LUNCH }

I was quietly taking a nap at the rooftop of my school building, the hill could be seen from the rooftop quite clearly as my school was quite close to the <>, the hill, the forest and the ocean.

Suddenly I felt something that touched my head swiftly and ruffled my hair gently and due to it I woke up, I lifted up my head and saw none other than Troy, he smiled at me with his eyes closed, it looked like he was having a blast. I stood up and looked at the hill and leaned on the barricade made of steel bars.

"What are you doing? You caused a lot of trouble in the morning, it took a lot of time to calm down Ms. Eriko, you should stop provoking her.", Troy said with a calm voice.

"Nothing much, I was just having some fun, y'know it's so boring, and remove your hand from my damn hair already, why do you always do this, are you an idiot or what?"

Troy began to ruffle my hair more fast and said with an annoying tone, as if he was he was a small kid rebelling for something, generally he was like an older brother who doesn't leave my side no matter what, but he could be annoying at times.

"Hehhhh... No, your hair feels good, it is silky yet spiky, it is one-of-a-kind y'know."

"Huhhhh.... it's not your play thing y'know.", I said and released a sigh.

Troy slowly removed his hand from my head, honestly it felt good when he did that ruffled it but I obviously couldn't say that.

"Y'know something amazing is going to happen today.", Troy said with a serious look on his face while he faced in the same direction as me.

"Ohh... what is going to happen?"

As I questioned him I thought after some time due to the smirk he had on his face-

'Oh crap!, I shouldn't have asked.'

Troy turned towards me with sparky eyes and cat mouth, he said in a irritating manner.

"Heeeeee.... you wanna know, you are that curious, hehhh... well I have no choice, listen-."

Troy took out his smartphone from his pocket and showed me a video. I hate to admit it, but I was quite curious, I thought it might be some fun.

"What are you opening?", I asked him while curving my head to take a look at it.

"It is today's weather forecast, now listen quietly--."

A video began to play on the screen and focused on a man who was explaining the forecast, and he said.

""

I was quite shocked from what it said, it was going to rain in the whole world at the same time, but my curiousness faded, it was just a bit unexpected, nothing else.

"See, it's amazing, isn't it, raining in the whole world at the same time, so exciting.", Troy said with a very excited look on his face.

"It isn't something that interesting, I am not into that kind of stuff, y'know.", I replied with a bored face.

"Well, nothing I can do, but don't go wandering around anywhere, now let's go back, the classes will resume.", he said while keeping his hands on my shoulder and turned back.

"Hmmm, let's go."

{ AFTER SCHOOL }

A golden flame as bright as the sun purged through the atmosphere and was headed towards the ocean, with an unbelievable speed it stroke the blue ocean.

<>

"Huhh!! Huff, huff."

I suddenly opened my eyes and looked around me in all directions, I found myself at the hill, my clothes all drenched in cold water and the ground as well soaked with a lot of water, it seemed it had rained a lot, a cold breeze went past me, due to me being wet, I felt extreme cold which honestly didn't felt that good. "", I said while covering myself with my hands, I questioned myself.

"Why am I here, and what time is it?"

I searched for my phone here and there, in my pockets and everywhere, I looked into my bag, and it was there, I looked at the time and it was already 11:50 p.m.

I was surprised and slowly remembered how I ended up here, when the school dispersed, I was on my way to the dorm and thought about all the stuff regarding , due to which and out of habit, I ended up arriving here and thought-

'Since I am here, why don't I sit down for a while.', and due to the good wind I fell asleep on the green and furry grass.

"I should have gone home as Troy said, now I am all wet."

As I looked at my clothes all wet, suddenly I saw a scorching light in the sky that swiftly moved straight to the ocean in a downward direction. I looked at the light and was reminded of what I saw when I was asleep, I thought that it might blow up the peninsula and started to sweat, but I was stunned from what I saw in front of me.

""

In the night sky with a lot of stars that sparkled brightly and the large and beautiful moon that illuminated the ocean into blue, I saw a golden flame which radiated and reached slowly to the ocean and reduced it's speed, it stopped at the top of the ocean and caused a few ripples on the ocean, the view was breathtaking and outstanding, I thought that I had the best seat for the show at that night, slowly-slowly the flame disappeared as if nothing had happened and the light vanished, I looked right and left in search of it, but nothing was found. As I looked down to the ground I panicked.

I saw a very large shadow that grew large in every second and reached to the ocean, the shadow from the hill crossed the forest and reached the ocean, and I realized that I was it's source, I wondered that for that big of a shadow there must be a brighter light, I turned back and saw a beautiful girl with golden eyes and blonde hair as pretty as the color of the sun and a very cute and innocent face, she was about of the same height as me, she wore a white and golden dress, the only correct word to describe her would be <>, her hair was banded with a red ribbon that flew with her hair itself in the air due to the strong wind, she gently moved her soft lips and spoke with a very gentle, soft and beautiful voice.

"HELLO!!"

As I stared at her and remained speechless, some words slept past through my mouth-

"You're pretty.", I realized what I was saying and had to correct it, I panicked on the inside and said some random things.

"You're a good cosplayer.", I was also surprised by what I said, and ruined the mood going on there, the girl pouted with her face turning red and her mouth being blown like a balloon, she crossed her arms and averted her face and looked sideways.

"How rude, I am not a cosplayer, you spiky-head!!!!"

As she said me a , I realized that she was someone to stay away from, and that she might be someone as annoying as Troy, with an annoyed face I said.

"Huhhh.. spiky head, who are you calling that, weird cute girl, just showing out of nowhere,... who are you?"

Her expression changed and she seemed very confident, she raised her head and said.

"Hehe... worship me... I am the #5 God <> the 15th God of Sun, remember, hufff!!.."

I stared at her face and said with a face that might puke the next second from extreme laughter and asked.

"Hey you-- are yo... you serious, a , hahaha..."

She became all flustered and suddenly came closer to me and stared at me, she said something in a low voice which was hardly audible to me.

"Hey, don't laugh spiky head,..... but still it is a surprise, I didn't expect to meet a right away and that too a strong one and also an , it must be a good <>, hehehe.", she stated the first part loud enough to burst the eardrums but the next wasn't even audible enough to reach the ear.

This is how I met someone with whom I had to do something no one could, the had started moving.