Reflection

The interview was over and out of fifty students the school picked out thirty, the thirty students were directed into a room and after about an hour, ten walked out of the room leaving just twenty students left.

The parents of the ten children were informed that in the case any of the twenty students picked out where to drop out, fail or harm was to fall on them, a student will be picked out of the ten set aside, depending on the gender of the student that went absent.

Amongst the twenty students ten were boys and ten were girls. They were given a brief orientation by the school dean and informed that classes where to start the next week, their orientation was going to be in three days time being saturday. 

They were all told the list of requirements and directed on where to get their uniforms. They were free to sew else were but each student required a minimum of two. After a brief lecture they were all released. As 935 walked out of the room he could feel their stares.

Everyone went home quietly, and made preparations for the following week, unlike the others 935 didn't attend the orientation for the new students. Instead he and Lily went on one of her trips, they came the day after the orientation.

On 935's first day of school, Lily followed him to school, Shen drove them. 935 entered the classroom to meet the familiar faces of the people he met at the final interview day. They all looked at him, as he passed them he heard whispers from them, he ignored them all going straight to the back and picked the last seat by the window. He dropped his bag by the side and sat down.

"Isn't that normally where Mika likes to sit" he heard someone say, but ignored the persons words as he brought out his headphones from his bag and put them on.

Mika, the person who scored close second to 935, he got a ninety nine and his number was two, walked into the class, they all looked at him as he made his way to the back and placed his bag on the seat in front of 935's.

The teacher came in and everyone immediately took their seat. As they went on 935 enlisted in some school sports like fencing, archery, and martial arts, some of his classmates also enlisted in some of them.

He kept his distance from the others, on the first day they were all asked to introduce themselves and which they all did, later they did a raffle draw to pick a class governor, only five students participated in the raffle and the teacher brought out the names of the two who were going to be the class' representatives.

During lunch hours he'd sit in class and eat, unfortunately he wasn't alone. Mika also ate in class, but neither of them spoke to each other. Because of the thick wall he set up, most of his peers abstained from socializing with him.

During breaks he's either be in the library, gym or in the class sleeping or reading. That was how his life as a highschooler was. During tests and exams he always topped the class with Mika as second or they'd both score the same thing.

And so was his routine, he'd go to school and return, Lily would ask him on occasions how his day was and if he made any friends but he always kept the conversation brief.

Over three years had passed since he'd been attending the school, nothing had changed since he started. He got a call from Shen saying he was stuck in traffic so he'd have to wait a while, 935 on the other hand after being stared at by almost all the girls decide to walk home.

It was getting dark as he walked the street, not far from him he saw Mika, suddenly a pair of hands pulled Mika into an alley. 935 cautiously followed only to see Mika surrounded by 4 boys, each other looking bigger than the last. They all towered over Mika.

Like any normal day Kai looked at the situation and chose to walk away, leaving Mika to his fate. As he walked he heard as they threw punches at each other, the breaking of wood on someone's back and the hitting of metal.

935 took quite steps back to the scene to see Mika, his body looked like it was pounded properly, he spotted a black eye and a swollen bloody lip. Blood dripped from his arms and the scratches on his face, in one of his hand 935 saw a baseball, drenched in blood.

All 4 boys laid unconscious on the floor, Mika limped over to his bag and picked it up, 935 hid himself as Mika walked out of the alley and into the streets. He took several turns till he made it to a big house. It looked sturdy and well maintained.

Mika walked in and dropped his back in the floor, he pulled over a chair and brought a rope, after much strained he finally got the rope over the fan. He tied a knot making a circle as he stood on the the chair.

With the rope now around his neck he kicked the chair aside, the rope clung around his neck, he didn't even try to struggle as the rope restricted his air flow. His body became heavy and his vision blurry as he accepted his fate.

In his unconscious state he didn't even hear when someone walked in and pulled up the chair, the person climbed the chair and reached over him to cut the rope. Mika's unconscious body fell to the ground like a sack of potatoes.

 .....

In a run down toilet a man stood in front of the mirror, he watched as blood dripped from his nose. He suddenly heard a low chuckle by his side, he quickly turned only to face an empty wall. The lights began to flicker.

"Kill..." he heard a voice whisper and looked in the mirror to see his reflection, unlike him his reflection didn't have a bleeding nose. It's eyes, completely black and it spotted a creepy smile.

"W-what are you?" the man asked his reflection in a shaky voice. His reflections smile widened as the blood flow from his nose increased.

"I am what will make your pain and fear go away" it answers in a raspy voice. The man's attention was suddenly grabbed by clicking sounds of footsteps, his heart began to race as the sound drew near. "Give me your hand..." his reflection whispered and he looked at it "I'll make it all go away"

The man looked at his hand, strange green veins were already popping out, hesitantly he stretched it "I don't wanna die..." he cried lowly and the moment he touched the hand of his reflection, his eyes were engulfed by some sort of black ink, it even oozed out of his eye socket like he was crying out ink.

Veins began to snake his neck and face and the blood that leaked from his nose turned black, he looked at the mirror and smiled, his teeth looked sharper and his smile widened green ink dripped from his mouth staining his shirt.

The clicking sound came to a halt as someone stood behind the man, the sound of a gun cocking echoed through toilet walls.

"Let's make this quick and easy" the person said "Turn around slowly"

He stood there for a few seconds and suddenly his head made a 180 turn without his body, his neck looked like a freshly squeezed orange but he still bore a smile on his face as he looked at the person before him.

Instinctively the person took a step back "Well... fuck" Valkyrie cursed.