Chapter 1: Beginning of What unfortunately isn't the end

I sit there in my desk as usual, seemingly asleep of course as my class continues forward at a snails pace...per usual. The girls are chatting about something oddly enough. Guess I'll just eavesdrop, wonder what they could possibly be talking about...as if I don't know already.

"Yeah, there are only two boys in this class!"

Who could've guessed that one, I wonder who they'll possibly bring up next? I'll go ahead and let this play out, matter of fact I'll just say exactly what they say in my head, they're honestly that damn predictable.

"Yeah, of course we have Bennie, he's such a sweetheart..."

Here it comes, oh and by the way, they couldn't bare having my name out of their rotten mouths for more than a day...

"Unlike Jiji~ He's always off in his own world! Its almost like he just doesn't care about us, like he doesn't have the capacity to care about anything at all!"

Called it, hit the nail right on the head, and its not that I don't have the capacity to care, its just that I don't have any real reason to. I'm Jiji by the way! Jiji Yoshinori, now from my last name you might be thinking I'm some super cliche Japanese transfer student straight out of some cheesy slice of life manga, but believe me when I say I wish that was the case. The last name had been passed down generations from my Japanese great-great-great...who cares, you get the point, I'm so barely Japanese that the only real thing I have to show for it is my last name.

Now for a little further insight I won't hold anything back, I genuinely want to die, that's it! That's all there really is to it, I'm not depressed nor have I ever been diagnosed with depression of any kind but its just life has become so grey recently...I have no further point in living, I just want to close my eyes and move on to the afterlife y'know? I'm not exactly happy nor am I sad, I just can't seem to get a kick out of life anymore.

Here's the real kicker and it's that no matter what phenomena affect me, no matter what freak accident occurs I seemingly cannot die! No matter what has happened, I've nearly drowned once in a hotel pool but lo and behold I was saved by another swimmer that very coincidentally happened to walk out for a swim at that exact moment, I've almost been hit by cars and managed to move out of the way at the last second, weird growths in my body when I was younger, surgery complications, the list goes on and on, but very luckily to my despair none of these things have killed me. I can't even take myself out, I don't wanna know I'm the reason that my mother is grieving, I wanna let that blame fall on the world.

Now back in the present instead of my incessant rambling, later that school day as I'm walking home I'm suddenly caught off guard as I hear footsteps rapidly approaching me, I turn around swiftly praying to any higher power willing to manifest my wish that its a knife wielding murderer ready to make me a statistic but no, it's just one of my annoying "friends" who has come to bother me once more. His name is Micah and he's the most god awful person I know.

"Yo! Jiji my man!" He continues to sprint at me as fast as he can manage, nothing he has to say could possibly be this important...

"Jiji!" He finally reaches me and just as he comes to a stop the slushie that he had in his hand somehow managed to pop clean open and splatter a slurry of red sticky ice all over my brand new white Tee, did I ever mention along with being immortal until proven otherwise I also have unfathomably bad luck but in the most annoying and inconceivable ways possible? Yeah my life is a living hell, I'd say more like a living purgatory considering I'm not exactly suffering. Not all the time that is, my bad luck brings some pretty crazy hurt sometimes, anything but death of course.

"Jiji I'm so sorry man! I'll pay for the dry cleaning I swear but I've got something important and really great that all the other guys were waaaayyy too busy for apparently...but if no one else is available I'm enlisting your company!"

My eyes practically light up upon hearing this, me of all people? Jiji Yoshinori being invited to an event? Could this maybe be the thing to make me want to live? I'd say its best I hear out whatever it is that he has to say...

He finally speaks up practically jittering and shaking with excitement, "Okay so Jiji, I recently met this girl right! Now see..." His voice slowly began to trail off in my mind

Now I would just go ahead and cut him off there, but I'm way too tired to even object to anything, I honestly don't feel like dealing with girls at all but still, I'll just give him the courtesy of an open ear.

"The thing is she invited me over on sort of a date but...she said a buddy had to tag along for her bestie! Y'know she didn't want her best buddy to alone yada yada yada...you get the deal right? Were meeting at the park tonight! Be there man I'm counting on ya!" He begins to run off in the opposite direction, doesn't he live on the same street as me...? Where the hell is he off to?

ALSO did he seriously just force me to go on a two-man date with him and two other girls?! Can he at least have the common decency to give me an option to say no?! It's like those crappy pick your own dialogue games where they give you misleading options that screw you over either way! Who gives a damn, it's either finally speak to a girl for once in my seventeen years of life or waste away playing roguelikes in my barebones bedroom for the night, I guess it's the least I could do for the guy, me cheating from his test answers was the only reason I was able to pass Algebra two after all.

I must mention I don't exactly have the best reputation with girls, I got relentlessly bullied by them for just about my entire school career spanning from elementary to High School. Maybe, just maybe this could be the thing to turn my life around, this could be what I've been searching for...but with my amazingly good bad luck, I already know this isn't gonna go as I'm expecting.

Micah, I hope your ready for one literal hell of a double date.