WEIRD INTUITION

They say a person is born with their fate, whether it is good fate or bad fate. I personally don't believe in things like fate or not used to believe, it all changed for me as I was lying helpless in the rubble that was soon going to be engulfed in the flames. 

I was in the world of dreams when I heard my mom calling my name. 

"Aurelius Astrea, wake up or you will be late for your school." 

I managed to barely open my eyes and saw the ceiling of my room and closed them again. 

"Hurry up or you will get no breakfast, it's already 8am." 

I hurriedly opened my eyes not because I was worried about my breakfast, but because I heard my mom saying it was 8am. 

"Oh no!" I was only able to say this much. I got up from my bed and rushed to the bathroom to wash my face. Before opening the door of bathroom I checked the alarm clock just in case that was lying on the ground because I slammed it on the ground. It was only 6am. At the same time I heard my mom say that if I am awake than I should revise the syllabus for today's exam. 

Damn, I again fell for her trap. 

I went downstairs and saw my dad watching tv. After hearing my foot steps he turned his gaze towards me and there was a smirk on his face. What is so funny? I wanted to ask him but restrained myself. Suddenly aroma of some deliciously cooked food went into my nose, I hurriedly went in to the kitchen and saw my mom cooking breakfast. 

"It smells really good, mom!" I exclaimed with excitement. 

"Did you revise your syllabus?" My mom asked me while taking the egg off the pan and putting it on the plate. 

"Yeah, I did." Shit there was hesitation in my answer. I hope she doesn't think I am lying which I kind of am. 

"You better had. Since you asked me to wake you up early in the morning." 

 Of course, I remember. 

"Why are you making breakfast today? Wasn't dad supposed to cook today!" I was actually looking forward to today's breakfast because I thought dad would cook for us today since he is amazing at cooking. 

"He had something to do early in the morning and I wanted to cook breakfast for my son." Mom said it while breaking another egg in the pan. 

"You know.. sometimes you should let dad do some work." I said it while stuffing my mouth with freshly cooked egg. 

"He was busy working all night, you know." Mom said it while looking at her reflection on kitchen's window. 

"Did he say he will cook lunch for us?" I asked my mom with gleaming eyes. 

"He..he, he might. I don't know for sure." She scoffed. 

"I will cook lunch for you, so stop irritating your mom." 

My dad said it while leaning on the doorway with his arms crossed. 

Ok, I am looking forward for lunch. 

"By the way where is my sister?" I asked my mom. 

"She is getting ready for college." My mom said it with light smile on her face. Oh it reminded me that tomorrow is my sister's birthday. That thing will be 20-year-old tomorrow, man end of the world is near. 

"You should also pack your bag and leave for school before it's too late!" Said my dad while entering the kitchen. He started to help mom in making breakfast for herself and asked her to sit, he will cook for her as he has nothing better to do and will soon lay on his bed to sleep. 

"Aren't you tired?" Said my mom. 

Oh mom why don't you just sit and let him cook for you. 

"Come on, just sit down. I don't have anything better to do." Dad replied. 

I was getting late for school so I decided to get my bag from my room and leave for school. 

............. 

As I was coming downstairs with my bag I saw my mom and my dad cooking breakfast together. Mom was smiling a lot. It looked like she was really enjoying doing something together with dad. I opened the door and left my house with my backpack and me riding on a bike. 

 ......... 

"Hey, Auri. How is it going." It was my friend Hoover who was also parking his bike in the parking lot of our school. 

"Nothing much. What about you? I heard you got caught cheating from Ellie in the last exam." 

"Man, you know it was kind of my fault." He said it while clicking his tongue with light smile. 

"Well, of course it was your fault since you were the one copying answers from Ellie". I said what was obvious. 

"I guess, I annoyed her too much, so teacher found out and well, I got caught." 

"Don't worry today you will be fine, since it's history exam." 

I almost saw a worried smile on his face. But I was certain that It was sweat trickling down from temple to his cheeks. 

"Today is history exam and you know I suck at it." Hoover said it while turning his gaze to the ground. 

"Whatever it might be, I hope that you and I will sit closer to each other so that I can help you." I said it while patting him on his back. 

"My friend." Hoover said with teary eyes. 

"Are you guys coming to the class or not? Exam will start soon." It was the voice of our friend Ellie who helped Hoover in the last exam. 

"Ellie, are you prepared for history exam? Hoover asked while narrowing his eyes. 

"Well, I only studied this morning, so I am not much prepared, but I still have faith that I will ace the exam." Ellie said it while looking Hoover in the eyes. 

"See! You just need to have faith in yourself, anybody can pass history exam if they just study hard enough." I patted Hoover's shoulder to boost his spirit. 

"Now, hurry up! Otherwise, we will be late." Ellie tapped on Hoover's shoulder. 

............ 

"Today's exam was especially tough, no?" Hoover said while coming out of examination room. 

"The heck are you talking about? I saw that Auri was helping you out." Ellie replied. 

"But it was tough!" 

"So, what are the plans for today?" Hoover directed this question at me. 

"Ah, today I am busy, you see. I have some urgent work to do." I said it because I had already made a deal with my dad that he will cook lunch for me. I cannot tell them about it. Wait a minute I should ask my dad if they can come with me at lunch or not. 

"Ellie, do you have your phone?" I asked. 

"Yeah. Do you need it? Here you go." Ellie took it out of her coat pocket and shoved it towards me. 

I called my dad and asked him for permission. He allowed it easily but, asked me to buy somethings on my way because, he will be needing those. 

I told them that they should come to my house, I have a new game we can play together. We stopped at the convenience store on our way. The real problem was that I would have to spend my savings to buy these things. Dad better give me my money back. 

Three of us were walking after buying the ingredients while talking about the game we were about to play. 

"Ellie you, are you really not interested in scythehero6. Its game was just announced!" Hoover said it with an excited face. 

"I don't think I myself am a big fan of that show." I said those words with a hesitant smile. 

"I know, how bad your taste is in shows and movies!" Hoover said it straight to my face. 

"So, what if I like grumpy dummy killer show, huh?" Before we realized it, Hoover and I were having an argument with each other because of our bad taste in shows. 

"Charles Hoover. Aurelius Astrea, stop fighting. What are you, a kid?" Ellie smirked while saying it as if she was looking down on us. 

"We know how bad your taste is well, you bl sicko. Why do you like naked men sleeping with each other, what are you a pervert?" 

Oh no I think Hoover clearly crossed the line here. 

"Haha, wanna die?" Ellie's blood vessels were twitching visibly. Right next moment she jumped at Hoover, trapped him in a head lock with her arms. Man, it sure is something to witness. 

While we were busy fighting with each other about our taste in shows all of a sudden black clouds emerged on the sky. All three of us looked up at the sky because it was very random. Normally it takes some time for clouds to cover the sky but it was not like that. It was as if they were just created at the moment. 

"Hey, what's that? How come there are black clouds suddenly. They didn't say anything about rain on the news." Hoover said it with his eyes wide open as if to question this whole scenario. 

"My mom said she had off today even though, she is a neurosurgeon. She doesn't get that many off days. I think we just missed the news." I said it to ease the heavy atmosphere. 

"But if that was true, your dad would've not asked us to buy something if he knew a storm was coming." What Ellie said was true, this is very weird. I was getting a weird feeling about this. 

"I am getting a weird feeling about this." Ellie and Hoover almost synced this time. We decided to go to my house since it was near anyways. All the time we were feeling weird, like a great threat was near us. Suddenly, we saw a hundred of birds in the sky that just appeared on the sky as if they were spawned. 

While looking at the birds I saw streamline shaped missiles up in the skies, my eyes grew wide from the shock because of the sheer number of missiles, I saw on the sky. There were almost as many missiles as were required to destroy a city for good. It was so sudden for us we didn't even knew what to do. 

"Hurry up! We need to hide somewhere." I shouted. 

"Come on, hurry up and run." This time it was Hoover who shouted. 

All three of us started running at our full might, our breaths felt heavy as we were running. We gazed up at the sky where missiles were still suspended in the air. 

"OH, no!" Ellie shouted as she saw some of the missiles coming downward straight in our direction. 

Boom! Sound of missiles destroying the houses were heard along with screams of people. We decided to run at full speed to take shelter somewhere. Continuous screams were heard by us. We ignored those screams. Ellie and Hoover stopped at one place to help a child whose leg was crushed because of the rubble falling on him. They were still better human being than me. 

"Oh God! What is happening here?" Ellie screamed while trying to lift some rubble off the poor child's crushed leg who fainted out after crying helplessly. 

"Would you please help us out!" Ellie shouted at me as I was standing looking at everything like a lost man. We picked the boy and Hoover and I lifted him up by his arms and waist trying not hurt him more. We saw second round of missiles coming towards us this time and one of the missile was quite near us. Dammit, I knew it would be like this. I should've just hurried and went to my home everything would've been fine then. 

"Shit! it's right on top of us." Hoover said it while gritting his teeth. 

This whole thing is so sudden. Where the hell did those missiles even come from? I was so scared that I was not able to think about one damn thing. 

"Shit..shit, he is bleeding again." Ellie cursed as she saw the blood dripping from the boys crushed leg again. It was at this moment that a missile fell right in front of us raising dust and smoke on the ground accompanied by intense heat and fire. 

Shit I saw the head of the boy being hit by a rock so hard that I watched his brain matter oozing out. I closed my eyes because of the fear of death. All three of us were flown back and rubble fell on us. 

I saw Hoover and Ellie both getting buried under the rubble. I wanted to scream their names but fire on the rubble was so intense that it burnt my vocal chords. Now I was just lying on the ground as my eyes burnt and I could only sense the flames engulfing the rubble I was buried under. I thought that I was dead as all I could see from my eyes was darkness. 

But after sometime I still had my sense of self. I could feel my eyes. I hesitantly opened my eyes. 

"Hello, the one who couldn't meet his fate." There was a woman almost two meters tall standing in front of me. She was wearing a black dress which had small pearls on it like stars in the sky. 

"So, am I dead?" I deadpanned.