The city hasn't been the same since the incident. Although it has slowly risen back to its original state. The impact remains. The traumatic experience can still be found in the citizens living there. The rich suffered, the poor killed, the criminals filled with joys. Nothing has been the same since then, and it is said by many that nothing will change since that day....
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Max wakes up and stretches his body as he gets ready for another day, questioning his life choices. Although Max had finished his college years by cheating and doing scandals around the streets, He was in a state where he had to bother get a job and pay his debt of over $250,000 or get into a gang like his friends.
Even though Max knew for a fact that he could not pay his college debt, He still thought to apply for a job since he had no friends to connect him to a gang. Right as he was getting ready to get brutally rejected by the corporations in his city, his ex-girlfriend, Jelin, called him.
"Jelin why the fuck are you calling me? I am not getting back together with you after what you did!" - Max said with anger in his voice
"Max i know it's been a while, but I just wanted to say that I always lo-"
The call cut off. Max felt a little guilty for what he said but at this point, he just wanted to apply for a job...
He goes outside...
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While max was walking through the road, he saw his old friend jone. Max tried to ignore him but Jone starred at him with an intense look. Max glimpsed at Jones and saw that he was walking towards him with some people beside him.
Max ran for his life, he pushed, ducked and even threw peoples that were just minding their own business so he could escape Jone's gang. But fate had other things for him.
Max came to a familiar alley. An alley which had very fond memories for him and he was about to make another one again as he got surrounded by Jone's men. Max tried to reason with them but he knew deep inside that he was about to receive the worst beating of his life just because he looked at them funny.
Jone stood right infront of max with a grim face. "You know the rules right?" He asked max as he was reaching in his pockets very calmly. Max didn't say a single word to jone and stared at him back with cold eyes.
"Hmm...ever since, graduation ended you've been very cold and distant towards me. I wonder why?" Jone said while taking out a butterfly knife .
"I think we both know why I am 'acting' how I am, jone." Max told as his fist was gearing up to throw a jab.
"Common man,it's been years already. Grow up" jone says as he grins at max. Max couldn't hold back and tried to throw an upper cut at jone. Jone swiftly dogged that shit and proceeded to jump max with 4 other men.
" You haven't changed since that day, I am disappointed in you max " jone says as he looks down on max with disgust in his eyes. Max lied down with nothing but a bleeding hand. Jone glimpsed at max and felt a sense of pride.
"Oh, I almost forgot but you're so called 'girlfriend' has left us for a homeless man wearing a red coat." Jone says as he leaves Max to be in his own. Max could just wonder what the hell Jone said. After some time however, he brushed Jone's bullshit words and left to find a job...
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Night-time
" MAN FUCK THIS CITY " Max screams as he could not land a single job in his city. " Ah well guess I'll start over again" Max says as he gulps a down a big bottle of liquor. He drank alot of drinks that night and thought to just end it with 3 bottles of vodka.
In the same ally where max got jumped, he proceeds to violently throw up all the alcohols he consumed. " man....I really...Need to get....my shit together." says max as he heavily breathes with his hand on his chest.
As max tried to walk his way home, he suddenly fell on his knees and fainted. Although he tried his best to wake his ass up, he could barely move. "Ah fuck it, I'll just sleep here" Max says in a drunk voice.
Suddenly max thought about jelin. 'Man....if only I was strong like her...she might've done what was best for her....But why tf did she choose a homeless man?' Max thought as he slowly drifted in his dreams in the middle of the streets.
In the shadows hiding, a man looked at max with interest. He saw everything max had done and was thrilled to know him better. Before anything happened to max, the man swiftly picked him off the ground and dropped him outside of his home. The man looked at max's face before vanishing into the dark.....
" You said there was something special about him, however I just see him as a normal person who'd be killed in his 20's."
"Look i know that he may not look like the person i just described. But just trust me on this one"
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Morning
Max woke up on the ground, still trying to remeber what he did last night and how he slept on the ground again. Max saw that he was outside of his house. " what the fuck happened last night..." Max says to himself as he enters his home. He sees that a letter was on the ground.
| Dear max,
Please pay the loan you took to buy the home or else we will have to take the morage. You took $115,000 loan to buy that property and have only gave us $7. Please consider paying back that loan or else there will be consequences.
Accountant- tim. |
" What a time to give me this awful letter." Max says as he throws his letter in the dustbin and prepares to lay on his bed and question his life again.
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To be continued ...