"You need to get up for school" a soft female voice said peaking her head through a doorway.
"Okay, I'll get up, I'll get up" Yuru said his voice hoarse due to having just woken up from his mother's call. Yuru stood up from his bed throwing his blanket off of himself back onto the bed.
"I'll see you down stairs sweetheart" Yuru's mom said as she walked away from his room shutting his door as she left.
"Ugh... I really don't want to go to school today" Yuru said as he looked at his reflection coming from the black screen of his laptop.
Yuru got hot in the night and ended up throwing his shorts halfway across the room. He walked over to his dresser and grabbed a pair of dark blue jeans and put them on. After that he put on a long-sleeved white t-shirt.
"Maybe I could ditch school today" Yuru thought as he walked out of his room shutting the door behind him.
"Only if I had the courage to ditch school, I always say I will and then chicken our at the last second" Yuru thought as he walked down the stairs.
As he walked down the stairs he was hit with the enticing smell of a grilled cheese with bacon on it.
"Smells delicious mom" Yuru said reaching the bottom step and looking at the grilled cheese his mom had made him.
"Thank you sweetheart" Yuru's mom said putting on a black jacket with a purple triangle on it.
"Tuesday already?" Yuru asked his voice conveying his disappointment as he reached the dining table.
"Yes, I'm sorry I have to leave early today, my boss can be pretty demanding when it comes to work hours" She said putting on a pair of dress shoes.
"I'll tell him where he can shove those work hours" Yuru said taking a bite of his grilled cheese before walking over and hugging his mother.
"You know I love you right?" Yuru's mom asked as she hugged him back.
"I know you do" Yuru said letting go of his mother and walking back to the table to ear his grilled cheese.
"It's important to me that you know that I love you" Yuru's mom said as she walked towards the door.
"I'll be back by seven, you behave at school" Yuru's mom said before she left the house closing the front door leaving the house in an eerie silence.
"Ugh... I hate that guy for overworking her" Yuru mumbled as he ate his grilled cheese.
If Yuru could he'd beat the crap out of that asshole and make sure his mom never had to work a day in her life again.
Unfortunately that was all a fantasy that was out of reach for Yuru. He was uneducated had the memory of a dead chipmunk and the attention span of a goldfish.
There was no way somebody would hire a 17 year old dumbass of the street. And even if they would no jobs pay enough to do what Yuru dreamed of.
After enough daydreaming Yuru slipped on his shoes and left the house. It was a small two story house with no driveway no lawn and not even a porch. He had a pair of concrete stairs without a railing.
Yuru began his walk to the bus station that was three miles away from his house.
"School ain't doing me no good, all they do is teach me useless shit that I'm never going to use, I'm going to be working as a cashier at a supermarket so why do I need to learn long division."
Yuru continued to walk towards the bus stop. He could feel the cold spring air against his cheeks as he he walked.
The sidewalk and the street were completely empty which was normal for Yuru's neighborhood. Nobody their could afford cats and there was no reason for anybody to drive down the street except for the bus.
Yuru reached the old decrepit bus stop which was just a wooden bench next to bus stop sign. You couldn't even sir on the bench without getting a splinter, it didn't matter what you were wearing you would get a splinter.
Yuru stood next to the sign as he waited for the bus to show up, the only bright side to living I'm his neighborhood was that his stop was one of the last on the way to school so he didn't have to stay on that crowded bus for to long.
Yuru took out his phone and began to listen to some lofi music, he found the music relaxing and helped him with focusing.
He had never received a formal diagnosis but he pretty sure he had adhd or add. He always found focusing on things hard and always had trouble memorizing information.
Though that could have just been because he was a teenager and was naturally scatter brained like his late father.
As Yuru was listening to his music the bus finally arrived. It was a faded yellow color with faded black letters on the side. The only thing about the bus that was even remotely new was the stop signs on the side of it.
Yuru stepped onto the bus and nodded to the bus driver Mrs Lorm who was nearing the age of 60. Mrs Lorm nodded back and looked back towards the road.
Yuru couldn't hear the sounds of the bus through his earphones but he could tell it was as loud as always.
Yuru sat in the middle of the bus in a seat that was unoccupied which was rare. He placed his backpack next to him on the seat and began to look out the window as the bus driver began to drive towards the school.
"I wonder what's on the agenda today" Yuru thought as he stared at the trees flying by his window.
"Today's Tuesday so we should be having burgers for lunch, and I should have art class instead of PE" Yuru mumbled as he thought about the upcoming day.
The bus pulled up to the school where a line of other busses was. Yuru took out his headphones as he waited girl Mrs Lorm to open the bus doors so the could all leave.
After a minute or two Mrs Lorm opened the doors and everybody in the bus including Yuru began to hurriedly leave the bus.
Yuru gave Mrs Lorm another head nid before exiting the bus. Mrs Lorm and Yuru's mom had worked together at a waitress job when Yuru was little and she watched him for his mom a couple of times so he always gave her a polite nod every time he saw her.
Yuru walked into the school trying his best to not get swallowed into the crowd.
"My first class of the day is math, which means we're going to be learning... I can't remember what we're supposed to be learning" Yuru thought as he truged his way to his first class of the day.
He made a quick stop at his locker to drop of some books before heading into his first class.
His teacher Mr Lee greeted the class with a warm cheerful smile "Good morning students, please take your seats."
Mr Lee was one of Yuru's favorite teachers because he actually tried to put the effort into teaching his students sadly his efforts were wasted on people such as Yuru who couldn't care less about math.
After taking his seat Yuru got out his books ready to try and learn something from the class.
About 9 minutes into class Yuru got the urge to pee badly.
"Maybe I can hold it until the end of class" Yuru optimistically thought.
At least that was what he thought until a minute later when he was holding his hand up high.
"What is it that you require Mr Santae?" Mr Lee asked looking at Yuru with a curious face.
"May I go to the bathroom sir?" Yuru asked already partially out of his seat.
"Of course go ahead"
With those words yuru made a mad dash into the hallway and unto the neatest bathroom where he hit the nearest Urinal.
"Ahh... thank God he allows bathroom breaks" Yuru said as he washed his hands.
*Boom*
Yuru heard a sound coming from the farthest stall in the bathroom. He ignored it and dried his hands off, as he went to leave he heared it again.
*Boom*
Letting his curiosity getting the better of him Yuru stepped closer to the stall and found that the door was open meaning that there was probably nobody inside.
*Boom*
There it was again it was definitely coming from the stall, he couldn't identify what was making the sound it sounded like a mix of metal and porcelain being smacked together lightly.
Yuru stood I'm front of the bathroom stall debating on whether he should get a teacher or look inside the stall himself.
"You're almost a grown man, you got to do things like this yourself" Yuru said to himself as he opened the bathroom stall door.
Floating in the middle of the stall was a small black orb.
"What the fuck" Yuru said aloud as he reached forward to touch the orb. As his skin made contact with the orb his hand began to transform into the same inky black color of the orb.
He then felt an excruciating pain shoot throughout his body as the inky black color started to spread up his arm.
"Shit, shit, shit" Yuru said as he tried to wash it off with water. He began to scrub at his arm and hand with a paper towel as he rinsed his arm off uner hot water.
Which unsurprisingly enough didn't work even in the slightest. "Nurse, I need to get to the nurse" Yuru said as he ran out of the bathroom.
As he stepped out of the bathroom he suddenly felt a tightness in his chest as he collapsed to the ground.
The stuff on his arm continued to climb up his body as his chest got tighter and tighter. He tried to breath but couldn't he started to panic as he tried to get to his feet but all he did was fall down over and over again.
"M-mom... I c-can't die here" Yuru said to himself as he vision went blurry and his body stopped moving.
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"Ahh.... h-how am I alive"....