One Summer Afternoon
On that summer afternoon, I was making my way home from school. It was the same route as always. I have always walked through the shady alleys and thorny bushes for as long as I care to remember. Today was no different. The same scene, different day. I hated this route. I hated where I lived. I hated the school I went to. Mother always told me to be grateful for what I had, no matter how little they were. I have tried to live by her standards, but I’m not her. Mother accepts our condition, I loathe it. I envy others. Some people calls that a sin. I call it my will to live, something that I want to achieve, to have a better future than mother did.
The hot summer wind gently kissed my face. Summer, my favourite season. I have already made plans for my summer vacations. During summer, I can forget about all my worries and problems, and just enjoy myself. I crossed into the alleys. In front of me is the bush, the short cut to home that I have been using for the past 5 years. But not today, I don’t want to go through the same old way again. I decided to walk along the road, around the bush. At that moment, I had made the worst decision in my life.
I can hear the faint sound of an engine. A car. The engine sound grows louder and louder. The ground slowly began to vibrate. There it is, right behind me. There was a flash, than silence. The most perfect silence I have ever felt. I can no longer feel anything. It’s almost as if the world around me no longer existed. Later I found out that it is me who no longer existed.
On that summer afternoon, I died.
That summer afternoon, I became a prisoner. Trapped inside time. Time for me had stopped, but the time for the livings did not. I saw into the future. I saw my mother, bent over my cold, lifeless body; I could no long read the emotion on her face. The pale white face, with all the happiness and hope drained from it. I don’t want to see her get hurt. Yet I cannot do any thing. It’s like watching a movie. No matter what I do, I cannot get inside the movie. I have never felt so helpless, but I can do nothing more then watch on as time passes. Mother grew older and older. Mother never went to find another husband, to find happiness, she lived by herself, nobody was there to care for her. Mother passed away at the hospital, with nobody by her side, she left with tears in her eyes. It felt like I had died again, all I wanted was to be there, next to her, to tell her that I love her, and to thank her, to see her smile one last time. Yet I can do nothing but hopelessly watch on.
As time goes by, the future of mankind starts to unfold in front of me. I witnessed great catastrophes, rise and fall of civilizations. I saw how mankind slowly brought themselves to extinction. I watched as a new life form was born onto earth. I told myself that I have seen enough. I closed my eyes. I slowly started to reminisce events of my life. Shattered fragments of my memories slowly immerge from deep inside my head. I start to regret my old ideals. Right now I would give anything to wake up in my room, and take the old route to school. Mother was right, I should have been grateful for what I had, no matter how little it was. I should have valued what I had. Our home was small, but enough for me and mother. My school may not have been the best, but it had my friends inside it. My usual route to and from school may not have been gifted with beautiful scenery, but it was the fastest. Nothing can be perfect. I should have been grateful for what I had. I was controlled by greed and envy, and that was definitely a sin, not a way of life.
My only wish now is to reach the end of time, and disappear.
Edited by Ron~ due to my grammar errors >.>
ok~ this a quick summary~ but with this done, we can start on many aspects of the visual novel project.
Very nice Nick =D
why does everyone seem to be able to come up with great stories cept for me T^T lol
anyways … to start the project >_< hahahaha
quick sumarry?
lol.. its alrite~ english needs improving nick=P
u got alot of tenses mixed up or sumfin..
’sides that its pretti gud
but is dat wat de visual novel is about?
or are we doing de persons journey to the end of timme?
kinda confused here @_@
lol… i still think some of the tenses are wrong even though I edited it hahaha xD .. i’ll recheck it when i have the time
eer dont worry…. just quick outline, so ppl know wat its about
p.s. Title is One Summer Afternoon, if ppl didnt realise
lol nick
i rewrote the ending.. from lyk halfway..
made it less emo-ish
to many emo/ sad mangas and animes now a days
getting bored of them
need more happy ones
lol
hashi-hito.deviantart.com/
ive asked every one else and dey r happy with it
waiting for u nick…
lol
maybe discuss on tuesday..
how come is it you can never write this well in english assesments
?
… i donno