From the moment I was born to this day, whenever I thought that life couldn’t get any worse than it already is, my life replied with a grin, “LOL. Wait a sec, Ethan!”

I always thought this wasn’t true, but today, my life was like, “LOL. Let me prove this to you, ETHAN.”

Blood. My hands were covered with blood. A nice long shard was sticking out of my right hand. What happened?

Oh god, I remember now, please, no!

I was near the end of my front yard when it happened. It happened in an instant. The blast sent me flying to the road. One moment, my house was all nice and good. The next, it was gone forever.

How did this happen? I know that as the sodium metal powder would have come in contact with the wet floor, it would have set the entire floor on fire within 20 seconds, but houses don’t explode if a single floor in it is on fire!

Everything was hurting. My entire body was screaming in pain. I couldn't take this much longer. Tired, I was so tired.

I guessed I could wait a bit more. I just needed to make sure I do not fall asleep. That was not too difficult. Besides, help would be here soon. I hoped.

Finally, after some time, I saw a black figure, of maybe a girl, approaching me. She was still at a reasonable distance from me so that I couldn’t see her face; besides, it was already night. Slowly and slowly, she was coming towards me, and her face was getting more revealing. When she was just about some blocks away from me, I saw something that terrified me completely. She was the same girl I saw this morning, who ran away after seeing my peculiar mark, but only the difference was that she held something like a dagger in her right hand this time. It felt like it was my turn to run. But I couldn’t. Every single part of my body was hurting like hell.

All I could do was look, look up at the sky and wait for my end. This was driving me crazy! Move body, move!

I wish I coul----

AAAAAAAARRRRGGHH!

A pulse of throbbing pain pounded my senses all of a sudden. Cold shivers shot through my body, and both my hands and legs were trembling. For a moment, I focused on the pain, where it came from, how badly it was hurting, and how badly I wanted it to stop. I figured that all of this sudden pain was coming from my wrist where the strange mark was. I longed for my bed, a hot bath, or just a fluffy pillow to lie on, but that wasn't an option for me at that time; all I cared wa-

Ahh!

For a second, everything stopped for me—literally everything.

My entire body became numb. I felt no pain, no discomfort, nothing at all. It was kind of nice. It was like my body was sleeping, but I was not.

And then it happened. A freaking miracle happened with me—a freaking miracle.