There are explanation for the number tag e.g [1] at the bottom of the story, do check it out if you do not know any of these terms.

“Life is so…. so fragile…”

“I think Coincidence is not exactly fate…”

“If it was fate, I wouldn’t be in this situation…would I?”

Hey! My name is Calvin Tan, apparently 21 this year and were living in Singapore. Staying around Bedok before all of this interesting *cough* weird situation happened.

I live in an average income family with a CPI [1] of $640. I have 1 big brother and 1 younger sister. My big brother had just finished serving his country or should I called it National service while my younger sister is currently studying at Secondary school taking her O’Levels. Well as for me, I am in my 2nd year, taking Diploma of Sonic Arts at Republic Polytechnic.

I lead a normal or should I say ordinary life? Nothing big happened during the 20 years of my life, well before I died. Though I do get bullied during my primary and secondary school days, those are the minor problems that happened. Due to that, it affected my studies and I got a bad results and have gotten me in ITE [2]. Weirdly, I tend to trust more towards other races rather than mine, it may probably because there are only a few of my race in the class and it’s very interesting to talk to other different races, sometimes to understand or solve their problems.

“Hmm… enough about myself and let’s move on shall we?”

I was on the way home, taking my usual bus 168 that fortunately stops right in front of my house. Reading some web novel that I had forgotten what the title was. It usually took about 55 minutes to about 70 minutes to reach my place depending on how busy the traffic is. Oh! Almost miss two important factor, it was currently raining heavily and if I’m not wrong the PSI [3] is also on the rise, as a few of the passengers in the bus were wearing mask on their face, I’m not judging them, really I swear….

Okay anyway, the bus had a breakdown while we were on the expressway and we were force to wait for the other bus to arrive. “Hah” typical situation, well you know what the people in the bus did, complains and arguments had resulted, people started to take pictures and videos and some aunties and uncles started shouting towards the bus driver and blaming him for the cause.

Forced the bus driver to constantly apologize for what had happened.15 minutes pass by before long and bus 168 had arrive to the rescue, people were rushing to go out. As for me, I was still busy reading my light novel and not bothered about other people. I knew that there will most probably be no seats or space left in the other bus, obviously due to the fact that it is now currently in the peak hours and most bus that pass by will be pack with people going home from work. Checking my time from my watch, 7.10 pm. Another few minutes pass by, but now bus 39 had appeared and slowed down. Thinking for a few moments while the bus pass by us and stop a few meters in front of the bus I was in. I decided to alight from the bus I’m at and go for it to not waste too much time.

The moment I alighted from the bus, the rain pours down on me, making my clothes drenched, fortunately my laptop bag has some water resistance and I do not need to worry too much about it. There were a few people that was ahead of me and one of them were a family of 3. The women were carrying her baby on her left hand while holding another child age around 6 – 7 on her right.

Now this is the cliché part, well it seem to be. The object that the child was holding, accidentally drop and slowly rolled towards the next road lane, most probably because of how the mother were pulling her quickly towards the bus. In response the girl manage to free herself and desperately run towards the object. I didn’t manage to notice anything, until the mother scream at her daughter to come back, she’s most probably were stun to do anything, but due to her screaming, she manage to grab some attention and a few of the people quickly try to approach the girl. In the meantime, I decided to do the most logical thinking or was it the most stupid thing ever?

I jog towards the next lane that the girl was rushing at, raising and waving my hand so that the incoming cars would see me and slowed down. Oh and I was greatly wrong. The incoming car were moving a little bit too fast for him or her to slow down…

*Driver perspective*

“15 minutes left before my movie show starts, I need to hurry” looked ahead and saw that there were no cars in his lane and decided to speed up a little bit.

“I’m grateful but damn this rain, I need to be careful”

Suddenly Calvin slowly appear on the lane waving his hands

“Shit! Move away kid!” Shouted the man, while pressing the horn of his car.

The last I heard was the break sound of a car, or was it a young girl crying… oh well I don’t remember much.

[1] CPI – Capital per income

[2] Institute of Technical Education

[3] Pollutant Standards Index