"Fuck! Just what I needed!" Kane cursed as he pressed on, raising his legs as high as his waist before stomping into the snow, dragging himself, "Just like my ex—always trying to drag me down!"
His teeth clattered as if trying to knock on a coffin to propose, while the layered clothes on his body made him feel stuffed, in his words, "like a cheap chicken pie—barely any meat, and way too much bread."
He held a large roof rake in his left hand; the snow had accumulated too much the last few days, and the incoming snowstorm might possibly snap the camel's back, collapsing the roof.
"Haaah!" With a victorious sigh and a beaming face that seemed determined to melt the snow itself, he placed his hand on his waist—he had arrived at his destination.
But suddenly—
"Honey! While you're outside, please take care of the backyard too!"
It was his mom, standing five feet away, in front of the door.
SNAP
Something snapped inside Kane; his chest fell like a popped balloon while he let go of the roof rake, and his face hollowed into that of a thousand-year-old corpse. "I was having a moment here, Mom." He whispered, but barely audibly. And without as much as a squeak, he moved.
Kane's mom watched as her son dragged himself through the snow. She shook her head. "He's such an airhead!" She mumbled with a smile before walking in.
It took him quite a while and a couple of frustrated groans to reach the back. "I swear I'll die while cleaning this shit! And if I meet God…I'll strip him naked and throw him in a frozen lake! Fuck, it's cold!" He cursed as he sniffed back his frozen snot for the umpteenth time and began to work.
It was a tedious process and a bit dangerous too, but Kane managed. Of course, he added a few insults… But we can ignore them.
Finishing at the back, he began to walk back towards the front, through the fallen snow from the roof. Couldn't he have just sidestepped and gone around it? He could! In fact, that would've been easier.
But from his words, "No real man walks out on a challenge!"
After clearing his perilous journey, Kane was at the side of the house where their Jacuzzi sat.
His heart thumped, his mind running wild as he imagined taking a hot bath in that jacuzzi. 'Ah, my body would melt like butter on a hot pan!' He exclaimed inwardly.
Just thinking about it gave him goosebumps. "Maybe I could invite Liya too…" he mumbled, his gaze drifting to his current girlfriend.
His parents did say they were going out in a few hours…
"Maybe I should give her a call…" he whispered to himself, his voice now laced with anticipation. And with a surgery of newfound motivation, he surged forth.
But as he walked, right at the corner, something creaked, like a heavy door in a horror movie. Kane stopped, his head groaning up, only to widen his eyes, "What the…?! "
On the rooftop there was snow, too much snow. It was as tall as him. And it was threatening to fall!
But that shouldn't be possible; that amount of weight would've broken the roof like a kid playing with his toy. But before that, how the hell did that much snow gather at one point when every other area was half as thick?!
But he didn't have answers to those questions. Nor did he have the time to, because…the snow's falling!
"Shit!" Kane cursed as he tried to run away from the place, but the snow came in the way, and it was already too late. Hundreds of pounds of snow came hurtling down at him, mostly falling on his head, snapping his neck back while he fell down, burying him in snow.
It all happened so fast that Kane couldn't react. He could feel his chest caving in at the weight of the snow while he slowly began to lose sensation in his limbs. He was being drained from feeling anything.
His vision narrowed, his eyelids slowly flapping closed, with Kane's last thought being, 'Am I dying…?'
Silence was his only answer as Kane closed his eyes, and his heart stopped beating.
...
It was nothing but blackness, no sound nor vision—it was a void. It lasted forever and a moment at the same time before Kane felt something.
He slowly opened his eyes, only to see large blurred images overshadowing him. "What the…?! Where am I?!" Kane tried to yell out loud, but only cries escaped his lips.
"What?! What the fuck happened?!" He tried speaking out again and again, his heartbeat increasing rapidly, but the cries only got louder.
He tried flailing his arms, but they didn't seem to listen to him. Which only deepened his angst.
Perhaps, responding to his cries, one of the large shadows got closer, taking him into its arms and gently rocking him.
And as if by a miracle, his heart calmed.
There was this unknown sensation in Kane's heart; that sense of familiarity with that shadow and the smell coming out of it soothed him.
"W-What is…" He couldn't even make out his own thoughts when the shadow seemed to press its lips on his forehead and whispered something.
"Don't cry, my dear Adrian. Mama's here with you…"
'Adrian?! Who the fuck is Adrian?!'
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Hi guys,
I have planned a lot for this story: Mean Girls, Chloe Decker from Lucifer, Lucy Chen, and even Dexter. I'm planning a few more, but I'll keep it a secret for now.
Anyways, add the book to your libraries and show your support. It will motivate me to write more. Currently, the schedule, at least what I planned, is one chapter a day, each having about a thousand words.
I'll try to write one more chapter, but no promises!
Anyways, I'm kind of excited for the second part of Wednesday and Peacemaker too; the first episode of season two is getting released in a few hours, or it already did? I don't know; I haven't checked in a few hours.
PS: Also guys, I first wanted the gf name to be Bryce. I know Bryce is typically a guy's name. But I had this cringy line come up in my mind. I hesitated to add it in the story; it was too cringy, so I removed it, but I'm adding it here.
"The surroundings were ice, in my arms is Bryce, it's so nice." 😑
…Please don't hate me!