A strong wind welcomes me.

It is a normal day, I wake up early to go to school, it is still dark outside. Every day when I wake up, I will take a moment and breath while I am looking up in the stars, I don't know why, but it makes me feel calm. Before I take a bath and go out of my room to eat breakfast, I arrange my bag containing the things I need in school. Every day when I go home from school I unload everything out of my bag to set it up on my table to do my homework, so every morning I will clean it and put it in the bag again.

I am done cleaning my table and all my things are packed, I open my door and go to the kitchen to prepare my meal. I always try to eat my breakfast to fuel my whole day, I am always forgetting to eat my lunch because of my busy schedules.

After I eat, I will take a bath and prepare to go to school. I try to walk every day to school, it keeps me active for the whole day and I can pick up my friend on the way to school. He lives in an apartment not far away from mine, he lives alone since.

We are friends since we are little, we grow up in the same small town and we play on the same street. One day at the start of a school year, our parents enrolled us at the same school, where we meet and talk every day until our teacher become angry at us.

When we are young we are always positioned to sit at the back even the sitting arrangement is alphabetical. We are both tall for our age so our teachers are forced to position us at the back of the room.

When we are little we spend our day running around the school chasing each other and together we play with the other kids in the playground. I can still remember when we are a child and we are running on the road to our house when a dog chases us. We both run as fast as we can until the dog stops going after us.

There is a time that we are climbing trees so we can get its fruit when the owner of the tree suddenly shows up out of nowhere. My friend is still at the top of the trees when the owner yells at us. I did not run even I am scared, I waited for him to get down the tree before we run, but it is too late we are both caught.

I miss those moments in our life that everything is simple and just peaceful. everything is just fine and we don't need to chase on something. Unlike now we are under constant pressure to be something that sometimes we don't want to be.

Since last week I noticed that is something with my friend, he is a little bit off. He doesn't smile a lot and there are times that he is staring at something for a very long time until I pat him at the back and I will ask if everything is fine, and he will answer yes as always.

There is a time that I see him wipe away his tears, I ask him a question if he's okay and If there is something I can help with, he just looks at me and said that everything was fine.

I don't know what is happening inside his brain but I know there is something that is bugging him out. I know there is something that is getting all of his attention that is why he can't focus every day.

I asked him for the last time if everything is fine, he did not answer and I did not say another word, I just sit beside him as we watch the sunset.

I walk outside the house to go to school and pick my friend on the way to school. It is just a normal day, sunny and windy nothing more and nothing less. I walk in front of his door. The door was unlocked, this is weird because he never opens the door in the morning, he will just open it once I knocked.

As I open the door, a strong wind welcomes me, it is dark and cold. I did not see him, I called but no one answer. I Only see his shadows floating, you know what is the next scene I have witnessed

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