Summer, 23:45

  Location: Earth

  A season with long days and short nights, but for teenagers it’s just every day. Three teenagers, friends at 12.00 are pying games, well this happens when you are not under your parents’ supervision. Well, we cannot bme the parents for that after all this age is when everyone runs for money just to sustain their family Nowadays many parents work far away and children live alone or near to their college. The growth of technology can be said as a boon but also a disaster too, as many things become automatic and people begin to lose their jobs. It's not like new jobs are not coming but as usual, every change takes time. And growth of technology is inevitable after all we cannot keep being stagnant in this growing world. These days it’s hard to see both parents and children together. But this is also a part of life and survival remains the only goal so this is expected.

  A voice that carries absolute confidence came from the headphone.

  "I decre… Victor is the imposter. "

  A voice mocking voice came right after “Are you sure Leo?”.

  "I guess, I… saw him", the voice was filled with uncertainty.

  The room is suddenly filled with ughter, "Haha…Haha…Haha...Haha"

  Another voice came, "Why are you ughing Victor?"

  “Well Theo, you should stop maniputing him so much Haha…haha…Haha" replied Victor.

  “Well, it’s fun”

  “True”

  "You Bastards ... Grr,"

  This is just a common conversation when three friends are together, and time passes well too.

  "Okay Guys, let’s stop here, I have to write the assignments too” Victor said as he took a look at the wall clock showing 2:00 A.M.

  "Shit, I haven't done mine yet ... " an anguish cry came immediately.

  “Well, I have time, but okay ... Bye.”

  Victor stops pying games and searched for the assignment questions online only to be disappointed again.

  It seems teachers have become creative too. After all, it makes sense in this world where chatbots to actual household robots are becoming normal. The global market is now totally based on A.I. This kind of future was expected as movies have been made since ’90s, but what will be the actual future no one knows? After all the universe is so big and even, though we say that there is no living discovered in so many years of space exploration, it’s not granted that it won’t be in the near future and robots will not come from the future to kill people.

  Life is unpredictable after all.

  “Sigh… now I have to search the topics and make the assignment myself."

  "Well, it’s a relief that we can submit this one by typing and printing.”

  Victor once again looks at the clock

  “I feel so exhausted ... I have to stay awake just to write this ... this is so unhealthy"

  Victor internally thought “We have dark circles because of this teacher.”

  It seems these things are common as Theo and Leo both writing their assignments too. Theo seems to be just more rexed.

  At night around 2:45 A.M., Victor stops typing, put some paper in the printer and came to the balcony to have some fresh air.

  He saw the pitch-bck night sky which had no moon but stars that looked, eerie, but weirdly calming, there was no wind blowing but a thin breeze could be felt. Everything looks still like someone has stopped the time, a perfect setting for some ghost stories.

  He took a deep breath which reinvigorated him and then returned to the room with a calm expression and opened his drawer, took out a packet. He took the packet and cut open it, this packet contained a tube of cream with a roller at its mouth. He opened the cap and applied some of it to his clothes.

  This is a mosquito roll-on. What do you expect? A dark night, fresh air, and no mosquitoes? These creatures fear no ghost, no dark, these creatures cannot be eradicated at all. A few years ago, a campaign was unched that created an artificial rain that contains the chemical to eradicate these vermin but humanity was not successful as after a few days they came once again with new vigor and not only immune to the existing killing solution but with an increase in proliferation capacity. The society was in chaos for a total of 8 months before this apocalypse was contained.

  He then went back to the balcony to appreciate the view again. If Victor has to choose between day or night as his favorite, he will choose night without thinking. Since childhood he thinks he has some special affinity with the night. He gazed at the stars and began to contempte his life once more for the 15th time in the same day.

  “What am I doing? Is this even life? Exams are in 2 months and now I am stargazing...

  It Seems like I am doomed ... But does it even matter?

  The Earth is so big, the universe is so vast. I am just a tiny speck of cosmic dust. Does life even exist, if it exists, then what is even life?

  Is eating, sleeping, and working life? Is immortality even possible?

  When will I have a girlfriend…well, I am not the only one single. Girls are so dangerous these days (and some are not even girls) everything is so messed up. Sigh…. I am depressed ...”

  This inner monologue continued for more than half an hour before it ended.

  “let’s call Leo and share some of my mencholy in my heart too.”

  “On a second note, let’s call Theo too and let the nerd experience some mencholy once in a while”

  He opens the phone and tries to call unaware the stars which he was gazing at became dark red. While he was browsing through the phone the stars began to become more eerie and blood red with each second but weirdly no one seemed to notice it at all as If everything was an illusion.

  Victor felt something seemed to be happening and removed his eyes from the phone, but didn't even have time to think as he was immediately hit with drowsiness. He controlled himself, feeling bewildered, and stopped calling and made towards his bedroom. But before hitting the bed he has to close his house doors and windows.

  With unemployment came desperation, entrepreneurship, and scams, and some of these entrepreneurship become an excuse for stealing. Yes, theft has become quite common these days. With sheer willpower, he closed all the doors and windows and checked them before he made his way toward his bedroom. He was not only feeling drowsy but was also alert and panicked but he didn't get any time to contempte as he immediately fell on the floor and fell asleep.

  “Did a spider bite me? Will I become spider man?...” these were his st thoughts before his brain completely shut down.

  He was not the only one who is experiencing this and he will also not be the st, but he was also the one to hold on a little longer.

  In another pce, a 3-floor tall house, looking quite haunted, has lights peeking from one of its rooms. This is Leo's house. Leo’s parents although not super-rich are quite wealthy but he lives in this house alone because of the same reason as all. Leo’s condition was not looking good, with an expression that looked like someone had taken his money and had not returned it, He was desperately trying to complete his assignments, when he received a call.

  He picked up the phone with a bewildered face, "weird, it hasn't been even one hour and he is calling us again”.

  He was about to answer when the call abruptly got cut. "What the…", he didn't even have to think when he was hit with severe body aches.

  “Ah ... mph”, He was about to scream when he stopped himself with his hand by internally saying to himself “A man feels no pain”. He began to roll all over his bed but it was futile as his whole body was aching.

  “Why the hell is it aching so much….”

  ... Ah ... my body feels burning

  And literally, his body was releasing smoke and getting red.

  Everything is burning…

  He was so much in pain that he did not know what to even do as his throat was aching, he was unable to even scream it out.

  “Why is it aching … " His brain was working furiously to reason out this sudden pain but due to the sheer amount of pain, his brain was shutting down itself.

  This went on for about 30 minutes when he finally felt that this was his limit.

  “My balls… no...not there… not pain in there too”. These were his st thoughts before he lost consciousness.

  Between Victor and him, he might be the most miserable of all.

  In an empty apartment complex, which looks like it's abandoned and is really abandoned. This pce due to its location is abandoned but still a few people live. on the terrace a person is silently walking, slippers on his feet with earphones in the ears and silent humming which seems to echo in the silent and eerie night. This is Theo and he lives here because he is too zy to move out. He is wealthy enough to move out. He calls this nostalgia but actually, it’s his ziness and some other reasons.

  “At the starting of the week ... hum…hum… it's only Monday...”

  Suddenly his face becomes solemn and there is a subtle change in his aura, he seems to have predicted something. His eyes focused, movements fluid, lighting fast went towards his pocket from which he took out a little spray bottle …

  Yes, A SPRAY BOTTLE…

  He calls this spray bottle of death… this is specially made by him and the purpose…

  He opens its lid, sensed the direction and spray it a little. This lighting fast, fluid movement and precision, shows his mastery over this technique. He looks like a veteran of war.

  “Another one ... (presses on the ground gently a few times) died, it seems my destiny to kill these bastards", Theo mented looking at the sky.

  Yes, all this charade is for a mosquito. Theo have specially come here in the middle of night not only to rex but also to hunt… hunt mosquitos.

  It seems that the grudge is quite deep

  At this moment his phone rung, which again put a horrible expression on his face because the call coincided with favorite part of his song.

  He struggled hard but eventually open the phone to see who it is so that he can give him a price of mind. Although he knows, who it could be but that does not excuse his anger, but eventually he opened it because although he is petty, his anger also calms down pretty quickly too.

  "What the ... Why is he calling the middle of the night again?"

  He was about to receive it when the call cut.

  “Grr…hmmn ... ", veins begin to popup on his forehead, but eventually he sighed and was about to it call back, when he sensed something, his instincts which he had honed fighting mosquitoes for years warned him of upcoming danger.

  He quickly put his phone back and started running towards his room as fast as he could.

  It was lucky for him as the room was just one floor from terrace, He opened the door, enter and quickly closed the door, waiting for something to happen, and he didn’t have to wait long, because immediately after closing the door he was hit with sudden drowsiness and colpsed on the floor.

  As if waiting for this opportunity two mosquitoes quickly came to bite him but due to some odd reason was unable to.

  It seems today was an eventful night ...

  The next day…

  Victor woke up from his bed groggily, he was feeling weirdly energetic but also sleepy and exhausted at the same time. He checked himself and then took his phone to check the time.

  “OH NO… oh no... oh no... no no….”

  "Shit … not today", victor cussed as he ran desperately to freshen up as to go to college,

  It seems a new beginning is starting.