Midnight High

Packing clothes into a suitcase is easy, but it becomes incredibly hard if you can't afford a suitcase or anything of similar size. Alex could only stuff all his favorite clothes in the largest rucksack he could get his hands on grubby hands on.

To be honest, he didn't really have much stuff to pack in the first place. With his decent appearance, even the cheapest clothes, looked like designer clothes on him. His abnormal silver hair and amethyst eyes were incredibly rare considering it was natural, only helped complement his devilish body which he regularly trained since he had nothing better to do after he was expelled from his previous school.

Sighing Alex closed his eyes as he reminisced about his passed. For as long as he could remember, he was not like a normal child. For the first five years of his life was like any other child. Two parents who loved and cared for him as far as he could remember. Yet it was one night, It was over ten years ago now, he was only 5 at the time when, he was left behind. He had just finished reception and waited patiently for his parents to pick him up like normal… but they never came.

From there, everything went to hell. He was a sent to the local orphanage which already broke and couldn't afford to repair the breaking building. When it rained sometimes, lines of water would run down the walls as if the building itself was bleeding. There was even a staff member who got sent to jail for child abuse.

Over the course of his life Alex had been through 16 schools and another 4 schools for behavioral problems. It almost became enjoyment for him to break the will of the teacher and watch them leave. His felt happier every time he watch other suffered, now that Alex looked back on it, it was cruel since the a.d.u.l.ts around him only wanted to help him and had done nothing wrong to him.

November 6th 2030, the day went Alex could only guess that he had piled up enough sins for everything to come crashing down. It had been the day where he had decided pull a heist. By that time, he started to become associated with the dark side of society. He had yet to try drug or anything of the kind but he had been falling fast. From one of his online sources he managed to get hold of the security plans for Grandáre museum. This was priceless since within the walls of that museum held a diamond known as the 'Solar Blue' was worth easily within 8 digits.

He was so close to success but he failed. Busted by a pure accident, it was pure chance that the night time guard on duty was slight earlier than expected for his shift. Alex was quickly shot with a phase gun, a product made out of necessity, a gun that produces bullets of raw low voltage electricity that penetrate into the body and temporarily renders the normal human useless and unable to control their muscles.

He was sent to local jail, in which for the first time in his life he felt fear. In recent years, although low-level crimes such as theft had decrease, crimes like murder had skyrocketed since with the advance of technology more and more ways were developed to kill people. Nuclear warheads were no longer effective in this world since they could be vaporized even before it went boom. The average time for a normal thief like him to survive jail was literally less than a day unless he joined a jail gang.

He regretted and repented silently in his temporary holding cell hoping that he did not die a meaningless death. The police officers that monitored him only looked at him with pity and helplessness. Alex even heard one of say that it was pity for him to die so young. Alex would not even get a death sentence by law and yet they were already worried for his life.

"Boy, a true man doesn't build his Foundation on greed, but rather his integrity, his determination, and wisdom that comes from failure."

Those words deeply imprinted themselves into his mind like a hot brand. He had never met Matteo before, but Alex owed him his life. Since then he tried his best to please Matteo to make up for this kindness. Even though they were so poor that they had to buy the physical copy of the newspaper instead of its digital and more immersive counterpart, Alex still kept going with a smile.

"I do wonder why he bailed me though," Alex questioned softly before snapping back to reality.

He picked back up the letter," it is best that I read the school rules then."