Chapter 1: Chapter 1. I am an ordinary person(?). 1
Ethan's POV-
To describe myself the perfect word will be 'MESS'
I shall start from the beginning as far as my memory leads to... Hmm so it's the time around 2007 I was 4 at that time. We lived in the 'Mumbai', Maharashtra's capital, it is one of the states in India.
We lived in the slum area where it's not will be an exaggeration to say that it is the worst place to raise a child if you wanted to keep your child to be raised in a healthy Environment.
Some may argue with me why slum is not good enough to live? It is, but due to my dad's influence I got introduced to it's Dark side more than it's Good side.
My dad 'Xavier Joseph' was an area level criminal. My dad holds suspect of being the perpetrator of 2 half murder and a lot of small-time thug activity case under his name. My dad what mostly did was, steal the electricity from the Government line as during that period of time there was not much was done in the slum area. And he became a celebrity among our area as he was charging very less money to Electricity in the slum I don't know how he did it but he did it. And dad was being a formidable figure to fight so not many dared to fight dad as he is being known for his viciousness.
My Mom 'Rani' (means Queen) was my dad's 2nd wife as his first wife died in a fire accident. I have 2 elder brothers to me; one is 8 years older than me and another is 5 years older than me respectively. Both of them are really a very big assholes to speak. Mom got married in 17 and gave birth to me when she was 18. And the age difference between My mom and Dad is 14 years. In this world I love my mom very much.
I am unlike my siblings got a very soft personality and a weak body to which resulted being bullied and beaten in school, as its the government school where it's a very normal occurrence and the teachers didn't give a shit about this. I even went to complain to teacher But the answer he gave me was to 'fightback', it's not some anime or movie where the BGM plays and the MC gets a power up it's the real life and in real life there is no such things. As I am being bullied for years made a psychological barrier for me like when a dog being called it reacts instantly.
If you ask me where is my dad's money where he cannot even put me in a good environmental school? well to add my misery Dad became a Gambler and an Alcoholic where he provided bare minimum to us and he'll spend the rest of the money as he pleased. And obviously Domestic violence is a must where Fortunately except me, my mom and my 2 brothers were being beaten.
In my cowardice and fear I skipped the school on my entire 5th, 6th and my 7th year mostly by doing various things as I am decent in my studies, I never had any problem on coming on the top 3 in my class which fueled the bully's onslaught.
Oh, by the way on my 6th class my dad was caught by the police and put under jail for 3 months.
(In India, the primary legal provision dealing with electricity theft is Section 135 of the Electricity Act, 2003. This section specifically addresses activities such as meter tampering, illegal connections, and other forms of unauthorized use of electricity.) as the law got firmer dad had to leave the thug life. To completely whitewash his records, Dad had to Sell the 3 houses we owned so to bribe the officials. After clearing every criminal record, he had to come outside. so, we are now living in a rental house. After being released dad became a depressed person so it was mom who worked to put food in plates. thank you, Mom. Mom became the house provider for us for 3 years. On that time mom woke up in 4 A.M and began to do the house work and provided the time so me and my siblings won't starve.
So, all these situations made me more resolute to not make mom more worried. I have done theft in my own home as my bullies threatened me if I didn't bring money, they'll attack my mom (as I being a kid literally believed them and done small but various money theft). Somehow, I finally finished that hellish school.
Now that I think about this why does it sounds more like some cliché typical Highschool manhwa. Like: - 'Juvenile Offender' by PTJ.
But fortunately, my life was just a lite version of that Manhwa. As everything ended after I changed that school.
And I am for my 9th Grade Joined a shabby but a Genuinely good school where my life changed for the better...
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(Author's Note)
I Didn't mention lot of the dark and messed up stuff happened with MC's in the childhood. In future where MC will take revenge and tell you thoroughly what exactly happened after getting the system.