A raining night. A funeral was going on; there were just some family members, and they left fast that night. A boy with yellow hair, full black eyes like the void, wearing an expensive suit, was standing alone in that rainy night while thunder was hitting, saying with dead, lost-hope eyes:(Rest in peace, Arthur...)
Bodyguard: (Sir Sunset, we have to go back. Your dad will get angry if you stay here more. Even if it was a funeral, we are done—his family left already.)
Sunset: (Huh? Oh right, I forgot. Let's go, btw...)
Thunder hit everywhere in the graveyard while Sunset was leaving. He completed his sentence with a killing look in his eyes:(YOU NEVER—AND NEVER—dare talk to me right now...)
Bodyguard: (...Yes sir, but you just have to calm down. He's just a random kid, no one even remembering him. You don't have to be mad about it.)
Sunset stopped moving, turned around, and grabbed his bodyguard from his neck.Sunset: (What did YOU SAY... random? THE ONLY RANDOM HERE IS YOU. What did I say? No talking, RIGHT? You are fired from now. GET LOST BEFORE I LOSE MY MIND...)
Bodyguard: (What... fine, sir.)
Let's go back a few days – at school
Sunset: "Why did Arthur take so long during break to buy weird things again?" (with a tired but funny face)
A normal teenager with black hair, brown eyes—instead of dead, they looked empty, no feelings—got in the room and yelled while looking at Sunset:(Yo, Sunset, let's chill. I'm so bored.)
Sunset: "Why does he love to move around anyway? Ahh, what a pain in the ass. Let's just talk, and maybe go if he wants to go."
Sunset replied: (Nah, let's just stay here. Too lazy to go anywhere.)
Arthur: (Fine, you emo.) — making a silly face.
Sunset: "What, he wants to go? Now I think he's just being silly. I mean, look at that face, ahh."(Btw, what are you going to do after school? Going to chill or something?)
Arthur: (Oh, where I'm going to go anywhere. The only reason I was chilling out was 'cause of those losers who didn't know their place, so I left them. Good thing I have like a flow—I forget fast, hehe.)
Sunset: (Oh… weren't they your friends? I don't understand. Couldn't you just accept their sorry? I still think you did right, but I wanna know, 'cause I always learn from you.) (with a smile)
Arthur looked shocked; he didn't expect this. Then, with empty eyes, he said:(Oh well, let's just say I made them together, then they came at me all at once. I couldn't fight them, so I ignored their annoying asses until I lost it all and manipulated them to fight each other. Like the leader—I made him my perfect servant; he even called himself a dog. The others, I made everyone hate them in the school. I hate that part of me, so I trapped it inside me. 'Cause wouldn't you be sad if you felt others' sadness? But it's like fate—it happened again. So I decided to break it by leaving them, to not let everything happen again. But they tried to hurt me by hacking my account and making rumors about me. I still held back, 'cause I know I'll be forgotten anyway, and never wish for others what you don't wish for yourself.) (with a smile on his face)
Sunset: (Tbh, idk what to say. Good luck, brother. I'm here, ok?)
Arthur: (Sunset, if ever something happened to me, always try to think. Even if you can't, try—this is the key to survive. Anyway, cya, I'm going home.) (with empty eyes)
Sunset watched Arthur's back while he was going out of the school. All he was able to think was:"My life sucks, but his... idk how he is alive. He always thought about others before himself. Tbh my life is dead—my parents don't care about me, just give me a lot of money 'cause they're rich. I never had a real friend; all of them were fake—for my good, for my money, my looks. But Arthur—he's the only one who didn't care."
Memories – back to Sunset
Sunset was chatting with a group of people, then someone touched his shoulder without anyone noticing.
Arthur: (Yo bro, is this class for first year? If yes, can you give me a pen? I forgot mine, plss.) (with a sad silly face)
Sunset: (Eh, sure, here you go.) (with a smile) "What's wrong with him? Let him just go, I'm tired already from these people."
Arthur: (Why the hell are you smiling when you don't mean it? It makes it disgusting.) (with an angry look in his eyes)
Sunset (shocked): "What, huh...? What do you mean..." (with some panic)
Arthur: (You understand me good. Now cya, I gave you my advice. Bye-bye.) (with a happy dance move)
Sunset: "That was my first time meeting him. With time, we got close. Now let me go home, wish him a beautiful sleep tonight." (with a smile, moving in the street with the sun going down)
The next day – at school
Sunset sat in class, waiting for Arthur. "I guess he didn't come today. Too weird, he never skips a day 'cause of his parents. Maybe he's sick—good luck for him."
After some classes, in free time, Sunset was bored, so he looked at his classmates. While looking, he saw Olive.
Memories went back to when he was chilling with Arthur at school—Olive always came to eat with Arthur. He thought they were dating but never asked. "Maybe she knows why Arthur didn't come."
He moved to her until he stood in front of her.(Yo Olive, do you know why Arthur didn't come today?) (with a normal smile)
She raised her head, looked at him with a worried look—making Sunset's anxiety rise a little.
Olive: (Idk... he just didn't say his normal good morning today, so I'm worried.) (with a low voice)
Sunset thought: "So they are dating... you fake. I'm going to kill you. Wait for me, Arthur... But fr, he sent good morning every day? Well, looks like Arthur. Anyway, that's bad news. Did something bad happen? Damn it."
Olive's voice cut his thoughts.Olive: (Did he tell you anything?..)
Sunset: (If he didn't call you, do you think he's going to call me? Girl, wake up.) (with an angry face & crying meme)
Olive: (No, he didn't... maybe he's sleeping.)
Sunset: (Anyway, cya.)
Olive: (Cya.)
That evening, Sunset went home. No one there, like normal. He sat on his bed, turned on his large TV, and was watching when his phone rang—it was an unknown number.
He answered—it was Olive.Olive: (Go to Arthur's house...)
And she cut the call.
Sunset: "Wtf, is she kidding? But her voice was kinda serious. Arthur, you good?.. "
At Arthur's house
When he arrived, the ambulance was there. Someone was on a bed. Sunset ran like crazy, nervous, his heart racing, blood firing up while thinking:"No, no, no, don't tell me. No, Arthur, don't be there, don't BE, damn it!"
He got there, looking at Arthur's body on the bed, moving to the ambulance car.
Memories – when Sunset was young in the hospital
Father: (Doctor, what's going on with my son?)
Doctor: (Idk the reason, but it seems his eyes becomes full black except his eyeballs become yellow when he gets emotional or in a fight.)
While Sunset was listening to them—Mother: (Isn't there any cure for this?)
Doctor: (No, he was born with it. Anything we do might make him lose his eyes.)
After that, his parents tried to take him to spiritual healers, but he got no clue what was going on with him. With time, Sunset learned to control his emotions to hide it, 'cause his family hated it.
But that night, while everything was going on in the full dark night, he lost control while looking at Arthur—his full black eyes with yellow pupils glowing. The air was heavy.
Memories – in a garden
Arthur: (Sunset, everything has a price, you know. Hehe.)
For some reason, Sunset remembered that now.