I never knew this would happen…”It’s not my fault….It’s not my fault” I screamed.
It all began here. It was the sky was blue like water, and the sun shined brightly. I woke up to see the amazingly beautiful day outside. As I yawned and stretched my arms. “UGHH…the worst part of my day …getting up.” I said still half asleep. Forcing myself to get up, I got dressed. I decided to go for a casual look. Dark Blue jeans paired with a t-shirt, and converse sneakers. Then suddenly “Beep!” It must be my phone I thought to myself. I checked it, and there came a message from “X”.. “Who in the world is that?” I said out loud. I checked to see if I could find the number, but all it read was “X”. I tilted my head and arched my eyebrow in curiosity. “It must be a prank.” I said. Then suddenly another text message, it says “It’s not ^_^” My head fell into a quick panic. Beep! Another text from “X” saying, “Do you want to play a game? ;)” I said, “It depends on the game, but who are you? A stalker?” “X” Replied with, “Let’s see… how about dice?” “Dice? How boring.” I said with a somewhat disappointed face. “Oh no no, it’s not just any regular game of dice. It’s a game to level up your real life character. You complete the tasks I give you for dice, once you roll the dice the number you get is the skill points to level up in such areas as in beauty, agility, and etc. You can completely change yourself.” replied “X”. I paused for a moment and thought. With a bit of hesitation, I said “You sure are good at pulling pranks. I almost believed you for a second.” “X” said, “This is no prank. Something embarrassing will happen to you at lunch today.” “Ha! Who in the world could predict the future.” I laughed. “Let’s just see. lool” replied “X” I tried to delete the contacts and block the number, but it wouldn’t work. “How strange.” I thought to myself. I gave out a cry of frustration, until HONK HONK! I scrambled to get my stuff together as the school bus was drawing near my house. I grabbed a quick snack of French Toast on my way out. Having the toast in my mouth, I ran as the bus was already in front of my house. The bus was noisy as usual. Little kids yelling even though they sat right next to each other, the teens chatting about gossip and screaming curse words in the back. Feeling tired, I just folded my arms trying to keep myself warm while falling asleep. After a while, I felt a bit of a tap on my shoulder. I lifted my eyes up hazily, still feeling tired, but I had to force myself to get up since the bus was already at school. I got off the bus and headed towards the blue double doors. Something still stuck in my head… the thing that “X” said. “What if I really do get embarrassed at lunch? That would be awful.” I thought to myself. Shaking my head afterwards I tried to brush those thoughts away. The bell rang, which meant first period would be starting soon. I put all my bags in my locker and went to first period. I sat down quietly while the other girls were gossiping about boys. After a bit, the teacher finally came into the room, and said “Let’s start today’s class.” Honestly, first period is always a snooze-fest. For some reason today, I’m exceptionally tired. The day went slowly, 2nd period,3 period, 4 period, and then finally LUNCH. I wanted to anticipate what would happen, would what “X” was saying be true? That can’t be possible. I got my nasty lunch food, some disgusting hamburgers, and gross fruit that barely anyone eats. I sat down at the lunch table,and then suddenly..BAM! I lifted my hands up and opened my mouth in some sort of shock. Someone had bumped their lunch tray all over me, now there’s ketchup on my clothes, face, and even on my hair. The whole lunchroom seemed to have stood silent,all their eyes seemed to have rested on me. My face grew red in embarrassment. Quickly, I tried to clean myself up with napkins, but it wouldn’t work, so I scrambled to the bathroom hoping nobody else would see me with ketchup on my shirt. I got a paper towel and wet it water. I tried to get it off my shirt, praying that it would come off. It didn’t. I took a deep breathe and sighed loudly. It hit me. “What X said was true…No no, it could just a coincidence.” I thought to myself. I got another text, my hands shaking I lifted up my phone, and it read “Text message from X” I was shocked, a bit terrified I opened the message and it read, “Believe me now? Looool :D” My mind was confused, should I believe him or should I not. I replied with “Yes.” Breathing deeply, X said “Now, let me ask you this question once more. Do you want to play dice? It will change the person you are, you could be the smartest person in the world, or the most beautiful person. There’s limitless possibilities. :)” My body shaking, I hesitated , but in the end I said “Yes.” How greedy am I? How foolish I am to say yes? Those were the questions I asked myself at the moment. Then an app started downloading automatically, and game called DICE…” After the download, my curious self opened the game. I was surprised, all my personal information everything there was to know about me all in my profile. A message from “X” popped up, “Let’s try a task.” I clicked task and it read, “Task 1: Cheat off a test.” I paused..what is this task? I accidentally said it out loud. X said “A task of course, lol did you think earn dice would be easy? They have the power to change the world.” I replied with, “But why of all tasks would you make me cheat off a test? Couldn’t it be something nice and fair?” X said, “Nice and fair? Lol. You know that the world isn’t fair, so why should I be?” The bell rang again, which means it was time for 5th period. Still embarrassed with the ketchup on my shirt, I tried to get the courage to get out of the bathroom stall.” Praying that nobody would make fun of me, I hesitated to get out of the bathroom. I went to 5th period, and the teacher said, ” We have a surprise test today class.” Oh. my. god. What would be the coincidence of that task and this period? The teacher grabbed a stack of test papers and started passing them out. One by one, until she got to me. I didn’t know what to do, should I do the task? It felt like those mini angel and demon figures where on my shoulders still trying to decide what to do. My inner demon just had to say it with an evil grin, “Let’s cheat, I mean why not? What do you have to lose? You could change yourself, your life, THE WORLD.” I hesitated as I started to turn my head to the person next to me while the teacher was turned around, and what do you know? It was the smartest kid in the school. Breathing in deeply for a moment, I quickly turned to see her test, and jabbed my head back on my own test, so no one catches me for cheating. I bubbled in the answers one by one like the one on her test. I whispered quietly, “A..D..A..B..D…A…C…C” Then I heard the bell rang. The teach stood up and said, “Everyone, class is over. I will take your tests up, so you can hurry on to your next class.” Once she took everyone’s test up, I started feeling guilty. “Why did I do that?” I asked myself, but then I contradicted myself by saying, “Look at least you’ll get a good grade on your test, and get this dice thing X is talking about. I mean aren’t you curious?” Shaking my head, to get rid of the thoughts I headed toward my next class which was Social Studies. The ketchup stain was still on my clothes, so when I walked out in to the hallway, I tried to cover it up with my binder. Then I felt a slight vibration from my back pocket, which means a text message on my phone. I wanted to open it right away to satisfy my curiosity of X and DICE, but sadly I had to hurry on to class since we were let out late. Hurrying, I took my seat and settled down. Then started on my work. The teacher got started with class and gave us a worksheet. I couldn’t focus on it at all, I kept wondering and wanted to try out DICE, so I went up to the teacher and asked, “May I use the bathroom?” She said “Sure, just make sure to get your agenda and let me sign it.” I got my agenda and she signed it. Once I closed the classroom door behind me, I ran to the bathroom. I quickly got into a bathroom stall and closed the door. I pull my phone out, and checked DICE. A message popped up saying “Task Complete. You have received x5 Dice.” Then I got a message from X, “Now that you’ve gotten your first Dice, I will explain to you on how to use it. It’s most like a skill tree, but it’s used on yourself in reality not an online game. You have categories to choose from in using your dice. You can have smarts, which then from there you can choose any subject, Math, Reading, and Etc. In math you can choose the type, Algebra I, Precalculus, and etc. It’s the same with the other subjects too. Then you have beauty. You can choose what you want to change about yourself. Each Level you get into the beauty skill tree, the more beautiful you become. Agility. The more dice you put into to agility, the easier you’ll move. You can discover the other categories as you progress. There’s a special dice one you become a pro dicer.” It took me moment to process this into my head, although I felt a bit of excitement. I looked at the skill tree, and I decided to use the 5 dice that I’ve just gotten on Agility. I was never a sporty person, and not to mention my failing grade in Gym. Also, gym is my final class for the day, so why not try this dice thing out. I went back to class, and it went by slowly because I had excitement to get to gym class for once. The bell rang, I jumped up from my seat and the teacher dismissed us. I scurried to gym class, and my mind was excited to tryout my new agility. The class began, and the gym teacher said, “Today, we’ll be playing Dodgeball.” My mind screamed at the word dodgeball. I’ve always hated it, I would always be the person in my class to get hit the most. Some days I would even go home with bruises on my arms, and a bloody nose. The teacher split us up on 2 teams on opposite sides of the gym. I looked at my team and started to panic. Basically, all of the football players were on the other team, and I got on the team with all the nerds who had no muscular strength. No way we would win this. We all lined up, the football players had a smirk on their face in position to be ready to grab a ball. Before I knew it the teacher said “Start!” I ran toward a ball, and surprising I was fast; my body felt light. I threw a ball at the biggest football player there was, and he got OUT! Quickly, I grabbed another ball, and got another person out! I was excited, I had never been this good before, I guess Dice can really change me, and most of all it’s REAL. Looking up after grabbing a ball, another ball had come hurdling towards me. My mouth opened when my body moved on it’s own and dodged it. I smirked and grinned. After 5 minutes, I had taken everyone out on the opposite team. Everyone was surprised and shocked, their mouths wide open. After that victory of dodge ball, more and more people approached me asking to be friends. I was never popular, but it felt now as if I were the most popular kid in school. I started doing more and more sports, and everyone depended on me to win the game. The world seemed to revolve around me. One day, I saw a poor kid getting bullied. I scared off the bullies , but I gave him a dice out of pity. He looked at me, then at the dice. He tilted his head and made a confused look. I explain to him that it was dice, and once he rolls it, it’ll be activated and he’ll be able to play the game of dice. As time passed, I became a pro dicer with the ability for time pause, and the bullied kid I gave dice to became smart. One day he came up to me saying “I think I know the secret behind dice, I’ll tell you tonight come meet me at the school at 12.” I said, “Ok.” and I noticed a twitching in his arm as if he were hurt. Another school day went by, and it was almost time to meet him. I snuck out of my window at night, and started running towards the school. Once I got there I saw cop cars, and a body lying on the school ground.. There was blood. Panicking, I ran the closest I could get to see the body without anyone noticing me. It was the kid who I gave the dice to. My eyes opened wide at the sight, and my body started running on it’s own. I ran back to my house breathing heavily at what I just saw. I couldn’t believe it. He had died, what happened? It looked as if he had jumped out of the window to kill himself. The whole night I couldn’t sleep in peace. He said he knew the secret behind dice..Does that mean X had to do something with his death because he didn’t want anyone knowing about it? I decided to ask “X”, “Did you kill him?” X replied within 1 second as always, “Maybe, maybe not. lol ^_^” Trembling at the thought of X trying to kill him. After a bit of thinking, I fell asleep. I woke up like usual. Put on my clothes, ran to the bus, and went to school. Once I arrived at school, I saw the police caution tape was still there and a big crowd of students crowding the body. Then I saw something glimmering on the floor. It looked like Dice…, but how did it get here? I got a message from “X” as if he could read my mind, “Once a dicer dies, all of the dicer’s dice will be dropped out of it’s body.” “What? You never told me this?” I panicked at the thought that everyone will find out about dice and use it. X replied with, “You didn’t ask. :)” I clenched my fist, and tried to get through the sea of students to try and get the dice before anyone else notices, but I was too later. Someone shouted out, “Look everyone!!! What are these dice things surrounding it’s body??” The boy who shouted that grabbed one, and everyone else in curiosity grabbed one too. My heartbeat sped up, panicking what would happen if this many people had dice. After his death, everyone in my school found out about dice and how to use it. Everyday I would see news reports of crime in our community, I knew it was because of the tasks that X gave everyone. Killing, cheating, blackmailing, all those terrible things to do for dice. The world seemed greedy for more and more dice, greedy for beauty and power, but I realized I hate no right to speak about it because I was the one whole spread dice. If only I hadn’t given it to him. Time passed from this incident, now almost everyone in our state had the dice. Crime got worse, the death rate went up exceptionally. Then it spread to the whole world. It was chaos, it was to kill or kill to survive. X made dice a game to where everyone turned against each other in competition to gain more dice. Then the day came. The sky got darker, and there came a door. Wondering what it was, the door opened, then suddenly everything started sucking into the door, trees, roofs of homes, and PEOPLE. I ran for shelter while using my time pause to find a safe place. I didn’t have much dice left for time pause, so I had to find somewhere quickly. I ran as I saw people’s expressions in fear and terror. Closing my eyes trying not to feel guilty as I ran past each and every one of them. I finally found a safe place underground, my secret hideout. I heard screaming and crying above me. Trying to block out the noise, I curled myself into a ball waiting for it to be over. 10 minutes and I heard no sound. I carefully got out of my underground tunnel, and there was the most catastrophic thing I’ve ever seen. Where the grass was, there was only dirty. The homes were gone, and only a few trees remained. People. Where are the people?! I ran around quickly shouting, “IS ANYONE OUT THERE? HELLO? PLEASE RESPOND TO ME!” Huffing, I saw the door that was once open, close. I ran towards the door, and put my hands on it and started to sob. The tears wouldn’t stop because it had hit me, this was my fault, people got sucked into this stupid door by me. I knew X was the cause of the door, he/she loved to play games, and I guess it’s now game over. I screamed out for X asking him questions, but no response. I asked again. No response. I checked on my phone for the app, but it was gone as if it never existed in the first place. Then I noticed the door started to fade and disappear. “NO NO NO! It’s not my fault…It’s not my fault!!” I screamed, until it was finally gone. It was just me now on this lonely planet with no one on it anymore. Where there had once been a lively city, there is now nothing left of it, not even a trace of humans. Then I heard the voice of “X” that said lol.