-16 years ago, on earth-
Stanley, a high schooler in his final year, just heard about his parent's death on the phone and was walking to a grocery store.
On earth, Stanley's father was a big businessman and his mother was a successful actress but they had sent him away to another country when he was 10 years old after hearing from a fortune teller that Stanley would end up being a bad omen for their work.
"In the end, wasn't it no use sending me away?" Stanley smiled as he said in a low voice.
As he was saying, he stood at a traffic signal, waiting for the crosswalk signal to get green.
He raised his head and saw a truck coming at a high speed from far. Stanley ignored it at first but when he felt that it was very close, he felt as if he would run into the people standing there.
Not having enough time to warn everyone, Stanley pushed the person in front of him and jumped forward himself.
Stanley barely dodged the truck which had by then run on the people standing there.
Stanley slowly lost his consciousness due to hitting his head on a pole while jumping forward.
He regained his consciousness three days later and the situation around the whole country was a mess.
That day, a total of 9 people died and 11 were seriously injured, out of which, the majority were kids.
Everywhere on the news was Stanley's video of saving the man in front of him and not the little girl who was right beside him.
The news headlines being broadcasted were,' Why did the High Schooler, Stanley Borne, only save the serial killer in front of him?'
"Like hell, he was just there, so I pushed him to save myself, I don't care about any Serial Killer," Stanley said as he felt wronged.
As he said, a nurse walked into the room.
She saw Stanley wake up and said," Get up and leave the hospital now, you are fine. Pay the bill by tomorrow."
"What? Tomorrow? But the bill is 10,000 Pisces (currency), I cannot get that much in a day." Stanley said
"I don't know, if you want, you can ask the finance department on the 1st floor." The nurse said as she exited the room with a disgusted expression.
Stanley went to the finance department but was thrown out before he even got to ask anything.
"So, they are doing all this because I did not save a little girl?"
He now sat in his room which his father had brought for him years ago and switched on the T.V.
After an hour, Stanley got a brief of everything that happened the day of the accident.
The man Stanley had saved turned out to be a serial killer who had killed over 17 people and was wanted all over the country.
"But, how would I have known that?" Stanley said as he lay in his bed.
For the next few days, whenever Stanley went out, he could hear the whispers of other people insulting and blaming him for things.
He was not able to buy anything from any shop for a long time.
Stanley used to think that it was a bad time and it would pass but little did he know, it was still good for Stanley at that time.
Sometime later, a terrorist organization declared that the attack was done by them.
This finished the hopes in Stanley's heart. He started getting called 'Terrorist' by the people.
The previously cheerful Stanley, who was happy despite his problems, had completely disappeared.
Stanley was broken now.
He had decided to commit Suicide.
He now just had to write the last letter and then hang on a rope.
His letter said-
*I don't think that anyone is reading this, but if someone is, I did not kill myself, the people of this country killed me. I am alive every day but always dead inside. I want the people to regret what they did when the truth comes out.
Bye.*
Exactly ten days after that, Stanley's letter dead body was discovered in his house, hanging to the roof with a rope.
Stanley's physical body had died but his soul, for some reason, had not left the world.
It stayed and observed everything happening in the world.
Slowly, time passed, analysis was made, an investigation was done and after everything, new headlines came in.
'The high schooler, Stanley Queen, was innocent!'
Candle marches were made in his name. People put flowers on his tomb but they were the same people who spit on it earlier.
The man who first named him a terrorist was now crying on the T.V.
"Ha! People are garbage." Stanley's last strand of soul tried to say as it disappeared into a void of nothingness.
The void made Stanley almost lose himself and that was what was supposed to happen until, one day Stanley's soul was once again pulled somewhere, but this time, he could see the light.
He was sitting by the side of a river in a physical body.
"Is this, Is this heaven?" Stanley said as he looked in the water.
He had red eyes and white hair but he looked around 7-8 years old.
"..What is this? I was blonde and had blue eyes." Stanley said as he touched his face.

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