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Chapter 1.

Living in a world without you!

Kristoffer sat in the bar till after hours, he was drinking down the last bit of his Blue Moon, he was looking to forget his troubles and sadly was not having much luck. The bartender was an old friend of his from his high school glory days, Jason had been with Kristoffer through thick and thin they were as thick as thieves one could say, Kristoffer had just had the last straw though.

"Jason I'll have another one please." "Oh, I'm not so sure about that Kris. I mean you've had 12 already, I think you've reached your limit." Jason said as he downed the last of his own beer that Kristoffer had so kindly paid for, "just shut up and pour me another one damn it!" Kristoffer snapped, this was unlike him, he didn't normally snap at his friends like this, his troubles were far from the back of his mind and little did he know it was only going to get worse as the night progressed

"Kristoffer look don't raise your voice, I'm your friend not your enemy, you know that." Jason cautioned Kristoffer knowing full well that Kristoffer was still quite sober due to his seemingly inhuman metabolism and would know to take the subtle hint to back off and just accept his friend's judgment. "Alright Jason, you win, I'm sorry for snapping like that, it's just well..." Kristoffer trailed off for a few moments seeming to compile his thoughts before he spoke. "It's my fucking family dude." Kristoffer said as he took a sip from the glass of water Jason had just set in front of him, as he did this Jason too that opportunity to interrupt Kristoffer's rant before it even got off of terra firm.

"Look dude, when is it NOT your fucking family?" Jason asked putting emphasis on the "not" in that sentence, Kristoffer looked up and gave his friend a distorted smile and chuckled "good point, but this time...they went too far.... I'm just fed up!" Jason nodded and set to wiping down the bar as Kristoffer, went on. "They have used me again and again, abused me, confused me, I'm just so sick and tired of their fucking bull shit! I mean they fucking taught me to look in their eyes and fed me their sweet lies....one of these days I won't be there. And they will be left wondering what they would do when they are suddenly wondering what they will do....when they are finally living in a world without me."

Jason had been listening more than Kristoffer had realized, when Kristoffer finished his glass of water he paid his tab and then got up to leave, when Jason spoke up "Kristoffer, be careful, You above all should know it's a mad world out there." Jason offered with a smile. Kristoffer smiled and nodded "yea. No shit." Kristoffer said as he went outside into the rain, he took a deep breath then stepped out into the rain. Meanwhile back in the bar Jason had gotten out his phone and hit a number on his speed dial, Jason didn't need to wait long before a gravelly voice picked up on the other end and spoke. "Yes? What is it?" Jason sighed a bit as he heard the voice, "Yea he just stepped outside, he's about to walk home...look I don't know what the hell you guys want with him but it sounds like you want to help him out. He's on the edge, And way to close to breaking point. And I kept my end of the deal, now you need to keep yours." There was a short pause on the phone when the voice on the other end spoke again, "Don't worry. He will be safe with us." After that brief comment the line went dead. And Jason looked outside into the pouring rain just in time to see his friend fall limp into the street and someone else pick him up and put him in the back seat of a white S.U.V. with the letters "H.B" painted on the side in large gold calligraphic letters and driven off to some place unknown, who knew. It really was a mad world after all.