Inspiration from Reddit

With some hesitation and meekness, I decided to join Reddit for their writing prompt subreddit. It was meek in the sense that I was amped up and started to create an account but mere seconds after I wondered what sort of people wrote there and I started to read some of the stuff in the front and damn I got scared by the difference. Minutes went by and I wondered if my writing was good enough for them. It ended with my mouse button hovering over "sign up" and my inner mind screaming me to click it.

Well, here's my first comment to a writing prompt from Reddit! The prompt was made by username "EdgarAllanHobo" and titled:

You saw something you shouldn't have. If only you'd have gone to school/work like you were supposed to, none of this would have happened.

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Not like this.

Young Ben trod on the road at a fast speed which made him almost collide with several other strollers. The people would react instinctively with a frown and an open mouth ready to bring out a tirade of complaints but would hesitate and move on. Probably because it wouldn’t help at all when the respondent just focused on the ground like he had an eye-stare contest with it. Combine this with the furrowed brows and clenched teeth made Ben look like a boiling kettle ready to explode upon impact. And no stroller would prefer hot boiling water rained upon them.

It began with some cravings for sweets. This simple notion was the start to the disaster. Due to the cravings Ben made a detour to the local candy store, it would just take fifteen minutes more and he had ample of time before school began.
The mistake was glancing at the dark alley on the back side of the candy shop and noticed a familiar figure standing with a stranger figure. The familiar one was Ben’s own mother and she talked in a hushed voice while pointing at a black garbage bag that the stranger held. The stranger, a taller man with the back turned to Ben seemed to shake his head which made the mother give a stare that Ben knew all too well. She gave that stare to Ben when he told his mum that he was feeling sick because he didn’t want to go to school. She gave Ben that stare when Ben didn’t help wash the dishes.

The stare seemed to have an effect on the taller man, he took a step back and waved with his hand that didn’t hold the black trash bag. The woman nodded and the man opened up the bag to show what was inside.

Ben registered the colors red and blue before his brain screamed for him to stop looking, but it was too late. He walked briskly towards school.

When he arrived in the classroom and walked directly to his spot without even greeting anyone, his classmates knew something was up. But no one dared to interrupt the unfocused gaze and half open mouth that Ben showed. It took a few more moments more before a classmate went up and asked how Ben was feeling.

“I saw mom buying my secret birthday present,” said Ben sourly. “And Breath of the Wild is not even included.”