From Useless To Indispensable

A Son

The sun flickered through Chris's window. The birds chirping from his window. Chris nonchalantly removed the bedsheet from his body as he let out a sigh of exhaustion before sitting upright on his bed.

A banging headache struck his head as he groaned in pain. A reminisce of the previous day flashed through his head. Larry's name haunted his thoughts. He fell back on his bed, face-palming himself. "I wish I seize to exist." He muttered under his breath.

Letting out a sad smile, he took his mother's letters from the drawer. This would be the one hundredth time he had read through it and he always did so anything he was sad or felt like he had failed. With a stained cheek, Chris continued to weep over the fact that he wasn't useful after all and couldn't make his mother's wish come through and his enemies would surely win this time over him.

He heard a knock on the door disrupting his moment of agony but was too lazy to stand up and open it. Chris heard the creaking sound of the door and