ZAK's POV
The air was cold, he liked this way it reminded of the days he
would go visit his parents in Himalayas, the military base where they worked at
was lodged inside one of the mountains, a base built during the cold war his dad had once remarked when I asked him about it,he
hated the fact they worked there it meant they would always be moving and it wasn't
like he could stay with them in the base he always had to stay somewhere around
and they always made it random ,to keep him safe or something along those lines
and this time around he was a whole 24hours away from his home in Colorado, a peculiar
country called Kenya
It was a grassy and undeveloped and positioned right next to
the underbelly of the world,
He really didn't like it here even though he was born in Somalia
he hated coming to Africa there was absolutely nothing to do here no parks to play
basketball soccer or even lacrosse
Which he didn't even try to play but it was always better than
nothing he didn't have any friends or relative he lived completely alone in an apartment
which was positioned in the middle of a cluster of them like a web of buildings,
he'd always seen those dystopian cities where there was back to back builings he
never thought he'd live in an area like that
Shake ! Shake! Shake! The sleeping pills in his bag rang out,
The label was written in a mix of English and and Swahili he barely understood
MALEGO: SAA 72 , With this he thought he'd be out for three days as the doctor said,he was still hesitant as it was experimental and the only sleeping pill lasting three whole day in the whole market.
He massaged the bruise
on his thigh from sparring. 'AHHH! That coach always goes hard in sparring' he sighed
out loud. Well, he would prolly get better during this long-awaited slumber .
Entering his house he dropped the groceries on the floor, popping
He popped the cap. One. Two. Three. He swallowed them dry, the chalky bitterness coating his throat. By the time his head hit the pillow, the room was already beginning to stretch and blur, the sounds of the Kenyan street outside fading into a static hum
And then he passed out.