You are a strawman, a character created in order to demonstrate how one bad choice in middle school can send your whole life spiraling out of control. But don't blame yourself. The author really stacked the deck against you. The thing that you supposedly love to do best is something we never get to see you do, or even express an opinion on. If video games are your great joy, why don't we ever get any insight into that? Likewise, the girl that matters so much to you, that you'd really like to get to know? Well, the author doesn't even let you listen to a single word she says when she does talk to you. So it turns out that there is no joy in your life at all, you're bright and bored because the author has sent you to loser high school where the teachers are slack and bored themselves and less knowledgeable than you are. Unlike the famous Holden Caulfield, who was also pretty disgusted with his life, antidepressants could help you, but no one appears to ever consider it, including the therapist you're forced to go to for your anger issues.

So your set up is grim from the very beginning, and then, as if that wasn't enough, the author of your cautionary tale sets you up against a SPOILER that has uncanny power to destroy. You are totally screwed, dude. I wouldn't bother to show up.

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