[ WP ] You receive a second chance at something that has haunted you your entire life .

I opened the door of the old caravan and gazed in front of me, sitting on the pavement was my step father. There he sat, underneath a streetlamp, staring into the darkness of the night. He was just as I remembered. The air was chilling but the grass emitted a sweet, petrichor smell. Fuck. Just staring at him caused my stomach to churn. His diseased body chugging down a bottle of beer like an obese pig. Now was my chance to fix everything, to make everything right. To avenge both the horrors me and my brother faced. 
 
 
 I recall everything that happened this night, the screams, the cries, the sirens. After it was all over, the doctors replied a careless `` sorry'' and poof! My brothers body was thrown into a coffin and buried underground, discarded like trash. Of course my stepfather faced jail time, so fucking what? He murdered my brother and was n't killed himself? How the fuck is that even close to justice? How is that fair? I held my breath but I could feel the rage welling up. He still sat there, unmoving, beer bottle in hand. I clenched the handle of the hammer and slowly began to move towards him. 
 
 
 `` Stephan'' he said, he did not turn around. I froze, the hammer still behind my back. `` I know you're there,'' his head slowly turned around. His face shone under the streetlamp, this was the face that murdered my brother, the face that haunts my dreams. Rage consumed me, I wanted to charge at him and smash his head, this son of a bitch is a cold blood murderer, he deserved a fate worse than death. `` I know why you're here, here to kill me, right? You're here to avenge your brother, the night that you ran away as I -'' `` I did not run away you fucking piece of shit!'' I began to charge towards him until I realized what he said, he knew I came back, he knew what I was going to do. I stopped dead in my tracks. `` How the fuck did you know, how the fuck did you know what I was going to do'' I whispered. 
 
 
 He turned his body back to his original position and faced the abyss of night. `` Y'know Stephan, you are n't the only one who participated in this `` second chance'' experiment.'' He drew in a deep breath before continuing. `` Life is a strange thing, before this was invented, mistakes would go down embedded into you, your future, everything was based on your history and what you did and you could n't escape it. And now this! This new invention! They nicknamed this the `` Happiness Device'' because it did the unthinkable, it was able to change things, to cheat.'' He closed his eyes. `` I've been a terrible fucking person, Stephan, not only to you and your brother. After tonight, my life was a complete disaster. Jail, debt, abuse, everything was put on me. I'm not asking for your sympathy, I do n't deserve it, but I want to make things right.'' He slowly got up and turned to face me. `` Stephan, I'm so sorry about what I did to your brother, please, kill me.'' I staggered backwards, no, I could n't trust this man, he's lying, he was still going to murder my brother, just his excuses, excuses, excuses. I slowly approached him and drew the hammer from behind my back. He closed his eyes, a tear trickled down his wrinkled face as the face of the hammer came crashing down into his skull. 
 
 Weeks, months, years pass. A different nightmare haunts my dreams now, not the one where I run away from my stepfather, but the one in which I run away from myself.
