[ CW ] Write a story that begins with `` I should n't have said [ yes/no ] to [ him/her . ] ''

“ I should not have said no ” He said as he fell back into a tremulous sleep. 
 
 There it was. So close. So perpetually close to poor Alex. The pigment of his hopes and aspirations, all locked away in this dream in front of him. He slept, woke, and slept again, in broken cycles, just waiting for the perfect prize. However, just like a blind man in an uncontested race, he was never destined for glory. The sweet, succulent, glory. 
 
 Opportunity kept knocking on his daunted door, but, he never quite answered it often enough. He played his hand at Russian Roulette, lucky not to lose there. He scrapped a pass in his final exams, another bullet dodged. He participated in sports, never to compete due to his fear of defeat off the high horse. Poor Alex lived a luscious life, absorbed by the rich fruits of luck. At least, for the most part anyways. 
 
 His killer instinct was always there, in theory: accumulated, inflated, theory. He woke again in a fit of screams and tears. Palms sweat soaked, arms antique, mind mangled. Poor Alex's mentality, was mentally broken. The girl that asked him out, now dead. Why did he say no? 
 
 There it was: Her message, laying bare, on his computer screen. He touched it. She was still dead. The noose on Alex's tear hydrant was broken, forever free flowing. 
 
 “ The noose... I should not have said no ” He whispered, as he lay back to yet another foreboding dream. 
 
 
 

