Scary Short Stories

19. Colour of Life (snippet)

Everyone loves the first day of school, right? New year, new classes, new friends. It's a day full of potential and hope, before all the dreary depressions of reality show up to ruin all the fun.

I like the first day of school for a different reason, though. You see, I have a sort of power.

When I look at people, I can...sense a sort of aura around them. A colored outline based on how long that person has to live.

Most everyone I meet around my age is surrounded by a solid green hue, which means they have plenty of time left. A fair amount of them have a yellow-orangish tinge to their auras, which tends to mean a car crash or some other tragedy. Anything that takes people "before their time" as they say.

The real fun is when the auras venture into the red end of the spectrum, though. Every now and again I'll see someone who's basically a walking stoplight. Those are the ones who get murdered or kill themselves. It's such a rush to see them and know their time is numbered.

With that in mind, I always get to class very early so I can scout out my classmates' fates. The first kid who walked in was basically radiating red. I chuckled to myself. Too damn bad, bro. But as people kept walking in, they all had the same intense glow.

I finally caught a glimpse of my rose tinted reflection in the window, but I was too stunned to move. Our professor stepped in and locked the door, his aura a sickening shade of green. It was almost as if it was shining out of him.

I looked at him in disbelief. What did that even mean... How was his so... green?!

I looked around me again and saw the others auras getting a deeper and deeper red as soon as the professor walked in. It looked as if there life was getting sucked out of them.

That's when I noticed something...

The professors aura was getting more green by the second.

A/n: comment what you think that means :D

Also... That seemed like a really good story idea. What do you guys think... Should I turn that into an actual full on story? Not with the same things happening (with the professor and all) but just with that aura seeing idea thingy. Would that be interesting? Let me know!!

Note: I just thought of another thing, if I do decide to make that into a whole story, that could be like the little "sneak peak" into what it will be about. Hehehe

Update: this is currently being turned into a book by me. Hope y'all will read it when its finished I'm putting a lot of effort into this haha