My birthday’s in 2 days, so I will turn 10 and awaken.

  I can’t wait.

  Awakening comes with my first basic skill, I hope I get something good going into 5th grade...

  I hear them whispering about me… It’s only natural that they know my birthday is coming up.

  “Yo, Jayden! You’re birthday’s tomorrow, right?” Someone asks me.

  “Yeah, I’m so pumped… I know I’ll be a killer next year.”

  “Wish you the best of luck dude!” He says.

  I was feeling confident.

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  Maybe I felt too confident.

  I couldn’t sleep that night... I couldn’t wait for my awakening. I needed to bring the Luo clan to new heights! My future was looking so bright…

  I was blinded and couldn’t see the darkness that truly awaited me.

  I woke up and didn’t feel any different.

  That’s strange, I should be able to sense and take in Shen Qi now…

  I started to panic. No basic skill, no awakening, nothing…

  My dad came in my room.

  “How’s the cultivating going?” He asked.

  I dropped to my knees.

  “Dad.”

  He looked at me, confused.

  “I can’t…”

  “You can’t what, son?”

  “I can’t cultivate…”

  He looked startled.

  “Oh god… let’s go take you to see a doctor…”

  Oh god is right. What did I do to deserve this? I’ve waited all my life for this moment just to crush all my dreams. I was going to be somebody! I had so many expectations placed on me! I can’t let everything slip away like this!

  No….

  I skip school that day.

  “You’re probably just a late bloomer, many people get their awakening many days after their 10th birthday,” the doctor tells me.

  I’m scared for my life. “What if I don’t ever awaken?” I ask him.

  “That has never happened in all of history, you’ll be fine.”

  I might have just made history.

  That night, I read books on how to seem powerful. I don’t get any sleep.