My Childhood Friend Is the Lord God

Blurb 1: I’m sixteen this year, an utterly ordinary middle school student living in an utterly ordinary little town. I have an ordinary, loving family, and my grades have been average for as long as I can remember. At a school full of superpowered academic slackers, universally adored top students, and saviors from other worlds, I’m definitely the most forgettable kind of NPC student. All I want is to get through high school without any fuss, then move straight on to that perfectly ordinary university. Unfortunately, I have an extremely extraordinary childhood friend. He’s handsome, cool, cocky, and incredibly powerful. He can take down the most devastating disasters with a flick of his finger. Everyone at school calls him the Main God: the all-powerful god who controls everything. But I really don’t like him. He’s been taking advantage of me since we were kids. I’ve done everything from waking him up and making him breakfast, to lending him my shoulder to sleep on, to being dragged along to a really boring amusement park. I’ve lost count of how many times. Oh, and his blood has ruined my clothes more times than I can count. That stuff is really hard to wash out, you know. But when he confessed to me beneath a flower tree, its branches swaying in the starlight, I still said yes. Heh, the stars must have been especially enchanting that night. It definitely wasn’t because I liked him. Then one day, he died. He was killed by a godslayer from another world. The night he died, the earth shook and thunder roared beneath torrential rain, as if the world were coming to an end. But the sun still rose the next morning, and I went on with my university life as usual. It’s not like I liked him, so how could I possibly have been so heartbroken that I almost died? Days passed like this. The world remained lively, and I remained utterly ordinary. One evening, out of nowhere, I decided the world was a little boring. So when a car came speeding toward me, I didn’t dodge. As I closed my eyes, I wondered whether something like the Main God got to have an afterlife. If there was one, I wanted to meet him again. But I didn’t die after all. I opened my eyes and found myself back at sixteen, in the year the godslayer came to our school pretending to be an ordinary student. I shot upright in bed and looked at his face beside me, both strange and familiar, both boyish and beautiful. I couldn’t stop crying. But that guy was just as awful as ever. I was crying, and he still pinched my cheek and called me an idiot. Blurb 2: God loves the world because He loves you. Notes: - Couple: Luo Cheng (top) x Jiang Huan (bottom) - The main story is told in third person. - They only define their relationship after they’re adults. - There are Lovecraftian elements, but since the story is lighthearted and everyday in tone, which doesn’t fit the Lovecraftian atmosphere, I haven’t added a Lovecraftian tag. - Hope you enjoy reading! (bows) Posted on 2023.06.08 Theme: Promoting truth, kindness, and beauty