Zachary Milton, High school Senior

The day my life turned upside down was the day I found that damn ring.

I had just woken up from a nice wet dream of the cheerleaders giving me a personal shower in the locker room using only their breasts when my DAMN ALARM woke me up. I was so mad that I grabbed and pelted it across the room.

I groaned to myself as the muscles in my back ached as I brought myself up from the confines of my bed. The purple sheets shedding off of me like an old skin revealing me to be in my boxers.

Planting my feet on the floor, I felt a strange blocky shape impact the bottom of my foot. Looking down, I saw it was indeed a black box with weird veins of red across it. It looked as though it was made of some sort of stone.

Picking it up confirmed my suspicions as it felt solid and was cold to the touch. I was nervous that this was a prank by my twin sister, but I through caution to the wind and opened the damn box.

Inside was a folded piece of paper and a glowing purple ring. The ring looked to be made of some glass material and felt warm to the touch when I went and picked it up.

The note looked to be of some importance, so I decided against my better judgement and read it.

‘Dear Zachary Milton

You are in possession of a powerful artifact that can change the world around you, although it comes at a cost. Once you put on the ring, the people around you can change things about you in a single sentence. Even simple questions asked can result in completely different answers. Once worn, the ring cannot be taken off unless a more powerful object is applied.

If you want your life to become very different, then wear the ring.

Sincerely, The Constructs of Eternity’

…

Yeah…

That was an obvious load of crap.

But… wanting to play along with whatever this is… I decided to put the ring on.