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Chapter 5: Chapter 4

During class Benjamin had the unfortunate pleasure of learning what happens when Jack the Ripper was bored. The Victorian Killer spent the day invisibly sitting on his head making random comments.

For the most-part it was talking about the pseudoscience of phrenology, how drugs could be used to treat mental illness, how morphine was a panacea, and why knifing your rivals in the gut and hiding the body in the nearest river was the easiest way to get true love. That and terrible jokes.

"So the maître de asked me how I liked my steak and I said, 'just like I like my women, bloody and with knives in them!'" Jack laughed. "And another time I was talking to a vampire and he said 'man I need a bite to eat,' so I ripped his jaw off and handed it to him."

Why'd he do all of that? Because he had nothing better to do.

Benjamin sighed and stood up. "Teacher can I go to the bathroom?"

Your teacher, who Jack kept saying had nice legs, blinked. "Umm," She checked her notes. "Benjamin you may go to the bathroom."

As soon as she was done speaking to him, class resumed as if Benjamin did not exist. He easily walked past everyone else in class and made his way to the restroom.

Once in the stall Benjamin looked at Jack. "What the fuck man?"

The spirit shrugged. "Bored."

His eye twitched. "I am certain life will be much easier for both of us if you don't jerk my chain for no good reason."

The spirit made a top hat appear and looked inside of it. "As long as you keep me entertained after class."

"Psycho," Benjamin groaned.

Jack smirked. "Says a guy who blackmails people because he has nothing better to do."

"I only blackmail people with things I can actually blackmail with, not innocent people…which there aren't really much of," Benjamin noted.

Jack laughed. "Oh really, that is your justification. You are a common criminal."

"Better than a psychopath who butchers prostitutes for what reason exactly?" Benjamin retorted.

Jack the Ripper blinked. "Umm….not sure actually. I have met other versions of me in the multiverse. One is just the legend itself, one was two people, a death god that liked red things and killing people working with a female doctor who was barren and hated her victims because they had abortions. Both were really crazy, I mean seriously the death god kept trying to seduce a demon who only cared about eating souls and was working for a little kid. There is also creepy zombie vampire me, creepy Edward Scissorhands me, and creepy loli who is the embodiment of all of the suffering of kids in the Victorian era me who wants to crawl back inside of her mother's room."

Benjamin stared. "What the fuck man?"

"Yeah it is a crazy multiverse. As for why I did it? I was a doctor self-medicating my mental problems with cocaine. People thought cocaine was a miracle drug, seriously up until the after the 50s people were putting the stuff in headache medicine and soda telling everyone it would cure their headaches and calm down their hyperactive children," Jack replied. "So I think we can both learn a lesson from that."

Benjamin really hated this conversation so far. "Do not give dangerous people with mental illnesses cocaine and other dangerous drugs?"

"I was going to say hugs not drugs actually," Jack replied.

Benjamin sighed. "Sure that too, and can we never speak of this? Just never again, for all time."

Jack shrugged. "Okay kiddo, just make sure to get a girlfriend by the end of your time in high school or else I will tell even worse jokes and stories for the rest of your life!" The ghost disappeared.

Oh crap.

With his curse of being a background character who is constantly forgotten by everyone but his own parents how was Benjamin supposed to do that?

If he had it any worse, his own parents would not have attended his own birth!

In that moment Benjamin made a vow to himself. He would steal the title of protagonist from someone out there so that he could avoid Jack's terrible jokes. This you swore!

Someone in the next stall yelled at him. "Stop talking to yourself ya' crazy bastard!"

Protagonist always had weird personalities right? So he were off to a good start.


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