Kale

In my past, I was nothing more than a piece of trash, no more no less. I currently live in this world known as "Earth" but I like to call it hell for the things that had happened to me since birth. You see my name is Kaleana (current age: 24 || age in "My Past" chapter: 22) in and I used to be apart of this wonderful family until "it" happened 2 years ago. Suddenly the ground started shaking and then a huge hole opened up right outside the apartment I lived in, then everything started to sink into the hole and in a matter of minutes, everyone in the whole world had been teleported to this unknown place. Some debris had followed us into the hole and I was laying on the floor with 2 bodies covered in debris and those 2 bodies were my parents. My mom managed to survive but was knocked out but I could not say the same thing for my father. I carried my mother with me to this shrine looking place where I and about 100 other people met 5 men sitting down and drinking tea as if they were waiting for us. The men have told us that we have been transported when this person not to be mentioned guy used up his life doing forbidden magic to summon us here. We were also informed that our whole planet was transported but separated into 11 continents and the population of this place had increased by only 64%! To think this was such a huge planet... Well anyway I asked the 5 men for a doctor and suddenly one of the men cast a green light and it healed mom! But nothing is always free because after my mother was healed she fell into a coma but it was a relief my mother was still alive. The men had informed us that what they had just used on my mother was magic and that it can only be drawn out in dire situations but only very few could use magic without needing to be in a dire situation and they also mentioned something like they were the top 50 strongest people in this world it sounded crazy but I believed them (note: not everyone could use magic on special people can use it but even more special people can use it freely like those 5 men). Then they let us go and live our new life (I also had to carry my mother the whole time too!), I first made a grave for my father and decided to look for a hospital in this ancient-looking city which looked nothing like Korea at all! The place was filled with houses that looked poorly made and shops on charts with leaves as roofs. I found a hospital after 1 hour of searching and carrying my mother for 1 hour made my arms feel numb so I was happy that I finally found one but it was rather small. I asked for help and they said "yes right away" yeah I was relieved but you know what those bastards did? they charged us a daily fee of 50 copper a day my mother stayed, and a fee of 25 copper! I wasn't even told about the money system and I only had won which was pointless here, so I had to look for a job luckily for some reason I could understand how to speak their language, read, and write In it too. I found this job that just had me sell fruits and turns out I get half the pay! But the sad part is not many people buy the fruits because of other people who already sell them (over 20 shops on sight that sells fruit!) so on the first day I barely made the hospital fee leaving me with only 1 copper but the nice lady that ran the stand I worked in gave me some leftover fruit that was going to rot anyways and that lasted me only 1 1/2 days. Now I needed to make 50 copper fast somehow so I begged for high-paying jobs and finally found one! It looked pretty sketchy because it was in an alleyway but who cares? Money is money! I got 1 silver (100 copper) on my first day of the job! I paid mother's hospital daily fee and used my other half of the money for an inn (note: I was sleeping in the streets the day before). Luckily the inn only charged 45 copper per day and 5 copper for 30 minutes at the buffet so I ate and went to sleep. Just when I thought things were getting better the guards came up to my room in the inn and said that I was doing illegal business in the alleyways and you wouldn't believe the confusion on my face for I was still sleeping and the guards had come in at about 3:00 am! I told them that I was working there and didn't do anything illegal but they didn't believe me and took me to jail! I had to stay there for 2 days! Meaning I couldn't pay my mother's daily hospital fee, so I decided to beg the guards for some change for my mother, and finally after 30 minutes one of the guards told me to shut up and paid the hospital 2 days worth of fee (1 silver). After the 2 days, I spent in the cell I thought to myself "what is the best way to make money?" and I had the most amazing idea which was to make bracelets! It was easy and I thought I could make a lot of money off of it, and so I went to buy beads with my leftover money which was 25 copper, and surprisingly you could buy a whole bucket of beads for only 20 copper. Another thing was the string, I needed string to hold the beads together, and luckily I found a cheap string for only 4 copper. I started making the bracelets and used a cloth I had on me to put the bracelets on it, I made a total of 20 bracelets and charged 5 copper per bracelet by the end of the day I made a total of 1 silver because of how strange and colorful my bracelets looked. I went to the hospital and paid my mom's daily fee and went to the inn paid 50 copper for 1 night and 30 minutes for the buffet. The next day was horrible because I had not known about the "protection fee" it's basically a mafia thing were lackeys collect money from you just not to hurt you, those scumbags making me pay half of my earnings! So now that I had to pay my protection fee I had to get other jobs because I knew that bracelets would die out fast and so I also made hats that were cute with the knitting abilities I learned in middle school. I found some really cheap yarn that was really colorful and only 20 copper and about 8 meters long, I brought red, yellow, black, white, and blue. I started to make 40 bracelets and 10 hats (I sold the hats depending on size small = 5 copper, medium = 10 copper, large = 15 copper, extra-large = 20 copper) the hats sold really well and I also made a limited deal to make any type of hat for only 15 copper plus additional fees like size and I would throw in a bracelet of your choice. After one day I made about 3 silvers! I paid my mother's fees and started on a new batch to sell already so I could have some free time tomorrow (current money: 2 silvers and 15,000 won). The next day I paid my protection money (tricked them into paying them only 50 copper) then paid my mother's hospital fee and lastly, sold my items. This cycle had been happening for 1 year until something had happened, my mother passed away. While sobbing as I did with my father, I buried her next to my father's grave. It has been a year since my mother passed and I'm still doing good but I'm barely making ends meet because the protection fee people found out about all the money I had stockpiled and beat me up until I gave it all up and I lost 10 golds (100 silvers = 1 gold) it left me with only 1 silver. What will happen to me now? Find out in the next chapter of Kale!