Argh... What time is it?
I sheepishly sat on the bed and looked at the clock.
It's 10 A.M.
Getting up from my bed, I make my way towards the door.
But not after taking a glance at the suitcase placed at the side of my bed did I stepped out of the room.
Once I was at the living room, I can see my sister slumped on the couch, watching tv.
Probably hearing me go outside, she looked up from her couch and stared at me.
"Good morning" She greeted me.
"Good morning too" I greeted back as i make my way towards the kitchen.
"Your food's ready so don't you worry." she added.
I nodded at her words as I finally arrived at the kitchen.
Staring at the bowl of Soup placed on the table before me, I then begin to make my way towards it.
Sitting on the chair, I can already tell the food's been cooked a few hours ago since It's already cold.
Better than nothing.
I began to dig in on the food, even it's cold, the food's still delicious.
Yum Yum Yum.
After finishing, I began to head towards the bathroom.
Glancing at my sister, I can see her getting up from the couch and waking towards the kitchen, probably to clean my dishes.
What a lovely and responsible sister.
Unlike me...
Shaking the thoughts away, I opened the door to the bathroom and headed inside.
I make my way towards the sink and began to prepare brushing my teeth.
As I slowly placed the toothpaste on the brush, I suddenly notice myself staring at myself in the mirror.
Look how handsome you are.
Doing a small wink, I began brushing my teeth.
After a minute of brushing, I'm finally done and headed towards the shower.
Taking my clothes off, I turned the switch on and the hot water from the shower immediately sprayed down at me.
Mnh~ This feels good.
Smiling, I began to rub both soap and water in my entire body.
After I'm finished, I began to let the shower do it's work in cleansing my body from the bubbly soap and shampoo, and once I'm finished, I stepped outside and wipe my body using a towel that was hanged on a hook on the side.
Wrapping my lower half with the towel, I picked my previous clothes with me and stepped outside, seeing my sister still occupied at washing the dishes, I began to make my way towards my room.
Once I'm inside my room, I then locked the door and started changing into my new clothes, a yellow track jacket and black tight jeans as my pants.
I then threw my laundry towards a bucket placed at the right corner of my room.
Once I'm fully ready, I stepped outside of my room and went towards my sister.
"Hey, sis" I called out.
She turned from washing her dishes and looked at me.
"Yo, how's it going?" she asked.
"Fine, you?"
"Absolutely fine" I frowned at this, but didn't spoke anything about it.
"So, any word from our mom?" I asked.
"Nope, she's probably working right now, too busy to call us."
"I see"
"Yeah"
"Ima head out"
She looked at me with amusement.
"Now that I notice it, it seems you're going outdoors lately now, compared to your shut-in preferences in the past, did something happen, or... or is it my dear Albert has finally made some new friends and is now going out with them?" she exclaimed happily.
"What?... no, it's just Kevin." I stated.
"Hehehhe, but atleast you're now improving." she lightly punches me in the shoulder.
Yeah, all because of you.
"Okay okay okay, Ima go now, take care of yourself, bye!" I said before walking away from her.
"You too, bye!" I found myself in front of my room's door, opening the handle, I stepped inside and walked towards the suitcase, but not before locking the door.
Opening the suitcase, I grabbed a few packs of cracks with me and pocketed it.
Here we go again.
Walking towards the door, I opened it and went straight towards the apartment's door.
Opening it, I stepped outside and began walking down the hall.
So where the hell am I going to sell this thing?
In some random alleyway? In Jessie's club? or....or in my school?
Ughh... Too many options.
In this situation, I have to choose the option with the lowest risk.
But it also comes with consequences, like when you do business in some random alleyway, the risk of you getting caught is very low, but the customers your going to get are very few, not all homeless people got money on them, and surely most of them don't do drugs, save for alcoholic drinks.
But in the school, the chance of you getting caught by teachers or being snitched by other students is very high, but your going to get a lot of customers.
I can't choose this two options, my only last bet is Jessie's club, you can run your operations there secretively without anyone snitching on you, I mean.. what kind of drunk guys in their right mind would snitch on people that could potentially give them pleasures of life.
It's easy to convince hammered people to buy your products.
But I'm not going to do everything alone, I'll have Kevin help me out in attracting more customers, oh wait, there's also Andrew who can help advertise my products, I'll just have to pay him a good sum of money.
But, there's also another thing to worry about.
Once my goods have all been sold, where the hell am I going to get new ones?
Oh well, it's no use worrying about things now.
For now, I'll slowly start building up my foundation.
Arriving at the lobby, the reception greeted me, to which I also greeted back.
Walking towards the apartment's main door, I stepped outside.
And once again, I was met with the busy street of New Arbor city.
People walking everywhere, vehicles speeding down the road, and the occasional arguments and fights in the distance.
Such is a life here in this city.
Walking down the sidewalk, I opened the phone Anna had lent me.
Dialing Kevin's number, I brought the phone up in my ears.
After a few seconds of ringing, I finally heard an audible click and a voice behind the phone.
"Yo, Albert? this you?" Kevin asked through the phone.
"Meet me in Jessie's club at exactly noon." I said.
"H-Hey, wha-" Before he could respond, I immediately ended the call and brought the phone back in my pocket.
Gotta do your job.
Calling over a cab, I wait for a few seconds until the cab is in front of me.
"Miriam street, Jessie's club." I said to the driver as I got inside.
the driver nodded before driving the cab towards my destination.
After twenty minutes of slouching on the backseat, the cab finally dropped me in front of a small club, my destination, Jessie's club, is actually different from the disco bar I've went to the other day.
Paying the driver his tip through the windows, I strolled towards the club's entrance, even though it's still noon, I can already hear the boombox music inside.
I thought all clubs are only supposed to be this loud at night? It's crazy!
Walking inside, I was suddenly stopped by a fat bouncer in black sweaters.
"Fee" he asked.
What? fee? this goddamn hippo, I'm already short right now.
"How much?" I asked.
"Twenty dollars"
F*cking shit, this club is actually extorting me.
Giving him most of the money I had on me, I was finally allowed inside.
Stepping inside, the loud music and the people dancing to their heart's content immediately greeted me.
Looking around, I spot Kevin on the bar counter, he had a red polo shirt and black pants on him, smoking and drinking.
Walking towards him, I pat him on the shoulder, Surprising and scaring him.
"Oh god, you scared me!" he placed his left hand on his chest as he smiled at me.
Sitting on the vacant stool besides him, he extends his already lit cigarette on me.
Accepting it, I took a small puff before handing it back over at him again.
Damn sweet.
"So why you called me here?" Kevin went immediately to the main topic.
I slowly revealed a small pack of cracks hidden beneath my track jacket to him.
"You said you wanted work." I said.
"Yeah?"
"Help me sell this shit, I'll share the profits with you, I promise." I whispered.
"W-What, why? I mean, you can count on me to shut up and just watch from the sidelines, but actual work? hell no." he raised his hands against me.
"You punk, do you still remember your debts?!" I placed my hands on his shoulder.
"O-Oh"
"Yeah, thousand dollars, see how big it is?"
"Fine"
"Bastard, you're even lucky I'm going to share my profits with you." I grabbed the glass of beer in front of him and gulped the whole thing in one go.
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CHAPTER DONE!