Kasper stared at the man infront of him.He had eye bags under his eyes ,his hair and clothes were messy ,and he had an over grown dirty looking mustache.His hands were jittery and his red, sickly looking eyes kept darting everywhere nevously.
"Do you have it?" the man asked in a raspy voice with clear anticipation in his eyes.Kasper wordlessly handed over the bag full of drugs to which the man possesively grabbed out of his hands and looked at it obsessively."Where's my money?" Kasper asked with a raised eyebrow.Coming out of his hypnotic state the man gave a silent "oh" before reaching into his back pocket of his baggy pants and taking out a large dirty looking envelope.As they were deep into an deserted alley way no one saw this exchange.
Not even glancing a the man's dirty, grubby fingers Kasper grabbed the envelope greedily.With no other purposes the unknown man happily left with his bag in his hands leaving a a delighted Kasper to silently count his money.
Kasper had been a beggar ever since he was born ,as his mother was beggar who got pregnant by another beggar.Kasper never saw his father and grew up with his mother who was mercilessly killed in a car accident when he was five.The driver of the car who had run her over had hurriedly driven away and because of excessive blood loss his mother had died on the spot.Since then he had been fending for himself.
He learned how to fend and fight for himself and now almost every beggar on their street knows not to mess with him.He also like many other beggars ran errands for gangs to get a little more money in their pocket.
Kasper did this alot and although the money he got wasn't enough get him off the streets he still had enough to buy at least one bowl ramen a week at the convenience store. As the money the beggars got from this was very very little ,this was all he could afford.It was better than eating out of the garbage dumpsters though.
One of the gangs who Kasper had done a hundreds errands for had decided to be very generous and told him that he could take all the money in the envelope this time with the price of only working for them in the future.Kasper had ofcourse readily agreed. He had nothing to lose anyway.
That brings us to this situation of Kasper greedily and ruthlessly tearing open the tightly closed envelope.It finally tore open when he noticed blood using from his dirty thumb,this made him pause for a second.'It must have been cut when I was trying to open the envelope ' he thought to himself silently.Ignoring it ,Kasper quickly began to count his money only to pause in his actions.
He couldn't count!For a beggar like him who had grown up on the streets since he was baby ,don't even talk about counting he couldn't even write his name if he wanted to.Shaking his head at his own stupidity,Kasper got up and placed his money in an old plastic bag he found nearby.The envelope was completely destroyed in his excitement to open it up .
Walking out of the alleyway he made sure to be observant as he looked around every now and then . He clutched his money bag tightly.Although other beggars knew not to mess with him ,their were other stronger beggars around here that might just choose him as their next unfortunate victim.
Finally reaching the convenience store he quickly made his way inside.The owner ,a kind old lady and the only worker in the store saw him and quickly called him over.
"Kasper , My dear boy did you come to by ramen again?" Kasper nodded and gave her the familiar set of bills that she had previously showed him was the standard amount for one bowl ramen.
The old lady came back with the ramen which came in a bowl.She then went to fetch hot water after and poured it in and gave Kasper a fork to eat it with. Taking the bowl of ramen Kasper quickly thanked her and made his way 'home'.
Which was inside a huge deep hole underneath an old demolished house which the government had forgotten about .He quickly crawled in and dragged the the large dumpster infront of the entrance before making his way in.
Carefully slumping down on the coarse yet warm blankets he then began happily eating.While eating he couldn't help but glance at his painfully aching thumb every now and then.After eating he then took off his old shirt as he was feeling hot.'Maybe it's because I just ate something hot ' he thought as he began to observe his painfully aching thumb.
He looked a bit closer and realized that it was infected.He blinked at the realization before he noticed he was getting hotter.
The next thing he noticed was the weakness taking over his body.He quickly looked for a bottle of water and washed his hands, he then bandaged the injured thumb carefully.He then wetted a small piece of folded cloth and placed it on his forehead and then made himself comfortable as he got ready to go to bed.
He was sure by tomorrow the fever would go down and he would be good as new,he had after all suffered worse than this.Closing his eyes Kasper soon fell a sleep.
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"So hot" Kasper murmured dazedly.He felt incredible hot and uncomfortable,he weakly moved his arms to search for a bottle of water to quench his parched throat but failed.He weakly laid there as he felt a comfortable darkness sweep him away.His breathing became short and uncomfortable but it soon stopped bothering him as he went deeper into the comfortable darkness,untill, finally he fell into sweet, sweet sleep.
He slept for a long time,that much Kasper was sure of .One moment he would open his eyes to complete darkness and the next he would be falling back to sleep as he just felt so sleepy!This happened many times until Kasper stopped trying forcefully awaken himself and just decided to sleep.His muddled brain during this time thought he was just dreaming and everything would go back to normal when he woke up.
After many years had gone by Kasper finally woke up .He at first looked around before he noticed a light . Thinking it was sunlight shining through the opening of his little 'house' ,in his now half asleep state, he went towards it.
It was only when he was infront of the light did he noticed something was wrong,but by then it was too late .Before he could react,he was swallowed whole by the shining light.