7 am
parents prepare to leave the house
Marta: Huh? What is this? I remember that I washed all the dishes yesterday, how come the pan is unwashed? Ben, did you cook yesterday?
Ben: Uhm? No I didn't, why you ask?
Marta: Well I thought I washed all the dishes but have forgotten the pan.
Ben: I see, well we are getting older day after day after all, Marta.
(both parents don't even give the thought that Lui cooked for himself)
parents leave the house
8 am
lui wakes up
Huh? Did I sleep too much? checks phone notification
New message from DoctorVader2823
How do you know that?
sees message
So it was his box actually, the one that got sent into our house! Shit, he is even online now. He knows I read his message. I gotta reply. types message
message screen
lonerotaku-v1p: Well I can't tell you how, since it could leak my information, but I will ask you some questions.
doctorvader: It's becoming kinda dark now. I thought we were friends online.
lonerotaku-v1p: Because of that box I went through hell for nothing, so if I can continue the questions.
doctorvader: You went through hell? What do you mean by that? So you received my box?
lonerotaku-v1p: Well yes, somehow I don't even know why it happened.
doctorvader: What city do you live in?
lonerotaku-v1p: That's kinda private I think.
doctorvader: I live in Abra, do you want the street also?
lonerotaku-v1p: Well it seems that we both are in the same city.
doctorvader: Eh, so now how do you know about the box I received? Did you actually take it?
lonerotaku-v1p: Yes, I kinda took it.
doctorvader: Kinda? What you mean by that?
lonerotaku-v1p: I mean I took it.
doctorvader: I see.
doctorvader goes offline
Hmm, I kinda took off with this conversation. Maybe I overdid it by telling him my city and that I received the box. What if he asks the company to reveal to him who took the box before? Though I doubt they would reveal my privacy, I think that's privacy invasion.
sees outside the window
Today the working seems to have stopped, and there doesn't seem to be even that old man neighbor.
sees the garden
No way! rushes to the garden
So now you managed to flower? My beans have flowered somehow, even though they still have most of their leaves eaten here and there by ants. Could they be ready to eat? Heh, I wonder if I can earn any money from those. Hmm maybe I will sell them to earn some money, or maybe leave them for mom and dad to eat.
wind blows lightly
Doctor Vader ,huh, he was in the same city as me. I wonder if he is like me. Does he even go to college? I really am obsessed with college huh. Will I always have it through my life as a hole not filled, the dream of college?
watches the beans
Well I shouldn't judge myself that much. After all doing elementary school, high school, it's like most of my life has been in school so I didn't even know what I should have done when I finished high school. Life isn't easy, hmm.
I wished I could have just gotten a job 5 months ago when I finished high school. At least I could have earned some money from the job, even a little amount could somehow help. But like this, this feeling of parasite just doesn't let go of me.
goes inside house
Hmm hair falling huh? sees himself in a big mirror
I will probably be bald by 20. Um I wonder if I will actually make it by 20.
pulls shirt up
Hm, even my body is getting skinnier and skinnier. I wonder why. I even eat a lot and I don't even workout or do any physical exercise. Could my thinking make me this way? I think a lot don't I? Maybe that is putting me this way.
Should I see any doctor?.... Nah I am okay. I don't wanna make my parents spend useless money for me. I am okay, I am okay.
But I already cost them money. I eat their food, use their electricity, use their food, use their food and many more. And in the end what do they get? A parasite!
directs to himself in the mirror
I hate you! I hate you! You shouldn't even have been born!
door bell rings once
What! Who could be there?!
a small envelope is swiped under the door
Huh? What is this, a message?
inspects the envelope but it says nothing on the outside
Should I even open it? Maybe it's for mom and dad?
decides to open it anyway
tear sound of the paper
Huh? These are bills unpaid! They haven't paid this month but why?
lui becomes shocked
Could mom and dad not afford to pay bills? And the piece of shit me is staying here wasting the electricity and all.
lui rushes to every room or appliance using electricity and turns them off and unplugs them all, every light everything except the fridge
I should do something about the bills. I want to help but how? I don't have any job or any income. What can I do to help them out? None of my online business has made me any money.
Which could be the fastest way to get money? starts thinking
Well there is one, but I don't like that one and always wanted to stay away from it. But is there really no other way this time? Seeing the bills unpaid really makes it worse. I gotta help somehow.
I will just try it only once. I know that if I win I will get addicted to it, but may end up with more losses rather than winning. This really gotta be only short term.
lui takes his phone
Oh! I unplugged internet too.
rushes and plugs the internet back into the wall
the whole room was dark, only the light from Lui's phone could be seen
I am sorry mom and dad, I didn't want to take this road but I gotta do it this time.
lui hesitates but still presses the phone
Your betting account has been credited with 25$. Your new balance is 10$.