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Rotten life (1)

Timeskip to 5 years later..
And so all those events lead to where I am now, currently my mother is in a coma and my father is in prison and after being forced to change towns I lost all my friends and current status, basically life just became rotten after all that has happen.
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"I'm really sorry!" a part time in the blazing heat, after bowing my head for who knows how many times I passed out due to heat.

I look at my phone to see my manager saying "you had a rough day yesterday, take care for a while."

I scratch my head before going to check the fridge, it was empty and I had no money to buy food I sigh in dissapointment realizing I had to sell my CDs and merchandise,books so I can get money to live.

Realizing that made my heart ache, I look around my room seeing if I can sell something else but then I also realize that my room even lacked a Tv and only had a bed.

I organized all my stuff and put them in a bag on my way to sell them in a local shop.

I arrive at the local bookstore shop
"hello.. I'm here to sell some books"
The old man look at the many stacks of books.

"Are you moving or something?" the old man asked
"no nothing like that." you answered
"then why do something so wasteful?"
"paper doesn't make good for a healthy meal."
"short on cash I see.. well it'll take 30 minutes to evaluate."
after a while I leave the store only to leave with only some few money

as I stood outside counting the money I remember what the man said
"Hey you're hurting for money right?"

"it's nothing new."

"well I don't care how poor you are or why things became that way I'm not interested in those but I just wanna ask you one thing."

"What is it old man?" you replied in a respectful manner.

"would you like to sell some of your lifespan?"

I was stunned for a while not knowing what to say. "lifespan..?"

"yes lifespan but it's not like I'm the one buying it, but I do know that it sells for a hefty amount."

"if you wanna entertain my nonsense visit that place I'll tell you where, you'll see I'm not lying once you get there."

going back to the present you were walking holding your merchandise 
on the way to sell it to another store,
the old man told me that on the fourth
of a nearby building there's a shop that buys your lifespan,
The money you get depends on the person's life.

"listen here, I don't know you that well but you don't look like a bad person and you've got decent taste so I'm assuming your personality is also perhaps okay and your looks is pretty decent even some will say above average."

"those stuff holds many value so you'll probably get a bunch of money from it, and besides lifespan they also buy time and time."

"what's the difference between time and lifespan?"

"i don't know I never sold some myself."

all of it sounds too good to be true, so I think it's only a coping mechanism for the old man nearing his death to cope with.

after a while I arrived at the merchandise store,
selling my stuff to the lady in a cashier uniform

"I don't know who you are but why let go of so many merchandise?"
it was just the same reaction as the old man from earlier, just like before I explained that I need it to buy some food,
"in that case I'll tell you something between us since I really like the stuff you are selling and especially the music album you have good taste,
there's a shop nearby that sells lifespans"
She was basically saying the same thing the old man was, more or less but the man seemed to say more information than this clerk

was this some kind of new insult to make fun of poor people I thought to myself.

"well how much does it give you?"
"can't say the details but here a note that's where the shop is."

needless to say what the lady said and the old man said pointed to the same direction.

I walk back to my apartment after buying some beer and some food, putting It on my fridge I thought about that store but I was pretty tired so I ate food and ate some beer and quickly gone to bed.

tomorrow comes and I do my usual routine I told myself to not go there but in end I found myself infront of that building.

I walk inside the building walking up to the forth floor
"it's not like I believed what they said I just wanna see for myself if it was real, and it seemed that there was some more stuff into this that they weren't telling me or more like something was preventing them from saying the full information."

I knock on the door too see a boy that has green highlights, hair tied he also had some piercing and a diamond tattoo on his forehead.

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He looked to be very handsome
"welcome.
your time?
your health?
or your lifespan?"

I was stunned by a second thinking how it was actually true that someone was willing to buy it.
I gulped before saying

"Lifespan.."