Chapter 1: My Name Is Ethan Vend (Arc: Rookie Boy)

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CHARACTER'S NAME: ETHAN VEND, CREDIT: https://www

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CHARACTER'S NAME: ETHAN VEND, CREDIT: https://www.zerochan.net/1885794

"Hi, my name is Ethan Vend, I'm seventeen and I live in Houston in the state of Texas. And today is my eighteenth birthday and what a beautiful morning it is. And I was enjoying the smell of roasted coffee beans early in the morning at the nearby coffee shop ten meters away. In my hand is the sandwich I saved last night for breakfast this morning."

Ethan was a young guy, he had short messy black hair and blue eyes. He wore a white shirt and dark blue jeans with a few rips, beside him was a brown backpack containing some of his belongings such as clothes, toothbrush and ID card. He was sitting on a park bench, next to a tree branch hung his dry pants and this was probably where he slept last night.

"Ah, what a wonderful Wednesday morning, maybe I have to go to work."

Ethan stood up and was about to get his pants to put away but suddenly a homeless guy ran over and snatched them away. Ethan whispered in tears:

"That's the third pair of pants this month."

Then Ethan packed his stuffs and went to work, he walked comfortably and happily in the streets, surrounded by business people looking busy and busy with their work. Ethan whistled with excitement for something new today. Everyone thought he was just a positive young man with a great future and career, he might be studying at some prestigious university. But no, he stopped in front of a McDonald's restaurant and he said:

"A new day at the workplace, great!"

Ethan entered the staff room at the back door, he quickly changed into a staff uniform and went to the cashier to serve customers. He smiled brightly and said:

"Welcome to McDonald's, what can I do for you?"

His shift started at eight o'clock in the morning until twelve o'clock. His main job was helping customers order food, clean the table and take out the trash. Everything would be fine until a kid ate a burger and got dirty all over the table and their parents whistled as if ordering Ethan to clean up the trash. But he still didn't complain and worked diligently to clean up the mess. After a boy's birthday, Ethan dressed up as a clown to have fun with the kids. But his parents ordered a game to beat the clown, so the kids picked up plastic baseball bats and beat Ethan a lot. When Ethan took off the mask he had a headache and a nosebleed, but he still smiled lightly.

"Yes, that's my job. I dropped out when I was in 9th grade, the knowledge I learned through was useless. Then I worked part-time to pay for medicine for my grandmother, my only family. She had Alzheimer's and heart disease when I was in eighth grade, and when she went to the hospital, I knew I had to do something to make money right away, so I dropped out."

Ethan put back on staff clothes and took the trash bag outside to take out the trash.

"I've been doing everything I can for the past three years, but her illness hasn't gone away. So I have to work harder to get more money for her medicine."

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