What Am I?

Chapter Two: Debt

BOBBY

In my sleep I hear howls in the distance and feet running around leaves and mud. I don't know if it was a dream or it was from around the neighborhood.

I woke up at 7 o'clock in the morning to take a bath, after taking a bath. I pat my body dry with my towel and wore my navy blue uniform shirt for the diner and some skinny jeans and my old white converse.

I checked my bag to see if the envelope was still there, 'cause my aunt and her daughter has an itchy hand where they like to get money from me when they see some.

Memories from last night hit me, I lied about my age. I was just 16 years old going 17 in a few weeks so I wrote 17 in the log book, is that so wrong?

Then I suddenly hear someone knocking on my door, "bobby open the door!" My cousin Anna shouts

I took a book from my bookshelf and picked Fifty shades Darker and put my envelope in it. I opened the door and saw her in a baby pink halter top that was cropped and high waisted daisy dukes. Her face is pretty much caked on make up, I mean i'm no expert but doesn't the foundation should be the same as your complexion? Hers was tanner than her actual skin color.

"It's a miracle that you're up at-" i looked at my watch "7:20 in the morning." I said and she rolled her eyes at me.

"Mom asks if you have extra money that i can borrow." She says.

"I don't have extra money." I said.

She grabs my bag violently and searches through it, even in my wallet where she found nothing.

She groans, "I hate my life." She mutters and goes out of my room and I let out a sigh of relief. I put the book in my bag and went up the stairs and out of the house.

I really have to hide the money so they don't dare get anything from me. I will go to Winnie's 24/7 Diner. Which is where I work for 8 hours a day from 3 in the afternoon until 11 in the evening during weekdays and during weekends it's 8 in the morning until 5 in the afternoon.

The pay is great it's twenty dollars and hour. Although it's an eight hour shift it's definitely worth it of course excluding tips! Tips are a bonus.

I've been working for a year now and all I have in my bank account is 10,000 dollars which is an insane amount but it should've been 45,000 by now if it weren't for my money being mysteriously gone and having them borrowed by my Aunt Lucy and my cousin Anna.

I texted Aretha that i'd be late for a few minutes and she replied with an 'Sure! Thanks for covering for me last night!'

I smiled, she's a great boss. She's in her mid 50's and is definitely a kind and generous one at that. She has 3 employees in the diner which was me, gina and manny. You can definitely call us the powerpuff girls- yes manny is gay he was the one who came up with the name.

I went to the bank and had the money counted, "bobby it's five thousand dollars." Said Martha a friend that I have made in the bank ever since I opened up an account. "How much would you like to deposit?"

"I'll deposit the 4,500 " I said.

After that, i put a hundred dollar bill on my pocket and put the other 400 in my book. I usually allow myself to have ten dollars a day as an allowance for me. Which is a big amount that I don't really maximize per day but the remaining money from the 10 dollars a day are used again for the next day's allowance.

I now went to the diner and was happy that I was just in time, " good morning." Aretha greeted.

"Good morning." I smiled.