Marriage Contract [ g.d ]

Chapter 2

I had bought an issue of Night-Time Job Search Magazine at the corner store. Holding it in my hand, I was walking toward home. "I have a debt of...$500,000..." I quietly thought to myself. This all happened within the last few days. My father, who had his own business, solemnly broke the news to my mother and I.

"It might be impossible to sustain my business," My father had told me prior.

It was not a very large business, but I thought he was doing reasonably well. After graduating from university, I had started working for a publicity agency as a secretary and was never involved with it. I had no idea that it was in trouble. Honestly, even after he told me he had gone under, I never really understood. However, I did know was that I huge liability of repaying the $500,000.

I was told I had no legal responsibility to repay it, but I refuse to default on the debt. I was an only child, so my parents debt became my debt. Even if I claimed no obligation to repay it, no bank or loan company would accept that.

After explaining the situation to Aaron who I thought of as a boyfriend, he stopped returning my calls. However, I never intended to ask him for money.

I thought about my parents and their unhappiness I heard in their voices every time I called. I took out  the magazine that I had just bought and flipped through a few pages while walking.

"I'll keep my current job, and work at another part time job, even though it is prohibited. I have no other choice." I exclaim into the empty darkness. I take a look at the page I had opened up to. "How about a hostess job? That requires a person who has a nice figure...can I do that?" If I kept questioning myself like this, I would never be able to pay off the $500,000. It was not an exceptionally large amount of money compared to say, $1,000,000. Instead of just thinking about it, I had to do something. "It might be better for me to get a job at a night time construction site, maybe as a traffic guard..."

Bang! Something bumped into me hard and I fell flat on my butt. The magazine flew out of my hands.

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