The Girl.

Nina's new business .

Two days after lending the Bustamantes money for their washing machine , Chucho realized that it was about time go and ask for the money he owed them , getting to the orange house's door , he knocked, Miguel who was reading a newspaper went to the door to see who was at the door .

"Oh how are you Mr Chucho?" Miguel wondered whether he's paying for a visit or he's lending them more money . "What are you doing here early this morning ?"

"Have you already forgotten Mr Miguel , it's been two days and your mind has gone somewhere else , well I will remind you , you came to my house and asked for some money to buy a washing machine and now am here for my money ." Chucho looked pretty comfortable with his demand .

"Like you've said , it's been two days , I can not have gathered all that money within two days , I haven't even got a job , it's not possible to raise all that money within the two days you're talking about , so give me more days , I will get you your money ."

"Look here Mr Miguel, I gave you my money in good faith , so I want my money in a similar way , don't complicate the matter , all I want is my money ," he insisted .

"I understand but what am trying to say is that , give me more days , I will get you your money without any complications you're talking about ."

"Okay, here is the deal , this weekend am coming back , make sure you get me something , I wouldn't like to leave without anything just like how am going to do right now ," he turned around to leave after realizing he won't get a thing from the man .

Mr Miguel went back inside the house and explained to the rest who was at the door , and what he wanted , Ms Meriya told him that it was a bad idea for him to borrow the money from the man , she warned them when Nina brought up the idea, the man seemed to be an extortionist , it wasn't making any sense that he was asking for his money just after two days , it was pretty ridiculous for Ms Meriya .

When Fiona got to know that her father borrowed money from a man who seemed to be an extortionist in order to buy for her mother a washing machine , it reminded her the day when the commander sent her with her comrades to pick money from a shop attendant in Ciudad bolivar , a slum in Bogota where she parted from her comrades Patrick and Marcus , she remembered how tough she was on the man and from that man who she last extorted , her life turned around when she was arrested by the military police.

"Father , don't let that man mistreat you next time , pay that money when you really have it , you are not going to rob a bank or something just to pay him , he has to give you enough time, next time he comes back , you let me know , I will tell him what he wants to hear ." Fiona was sure she should have done something if she'd known what had brought the man to their house, she knows how to put people like Chucho in their places .

"No violence Fiona ," her mother urged .

"No mom, I just know how to deal with people like this ."

"Okay, okay guys." Monica thought of adding something to the conversation . "I don't see the importance of this machine , we use it for a few hours and leave it , why would Ramon's father become a bother to us, we can simply give him the machine ."

"That's not how it works Monica ," her father objected .

"Have you just said for a few hours ?" Something came up in Nina's mind .

"Yes, so what ?" Monica replied .

"What do you have in mind Nina?" Fiona noticed her thoughtful younger sister was up to something.

"If you notice , few or almost none of the people in this neighborhood have a washing machine, " she began narrating what she had in mind . "Monica says that we use our machine for a few hours , if we can ask the people in this neighborhood to use our machine for the rest of the hours or one hour for every neighbor , we can earn a lot of money to pay Mr Chucho the thief ."