Chapter 1: An Adverting Leaflet
“Yes! Yes! Come on! Come on!” screeched Mike as he stood among with others within a bookies. Mike has placed a bet on a horse who he hoped would win him big.
“Yes! Yes!” shouted Mike as he saw that his horse was taking the lead. “Yes come on girl! You can do it” shouted Mike as he saw that his horse was about to jump over the last fence.He face turn pale when he saw that the horse he betted on fell
over, the jockey went flying off. “NOOOO!” screamed Mike as he covered his face. “Ooh, sorry about that mate” said one of the people that saw his reaction.
“GRR...what ever man” snapped Mike as he screwed his betting slip. “Erm...Mike” spoke a woman that stood behind the betting counter. Mike looked at the woman whom had long blond hair and wore glasses. “What?” snapped Mike as he looked at her. “Don’t speak with that tone towards me, anyway Mike” said the woman as she looked at him with an annoyed look on her face.
“Yes, sorry...sorry” said Mike as he calmed down. “Now that’s more like it. Now then, that will increase the amount of money you own the bookies” said the woman as she wrote the amount that Mike needs to pay back. She showed him a piece of paper that has the new amount. “Dam it!” said Mike under his breath as he saw how much he needs to pay back. “I’m sorry Mike but I just cannot extend the due date. He will find out about it within time” said the woman. “Don’t worry Lauren...I will get it back before then” said Mike as he hung his head as he walked out of the bookies.
He walked down the streets and threw his betting slip onto the floor. Placed his hands in his pockets and looked around to see where he would wonder into next. Mike saw the local pub and all of a sudden he felt thirsty. With that Mike took out his wallet and saw that he had only a fiver left. “That’s enough for a pint” said Mike to himself as he made his way over to the pub called ‘The Toby’.As he entered, Mike saw that the pub was pretty much empty; its customers were only that of three young women.
“Ooh, finally a man at long last” said Mary, the bar maid as she smiled at Mike. “Not very busy” said Mike back as he looked back at the three women. Each of them looked at Mike and then back to each other and laughed.“Tell me about” said Mary as she shook her head with a smile.
“Pint of Strongbow please” said Mike as he rested his elbows onto the counter. “Take it that it was a hard day” said Mary. “You could say it like that” said Mike as he looked at Mary getting a glass and pouring Strongbow into. “Here you go” said Mary as she slid the glass over him. Mike took out his last fiver and handed it over to her. “Hmm, something tells me that you need this” said Mary as she passed the fiver back to him.
“Oh...thank you” said Mike as he smiled at her.With that Mike began to drink his pint of Strongbow. As he was drinking it, he heard the sound of the women laughing. He looked over his shoulder and saw that the three women looked over at him and then back to each other. “Looks to me that you got some fans” said Mary as she saw the same thing. “You think? Look at them, they look like top business women feel towards them and look at me” said Mike as he looked back at Mary.
“Hay, don’t be like that. What job you do isn’t what’s important” said Mary as she tried to cheer him up.“Easy said for you, I’m a jobless man that owns lots of people money” said Mike as he took a deep breath. As Mike took another sip of his pint when one of the three of three women walked up to the bar.Mike looked at the woman and saw she has short ginger hair. The woman smiled at him and said, “Hello Mike” “I’m sorry but have we met?” asked Mike as he looked at her and saw that she looked somewhat familiar to him.
“Why I’m hurt Mike after everything we’ve been through” answered the woman as she giggled a little. “I’m really sorry but I don’t know you” said Mike as he looked at her puzzled. “Of course you do, back when you were sma...” said the woman when she suddenly got pulled back by one of the other two. Mike looked on confused as he saw that they three women were arguing upon themselves. Mike could hear what they were saying but only a little.
“I told you that it wasn’t him” said one of the three women whom were Asian with long black hair. “But it has to be him, I mean look at him” said the ginger hair woman. “Perhaps that it is him but not the him that we know” said the third woman whom was a black woman with blond hair.“You don’t mean the him that came before?” asked the Asian woman. “That would explain why he...” said the ginger hair woman. Just then the black woman whacked her on the arm. Mike finished his glass and said, “Right, I better be going home” “So soon?” asked Mary as she looked at him with a sad look.
“Yeah, I got to. See you later” said Mike as he stood up and left the pub. The three women looked at him as he left.As he was walking his way home, Mike noticed something flying on the streets among the wind. He looked at it and saw that it was a leaflet. He stomped onto it which stopped it from flying.Mike knelt down and picked up the leaflet and saw something that caught his interest.
It was adverting people to test run a secret project and that they will pay huge amount of money. Thinking that it was some sort of con, Mike screwed up the leaflet and was about to throw it away. But something stopped him in doing so. He looked back at the screwed up leaflet and thought that he had nothing to lose; he put it in his pocket and carried on walking home. As he made it home, he saw a note hanging on his front door. Mike ripped the note off the door and began to read it,
‘You are late paying the rent. This is you’re last warning as you got 3 days to pay it in’
“Dam it!” said Mike under his breath. He took his key out and let himself in. As he made it inside, Mike made his way towards the kitchen and opened his fridge. He looked inside and saw that he only had one can of Strongbow left. Taking a deep sigh, Mike took the can out and opened it. He made his way towards the living room, slump down onto the sofa and turned on the TV with the remote. He spent hours watching programs that on the TV, mostly repeats of shows. At the end, Mike fell asleep.
Mike suddenly woke up; saw that the time was 9pm. He sat up and found the can he was drinking from laying on floor with the beer all over the floor. “Ah dam it!” snapped Mike as he jump from his seat. Mike stuck his hands in his pockets and found the leaflet he picked up earlier. He knelt down and used the leaflet to scrub the spill of beer. As he was scrubbing, he suddenly remembered that the leaflet he was using said something about a secret project. With the now wet leaflet, Mike as carefully as he can, placed it out as flat as possible and saw that the volunteers would be paid large amount.
Still thinking that it’s a con, Mike thought to himself that he got nothing to lose, saw that there was a telephone number to ring to be part of project. Mike got up with the leaflet in hand, made his way towards the telephone and input the number that was written on the leaflet.
The number was, 1981891411
Once he pushed the last button, he let the phone ring till he heard that it was connected to other line. He waited for some sort of greetings but all he heard was the sound one would get when one listens to phone when internet was still on. He listens to the sound for over minute when he suddenly heard that the line hung up. “Knew it, bloody hell knew it” said Mike to himself as he hung the phone back. As Mike was making his way back to his sofa to get to watching TV, he felt a sudden headache which grew so bad that Mike turned the TV off tried his hardest to make it his way to the bedroom. He was stumping along the way till he made it to the bedroom.
Mike took a few steps towards the bed but felt the strength in his legs suddenly left him. He fell with his body above waist landed on the end of his bed. His legs he just couldn’t move. Slowly, everything went all dark and Mike knew that he closed his eyes. He hoped he would feel better in the morning.
Chapter 2: Extra Money
Mike suddenly woke up due to the sound of a loud banging on the front door. He looked around and saw that he was in his bedroom, laying on his front on the bed with his legs still on the floor. He noticed that his head was spinning as if he was had a hang over. The banging on the front door didn’t let up; Mike noticed that it was getting louder. He slowly climbed off his bed, stumbles towards the front door and peaked through the peephole. On the other side of the door, he saw that it was a young short woman and that she looked annoyed. “Okay! Okay” shouted Mike as the woman began to bang on the door again. Mike opened the door and looked at the woman, whom just stood there with her arms crossed looking up at him.
“You’re late!” snapped the woman as she gave him a look that sent a chill down his spine. “Late...late for what?” asked Mike as he rubbed his eyes. “You’re late with the rent!” yelled the woman as she took a step towards him. “Late for rent? I got two more days left” said Mike as he stepped back away from her. “I gave you a notice three days ago and guess what?” asked the woman as she took a step inside, “today’s the third day”Mike just looked at her all confused, not really understanding as to what it was she was saying.
He looked through his pockets and found the notice that the ripped off the front door. He looked at it and saw that the date on the noticed said that it was the 3rd of June. “Erm, sorry for asking but what’s the date today?” asked Mike as he looked at her. “God” said the woman under her breath as she shook her head. “Sorry” said Mike. “It’s the 6th Mike! Now then, where’s my rent!” snapped the woman. “Don’t worry Donna...don’t worry. I got it, I just need to withdraw it” said Mike as he took another step back. “Well you better, you got till lunch time and if I don’t have it by then,” said the woman known as Donna, “Then you best go and find another place to live”Mike got himself ready, grabbed hold of his coat and said to Donna, “Don’t worry, don’t worry...I will get you your money” “Better hurry up then, you only got a two hours left before lunch” said Donna as she saw him rush out and headed towards the nearest cash point.
Mike rushed down the street, with his head still spinning. “How the heck did I miss three days” mumbled Mike to himself, “It just doesn’t make any sense” Mike just kept on mumbling how everything doesn’t make sense till he reached the local shops which had a cash point.“Oh” said Mike as he suddenly felt light headed as soon as he reached the cash point. He held his head with his right hand and saw that there wasn’t a line. He stood in front of the machine, took out his cash card, insert it in and input his pin code.
“What’s the point in this?” asked Mike to himself as he knew that he doesn’t have the right amount of money. He checked his how much he got and when the screen showed him the amount, he felt like he was going to have a heart attack.“Wait...wait...wait a minute” said Mike as he rubbed his eyes to make sure he wasn’t seeing things. He looked on and saw that in his bank account he got a grand total of three million pounds. “This can’t be right” said Mike as he ejected the cash card and input it in again, thinking that it’s a glitch. After putting in his pin number, he went to the same screen and saw the same amount of money.
Nervously, Mike pushed down the amount of money he needed to withdraw. Money went out of the machine; he grabbed it and placed it in his pocket.He looked left and right from where he stood, making that there wasn’t anyone looking because he thinks that he’s being stitched up for something. Mike noticed that there wasn’t any strange looking people and cars that look out of place. With that, Mike took his cash card out of the machine and rushed off back to his home.As soon as he made it back, he saw Donna was waiting outside his front door. “Ah Mike you made it back okay then” said Donna as she saw him walking up.
“Erm...yeah, here you go” said Mike as he took out the rent money. “Now that’s more like it,” said Donna as she took the money off him and count it, “You know, I thought you were bluffing when you said you got the money” she said this as she finished counting. “Is everything good?” asked Mike as he saw Donna put the money in her pocket.
“For this month yeah,” said Donna as she turned round, pointed towards him as she looked back, “Just don’t be late next time as I may not be as nice” Mike just looked at her as she walked off. Taking a deep breath, Mike went back inside and crashed on his bed.As he rested his head on his pillows, Mike slowly felt himself slowly drifting to sleep when suddenly his telephone began to ring. Mike shot up from his bed, stumbled towards the telephone and answered it.“Hello?” asked Mike, as he held his head up with his free hand. “Erm Mike?” answered a familiar voice. “Yeah?” asked Mike as he wasn’t thinking straight. “Mike, I need that money you own the bookies” answered the voice hastily.
Mike noticed that the voice belonged to Lauren.“Yeah...okay, I go and it Lauren...don’t worry” said Mike as he tried to calm Lauren down. “Better hurry before the boss look at the books” said Lauren fast. With that, Mike got himself ready and rushed off back to the cash point again. Once there, he withdrew the amount of money that he needs to give to Lauren. Placed the money in his pocket and rushed off towards the bookies. He noticed that it wasn’t as busy as it was the last time he was there. “Ah Mike thank god you’re here” said Lauren as she spotted him entering the bookies. “Don’t worry...where is the boss?” asked Mike as he walked towards the counter. “He’s in the back, he hasn’t started yet. You got it” answered Lauren as she looked at the door that leads to the back room.
Mike took out the amount of money that he owns her on the counter. “Ah Mike thank you, thank you!” said Lauren as she hastily grabbed hold of the money. She rushed to the back room, making sure that the boss doesn’t see her and placed it in the bookies vault. Lauren made it back to the counter and saw that Mike was still there. “Oh you’re a life saver Mike” said Lauren as she leaned against the counter. “Just returning what I own” said Mike as he smiled at her. Lauren smiled back at him.
As Mike turned around and leaves the bookies, he stopped in his step and turned to look back at Lauren. “What is it?” asked Lauren as she noticed that he was looking at her. “Erm...do...do you want...erm” said Mike as he was finding the words hard to say.Lauren stood up straight, hands on her hips and a smile on her face said, “Mike, are you trying to ask me out for dinner?” Mike just nodded. Lauren walked over from the counter and towards him and answered, “Why I love to”Mike’s face lit up as she said that. “I...pick you up at eight...is that okay?” asked Mike as he scratched the back of his head. “Can you drive Mike?” asked Lauren.
“Well erm no...” answered Mike. “Hmm, don’t worry about that Mike, I shall pick you up at eight” said Lauren as she smiled at him even more.“Are you sure? I’m...sorry that I can’t drive” said Mike as he lowered his arm. “Don’t worry about it,” said Lauren as she walked back over to the counter. “Erm...do you know where I live?” asked Mike as he was about to turn round. “Of course I do, after all I’ve been there before remember” answered Lauren as a customer entered the bookies.
Mike was beginning to question what she said as he doesn’t remember bringing her over his place. He felt that he shouldn’t ask as he saw that Lauren was busy. With that he headed out. He made it back to his place, took his jacket and shoes off and jumped onto his bed. With his alarm to wake him up at seven, giving him time to get himself ready. With that, he placed his head onto his pillow and slowly drifted off to sleep.