Episode 5

Victoria Becker narrating:

"Pee in this thing" said Joana, handing me a little box.

"I don't even feel like peeing" I said, opening the box.

"Turn on the bathroom tap and watch the water running, you'll pee so fast the Flash will cry in the shower" Jo said, pushing me towards the bathroom.

"Okay."

I did as she said, I wasn't even watching the water for thirty seconds when I already felt like peeing, I quickly urinated on that little object and left it on the sink.

"Done?" she asked, and I nodded. "then now we just have to wait."

We went back to the bedroom and sat on the bed.

"I don't know what I'm going to do if it's positive" I said tearfully "I don't have a stable life, I don't have money to give this child at least a comfortable life."

"Calm down, everything has a purpose" she said, consoling me "if it's positive, it's because it was in God's plans."

"This child will suffer… I'll suffer even more for not being able to give them what they want" I said "It will hurt a lot if one day my child asks me for something and I can't give it to them…"

"Calm down, we don't know if it's true yet" she said, hugging me "everything in life has a purpose, maybe this happened so that your life can finally change, maybe this is just the beginning of your story."

"That was beautiful… but I didn't want to be going through this."

We talked until Joana finally got up and went towards the bathroom, we agreed that she would look first, because I was scared.

"What's the result?" I asked nervously.

"Positive" she said, making my body freeze, I only didn't fall because I was sitting.

"This must be a mistake" I said, feeling my eyes fill with tears "I can't raise this child, not in the conditions I'm in."

I felt my friend sit next to me and hug me.

"I know it's difficult, that's why I'll support you in whatever decision you make" she said, stroking my hair "if you want to abort, that's fine, I'll support you, and if you want to raise this child, great, I'll still be here supporting you."

"I love you" I said.

"I love you too, my boo" she said.

[…]

I slept at her house and in the morning I went back to my house where I took a shower and got dressed to go to work.

Life doesn't stop and it's not easy for anyone, I need to think carefully about what I'm going to do, otherwise I might regret it in the future.

So I went to work, I threw up a lot and worked even more.

Leaving work, I went to the market and bought a tub of ice cream. I don't indulge in buying these things, but I felt like eating it.

How strange, to think that there's a life… a human being inside me.

On the way back home I think about the possibility of raising the child, what would it be like? Would I be a good mother? I don't even know how to take care of myself properly, let alone a baby.

Damn, this is so complicated.

"You're finally here" said my father "where were you?"

"Working, do you know what that is?" I asked, heading towards my room.

"Watch how you talk to me, you slut" he said angrily "you should have left with that other slut, your mother."

"At least we agree on something" I said seriously "she really is a slut, but if she had taken me, I would have gone willingly, at least I wouldn't have to put up with this."

I went into my room, slamming the door.

I opened the small wooden window of my room so that the cold night air could enter, my house is quite small, it's just a living room, a kitchen, two bedrooms and a bathroom.

Everything simple, but tidy, it was… now we have few pieces of furniture, since my father sold everything to buy drugs.

He even stole and sold my cell phone… I never managed to buy another one.

I sit on the bed with my back against the headboard and open the little pot of strawberry ice cream, I take the first spoonful to my mouth and sigh at its wonderful taste.

I love ice cream, but with the little money I have, it has become a luxury and often, when I don't have money, I end up just wanting it.

I eat that whole pot of ice cream and stay there, I only get up to close the window and then lie down to sleep.

[…]

Marius fitzy narrating:

Over these past weeks everything has gone well, very well.

The new software is ready and has been launched, the new communication app already has almost half a million downloads in just three days, that's because we have an advanced security program.

Nowadays it is difficult to find safe and good quality apps, that's why we always look for the best, and that ends up making us the best.

Also recently I started a purchase, I want to expand Fitzy Technology to other countries and an opportunity arose to open a new branch in the Netherlands.

I will travel for a few months to be able to organize everything, I am happy, all I ever wanted was to be able to expand my horizons and now I have that opportunity.

But I feel that this happiness is not complete, I'm missing something… could it be love?

My love life has been failing compared to my financial life, every day I get richer and I'm not sure if I'm happy. Actually, I'm happy to have money to buy what I want, but does money really bring happiness?

People with money live surrounded by friends and many other people, but it's all interest in their money. I just want to see if, when you have nothing, you will have so many people in your life.

My life is like that, surrounded by interested people who do everything to extort my money.

I've been burned a lot by this and today I can say that for someone to deceive me they have to be really good and convincing, because I'm more than vaccinated against these kinds of people.

When you get burned many times, you learn to trust only yourself. My heart has also never fallen in love and that must be why my past relationships never worked out.

My mind is also always focused on work and for me, at the moment, that's all that matters.

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