Upon entering the shop, he gets the same reaction as the girl at food outlet earlier. At least, the sales girl in this shop doesn't immediately cast him away.
“Excuse me! Are you lost?”
“No, I want to purchase a motorbike,” replies Jimmy.The girl looks so unenthusiastic, before she looks to another direction, to another sales girl with yellow hair, looking pretty like a flight attendance.
“Amy! Could you come here for a moment and do something for this guy here?”
That girl simply takes her leave, even without making sure that one sales girl named Amy really comes to Jimmy.
In the meantime, Jimmy has to endure his annoyance for being ignored while that Amy girl is busy with her phone. It stays like that, at least until Jimmy confronts her.
“Yes?” Amy asks coldly.
Jimmy sighs by showing his unenthusiastic face. “Look! I came here to buy, and don’t you judge me based on my slightly torn dirty T-shirt. I just got into an accident, and I want to get back home with a bike I’m going to buy here.
“Heh! Whatever?” The sales girl sneers with an uninterested gesture. “As long as you have the money. So, which one do you want to buy?”
Jimmy takes a glance, and simply chooses the nearest one to him. “What about that one?”
“That one?” Amy asks with a clown face. “That’s a bike with 1833cc six-cylinder engine, with 8-speed DCT transmission. It’s not only about performance, but also its elegance, only the rich usually buy that luxury touring bike. Do you even have the money?”
“How much?” Jimmy asks coldly.
Annoyed by Jimmy’s confidence, the sales girl phrases the price so slowly, word by word, so clearly for each number.
“$57,246.89, before tax!”
“Not much! You don’t have to exaggerate it,” says Jimmy, taking his attention away as he starts examining the motorbike a bit more intense.
The girl’s brows twitch, clearly looking offended by Jimmy’s response. She has worked for this shop for almost two years, but this is the first time for her to see a dirty pauper confidently observing a luxury touring motorbike there.
“Do you accept cash?” asks Jimmy.
“We do,” replies the girl.
“I need a plastic bag!”
“Plastic bag for what?” Amy’s face is frowned because of Jimmy’s random request.
“I need to withdraw my money first,” Jimmy explains briefly.
“You can use your credit card here,” the girl offers.
“I can’t,” Jimmy denies.
The sales girl looks confused and curious. In the end, she tells Jimmy to wait, before taking her leave with an annoyed face, grumbling by restraining her voice.
Soon, she comes back to Jimmy with a black plastic bag. However, right before Jimmy receives the plastic bag...
“Hold on!” She pulls back the plastic bag, and squints suspiciously at Jimmy. “Don't tell me you came here just to ask for this plastic bag, for free, because you can't afford it.”
Jimmy takes out a piece of $100, gives it to the girl before snatching the plastic bag from her, and then walks out.
“Hold that $100 as collateral for your plastic bag. I won’t take long!”
Knowing how risky it would be for him carrying a plastic bag full of cash, Jimmy doesn’t intend going too far from that dealer shop.
He simply goes to an alley right next to the shop, waits for the place to be quiet first, and then withdraws some money from his balance.
Some stacks of cash appear in the air and then drop. Jimmy puts them into the plastic bag in haste. He keeps glancing around with so much alertness, not wanting to be noticed by anyone.
Not long after, the sales girl sees Jimmy return with the black plastic bag already looking so full. Of course that confuses her. Jimmy returns too soon.
“What else?” she asks curtly.
“Here! Make it quick!” says Jimmy as he puts the bag on the table right in front the sales girl.
The girl examines the bag content, and shuts silent. She starts counting the money, but stops prematurely.
Jimmy actually exchanged 70 gold coins for $ 62,554.80. He only put $58k in that bag, and keeps the rest for his further needs.
“There’s 58 thousand in that plastic bag! Is it enough?” Jimmy asks.
The sales girl is completely at a loss for words. She still believes Jimmy is just a pauper based on his slightly torn dirty white t-shirt. But she can’t simply deny some stacks of cash in her hands anymore.
And after a few moments of silent…
“Um, did you bring your ID card?” she asks, her attitude slightly improved.
“ID card? For what?” asks Jimmy.
“You are buying a luxury touring bike, not just a dozen of chicken eggs,” says the sales girl.
The sales girl receives the ID card from Jimmy and takes a brief look. There she learns that Jimmy is two years younger than her.
“Are you still in school or college?” she asks.
“Third year in Summerfield High School,” replies Jimmy briefly.
Somehow, the girl looks a bit disappointed to know that Jimmy is still a high school teenager.
“What’s wrong?” asks Jimmy.
“Nothing,” replies the girl as she walks away. “Please, wait here! It will take a while.”
She goes to a certain office, and starts making a little ruckus with a few other sales girls.
It takes them quite a while to take care of all the legal documents for ownership of the motorbike. And during that time, the sales girl keeps talking about Jimmy with her friends.
“Amy! Who is he?”
“A high school teenager from Summerfield.”
“And he came here to buy that luxury touring bike? With that kind of outfit?”
“Don’t let his appearance fool you! I bet he must come from a rich family.”
An hour later, the girl returns with two friends, while Jimmy himself has been yawning so many times in boredom. He sees one of them prepares the motorbike and then takes it outside for a test drive.The other one comes to Jimmy giving two boxes, one containing a helmet, and the other one containing a set of touring outfits; shoes, one jacket, and a pair of gloves.Soon, the guy who went for a test drive comes back with Jimmy’s new bike, while Jimmy has been holding his excitement.At last, he will experience how it feels to be a rich guy, buying his own motorbike with his own money. No one will call him a freeloader anymore.“Here, the changes,” Amy gives Jimmy some dollars and coins along with purchase receipt, Jimmy’s ID card, and also the document of the ownership of the new motorbike.“So, you really got into an accident, huh? I bet you haven’t had a shower for a while. Don't you want to stay here for a night at least? You can take a shower at my place if you want.”The way this
Soon after he finishes taking a shower, he gets hungry again. Only then does he leave the beach and heads to the border.He takes the times to visit that one food outlet he visited before, to fill his empty belly before taking a long journey to Summerfield.Coincidentally, it’s quiet without any customers. Jimmy's arrival on a luxury motorbike makes the girl who owns the shop looks excited in waiting, tying her shoulder-length black hair up on the back.But then…“Oh, shit! No way? It’s that guy earlier,” mutters the girl by closing her mouth, recognizing Jimmy’s face soon after Jimmy takes off his helmet.“Who?” The girl’s younger brother asks from behind.“No one!” The girl ignores his curiosity.“Oh, wait! That guy?” The younger brother recognizes Jimmy’s face. “Isn’t that the guy we saw on the side of the road at Boslow Hill? I thought he was just a thug!”“Just go back to the kitchen!” Laura slaps her 14 year-old brother with a small towel.Soon, she finds Jimmy walking towards h
Jimmy gives a shy smile with the lie, but Laura doesn’t say a word. She just finds another similarity between her and Jimmy. Now she feels so bad for treating Jimmy so harsh this morning. “Oh?” the girl just mumbles with her blank face. “So you are heading back to Summerfield now?” “Yeah! By the way, thanks for the water,” says Jimmy as he walks away. “Hold on! Wait!” the girl calls. “Do you have a phone number?” Jimmy turns around. “A phone number?” “Um…, uh… It, it will be a long road. Something could just happen to you on the way, so…” “Oh, you are right! But, sorry! I don’t have a phone. You see, I lost everything because of the accident.” Jimmy smiles and takes his leave. The girl still looks so stupid, before her stupid face turns sour, believing that was only Jimmy’s way rejecting her politely. *** As darkness slowly covers the small town of Summerfield, an 11 year old boy is still busy in front of a washing machine. These are the clothes that have piled up in the last
Jimmy has been expecting that his aunt would be curious about his new motorbike, and has prepared a story for that. But Aunt Molly is even more confused by him returning home unscathed.What's more, now he finds Cynthia looking at him with a horrified face. Cynthia doesn’t look curious, but horrified by something so strange and inexplicable.“Um, Jimmy? What about your legs? And your head?” she asks.“What?” Jimmy mumbles with a pale face, not expecting that there was someone witnessing his dire condition in that wrecked bus.“I…, I clearly saw your head bleeding so badly,” mutters Cynthia. “And your legs…”Right at this moment, Jackson McNeil is just returning home from work. The arrival of his car catches the attention of everyone in the parlor.When they turn their attention, it is only then that they notice Detective Dotson, who has been standing by the front door for a while.This detective parked his car on the side of the road. There is even his partner in verandah. Their arriv
Without saying anything to Jimmy, she just raises her chin up and then walks away.But then…“Aunt Molly!” Jimmy calls.Molly turns around and only responds to Jimmy's call with a sour face.“I’m going to move out, and I’ll take Erick with me,” says Jimmy.Molly's eyebrows twitch. From that alone, Jimmy already can read the mood.“I'm old enough,” continues Jimmy. “You can’t stop me now! I already have a part-time job. I'm sure it's more than enough for…”“More than enough for what?” Molly interrupts coldly. “What do you think you can do with the meager salary you earn at Leonard’s farm?”“The salary isn't big in your eyes, but it's enough to cover our expenses,” Jimmy insists.“You may leave,” says Molly. “But Erick has to stay here with me.”Jimmy looks so annoyed. He clenches his hands so tightly. It's not to punch that 41 year old lady. He is enduring his frustration at the moment.“With Uncle Jackson's large income, you could have hired a maid. But you still prefer to enslave us,
Later, Jimmy stops at the gate of a housing complex called 'The Serenity Garden', a complex he never entered before.“So, this is the most beautiful housing in Summerfield, huh?”After taking a brief look at the map, he rides his bike inside the complex.There are a total of 37 two-story modern houses. The yards seem spacious because there are no fences between the houses, only garden full of flowers separating them.Several children are seen playing around in cheer. Jimmy stops by the side of the road, and soon a boy comes over to him.“Are you lost?” asks the boy.Jimmy shows the photo to the boy. “Well, I’m looking for this house!”“Oh, this must be The Vampire’s Den?” utters the boy, seeming to recognize it.Jimmy scrunches his face. But then the boy explains that it is just a name given by parents in the complex to scare their children.“The house is empty,” says the boy. “But it's the coolest house in the area. You just keep going down this road. It is on the other side of the h
It is Sunday now, a week after that fatal accident in Boslow Hill.In a room dominated by light pink, accompanied by several figurines with a wooden doll house, a girl is occupied with her multi-powder brush in front of a vanity mirror.It's Stephanie trying to cover the bruises on her forehead and right temple. Previously, these two parts were swollen after the accident at Boslow Hill.But now…“Done!” She looks excited with her make-up.She manages to disguise the bruises perfectly. After waving her beautiful hair right and left, she takes a few selfies.Until then…“Honey! We're leaving!”She hears her mother calling from downstairs, but she still takes the time for editing. She needs at least four best photos to be posted on social media.In the front yard, her mother, Melisa Moran, already gets into the car. Today, together with her father, Bobby Moran, they are going to visit McNeil Family.“It’s good he finally came back home safe. But why do we have to go there just to see him
Bobby laughs out loud, taking Stephanie’s words as a joke, because indeed he previously mentioned Jimmy who was lost in the woods.“Is that true, Jimmy? In that case, why not come with me to Triple Treasures Resort. I will treat you to an all-you-can-eat meal at a restaurant.”Jimmy knows Stephanie has just insulted and humiliated him, not just as a joke. It is impossible for him now to accept the invitation.“Sorry, Uncle Bob! I have to go. I still have work to do.”Seeing Jimmy leave with such a solemn expression on his face, only then does Bobby Moran realize that Jimmy is offended by Stephanie's words. He turns to Stephanie, but the daughter rushes to the second floor while calling for Cynthia.“Sigh! What’s going on with them,” Bobby whines before taking a seat.Jackson then pours coffee for his friend, offers him the drink before also taking a seat. Meanwhile, Bobby looks towards the front door for a moment.After making sure Jimmy is no longer around them, he brings his face clo