Dawn Maria, 21, Amateur Game Streamer

"What do you mean there is nothing you people can do?! I woke up to an alert for unpaid debt that I never took out, and now I have three hours to come up with five thousand dollars or some creep will be able to buy me, and you tell me that it doesn't matter that it is clearly fraud?"

I heard some typing on the other end of the line, "I am sorry Ms. Marla, b-"

"Maria, my name is Dawn Maria, at least get it right if you are telling me I'm fucked.", I felt myself sob, and prepared to cry for the fifth time since waking up.

"Apologies, Ms. Maria, but as I was saying, all of the paperwork is in order, everything is connected to your identity, if this is fraud there is no way to prove it without an investigation. One which would take substantially more time than you have. So, unless you have the five thousand dollars to purchase your freedom, is there anything else we can d-" -click-

"WHAT A FUCKING CUNT!", what's left of my tears finally broke free as I hung up the phone and spent fifteen of my last free minutes crying into my hands, before leaving the bedroom to finally take a nice hot shower, since I had no idea when, or if, my new owner will let me take one. After finally getting clean, I felt something else, the warm water washing the fog from my head, and I could think clearly for the first time that morning. "No, no no nononono, that son of a bitch, there is no way he did this to me. Not now, not again." Realizing what most likely happened I called my father.

"Hey sweetie, how are you doing this morning?"

"Dad, please tell me you didn't take a loan out in my name and then lost it all gambling, please tell me you didn't do this to me...again?"

"..." the silence from the other end stood as a confirmation.

"WHY?! How much did you borrow? How much is left? How did you even convince Mom to give you my information?"

"Well the thing is hon-"

"No, no sweet words, just say what happened."

"Um, yeah, first I got your papers from the safe, and took a small loan out, you know, just a couple grand, I had a buddy give me a hot tip, and fuck me it paid off. I was able to pay back that loan, because you know I would pay your loan off first swee-", I heard him catch himself before continuing. "And I paid off some debt I had, it was almost at the six months, so I had to get that paid off of course." I read between his lines and filled in all of the bad bets that debt was most likely taken for myself, debt my mom most likely had no idea about. "But then that buddy gave me another hot tip, and I didn't have any money left after paying yours, and my loans off."

"You mean the loans you illegally took out in my name without telling me?"

"Yeah, um, well, anyway, I was flat broke, and after repaying your loan, they were willing to give a much bigger one, and well...that tip didn't pay out. I'm sorry sweetie, but you should have another month or two, I think."

"No Dad, I am not calling you because I have a month or two. I am calling you because I have about two hours! Put Mom on the phone. Now."

"Shit, I meant to get some money together so you never knew. I guess the time slipped by, but why would you want to talk with that?"

The way he said it made me realize what had happened and I felt myself agree with him, "You're right, I don't need to talk with It. Where did It's debt come from?"

"Well, I had a great bit of info from a different buddy that turned out not to be so great, and since the debt was in It's name and we didn't have the money to pay, we ran out of time. Luckily I made a good bet that day that gave me just enough to buy It." a little muffled now, "say hi to Dawn."

"I'm so sorry love, I couldn't stop him from taking the debt out for you, I didn't even kn-"the object that had been my mom tried to get it all out before my dad took the phone back, after which I could hear a muffled smack of him correcting It's behavior.

"Sorry about that Dawn, I'm still training It."

"That's ok Dad, if It didn't want to be owned It should have paid Its debts. What isn't ok is you taking this debt out in my name, not telling me about it, and not paying it back. Soon I won't be a person anymore, because of you."

"I'm sorry, and I wish I could help, but I'm barely keeping afloat here. Soon I'm thinking I'll have to put my Debtor up for sale," at that I hear a small cry coming from the other side of the line.

"Fine, thanks for fucking me Dad, I hope you get the same some day."-click-

At least I now knew why my life was over. Now I just had to hope my boyfriend didn't have to work late last night, so I could at least talk to him before I had to greet whatever creep buys me after my probation ends. Luckily, I thought I could hear his key in the lock, so there's one bit of good news today. A small diamond in a sea of sewage.