It is hard to live in this world without dreams, never sure if what you are doing is the better use of your time. It is not hard because you have to face your own expectations, it is hard because you live in a connected world where you can see how everybody else advances. You can actually see the 18 year old sporstmen and women that are already winning gold medals and advertising space. Advertising that cover so much of the city, showing people that not only are better than you, but that they like to remind you around every corner.
Is rough for a man pushing his 29 laps around the sun, surviving on a disk recovery and IT service in a little damp space in a forgotten gallery around town. What could he have done different? Richard Halter asked himself that every day, but that did not help. One just need a good strike of luck to get ahead, and the sooner the better. He sighted on this tought for the 100th time.
But, he got surprisingly lucky that evening. A very discretion concerned customer, a blonde girl with a big hat and dark sunglasses especifically, left him a notebook to recover the data that some orange juice endangered. Richard started working on this that morning, running the usual procedures on automatic. He had just came back to check, when he saw that files were already being recovered. Well, he thought to himself, that was easy. He chose a file at random, to see if everything was correct. A file that was really deep into the hard drive: he never expected what he saw.
It was a video of a casting room. A gorgeous and young (maybe 18 years old?) Clara Vaughn was making a test tape for the nurse tv show that would open the doors of stardom for her. Her acting was pretty good, but halfway thru her script, the producer stopped her and told her that that was useless, that the part was taken. She inmediatelly got on her feet and got undressed. This came as a shock for Richard as it was for the producer in the tape. What came afterwards are 30 minutes of sexual action between the two, until the battery of the camera ran out.
Richard put 2 and 2 together in his mind: a blonde woman, nearly completelly covered, goes to a shady place for a simple recovery. That was not random woman. Clara Vaughn gave him this computer. And now, he had a very juicy part of her life in his hands. A piece of the luck that guided fortunate people like her. He recorded a little part of the video with a burner cellphone (he sold those at his store) and sent it to her, to the number she had given for the repairs. He wrote alongside:
-"Nobody should left things behind laying around. If you don't want this to be on every site around the world, reply to my message with a recorded apology for being disyolal to your fellow actresses and such a whore. Remember to sound sorry."-