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Five months have passed since Ramirez and Lenard managed to leave from the Sapphire Island Prison. Some things have changed between them. They are still in contact, and talk on a daily basis when they have time and want to hang out at a Bar, Luigi's Restaurant or anyone else they can have fun.
Lenard has managed to get back to his old apartment he lived before he was thrown behind bars in Sapphire Island. Keep in mind that Lenard and Ramirez are back in Ruby City. Because the house prices anywhere is much more expensive, for example, cause of inflation on Florida, the prices of houses there is third time bigger than it was in 2020. Also, Ramirez managed to get back his old farm, but it was hard to renovate it because of a fire who erupted there when he was at the jail. Even the people from that rural zone doesn't know how it erupted out of the sudden.
They both got jobs. Lenard is working as a store retailer, while Ramirez, surprisingly, he has got his job back as a truck driver, but under a new boss of the company which is in a better state than the last time when the old manager was there. Even thought they are having criminal records, the bosses still hired them since the business are so desperate nowadays to get at least someone who can work twelve hours. Even if the paycheck at some business is bigger than in 2020, they are still not enough people to hired, and the reason for that is simple, machines have made it harder for employers to find a job. But, hey, these two managed to get a job with a big salary to pay at least their rent, food and any other bill they have to pay in order to survive this world.
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At 12:54, at an 7/11 store, a customer enters the store, this one is wearing a some clothes a teenager would wear today only to look cool and to hear some gossiping girl talking about hi. Ripped jeans, a bush haircut, a pair of glasses, one jacket with a T-shirt who is showing a picture with the logo of "Saints Row" games. The dude is looking Asiatic, and is having a pair of Bluetooth headphones on his ears to listen some fine tune while he is walking. The man is walking to the desk, and he looks at the cashier there.
The man who is serving at the cashier desk is a dude with a white skin, he looks foreigner, like someone from an East European country. The man wears a hat, an orange cap on his head, his 7/11 uniform because nowadays, most of the store are forcing you to wear a uniform, rather than your own style. The dude is looking at the tag of the cashier, it is written Lenard Szacaks. The same dude looks at Lenard's eyes, the cashier, and he is asking him.
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"One package of cigarette, please."
"Do you have a type you would like?" asks Lenard to the customer.
"Hmm... I'd like a Pall Mall."
"Pall Mall it is." says Lenard taking from a small shelf the package of cigarette, he scans it, and he put it on the counter, then he types on his computer, and he tells the customer. "It will cost you 12 dollars."
The customer is handing those twelve dollars to Lenard, and he leaves with his pack of cigarettes. After he left the store, Lenard puts the money into the cash register and is looking at the Plasma TV which his showing another boring news about an attack at Ruby City docks where five corpses of kids were found into the containers, all killed by a bullet in their heads as the autopsy people told to the reporter who continued to barge at this information.
In a few minutes, the phone of Lenard is ringing. He looks at the person is calling him, and the one who is calling him it is Ramirez, he answers to it, puts his phone at the year, and he asks.
"Hey, Rodri- I mean, Ramirez! How are you?"
"Hello, Lenard." says Ramirez on the other side. "Are you having plans on this night?"
"Nah, man. I am free on this night." he is looking at the bag with liquid he bought for something special. "I do not have any plans."
"Great, would you come this night when you are finishing your shift at Luigi's Restaurant?"
"For sure. I am finishing my shift at seven. We will see there."
"Alright." then he hangs up this number.
Lenard puts his phone on the pants pocket, and is looking at the bag with liquor for later this day. While he is watching at the TV, it shows another boring news report, then, seeing that the remote it is on the table, he is taking it and change the TV station to a music channel. It shows a porn clip with music over it. Lenard realize this is a channel named "Music Porn Channel", so he quickly changed it to another because someone might interpret something wrong. Plus, it is not his fault this channel exist, it is because of degenerate people who are nowadays on the charge of TV channels, plus, nobody is watching television anymore on the year 2028.
He finally stops changing channels when he got on a channel who seems interesting, it is a music channel, who is playing his beloved Hungarian music, plus some other music from the Eastern European countries. Even if he cannot understand other languages, music is still music. Besides the fucked up thing he found earlier on that channel.
He stays on the store until his shift will be over. And after it got over, he leaves the store on his normal clothes, he goes on the parking lot, he unlocks his Chevrolet with a key he has it. After the car got unlocked, Lenard is going into the car, and he leaves the car parking lot with his Chevrolet, blue car and is heading to Luigi's Restaurant, with that bag of liquor.