imagine you were 18 good looking and in
desperate need for money to save your
family from homelessness what would you
be willing to do
well two years ago my mom got very sick
and couldn't leave her bed anymore
that's why she lost her job and we
couldn't afford rent anymore i knew i
had one week left to make some money or
all three of us including my
four-year-old sister would be kicked out
of the house and would have to beg on
the streets and that's super dangerous
here in el salvador because there are
tons of gangs roaming in the streets
they can't wait to find helpless
families like ours to exploit them in
all kinds of cruel ways but finding a
job that paid enough for rent and mom's
medical bills wasn't going to happen
here in this third world country i'm
living in i was desperate and willing to
do anything maybe even
you know what
but then i had a better idea i sent a
friend request on facebook to a guy
called alberto everyone in school knew
him because his rich dad was both a
successful businessman and an
influential politician we started
chatting and i asked him out on a date
of course he agreed i mean he was only
15 and i was 18. it was so awkward
meeting him because i was much taller
than him but i knew what i had to do so
i acted like i had a huge crush on him
and he seemed to enjoy it a lot i said
any plans for tonight not yet but you
can come by my home tonight and watch a
movie with me
well that's what we did and while we
were sitting on a couch i went close to
him gave him a kiss and said if you want
to date me i expect you to treat me well
i want a guy that spends his money on me
because i'm a high maintenance girl
alberto responded sure no problem
and that's how our relationship started
however he could only give me a thousand
dollars a month it wasn't even enough
for my mom's medication so at night
while alberto was asleep i would search
his house for valuables that i could
sell i normally stole stuff from his
dad's room i figured no one would notice
but even though i was making enough
money now to take care of my family my
life at school became hell dating a guy
three years younger than me was
extremely
embarrassing he always held my hand
publicly and made me make out with him
in front of others everyone called me a
gold digger and i guess they were right
but no one knew that i was doing it for
my family even my former best friends
turned their backs on me meanwhile
alberto was a huge jerk he had that rich
kid arrogance and to him i was nothing
but a toy on weekends he often took me
shopping to buy me the dresses he liked
then i had to wear them to school so he
could show me off to his friends he also
asked me things like why are you so
attracted to me and i would answer
because you are so handsome strong and
attractive
meanwhile all his 15 year old friends
were listening and giggling well if
things couldn't get worse alberto's dad
wanted to talk to me he brought me into
his room and said i know you've been
stealing from me then he went to the
door and locked it no i couldn't escape
i was petrified and said i'm so sorry i
didn't want to do it but i needed the
money for my mom's medication
i don't care about your mother you're
gonna pay me back but how
you better find a way my sweetheart
there was this awkward silence and the
way he looked at me made me feel
uncomfortable he said you are an adult
so you can get a job to pay off your
debt but there's another way you see my
wife and i have been arguing a lot
recently so i'm gonna make you an offer
if you become my second girlfriend i'm
gonna take care of you and your
financial worries eduardo was quite good
looking so i didn't think twice and said
fine how are we gonna do it i thought
that this was the solution to all my
problems i broke up with alberto the
same day and started meeting his dad
eduardo a few times per week he normally
pretended to go on business trips so his
wife wouldn't get suspicious of course i
felt bad for his wife sometimes she
called eduardo while he laid next to me
in bed and he would tell her how
exhausting his work was even though he
was actually cheating on her but i guess
she didn't believe him because one day
his wife knocked on our hotel door i had
no clue and opened it when she saw me
she started crying and screaming she ran
towards eduardo and started punching him
he said it's no big deal i don't love
her she's only a mistress but she was
dating our son and now you are dating
her you disgusting pig how can you do
this to me
you probably think that he stopped
seeing me after his wife found out about
us but he didn't we kept seeing each
other just as before he didn't seem to
care how much he was hurting his wife
she even sent me letters each week
begging me to stop seeing her husband i
felt incredibly guilty but i didn't have
much of a choice and after a few months
of dating eduardo told me he was willing
to divorce his wife if i wanted to take
her place i gotta be honest i was
disgusted by him how could someone
betray his wife of 20 years so badly i
declined the offer in fact i wanted to
run away from him as far as i could but
i needed his financial support well at
least until my mom died suddenly there
were no more medical bills and it was
such a relief i left eduardo and took a
job as a cashier to take care of my
little sister but it wasn't the life i
had dreamed of working 10 hours a day
and only making 300 us dollars per month
while having to take care of a little
kid on the side was too much for me to
handle so i went back to eduardo and
started dating him again this time it
was more serious though he rented me and
my sister a nice apartment to live in
and started spending half of his time
with us we even talked about me getting
pregnant at first i was hesitant but he
promised to spend half of his money on
our second family if i should carry his
baby he also said his son alberto didn't
have the intelligence to manage his
family's money once he was gone so he
was still looking for another son to be
honest it all sounded too good to be
true he was probably smearing honey
around my mouth but what other choice
did i have
none so i finally agreed i know what
most of you are thinking of me i'm a
terrible person for destroying another
family but most of you have never lived
in absolute poverty while having to take
care of a small kid so please don't
judge me too hard in the end i never
wanted this life i wish i could meet my
dream guy like those girls in disney
movies but this is real life not a fairy
tale
by the way i recently gave birth to our
baby it's a boy and eduardo seems to
love him a lot he spends five days of
the week with us which means he had
almost completely given up on his old
family
so maybe understandably his wife wasn't
happy about it she sent some crook to my
apartment to assassinate me luckily the
guy struggled to get through the door
and i used my chance to jump to the
neighboring balcony to escape it was so
scary though and when i told eduardo
about what happened he flew into a rage
in the same night he visited his old
family and handled things his way
i don't really want to talk about it
because if he is willing to hurt them he
is willing to hurt us too
but at least i have eduardo all for
myself now i mean he can be a huge jerk
and constantly threatens to leave me if
i don't do exactly what he likes he for
example asks me to massage him all the
time like i'm his maid and then out of
nowhere he gets annoyed at me and calls
me an uneducated bimbo he says he's more
attracted to independent women who have
their own career and don't need his
money but at the same time he doesn't
want me to go to college or get a job
i'm sure he'll leave me for a younger
girl someday but until then i think it's
worth it maybe life is just complicated
and messy like that
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