The Girl Who Sold Herself on Ebay

[6] Freak-outs and Fudge cake

For being my 700th voter, thankyou! :)

I swear every time I think a chapter is going to be short it turns out like 3 pages /: 
anyway, here's chapter six :) I'm not tooo happy with it at this stage.. but if I had to post something and get the setting up the auction bit out of the way so I can get to writing the juiciness with Jasper ;D  

I thought I'd put the 'greatest freak out ever' video on the side. it has nothing to do with this, it's just hillarious :) I love all of the freak out videos, and I love Jack ;D

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C H A P T E R  S I X 

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Item description:

Hello, my name is Candace Summers and I am here to sell my services of cleaning, cooking and general housework. I dropped out of high school at an early age and am now willing to offer my services for twelve hours a day, seven days a week, and receive the minimum wage, however further discussion of payments can be arranged.  

 I am currently seventeen years of age and have attended several culinary courses so I believe am experienced when it comes to preparing and serving food. I am an honest, respectful person and take pride in the work I do. I respect other people’s property, have knowledge about cleaning agents and have good communication skills. I will complete domestic tasks such as vacuuming, and ironing, and also commercial operations such as carpet and window cleaning.

I am offering my cleaning and cooking services over the duration of the summer period, (December-January). However I do not have a car and accommodation will need to be provided for me.

I am not a qualified cleaner however I believe I have valuable skills in the catering and hospitality field.

Please email me if you have any further enquiries.

Thank you,

Candace.

 

What a fat sack of lies.

          I threw myself back in my chair and covered my face with my hands. I was lying about everything. From being skilled when it came to cooking right down to my name, Candace which I’d taken from the Phineas and Ferb poster pinned to my wall.

          Why are you doing this? I thought to myself, you’re as stupid as the man who sold his daughter.

          The only thing that separated me from that man, was that I was selling myself, not my kid. And he wasn’t lying when he put his daughter up for auction, I was lying about everything. The only thing I wasn’t lying about was my picture. I’d put up a photo of me and Jeddah, but of course I’d cut her out of it. There were no bitches attached in my auction.

          I clicked the preview button and scanned over the auction one last time. I’d set my reserve to $1, because honestly I didn’t care what people paid to win me, all I wanted was the money I’d get paid for the “cleaning and cooking” I was going to do. I actually wasn’t expecting anyone to even view the auction; I mean a high school drop out selling themselves on Ebay? Could you be any more… desperate?

          But in a way, I wanted to be desperate. I was sick of people having such high expectations of me. I was sick of being labelled a snob because of my money; I was sick of my friends, and sick of the rumours. I was sick of everything. Candace Summers was like my alter-ego, the person I wanted to be. Not for the rest of my life, just for the summer, just so I could have a break from everything and finally feel what it’s like to have to work for your own money, to bargain hunt, to second hand shop without being judged.