sp215+Difficult+Choices

My Gem Experience
It was a difficult choice to make. But I had to. I had just sold away my 5- pound piece of alexandrite for $1,000,000. It was the highest bid, so it was either that or nothing. You see, my family is poor; we needed some money fast, or our landlord would literally kick us out. Did I mention that our landlord has anger issues? Anyway, $1,000,000 was so much money that we were easily the richest family in our area.

So far.

It all started today at about seven o'clock in the morning. "Could you find something around the apartment worthy of selling? You know how Mr.Eussiregnasay reacts to tenants who don't pay rent on time," Mom said. As you may have guessed, Mr.Eussiregnasay is our landlord. What's funny about his name is the fact that the first part of his name, "Eussi," is "issue" spelled backwards; the last part of his name, "say," is "s" in pig latin; the middle part of his name, "regna," is anger spelled backwards. All together, that is "Anger issues."- talk about a coincidence!

Coming back to the story, I decided reluctantly to sell the big sapphire that I had found a while ago when I searching for some cool rocks in the ground- at lest I think it's a sapphire- to the highest bidder in the town market.

When I finally conquered the 10- mile walk, or run in my case, to the market, I was panting uncontrollably. It took about 5 minutes for me to stop hyperventilating, by the time which everyone in the market was staring at me and the precious gem in my grasp. Great. Just what I needed. Some burglar stalking me, ready to lash out and steal my gem when I wasn't looking.

"How much for that gem?" That question waked me from my thoughts.

"What?" was my circumspect reply. I was surprised that someone actually wanted buy the sapphire and not to attempt to steal it from me first.

"I would like to buy that curious gem of yours," said the customer. "How much do you want for it? $50?" Fifty dollars might not sound like much, but it had actually been much more money than I had expected to get. I waited for a while. It seemed that no one else had a higher bid.

"Sold!" I said.

"Oh, I don't think that your getting your gem's worth, lad." said a voice with a British accent. Everyone turned to get an eyeful of the stranger that had just spoken. "I'll pay you $10,000,000 for that gem." Everyone gasped. "Oh my, I forgot to introduce myself. The name's Meg Sigolotay, gemologist. what you've got there appears to be the biggest clump of alexandrite found as of now. Now a gem like that is worth something!" He cast an accusing look at man who had offered $50.

I finally managed to wipe the look of awe on my face.

"Sold!" I said, with some reluctance. As everyone walked away happily (except for the scam artist who had offered me $50), I grinned and wondered how I would tell Mom about had just happened without her or Dad screaming at the top of their lungs. I took a deep breath and started the journey home.

Note- Did you notice that Meg Sigolotay backwards and in pig Latin spells //gemologist?//

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