Chapter 9

I lived in a small town in North Carolina named Crestview it wasnt to small that every single person knew each other but it was small in a sense that there was only one big shopping center in the middle of the town. There was a bunch of little boutique type stores through out the shopping center among big chain stores like target and tj maxx there also were a couple of small business offices as well. I usually only came out here to go to target since I was on a strict allowance from James. I was given $100 for grocceries every two weeks and $25 a month for myself. 

A surge of anger rushed through me again, how have I been so stupid, I let a man control me to the point where I had a $25 allowance. I am a 29 year old woman who has an allowance from a man who can barely get it up once a month for me. 

The first thing that I needed to do before I started even thinking about looking aroung the shop was to see if I still had access to my cards. I had this months allowance on me in cash and I had our joint cards in my legging pockets. 

I walked over to the gas station to use the atm smiling at the cashier as I walked over to the grey box that would tell me if id be able to survive or if i needed to get a job right away. 

I grabbed my card my hand shaking a little as I inserted the card and entered the pin. The machine beeped and grunted as it printed out the tiny recipt. Hands still shaking I flipped over the recipt and nearly dropped.

Balance: $150,000

This had to be a mistake. I only recieved $250 dollars a month, I knew James made a decent amount of money but I did not know he made enough to have this amount in our account. 

I needed to make a plan, I had nothing but $25. If i had access to this money now i had to act fast before James completly cut me off during the divorce process.

Our bank was in the same complex I couldnt use the card in case he had alerts on it to block tranactions. 

I looked around the gas station for an inconspicious bag finding a wall of a knockoff handbags in the back. That would do. 

I grabbed a big michael kors handbag and turned to the cashier.

"How much?" 

"For you? You can take it for 10."

I smiled to myself.

The cashier rang me up trying to flirt with me as I just smiled awkwardly.

I grabbed the bag and walked over to Crestview national bank. 

I had my ID and debit card out so i didn't look like a total weirdo without a wallet and a horrible knock off purse.

I waited in line,wondering if I should just call James and ask him if I could use the money.The petty side of me was screaming at me to shut up. He left us for another woman. The divorce papers werent processed yet so we were technically still married my name is on the account. I had every right to that money after 10 years.

"next" The bubbly blonde called. She must be new she was way to excited to be at work on a wednesday. The rest of the tellers wore permenant scowls on their faces and just seemed to hate their lives.

"How may I help you today maam."

"I wanted to make a withdraw from my account today, I probably should have called seeing as it is a large withdrawl." I winced when I realized my mistake.

"Its alright maam we can accept withdraws of a 100,000 or lower without a call ahead. Will that help you at all?"

"Yes,actually all I want to pull out is 100,000 dollars."

"Certainly ma'am all I need is the debit card associated as well as your ID." She smiled sweetly.

I handed her my cards and waited as she click clacked on the computer in front of her,I took in a deep breath as she was moving, hoping I didnt get in trouble or James somehow found out. 

That would not be good.