39: Loan Sharks

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The money I earned from private tutoring sessions wasn’t worth the danger that came with it sometimes.

I’d just finished tutoring a second year student whose parents were worried about her failing out because of the company she was keeping these days, and because she was on her phone half the time, I had to repeat every point countless times before it sunk in.

In return, I ended up staying much later than was necessary and I’d only just left a few minutes after 10 pm. I made a mental note to send her parents a hefty bill at the end of the month for having my day wasted and putting me in danger of going home late.

Normally, I wouldn’t do that, but today, there was a dreadful chill in the air that forced me to do so.

For the last five minutes, I’d been feeling the odd sense that someone was following me and it didn’t help matters that the streets were almost empty asides from people that were closing their stores for the night.

I kept trying to ignore the feeling because each