And here's where those issues about their work and financial issues ring clear.
Chapter 10: Big Issues
It was late mid-afternoon and Diego came back to the pack house after a huge day of school and as much as he wanted to kick back, he has to go to work at this Italian restaurant that he dreads working there, but has to support the entire pack to keep the house from getting an eviction notice. Before he can get ready, he has to check out some mail and just as he thought...there are bills. Diego groans and curses at this mail in Spanish and one of them has a late notice on the Whophone that's just Diego's name along with Cody, Mike and Jonah in separate bills.
Diego opened his up and it reads, 'You are behind on paying your Whophone bills 2 weeks ago. The amount due was $200 in the last month and your late fee is about $45 for a total of $245. To prevent losing your phone services, you have to pay for those fees by check by the end of the week.'
Diego grunts in frustration that he has to pay the late phone bills again and there was something in him that wanted to curse out those people in Spanish or come over to punch them in the face in person, but all he has to do is pay the people to get them off his back. He lets out a deep sigh and said, "I gotta pay these people again."
He heads upstairs to his room and before he can change in his Italian chef uniform, he got his pocketbook, writes the check to pay for the Whophone bill, including the late fee and after he did that, he placed it in his chef's hat and changed into his outfit and left the room and heads downstairs, only to see Mana come in the house.
"Hey, Diego. How are ya?" asked Mana.
Diego looks up at Mana and he replied, "Dreading to do shit work. On top of that, I have to pay the Whophone bill for a late fee. How do you think I'm doing?"
Listening to the tone of Diego's voice, Mana could tell that all of this financial burden is affecting him the most and he said, "You'll get through this, D."
"Maybe so. But for now...I don't really know. Where's Jojo?' asked Diego.
"He'll be here any minute. We just left work a little early." Mana answered.
"Lucky you." Diego said, a little bitterly.
Jojo comes in the house and he sees Diego standing there and he said, "Hey, Diego. Going to work?"
"Yeah. I'm gonna home a little late tonight. One of the staff has been relieved from his duties and wanted me to work an extra shift. That's just fucked up that they're making me work extra. Dealing with shitty employees and customers are bad enough as it is." Diego added.
Jojo nodded his head at that and he understood the reason and said, "Well, all right. I'll see you a little later, I guess."
"Adios, amigos." Diego said, leaving the house.
Mana knew that there's gonna be time to do something about this and each time something that deeply affects the pack so hard, both Jojo and Mana couldn't believe that there's nothing they can do but to watch them succumb to pressure of work schedules and financial burdens they have to take on and Jojo said, "I think we need to bring the pack together and try to prevent this union from crumbling."
"The only question is...how?" asked Jojo.
Stick around to see how they'll tackle this issue.