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Richard Watterson dressed in a suit entered Elmore Bank, behind him was his manager who was there to make sure he actually put the money into the bank account.
In many cases she was like Nichole, making sure he put his clothes on properly and he stayed focus, she even taught him things while he was forced to pose for hours on end.
Now the bank was much more used to his presence, unlike the first time he came in here with his new fabulous body.
He walked to the counter since he wanted to cash the cheques in while the normal people stared at his company's 1000-dollar suit and hot bod.
He soon made it to the front of the line where a plant person was there to oogle him.
He was pretty used to the looks by now.
"Mr Watterson, your back," She said, mysteriously out of the hundreds of people who came in, it was his name she had engraved into her mind.
"Urrrr, I would like to cash my cheques into the usual account," he said, as his manger took out the slips and handed it through the glass, she kept them because she knows he would lose them.
The woman beyond the glass was stunned when she saw all three cheques.
Richard had no idea how much he was putting in but he had a good heart.
He knows he was losing time with his kid's, so he hoped the money would help the family out even if it was only a little bit.
He hoped that Nichole could finally buy their kids replacement clothes because he didn't feel good wearing expensive clothes while his kids looked poorer than their own classmates who only wore shoes.
The woman looked at the Watterson bank account and then the cheques.
The amount was much larger than last time, which meant that the family income was constantly growing.
Could the Watterson even be classed as poor anymore?
"Excuse me, for one moment," She said, before getting up and going to the Bank Manager office.
Richard had no idea the kind of impact he had just made to his own family.
Some good and some bad.
Ch 5: How to spend 5-grand in a day.
Nichole Watterson kept her spirits up as she typed away, it was nice for a bit to be able to go to a Spa.
The guys at the office complimented her since she didn't look bitter when she came to work.
However, her family was now struggling and she had to think about the raising taxes since both she and her husband were now working.
But then to add salt to the wounds her boss gave her an impossible deadline which forced her to do overtime with no pay for it.
She would have to come home super late again.
However, it wasn't all bad, she was stunned to hear from her kids that the school had given them amazing lockers because they didn't want a law suit.
Anais had girls wanting to be her friend just to get into the personal locker room.
We'll, she was happy for her kid's good fortune, she just wished she could have some right now.
She came home really late from work and dismissed the Robbinson's, who could see she looked terrible.
She went to bed without Richard by her side and couldn't help but feel a bit lonely.
When morning came, she got up and heard the sound of letters being mailed, with a tooth brush in her mouth, she went to get it.
It was no surprise to her that she saw the monthly letter from Elmore Bank, however, when she read it, she couldn't contain her shock.
"To who this letter is addressed to, we would like to congratulate you on soon becoming part of our 'over 10, 000 dollar plus club'. We have reviewed your account and we know you may reach the goal within days. We are happy to be your chosen bank and would like to offer you our 10, 000-dollar Gold card"
And then the card dropped.
It was the Golden Card.
Her eyes were as round as saucers when she saw it.
She tried bending it but couldn't.
It was real.
Then she saw the family bank account balance and almost had her eyes popping out of eye sockets.
Suddenly she yelled. "KIDS! PUT SOME CLOTHES ON! WHERE GOING SHOPPING!"
She was going to take them on a day, she and Richard had been dreaming of for years.
#20 minutes later#
"WAIT! WE HAVE A GOLDEN CARD!?" All three said shocked in the car.
"Uh-huh" Nichole said, excitedly. "Although we're not part of the over 10,000-dollar club yet, they have done a thorough background check and know the money inside our account is perfectly legal. If Richard keeps this up, we'll never be broke again"
All three kids looked at each other in excitement.
Their dad, who could barely do anything himself had become the man who saved them from the brink of poverty.
They found a parking spot and all of them rushed into the shopping mall.
They had never been in here with so much money.
"Dude. We can get the latest console with the highest specks imaginable." Gumball said, with sparkling eyes.
"We can get the latest game," Darwin said.
"I can get the latest Daisy doll with all the accessory's!" Anais said, about to faint from the very image.
"Not yet," Nichole said, stopping them in their tracks. "We're going to the rental store to pay for that DVD"
"What!" All three said.
"You know it's only going to get higher and higher," Nichole said, beginning to walk to the store they all had pretty much been avoiding. "And once we pay for it, we can all get new clothes."
All three kids groaned.
They entered the store and Larry was immediately on alert when he saw them.
"Welcome to Lazer Videos. How can I help you?" He said, treating them with a smile because he had to.
However, what happened next shocked him.
"We would like to pay for the DVD my two sons could not return some time ago," Nichole said, and his eyebrow shot up. "May I ask how much it is now?" she said.
Larry not wanting to be fired, went to check and said. "802 dollars and 20 cents"
"That sounds reasonable," She said, before getting out her gold card.
The power that was unleashed when she got it out, was felt throughout the whole store and almost blinded everywhere.
Larry's eyes were wide.
That was a real gold card!
He had heard that their Richard had become a Model, he didn't expect for him to be doing so well.
Then his boss came out.
"LARRY! Show these wonderful people some respect!" Said, the deceptively cute little thing.
The Watterson were stunned since they remembered the last time they saw him.
However, he had been forced out of his office by the power of the Gold Card.
"Y-Yes, sir," Larry said, as he began to set up the payment by card and Nichole smugly swiped.
The transaction went through.
Suddenly they were all confused when they heard the sound of trumpets from above and the Watterson's were suddenly taller, no longer weighted down by the huge debt.
"Would you like proof of your purchase, madam?" Larry said, suddenly changing his tone towards her, surprise her.
"No thanks," she said.
"We'll, can I offer you anything in the store?" he said, trying to get her to spend more. "Your whole family is are now free to rent as much as you like and for 10 dollars a month, you can have it delivered to you before it even hits our stores"
"...I'll think about it later," She said before all four of them walked out.
Those inside the store talked about the family who had a gold card, it was the first time many had seen one.
"Now, let's get some clothes," Nichole said, feeling good.
In fact, they were all feeling good.
Subconsciously they all want to the discount clothing store.
"No," She said, stopping them before they could walk through the 'gate'. "Not today"
Then they were all confused as she brought them to a place that they previously couldn't afford, it had clothes that looked amazing on a person's body.
With the price to match.
Nichole took a breather and stepped her foot in.
A shockwave wrung out, alerting the store of their arrival.
Both Gumball and Darwin were stunned when they saw Tobias Wilson.
"Tobias?" Gumball said.
"Gumball?" Tobias said he was with parents and sister.
Since when could they afford to shop here?
His parents and sister had their mouths open as if they could not believe what they were seeing.
"Hi" Said, a worker who immediately went to them with a smile. "What would you like?"
Would they like her to burn their clothes?
Nichole felt good under the watch of the store.
"My children need new clothes. How much can you do with a 1000 dollar budget?" She said, making sure everybody heard her.
A 1000 dollar budget!?
Tobias family was stunned.
Since when could the Watterson's afford that!?
Suddenly all the designer appeared and bowed to them and said. "Let's get them into some proper clothes"
All three kids were taken to the private changing rooms and some workers were picking their branded clothes.
All the kids were stunned to be handed really nice clothes while Nichole was offered something to drink while she waited.
Gumball was the first to come out in casual clothes that were amazing on him.
"Mom! I've never felt underwear this soft!" Gumball said.
They even gave him new underwear to match.
"I like this. Bag this" Nichole said, making some workers extremely happy.
Darwin came out looking like he was a fish who grow legs and lived in a 1-million-dollar house, his sneakers felt way better than the shows Gumball had given to him.
Anais came out looking like she was one of the popular girls on TV.
Nichole said yes to all of them, today was the day she could finally spoil her children.
"And would you like for all of them to wear one a set as they walk out?" Said, the worker who was putty in her hands.
"Yes, throw what they wore when they walked in, in the trash," She said, all their none-replicable clothes were ruined anyway.
And Anais, Gumball, Darwin walked out of the store seriously styling.
It was only natural that with money, they dressed the part.
Their friends and neighbours who saw them looked at them in shock.
It wouldn't be long until every store in the mall know they had cash and they were here to spend it.
"Now, let's get clothes for me," She said, going to the store that she would not dare to step into.
The clothes she wore for the past 7 years were dumped in the trash and was replaced by clothes that actually complimented her.
"Now, let's go to the phone shop," She said, as they carried their bags.
A shockwave was unleashed the moment she stepped in.
For the first time, all of them want into a proper cell phone store and the workers were on high alert when they saw how amazing they looked and not poor at all.
"Excuse me, can I help you with anything?" Said, a worker immediately.
"Yes, we would like four new phones and we would like them to be, 400 dollars each?" Nichole said she wasn't going go for the 1000+ dollar stuff yet.
"Of course," Said the worker, that was almost 2000+ dollars all together.
Those who heard immediately went to help them pick something out.
"I'm in heaven! Phones with internet, calls and games!" Gumball said as he held a phone that could be his own.
All of their eyes shone when they saw the phones they could touch AND buy.
The workers were all too happy to have them pick out their phones and all together they would be paying almost 200 dollars per month.
It was a figure not a single one of them would have agreed to in the past, but with the gold card, it was a different story entirely.
Both Gumball, Darwin and Anais smiled when they saw the money go through and the workers soon joined them.
They all came out with bags that had their new phones in it, these phones had finger print scanner on them so an alarm would go off if somebody who wasn't them tried to unlock them.
"Now, let's get something to eat," She said, as they want to the new food place called 'Diner'.
They walked in, clearly looking rich and had lots of bags.
The worker immediately wants to them and said.
"What can I get for all of you?" He said.
All of them were about to go for the dollar menu out of habit, however, they managed to stop themselves.
"Give us the most expensive thing you have," She said, stunning the man.
Then the worker went away and brought something giant onto their table.
There was an expensive cheese in small cups, all their burgers on one plate, there was even pizza.
"BEST. DAY. EVER!" All the kid's said, while they all ate from it and paid.
"Now, let's get you your Daisy Land toys and boys, your new console," She said, as all of them felt like they had died and gone to heaven.
They want to the toys store and spent an hour watching Anais give her mother the eyes as the workers piled the toy set onto the trolley.
Then they want to the game store and both boys gave their mother the eyes when they saw the latest game console.
Then they walked out, feeling like they had the best lives in the world.
They walked passed a homeless person and Darwin's heart went out.
"Miss's Mom. Can I have some money?" He said, making them all stop, she saw the homeless person and know what he wanted to do and gave him some money.
The homeless person was stunned when Darwin sudden deposited 100 bucks into his hat.
"B-Bless you kid!" said, the homeless person.
"Don't mention it?" Darwin said before they want back to the car.
However, when they entered, the reality of how much they had spent crashed down on them and they all deflated.
"W-What going on?" Gumball said, with panic.
"Boys, it's the weight of poverty!" Nichole said, and the kid's mouth opened.
It was all gone!?
All that money, Richard had earned in three days was gone in several hours!
They were shocked that they managed to spend that much and were now broke again.
It was an even bigger slap when a second ago they were all drunk off of having lots of money to spend.
However, Anais suddenly remembered something and said. "Hang on... doesn't Dad still have one more day of work, left?"
Which meant more money was still coming in...
"That's right. Richard still hasn't deposited 2,000 dollars yet into the account..." Nichole said as they began to inflate again. "And I'm getting my pay check next Monday!"
"So, does that mean, we don't have to take everything back?" Gumball said.
The pure humiliation they would have to endure, after spending all that money.
"No. We can keep them" Nichole said, almost shedding a tear.
They all cheered.
Clayton was now right.
Their lives were now better than his own, but the real question was.
Would it turn them into jerks?
However, little did they know they were about to have their first 'Paparazzi' and he will teach them the reason why people ran at the sight of them.
And scene!
Next chapter, Richard comes home and is stunned by the newness of the house. Meanwhile, the kids experience what it's like to go to school reeking of money but some strange guy is following them with a camera. Review/fav and follow!