A Place You Stay Forever: Chapter 4 BFF & BTC

   " I was up eating bacon and eggs by 9 a.m." 

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Salvador turned on speaker phone and went to the mirror .

 " I didn't even wake up with a head ache.
  Not one drop of water all night either.
  I must of drank at least a dozen stubby Jamaican Strip beers. 
  I even cracked that expensive bottle of Midleton Dair Ghaelach 
  Irish whiskey you bought me before I left.Polished off a whole flask 
  of it while inside the club last night."

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He pulled down the skin under his eye towards his cheek and peered at his perfectly clear white left eyeball.

" I might open a breakfast diner."

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Turning to the right he leaned back and tilted his chin.

" Denny's was packed to the tits.
  Apparently it's the only place to get breakfast ."

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Salvador noticed a scratch mark below his ear two inches long down the left side on his neck.

 " Ya the cab lady said they're no real
   Mom&Pop greasy spoons at all in town. Only franchises."

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He touched the straight red line. It felt bumpy but there was no open flesh or pain.

" She said Burger King has a cheap bacon and egg breakfast. 
  Somehow I found that odd.
  I played it safe and ate at Dennys. What a rip off. "

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Salvador walked towards the north side penthouse window and took in the view from his suite within the Penticton Lakeside Resort.

The reflecting orchards on the clear blues lake was picturesque and impressed him. Mountains and clouds on the horizon seemed to be perfectly painted on an atmospheric canvas .He impressed the scenic collage to memory.

 " I could see you owning a restaurant. 
   Not a bad idea actually if you need too incur
   a few loses for tax purposes." 

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Alexa was Salvador's first kiss.

  " I still can't believe you finally left the city and
  are legitimately relocating to this random small tourist town.
  As your accountant I would highly recommend you hold off on 
  cashing anymore BTC through your bank account until the
  next tax cycle."

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Salvador was the only male Alexa had ever french kissed.

" Now as your best friend I'm begging you to get your shit together. 
 You need to start being more serious about this new wealth.
 You are literally the most intelligent person I know Sal. 
 There is no way you don't have some clever plan all figured out."

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He had no plan.

Zero .

Nothing. Not a clue what to do.

   " You are a real life multi millionaire ." 

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She felt so proud of him every time she heard herself say that phrase out loud.

 " This a very large amount of money that needs to be declare to 
  the government. By the way it's about time you start rewarding 
  yourself for being the smartest guy in the room for fucksakes. "

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Salvador picked up the smartphone and walked into the bathroom.

 "Well Alexa according to you many many moons ago all I had was
 imaginary computer money the government would never even
 consider taxing. " 

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Salvador spoke with a brotherly taunt in a condescending cadence.

" You need to really listen to me now Sal. The government has recently
 legislated a win-fall tax penalty regarding crypto- currency . 
 By not declaring those bitcoins  you could be sent to a federal prison
 for tax evasion." 

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She spoke in the same volume and punctual precision she used when informing corporate clients they could be held liable for tax fraud for deliberate circumvention of profits regarding loopholes in offshore supply chain contracts.

   " Lighten up , I think I might have and idea that gets some of 
    these bitcoins into cash without paying a 45% tax."

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Looking around the hotel suite everything glowed in a tidy clean brightness.

    " I will tell you all about in two weeks when
     you and Linda come to visit.
     I'll send a few million satoshi's for airfare." 

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Salvador put the phone back to speaker and placed in on the bathroom counter.

   " I can't believe how much they went up so quick after $1000. 
    Remember when Linda and I sat you down at the BBQ joint telling 
    you to play it safe and be  smart. How you needed to cash out
    at least half when they were only $400 dollars.  " 

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Salvador instead convinced Linda and Alexa that very night to put 5% of their combined weekly earning into bitcoins .

Alexa had been constantly worried about Salvador ever since Stacy went missing over a decade ago.

During the last half dozen years he would religiously put half of every paycheck into Bitcoins.

Looking like a financial fanatic homeless man standing on a street corner holding a cardboard sign that reads BUY BTC, Salvador Seimors preached that the arrival of blockchains would save the world.

Reading and researching future technology distracted and subconsciously comforted Salvador's mind, cradling him from the mystery of Stacys disappearance.

While spending every weekend for many years placing Stacy's missing person poster all over the city, Salvador would share what he read about blockchain technology with strangers as he poked around for new leads that would never manifest regarding his wife's still unexplained sudden disappearance.

Before any of Salvador's inefficient tec friends had ever completed an e-transfer, they were being shown how to buy bitcoins . Salvador would take the time help them make cold storage wallets. As the price went parabolic many spammed him with grateful as well as apologetic emails thanking him for convincing them not to sell below $5000.

Turns out most of his friends only bought into his bitcoin investment recommendation because it gave them something to talk about instead of Stacy's disappearance. Their devilishly advocated inquisitive scepticism would encouraged Salvador to continue learning and sharing updated information. For the people who loved Salvador it was better to be obsessively educated about blockchain technology then have him discusses all the possible unanswerable outcomes regarding what happened to his wife.

     " Linda wants me to tell you her Mom and Dad traded
      some of their bitcoins for a new boat.They send their love.
      We decided to cash out half and pay off the condo downtown."

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As soon as Salvador made the motion to begin his decent onto the toilet seat a gusher of brown liquid escaped from his bowels with an unexpected fierceness.

     "UUHHHH......... UUUUUUUHHHHHHHHH   holy fuck  UUHHHHH "

     "Sal, Sally what's wrong."

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Alexa straighten up in her chair and held the phone closer to her ear.

   " What the fuck.... AHHHHH .....Oh Wow..... Whoa...  Whew " 

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The steady flow came to a complete stop and the deep cramp within his guts subsided . Salvador stayed still to let his sphincter reset.

     "Salvador what's wrong" 

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Alexa rarely used his full name .

 " I just had the crazies beer shit ever."

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He spoke with a satisfied confusion like his rectum had just been cosmically cleansed.

    "It's a sign Alexa. I'm really serious about finally 
    getting  my shit together."

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Salvador burst into the distinct bellowing laugh she recalled from high school.

    " Oh Sally, disgusting. I'm hanging up now. "

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She looked at her phone and gave it a slow head shaking smiled. Her best friend seemed to be finally breaking away from the dark thoughts that had haunted his daily life for last dozen years, since his beloved wife just simply vanished one summer morning.