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Tobias and his brother have hit the jackpot. After a lifetime of living under their family\u2019s shadow of being failures, their luck has finally turned around. They\u2019ve struck it rich.<\/p>\n
Filthy Rich.<\/p>\n
Too bad good luck has a way of quickly turning back around.<\/p>\n
Black Gold, where your dreams can become nightmares.<\/p>\n
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Let me tell you how it all went down. The sun was barely beneath the corn when it all started. A tiny sliver of red above the horizon to the west. One of those perfect sunsets where you want to curl up with a cutie from the drive-in on the other side of town and just forget about the movie all together. It couldn\u2019t have been a more picture-perfect end to the greatest day of our lives, but I didn\u2019t expect it to actually be our last.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not sure of the exact moment everything changed, but I\u2019m pretty sure when it did, we could never have prepared for what was ahead of us.<\/p>\n
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Chapter One<\/p>\n
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At first, we thought the black liquid was oil, that we\u2019d struck it rich and that we\u2019d be able to retire and live in leisure. We actually started writing down all the ways we\u2019d spend the money. Our first choice was to buy some island out in the Caribbean. Live a life in the warm sun, surrounded by half-naked women with a penchant for serving drinks and a strong hatred for clothing. A place that had no use for dust and dirt. Large machinery and too many rules. A paradise waiting for us to come in and live like kings.<\/p>\n
Of course, if an island wasn\u2019t available, we\u2019d buy at least a small castle or two. Rooms full of servants and maids. Bring in all the celebrities we could think of. Maybe even some royalty. Make them all sleep in the lower quarters. Leaving us with the upper tower overlooking everything that was ours. I can already hear the seagulls calling as the waves crash against the coast. Can you?<\/p>\n
Oh, what would it be like to marry a princess? Maybe even two princesses?<\/p>\n
I could tell a thought or two of similar design had crossed my brother\u2019s mind as well. That shit-eating grin of his hadn\u2019t faded since the moment that glorious black gold started spewing high into the air. He\u2019s never been much for hiding anything. Mother always said he wore his heart on his sleeve. The real emotional type. First to get sad or angry. Run in when a fight starts and last to give up when you\u2019re way past the point of losing. Real stickler for those things he is. It\u2019s why he has the scars on his cheeks and the eyes that for some reason women love. I hate him sometimes for that. I never tell him, but it\u2019s there. I\u2019m man enough to admit that.<\/p>\n
But things were going to change now. Once and for all as the fountain of treasure lifted into the air and crested into the most beautiful wave ever seen on the face of this planet told us so. Heaven on Earth. That\u2019s what it was. The answers to all our prayers. No more work. No shitty jobs telling us to get our asses moving or we\u2019ll be seeing a pink slip slap us across the face faster than a feral cat high on catnip. Life was going to be easy from this day forward. Not a care in this fucking world. I\u2019m telling you what, we had it all planned out. Even if we weren\u2019t going to be able to spend it all, we were going to give it one hell of a shot.<\/p>\n
Then it all went bad.<\/p>\n
Real fucking bad.<\/p>\n
Like end of the world shit here. Not the kind where you call Bruce Willis and send him to the fucking moon bad. I\u2019m talking Death Star, and everything is blown to hell and back bad.<\/p>\n
Let me tell you how it all went down. The sun was barely beneath the corn when it all started. A tiny sliver of red above the horizon to the west. One of those perfect sunsets where you want to curl up with a cutie from the drive-in on the other side of town and just forget about the movie all together. It couldn\u2019t have been a more picture-perfect end to the greatest day of our lives, but I didn\u2019t expect it to actually be our last.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not sure of the exact moment everything changed, but I\u2019m pretty sure when it did, we could never have prepared for what was ahead of us.<\/p>\n
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