I’m struggling to get by every single day. I can’t feed my family anymore, I don’t have the money.

Why? I hear you ask. The answer is simple, it all started on that doomed day in 2019: 8 may.

I decided to play fortnite back then and found a pleasant surprise, a free glider and 6000 V-bucks! I was amazed and excited. I proceeded to buy everything in the shop that day! But then, a day later, I logged in again and saw that my V-buck count was negative.

I was officially in V-buck debt.

My entire world came crashing down. There was no future for me anymore. I fell into a severe depression. How was I ever going to pay all these V-bucks back? What was I supposed to do? I’m not from a particularly poor family, not at all, but we really couldn’t afford V-bucks.

But life went on and I graduated from high school. I didn’t have the money to go to college but I managed to make a living by working as a plumber, just like my father. I even got married to a beautiful wife, who gave me two equally beautiful children.

I was happy again.

But then I received an email from a company I’ve feared for my entire life. Epic Games. I was too afraid to open it so I didn’t, I now realize how much of a coward I was. Eventually it took me two weeks before I finally snapped. I already knew what this cursed email was about, of course. I just didn’t want my family to know about my troubled past. I had wanted to move on from this dark chapter of my life and forget all about it, but it seemed like my past couldn’t let go of me.

Even though Fortnite doesn’t exist anymore, it seems like Epic Games still wants me to pay off my debt. How am I ever going to find enough money to do so? I have to feed my family and pay for my kids’ education!

I can feel it deep in my bones, I know my life is falling apart again. I can’t keep hiding this secret from my wife, she already suspects something is wrong, I don’t want to sacrifice my marriage or my children. I can’t get another job since I’m already too busy right now. We sold everything we didn’t need anymore just to get some more money. I am lost and I don’t know what to do.

As I am typing this, I realize there is only one option left. For the safety of my family I have to run and hide. I don’t know where I will go or how I will survive, but I will manage.

Someday I will meet my family again. Maybe my kids won’t even realize I’m their father, but that doesn’t matter anymore right now. I just want them to stay as far away as possible from this.

I hope I will reunite with them again. When I finally payed off my V-buck debt,