Busy with debts, problems and now by the illness that no doctor diagnosed his son, Juan Carlos Segovia, went out to smoke a cigarette, and to walk on the night of the full moon in November.
The cold was already beginning to feel at that time of year, walking through one of the lonely streets of that town, from which he had never been able to leave, as he always dreamed and that tied him to it.
He was immersed in his problems, many of them reproaching the creator for them, when he suddenly trips over a metal box, and falls to the floor without putting his hands.
Thinking that bad luck was bent on attacking him, he saw that the metal box, when he struck it with his foot, had opened, thrown on the floor, he only chose to see its contents.
"I wish I had a gold bar" to get out of my problems, said Juan Carlos in a sarcastic tone. - and when he opened it completely, there was a small bar of pure gold, just for him, but what a joke is this, he thought, watching for everywhere, there was not a soul for hundreds of meters around
He took the metal box and headed back to his home, with the fear that someone had seen him or that his treasure would be stolen, when he arrived, everyone in his house was already sleeping and with fear he opened the mysterious box again, with fear to think that it had all been a joke that his eyes had played on him.
With the light already, I notice that the solid gold bar was still there, but also stuck a note, which he prepared to read, «The box will give you, everything you have always wanted, but in return it will take away, part of your soul and from your heart, if you don't want to continue using it, leave it where you found it in the next 24 hours, if you don't return it you will stay with it »
He was thinking about it all night, seeing how the gold bar shone, this was a temptation of the devil he thought, but he wondered, what has God done to help me, it was then that his wife woke up and told her everything that had happened. The level of poverty was such that seeing the gold bar dazzled them both.
They took the gold bar, and went to sell it, taking out thousands of dollars, with which they could continue to live comfortably for the rest of their days, they thought, but as time went by, their son's illness worsened, taking his life, no matter how many doctors the money bought.
It was then that he felt that a part of his soul and his heart had lost, and when he felt that the mystery box had collected the established part, the box kept giving him gold bars, but in exchange, what more would he ask for? Perhaps the life of his other two children, that of his wife, money was not so pleasant, like the fear of seeing what else would happen to him, it was then that he took the mystery box, and on a day just like the one on which he found her, he left her in the same place, hiding in the bushes, and seeing that someone else found her, now the curse would leave him.
It was when he saw that the other guy took the box to him, that at last he could breathe, he did not want his life and that of his family to depend on the box, but everything would depend on whether the one who had found it would accept it or it. would return, it was so he was awake, next to the window of the other guy who had found it, praying that he would accept it, and the curse would end
When he saw that the gold bar was taken out of the mysterious box, he clearly saw, in one of the corners, the demon laughing, he had finally been freed but another soul had been condemned.
