How do I re-install mountain lion if my macbook air is in this state?

I just now had the bright idea of restoring my mac and wiping it clean. I'm currently in the start-up process and I can't re-install mountain lion because I never bought it. I bought this macbook air from an aquaintence last year. How do I upgrade to mountain lion if my mac is like this?  Is this issue really as simple as upgrading?

cschnupp wrote:
The software on the macbook was the most recent.  It had already been upgraded to mountain lion by the previous owner.
Does the original owner or yourself have a Snow Leopard istall disc? I'm guessing no.
Unfortunately it looks like my situation has worsened. I'll click re-install mountain lion then continue and a message saying "to download and restore os x, your computer's eligibility will be verified with apple." I'll click continue and another message will appear saying something like "could not install to drive please contact applecare."  I am no longer being asked to enter my apple id or password.  I fear this is a "you have tried x amount of times so you are now locked out" situation.  Thanks to both of you for responding so soon!
That I'm not sure of. If it were me I'd still buy a copy of SL as it's cheap and partition the hard drive so I have two OS on the same disc, (make the SL partiton about 25GB). You can use one to trouble shoot the other sometimes. It also means you can boot from DVD which I like.

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