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Chapter 009: Damn, people are mean!

First day at work!

The floor was sticky, a disgusting mixture of spilled soda, dropped fries, and forgotten ketchup. My hands ached from scrubbing the grime off the tables, and my back screamed in protest with every movement.

I was exhausted, my legs like jelly, and my belly, a giant bowling ball stuck to my body, was throbbing with every step.

It wasn’t supposed to be this hard. I had thought a cleaning job would be easy, a way to earn some money and get back on my feet. But here I was, feeling like I was carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders, and my aching back.

“You should have gotten an abortion,” a voice sneered behind me.

My stomach lurched. I knew those words were meant to hurt, to make me feel small, worthless.

“So with this your pot belly, they call it pregnancy…can you even use it to work?” another voice chimed in, dripping with mockery.

The laughter that followed was like a swarm of angry bees, buzzing in my ears, stinging my heart. I tried to ignore them, to
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