I hurried behind her as we arrives at the bus stop, we awaited in lull for the bus to arrive.
Though I am standing behind her I could see through her shattered heart, what she is feeling at the moment and how much she is praying for none of this to be true. I also prayed and wished that none of the things that had happened to me were all just a nightmare, that the man I once loved is still the same man I fell in love with.Perhaps I am a mere outsider to her, she chose to wear a mask and bury her excitements deep down inside of her, I want to walk up to her,give her a wake up slap and hug her tightly until she pours her heart out, I want to tell her how strong and pure hearted she is, a plethora of things I need to say to her but I don't know how to do that when she isn't giving me the recourse.Eventually, the bus arrives and she turns to me and goes, " let's go, this is our bus!" Then she continues and gets into the bus and I came behind her, while She si" Is this how you want to pay me back for everything?" I hear her say in a trembling tone, gradually I walk up to them and stand still behind Sam, the situation She caught her boyfriend in, she couldn't curb her sentiments as tears unhurriedly run from her eyes down to her cheeks, " I gave you all my support and more, I loved you unconditionally Jordan, I even took you in when you lost everything and this is how you repay me? Jordan with the two women he had escorted into the boutique to lavish my money, they all gaped with no blithe of concern on their faces." Sam, I'm sorry for all this but I can never betray you, I only took the cash from the new girl because I'm in desperate need of a financial stipend, thanks to that money I was able to pay off the five grand I'm owing on the mortgage and spoil myself a little!" He says with a grimace.I can feel my blood boil in rage, I clench my fists and just as I am about to go give him a piece of my mind, Sam grips my wrist. " I
" Hey, it's okay. Please pull yourself together." I try to commiserate with her." You don't understand Amanda, I did everything I could for Jordan, I changed myself, work even harder to fend for him. There's nothing in the world that I haven't done just to please that guy, and he chose to repay me this way?" She wails.I arise from my seat and squat in front of her. " And what did you amass from doing all that for him? Sam, I believe that love should be reciprocal, I pull her chin up and make her look at me, you don't have to change yourself for anyone, you don't have to work you're a** off just so you can make him happy and then at the end you feel the pain and gets nothing, you should be able to be with someone who sees all your quirks but chooses to love you for who you are. Jordan had a reason to pretend to love you and stay with you until he found something to replace you with, love should be unconditional Sam, your tears are too precious to be wasted on a pers
" Hey, it's okay. Please pull yourself together." I try to commiserate with her." You don't understand Amanda, I did everything I could for Jordan, I changed myself, work even harder to fend for him. There's nothing in the world that I haven't done just to please that guy, and he chose to repay me this way?" She wails.I arise from my seat and squat in front of her. " And what did you amass from doing all that for him? Sam, I believe that love should be reciprocal, I pull her chin up and make her look at me, you don't have to change yourself for anyone, you don't have to work you're a** off just so you can make him happy and then at the end you feel the pain and gets nothing, you should be able to be with someone who sees all your quirks but chooses to love you for who you are. Jordan had a reason to pretend to love you and stay with you until he found something to replace you with, love should be unconditional Sam, your tears are too precious to be wasted on a pers
" But that's your money about to go down the drain!" She laments." I don't care as long as you don't get into anymore trouble, please let's just leave okay?"" Fine! She turns and gulks at the manager as she picks up the shopping bags without uttering a word and zooms out of the store, while I took the rest of the bags from the table and follow her.We went back to the store where we had gone for shopping before all the drama began,to pay for our purchase before we left and starts to the bus stop, and while we awaits the bus, I thought of staying calm till I get back to her place, who knows where I will go with the little money left on me? I steals a glimpse at her as her focus were fixed on the road. Sigh, I know she must be feeling ashamed about what her boyfriend did to me and that might be the reason behind picking a fight with the manager despite the fact that she is a lot older than her. They say " life is what happens when we are busy making plans"  
" But that's your money about to go down the drain!" She laments." I don't care as long as you don't get into anymore trouble, please let's just leave okay?"" Fine! She turns and gulks at the manager as she picks up the shopping bags without uttering a word and zooms out of the store, while I took the rest of the bags from the table and follow her.We went back to the store where we had gone for shopping before all the drama began,to pay for our purchase before we left and starts to the bus stop, and while we awaits the bus, I thought of staying calm till I get back to her place, who knows where I will go with the little money left on me? I steals a glimpse at her as her focus were fixed on the road. Sigh, I know she must be feeling ashamed about what her boyfriend did to me and that might be the reason behind picking a fight with the manager despite the fact that she is a lot older than her. They say " life is what happens when we are busy making plans"  
" But that's your money about to go down the drain!" She laments." I don't care as long as you don't get into anymore trouble, please let's just leave okay?"" Fine! She turns and gulks at the manager as she picks up the shopping bags without uttering a word and zooms out of the store, while I took the rest of the bags from the table and follow her.We went back to the store where we had gone for shopping before all the drama began,to pay for our purchase before we left and starts to the bus stop, and while we awaits the bus, I thought of staying calm till I get back to her place, who knows where I will go with the little money left on me? I steals a glimpse at her as her focus were fixed on the road. Sigh, I know she must be feeling ashamed about what her boyfriend did to me and that might be the reason behind picking a fight with the manager despite the fact that she is a lot older than her. They say " life is what happens when we are busy making plans"  
Subsequently taking a brief nap while I had gone into the guest room to change into some of the outfits I could wear at home, then sort the things we purchased and check out the expensive things in the saraffin shopping bags.While I am still on it, I hear a knock at the door. " Come in, it's open!" I sang out loud.Sam opens the door ajar and walks in with a cup of coffee in her hand." Here, this is for you! " she hands over the hot cup of coffee to me as I reach out and take it from her, " thanks!" I said taking a sip of the hot coffee." May I suggest something to you?" She asks while she slowly sits next to me in bed." Sure what's up?" I drop the clothes with me on the bed and turns to her because I could sense that she had something important to say... However, she seems to have ran out of words as she keeps on gaping at me and looking away." Umm, Amanda!" She calls out to me." yeah?" I replies curious about what she wants to t
When it comes to pastry, I don't like to brag but I am quite a cake whiz. And this evening I have a plan on baking a nice coffee cake for Sam since she is a fan of coffee. I started with my cake baking and before dawn, I am done with it and able to clean up the kitchen ahead of time. Before her arrival, I freshen up and had a little 'me time. In as much as I enjoy having company or a roommate, there's nothing in the world I enjoy more than some time alone to myself, it allows me to think my life through and know how far I've gone with my life and what step to take next in life, being able to enjoy one's company is the best way to live.While I laid down in bed, I hear a knock at the main entrance door and promptly I jump out of bed and ran to open the door, " I'm sure it must be Sam... She came quite timelier than I thought." I say to myself as I approach the door, turning the lock anti-clockwise direction, I succeed in opening the door and slowly pulls it ajar.The
Hailey's POV"What was all that bullshit you did out there?" Colton asked as he banged his hand so hard on the table, it nearly gave me a heart attack.I jumped. " I'm sorry. If it wasn't urgent then..."" Then what? Who do you think you are to barge into my office and create such chaos?" He walked up to me and grabbed my arm." Nobody. I'm a nobody." I said quietly and he let go of me as if he saw through me and then took a few steps back to his desk." What do you want?" He asked as he slowly placed the bottled water back on his table." To save my mother, I need $40,000 for her surgery."He scoffed " That's a huge sum of money, and why do you think I'd give you such an amount?" He asked sitting on the chair behind the desk." I don't know. I guess I don't have a lot of options on my table. I'm just playing all my cards and thats why I came to you."" I can give you forty grand but what do I get in return." He asked stroking his chin." Whatever you want?" I said without hesitation
Hailey's POVWhile I struggled with him, I kept screaming "Help!" hoping the cops would hear my voice and come to my aid.He forcefully dragged me to his office desk and began to strip my pants with his right hand while his left hand clenched my hair and pinned my face on the table.I struggled with him but he overpowered me and stripped my pants off.Just when he was about to force himself onto me, the door was kicked open with a cop at the entrance holding a gun at him." Step away from the lady." He instructed him.Immediately he let go of my hair and pulled assy from me.I heaved a sigh of relief and slumped into the chair behind me.The officer walked over and put a cuff on his wrists." Ma'am, are you okay?" The officer asked and I nodded gently, while I tried to control my emotions.I could feel my hands trembling as I arranged my hair.Suddenly, I recalled that Sam was still held by Roger's men, I hurried out of the office in search of her."Sam!" I called out." Amanda" I he
" you little birdy, think you could fly because you can flap your wings huh? " I hear Mr. Rogers's voice and then the sound of a smack." Oh gosh! I'm so sorry Sam, This is all my fault." I cried within." you should first of all look at your reflection in the mirror before you look in a woman's direction, you fat ugly bastard!" I could hear Sam throwing shades at him." Slap! You have a big mouth bitch!" Mr. Rogers hits her again. " Umm, excuse me? " I wave at the man standing by the door." what?" He retorts rudely." Please I need to use the bathroom for a minute." I requested." I can't let you go, the boss isn't here yet. So you have to hold it." " I wish I could but I have to go!" I stand up from my chair pretending to be pressed by urine." Okay, three minutes. Don't take longer than that." He says pointing towards the boss's bathroom." Okay. Thank you so much! I quickly Stumble into the bathroom and lock the door from the inside. Phew! I heave a sigh with my back against the
" A threesome... With the both of you, he flashes at me and Sam as we turn and gaze at one another. It's going to be fun, besides it's Friday, so, we will take it to the club and finally to a nice hotel, just the three of us. Once we are done the money is yours, it's not a big deal." He mutter.I feel disgusted merely gazing at him, his dirty yellowish teeth, with crusts on the corners of his mouth. Fat as hell and hideous, I don't think I can even stand staying in one room with just him in it.What gave him the impetus to look at us and think of nothing else but to have sex with us simply because we are women, poor, weak, and desperate girls.These types of people are the reason girls have deemed slots in society because they know when a girl is desperately in need of assistance and what do they do? They present such a tempting offer in front of her but with a constraint that requires her to sell herself, her respect to getting what she needs. At the end of the day,
We are here, eventually, my heart won't stop scampering throughout the entire trip. Sam and I make our way into the building which seems like a warehouse of the sort, there are some packaged goods in cartons stacked on the floor by the corner and some men standing and having a chit chat while some are busy arranging and repackaging the unknown goods in the cartons.It didn't look anything like what I had imagined on my way here, at least there isn't a group of varmints puffing smokes while counting stacks of cash, rather the men here seem to be more engrossed with what they are doing and everything seems legal to me." Hey! Excuse me, Sam waves at one of the men standing across the hall as he slowly takes a few steps closer to us with his brows furrow." Yeah? " the man motioned tilting his neck backward in a manner that his chin notches at Sam while he munches on his gum." Pardon me, please where can we find Mr. Roger?"" Oh! Do you mean the boss? Follow me, he says
" Y-yes?" I stammer." Ma'am you only have three days to get the money for the surgery or else... She pauses and sighs. We might not be able to save her." She states.My room was always filled with the echoes of honking car horns and distinct noises of new york city, suddenly in those brief seconds as I hold the phone in my left ear and listening to the doctor without a word. The only thing that encompass my room is an eerie lull which sent a cold shiver and skepticism running down gently in my spine.Could this be a malediction in my fate, why does despair often knocks at my door each time there is a ray of hope and happiness in my life?" Amanda! Amanda! " suddenly I could hear Sam's voice calling out to me as I slowly wipe my tears and look up, our gaze meets." Amanda, I am so sorry for saying all those nasty things to you, I-i don't know what came over me. She turns and places her hand on my shoulder. I just want you to know that you are a part of my streng
" You still haven't told me where we are going, Amanda?" Sam inquires of me.I hear her, however, I seize to answer her and decide to avoid making eye contact with her as the driver continues to our destination." Why aren't you answering any of my questions, will you talk to me?" She rebels.I can sense her gaping at me furiously but I chose to linger on staying mute, she crinkle her arms and frown her face.The taxi Pulls over by the corner after a twenty minutes ride from the coffee shop.I jump out of the car while Sam comes out after me, I keep my hand in my purse and pay off the driver and he zooms out immediately." what are we doing here, why did you bring me here Amanda?" She yells as her face turns crimson." I am so sorry but I have to step in and help you do what you are supposed to, a few days back. So come with me, let's go." I drag her by the arm as we proceed into the cemetery.With the help of Mrs. Torres, I was able to find o
Why do I feel like something is wrong, I could sense that I've missed something trying to understand Sam, is there something she isn't telling me? I could sense something fishy but I can't seem to wrap my hands around it.We got to the shop and I resume my duty immediately, During my entire shift I try talking to Sam, however, she continues to avoid me on each attempt I make, using the term " there is no relation in business." Whenever I come to talk to have a word with her.I understand, perhaps I meddle in other people's matters but she isn't just anyone to me, she is my best friend and a sister to me, and I believe sisters don't keep their pain from one another.I know she is hiding her feelings, something must have happened to her to make her keep faking her smile and harboring so much anger in her heart." An idea! Perhaps I should speak to Mrs.Torres, she must know something." I ponder as I take the empty plates and cup of coffee I recently served a c
It's been a month, a beautiful stress-free month of working with Sam at her coffee and pastry shop. I enjoy every single bit of my time serving and giving all my attention to the customer's needs, I don't think there is a part of my job I didn't like Though it paid a little, however, the fact that I can earn a dollar at the end of the day means so much to me. In barely a month now I have saved up enough cash to buy a new window phone for myself, at least now I will be proficient to browse the internet and socialize via social media, and of course with my fake identity and a picture of some celebrity or nature on my wall.I try to keep everything about me clandestine and it seems to be working perfectly, Eventually, my life is turning out to be stress-free with some happy mode activated, though, sometimes Sam can be a little uptight and inflexible when it comes to the subject of how to make some changes with the coffee shop, however, I understand what she is doing, making an eff