One Road, Six Ways - Part 9

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If Luz have to pay all costs plus 50% on it, how about them? Must they also pay the fare, their board and lodging? The answer to their question was yes, Nena and her group confirmed it to them.

"But we were told that our board and lodging were free!" Grace said.

"So we too, when we were still in the Philippines,   but it's not true. Upon arriving here we learned we have to pay it and also our plane ticket."

Back to their room the girls seemed defeated. If what the other Filipinas told them were true, what will happen? It's a lot of money they have to pay back.

"We are not yet sure if what the told us were true. We must forget it for a moment. You all prepared yourself for work." Carla told the girls that were very worried.

The five girls were busy preparing to work but not Luz, she just stayed lying on her bed.

"You're not moving, you will not work?" Carla asked Luz.

"How can I work? Look at my face, I had black eye! Besides I will not work. I decided already, I will go back to the Philippines!" Luz answered Carla.

"You heard already the other girls, you will pay a lot of money back to the syndicate!" 

"If it's true, I will find a way, I will asked the help of our Embassy, or I asked my family in the Philippines." 

Carla said no words. She thought that if she was Luz, she could not call her family's help. And if indeed they have to pay their fare and their board and lodging she knew she had a problem. How can she send money to her mother in the Philippines? 

"Okay, if you will not work, just come with us! Come on!" Carla asked Luz to come with them even if she will not work.

"No, I will stay here!" Luz refused.

"You will be alone here if we go work. What will you do if that crazy Greek will come here? Who will help you?" Carla was upset, irritated on Luz hard headedness. 

"Carla is right. Are you not afraid to be alone?" Thelma asked Luz.

"Yes, you better go with us, so that if something will happen to you, we will know it." Luisa also tried to convinced Luz.

"Why, what will happen to me? Nothing will happen to me! That's why there were people like them because there were also people like you all easy to be intimidated! You already heard what Nena said that will happen. Like them you all will sell your body, you all will become a prostitute!" Luz was angry to the five girls.

"I don't know. I am not sure about it. And I am not afraid. I am only worried about my mother and my brothers. My mother was a widow and sick yet she tried her best so that we her children will have no hunger. And she mortgaged our house and lot to pay the placement fee just to work abroad. I cannot destroy the hope of my mother, I cannot. Whatever will happen I am deciding now to stay and work!" Carla said.

"I think we're all the same. I promised to my mother and father that I will helped them, so that my brothers and sister will finished their studies. Yes, whatever will happen, I will not go back to the Philippines without money!" Lorna said with a thought behind her mind, what's the different if she will work in Cyprus as a hostess, to entertain male customer? She had done it already in the Philippines. She already had work as a club hostess, entertaining male costumers. The possibility of becoming a prostitute? She thought it was still an expectation, maybe it will happen, maybe not.

"Me also. Just to go abroad to work, my father pawned his small farm land. If I go back to the Philippines without money, what will happen? My father will lost his farmland and our family will have no food, my siblings could not go to school. I could not destroy their dreams! Whatever I will stay and see what will happen!" Grace also decided to herself.

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