Valentina an all A's student, finds herself in desperate need of money as her family is on the brink of losing they're home. Captain of the football team Richard offers to lend her the money but he wants a different kind of payment for the favor.
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It's 7:30 PM of a random Friday the sun settled over the city coloring the sky-scraping grey buildings a dreamy orange hue.
I find myself walking back home from the corner store, mama had forgotten a couple of ingredients for tonight's dinner, and I happily volunteered to go fetch them. Tomato Sauce, broccoli, cream cheese, fetta... I went through the list in my head time and time again.
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I zipped up my black over-sized puffer jacket as a gush of freezing cold wind hit my body, and re-adjusted my face mask, and sunglasses. I was afraid someone would recognize me.
Even though it was cold, I walked leisurely taking in the city, how I have missed it. The last time I was here, I was seven years younger, I took a deep breath in, it felt as if I never left.
I sighted, 25 year old Valentina Williams a prominent name in the modeling and acting industry as I was recently crowned a supermodel by magazines, and high end fashion brands. I also received a couple of Emmys, and a Tony for some roles in movies, and a short series
I earned enough money to live comfortably, my worries were short to none.
I thought back to the day when I received my first big check, I held it in my eyes marveling at its zeros. I phoned my mom and urged her to quit the small apartment and her energy draining job "you won't have to lift a finger for the rest of her life!" I screamed into the phone ecstatic.
She chuckled, "What would I do all day Vale." A smile reached my covered face at the memory.
I recalled her dream what she had been saving for, "I can help you with the restaurant."
My mom now owned a successful small chain of café shops around the city.
If I called up my manager and retired right now we would be able to live comfortably for the rest of our life's, but then why? Why did complete bliss evade my heart? I mean this was my life goal.
The future I envisioned for my mom and myself was here.
It would be a lie to say I don't know what the cause of the ache in my chest was
It was him.
His name often grazed the headlines in the business section of the daily newspaper, or a couple of pages in Forbes. They wrote of his growing business empire, a new partnership, and occasionally the new girlfriend. It seemed he had easily moved on from whatever we had but why could I not do the same. I was still stuck there.
It feels as if everywhere I go a big metal chain connected to a bolder attached at my ankle followed me.
I tried but every person I met was only a replacement of him, and I found none were quite like him. They did not act like him, they did not fuck like him.
Richard
Some days ago my assistant informed me as he does every so often of her. Valentina Williams model, and actress. The ray of sunlight seeping through the clouds, the colorful rainbow after the storm.
