Faked Deaths

Chapter 1

 "The end?"  This can't be the end. I thought to myself as I see the words plotted on the fine print copy of Romeo & Juliet.  I loved William Shakespeare, the love, the lust, the pain, the gain, yet it was fantasy. Even though the Shakespeare plays were fantasy, I was living in it.  I was living in the fact I couldn't wake up and think that one-day I couldn't find my true love, or that one day in societies eyes that I could even be beautiful. 

  My mother and I are maids. House cleaners, that was all we ever were.  People whom clean houses.  Luckily, my friend and her mother are too. The people we work for don't care about us, nobody cares for us. They never do, they call us "The Help", I mean that's what we are, but we have names too, I thought we were friends, no I considered us as family. Until, after 12 years of working for them all turned for the worse.  The whole way I portrayed the people I worked for changed. 

                Our boss Jeremy Kahn was once married and became a widower.  She died painfully and harsh being stabbed to death and struggling for her life. Yet, even with one story it leads to plenty more.

Like how their daughter Katherine became Gloria, my other best friend, and I best friend, how Gloria's mother and Jeremy began to have feelings for each other and how Jeremy met Vicky.  Also how my best friend became a teen mother with barely any money to get by herself. Especially with us only being juniors in high school.

                Sophia Kahn, she was the most beautiful person I had ever met. Her attitude, her personality, she reminded me of Juliet.  I looked up to her.  I also tried to forget about her, seeing the horrors of her body stabbed to death just scared me. I hated blood, I hated the fact that I saw most of hers lying in pools beside her body.

  I felt unstable and in this case scenario I was hurt. I was sad I had to walk in and follow the trail of her blood to her lifeless body.  I hated myself I couldn't be on time to work one day and not go and wonder off like my mother said.  Yet, were would I be now if I hadn't? No I wish I would have stayed later at the park with my mother.

                The first day I came to work for the Kahn family. I didn't know what to expect, just to follow my mother and if she needed the extra help, I was to help her. 

 I lost my brother and sister when I was younger; I have no clue where my dad went.  My mom— Linda, she felt I was too young to know the real truth and she may still figure I am but I am still eager to know, why I was left behind with my mother. 

                After Jeremy and Sophia found out the Richardson's down the street fired Gloria's mom, because she brought her child to work they hired her.  They were hesitant not wanting them to do it out of pity. Katherine and I already best friends welcomed Gloria into the group.  She already stood out so much she considered herself in it. 

                She was always the one to have a date or a party she was invited too.  Katherine always had gymnastics or cheerleading to go to, yet I on the other hand had dance, basketball and poetry.  When other sports seasons came up, mother would already spend too much money I wouldn't have enough to play.  I love writing, sports and dance and for a girl like me that is all I have to rely on.