The London Steel Inside
By: overgrownbrat
Copyright 2015. All rights reserved.
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The rain was pouring hard. It was cold and the sky was dark even though it was still three in the afternoon.
London rested her head in the car window. The sound of the heavy rain mixing with the crappy love song she didn't know existed in her iPod as she tried to make herself numb by listening to music.
How could they just send me away?
She thought to herself and at the same moment, her phone rang. The face of her mother appeared in the lock screen.
Pulling her earphones off she answered, "Hello?"
"London dear, are you there yet?" her mother asked in a sweet voice that just disgusted her.
She turned to Ben the driver, for a second, then asked if they were almost there and he said yes.
"No mom" she said, "But we are almost there"
She waited for a response but instead a dial tone answered her. Her mom hang up.
"Nothing ever change" she mumbled, putting her earphones back on.
After a few more minutes, Ben asked her, "Are you hungry young miss? Do you want me to stop by a restaurant?"
"No and don't ever speak to me again unless it's necessary, I hate to disturbed" She said bluntly.
Ben just nodded, used by his young miss' cold and disrespectful attitude.
London closed her eyes and slowly she almost fell asleep but the car stopped in a sudden halt, causing her to almost fall off her seat if not for the safety belt.
"Ben what the heck?" she asked, voice filled with annoyance.
"I-I'm sorry miss, t-there's a guy holding up traffic" Ben stuttered.
London looked up and true to his words, she saw a guy helping out an old lady cross the road and her annoyance turned to envy.
"Oh" she said quietly.
How she wish she was the one helping the old lady. How she wish she was like the man helping the old lady.
Though it seems she will never be like him.
She will never be good and she will never be helpful.
The boy finally was in the other side of the road and Ben drove away once again. The rain was starting to subside and they spent another eight minutes on the road before finally they arrived at London's aunt Nina's house.
It was a three storey mansion, in the outskirts of a small town, with an elegant and modern look-the one she has been to years before and the one she will now call her new home because her parents sent her away, to this new town with a new school, a new environment she knew will be and always the same.
They got inside, passing by the tall gates that almost covered the house and when they arrived at the front door, Nina, her dad's younger sister was already waiting for her.
She got out and was greeted by Nina's genuine smile, "Hello sweetheart, it is so nice to see you again"
"Likewise Aunt Nina" she forced a smile and hugged her briefly.
Then Ben went back to the car and drove away back to the city and for the first time, London felt her parents really did abandon her for money.
Nina must have seen London's crestfallen expression for she hugged her once more, tightly this time with a kiss in the forehead.
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The London Steel Inside
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