Little Tomlinson || L.T.

Chapter 2

Gail

Today is a Monday, meaning, I have to go to work and attend my night classes for the day. I'm lucky that Uni has night classes, if they don't, I'd never get to finish my college degree. I dropped out of school for awhile when Summer was just a baby. Since then, i got a job, bought a small flat, enrolled Summer into a fitting school (which is enough to pay for the both of us), and started back at school.

Summer is all I have now. She's my only family left. My parents have abandoned me because of the baby, it was either to abort Summer or keep her, but, as a mother, i chose to keep her and that made them enraged that they threw their own daughter out of the house, they forced me to live in my own life of misery,they never cared for me and Summer, heck, not even a single penny had they given us for support. Miraculously, I had finished my high school degree, of course, everybody in my high school saw the baby bump inside my stomach, so it was obviously obvious to the whole world what I'm carrying inside of my body.

My friends ditched me, everybody in my high school thinks I deserved it, my whole popularity came crashing down and I eventually suffered.

I do have two older siblings, one's a girl and one's a boy. I've barely seen my sister everyday but she visits us during Holidays and my brother? Well, i haven't heard from him since Summer's delivery. He came back home to Doncaster when I had delivered Summer, he supported my decision to keeping her. He rarely tells me about my parents, they're occasionally on a business trip. I do understand why he rarely wants to see me, it's because of my parents, seems to me they wanted my siblings to never keep in contact with me.

There's hardly any family for Summer to be around and i felt awful about it. Her grandparents doesn't want her, her aunt and uncle rarely wants to keep in touch with me and her own father doesn't even know she exists. The sad thing is, Summer has a very big heart, she's a very considerate person, I felt awful how a little miracle like her would live a life with no one who cares about her (except for me).

I sighed at the mere thought as I finished my cup of coffee. Looking over the time, i hurriedly grabbed my car keys and bag before i headed to the front door.

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I bolted straight out of my car and hurriedly went inside the coffee shop where, Anna, my co worker slash best friend, waved hurriedly at me. I grab my apron and place it on my waist "You're late" Anna whispered right at my ear as she gave the customer a cup of coffee.

I gave her a sheepish grin. Anna, a ditzy but endearing mother has been with me for the past 5 years, right after I graduated from High School, I applied to work as a waitress at the nearest coffee shop and I miraculously met Anna, she has 2 hyper children, the other one has the same age as Summer and the other one is 3, I asked parenting advices from Anna ever since Summer came to my life, she's like a mother to me. She's all i've ever asked for.

Anna's phone buzzed right beside me and she quickly snatch it from the counter, looking at the phone screen, she sighed "Would you mind taking over the counter for a bit?" She asked looking right at me then back to her phone screen "It's the babysitter" A frown appeared right at her face by the mere mention of the 'babysitter'. I shrugged and nodded a reply, i wouldn't be surprised if her kids shaved all of Emma's eyebrows, because trust me, it did happen and it took a long while to grow back again.

She excused herself from the counter as i took over her place. There was a reason behind me assigned to make the coffee and Anna to the counter. I was easily angered, snarky and when annoyed, very rude. Anna was the opposite of me. She has this sweet aura that keeps the customers happy and welcome. She talks to them nicely and she's also courteous when she gives them their coffee, she even place hearts on their cups when served and that was one of the things that I couldn't have, couldn't do and couldn't handle, like right now.