The Necklace

1. THE BEGINNING

-" Be safe",
Heard Lidya say as I was heading home from my night shift, lidya was my only friend, I considered her as my best friend but I was just a coworker to her.

My family isn't rich, not rich enough to even be able to keep our apartment right now.

Oh, let me introduce myself, my name's Alexandra, I'm 17, and I'll be 18 in a week, everything was going smoothly at first,
loving parents, and enough money to live until Victor, the man that I used to admire and call dad started gambling, and drowning more and more in debt, my mom tried stopping him but he was so stubborn and didn't,
because of this man I had to work 4 part-time jobs and keep on studying to help my mother, I work as a cashier and librarian a waitress in the morning and a bartender at night.

As I was heading home I saw the black Porsche parked outside our house, the house that I worked on from the age of 15.

I took my keys and entered the one-bedroom apartment and saw my mother sitting there smiling,
seeing her happy made me smile as I waved at her, I then entered the room to see a 6'5 foot man wearing a suit, his dark emerald eyes caught my attention,
I changed my clothes in the bathroom and then went to sit next to my mother, while my mother was talking with this man, I was staring at him and noticed that he was handsome as hell.

he had dark black hair, and I couldn't help but admire his beauty until my mother turned to me I shook my head quickly and turned to her, as she was telling me to make tea for the guest I couldn't help but feel his eyes on me but it didn't bother me.
As I put the tea down on the table, he spoke, and I finally heard his dark voice, he was speaking French, a language I don't understand,
-"je la prends comme epouse"
But I did understand the last word, wife...
He looked pretty young to have a wife as I asked him
-" Uhm sir, how old are you?"
-" 25"
It was an 8 years age gap but who cares.
My mother turned to me with tears in her eyes, I didn't know why she was crying, she was smiling like 3 minutes ago.

Then I heard the words that killed me from the inside...
-"Sweetheart, meet Sebastian, Ur future husband.."