It was a very long day for a young girl. It was a very busy night at the local and famous diner where she works as a waitress; even after all of her hard work, she didn't make enough in tips for monthly rent that was due tonight. After her mother died only four months ago, she's been on her own trying to barely survive life. She had to move out of her mother's cottage because she couldn't afford to live in her childhood home and go to the art college of her dreams, which ended about a month ago when she dropped out. She couldn't find a balance between work, college, and trying to make ends meet. Thinking that dropping out of college would solve her rent issue, it was too late for that.
When the young girl arrives at her studio apartment, she finds an envelope with 'eviction' in big bold lettering. She sighs as she closes the door behind her. She lays on her bed, still in her work uniform, trying to think of what she could do to get out of the mess she was in. It's not like she didn't know she was late on rent, she was never able to pay for rent after her deposit on the apartment. She knew that this day was coming, but she didn't think it was coming this quick.
A knock is heard from her door and she gets out of bed to answer it. On the other side of the door is a shorter and wider lady with short hair standing there. The landlord.
"I see you have gotten the eviction letter." She says with a smile on her face.
"I did." The young lady sighs.
"Don't try to beg me otherwise, you are behind on all the four months you've been here. If you read the letter you will see that I want you gone immediately."
"What?" She says in anger and in shock. "That's not enough time for me to even find another place to live."
"What do you want me to tell you? You should have paid your rent. This isn't a charity event where you guilt me into letting you stay here because your mother died. That was my mistake even thinking you could afford to live here."
The young lady just feels anger and embarrassment start to rise in here. She shrugs it off with a sigh. "I guess I'll start packing."
"You should have never unpacked when you moved in here." The landlord says right before she walks away.
The young lady closes her door and looks around. Without even thinking, she opens her fridge and pulls out a bottle of wine. She opens the cabinet and reaches for a glass, but changes her mind and just pops open the bottle and starts drinking from it.
Hours later, the bottle is empty and nothing is packed. The young lady is in her underwear and an oversized t-shirt looking at herself in the mirror.
"Mother would be very disappointed in you." She slurs to herself. "You dropped out of college, you can't afford rent anywhere in this stupid town." She hiccups. "You're just as useless as the man that left you and her here." She stumbles onto the floor and lays there. "What am I going to do?"
Another knock is heard from the door, it's after midnight. The young girl answers the door to see the landlord there.
"You again? This late?"
The wine comes off of her words like Febreze in a dirty room. The landlord takes a small step back and rolls her eyes.
"Unbelievable. Nova Woodlands, you are twenty years old and you are drunk off your mind in an apartment you need to leave. Quit your pity party and leave, now."
"Or else what? Another eviction letter?"
"I will have the cops arrest you."
"Go right ahead. I don't think they can. I had one last night in my apartment and you can't do a damn thing about it."
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Lost Blood
VampireAll her life, Nova Woodlands has never known the man to be her father, but has only heard the love story her mother would tell her so she would never forget that such a man existed. In Nova's early twenties, her mother grew ill and on her deathbed a...
