The Escort

Chapter~Two

~Lyannah Myers~

I sighed as I walked out of another restaurant. This one looks promising but I never get my hopes up. It's hard getting a job when you have a GED and not a high school diploma and it's an immediate shut down when you explain to your potential employer that you need flexible hours because you have a two year old daughter. Some people just don't understand that nowadays people do put their children first.

I quickly unlocked my best friend's car and got in letting out a deep breath before driving home thinking about how hard things have become since I got pregnant. I was just a junior in high school and it was homecoming night when my boyfriend coaxed me into having sex which I didn't mind because I loved him it was when he wanted to do things unprotected that I started getting scared.

I had never had sex before so I was nervous because everyone tells you it hurts like someone just ripped a part of you out and I didn't want my first time to be like that. Needless to say it wasn't what I imagined it to be. It wasn't romantic and he didn't take his time. There was no foreplay involved just sex and then I woke up with text telling me it was over. Six weeks later I found out I was pregnant and when I told him he had everyone make fun of me.

I dropped out of school and moved away. Alone. My parents were ashamed and they didn't tell anyone in my family. They just told them I went to study abroad but in reality I was only four hours away in Tampa while they all live Miami. I was abandoned by the people who I thought love me the most but I guess I was wrong and when something doesn't fit into their world they get rid of it and forget about it.

I've never had a phone call or one single letter asking how I was or if I was even alive. I gave birth to my daughter with my neighbor/best friend by my side at sixteen years old. For the last two years I've struggled to take care of my little girl. Now that she's older it's a little easier because I'm not spending a lot on formula and having to change her clothes every five minutes resulting in more laundry but I still have things like rent, food, my cell phone, clothes for her and myself, gas, electric. I don't have cable and internet but I can't afford it but thankfully my best friend let's us go over to her apartment when I need to fill out applications.

I need a job and fast.

I pulled up to our apartment building and sighed again wiping my tears fixing my makeup so I looked okay. That's the thing about me. I'm always smiling even when I should breakdown and feel sorry for myself. I have to be strong...I'm a mom and I don't want my baby girl to see me weak.

I turned off the car and grabbed my bags and walked up the stairs to my apartment and got out my keys to unlock the door.

"Lyanna!" A voice called before I could unlock the door

I turned to see Mrs. Brunson an elderly lady who sometimes watches Savannah-my baby girl-walking up to me with a smile