Sienna List? More like Sienna lost. The closest she's ever been to New York was when she watched Sex and the City.
And now she's moving here, and she has a year to prove to her parents that she can make it in the big bad world.
The only thing that s...
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Sienna's P.O.V
I awoke to the sound of my phone vibrating. I reached one arm out of the warm sheets I was bundled up in, in hopes to silence it.
I grabbed it from the nightstand and carried it back underneath the covers where I was, to check what had woke me up.
It was two messages, one from the bank and one from my mother. I opened the one from the bank first.
From : USA BANK Dear, Ms. List 3,500 DOLLARS was lodged into your account at 08:17 on the 01/06/16, by MISSUS JOANNA LIST. Thank you for choosing USA BANK Keeping your money safe for over 50 years.
And then I read the one from my mother.
From : Mom Morning dear! I lodged some money into your account so that you can get yourself a nice ensemble for our dinner date next Thursday. See you then, Mom x
She. Did. Not. She did not just lodge 3 and a half grand into my account and tell me to go buy some clothes. I was very aware that she would've thought it was thoughtful of her to do that for me, even though I came to New York so that I wouldn't have to live off her money forever.
Back home, I used to get a monthly allowance. On the 3rd of every month my mother would lodge 800 dollars into my account. I usually barely made a dent into it, because I had a part time job too, and I didn't like to go out and spend her money all of the time, I enjoyed the independence. But all of those allowances she lodged added up, and even though I had asked her to stop, she still kept lodging them. But now, I had a grand total of 15,800 dollars in my account if you included what she just lodged. That was a lot of money. And I knew that if I didn't get myself something nice for this dinner date she had just planned, she would take me out shopping before it, and end up just spending her money, and that 15 grand would still be there, and she would just keep adding to it.
My mother was convinced it made her seem like a wonderful mother, to give me so much money. But it also made me look like a spoiled brat. And I didn't like that. It was also what my mother did to convince herself she was looking after me, and caring about me, and I could never argue with her if she thought she was doing a good job.
So I got dressed quickly into a large jumper and some jeans, and put on my old pair of black Chucks, threw my hair up into a bun and brushed my already gleaming teeth that my mother made me go and get whitened because she said they made me look 'poor' in pictures being a natural shade of off white and not ultraviolet like hers.
I walked past the bunch of flowers which I had put in a vase now and out the door, remembering my bag and keys and throwing on a tan coloured jacket because it was kind of cold here.
It was a fresh, crisp day. Which was a change from back home, where it was also humid and sticky. I liked the way the wind hit my face. I walked into a local coffee shop to get a latte to-go. I hadn't had any breakfast either, so I got myself a croissant in case I became hungry later. I paid the cashier with the rest of the money I had brought to the airport yesterday.
