Her Hope

Chapter 8

The darkness surrounded me as I walked down the street after finishing my first day at work towards the first apartment, which should have an affordable vacant room as it was stated in the newspaper, where I will ask to rent a room in. It wasn't that late, yet the sun seemed to have set away hours ago which just proved the fact that the winter has already arrived even more.

This first apartment was only five minutes away from the restaurant making it my first choice. There is a group of girls who supposedly live there and are in an urgent need of a roommate. It was also an advantage that the building the apartment is in isn't in a sketchy street, for I will sometimes return at late hours from the restaurant, and I don't want any close ins with anyone unwanted.

I guess I shouldn't really be bothering with the whole non sketchy street thing, as I've been living on the streets for two weeks even if I thankfully wasn't met with any uncomfortable situation other than when the diner's owner threatened to call the police on me. But, that wasn't even that bad.

Arriving at the building, I was faced with an extremely luxurious lobby making me immediately doubt myself for coming here. They even have a security guard which made me want to quickly turn around and leave because I felt as if I don't belong here, yet I forced myself to stay and ask. Maybe I'll be lucky enough to find a room that's budget friendly, but who am I kidding? The security guard stopped me the moment I entered the building to ask about my whereabouts, and when I told him I'm going up to the apartment that's renting a room, he called someone on the phone and told me to take a seat on one of the coaches and wait.

The elevator pinged and out came a twenty-year-old looking girl who took one look at me and scoffed loudly enough for me to hear. After having a ten minute discussion about the room, the girl said and I quote:

"Sorry sweetheart, I just don't think that we have a place for you in our apartment. I don't even think you have enough money to pay for the insurance we need yet alone having enough to pay the rent." She said that with a fake sympathetic smile before turning around and walking towards the golden elevator.

Okay, I surely don't want to live with such a mean girl, beside who is she to tell me that I don't have enough money to pay for the rent? I really should've just turned around the moment I saw the building's lobby. However, instead of my mood turning sour, I smiled and walked out to try my luck in another place.

The next apartment was in a tiny building that's ten minutes away from the restaurant, and it was also occupied by a group of girls who study at university and would like a roommate to share their extremely huge apartment with, as it was written in the advertisement. This time the building was normal without any security guards to stop me which played a role in giving me hope. So, I took out the newspaper to check which floor the apartment is in, and it turned out to be floor two, apartment number four.

There was no elevator, so I had to go up twenty fours step, and yes, I counted them to ease my nerves after last time's epic fail. I stood in front of the apartment and took a deep breath before knocking on the door. I could hear the shouts of one girl telling the other to stop being so lazy and get up to answer the door while the girl being shouted at just said no. Wow, these girls are truly loud.

The door suddenly opened to display a tall girl who looked as if she would rather be anywhere else instead of answering the door.

"Yes, how can I help you?" The girl blurted out quickly.

"Good evening, I saw the advertisement you put in the newspaper about wanting a roommate, and I thought I'd check it out." I said quietly.

"Oh, I'm sorry, but you're too late. We already got a roommate, but good luck finding another place. Bye."

Then the door was slammed shut in my face before I could mutter out anything. Although the day started out really good, I guess its second part isn't my lucky part at all. This was why I walked out of the building for the second time in a row, but this time with tears filling up my eyes instead of the forced smile that I had plastered on my face. I had really high hopes that I'll be able to rent a room today and sleep in it instead of going back to the alley behind the cinema.

However, I tried hard to stop the tears that were begging to stream down my face freely, for no, I'm stronger than a couple of girls being mean to me. I've been through much harder things those past two weeks, so why did their words bother me so much? Also, today was my first day at work, and it went better than I ever thought it would because after all, I didn't drop anything nor did I get fired. And, this is a good enough reason to make me happy for the rest of the week.

Those two girls are a silly reason to cry, but I think that it is everything building up in me from spending two weeks on the street to not showering or eating properly till today when I ate a full meal for the first time in so much time at the restaurant. But, as I said before today isn't the day to cry, today is a happy day.

So, once again, I started my journey towards the alley where I flattened my bag as usual and laid back to gaze up at the dark blue skies that seemed to shimmer with diamonds or more realistically stars. Who would even guess that stars are just balls of helium and hydrogen when they look so magnificent and light up the sky. The sky was also full of clouds that could look like every shape that could ever cross your mind. The clouds started giving me hope after that one time when I made a wish, and it came true. They were literally my symbol of dreams coming true.

Looking up at the sky, I made another wish and then closed my eyes and drifted off into deep sleep that lacked of peaceful dreams or scary nightmares.