Golden People (In-Progress)

Chapter 1

My mom has helped me a lot with Sarah and I'm totally grateful to her.  Yesterday I graduated from college. The best and hardest years of my life, now I could concentrate on Sarah, my almost five year old. And obviously on the job I hope I'll get. Tomorrow I'll be on and interview for the position of manager on a little building. With 25 apartments. It has a flexible schedule so it's perfect.

Tomorrow is also Sarah's birthday, July 12. She's going to be a five year old tomorrow. She makes me full of pride and love. She's really curios and carefree, and most of her tantrums has been because she hears something she shouldn't and I tell her she isn't old enough to know that. She hates chocolate and milk, but totally love Tres leches cake. She isn't the yelling type of kid, she prefers to talk until you do. All of the drawings she makes are of nature, she told me they are based on the show she and her father watched.

Her father spends the weekends with Sarah. And even if we are not together as a couple we are friends. He told me about how Sarah bragged that I was better than his actual girlfriend and how she told him to get me roses. Her teacher told us it was normal for her to want her parents living together. Obviously I was and I'm not going to live with him.

Right now I'm in the bakery asking if they could get ready a tres leches tomorrow. At 10:00 AM will be my interview and Sarah will not get up until eleven as always. Her father and my mother will sing her the happybirthday song when she gets up and give her a vainilla cake. In the afternoon there is going to be a small reunion with three friends of Sarah.

After giving them my cellphone number so they could call tomorrow when the cake is ready
I go to my apartment. It is a small apartment with two bedrooms, it has the kitchen connected to the living room and dining room, has two bathrooms, and the walls are all beige except for Sarah's bedroom that has baby blue walls, and golden decoration. My mother lives in the apartment next door.

I open the door and get welcomed by a running Sarah. "Are we going to the park as you promised?" I sigh and look at her with a sad expression. "Sorry, but I'll get change first" I say and her sad look changes and she laughs and rushes me to get into more comfortable clothes.

I put a cotton blue shirt, some dark blue jeans, and black sneakers. I make a high ponytail with my almost black hair. I get the makeup off myself and go back to the living room.

Sarah's short blond hair is in a high ponytail like mine, she's wearing a cotton white shirt that has a watermelon in the middle with summer on gold letters. Some green shorts and her favorite sneakers, they have blue and pink contrast like an acuarela painting.

We go walking to the beautiful public park that is a couple blocks away from the apartment. I hear about her fascination with elephants all the way, how does she even know so much about elephants?.

At the park I see her best friend playing in the swing. Sarah stops talking and look at me asking if she can go and play, I smile and nod, not even a second later she's in the swings with Mery.

I go sit on a bench where I can keep an eye on her.

Half hour later or so I got a dog sniffing all over me. I laugh by the tickles of his nose. It was a golden retriever fully grow all over me. What appears to be his owner started apologizing about the dog.
"No worries, I love dogs. What's its name?" I ask him. I didn't release how hot he was until I took a good look at him. He had sun kissed skin, (something I don't know how he has when we live in a place where rains most of the times) greenish gentle eyes, brown hair. He's 5'10 lean but not too muscular. He wasn't that much taller than my 5'7 height.

"She's Venus. And I'm Nicholas. It's a pleasure to meet you". Nicholas said while he took Venus by her collar to get her off me. After she was sitting on the floor he offered me his hand, I shook it and said "My name is Lyla, like the constellation".

I see Sarah running towards us but she stops in front of me and asked me money for an ice cream. Before I could answered Nicholas suprised and angered me by saying "go ask charity to another person".