Mia's Pov.
Growing up wasn't easy my parents worked very hard just to give me what I needed and to make ends meet with the help of aunty Varshinie. Even if Christmas came and I didn't have any presents, or it was my birthday, and I didn't have anything I was still contented because I know what my parents were going through to raise money to send me to school, pay for my school fees, pay the bills and still had to put food on our table so I wasn't mad at them for not giving me a perfect life like those rich spoil kids the only thing I wanted and I had was their love and affection nothing more nothing less.
Two months after my seventh birthday a disastrous accident came and took the life of my parents away from me, it was terrible losing both parents on the same day at the same time then seeing their lifeless bodies on the hospital bed it just felt as if someone ripped out my heart and crush it into a million pieces. During this period of grief, I honestly felt like dying and joining them up there in heaven.
After the accident, I moved in with aunty Alice, my father's sister, and her daughter, Annalise for aunty Varshinie's son had sent her to the United States of America to get proper medical treatment for her skin cancer so I had no other alternatives but to live with her and her selfish daughter.
Over the past three days, living here has been hell, she treats me as if I am some filthy maid she picked up on the roadside, she doesn't even allow me to call her aunty she makes me call her ma'am or Miss Benjamin. Although I'm not the materialistic type I realize ever since I move in here that I have the creepiest room in this entire house which is in her attic and every time it rains it's like my room doesn't have any roof at all, I'll have to put my things to the sides or corners of that spooky room of mines and lean my back aching bed up against the wall so that it won't get wet.
After my first week of, and I quote, 'comfort' she told me that my 'supposedly' free time is over and give me a list of chores to get done around the house and in this case it was everything, I had to cook, clean, wash both clothes and dishes and just be a good little servant. Whereby her miserable daughter would just sit around or have her friends over for a sleepover and just simply enjoy herself, on the other hand, I only had one friend and I couldn't allow her to visit much less sleepover.
Anywho, time had passed and it was time for me to go to UG (University of Guyana), I had been accepted into the University because of my grades and a half-scholarship whiles my cousin had to pay her way through cause she didn't make the grades. If it weren't for Aunty Varshinie that sent her lawyer with a cheque and a note to see me through UG alongside another half-scholarship, I would have never gone, seeing that Aunty Alice didn't want me to go but Glory is to God her plans failed.
3 YEARS LATER
After I had completed my education I was supposed to travel to the US (United States) to see Aunty Varshinie but unfortunately, she had an accident and pass away, so my ticket was canceled furthermore I was stuck with Aunty Alice or may I say Miss Benjamin and my cousin Anna.
At the age of twenty, I was officially a maid because she hired me as a waitress at her cafe shop that she gave to a friend to manage until she decides to pass her company to someone else then she will take back her cafe moreover I still had to be cleaning her house on top of that she hardly pays me and when she does it doesn't even amount to anything. She only allows me to go out when all of my chores are finished, although I would try my best to hurry up and complete my chores she always ends up finding something else for me to do, so I hardly go out and when I do have a chance to go, Jessica, my best friend or more like my only friend, we always stumble upon the best places to enjoy ourselves and the majority of the time Aunty Alice comes up with something to ruin my fun and I always find myself ditching Jessica.
I meet Jessica in kindergarten, so she knew everything that was happening in my life, she comes from a very wealthy home, although her dad passed away when she was born, he left her a vast amount of money for when she turned 18 and some other valuables. Her mom, on the other hand, owns the most famous boutique in Guyana, Nanda's Boutique. Jessica's mom, Nanda White also holds fashion shows to flaunt her designer clothing, accessories and shoes and since Aunty Alice and her are best of friends, Annalise uses that to her advantage to be a role model in her fashion line, so every now and then she gets called up to do photoshoots, commercials, and runway shows.
Miss White and my aunt have been friends ever since Aunty Alice's husband, Uncle Greg, died, and she took over as the CEO of all the Marriott International Hotel branches. As the new head, she wanted to look professional yet fabulous and that's how she met Miss White, it's only that my aunt hates it whenever Miss White, comes over to talk about me so instead every time she comes to visit Aunty Alice tells me to set up their meeting room and go to my room and then she would lie and tell Miss White, that she give me money to go buy some new books cause she knows how much I love books when in reality she doesn't even give me money to buy new clothes if it wasn't for Jessica I would still be wearing my highschool and university clothes, which I still do but only at home. When I have to go out with Jessica, she always buys me new clothes even if I don't want to, and I made her promise to never tell her mom that Aunty Alice was lying. One time Annalise saw me in some new clothes and she ratted me out to her mother who then decided to burn the clothes since then I always change off my clothes at Jessica's house fold them neatly and place them in my bag and when I reach home I hide it in my secret compartment in the floor under the carpet in front of my bed, it's like my secret closet and that's where I keep all my expensive clothing or sometimes I leave some of them at her house until I've saved enough money to get out of here and with the rate Aunty Alice is paying me I'll say in ten years time I'll have $50,000 although it's not much at least it'll get me a simple one story(one floor) house or apartment because right now I'll do anything for my freedom.
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