The Millionaire's Nanny

-The Day It All Started-

 
     It all started on a Monday afternoon... I didn't know that my life would be changed forever.

  
  "Come on Sophia! It's time to live on the edge a little.. just come to Detroit with me." my best-friend David said. I let out a huff and gave him an are you serious look.
   "Seriously David? You know I can't do that! Everything I've ever known is here.." I tell him with a sad expression on my face.
"I know I know, but you've  got to start living your life. I know how much your grandma meant to you but her dream doesn't have to be your dream." He tells me before putting the last of his bags in his trunk.
  "I promise to start living my life... right after I get my restaurant." I quickly say with a playful smile on my face. He rolls his eyes and pulls me into a warm hug.  I inhale his cologne once more and wrap my arms around him tightly.  It amazed me how he managed to always smell like a freshly baked sugar cookie.
  "I'm gonna miss you kid." David whispers before finally pulling away from me. I wrapped my arms around myself, already missing his warmth.
  "You're only a year older than me! I am a very mature independent woman.. NOT a kid." I exclaim while playfully punching his arm.  He just chuckles before getting in his nice red convertible and closing his door.
    Putting on a brave face, I watch as he drives off into the sunset. It felt like I was in a movie or like I was dreaming. I wave my hand frantically in the air with a soft smile on my face. 

   After making sure he can't make out what my face looks like anymore I let my smile fall. And when my smile falls my tears fall. I'm happy for him, I really am.  But I'm also really sad that he's leaving me. He was my family.
    I've never really known much about my blood family.  I had my amazingly strong grandma and David. David has always been my best-friend since the 3rd grade.  I still remember the day we met... nobody would talk to him because of a dumb rumor.
I wasn't planning on talking to him either but I just knew we were meant to be friends as soon as I saw him in the lunch line. 
     First off we had matching red backpacks, and then I saw him pick out the same exact meal package that I always ate. We reached for the same one at the same time and he let me have it...  to top it off he smiled at me... It was the warmest smile I'd ever seen. Warm just like him.
     Turns out he was also my brand new neighbor. His mom was always busy with work so we had plenty of play dates at my house. We were inseparable ever since... My grandma and I were inseparable too... until the day that she passed away. She worked so hard, she worked two jobs and rode the bus between places, she did everything she could to provide for me. She never liked her jobs as a cleaning lady, and a waitress at the diner, her real passion was cooking. She made the best food because she put heart into it and she cared for the food that she made... it had soul. Originally she planned on going to culinary school to become a world renowned chef but there was too many obstacles. Her parents weren't very supportive from what she's told me, I never got to me them.. Then she got pregnant her senior year of high school and her parents practically disowned her. 

   She had to get everything on her own, so when she did have her baby (my mom) she was always working almost nonstop... My birth mother ended up falling into the crowd, she made me with whom I have absolutely no idea. Then when she had me she left me on my grandma's doorstep with a little note, and she took off. I don't even remember her... After that my Grandma knew she wouldn't make the same mistake with me. She still worked her ass off but she made sure to nurture me, provide for me, and make sure I had a good head on my shoulders. She used the little extra money she had to put me in a nice daycare, and any time she had off she spent it with me.  Sunday's were her only days off so we called it Sunday Fun day and she'd take David and I out on some kind of adventure. I'm so grateful for everything she did for me but she never got her dream of opening her world famous restaurant that would bring everyone together. So I planned on making that dream a reality in honor of her. I think I owe her that.