IN THE DARK.

4

Mia

I was sitting with Maria in my room and listening to her rant about how she hates entertaining old rich men with her dances and so on.

"I mean i love dancing but i hate men, you know what i mean ?" She continued

"But it's your own choice. You can't invite kids to watch you dance in the club, right ?"

"Right." She sighed

"If you don't enjoy dancing as much as you did before why don't you just quiet it ?" I asked her because I genuinely wanted to find the reason behind her sudden disinterest in dancing.

"You know dance is my life. It's the only thing in the world that doesn't piss me off but dancing in a strip club is not what i aimed to do when i was tiring my mind and ass off working shift after shift in a cafe so i could attend my dance classes." She huffed.

"What is it that you truly wanna do right now ? Make your mind. If you don't like it here anymore, you can quit working at the club and leave." She had the option to leave, unlike me who was basically a prisoner. I don't know what was stopping her from leaving because Maria wasn't someone who'd do things just for the sake of it. If she didn't like something she'd never do it.

She looked at me and took a deep breathe.
"I wanna start a contemporary dance school for kids. now that i have enough money and skills and some connections. I know i can." So what was stopping her ?

"What's stopping you then ?" I asked her.

"You really wanna know what's stopping me, Mia ?"
I nodded my head and she pursed her lips.

"I know you would say i'm an idiot for doing it but I can't really go out and have a happy life when you're still going to be stuck here. How can i leave without my homegirl ?" I knew she loved me and she'd do anything for me but I didn't know she loved me enough to stop going after her happiness. I didn't like that idea.

"Look... Maria, I don't wanna be...." i was speaking when she cut me in between.

"I know, i know, i know... but you know what ? I'm still not leaving without you. If we're leaving, we're leaving together." She finished as a butler came in without knocking the door with some shopping bags and placed them on the bed.

"What a cunt." Maria muttered because she hated mannerless peeps.

"Don sent these for you." He said and left a bewildered Maria as she looked the bags and then at me.

"What the fuck ?" Shock was evident on her face.
"Why did he sent these for you ?" She questioned me.

"I don't know." I meekly replied.

"Mia...." she huffed.
"I hope you know what you're doing, sweetheart."

I looked down, biting my lower lip.

"Mia, he's not good enough for breaking your heart.. and we both know whatever it is that you're doing with him it ends with a broken heart and humiliation because sooner or later everyone will find out." She stopped and then continued.
"I know from the day since i came here that you have feelings for him but he's not going to reciprocate because people here, they know nothing about love. He will use you according to his convenience and throw you away when he finds someone else to entertain him and eventually get married to a brainless trophy wife and have a perfect family while you cry over him. I have told you before and i'm telling you now, he's doesn't deserve to be loved by you." She finished and looked at me. Tears prickled in my eyes because of the truth in her words. How stupid was i.