The boy was gone.
Damn!
I reached over and got the bun, but a shadow
was over me.
I looked up.
A fifteen–year–old boy looked at me.
They looked similar.
I stepped back.
“Do you want to eat?” the boy asked after a
moment.
I nodded.
We went to a cheap restaurant and the food
smelled good.
The boy didn’t eat.
The younger boy saw that.
He was shocked. “What the hell, you’re getting
friendly with these people?”
I said,
…
The boy said, “She’s wearing dirty clothes and
has a dirty face.”
I kept eating.
When I was done, the boy said he would take
me home.
I suddenly paused.
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I didn’t want to go back to the house full of
bottles and called broke.
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So I cried.
I said, “My mom died, my dad is sick, I’m saving
money for him.”
The boy looked at me and asked, “Do people
still live like that?”
I cried.
I am a trash rat, please don’t say that out loud.
Then I was taken away.
Like a stray cat.
I was checked out in the hospital and changed
my clothes.
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The boy said, “You are not ugly when you are
clean.”
I was wearing a cloth dress, standing in the mansion.
The boy’s brother was busy.
The boy took me shopping.
He said, “My parents are out of the country, my brother is busy. No one is with me, you can stay with me.”
We went to a kids‘ clothing store and he tried
on every dress.
Then the boy nodded and said, “You are pale,
you are best to wear white.”
This was the first time I wore a dress.
I touched it and said thank you.
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The boy waved and said, “It was nothing.”
Then my dad called the cops.
He was a drunk.
I didn’t want to look at what the boy thought of
- me.
What if he thought I was a bad person?
The boy’s brother took me home.
The boy and his brother sat in the back with
- me.
I had a bank card he gave me.
He had said, “You don’t have to pick up bottles anymore.”
He knew that money was spent by my dad to
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I looked back, “Liam, I’ll make sure to make your money well spent.”
That period of time was the best in my life.
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I sat in the driver’s seat and Liam sat in the
passenger seat.
I cough, “I got that wish.”
I became his horse.
“Where is your dad?” he asked.
“Dead,” I said with a smile.
Liam nodded.
The phone rang, it was Chase.
I didn’t answer.
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“I have to thank you,” I said, scratching my
cheek.
He nodded. “Do you want me to go to your
house?”
I paused and said, “Okay.”
I can get him to look over my investments.
I drove to the apartment.
We went upstairs.
We got to my house.
Chase and I stared at each other.
Me: “You don’t have a keycard, how did you get
here?”
“I climbed the stairs.” Chase lowered his eyes.
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He climbed twenty–eight stories?
Liam got out of the elevator.
Chase’s expression broke. “What are you doing
here?”
Liam said, “What’s wrong?”
“Damn,” Chase cursed, and he grabbed my arm
and said, “Pretend that didn’t happen. How
about we start over?”
Liam wanted Chase to listen to his elders.
“”If you give me, you can have the whole world”
gave Chase encouragement, he said, “Be my
girlfriend, fiance, it is okay?”
“Not now, and not planning on it.” I copied his
words.
Chase said,
…
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I opened the door, “Come in.”
Liam nodded.
Chase trembled. “It was Ace who said you and
Brittany were close friends. I didn’t want you to
worry about her.”
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The hell, I barely knew who Brittany was.
Ace and I had a strange connection.
He always shows up randomly.
Ace had seen me calling Liam.
I was so scared but he said, “I didn’t see
anything.”
From then on I only sent emails.
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As I thought, someone appeared.
The door was pushed open.
Ace saw all three of us and paused. He waved,
“Hi.”
Chase realized what was going on and punched
Ace in the face.
Ace fought back.
I said to Liam, “Come in quickly.”
I gave him the list of investments. “Which one
do you think would be good?”
Liam said,
I smiled.
