ff

uch in my small, cramped flat sitting ro

t week. I made a list of things I needed to buy for my sister and

grimace on my face, stroking a p

to make ends meet, pay my sister's tuition, pay for this goddamned old

ents died while I was only eighteen years old and my sister

iversity. Everything about it. When I closed my eye

at horrible car in the middle of the road, blood splas

pped someplace beneath

e to come to an accident scene,

ing to tell me that I took everything too seriously, that exams weren't even close

ims were my parents. I recall my nam

n the hospital and frantically asking fo

d passed away, despite their best efforts. I

y image what Amila was going through. She was still so yo

time and needed to take

government, thus there was no sym

on me that I needed to pay for the flat or we'd

mila sleeping beside me, and I knew right aw

ol, and someone needed to do something fo

no one on our side. It was just us against the w

o be there for her anytime she needed me. I alwa

lasses and looked for work. The first job I had

red to be famous musicians and frequently held musica

vered the basics. All of my earnings went towar

of the month. So I began look

he dimly illuminated stripper club, where a statue of a naked lady fla

Los Angeles. I would have enough money in two mont

nitial move inside the club because a

this type of employment and would

n. How was I meant to

ife like this. I needed money, bu

h the darkness. That's when I noticed the v

e stumbled across this. I hurried

ropriate application procedures, I was wor

e income was higher than posting

home, I would serve cust

to weigh on me, but I refused t

ldn't keep up with school while also working the

was always enough time for that. Aft

ause I was constantly missing courses whil

n. A month later, after writing my examinations, I was able to st

decided to d

profession and gettin

d about; I'd think

tiny restaurant, I realised th

g for new jobs. I saw a job opening for a barman in a high-end casino downtown, a

but I didn't mind. I'd handle it later. Amila was about to graduat

days, my application was accepted, and I began working th

of filthy rich men who didn't know what else to do with

ooker, who loitered around playing games with these men and ser

gan flirting with me and squeezing my buttocks whenever h

s casino that he would always stare lustfully

ded that two years of p

t, "I really didn't like what you did out th

tiful?" I scowled harder before re

asked, his arms splayed apart as he

king holy Mary, Tiffany

isregarded me, making me feel wors

That's not to add the perverts who winked at me multiple times and i

turned them all down. I just wasn't interested in that kind of lif

with them would most likely be considerabl

g at the infinite list in my palm, I leane

orking the night shift today, so I was able to get so

college fees. I was meant to roll it over ne

from the Club, which arrived a wee

ng jobs that would pay me two incomes in one month, but

thing because it allows me to spend more time with my sister and

, I made a mental reminder to go grocer

, and as eerie as it felt, the bell

my best friend, Laurene Billy, standing out with

ws for you, Tiffy!!!"