His Business Her Heart

Chapter One

"I'm fed up of you, get out of my house" my mother screams at me while grabbing a hand full of my hair and dragging me out of my bedroom, as I was being dragged I heard someone laughing and when I looked up I saw my mother's horrible boyfriend laughing like the sight of me like this was funny, my mother opened the front door and throw me outside, as I rolled down the steps I heard the both of them laughing at me. I don't know why my mother is doing this I have done nothing wrong, as I stood up, I saw that my mother was no longer at the door "why is she kicking me out?" I ask Jack who just smiled while I shivered against the cold wind of the night, just as I was going to ask again my mother came back to the door with a bag, "here are you trappy things, don't want the cluttering my house" she sneers while throwing the bag at me, "mum why are you kicking me out?" I ask while picking up the bag of my belongings. they both laughed Jack looked like he was really happy with himself while my mother looked angry and was forcing herself to laugh, "what did you do?" my mother laughs "your I thief" Jack says while my mother is still laughing, I am shocked by what I have just been told, I have never stole anything in my life "how am I a thief?" I ask them not sure what is going to happen next, my mother walks slowly to me when she gets to me she stops right in front of me, even though my mother is 5'3 while I'm 6'0 I still feel smaller then her when she stands next to me "you stole money of me to buy drugs" she screams and then slaps me, I grab my cheek while trying to hold back tears 'I will not cry in front of them' I think to myself "don't try to deny it Jack saw you" my mother screeches at me, now I understand why Jack has been laughing all this time, he's blaming me for what he did. I know if I try to say is wasn't me that my mother won't believe me which is funny because I am her daughter but that has never meant anything to her so why will it now, I turn my back on both of them and start walking away "that's it just walk away, you are no daughter of mine" my mother shouts as I walk away but I don't turn or even show any sign that I heard her, I just keep walking not knowing where I am going. After an hour of walking I was surprised to find myself at the coach station ‘how did I get here?’ I thought to myself and decided to look at any coaches going out of Liverpool in the next five minutes, there were only one coach leaving tonight and that was a no stop to London, I quickly checked my bag seeing if there was any money in it, at first I found no money and started to get scared that I have nothing but then I came across my picture of my father and myself and remembered that I used to hid money there while crossing my fingers I took the back of the photo frame out and there was the £200 I have saves over the years ‘I knew you were looking after me dad’ I think as a single tear rolls down my cheek. I grab the money and quickly put the picture back together and place it in my bag and make my way to the ticket stand, a man sits behind the glass looking so bored that he could call asleep “excuse me sir I would like to buy a ticket for the no stop coach to London please” I say loudly to make sure he heard me, “one way for return?” he asked with a voice that says I should have already told him “one way” I reply hoping it won’t cost so much “£70 please” he tells me, “what? How is it that much?” I ask while shocked at the price. “That is cheaper than the return and you are going to London miss” he replies talking to me like I an stupid, I look at the money in my hand ‘it will only leave me with £130 left but what choice do I have’ I think to myself while getting the money ready “do you want the ticket or not?” the man asks me with a bit of annoyance in his voice “sorry, yes I would like the ticket” I reply while handing the money over and waiting for my ticket, once I have it I run to the coach not wanting to miss it, “cutting it close miss” the coach driver says as I hand him my ticket and walk down to take a seat, once I have sat down the doors close and the coach driver starts the long journey to London, ‘may as well try to sleep’ I think to myself relaxing into my seat and closing my eyes hoping to sleep all the way to London.

“Hey wake up” someone says ad they shake me awake, at first I’m startled not sure where I am then I remember the events from the night before “oh I’m sorry I didn’t mean to sleep this long” I apologise as I stand up as quickly as I can and grabbing my bag and trying to get of the coach as fast as I can “it’s alright miss you didn’t sleep that long” the coach driver tells me as he follows me off the coach, I thank him for the safe journey as I make my way out of the coach station, once outside I look around this is the first time I’ve been to London and now it is my home, ‘my new life starts today’ I think to myself as I start on my journey to my new life. After a couple of days in London there are three things I have learned, one there is no places to live with very little money, two there are not many good paying jobs for people just starting off and three people in London are not nice to people who are struggling while the people I have met are mean to people like who need help, after my second day in London I ran out of money, I didn’t know how much food cost in London and for the last couple of days I’ve gone hungry and slept on the cold streets just trying every day to get a job or a place to stay even for the night. As I start to get up out of my box I feel how cold it is for an early Wednesday morning as I make my way to a café around the corner where I can wash up, this is what I do every morning, after this I try looking for a job but no where wants me. “Morning Rose” I say as I walk though the door and start to make my way to the bathroom, “erm Lynda could you come here a moment” Rose says nervously and I nod and walk slowly over to help trying to think of anything I’ve done wrong but my mind comes up blank, “this is my friend Jackie, she may have a job for you and a place to live” Rose says, as she says this I try to keep my emotions in check and not give away that I have been hoping something like this happens for me. “As my friend said I may have a job for you, but I need to as some questions first, if that’s alright?” Jackie says to me  which I just nod back “good let’s sit” she says while leading me to a couple of chair in the corner, as I sit I try to keep calm and remember to do my best to try and get this job. “now I will tell you what the job is and ask only two questions is that ok?” she asks “ yes that’s fine” I reply hoping I do well, “ ok, the job is being the housekeeper for Ryan Johnson, that intel’s cooking for him, shopping for him and cleaning his house and in return you will get £1000 a month, food and board how does that sound?” she asks, I think about the offer for a couple of minutes I don’t want to seem to eager, “that sounds amazing” I tell her waiting for her to ask her two questions. “Now for the two questions, first do you know what Ryan Johnson is?” this question makes me nervous but I answer anyway “I’m sorry but no I don’t know who he is” I answer truthfully hoping it does not cost me the job but Jackie look happy about this, “that’s brilliant now the last question is when can you start?” she asks looking happy “I can start right now” I tell her which makes her even happier, “great follow me and I will take you to the house and get you started” she tells me standing up and walking out, I follow her to a car and get in as she gets in, as we both are silent she starts the car and drives off, I stare out of the window as me go and an hour later we pull into a massive drive way leading to the most beautiful house I have ever seen. Jackie gets out first so I follow her all the way to the house, once inside she turns to me and says “I will take you to your room, there is a change of clothes put them on and come back down in five minutes” I nod and follow her to the room, once she opens the door she leaves holding up her hands reminding me that I have five minutes, I make quick work of my clothes getting dress in the black dress as fast as I can ignoring the feeling I’m getting from being able to change my clothes and quickly run down the stairs, as I get to the bottom I spot Jackie and make my way to her, “keep quiet and let me do the talking” she tells me just as the door open and in walks the most beautiful man I have ever laid my eyes on but as he spots me his beautiful face turns into anger “WHO THE f**k IS THAT?” he shouts making me jump and I start to think I’ve made a bad decision coming here.