Lara POV
It is ,my dear, I said and she hissed ,good evening Paul I greeted him when I saw him inside bae am going out ,catch you girls later he said and went out . am feeling so envious right now . So Lara gist me now she said about what I asked what do you mean by about what , I meant to say that you should gist me about Max , you said he fell in love with you she said well, he changed his attitude towards his mum and he asked me to marry him and I refuse but he gave me 5 million when I was coming I said Lara, seriously, you let that rich guy slip off like that ,what is wrong with you she said I don't want to be stuck in a loveless marriage and I also want to explore life and get rich before getting married . before I forget, I want to travel out I said you just came back and you want to leave me here again she said and started crying don't worry now , I can be coming here everyday to talk to you and besides I just started the processing I said trying to reassure her
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seven months passed and I was already in the airport alone. no family to bid me farewell, I missed my mother greatly at this point ,she suffered to the very end of her life .7:00pm prompt I checked out of the airport in Korea,it so cold here . Lara I heard someone shouting my life and I turned to see Rita , she has grown into a beautiful woman , Rita you look so beautiful I said you look more pretty she said liar I said okay, we will check the mirror once we get back to my apartment she said
Who is more beautiful now , Rita said dragging me to the mirror, okay I agree now, am prettier than you I said it been long since I checked myself in the mirror. So where are your parents I asked cause I didn’t see any trace of them living with her since I arrived well , you know my parents and I relocated to U.S back in high school and we were living a peaceful life until I graduated from university and I started to work, so I was informed one day that my parents were involved in a car crash and they died immediately. After their death , I decided to leave my past behind and move to Korea she said amidst tears. I feel like there is a hint of lie in what she just told me but I decided to keep quiet. There is no need to cry . Your parents died when you graduated from university, my mum left me when I was still in high school and a lot of things happened that I don’t want to talk about I said . Let find something to eat out before you sleep she said and we went out
The morning sun tickled my eyes, I slowly drifted my eyes open to see the beauty of the son , I can’t believe that I am here now . Rita prepared ramen for us , I should have known about this before I come here . Lara , I submitted a job application for you, so you be able to afford your masters degree fee , am also working and studying too , but for the first two months, you are not going to pay for any rent here , I will handle it , but after two months, we will start splitting the rent mom into two she said and I chuckled, since we are resuming to lectures next week , let go to my friend hair salon , cause everything can really boring here she said
We got the her friend and so called salon and I was surprised to see an old woman , so an old woman is her friend, who do we have here the woman said this is my friend, Lara or just call her Eva , she just arrived from Nigeria Rita said oh welcome to Korea my name is Ga hee park or you can call me Camilla , that is what your friend calls me she said warmly and she invited us to sit down, Rita you promised me yesterday to spend the whole day here Camilla said I know, just prepare for enough food for us to eat Rita said and Camilla started attending to her customers. You should be careful , not everyone likes us here Rita said
I don’t know what happened to Rita but her body start to get really tensed . Lara , I have something’s to do , I will come here , okay she said and she rushed out . Exactly ten minutes after she had left , I saw a car pack in front the she hair salon , oh your friend boyfriend is here Camilla said and a handsome young man came inside, I wasn’t really struck by his handsomeness because I have been watching Korea movie for quite some time now .
Hello he said in a cool deep voice I scoffed hi , what can we do for you I asked am her to see Rita he said oh she went out to get something’s done I said and he frowned, tell her that Charles came here , so she must call immediately you delivered my message to her he ordered and went out
Jeez , he is so f*****g rude and arrogant. Camilla, is this how he behaves to my friend I asked no , once he comes here , Rita always follow him out and he always caring and loving to Rita she said .
Rita came back in the evening handing me some clothes, bags and shoes , that is what you will be wearing to work , if you eventually get hired , she said . Thank you so much , someone asked if you , Camilla said he is your boyfriend I said and she looked straight to Camilla who was chuckling . Hmm , Lara let go home , it not good to stay out this late she said and we bided Camilla good bye ,
Rita started crying when we got back home , is everything okay I asked worriedly no it not , my life is a mess now she said , you can confide in me I said and she burst into tears again, when my parents died in U.S , I met a travel agent and he told me he can help me get a job and a house here in Korea and back then I was so stupid, I gave him all the money i had earn while working only to get Korea and learn that I was trafficked, I was sold to Charles, he is actually rich , he has his own company and he is also involved in some illegal business, he has a boss but I don’t who he is , so when Charles bought me , he promised to give me a free life , he gave me a job and he also rented this apartment for me after I signed a contract which says that I would get married to him when he likes too and I will give birth to three kids for him and I also have to spend twenty years of my life with him , I agreed thinking that he would eventually lose interest in getting married to me but now he is asking me to get married to him and I don’t want to that is why I have been avoiding him and he is the one that promised to help you get a job in his boss company she said . So this is the reason why she was telling me that would get as job even without attending any interview I thought. Rita , what are we going to do now , I asked , I don’t know she said , what do you mean by you don’t know, so you’re going to just sit down there and watch him waste twenty years of your life , maybe you should tell him that you don’t want to get married to him anymore I said and her eyes widened , I think you really don’t like me , is like you want me to die very soon , see I have accepted my fate she stood up and walked away , then I began to wonder what the future holds for me in particular here
Monday came and Rita handed me a later which says that I have been hired part timely , so only have to work in the evening after classes . Do you know how stressful secretary works can be Rita asked when we were going back home , no , but it doesn’t matter, anything to support you and myself