END UP TO YOU

CHAPTER 1  A thirty-two-year-old woman is walking gracefully after getting out of the taxi. She didn't care about the high of the bright sun but she could feel the cold breeze blowing her long hair. The tall, white complexion, beautiful and with a perfect body. Who would have thought that despite her perfect features, a broken soul hidden beneath her genuine smile? She lives in a subdivision wherein her home was decades ago. When she reached her house she was standing across the closed gate keyless with gray paint on it. She took a deep breath before she slowly pushed the gate and entered afterward. Her house was quiet and her eyes landed on the many dry leaves scattered among the wild grasses as if no one lived there. The other leaves around from their neighbor were carried by the wind since she did not put a tree trunk inside her house. She just shook her head at the scenario she came across to. Instead of picking them, she decided to go straight inside the house and hurriedly went to her room. Floriza's eyes broaden as she entered her room and observed her chiffonier was open and all of her clothes were scattered on the carpet. It's as if an extensive outbreak flaked out into her room. She noticed that all of her expensive bags and briefcases were open and that all of her important papers had been uncrated and up to the shower room. As if someone has pillaged her room and looking for something valuable. She grimaces in confusion, "Who is the doubtable person involved in this when their area is secured?" She perches on her bed as she holds her hair in annoyance. This is a disaster, as she anticipates. But she arose to her sense and she recall her floozy of a stepmother doing this thing. In her whole life, not just one did that woman cause her trouble. Her father wants her to die at an early age because he re-married twice in his life and dumped the woman afterward. He wasn't a good father to her but a troublemaker who thought of nothing but his pleasure of selfishness. Floriza didn't believe that all people who live in this world have a purpose but for her, it's torture. She didn't deserve this, all she deserve was a quiet life ahead of her. After a couple of minutes. She took her things one by one and put them in the closet without folding them. She didn't have time of her life right now. She was working as a secretary in a clothing company and her salary was running out that b***h of a woman because of her unending luxurious habit. Aunt Wanda is profane but she is lazy to work to gain those things for herself. She is always waiting for her to give her money, sometimes she suddenly goes to her room and robbed all of her money just like what she did right now. Maybe she was angry at her the last time she didn't give her money when she asked for it. Floriza has also a life, she gave help and money but she needs it more than that b***h is more need it. She didn't care what Aunt Wanda thought about her or how many times she scattered her things but as of now, she didn't have any money to give to her. She felt tired because she keep on giving but she didn't receive anything in return even a single respect. She is done fixing the mess caused by that devil woman in a matter of an hour. She stretched her whole body when she heard a loud clap coming from outside her room. She only looked at the woman leaning on the edge of her door even though her heart creaked with anger. Even in her forties she is still obviously taking care of herself. Yeah, because the money she asked for from her only goes to her body. Fully makeup even at home, their lips are very red and the brows can no longer be seen because they are too thin and their hair is too straight since she keeps on coming back to the salon every day. She is wearing a thin dress that sees through what was inside. Her stepmother got a nice body but her lips twisted so that she could imagine that despite her perfect posture, her father chose to leave this woman. Even now the person's personality is if the spark is gone nothing to do about it though, the relationship is over. Floriza didn't understand why her stepmother hadn't even remarried until now. Because the others out there, when they are left behind, it's really easy to find a replacement but this one chooses to disrupt her world more than to find a rich man to provide her materialistic attitude.  "Ow? Your room looked like a mess." Aunt Wanda said, smiling like an i***t. Pretended that she didn't do this. Floriza thinking how she made it and how her real mother treats her if she's around. But this selfish woman in front of her has no heart. They're living together for almost three- years but her treatment of her is not acceptable. She is like a stranger to her but when thinking about it truly, she is working for the two of them to live a nice life, to have food on the table when her good father abandoned her. But this woman is not giving her any respect or just as simple as thank you. She was living like a queen without a crown. She is abundant without any work and she is highly full of herself without doing good in someone else life. "Yeah. It's obvious." Floriza replied, sarcastically. "That's what you've got when you didn't give me what I want." Aunt Wanda said, smirking and throwing a death glare at her. But Floriza didn't feel scared by this b***h looking at her and she didn't shake off this woman's outburst towards her. She is not like Cinderella who is kind enough to let this stepmother ruin her life in an instant. She is not like other women out there who let themselves was being stamped by this useless individual to gain their acceptance. She was the type of woman who is brave and a fighter. "So what do you want me to do? Robbed all that bank in the city and give all the money to you because you needed it? Why don't you work for yourself so you have money every day? It's not you want to squeeze me so that the money came out to me." Floriza replied with her eyebrow rising. "Damn you! I'm nicely asking you and now you treat me this way?" Aunt Wanda said, raising her voice. "You don't have to raise your voice because we are just in front of each other. I don't have any money right now. You have to wait until I gave you a single penny. And please, don't rummage my things again." Floriza said. "So now you are accusing me? You don't have evidence that I'm the one doing that?"  "Whatever, Aunt Wanda. Because it is so obvious you scattered all my things and find where I put the money. Whatever you do. You can't find any money there because I don't have it right now." Floriza replied and lock the door of her room and walked outside. She didn't feel that her stepmother follow her so she stand outside the gate to find a taxi. But before she rides a taxi, a fat woman stops her from going in. She stood up and frown looking at her. "Hi, Madame. What can I do for you?" Floriza asked. The woman looked at her from head to foot which makes Floriza feel awkward. She was running out of time. She can’t be late since she was excusing herself for a moment in the office to check her room but when this woman keeps on staring at her she can leave her there without warning. “I’m here to get the money that your stepmother promised me the last day.” The fat woman replied. Floriza frowned at what the fat woman said. She was speechless and clueless about what happened. “I don’t know the money that you’re talking about, madame. My stepmother didn’t consult me about that thing.” Floriza responded in low voice but she already had an idea what this woman talking about. Aunt Wanda is so shameless and has the guts to scatter her things when in fact she is done using her name to borrow money from all people that she didn’t know. Floriza took a deep breath and fake a smile in front of the woman. “Can I have your number, madam? I’ll call you when I’ve got my salary.” Floriza said. “Sure.” The fat woman replied and asked her phone to type her number. Floriza felt a sigh of relief when a woman walked-way. It was good that the taxi driver wait for her so she go inside. She was uneasy on her sit when she came back to the office late. She is so sure that Miss Tabitha was angry at her right now. After a long travel, Floriza rushes out after she pays the driver and runs into her boss’s office. When the door opened she saw Miss Tabitha angry faced looking at her. Her brows were raised as if she had been annoyed with her for a while now. It's just now she got angry so she just look at her reactions because she knew she made a mistake. “What do you think your doing, Floriza? I’m just ordering you to deliver those documents and you’re coming late? You are strolling around during office hours? If you are not efficient in your work. I’m going to fire you right away.” Miss Tabitha said, her voice must be heard throughout the whole office. “I’m sorry, Miss. I’m stuck with traffic.” Floriza replied, lying. She needed work right now. She didn’t want to be fired from her job because of Aunt Wanda. Even if she lied countless times she will do it to save her job.  “Whatever.” Miss Tabitha said, and go out slamming the door hard. Floriza took a deep breath as she sit on her chair. She is sweating because of fear. She stood up after a couple of minutes to drink water because she felt thirsty.  She won’t be afraid, If it’s Aunt Wanda, but if it’s Miss Tabitha, her muscles will tremble because her boss only gets angry once but it will all accumulate so she avoids making mistakes. But because of what her stepmother did, she was scolded for the first time. If she didn’t catch that, it’s sure that all her important things will be thrown away or burned. Her Aunt was not in the right mind because that b***h seems to be engraved in her brain that she always thinks about money but doesn’t know how to find a job.