Chapter One: Lilly Harrison
"Why haven't you brought your salary yet? Don't know we have to buy food stuff? We have run out of food stuff._ Lilly's aunt, Lauren. Yelled as soon as she had poured every item in Lilly's bag in the floor.
"I'm sorry aunt Lauren, my boss said she would pay me tomorrow. I'll give you the money tomorrow.'
" No way! I must get the money tonight! If your boss hasn't paid you then you must pay yourself! " Do you think I don't know you have a savings box in the house?!
Lilly's was surprised. Her mouth opened in shock.
Lauren chuckled, " Well well my dear, if your boss hasn't paid you yet, then you can just pay me from your savings."
"I....I don't...wh...at you are talking about." Lilly was never a good liar so she could only stutter.
Lauren smiled and shoves her aside and marched to her room, she searched every Conner of the room but couldn't find the savings box. Maria said it's in here!
"Sweetie, I called for you because I searched Lilly's room but I couldn't find the savings box you told me abt."
" oh," Maria moved to a table in the middle of the small room she shifted the table and lifted the rug, there was a hole in the ground and inside the hole was a tiny box.
Lilly rushed forward to take the box Maria. " No! you can't take that!"
Lauren slapped her before she could reach for it, She grabbed Lilly's hair and pulled her away from Maria. " You said you had no money, where did this come from? huh?"
" That's my savings! I save these from the tips I get at work!" Lilly cried.
" You have no right to save money! I raised you! you fool! " You should Serve me with all you have!"
" Please, don't take that!" Lilly begged.
Lauren laughed hysterically and pushed Lilly, she fell and hit her head on the table.
" You think you can fool me! I raised you! you bastard. If it wasn't for my sister I would have killed you a long time ago” Lauren yelled. “ Tomorrow if you don't come home with your salary I will kick you out." She threatened.
" Please aunt Lauren that's my savings for the future,' she murmured.
" Let's go dear," Lauren said to Maria as they left the room. Ignoring her pleas.
Lilly sat on the floor and wept looking at the empty hold. Her life was also hollow and empty just like the hole!. That was all she had saved all her life, she was planning to start her own fashion brand with that money.
Lilly Harrison lives with her aunt Lauren and cousin Maria in the city of manhattan. She is a orphan who was lucky enough to have gotten a scholarship that saw her through high school.
She is a lover of fashion and designing. Her dream is to design a cloth that will appear on the New York fashion magazine and also receive the COTY awards. All her dreams were crushed due to lack of support and commission to go to a fashion school. However, Lilly has a raw and rare talent ib fashion designing. She doesn't have a wardrobe to be proud of. She still wears clothes passed on to her by her cousin Maria. The clothes were always tore. However the clothes always look different and beautiful thanks to the little touches Lilly make to it.
Lilly work's as a chef in a small restaurant close to the house but all of the income she gets from working as a chef are spent on the household expenses, leaving nothing for her, not even one fine. And she never complain.
Lilly cried until there was no tear in her eyes to shed. She look for a piece of clothe and tied it round her forehead, to stop the bleeding. She began to feel dizzy, and lay down in the floor, she didn't even know when she fell asleep.