My struggle has just started

*Chapter 1: My Struggle Has Just Started* My name is Elena. I am 22 years old. People say I am beautiful, but my life is full of pain. I belong to a poor family. From my childhood, no one ever loved me. My parents always ignored me. My sisters got more love than me. I always felt alone in my own house. I always ate alone and cried alone. But inside my heart, I had one big dream. I wanted to change my life. I wanted to make my life full of happiness. I wanted to show everyone that a poor girl can also become successful and happy. So I started working very hard. I had no money for my studies. I taught small children after school to earn money. With that money, I paid my own fees for my O Level and A Level. Sometimes I had no money for books, but I never gave up. My only aim was to change my fate and make my family respect me. Then Ryan came into my life. He was very rich and handsome. In the beginning, he ignored me like everyone else. Then slowly he came close to me. He used to talk to me nicely. He said, Elena you are different, you are special and strong. For the first time, I felt someone loves me. I thought my lonely life is now over and happiness has finally come. I trusted him more than myself. I gave him my whole heart. But it was all a lie. One day I heard him laughing with his friends. He was saying, that poor girl Elena thinks I will marry her. I am just passing my time with her. That day I was completely broken. I cried the whole night. I went into depression. I thought my life is finished. But then I wiped my tears and said to myself, no Elena, you have to change your life for yourself, not for anyone else. And then my real struggle started. One year later. This one year was the hardest year of my life. It was not easy at all. I left my city. I went to a big city alone. I had no money and no support. I knocked on many doors for a job. I faced many rejections. People shouted at me and insulted me. But I did not stop. I did every small and big job that I could do. I worked as a waitress in a restaurant, I worked in a small shop, I did cleaning work also. Day and night I worked hard only to earn money. I wanted to stand on my own feet. Then I met someone. His name was Daniel. He was also poor like me. He also worked hard. When I met him, I felt he understands my pain. He was kind to me. Slowly I started to like him. I am a fool, I again thought this is true love. I thought, Elena, finally someone will support you and understand you. I started to help him. Whatever I earned, I gave to him. I thought we will make our future together. I was so crazy, I kept thinking that he truly loves me. But the truth was different. He also came only to use me. Like Ryan, he also wanted to loot me. Slowly he stopped working. He stopped earning. He started taking all my money. He used to say, Elena give me money, I will start a business for us. And I, like a fool, gave him everything I had. And then the biggest challenge of my life came. One day I felt very sick and weak. I went to the doctor. The doctor checked me and said, Elena, congratulations, you are pregnant. My whole world stopped. I was pregnant. I came home crying and I told Daniel. I said, Daniel I am pregnant, we will have a baby. As soon as he heard this, his face changed completely. He became very angry. He shouted at me and said, this is not my child, I don't even know you properly. And the next morning, he ran away. He left me alone in that small room. He took all my saved money and ran away. Now I was alone, pregnant, with no money, in a big city where no one knows me. This was the biggest challenge of my life. How will I face this alone? How will a poor girl give birth to a child alone without any support and without any money?