Ariza's stylist just finished her make up when her crew came in the dressing room "They are waiting for you the show is supposed to start in 2 minutes" she said stressed "just give me a minute to get ready"ariza answered. After doing the finishing touches the stylist left the room, ariza looked at herself she couldn't believe it...it all worked out thousands of people are here...for her, a tear rolled down her cheek she wiped it smiled took her golden microphone and went up to the stage..."let the show begin".

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But, how did she get here let's walk down memory lane, shall we?

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"I'm sorry, but I don't think I can do this any more you cheated on me, I'm leaving and taking Ariza with me"Catherine said sobbing uncontrollably "please just give me a chance I will stop the drinking, I will never cheat on you just please give me another chance"Stephen said, he was already on his knees "I'm sorry, but I've already made up my mind Ariza is barely 5 years old and sees her father drinking I'm sorry we are leaving now" Catherine said.

Catherine went to their cramped up bedroom which only had a mattress and 2 suitcases to put their clothes, she took one of the suitcases and put her clothes and her 5-year-old daughter's clothes grabbed her daughters hand and left the apartment as ariza looked back she could see her father trembling kneeling down and crying uncontrollably

They first settled in Catherine's sister's apartment, but they couldn't stay there for too long as her sister already had a family, and she had to leave, Catherine rented a small single room apartment down town it was stuffy, the pipes were leaky, and the neighbors were too noisy,, but it was all they got, they didn't eat 3 meals a day but 2 meals a day sometimes they could only have tea and not anything else as Catherine didn't have a job and all she had was her savings but she knew things will get better one day

Catherine's friend scored her a job in an oil making factory which the salary was enough to feed them both they even moved to a better apartment and ariza even continued going to school kids would make fun of her because of her worn out clothes and shoes and teachers made fun of how skinny she looked, but she would sometimes cry because she didn't have any friends because everyone judged her because she was poor than everybody else, she explained it to her mother and with all the savings Catherine had, she bought her the most expensive jacket she could find so that the bullying would stop it stopped for a while she still didn't have any friends but she at least had a peaceful kindergarten where no one bullied her.

She enrolled in the 4th grade at the age of 9 she was smart beautiful and her brown skin color with her brown eyes were so beautiful and attractive, her mother had already gone abroad to look for her school fees since one of her relatives got her a job there as a nurse, with her good salary she enrolled Ariza in the best boarding school in the city life was going great for the two.

Ariza's father visited her daughter often even if Catherine didn't like it, to see her daughter growing strong was his joy, he would bring her favorite foods and snacks especially chocolate which was her favorite, ariza enjoyed her father's company very much and, sometimes went to his home during the holidays were she learned that his father had already moved on since he had married and even had a 1-year-old baby, she felt sad, but she also wanted to see her dad happy, so she just went along with it.

Ariza started developing stomach complications at school and his father took her to the hospital since her mother was not around, Ariza got diagnosed with h-pylori a stomach disease caused by maybe eating food which is maybe not prepared well or maybe it's ingredients aren't good for her so when her mother heard the news she transferred her from the boarding school to another school which was not a boarding school and a day school so that she could go back home, Ariza's mother even rented a two-bedroom apartment where she could stay with a housemaid while she was abroad

Ariza's stomach started to get better and when she went to the 6th grade she was the most popular girl in school because of her beauty and because she was very smart she had a huge crush on this guy called Brave who was the true definition of TDH (tall, dark and handsome) he was also very popular especially with the girls as he was very charming, all the girls loved him including Ariza they become very close and ariza was scared that he saw him as a sister and not anything else.

High school kicked in and ariza was to transfer to a new school...a girl school she was really sad that she had to leave her friends behind but all she could think about was her new school, her new school was massive, and she actually loved it was on a Saturday when she met her first friend, Leah, on that day Ariza was studying in the school garden by herself when a girl came by "can I seat here"she asked "sure you can" ariza answered happy that she finally found company, they started talking about movies, and she found out that they had many things in common

Leah was beautiful she had this big almond eyes which ariza loved to stare at she was tall and had long hair which she loved to tie into a neat bun she was a tomboy but organized and had a body of a goddess.

As I mentioned before, leah and Ariza became friends and since leah was ariza's only friend she really became so attached to each other, and they always told each other everything and Ariza started loving high school because of cleah she was always there for her, and she loved it

Ariza become really popular in school and so did leah, it was not too long before ariza started having other friends but the one who was close to her was Sarah, Sarah was also one of the popular kids in class because of her humor, her beauty and she was really smart, and they become close and when cleah joined they become a trio they always spent each day together and being in an all-girls boarding school they shared everything together

In a trio of course two will be too close to one another and leave the other behind and well, leah and Sarah really became close leaving Ariza out in everything and always spent time together and leave ariza, ariza felt awful because she was back to being a nobody in school

Ariza started studying on her own again of course she had other friends, but it didn't matter to her seeing leah and Sarah together made her feel jealous "I'm the one who made them friends, how can they forget about me like that" Ariza always thought to her self.

leah started seeing how lonely ariza was and tried to get close to her, but she felt betrayed and wouldn't let her, so she always gave her a lot of attention, always helping her sometimes staring at her but ariza saw it as creepy and avoided her even more

leah started bad-mouthing Sarah to ariza "her stories are so boring I can't wait till we close school so that I can leave and go home, I need a break from her"leah said to Ariza. When ariza heard this she saw this as a golden opportunity to break them up they were almost closing school and doing their end of year examinations and Ariza told Sarah all about leah and how she always bad-mouthed her.

Now it was Sarah's turn to feel betrayed, and she really felt that the only person she was close to betrayed her, she stopped talking to leah and always ignored and even spread rumors about her meanwhile Ariza started regretting what she had done and ignored leah since she knew leah would obviously know what she did she felt too guilty not knowing that leah was hurting even more because she lost two of her closest friends

What Ariza didn't know is that leah only bad-mouthed Sarah so that she can get closer to Ariza again, but it was already too late but ariza thought to herself and promised herself that she would explain to them that it was all a misunderstanding,, and they should be friends again.

Ariza finished her end of year exams and they all went home for the Christmas holiday partly sad about the trio break-up thing but also happy she could hang out with her crush again(brave) apparently even though she transferred Brave still came to see her often it made her happy and less sad.