bad omens

Has there ever been a moment you wished the world world burn in unquenchable flames, the joy it brought to your mind to imagine the world crumble and certain people lose their lives in a gruesome way.

This was what Ariyah was feeling at the moment, as she walked down the road barefooted with her six inches heels in her hands, she urged to glare at everyone who stared at her with a weird look in their eyes and to those who looked at her with pity she so much wanted to tell 'do not feel pity for me! Feel pity for yourselves that also live in this world' but she couldn't, because even with her miserable appearance, she was still unnoticeable to the world around her. How miserable it was to feel miserable and yet there was no one that even noticed.

She didn't even know which hurt the most anymore, was it her inexistence or the fact that life has chosen to use her as it's tennis ball. First she was damn ass broke, next she had a comatose mother to take care of and a perpetual drunkard Uncle. That was not all, life had just one way or the other to remind her that good people suffer more, she can't even start to explain all the misfortunes she has being going through... aish it's really not fair.

"Ariyah!" She had just gotten to her front door when she heard someone yelling her name, the anger in the person voice reached her heart without her even seeing who the person was.

First thing that came to her mind was the wrinkled angry face of an old man, sure enough it was the man she had guessed.

"Mr Patrick why are you here?" She asked frustratedly, working at a night club was absolutely harder than she thought, she has not even gotten over the streets and now she had to face this man.

"Why am I here?" The man asked in disbelief

He yelled angrily "Why am I here?! You still have the nerve to ask me that?!"

Ariyah sighed "I said I am going to pay you your rent at the end of the month, you don't have to keep following me around because of that, it's not like I am purposely not wanting to give you your money, it's because I don't have it"

"This is the end of the month!! Today is the 30th!" He announced.

"really?" Ariyah was shocked to hear this, she dug out her phone from her pocket and scrolled to check the date on her calendar, true enough, it really was the last day of the month.

How time flies!... It was just few days ago she told him she would give him the money at the end of the month and it was the end of the month already. The problem now was that she did not even have a dime with her, even if she did, she would be conflicted with whether she should give it to him or use it to pay for her school fees.

"I'm sorry I had totally lost track of the date but I promise give me a few more days and I would pay you the money okay?" She pleaded as she hurriedly tried to open the door, but the key lock seemed to have a problem, the key did not fit into the lock no matter how she tried. She looked at the keys in her hands and then at the key lock then she noticed they were not meant for each other.

Realisation hit her, she turned and looked at the old man that was looking at her with so much derision in his eyes "did... did you change the locks?"

"Yes! Since you don't have my money you and your incompetent uncle should go sleep somewhere else till you have it, I'm tired of your excuses!" The old man exclaimed.

"But_" Ariyah was going to protest but the man cut her off.

"But your head! Don't call me till you have my money!" He harrumphed then turned and left.

Was this how she was going to end up homeless?

In this cold weather where was she going to sleep? She made up her mind and ran after him wanting to go explain but the man got into his car faster than a scared rat and drove away. Ariyah stood there and watched his car drive off and felt even more despaired.

She thought about her uncle who was not yet home and was even more despaired, he would have nowhere to lay his head when he comes back drunk. Not that she pitied him, he deserve it!

How could he leave an 18 year old to fend for herself and even him?. Right now she doesn't even want to think about him.

"ahhh!" she yelled to the open heavens.

like the heavens too were against her, the clouds all of a sudden began to rain down. She stood there with no where to run to. Slowly she began getting wet from the rain. There was no need to avoid the rain anymore, she began walking away inside it, her phone had died on her way back home so there was no way she could call anyone at the moment, she continued walking with only one destination at heart_her boyfriend's house.

People used to say that every human had an equal number of misfortune and fortune, that might not be completely true but it was true that everyone had to be fortunate once in their life. For Ariyah, she was fortunate to have met her boyfriend Nate, he was the only reason she was fighting to succeed against all odds!

In terms of status, they were worlds apart. He was the Prodigy of the renowned Mullins Family, with fame to his name and billions waiting for him to inherit whereas she was just the Abandoned— no scratch that— Runaway Second daughter of the Hart family that people either ignored or looked down on. Yet fate played it's part in making their paths cross. Crazy right. Even she most times didn't know what she did to deserve such a good promising young man in her life. He was her happiness.

As she thought about him while going on her way, drenched in the rain, a bright smile appeared on her face, people looked at her like she had lost her mind but she didn't mind. It was quite a distance from her place to his destination still she was going to walk the way there, she didn't have any money to board a car and besides she was used to walking miles already.

When she got to her boyfriend's place, she didn't directly walk in. she found a place to hide and wait for her clothes to get dried a little bit. The last thing Ariyah wanted was for her boyfriend to see her in this sorry state. Despite all her problems, she minimized what she told her boyfriend, All he knew was that she was low on cash because she was trying to create a life for herself by being independent but he didn't know that she had to shuttle through countless part time jobs, Ariyah didn't even tell him about her fight with her father or her drunken uncle, all he knows was she had decided to be the bigger person and leave her father to enjoy his marriage with her step mother after he got remarried with her step mother.

She wanted it that way. How else was she supposed to let the Mullins family accept her if they didn't see her effort to grow herself?

When her body had dried a little, she walked to the front of his house.

"Miss Ariyah?" The guard at the entrance called out when he saw her. This wasn't her first time visiting Nate's residence so the guards were familiar with and sort of knew that she had a relationship with their young master. Compared to their pampered young master that live with their parents, Nate had asked to live alone despite only being a High school student. Thus his parents had gotten this place for him and also employed a few servants to cater to his daily needs. She was quite familiar with the servants that worked here so she expected there would be no obstruction anytime she came to visit.

Contrary to her expectations, the guard looked at her uncertainly and didn't show any signs of intending to let her her.

Ariyah's brows creased a little. This was a first.

"Is anything the matter? I'm here to see your Young master, surely you recognise me right?"

Of course he did, he had already called her name so it was even strange that he was still not letting her in.

"Indeed I do. It's just I am not sure this is the right time to visit. Why don't you return and come back some other time?" He sounded warm, but aside that there wasn't even a hint of politeness in his tone.

Something was definitely off!

The fact that he had directly turned her away instead of asking for her to get permission from Nate shows that he had either been informed that no one else was to come in or he was aware that her presence wasn't truly needed in the house at this point.

No matter how Ariyah thought about it, she could not help but feel unsettled. Even times in the past that Nate was not at home, they would still let her in and wait for his arrival but now she was being chased away like a plagued. Her insecure heart could only read bad omens from this.

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