Story is based on a Spanish Telenovela. Watch a trailer for The Trade of the 19 diamonds, here : watch?v=Qw0LYeNS56Y
The doctor walked up to the man that was waiting outside of the room where a woman just gave birth to a baby.
"It's a girl." the doctor said firmly to the man.
"Here is the money. I hope it's enough for you to keep your mouth shut." the man answered, while he gave the doctor a bag full of money.
"You know what to do. Forget that this girl was ever born. And for your own good, you pretend as if you would have never met me." the man threatened the doctor.
"Don't worry Mr. Everdeen." the doctor smiled.
With a disgusted face Mr. Everdeen walked away, leaving the doctor smiling, counting his new money.
X
The baby was sleeping in her bed, while Mrs. Everdeen was talking with a woman called Effie Trinket.
"These are real diamonds. They are not some fantasy rocks. No, they are real." Mrs. Everdeen said while she placed nineteen little diamonds on top of the sleeping baby.
"Well, are you not going to say anything?" Mrs Everdeen asked Mrs Trinket.
"Those diamonds are worth a fortune. But especially this one." Mrs Everdeen said, while she picked up the pink diamond from the baby. All of the other eighteen diamonds were white. Only this one was pink.
"This baby has to pay a high cost, for a passion that was so low." Mrs Everdeen said, placing the pink diamond back on top of the baby.
"And it is all your fault." Mrs Everdeen yelled.
"It was love." Trinket said.
"Yeah right. You were just acting like a whore." Mrs Everdeen answered.
"Here are the rules. And now for your own good, I don't want to ever see you near my son again. And I never want to see this baby again." Mrs Everdeen mumbled, while she handed Effie the envelope that had the "rules" inside.
"What you are doing with this baby and with me is inhuman Katherine." Effie said coldly.
"What you did was inhuman as well. You are no better than me. And if you don't do what I told you, and leave forever, I will tell everyone about the crime that you committed in your lousy past." Katherine Everdeen answered.
"We will take our secrets with us to hell Effie. And if you open your mouth about this. I will kill you. I swear that I will kill you." Katherine continued.
Without another word, Effie took the sleeping baby girl and the diamonds with her, and slowly walked away from the Everdeen's mansion.
X
Katherine walked up to her room that she shares with her husband, when she spots her maid putting all of her husbands cloths in a bag.
"What are you doing with my husbands things!" Katherine yelled.
"Oh, Mrs Katherine, Mr Charlie asked me to.."
"Asked you to what, huh?" Katherine cut her off.
"Mr Charlie asked me to take all of his things out of your room." the maid said, her head down.
"For me, he can take all of his trash out where ever he wants." Katherine angrily said.
"Take all of his shit out. All of it." Katherine said, while she threw her husbands clothes to the floor.
The maid gently took all of the things that Mrs Everdeen was throwing to the floor coldly.
"Because I am the one who does not want him here." Katherine went on.
Katherine kept yelling at the maid to take everything everything away.
Once the maid left, Katherine took her wedding ring out of her finger.
"Out of my life Charlie Everdeen. I don't need you. I hope you rot in hell." she said looking at the photo of her and Charlie in their wedding day.
Then she threw the ring to the floor, as hard as she could.
X
Effie Trinket got out of her cab in front of the institution with the baby and the diamonds.
The school was huge and only the best were allowed to study and stay there.
A man with sunglasses and blonde hair walked Effie to where the principal of the school was.
"Excuse me Miss Margaret the woman that you were waiting for is here." the blonde man said to the principal.
Miss Margaret Bridges was nothing like Effie had pictured.
Margaret was blonde with long hair that curled up slightly from were it ended. She was slim and fancy. She wore a very very deep shade of red lipstick. She was really beautiful.
"Is there anything else that you need, Miss Margaret?" the man asked.
"No thank you Cato, you can go." the woman said with a firm voice.
With that the man named Cato left closing the door gently behind him.
"Good day. I'm Miss Margaret Bridges the director of this institution. It's good to meet you." Margaret said while she offered her hand to Effie.
But Effie stood still, not accepting the hand shake.
Margaret walked behind her desk before she started talking again.
"I have to say that I was very intrigued with your call Miss..Excuse me how should I call you?" Margaret asked.
"There is no need for you to call me anything." Effie answered refusing to give Margaret her name.
"Oh. I see. And what do I owe the pleasure to your visit?" Margaret asked.
This is were Effie took the baby traveling bag where the baby was sleeping and put it on Margaret's desk.
"This is the reason." Effie said pointing at the baby.
"It's a little girl." Margaret said in a way that it sounded more like a question than a statement.
"No, not a girl. A business trade. A very big business trade." Effie said.
She then took out the little bag were all the nineteen diamonds were and handed it to Miss Margaret.
"These diamonds are worth a fortune. Touch them." Effie said.
Margaret's face turned amazed and it was filled with greed.
She quickly took out the diamonds in disbelief.
"They are beautiful aren't they? They have no faults. And they are yours." Effie said.
Margaret took the pink diamond and gasped. "A pink diamond." she said with a dreamy voice.
"These diamonds have belonged to the same family for decades. They have been a treasure that has been well taken care of. Now these diamonds will pay for this baby girl's education." Effie continued.
She then handed the envelope to Margaret. "Here is the paper that confirms that these are indeed real diamonds. And then there is also the rules of this business trade." Effie said.
"Until never girl. None of this is your fault." Effie mumbled to the child and then she turned around to walk away when Margaret stopped her.
"What is the girls name?" Margret asked.
"Kat.." Effie said turning back around but she cut herself off.
"She doesn't have a name. But Katniss could be a good name." Effie said smiling.
"What happens if I don't accept this trade." Margaret asked.
"I already told you. In that envelope is all the information that you need. It says what to do if you accept or don't accept the trade." Effie explained.
Without another word Effie walked away from it all.
Quickly Margaret pulled out the paper that was inside the envelope and read "the instructions."
Misses Margaret Bridges. I chose your school because it is an institution for the best women in the country. And also because I have herd of your ambitions. Every diamond will be a pay for one year of the girl's life. If you accept like I think you will, you will give the pink diamond to the girl when she turns eighteen. The rest of the diamonds are yours. But every diamond will pay for the girls books, clothes, food. In case that you don't accept the trade, take the baby to the police with the diamonds. But if you accept the business trade, remember that you will be watched very closely. Always. The girl is not registered, she doesn't exist to anyone. That is one detail that you have to solve.
Margaret smiled and held the diamonds closer to herself, when someone grabbed her from behind and started to rub her shoulders.
"I told you to knock before you open the door, I could be with someone." Margaret snapped when she saw that it was Cato.
"With who? Or what are you telling me that this thing." Cato pointed at the baby that was still sleeping. "Is a human being?" he laughed, and Margaret laughed with him but stopped when Cato kissed her neck.
"Calm down Cato. Isn't she cute?" Margaret asked looking at the baby.
"Well I like my girls a little older." Cato joked touching Margaret's butt.
"Shut up already." Margaret snapped.
"Whatever. I just came to tell you that that woman left already." Cato said with a voice that was slightly angry.
"Wait. Don't leave." Margaret stopped him.
Cato turned around and walked closer to Margaret.
"That's how I like it my queen. So, are you going to tell me what this is all about? I know it's something big. That woman showed up all mysterious and elegant. What are you hiding baby." he said while he kissed her neck and caused Margaret to giggle.
"You know me so well. And if you behave tonight, I could include you in the business trade."
Cato stopped kissing her neck and smirked.
"Tonight, and every night. But now tell me. What does this baby have anything to do with the business?"
"She is the business." Margaret said smiling.
"How, I don't understand? Are you going to sell it?" Cato asked.
"No no. For now." she said before she walked behind her desk.
"I mean this." Margaret said, shaking the bag with the diamonds.
"That woman gave me a fortune for taking care of this girl. How do you see it darling? We're going to be parent's." Margaret said.
"Do you like the name Katniss for our new daughter?" Margaret asked while touching the baby.
Cato starred at Margaret in disbelief.
That's when Margaret pulled out the diamonds.
"These diamonds are worth a fortune. And no one will take them away from me. Even if I need to get rid of the brat." Margaret said watching her diamonds.
X
Almost eighteen years later.
A girl with silver eyes and long brown hair hugs another girl that has deep blue eyes and blonde hair.
"C'moon let's go." the girl with the brown hair says smiling before she starts walking.
"Katniss, you're crazy." the blonde girl yells at her.
"Well I'm crazy and everything but you still love me." Katniss answers smirking.
"How do you think that I wouldn't love you if you are my only family? If it wasn't for you and my grandpa I would be so lonely." the blonde girl says.
"And if it wasn't for you, my only friend and my sister adopted by me, I would be as lonely as an angry dog in the country." Katniss said.
Both girls laugh.
"That's how I like to see you, Madge. Laughing instead of crying." Katniss mumbled.
"Let's go." Madge said pulling on Katniss arm.
The girls walked to their rooms in the institution.
"It's just that sometimes I can't avoid feeling a little empty inside, you know. Even a little jealous when the holidays come and all of the other girls can go home with their friends and family." Madge said.
"Well I'm pretty sure that they don't have as much fun as we do, when we get the whole institution just for you and me." Katniss answered.
"That's true. I don't really remember my parents but I do remember that they were always looking out for me. That I would be calm, happy, that I wouldn't need anything. Since they died in that accident my world came crushing down. I can still remember my grandmothers yells and her hatred towards me. She could never forgive me for staying alive in that accident instead of my dad. Sometimes I wish that I would have died in his place that day." Madge said sighing.
"Don't you dare say something like that again Madge. What would I do without you? Because if there is someone that is abandoned and alone it's me. There are days that I think that I really came into the world carried by a stork bird." Katniss joked.
"You don't take anything seriously do you Katniss?" Madge laughed.
"I take our friendship seriously. We don't need anyone else, we have each other. You'll see that nothing will ever separate us. Not even a man." Katniss said the last word her nose wrinkled.
"Well If a really really hot guy shows up, with a tanned body and deep blue eyes like all the prince charming's have and a commercial smile, like the guy from last year." Madge joked.
"No no, don't even mention him. He promised you the sun, the moon, and the stars, and he gave you nothing. But well, if someone shows up that is worth it.. we will share him like everything else. He could be our boyfriend." Katniss joked.
The girls laugh together again.
X
Margaret is sitting in her desk, adding her red lipstick when someone knocked on her door.
"Come in." she yells.
Katniss slowly opens the door and steppes in.
"I heard from Cato that you were calling me. But before you blame me for what you are accusing me I'm innocent. I swear."
"Katniss.." Margaret laughs.
"No no, I know that I have a reputation for getting in trouble but this time I'm innocent, I'm really innocent." Katniss rambles.
"Oh shut up already. I didn't call you for anything that has to do with the school." Margaret snaps.
"Sit down." Margaret instructs.
Katniss sits down gently.
"I have to show you something." Margaret smiles.
She takes out a necklace that has the pink diamond in it.
Katniss smirks.
"Well look at that, it's beautiful." Katniss says getting up from her chair to touch the diamond, but Margaret pulls it away.
"I told you that you wouldn't stay single. So when does the miss get married?" Katniss asks.
"I'm not getting married." Margaret says.
"Ooh, well, don't worry, it's gonna happen. So why do you show me this then?" Katniss laughs.
"Like I once told you, the woman that brought you into this institution gave me something expensive to pay for your expenses" Margaret says.
"But what I didn't tell you, is that she also left you this pink diamond, and she asked me to give it to you when you turn eighteen."
"Miss Margaret. I know that you know more about my origin and my family. I need you to tell me something more, I need to know where I come from. That woman that brought me here, what was she like? Was she my mother?" Katniss begs for answers.
"Uh Katniss I already told you everything that I know, don't make me repeat the same thing over and over again. Margaret says with an annoyed voice.
Margaret gets up from her seat and starts talking,
"When you got here, you were a baby, oh so cute so curious, and so little, I even wanted to register you as my child really. But the owners of the school didn't allow me to. You know it would have been a bad reputation for the school and all that. That's why I had to hide you a little bit." Margaret lies.
"Yes I can imagine." Katniss says skeptically.
"You didn't want to take care of me either, right?" Katniss asks with a slightly sad voice.
"I did take care of you Katniss. In some sort of ways, I'm your mother." Margaret says.
Katniss just looks away, not wanting to say what she really thinks.
"The problem is that now that you will turn eighteen, you need to leave the school. I wish that I could take care of you for the rest of my life, but I can't. And the founds that payed for your expenses already ended. I recommend you to start looking for a place to stay and a way to maintain yourself. You will get this pink diamond Katniss. With this you can maintain yourself for a long time. It costs a fortune."