Prologue
Ella
I stared at my mom in complete shock. Was she serious! I just moved here 2 days ago, and she wants me to fill in for her at work!
"Mom I would love to but, I still have to unpack…and Find certain things. Mom I am way too busy." I muttered trying to muster some other lame excuse to get me out of this. I looked around the tired looking living room. The walls were painted a pear-lish looking white, there where pictures of my sister and I covering most of the wall. I looked at our old couch and small T.V. set. And I started to get that guilty feeling in my stomach. Then I looked at my sick mom, her usual warm brown eyes seemed tired and she looked worn out. And yet she had managed to give me the evil eye.
I felt myself giving in….no don't look into her eyes! Opps! Damn it!
"Mom..." she interrupted me,
"Ella it's just this one time darling, we really need the money and I can't show up looking like this" she pointed at herself. I looked at her, the tattered old nightgown, her bunny slippers that seem have to lost their original white color. Her hair looked like a birds nest, and the bags under her eyes seem to be growing darker by the minute.
"Just this once. Please?" I felt myself giving in.
"Fine mom. What is it that I have to do? Clean a house?" she smiled at me, giving me a warm feeling, and just for a second I remembered all those good times we had shared as a family, Me, Max, Ari, Mom and…Dad.
NO. I will not think about it…
"Ella?" she snapped me out of my internal discussion.
"Here is your uniform" she handed me a black and white maid uniform. And I rolled my eyes.
"You have got to be kidding me" I said as I walked out of the room to go change.