To anyone that asked, including her family, Bella worked making organic baked goods to sell in an online store. She liked to bake enough that if someone inquired further she could start talking about a place she got some organic ingredients from and that would generally make people change the subject. It sometimes backfired and she'd be making 150 cupcakes for her son's school bake sale but frankly she'd go to the moon for him if he needed her to.
But what she really did was locked in a room in the basement where her 4 year old wouldn't stumble upon it. After he was asleep she'd make her way downstairs and turn the video monitor on so she'd know when he was on the move.
She'd started the website for a escape, generally to vent about her day and post a picture or two when she'd taken one of something she liked and one day she'd posted a picture of the shoes she was wearing and that's when her visits spiked. After going through the 2nd page of comments about her wearing the shoes she'd called her friend Angela to come over.
"Ok so I know those are hot shoes but wow, you should put ads on your site or something."
"Ads?"
"Definitely, people pay for all kinds of things on the internet." She replied shrugging. "Plus look at how many page views you're getting, you could probably make some serious cash."
She'd listened to Angela and didn't think about it until about 2 weeks later when she got a delivery of a pair of brand new Christian Louboutin boots with a card from a man named Frank saying she would look beautiful in them and he'd love to see pictures. After she got on the computer and removed her address from everything she could find she looked up the boots and left the house heading for Angela's.
"You will not believe what happened!" She started before she even got the door open all the way.
"It is 8:15 in the morning and I do not have a child to get to school. This better be life shattering." Bella shoved the boots into her hands. "Of all that's holy, where did you get these?"
"From a man named Frank who wants to SEE ME IN THEM. I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW HE GOT MY SIZE RIGHT." She was frantically pacing. "THEY CAME TO MY HOUSE! I HAD TO CHANGE ALL MY INFORMATION ONLINE."
"Wait, some dude sent you the most expensive pair of boots I've ever been able to lay my hands on? That's it, I'm digging out my heels and starting a website."
"Ang this isn't cool or awesome."
"You need to be rational about this. It could really work out."
"What could really work out? Are you kidding me? Rational is changing my name and removing all trace of Nick and I from that home and move across the country."
"Oh come on. Girl's do websites like this all the time. I was watching a show about it the other night and these girls were making serious money." Bella's eyebrow could have disappeared into her hairline she arched it so high. "Like pay off houses and save money for Nick's college fund serious money."
With that Angie had planted the seed, she'd started looking into different sites that were offering pictures for a monthly fee. Then she was watching something on tv and one of the characters did live videos and had people pay for time. A couple months later she'd gone over a business plan of sorts with Angela over a bottle of wine. She'd do videos and never get out of her underwear and do live videos so they wouldn't get spread everywhere. Late in the evening, her new website went up and she used the first name Aurora. She'd always wear wigs and makeup and business would never ever leave the room in the basement.