Broke

Chapter one

The Beginning

The Lorikeet girl that was Aizawa Minto woke up in her Queen sized bed. She then sat up and rubbed her eyes to get rid of the sleep that was in them. Afterwards she looked at her bedside clock, realizing that it was one in the afternoon.

It was the weekend of course, but Minto still thought it was strange. Usually a maid would wake her up around eleven if Minto had the misfortunate to sleep in, which didn't happen very often (Minto didn't like to sleep in too late, even on weekends).

But Minto decided to not think much about it, though she knew she would have to have a talk with the maids. It just wasn't acceptable. Minto then got out of bed and went over to her large window where she opened the silk blue curtains, causing sunlight to flood her room.

Looks like it's going to be a nice day Minto thought with a small smile. After our rich girl got changed out of her blue nightdress and into one of her expensive outfits did she then start to put her hair into her trademark hairstyle, which was a pair of buns tied at the back on the sides of her head with a few strands falling stubbornly down the sides of her face, ending to just about her chin or so.

Suddenly Minto heard a familiar dog's bark and she looked over with her brown eyes to see her pet puppy, Miki, had just walked into the room. Minto smiled at the canine. "Good morning Miki" she greeted as she picked up the pup and Miki licked her cheek a bit, causing Minto to giggle slightly.

Minto then left her bedroom and went downstairs. Where is everybody? Minto wondered with a suspicious yet worrying frown. Then as the young girl walked past the double doors that lead to the living room did she hear what sounded like voices.

Minto then opened the door and looked in, seeing a young boy that was her older brother, Seiji sitting on the cough. And on top of that, the children's mother and father were there also! "Mother! Father!" Minto said in surprise as she walked further into the room. "Oh, I see you're already up, Minto dear" her mother said.

Minto placed Miki on the ground before she spoke to her mother. "Of course I'm up, none of the maids bothered to wake me" she replied, quite rudely in fact because of how lazy her maids were. But Minto didn't bother to question why none of the maids woke her up earlier.

Instead she asked, "So why you and Father are back from Paris so early? And why is Onii-sama back from studying in Europe?" Minto asked, looked at all three of them. "Well you see Minto, something came up" her father said, looking uneasy.

Minto had a feeling that she wasn't going to like what she was about to hear. Her father then looked to his wife, then to his son, before sighing heavily then looked back to his daughter.

"This isn't easy for me to say, and nor is this going to be easy for the family... But... I'm afraid... we're broke" he finally announced, turning his gaze down to his cupped hands that were on his lap. Minto's pupils grew miniature in shock at what she had just heard. "I'm afraid... we're broke" her father's voice repeated in her mind. No! Surely that couldn't be true! Maybe she had misheard him.

"W-What?" Minto spoke, her mouth suddenly becoming dry and her voice sounded weak. But her father just repeated what she had just heard seconds earlier. "No..." Minto said quietly as she shook her head slowly. This couldn't be happening! This had to be a nightmare!

"No!" Minto then yelled, feeling her eyes starting to feel watery. "Please Father! You have to be joking! This can't be happening!" Minto said to her father, the tears started to fall down her face. Her father shook his head. "No. I'm afraid I'm not joking. And this is really happening" he told his daughter calmly with a somewhat sad expression on his face.

Minto shook her head once again, this time a bit more fast so that it caused her buns to bounce a bit and the strands of hair to hit her face. "No... No" Minto repeated in disbelief, the tears continuing to fall. How had this happened?

Minto then covered her face with her hands where she cried into them. Suddenly Minto felt someone embracing her. Minto lowered her hands and looked up a bit to see her older brother was embracing her, stroking her head to try and comfort her. Minto wrapped her arms around him and sobbed into her brother's shoulder.

And this was how our wealthy Aizawa Minto, became the poor Aizawa Minto...