10.
Bella sat on the comfortable brown leather sofa, chewing her thumb nail as she tried to think of whom she could talk to.
But, there was simply nobody.
Her great aunt Rose lived clear across the country so there was no way Bella could just pick up and go to her. Plus, the old woman had become senile in her old age. The last time Bella had visited her, she had mistaken Bella for her own mother, Renee.
It pained Bella to think that her only living relative didn't recognize her anymore but, the simple fact was, she just wasn't very lucky when it came to family matters.
In fact, one could have said that Bella was, in fact, a very unlucky-in-life sort of woman.
At twenty five, she'd managed to get a pretty decent job working as a receptionist at a motorcycle shop. She loved the environment and the customers were usually fun to be around.
She was far from a stick in the mud and was usually pretty outspoken when it came to matters in which she believed in.
But now, having found her boyfriend Sam in bed with her best friend, Emily meant that there was no way Bella could count on any of her friends. And, to make matters worse, Sam co-owned the shop where Bella worked so there was no way she was going back to that place on Monday morning.
The girl was simply out of luck.
Luck is a very common theme in this little tale...