Chapter 2

"Sorry Ms. Bonnefoy you can't study in this High School anymore. We will take your scholarship from you because your grades are now lower than the standards for scholarship." these crystal clear words have been stuck in my head since that day.

I'm Darice Bonnefoy, a petite 17 year old girl with wavy, shoulder-length honey blonde hair and dull green eyes. As you see I'm a sophomore who got out of school due to my low grades. I'm not really that smart, I just studied well before to get into high school.

I am the first of the three children of Francis and Arthuretta Bonnefoy. My father is French while my mother is British. My father has wavy shoulder-length blond hair just like me, and mesmerizing blue eyes. My mother was a very beautiful yet stubborn woman as dad would always say. She had light ash blonde hair, bold green eyes, long eyelashes and a beautifully sculpt body much like a goddess.

Then I have a gentle younger sister named Francine; she's the youngest in our family. Francine is a six year old girl with pale white skin, long golden blonde hair and bright blue eyes. I also have a younger brother; his name is Rexford, who is the opposite of Francine. Rexford is 13 years old; he's a medium-built boy with butterscotch hair and turquoise eyes. We resided in America when I was only 3 years old because my father was designated there.

My mother died because of in an accident when I was only 7 yrs old, since then the smile on my father's face was wiped away. He lost his job because he wasn't trying to pay any attention on what he was doing, he had also become tardy. He then started to drink too much alcohol and started to smoke.

After that he started working as a call-boy, my father has become gay. I was only 15 when our father brought home his male lover. His lover came night after night; I would often avoid his brunet lover. Even though I tend to see both my father and his lover bad influences for Francine and Rexford; I think that Antonio, my father's lover, can help us in one way or another. We'll I need to thank him for making my father happy even for just a little while. He was also the one who paid for our tuition fees, and paid for all our bills at those times where in he was staying at our house. Antonio stayed at our house for at least 1 year, in that 1 year me and my siblings felt discomfort yet at the same time we felt relief from our family's financial status. As time pass by my father grew weaker, he was often sick. He continuously lose weight, we were all very worried. Antonio just stared as father coughed every night.

One day Antonio brought dad to the hospital to have a HIV test. I stared at him as made a very nervous and regretful face. The results would be given after 2 weeks that was what they said. In those two weeks Antonio would just sit lazily on our couch watching T.V. while I was taking care of my mother, since then I wasn't able to go to school everyday.

I was too afraid to tell Antonio to get out of our house; I somehow felt a profound sense of indebtedness. Before my father had become like this, me and my siblings were trying to cope with having another person in the house. As we sleep at night we would hear passionate moans from our father's room, but know all we heard was his pitiful coughs.

After 2 weeks Antonio got the results, his eyes widen. Trying to make a serious face he suddenly barged in dad's room. I, Francine and Rexford stayed at living room; conclusions popping on our minds. Antonio and father were talking about something serious. We waited at the living room, asking myself what will happen after this.

Then we suddenly heard our father crying, I rushed to the room as Antonio passed by me quickly. I went inside dad's room, he was there sitting on his bed mournfully crying. As Antonio slammed the door my father wept even harder.

I looked at the test's results… IT WAS POSITIVE. Positive… my father was sick. Francine and Rexford rushed into our father's bedroom. I felt so sorry for my father, his heart was broken twice, and now he is ill.

After that incident Antonio never came back.

Then we became poor again, to the point that we need to make deals with a loan shark. Now that we don't have anyone to pay our tuition fee, I had to study hard to have a scholarship. I paid Francine and Rexford's tuition fee using the money that we got from the loan shark. It was after a year or so that we had spent all of our money.

We had nothing left in our pockets… literally. I had to look for a job somewhere to support my family but no one hired me; and as I looked for a job my grades had gotten lower than before, and because of that I lost my scholarship.

"…So you lost your scholarship" "Yup, after so studying hard to just get it in the end I would lose it anyway." I said after eating the last piece of fries. "Then the day to pay our debts came…" I gulped somehow I got a feeling that the atmosphere was heavier, "So what happened?" Alfred had gotten more interested at my story. "We had no money to pay our debts to the loan shark so…."

"If you can't pay with money, how about paying with your body instead?" the loan shark exclaimed as my siblings came to me in fear. He hands me a calling card "Here. I pity you, y'know. You helplessly find a job when you have me! How about working at my club?" I slowly took his card with my shaking hand. I looked at the card, it says "The Sizzling Hot Republic" it even has pictures of half-naked women on it. "So what do you think?" I just stared at him as he gave me a malicious grin.

"You can go there whenever you want, we've got lots of customers waiting for new arrivals, you know what I'm saying?!? HAHAHAHAHA!!!" the loan shark walked to the door, "BYE NOW!" he slammed the door so hard that he almost destroyed it. I went back to my father's room, "Why is it so noisy?" I explained to him what happened. "YOU SHOULDN'T GO THERE!" he yelled at me as he threw away the calling card. "I'd rather wait for you as you look for a decent job that seeing you sell yourself to men!" I looked down, thinking of what I should do.