Capítulo 20: upcoming storm

After reaching home, they went to their rooms. After working the entire day, all of them were tired.

Alora was feeling a little better than before. Maybe she was happy as she won't have to work in the cafe every day.

Maybe cause now she could get more sleep which is extremely important for her health.

Her eyes went to her secret locker where money and the properties left by her parents were.

Her parents left her enough money to survive a lifetime without working. Her father was the son of a rich businessman who died after leaving all his work and money under his son's name.

Her father was hardworking from a young age. Hence, he invested the money to make more money and he succeed.

He was the owner of an online business without any physical company. Hence, after his death, nothing was harmed.

To be honest, he might have lost all his money after death had it not Maya's and Sarah's father who looked after his business for a few weeks.

They closed his business without leaving any problems behind.

Her mother was an intelligent woman who loved baking and gardening. She opened her bakery and a nursery in her teenage years which was quite popular. Now, it's sold out as there wasn't anyone to look after them.

Sarah and Maya's parents had their own lives to live in. They had their jobs and looking after two more people's jobs was not an easy task.

On top of that, they had three kids to look after.

Having no other path open, they decided to sell out Alora's parents' belongings.

They left all the money and property under Alora's name.

Alora knew that she could live a smooth and easy life with all this money but won't life be boring this way? Having no work to do and roam around the whole day.

That's not how life works. There's a purpose behind everyone's life and Alora also had her own.

She wanted to do something different. Something that nobody had done before. Something unique but she didn't know what.

Alora signed and walked towards her desk.

She sat down on the chair and pulled out her notebook.

She started making a priority list. Things that would be on top had to be complete anyhow.

She started writing.

Things I got to do:

1) Get straight A's in every subject. I need to focus fully on my studies.

2) Work on my small business. I need to give my business at least two to three hours every day.

3) Get at least 6 hours of sleep every day.

4) Build a habit of drinking more water. It's necessary for a healthy body.

5) Learn things from the professors. ( If I stay closer to intelligent and creative people then I will get to learn at least one thing from them, even if I don't want to.)

She was determined to follow this thing and achieve them.

"Let's take it slow. Without proper sleep, our brain starts eating itself. I don't want this for myself. What will do with all the money if I die? Nothing. They will be of no use. My health comes first," she thought and closed her eyes to fall asleep.

But sleep seemed to be far away from her eyes. She wasn't used to sleeping this early.

She is used to working until her eyes can't take it anymore and sleep consumes her.

She forcefully tried to make herself asleep but couldn't.

She plugged her earphones into her phone and started listening to music.

She started making different scenarios in her mind where she was hurt. Where nobody likes her and everyone ends up abandoning her.

After a few minutes, she started crying cause in her imagination, her imaginary boyfriend cheated on her. He said that she isn't worthy of his love and she just couldn't stop herself from loving her.

The next moment, she starts smirking like she has won a battle as she imagined savagely pushing her imaginary boyfriend away. She imagined herself being super successful and crushing her ex-imaginary boyfriend under her power.

The next moment she ends her forgiving her imaginary ex-boyfriend and they get married in her imagination.

Her emotions kept on changing with the songs. She went from crying to smirking, from smirking to being happy real quick.

While imagining all of these, she didn't notice when sleep consumed her.

She fell into a dreamless sleep.

She woke up before dawn and looked at her clock. It was late compared to usual.

She jerked off her sleepiness and ran towards the bathroom to freshen up.

She brushed her teeth and washed her face with a face wash.

While looking for a dress to wear, she realized that she won't have to leave the home before dawn to reach the cafe every day.

She has already resigned. Now, she can wake up after dawn. Do exercise and leave for school in a relaxed mood.

She looked at the sky and it was still night.

She was already missing her part-time job. She was so used to it that now something feels missing. It's like a puzzle of her heart is missing.

She decided to work on her small business. She still had a lot of time on her hands before she has to leave for the laboratory as she is supposed to go there today.

She got a lot of new orders and luckily, most were already made before.

Ninety percent of her task was already done by her before.

She started working on the rest and after being paid online, she packed the dresses to ship off the paid dresses for the customers later.

She was making quite good money and her heart was warming up at this.

She was feeling so happy.

"If this continues then I will have a successful business before graduating from university," She smiled at her thoughts.

She was happily dreaming about her bright future, totally unaware of the fact that a big storm was soon going to come in her life where she would either find the meaning of her existence or lose herself entirely.