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THE PAST....

FEW MONTHS EARLIER....

It has been seven years plus since the incident that changed the course of Megan stark 's life from the girl who had it all to one with nothing.

How she has survive all this years was something even she marveled about as she walk down the street her hands jam into her pockets.

Her past has been hunting her from the day it happened even to this present moment as she has just been fired from her job according to her Boss, "she was bad for business".

For the past five years , she has not been able to keep any jobs always hopping from one job to the other as she gets fired as quickly as she was hired.

The most pathetic of them all is she can't find a white collar jobs due to her past which made headlines and has stayed headlines immediately her ex Jared Taylor Macallam became popular all over the world not just because he is a self made billionaire whose giant corporation spurn all over the world with different companies into virtually everything you can think of but also his handsomeness got ladies gushing and drooling over him.

Alot of reputable companies refused to hire her for fear that they might unknowingly offend him if he finds out that they hired her. She figured that out after she got rejected after several application and submitting her resume for jobs.

She then tried  cafe,hotels and bar which worked out at the beginning until the press get wind of it and creat so much disturbance that her Boss has to let her go and it has always been like that till this last one.

Her boss this time has always behave inappropriate  towards her which she always put a stop to while bearing with the situation as her options of getting a job is dwindling until he has fired her too. As she was leaving, he has called her and told her he wants her as his mistress which she has prompt her to slap him and walked out.

The press has really damaged her life with the issue of how she done her ex Jared dirt citing her cheating on him when he had nothing especially when the guy she cheated with at the time family was wealthy while Jared 's family wasn't so she became known as the most foolish golddigger who tried to dig gold and got shorn.

People mocked her alot, they told young girls to learn from her mistake on how she left the real gold for just a minute pleasure.

The was a time when a famous blogger has made a post citing how she lived and how she would have lived if she had been faithful to Jared. Alot of people commented on how she must have been living in regrets.

Noone has cared to know what really happened in that room and she had to live with the consequences .

While everyone since that incident have moved on to great jobs , she has been left behind suffering for it. Even though Life haven't been easy for her, she was always proud of seeing Jared making it big cause she knew his dreams and him realizing it was everything to her.

The ringing of her cell phone has jerk her back to the present. She pulled it out as she walk on the sidewalk hurriedly.

" Hey ! Bee how are you?", She asked after discovering that her best friend was the one calling her.

The distraught voice at the end of the line spoke a bunch of words which she couldn't understand .

"Betty, slow down, breath and tell me what is going on?", she asked with a concern voice.

"It is Ella, I just received a call from her school that she just collapse and she has been taking to the hospital ", the voice at the other end respond teary.

" Oh! No", she exclaimed.

" Where are you now?", She asked her

" I am in a taxi on my way to the hospital ", she replied.

" Which of the hospital? She asked as she made plans to go meet her .

" It is X hospital", she replied .

"Betty be calm okay, I am coming right now", she said as she stopped a taxi and told him to take he to X hospital.

On getting there , she ran into the hospital after paying her fare and after asking several questions was able to locate where Betty was .

She met her shedding so much tears that her heart sank and quickly reach out and hugged her she herself tearing up.

" What is the doctor saying? What is wrong with her", she asked .

" Ella is really sick , the doctor said she needs urgent surgery and they are demanding for a lot of money Meg", she said as she cried

" How much is alot?", She asked her best friend tears running down her eyes.

" About a 300 thousand dollars cos he will need treatment and care after the surgery ", she said as she shakily sat down.

Megan was so shock that she didn't know what to say.

" Where do I get such money Megan?" She asked crying while Megan Pat her back continuously.

" I don't want to lose my daughter", she said weeping.

"You won't lose her okay, she will be fine ", she assured her friend as she began to wonder how she can help.

Betty is an orphan and a single mum who didn't have anyone to get help from, so she knew the money has to come from the both of them.

She felt so helpless with this situation. She herself didn't even have anyone who could be of assistance and the little money she had was like a drop of water compare to what is needed.

After spending time with Betty reassuring her that her soon will be fine then checking on Tim to see how he was faring. She went home with the promise of bringing Betty a change of clothes and a meal later.

On getting home, later in the night after visiting the hospital the second time that day she had a shower and tried to eat which she couldn't.

So she went online as she tried to find something to pass time before she sleep until she saw post about Jared.

She find her self sighing and wishing she was as rich as him so she could help her best friend with the money needed for the surgery.

" It was so unfortunate that she wasn't", she  thought as she drops her phone and close her eyes to sleep.