Go for it!
It's like she wanted them to solely depend on her and if she got to know that they were earning from elsewhere she would call them ungrateful and constantly remind them where she got them from.
Even when Paula and Mira requested to work in hospitals she was pissed at them for a week but when they tried to explain her that they were practicing what they learned in school and that medical courses were better with practice she accepted reluctantly.
After all she liked medical courses. However she never even got to know that they were paid.
So Mira and Paula never spent alot while at home so that they were never suspected.
"Paula can I talk to you?" Mira asked Paula who was still unpacking.
"Hmm." Paula nodded.
"Am going to China." Mira went straight to the point.
"Huh??" Paula shouted.
"Ehh actually..." Mira narrated everything.
"Huhhh okay I hope you didn't tell anyone at home not even aunt and uncle." Paula said meaning Mira's parents.
"Of course." Mira replied.
If she ever told her parents it would be the same as announcing to the whole world about her travelling if possible.
They would take it as an opportunity to show off and with no time it would reach her aunt's ears.
Her other two sisters were the same because they would tell their friends and you know how things travel so fast.
As for her other sister Lucy she would worry for her safety out there so Mira didn't bother telling her.
"Go for it!" Paula said.
" I am supporting you."
" Haven't you liked China for a long time?" She added with a smile.
" I better try to read that book that earned you a prize it must be really good." Paula said.
Actually Mira was doubting Paula because she knew she wasn't someone who loved reading.
Mira stayed in the same hostel room with Paula and Melina.
The next day Mira called Emily her childhood friend.
They had grown together in the Haven but one day when Mira came back from boarding school for a short holiday Emily was no longer living in the Haven.
When she asked the other children who were not going to boarding school they said they didn't know anything.
They said they just saw her one day packing a few bags of hers and leaving the house.
However one day Natasha told her that Emily was serving breakfast and then placed a hot cup of down on the dining table.
She went back in the kitchen to get a spoon but while still there she had a child screaming.
When she came to the table she found the cup lying on the floor and the little boy had been scalded.
Before she could do anything aunt Anna came in and the boy being her favorite child then she angrily scolded Emily for two days.
She kept calling her a murderer.
She even called aunt Romen and told her that Emily wanted to kill the boy.
She assured her that Emily poured a cup of hot tea in the boy and that she had been wanting to do something terrible to the child.
It was until one fateful day that Emily was called at aunt Romen's office.
She was terribly told off and sent home to pack her things. So at the age of 15 the two girls were separated.
Emily was sent away to some distant relatives who mistreated her.
When Mira was seventeen they met again in another school.
They were so happy to find each other and they talked about each other's lives.