Chapter 10

The bus ride to Gloria's house was a silent one they were both immersed in their own thoughts, Gloria leaves in town and she runs in between jobs, her mother died few years back leaving her to cater for two boys, she had to drop out of school so she could work and pay the bills, that's why she had to do some despicable things so she and her siblings could survive like sleep with Dante and even some customers so she could keep the job at the club, she also works at a grocery store here in town, she needs all the money that she can get at this point there were still some debt she still need to clear off like the one her useless father left her and the medical bills from when her mom was sick, she had died of cancer ' ding ' the sound of the bus brought Gloria back to reality "hey Jane we are here let's go" gloria said to Jane. Jane stood up and followed after her

in about five minutes they arrived at Gloria's house, Gloria brought out her own spare key and opened the door "come in Jane" she said Jane stepped into the house and it was such a nice house not bad for a single girl and two boys "we just moved in here two years ago, we had to vacate our house, my crazy used it as a collateral in the bank, he used the money to gamble and drink, can you imagine?" she said with a hint of pain and sadness evident in her voice ' it must have been really tough for her ' Jane thought "I can imagine" she said "we were asked to leave on a short notice, I had to ask and beg Dante for help, he did help but it wasn't for free" she blurted out " that son of a gun will never stop" she said angrily she just couldn't understand why people get like that "it's okay it's all in the past now, what would you like to eat, I doubt if my brothers prepared anything but am sure there's some bread and milk in the fridge, what about omelette, what do you say?" gloria asked "anything is fine" Jane replied, Gloria walked into the kitchen to fix the food she was totally hungry and tired she can't wait to just eat and crash

Few minutes later Gloria emerged from the kitchen with plates in her hands, she carefully placed them on the table so as not to break anything, she passed the bread to Jane "here help yourself" thanks" Jane replied. As they were about to finish with the food Felix walked into the sitting room "hey sis" he called out "you came in late today, we thought you weren't coming home, sorry we didn't prepare anything for you" Felix said " it's okay so sorry I didn't call got caught up in something" Gloria said, Jane looked at them and suddenly felt emotional they must really love each other just like she and Cassie and she suddenly miss her again ' oh my dear friend where are you? ' Jane thought to herself "and who is the pretty girl?" Felix asked his sister and his voice jolted Jane back to reality " oh she's my friend and we work together at the club, her name is Jane,Jane meet my immediate younger brother Felix,Felix meet Jane" gloria said introducing them to each other, "Thomas must be asleep in his room hopefully tomorrow you will meet him before you leave" Gloria said and Jane nodded "alright it's time to sleep come on Jane let's go, good night Felix" "good night sis good night Jane,nice meeting you" he stretched his hand toward her and she took it "same here, goodnight " she replied and walk towards gloria

"welcome to my room" gloria said "here sit I will find you something to change into you must be really tired" "yes thanks" Gloria walked to her wardrobe and brought out one of her pyjamas and threw it at Jane "here you can wear this" "thank you" she said, went into the bathroom and changed into it. she came out of the bathroom and found out that gloria had already changed too and already laid on the bed and was about to doze off "are you sure Dante won't know what happened?" Jane said to her "who cares even if he finds out he can't do anything you know the jerk tried to rape you, if he's bold enough let him report him and then we will tell our side of the story it's called self defense now don't worry about it and just sleep we will talk about it tomorrow okay?" Gloria said obviously irritated she jus wants to sleep " alright then goodnight Gloria sleep well" Jane said "goodnight Jane" Gloria replied.