"What were you thinking! Going out with someone like that?" My Aunt demanded.
"Someone like what?" I asked, brushing past her, regretting coming home. If I'd known she'd drive all the way across town to see me, I would have stayed out all night. Couldn't I get any peace with my world melting down around me?
"A Rich Man!" She denounced.
"What does his money have to do with anything?"
"Were you not dating him for--"
"No!" I said turning to her. "I dated him because I LIKED him. Money had nothing to do with it." Sure, it would be nice. Sure, to have money would be great. Especially when I was...I had been living pay check to pay check. Now without my job thanks to his jealous ex girlfriend, I needed to find a new job and fast.
She shook her finger in my face. "Do not lie to me little girl! You cannot believe your Cinderella dreams will come true. You want money you have to work. Work. Work!"
"I know, Auntie Meg. You've told me that a hundred times."
"And I'll tell you a thousand more until it gets into your thick skull. "You cannot skip a head in li--"
The doorbell rang. And my heart leapt in relief. Some reason to get out of this conversation. To not have my dreams crushed even more so.
I dashed for the door. "I got it." It was my apartment, of course I would get it. Whoever it was, they were a lifesaver.
-Inspiration from watching Maid in Manhattan
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