🌹BEAUTY 🌹
PROLOGUE
Have you ever been a beauty?, have you ever been so beautiful? have you ever been so pretty that each and every day different boys and men fight to have you as theirs… If you haven’t then I have, I didn’t know if it was a blessing or a curse to be this beautiful.. I was born in a family of two, just me my mom and my dad. We weren’t rich or poor just, you know the normal clas-s..
My name is Selene Murray, am twenty-two and my story isn’t like everyone else’s story , the story of how I was born.. That sometimes I wonder if I’m human ..
According to my mother I was born on July 23rd, at exactly 12:00am.. There was a full moon that night my mom went into labour but while she was about to put to be-d, her contractions st©pped and she didn’t feel pain anymore in her abd0m£n, the doctors and nurses started another process of checking what went wrong and later found out that I was dead in my mom’s stomach.. That they’ll have to use operation to get me out, and you know throw me away.. My mom was in thick tears and so was my dad, that he walked out of the hospital, looked at the sky, all hope was lost for him of having a child cause it’s been six years, he looked as the full moon la-id beautifully in the sky and with the last drop of hope left in him he prayed to the moon..
Back in the hospital just as the operation of me being re-moved from my mom’s stomach was about to begin one of the nurses opened the curtains of a small window when my mom glanced at the window and saw the moon she started having contractions again, and yelling in pain, and somehow I was alive again, the surprised doctors and nurses suddenly helped delivered the awoken dead baby… My mom and dad were the most happiest, not only because I c@m£ out alive but because I turned out to be a living angel, I was so beautiful that the nurses who carried me didn’t want to let me go my parents believed the moon brou-ght me back so they named me “Selene” which means “the moon” . “the goddess of the moon”..
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While I was growing up I was becoming more beautiful, and each night of my birthday every year my parents always tells me the story of how I was born,, and while I was getting older I always believe they’re just ma-king up stories of how I was born but it does feel weird of how I feel stronger during nighttime and especially during full moons..
Well my life was going smoothly with me growing up and become more beautiful day by day, I was the talk of the whole neighborhood and everyone loved me… Well my life hasn’t been a living hell until I entered High school.. Like they say high school is a living hell itself but it was like I made it worse..
My first day of school was nice for me I made a lot, and by that I mean a lot of friends, and you would have guessed right that it was because of my beauty..
After a week in high school different boys started to meet me and started to tell me how they feel about me but since I didn’t like any of them I just nicely turn them down..
Until I fell in love with this boy in my clas-s Jonah, he was tall dreamy and smart but ignorant and that made me fall for him more.. I wasn’t planning on telling him how I feel about him but one day I decided to, and immediately I tell him “I like you” he started to choke, and I watched as he coughed out blood and died in front of me, I was as shocked as fv¢k.. . .
That incident caused chaos around the whole school and around the neighborhood, somepeople thought I did something to Jonah but some people who saw us together, c@m£ as witness to tell others that I did nothing to Jonah, and people believed them cause everyone knows me as “the good girl” .
It took me a week to recover from that shocking incident, that I started to wonder if it was my confession that killed him or if he was sick before, but according to his parent nothing was ever wrong with him, he was a healthy child, and since then I started to feel guilty..
Nothing like that ever happened until my final year in school well boys were still clvstering me but I just didn’t give any of them a chance cause I never liked them.. Well David was another boy I liked in my final year but I didn’t dare to even approach, but it seems like it was also like David liked me too..
One day David confessed how he felt to me but I didn’t give him a reply I just walked away from him leaving him heart-broken, even though I wasn’t the cause of Jonah’s death, I don’t want it to happen again.. Cause i was kind of feeling that it was my fault..
Giving David a broken heart didn’t st©p him from trying to win me over, he kept hanging out with me and we started talked like friends do, he didn’t talk about being in a relationsh!pwith me for a while until one he day he brou-ght out the t©pic and I tried to cut him off but he yelled “I love you at me” and k!$$£d me and before I knew it he fell to the ground with blood in his mouth, I fainted to cause the sight of it again was shocking, and after that day I was being homeschooled my mom kept as-suring me it wasn’t my fault and I believed her
I mean just because I loved someone doesn’t mean they have to die because I confessed my love or just because I k!$$£d them, that’s absorb,
Being homeschooled, was the best until I graduated and received my high school certificate.. My parents started helping save for college but then my dad pas-sed away, slee-ping without waking up mom and I were so shocked cause it was a sudden and unexpected death, and my dreams of going to college was ruined and my mom and I just had to move on and live a normal life.. With me also working to help in the house..
But it wasn’t normal at all, first I worked at a coffee shop, the coffee shop gets customers everyday, mostly men and I realise it was because of me, I didn’t bother to act nice to any of them cause if I act nice they’ll want to get in my skin, everything was going smoothly until my boss fired me one afternoon, she was pissed of because she said her husband isn’t focusing on her anymore because of me, I didn’t know what to do anymore so I just took the chances and went home… I took another job and this time my boss was a male he ended up falling in love with me and one night during a full moon and during my shift he tried to take advantage of me but ended being paralyzed and then died, I ran home that night crying, is it a curse to be beautiful.. Why me?
Why!!. .
I didn’t bother to look for jobs anymore cause it seems like I cause chaos everywhere I go, so everyday I just stay at home doing nothing, waiting for my life to change cause my life isn’t a blessing but a curse!.
But not until one day…
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🌹BEAUTY 🌹
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EPISODE 1
“honey! I’m off to work stay put till I get back okay?” my mom yelled from the living room
“okay!” I yelled back from my room and heard as the door opened and closed shut.. I sighed and got down from the be-d I went to the bathroom took a bath and brushed my teeth, I changed into some nice clothes, cooked ate and sat down at the living room staring at the blank television..
Most youths get up every morning after taking their baths and eating they leave for work, but here I am sitting and staring at a TV that’s not even turned on.. I hate my life.. Like so much.. I went back to my room and got back on my be-d picking at my f!ngerscause it was a habit I suddenly picked from my mom and I do that when I’m bored, nervous, and scared
If only I could just get a job that my problem won’t be involved in.. I glanced at my small desk beside my be-d and gr@bb£d the mirror on t©p of it and when I looked at my pretty reflection I sighed..
“why are you so pretty” I said to my reflection
“why?” I asked myself like it was another person , I angrily dropped the mirror cause I was ma-king a fool out of myself..
I mean if it was true that the moon brou-ght me back to life, why did it bring me back to life and let m suffer this, I attra-ct everyb©dy, and I can’t fall in love cause I kill them and it’s like I lure men.. I don’t want to be “that” girl, I want to be like any normal girl would.. I don’t even have a silk of resemblance from both my mom or my dad, that people as-sume they adopted me.. While some people believed no mother would ever put such an angel like me for adoption, but I don’t care what they believe I just want a normal life..
I decided to wonder around the neighborhood a bit and just as I got to the living room and was about to open the front door the doorbell ringed, I suddenly open the door and saw my mom’s best friend, Anita..
She knows about my tragic life and you know everything about us, how I was born, you know the stuff..
“hi aunt Anita” I said with a small smile
“oh Selene, how are you doing” she said and pu-ll me in a sudden embr@ce, she’s so caring.. And kind
“I’m good” I replied and she dis£ngage the hvg with me and walked inside..
She sat down on one of our couches and I sat down opposite her, I first of all moved my hair in front of me, being careful of not sitting on it, yeah another problem with me is my hair it’s ebony black it’s thick, straight, too straight and st©pped un-der my bu-ttocks, I’ve never even dreamed of cutting it cause it would be a total waste of time, I’ve tried cutting it once, me and my mom we went to the best saloon and they gave it the best shoulder length hair cut and I was as happy as ever, but the strangest thing happened , the next day when I woke up my hair was back to its normal length, that freaked me out like so much but my mom was there to calm me down telling it’s nothing to get worked up about that getting this kind of beautiful hair was my luck “maybe God didn’t want you to get some p@rt rid off” she said that day.. . I calmed down that day and didn’t try to cut it again, my hair being long didn’t bother me though, cause it never gets tangled even when I sleep bath or do anything that involves contact with my hair, it’s just still shinny and straight, that’s my weird life for you..
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“so what brings you here aunt Anita, mom’s at work you know” I said and she smiled and nod
“I know I c@m£ here to see you actually” she said, “well okay” I said and take my bo-ttoml!pin between my teeth
“you know how you’ve been looking for a job and all but–
“I haven’t been looking for a job” I cut her off and she sighed
“oh well whatever. Even if you have been haven’t been looking for a job, I’ve finally found the perfect one for you” she said and my eyes suddenly lit up
“really?” I blurted out and she smiled and nod…. Remember when I said she’s so caring,
“yeah, how would you like to be a house keeper” she said and my face suddenly changed, that was not what I was expecting
“a house keeper?” I said lowly and she nods,
“what. don’t you like it?” she asked
“well technically it’s not that I don’t like it, it’s just that it wasn’t what I was expecting, a house keeper? I mean it sounds way off” I said truthfully and she smiled
“it’s not like you’ll be taking care of a house but an old lady, ever heard of the Blossoms?” Anita asked and I nod
The blossoms are one of the most riche-st family in like the whole world, their house is at the ending of this town, and it’s very big and rumour has it that it’s made out of Gold..
“you know the Blossoms are a very busy people they travel from places to places like every single day and they left their hvge house alone with their grandma and they suddenly nee-d someone to look after the house and also the old lady and the pay is $54 (₦20,000) everyday” Anita said and i suddenly stood up
“fifty four dollars everyday??” I repeated the amount and she smiled and nod. . Just to look after an old woman and a big house, fifty four dollars, well I shouldn’t be surprised cause they’re like stinking rich..
“well I’m getting that job, cause it won’t only just help at home maybe my dreams of going to college will come true after all” I said and I couldn’t help the smile that la-id on my face…
“then if you want to get the job we have to leave now cause they’ll be a lot of people too who would want to get that job” Anita said and i agreed, I gr@bb£d my phone and Anita and I took the bus and head straight down town… Oh mom would be glad to hear that I got a job.. If I get the job..cause it would Be the perfect job for me, no one would be at home, no male to fall in love with me just me and a strange old lady .. Oh I hope I do get the job…
While we were in the bus everyone kept looking at me and whisper filled the whole bus
*who’s she?* *she’s so pretty* *wow she looks like a goddess* *is that even her real hair* I just sit back quietly waiting to reach my destination I get this kind of looks every single day so there’s actually nothing to get worked up about..
Finally we got to the last p@rt of town which is called thorn-hill and the bus st©pped at the last bus st©p and most of the people got down including me and aunt Anita.. We walked briskly to the Blossoms house and while we got there they were three other ladies there too, a girl about my age and two other ladies.. Damn it.. I don’t think I’m getting this job..
There was another lady there who was fat and I think she was the interviewer.. Aunt Anita and I approach them and the interviewer suddenly said,
“let me guess you’re both here for the job”.
“no actually I’m the only one” I replied and she nods.. “well then you four, come with me” she said and we all followed her inside expect aunt Anita who waited outside for me..
“okay I’m Josephine but plea-se call me Jose and just so you know I’ll be the one asking the question here” the “interviewer” lady said and we all nodded
“okay what makes you think you have what it takes to get this job” she asked like she wasn’t interested in knowing the answer..
“because I can clean” the first lady said and Jose gave her a weird look
“because you can clean, really? Or because of the blossoms are rich, step aside plea-se” Jose said rudely, and wow I did not see that coming, Jose’s way too rude, she moved to the next person
“and you what makes you think you have what it takes to get this job?” Jose asked the second lady rudely and she replied with a smile…
“because to be a house keeper you have to keep the house safe and clean and I can do that” she said and Jose laughed
“miss, I use to be the house keeper of this house but now that I’m going to be gone I don’t nee-d someone like you to fill in for me cause I don’t think you have what it takes”
The lady looked at Jose angrily and walked away, Jose sm-irked and walked towards the third person which was me.. Honestly I don’t know anything about being a house keeper but I know it’s to keep the house clean! Till the owners gets back..
“okay.. you! pretty face, what makes you think you can get this job” she asked me and a small smile formed on my face it was a fake actually “cause I can take care of a whole house clean it manage it and also have full time to take care of an old lady” I said and the girl beside me suddenly looked at me
“an old lady?” she repeated
“what old lady” the first lady asked and Jose laughed and said , “so you’re both here to get this jobs and you didn’t know you’ll be taking care of the blossoms grandmother you know what, you two out, you.. Got this job” Jose said, wait she just said I got the job the two other ladies she kicked out angrily walked away and she sighed and turned to me
“I don’t think you have what it takes for this job, but since you’re the only one here come sign this contract” she said and shoved a paper in my palm and a pen
“make sure you add your phone number , bank account number and your email address” she added and I nod
I can’t believe I’m getting this job, I rejoiced inside me as I filled the paper and handed it to her and she gave me her phone number , after showing me the whole house which was splendid and was actually kind of made out of Gold like the rumour said.. she took me to a room and there was a an old elderly woman who was on the be-d knitting her room was wow and had ancient pictures of people on the wall..
“Mrs Ginger? How are you doing” Jose asked politely and the woman smiled seeing Jose
“Josephine, oh it’s you oh I’m doing great I haven’t seen you all morning we were you?” she asked and Jose frowned
“but Mrs Ginger I’m afraid I won’t be able to come here anymore I have some things I nee-d to do I nee-d to be gone for a while and while I’m gone she’ll be incharged” Jose explained to the old lady and she nods slowly and said “I un-derstand” Jose smiled and gave her a “careful” hvg, you know not to break anything.. . After introducing myself to Mrs Ginger , Jose took me outside and explained what and how I nee-d to take of Mrs Ginger..
“she’s just an old lady, but she’s strong healthy, and a very happy person but the only thing is she forget things a lot so plea-se take good care of her cause if anything goes wrong you’ll be in prison the blossoms aren’t people you laugh with they’re strict I’ve met them once and don’t wish to run into them again, it’s a good thing they travel so much, well now that you know everything Selene you’re starting your work tomorrow I leave you in good hands” Jose said and I smiled and re-leased a simple thank you,
I went outside and told aunt Anita about it and she was so happy for me, I was happy myself.
I went home feelings joyous, thankfully and finally I have a job a well paid job…
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Well my days of working at the blossoms house as a house keeper and taking care of Mrs Ginger won’t be a problem..
Well thats what I thought until..
“He” c@m£..
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T. B. C