CHAPTER FIVE, HARD TIMES

 

She finished the entire Novel by five thirty in the evening and got up to leave, she put the novel back in its place and while she was going out of the library, she saw a flyer containing a vacancy advertisement and read through it. It was a restaurant, that needed more crew members and the pay was $27,387 per month, $13 per hour.
She immediately called the restaurant, she was invited to come over the next day.
Mylar got hired and whatever she got at the end of the day, she used to take care of herself and her 'little foodie' as she called her unborn child but still, she was getting short on rent money and money for other stuff as well. After a month of working, her stomach started getting bigger and her appetite increased, her taste in food also became different, before she liked eating sandwiches, salads, and fries but now she eats Chinese noodles, and hot dogs, she started eating fruits even the ones she hated before and even tamarind, that is so sour.
"How are you coping girl?" Vida asked when she came to visit Mylar, she looked at Mylar's face, Mylar looked very tired, and little dark circles were around her eyes.
"I guess I am doing great, just chilling," Mylar replied with a false smile.
Vida moved closer to her on the bed, holding her hands, she apologized to Mylar with tears in her eyes.
"I am so sorry that I couldn't help you in any way. I'm sorry."
Mylar couldn't hold back her tears anymore, she let it all out, they started flowing down her face. She said to Vida while crying. "My life is so terrible now, I thought I was suffering before but now it's way worse than before."
"Hey, don't say that. I know that everything will be fine soon, just have some faith." Vida said trying to comfort her. Mylar looked at Vida and said to her.
"Of course, you can say that when you are still beautiful and you only have your mouth to feed. My biggest problem now is that my stomach is getting bigger and I keep getting tired and mostly sick."
"Do you get nauseous and keep vomiting?" Vida asked and Mylar nodded.
"That means you have HG (hyperemesis gravidarum). Gosh, you are so frail." Vida cried out.
"So what do I do about this HG? Doctor Vida." Mylar asked her, Vida couldn't help feeling sad for her friend, she didn't like the way Mylar looked now.
"You will be needing constant hospital treatment and that means money," Vida replied and then suddenly said something that came to mind.
"Girl, don't you think you should inform Camilo about your pregnancy, I think you need help, you can't do this alone."
Mylar looked away, she didn't think this was a good idea. Camilo isn't a responsible person and she couldn't even think of how he will react to this. She turned back towards Vida after thinking it through and said.
"I don't think he will accept the child."
"Why not give it a try and see? What if he accepts?" Vida asked.
Mylar looked at her big tummy and back at Vida.
The next morning, Mylar and Vida went to the subway station and took the train to Carnegie Hill, upper east side Manhattan to Julian Wylder's Mansion, one of the most beautiful houses in New York City. The house was gorgeous, tall oak trees and other types of trees, trimmed flower beds, flower stones, and other beautiful flowers with different amazing fragrances could be seen everywhere.
Each house was far from the other and a long desolated clean road led to the house. The Mansion was designed like an ancient royal palace but looking at it, you would know that it is very expensive. It looked so perfect that it became Mylar's dream house at that very instant.
They went to the gold medal automatic sliding gate, which had a phone doorbell intercom system on the wall outside, such advanced technology they'd never used before.
They used the gate call box to call and patiently waited for someone inside to answer them.
Miss Emelda heard the sound and went to check the camera, she saw two young ladies looking into the camera, at first she wanted to ignore them because they didn't look like any of Camilo's friends or Mr. Julian's business partners but then she thought to herself that she needed to chase them away in case they were beggars here for alms so that Mr. Julian wouldn't meet such people at his door.
"She is annoying but still she could have helped us to see Camilo because she is his nanny. What do we do now?"
"We come back tomorrow girl," Vida said and wrapped her right hand around Mylar's shoulder with a smile. They walked a little because they didn't have much money on them but it was also part of the things the doctor advised Mylar to do for an easy delivery.
Elio crossed his legs as he sat down in his office, he took off his glasses and placed them on the table, and then his thoughts went back to some hours ago when he had gone home, his mom had spoken to him like a normal person for forty-five minutes. It made him happy but the only thing she talked about was Camilo getting married and starting up his own family and that upset him.
"Why didn't she talk about me, don't I also get to fall in love, get married, and start up a family of my own? Why does she always think of him, it is his fault that she is not fine anymore. Then why does she love him more than me?" Elio said sadly as drops of tears came rushing down his face.
"It's so unfair, it's unfair." He kept saying these words as he continued to cry, he didn't even notice someone walking towards him as he laid his head on his table and continued sobbing bitterly.
Elio!!! The person called out, her beautiful feminine voice so calm and loving.
She was wearing a sequin slitted blue dress and her face was more beautiful with a little makeover. Her long black hair left losingly on her back, Elio raised his head quickly forgetting to wipe off his tears, he looked terrible. She placed her tender hand on his face and wiped off his tears for him, then she asked him.
"Are you thinking about Camilo again? I told you not to do that anymore right?"
"How can I stop thinking about him, when he messed up mine and my mom's goddamn life," Elio said with all the anger inside of him and tears ran down his eyes.
"It wasn't his fault you know." The lady said trying to calm him down, this made Elio scoff.
"You too Trina, you are also supporting him, that's what everyone else has been doing." Elio looked at her, his eyes red from crying and his heart was filled with rage.
"If he hadn't left the house that day because of a little thing such as wanting to go to a friend's party, then we would have never thought that he was the one who died in that accident," Elio said and wiped off the tears which were still coming out of his eyes.
"Please stop, Elio stop talking about that incident please." Trina pleaded with him holding his hands. He pulled his hands out of hers and said to her.
"I can't. Mom believed that he didn't die and she went looking for that son of a bitch for three goddamn days and when she did come back home, Mom was bleeding. She had been raped by three men just because she was searching for her idiot of a son who was busy enjoying his life for three days amid idiots like him, grown-up ladies." Elio continued crying painfully.
"Elio," Trina called sadly, she was also in tears. She knew this story because that was what Elio always talked about.
She was his childhood friend as well as high school sweetheart but they parted ways before the incident happened, Trina's parents had sent her to California where her grandmother lived to go to a different high school. She came back three months ago and now works under one of the biggest firms in New City as one of its most renowned lawyers.
Elio stopped crying after receiving the most comforting hug from Trina and said to her.
"When I went home today, Mom spoke to me with so much love, it's been a long time and I miss that but all the while we were talking, what Mom could talk about was Camilo, she wants him to get married and give her a grandchild, a very cute one like Camilo, she said."
"Were you hurt by that?" Trina asked.
"Yes, very much but the thing is, I love seeing my mom happy and I am also ready to do whatever it takes to help her get well soon even if that is to force Camilo to get married to someone and start up a family."
Trina saw that his confidence and strong will were back again and that he was feeling much better, she was very happy to see that.
Then she suddenly frowned her face and looked away from him as if upset, he saw this and tried to know what was wrong with her.
"I see that Camilo's the only one who gets all the attention here and I am not important." She said to him.
Elio smiled, he got up and gave her a light kiss on her forehead and then he said to her.
"You will always be important. You know you are the only amazing friend I have."
Her heart was suddenly hurt as if hit and broken into pieces by what he said but she quickly put on a smile. They gave each other another tight hug and went out of the office together to grab their lunch.