(From the desolate flower)
Just like every other Friday night, moonlight club was filled up with so much crowd, making the atmosphere electric and more vibrant than any other nights.
This was because the club normally hosted a special party, where every drink, meal, and snack sold for that night was free.
Aside from that, the club normally features famous artists and band groups to perform live on stage to spice up the heat.
Thus, those who happened to be fans of these renowned artists would give up anything to be there.
In fact, anyone who happens to live in the streets of Gem city, won't want to miss out every Friday night in the moonlight club, cause it remains the most talked about place to be in Gem city.
But for someone like Flora, Friday nights in the moonlight club was always a living hell.
Unlike those who visit for fun, she works there as a waitress.
It was not a job, though. It was part of the deal she made with her uncle, who was running the club.
After her parents suddenly passed away in a fatal car accident, Flora was left behind to face up her unfortunate reality.
There was no one to look after her anymore, no one to pay her college fees, no one to provide what to eat, all she had left was her mother's jewelry, which she cheaply sold for a hundred dollars.
In a short while, she was thrown out of the house by her landlord, because she couldn't afford to pay the rent.
At that point, life got real tough for Flora to the extent she had to feed on leftovers from shop trash bins and sleep under bridges, sometimes on the balcony of a locked stall.
It was in one of those pathetic days, an employee working in moonlight club, caught her surreptitiously taking left over foods from the club's trash can and stuffing them into a nylon bag.
She instantly took pity on Flora and offered to help. In return, Flora was grateful and delighted that her life was finally taking a good turn, at last.
Little did she know, she was coming out from the frying pan, to fire.
The young employee was true to her word, after all. She did exactly what she felt was helping the needy, by getting her a job.
The young girl she saw has perfect feet and hands, so to her, she can't possibly offer her anything else, but a job.
Though, she was not in position to do that, but through her connection in the club she believes something might work out.
Flora could eventually earn a post of a cleaner, at the least.
However, to the young employee's surprise, Flora wasn't just employed as a waitress in moonlight club, it turns out that the owner of the place was her distant uncle.
Initially, Flora was extremely thrilled to discover this too, she was overjoyed that she melted him, in fact. She'd thought it was a good sign that heaven has decided to answer her prayer.
Unfortunately, it didn't turn out to be what she had anticipated. Flora soon realized the kind of person her uncle was.
He was a sort of fellow with no common sense of humaneness. One of a kind, those working under him, described as a beast in human form.
Instead of elevating her life, he chose to make her suffer, just because of the grudge he held against her parents in the past.
Moreover, Flora was barely eighteen when she started working for him. She had expected some amount of changes the moment she began to work for him, despite the odds and had endured a lot for the sake of hope.
But soon, she will be twenty by next month. Yet, she hadn't achieved something tangible, since all these years.
No salary. No savings. Just to work like hell, and live like a beggar.
