Chapter1:Memories

"Nancy, today my friends are coming over to my place. There will be a small kitty party. So I want you to clean the house properly, make some snacks and juices first and later prepare dinner for them " ordered Mrs Feng to Nancy, her step-daughter . Nancy Feng nodded her head and went to continue her household work.

Nancy 's every morning start as same. She has to wake up at six in the morning, do all the house chores like washing, cleaning, making breakfast and after completing all the work, she help herself to go to college. She is now in the last year of her college degree. She is a brilliant student who got into the college though her own scholarship as her family refused to pay a penny for her college fees. According to them it is a waste of money. But she is determined to graduate on her own, get a job and start her own independent life.

Today is Sunday. None of her family members wakes up before nine but for Nancy it is the same routine. As she was about to rest after finishing her work, her stepmother ordered her to prepare dishes for her kitty party.

At about nine pm she went to her own room exhausted. As soon as she reached her room, she laid herself on her bed. Her eyes then went to the photo frame kept on the table beside her bed. It is a photo of herself and her own birth mother who died about twelve years ago. Soon she closed her eyes and memories began to flash into her mind.

It was when she was 10 years old, her mother died due to a road accident and left her alone in this world among these cruel people. The culprit for her accident was never caught. The case was closed in the middle and also her father thought it as a waste of time and money. Her father never loved her as her mother was never his choice. Their marriage was an arranged one by both the families. Nancy always felt that her father never truly loved her mother. Within two months after the accident ,her father married again to her stepmother,Mary Feng . She never took Nancy as her own daughter and also treated her as a maid. Mary Feng has one daughter named Cindy. After her marriage, she gave birth to a baby boy who is now ten years old while Cindy is one year older than Nancy. She felt herself as an outsider living in that house. Nancy's mother was a designer and had her own studio but after her death, her father sold the studio.She begged her father not to sell the studio as it contained her mother memories and her dreams but it went in vain. Her mother's dream was to become a famous designer and now Nancy wants to fulfill her dream and become a world famous designer. So she chose to pursue designer degree course and is in the last year of her college.

Thinking of her death mother memories and all her sufferings bought tears to Nancy's eyes. Soon her exhausted eyes and body soon fell into deep sleep.

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