Bond by Circumstance

uiet you hear a pin drop. We enter the dining room, about 20 people are wearing bl

but they are waiting for someone. Maybe they are waiting for me. This is great, I take the closest empty chai

changed, he's also wearing a black jea

utiful thank you so much,

nt then he nods. I won

ungry I dig in and when I raise m

hey seeing a female pe

n, he's busy typing. I'm not full. I eat a lot, my dad al

m very loud but I don't know why people are so quiet. He nod

l is he text

g up. I'm a bit of a neat freak. I always clean up after mysel

ng the plates. Some of us know that we have to tidy up unlike you la

hey can tell me an old short woman in a gray and white mai

that. We will take th

for the first time, Ben is looking at me, not his phone. She directs me to the kit

asher, and a microwave. This house is very elegant I hope I get to see the rest of it tomorrow. I

es, she doesn't want to, even when I tell her that I'm not stealing her job

I can't use the dishwasher and I doubt Ben knows how it works. I wash the dis

can't push them at the back of my head any longer. My heart feels heavy but you know what, I'm done crying ove

oing to keep me awake all night. How am I going to tell my boss that I won't be coming to work when I

h. I always dreamed of being independent you know the kind of woman who changes her car tire but because of my parents the dreams I worked so hard to a

I'll ever forgi

eyes open, I look at the c