Dear readers, I hope you're OK (or at least slightly better than me...my mood seems to like playing russian mountains again, grrr....) anyway, don't want to bother you too much with all that...and today, I wanted to try something new! As you can see ; Hope you'll like it. So, just relax and read this extract:
After many cup of tea, desperatly trying to relax, Sally closed her eyes . It was impossible. She had just put down her last few bank statements, telling herself that it could be worse; many people before her, who had the same problem, had survived. She just had to cut back on things that didn't matter, to be more careful. She could also sell some her stuff that she never used or never wear more than once, right? After all, that was other people did or do when their financial hit a hard time. It wasn't uncommun she reasoned herself for the million time today. Then again, how could she succeeded? How could she get through when most of her families had always spend money without a care in the world, smiling as if everything would be fine.
Sally had first thought, even convince herself she wouldn't be like that. Not like her family did, as much as she loved them. After university, she had made a pact with herself, even promised she would be careful, put some money away every month for rainy days, just in case. It didn't last. As soon as the first jobs came along, it had been hard not to. There always good reasons, drinks with friends or colleagues, engagements party drinks, holidays, birthdays or christmas gifts, and many other (stupid) reasons. Taking a step back, Sally reckoned she shouldn't have spend so much. Her last bank statements proved it, one more time. She sighed. There might be other solutions such as borrowing money from friends (if they were to accept) or even her family, but she couldn't. First, there was her pride and second she didn't like to borough money from others. How long would it takes to fall on her feets anyway? And by the time, she would, they would probably sue her in the process demanding their money, or maybe stop talking to her altogether. So what was the point?
No, the only solution right now was to sell everything she possibly could, everything she didn't need anymore , everything that she could bare not to see or have around. Sally opened her eyes as she looked around to see what she could sell, making a mental list in her head. Maybe a few of her jewellery she had bought but was barely using, only for events (birthdays, weddings, work related events), bags she liked, shoes she bought every occasions she had, not really knowing why but they looked good on her feet-well that was the sale assistant would say, especially when her credit card was out and ready to pay- or a few nice clothes, some were quite high-standards (she remembered having bought some Prada or Gucci because it had been on sale) but she might have to check first, some shops could be sometimes 'snotty' as her granny likes to call them. She smiled as she recalled her, the only member of her crazy family, that still had her head on the grounds. She missed her, it had been a while since she had last seen her. it might have been around Christmas if she remembered correctly. She decided to pay her a visit once everything had calmed down. That would be nice. And at least, she would see a friendly face! Sally needed it. A holiday would be even more relaxing. Yep, that would be good, she decided, real good! She closed her eyes again, as a headache had started again, despite an aspiring taken a few hours ago. it didn't help much as she heard her mobile phone ringing. Sally ignored it. Whoever this was, she didn't want to talk to anyone right now, she wanted to be left alone for a few hours. If it was important, they could call later or leave a message. She would call them back. Although, if it was her boyfriend, or should she say ex-boyfriend, she really didn't want to hear about it. They had talked enough. If it was a member of her family (unless emergency) or her so-called friends, she didn't want to hear about them either. Once again, right now she just wanted some peace and quiet, not to think about anything else. She would do that tomorrow, once she had at least ten cups of coffee and gain a lot of energy. Until then, she didn't want to be disturb. Not that she wasn't sociable, but these days, she seemed to like being alone. She knew she had been used to go out either between friends or sometimes colleagues, seeing her family from time to time or going to a few party when she felt like it; otherwise, true enough, some peace was actually Ok.
Realizing over the past week that only real friend would be there for you no matter what, she had distanced herself from people she had considered 'friends' or at least 'potential friends'. Like they just appreciated her only because she was often buying drinks or giving a few gifts. Sally had done it less, seeing as her bank balance was heading towards 'bankrupcy' and had to be more careful. Since then, things had been different and they looked at her as if she was completly 'crazy' or 'from another planet'! How did that happened? Well, Sally had given up understanding. Had they been friends, like they pretended all along, they wouldn't have done that. but they weren't, they hadn't been friends. Crazy enough, she didn't miss it and felt quite relieved. Maybe losing her boyfriend, with whom she had made plans had hurt a little; nonetheless, she didn't care much. No amount of vodka, wiskey, martini, tequila or wine, included many other cocktails or alchoolic beverage, would eraised that anyway. So, what was the point? Actually, he hadn't invaved her thoughts much lately and she barely acknowledge him now. She was free. And she would stay like that for a while, no more dating. she had enough on her plate at the moment and didn't need a distraction. Once things had calm down she would take a long holiday; the rest would follow. Date or no date. You could be perfectly fine without having a men in your life for a while, plenty of women were doing it. Plus, she wasn't the only one being single, that was OK with her. She just hope her granny would stop 'nagging' her from grandkids every time she saw her saying she getting 'old'. Sally would like to have children, she loved them but only when the time was right. and first thing first, you had to find the right man. And they didn't grow-up on trees!
Sally smiled softly, still closing her eyes, hoping that the person calling her or mostly harrassing her with phone calls would stop. Opening her eyes again, she sighed as she took her phone ready to hang-up, even turn it off, just to stop hearing it, when her eyes stopped the number calling. Frowning and very hesitantly, she answered. 'Allo?'
To be continued....
It was just an idea for a story (I'll find the title later), an extract if you prefer, (probably many revised versions will follow lol, but I wanted to share this one with you). I hope once again that you will like it and would want to know more once you've read it. So, enjoy! P.s= a warm cup tea is recommended! :) And sorry in advance if I missed words or did some mistakes, it's quite late and my eyes are closing themselves...Take care and see you soon for another article! xxx
