Mopping Your Heart

Introduction...

Roose’s P.O.V

 Hey hi.. My name is Roose Anderson,

 I’m a 21 year old, ambitious, ordinary middle class girl who only has one wish in life and that's to live my life on my own terms.

 My mom is asian and my dad is christian and people often say that I am a beautiful mixture of the two, what with getting my genes from my parents and that is why I am often referred to as a natural beauty.

 My dad's name is James Anderson, he was the owner of a grocery store and my mom's name was Lily Anderson, she was a teacher in a very elite school in our city. I have two siblings, an older brother called Bill and a younger sister called Bella. I got a job before college was over and my dad's friend Mr. Smith also introduced me to his son Reeyaan, with the hope of us getting married and soon after we became a couple and started dating. 

Today was the day of my college graduation ceremony and I slowly woke up to the sound of my alarm and the sound of Miss. Nina yelling my name.

  “Roose! Roose, come down stairs and choose what you're going to wear for your graduation.” Miss. Nina yelled from the bottom of the stairs.

  “Yeah, I'm coming.” I yelled back, getting out of bed and going over to the bathroom. This morning is different, because today is the day I graduate from college and hopefully everything is going to change for the better, but I couldn't help thinking back over everything that has happened in the last two years and the worst of it was my mom dying.

 She was suffering from leukemia, but she never told any of us that she was suffering from such a harsh disease, until the last few months. I saw how she was fighting for every single day, every single moment of her life, just to live one more day with us. Ever since my mother died, I have experienced a lot in my life and saw how my beautiful family shattered before my eyes. In her last moments I knew how much she wished that she could stay with us, she didn't want to die, but she was in so much pain. She prayed to God for his forgiveness, but God did not approve, but I think God loved my mother the most, so he called her to himself.

  My mom's medical bills left us nearly penniless and it didn't help that Dad spent what was left by blowing money on alcohol and gambling. My father was completely broken, he began to drown himself in alcohol to try and deal with his grief over my mother's death. He always drinks now and he is never conscious. He has no awareness of his responsibilities, his family and has just left us this way, like mother left us. We lost everything due to my father's addiction to alcohol and gambling, everything has gone now, our home, our shop, our savings...everything and we became completely bankrupt. My brother was no help either, he didn't support us and instead he left, moving far away from us. Now I have the entire responsibility of running the family on my shoulders and it didn't help that my father's gambling addiction had increased the debt hanging over our heads. Everyday a new debt collector was knocking at our door and the only thing I could do was to helplessly promise to pay back his debt.

I don't even know how many part time jobs  I do anymore, just to feed my family and fulfill their needs.

Despite having so many problems, I have never stopped living my life. I love my life and I live every moment happily, because I always remember what my mother once told me, that no matter how many problems come in life, you can never give up and you can never let it break you down, just keep smiling and keep going until you arrive at your destination. Now I am just waiting for my degree to get out of this hellish life. My new job was in Seattle, the salary was good and I would be able to leave all the harsh memories here. I only wanted to move to this city and start fresh. I lost everything when my mother passed away, I lost my childhood, I lost my father, My happy family....everything!

 The little girl inside me died when my mother passed away and I quickly turned into the 18 year old standing here today. I stopped being the immature girl and became more sensible, who faced every problem head on and only wanted to protect her family. 

I still had no understanding of the world outside and would have to learn to find my place in it.

  "Roose, are you going to come down here or do I have to send your father up to bring you down here?" Miss. Nina yelled, snapping me out of my thoughts. 

She was another person who played a very important role in my life, she was 45 years hot and a beautiful lady, but she was also a prostitute. She is the most beautiful and attractive prostitute of the entire city and her influence hasn't diminished over time. She was a top class prostitute of our times, but now she has reduced her work a bit.

 I know what everybody must be thinking, what is a prostitute doing in my life? Well in the eyes of the world she is a prostitute, but in my life she is my godmother and she took care of me when I had nobody in my life, when even my own father had left me. She helped me when I had nothing and she is like a shield to me, saving me from all the troubles of the world. She even put a roof over my head by letting me live in her house, which is near a famous red light area in the city. 

  I can understand when people see me in the red light district with a prostitute how they would naturally assume that I am also a whore, but I'm not and I don't care about what those shitty people think, I don't like all this nonsense and so I just ignore them, because I already know that these are the same mean people who just enjoy seeing people in trouble. 

This is my present life and I am living with these circumstances, but it's also the reason why I want to get out of here and have a fresh start. I want to go somewhere no one knows me and no one cares about my past. ....

  "ROOSE!" Nina screamed and I knew that if I didn't go downstairs now that she would definitely kill me.

  "I'm coming to Miss. Nina." I yelled back, I took a shower and quickly got ready for the college graduation ceremony.