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in storybooks! I’m selling the house and that’s final.”

    Sixteen years ago, Kaila Lin had a C-section, bringing Mina into the world. Today, she had forgotten it was her only child’s birthday.

    “ Give me one month and I’ll think of something. I know I will.” Mina stared at her mother with unblinking, conviction-filled eyes. “Please? Did you buy me a present today, Mom?”

    “ Why would I buy you a present?” Kaila chewed on her finger and spat out a hangnail. “What’s the occasion?”

    “ It’s my birthday. I was fifteen yesterday.”

    “ Oh. Right.”

    If she had no pride, Mina would drop to her knees to beg. “Consider giving me one month as my birthday gift. Mom, please?”

    Kaila patted her belly. “Fine. I’ll have to talk to the agency about this. Are you happy now? Happy birthday, darling. Now go make us dinner. I’m starving.” Kaila ushered her daughter into the kitchen. Mina wrapped a red apron around her sweaty body.

    Guess this means I don’t even have time to be heartbroken. How many organs will I have to sell to make fifty-grand?

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    *THREE*

     

    The next day, at half past noon, after searching all over South Uptown for a well-paying summer job in vain, Mina ended up loitering on Cherry Street in front of Trendy Star. The useless fifty-buck gift card Kit and the fake-bimbo had given her took up too much pocket space.

    Mina wondered if she could exchange the card for money. Fifty dollars was, after all, point-one percent of fifty-grand.

    This morning, she had hoped everything that had happened yesterday was a nightmare. When she picked up the loan contract Kaila had signed, Mina knew her reality was worse than any nightmare.

    Entering Trendy Star, she felt like a penguin in a chicken coop. Tall and model-thin fashionistas rifled through the clothing racks. None of the pretty shop attendants greeted Mina. She walked to the back counter and dropped the gift card on the glass surface.

    “ Hi. Can I exchange this for money?” Mina flashed her anti-Chiclets teeth.

    The brunette behind the counter arched her freshly plucked eyebrow. “Are you kidding me, Miss? Everyone knows you can’t exchange a gift card for money.” She picked up the card and handed it back to Mina. “By the way, we carry plus-sizes upstairs.”

    Zing. Ouch. Mina shook her head. “No thanks. Besides, I’m just a size ten.”

    “ Just a size ten. Wow, congrats. Next please.” The size negative-one brunette rolled her eyes and greeted the pretty customer behind Mina with a bright smile.

    Mina decided to wait in line for a nice customer to buy the gift card from her. Half an hour later, she could have turned into a naked marble statue and no one would have noticed. Even though everyone on the line had bought more than fifty bucks worth of clothing, no one offered to help her. With an invisible tail between her legs, she walked out of the boutique.

    Crossing the street, Mina didn’t hear loud honking from a speeding car. She only noticed it when the car panic-braked, stopping a centimeter away from sending her flying down the street.

    Hyperventilating, Mina clutched her chest and stared at the driver behind the wheel.

     

    ~*~

     

    Jaiden Daniels’s face blanched. The son of Jameson Daniels, Comptroller of the Uptown and billionaire CEO of Daniels Limited Partnership (D.L.P.), almost killed a girl with his new, one of a kind modified, crimson Maserati. Jaiden stared back at her- she looked like a dazed bumpkin about to be beamed into a UFO.

    Mina’s heart stopped for a second.

    She analyzed the shiny sports car. She had a feeling the young driver could sell the car and buy a two-bedroom co-op in West Uptown with the money.

    How could someone so young be so rich?

    The driver wore stylish shades over his eyes and had slicked back black hair. Mina almost wished his car had hit her. Instead of selling her organs,