I woke up to screaming the next morning. Groaning, I went outside in my pyjamas to check what was happening. I found Amber outside with a furious expression on her face.

"Jeez Amber, it's 11 in the morning and you are already waking up the neighbourhood with your screaming as an alarm. What crawled up your ass this beautiful morning", I yawned.

"My car is ruined. You destroyed my lovely baby." She looked at my wrist "you are not even wearing a watch so how did you know that the time is 11am?" she cried.

I looked at the car's headlight and I saw that the left one is smashed and the side of the car has a dent. "Babe it's just a dent and a broken headlight so don't sweat it much. Okay if I fix it, will it make you happy?"

"You know that fixing it will cost you a lot right? It doesn't come cheap" she raised one of her eyebrows.

"Oh puh-lease, how much is it gonna cost that I can't afford. It's just a tiny dent on a lamborghini."

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"What?!!!! For the car repairs??? eighteen hundred??? Are you shitting me right now?" I asked the mechanic with a bewildered look on my face.

"Working on your Lamborghini is expensive. You have an expensive car and you don't want to work on it," the man said.

"It's not mine, look just reduce the price ok?" I pleaded. "It can't be reduced, young lady."

"Fine. So when do I come back for the car?" I asked.

"Come by four to pick it up," he answered.

I left and went back home by bus. I met Amber all dressed up, ready to go out.

"Where are you going?"

I asked her:

"my parents wanted to see me." She replied.

"Any problem?"

"Nah. I don't think so. My car's location is?" I frowned at her.

"The mechanic's workshop. The repairs cost me eighteen hundred."

She laughed, picked up her purse and went out the door.

"Look at her, she didn't even show any concern for the money I spent." I muttered.

I went to my room to change and take a nap.

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When I woke up, I saw that the time was fifteen minutes past four.

I grabbed my phone and rushed to the bus stop.

I boarded the bus to the workshop, paid the mechanic and drove the car back home.

Seeing as Amber wasn't back home yet, I ordered some pizza.

Few minutes after the pizza arrived, she came home looking gloomy.

"Hey what's wrong?" I asked.

"I don't wanna talk about it." She replied.

"Okay, I won't push you but when you are ready to talk, I will be waiting."

I gave her a smile. She nodded and went to her room.

I ate some pizzas and kept the remaining in the fridge and then went to my room to sleep.

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I rushed to class trying to get there early. I looked at my watch

"Ah shit, I have five fucking minutes to get to class. Thanks Amber." I muttered.

I picked up on my pace and started running. Bumping into people in the hallways and saying sorry's to them.

By the time I got to my class entrance, I was sweating slightly and panting really hard. I looked at my watch and saw that I was on time.

I walked into the lecture hall and went to sit in the middle of the front row. Few minutes later, Professor Stewart walked in.

"Good afternoon students, hope you all have your assignments done. Submit it now."

I got up to submit my assignment and went back to my seat.

"Okay today, we will be working on Pride and Prejudice."

I put my ear plugs into my ear and played *Hello* by Adele, putting it on high volume thereby blocking out whatever the prof was saying.

I was always ahead of the class in literature. I ain't that bright but I still manage to stand among the best students in class. My parents wanted me to study Business so that I would have knowledge on how to handle stuff when I take over the company from them.

My parents who were the CEOs of Grey Group wanted me to be perfect because I was the heiress. They had subsidiaries located in every state in the country producing electronics, automobiles, mobiles, food products, you name it. They also had a kindergarten, elementary, high school and also a university built and they are schools that only the wealthy can afford to register their kids in.

Throughout my years of schooling from kindergarten to high school, I was treated with care and respect. Was always surrounded by rich snobby kids who wanted to befriend me. The press were always following my every movement and activity, teachers dare not cross me for fear of losing their jobs.

I hated it all. I wanted to live an invisible life. A life which people would ignore me like I don't exist. So I applied to NYU and when my letter of admission to study literature came, I showed it to My parents. They became furious with my decision. I still remember my father's words back then. "How could you betray us like this? Because of you, we built schools and employed the finest teachers in the world so that you can learn from the best and yet you applied to New York to study literature?!!" he yelled. "I do not want to set my eyes on you again, get out!!!"

So I packed my things and left for New York. Adopted the American accent, changed my last name and my looks.

Four years. I haven't heard or seen my parents in four years. Heard they made my younger brother the heir a year after I left. His name is Karl and he was eight when I left.

People wondered where Megan Grey was and what had happened to her. But that was in the past now. The former blonde haired, pale skin and blue eyed Megan Grey is now tanned skinned Megan Stone with blue eyes and dark brown hair with red highlights working three jobs to survive, a waitress at an Italian restaurant, evening shifts at a cafe and sometimes a babysitter for Mrs Iginio, who is the wife of the owner of the restaurant I worked in.

Amber doesn't know who I used to be. I told her that my parents died in a car accident when I was fifteen. I am happy with who I am now. I finally got to live the invisible life I've always wanted.

"Hey, class is over. Hey" I felt a nudge on my shoulder so I looked over to my left and saw a guy looking at me with amusement. I removed my earplugs from my ear and looked at him again. "You zoned out immediately you had those things in your ear." He said, pointing to the earplugs in my hand. "I'm Andrew." He stretched out his hand for a handshake. I shook his hand and rose up to leave. "Hey, you didn't tell me your name." I ignored him and left the hall.

I made a stop at Starbucks to order a cup of cappuccino. After getting it, I walked home while taking sips from my drink since the distance from there to my home is a twenty minute walk.

When I got home, I went to take a shower. Afterwards, I went to the kitchen to prepare noodles to eat. My phone started ringing so I went to the sitting room to pick it up. Looking at the caller ID, I saw that it was Mrs Iginio calling.

"Good afternoon Stella. How are you?" I asked. "I'm fine my dear and you?"

"I'm doing great over here."

"I called to ask if you are free this evening to babysit the children. There's this dinner party that an old friend of my husband organised and we have to attend."

"Yeah I am not busy this evening. What time should I blast your house with my presence?" I asked.

"Seven thirty my dear and please don't blast my house with your presence" she laughed.

I chuckled "Okay Signora, I won't be late" she laughed and ended the call. I went back to the kitchen to check if my noodles were cooked. Seeing that it was done getting cooked, I served it on a plate and took it along with me to the sitting room. I switched in the TV and saw that a fashion show was being shown so I settled down on the couch and started eating my noodles while watching the fashion show.

I rang the doorbell and the door opened to reveal Camile.

"Meggy!" She exclaimed. "I missed you!" She threw herself at me. I caught her, laughing as I hugged her. "I missed you too, my love." I replied.

I closed the door behind me and carried her into the house, chatting and giggling. "Not even a minute and Camile's become a parrot. How do you do it?" Mr Iginio asked.

"Because she's my lil'baby. Like mother like daughter, right Mili?" I said. She nodded in agreement.

"Ohh very good. Since she's your daughter, then what does that make me?" Stella asked, coming into the living room.

"The original mother. I'm the artificial mom." I replied.

"Wow, you look stunning, ma'am." I wiggled my eyebrows at her. Mr and Mrs Iginio are a good looking couple and they passed the genes to their kids, Camile and Carlos.

Speaking of Carlos, I haven't seen him around. "Where Cally?"

"He's with his brother upstairs." Mr Iginio replied.

"Brother, which brother?" I asked, confusion coating my face.

"Andy is back. Our big brother." Camile answered.

My confused self looked at both husband and wife. "You haven't met our eldest son because he was staying in Italy." Stella explained.

"Andrew! Come down, someone wants to meet you. Carlos! Meganer's here." She called out.

"So, we'll be back later by 11pm or so?" She turned to Mr Iginio for an affirmation.

"Yeah, sure." Mr Iginio answered.

"Okayyyy, so we're gonna have a blast then." I highfived Camile, grinning widely. Quick footsteps came down the steps.

"Megan!" Carlos shouted excitedly while running down the stairs. I put Camile down and turned to face him fully while spreading out my hands, with a full blown smile on my face. I hugged him.

" How's it going, young lad?" I asked. "All good. We haven't seen you around for a while." He said. Carlos is Camile's twin brother, the older of the two.

"Yeah, been a little busy." I answered.

"Oh, Andrew, meet Megan, our babysitter/ employee." Mr Iginio said. I looked up to see a boy looking like he's in his teens. I waved at him with a slight smile on my face.

"It's you." He said. "Me?" I pointed at myself.

"You don't remember my face, do you?"

"Uh, no, sorry. I have a weak signal for picking up facial records. Do you know me?" I asked.

"Yes and no. I was the one who talked to you about zoning out in class but you ignored me and walked out of class like I was invisible." He said.

I smiled sheepishly "Sorry. I'm not really keen on befriending people."

"You know each other?" Stella asked. "We are in the same literature class." He said.

"Oh good. There's no need for introductions then. We need to get going." Mr Iginio said.

We all said our byes and they left. "So how is it that you're just coming into the picture now?" I asked Andrew.

"I don't understand." He said. "I mean, what made you come back to stay now?"

"I decided that I've stayed in Italy enough and I need to come back to my family, bond with my siblings."

"That's good. So what's your major?" I asked.

"Studio art. Focusing more on painting and photography. You?"

"Cool! Well mine's kinda boring. Journalism. Nothing exciting to see here." I answered.

He laughed and said journalism will put me out there. I hummed in agreement.

"So what do you do for fun, dear Andy?" He raised his eyebrows at me.

"Uhh, alot but I don't think the kids will find as much fun as I would." He responded.

"We could watch movies." Camile suggested.

"No, I want to play games in the game room." Carlos objected.

"Alright, no worries my dear. We adults will just split ourselves to spend time with you two. How about I watch movies with Mili and you play games with Cally." I suggested, looking at Andrew.

"Milli and Cally?? What sorta nicknames are those?" Andrew asked in bewilderment.

"Cool nicknames wonderfully crafted by me." I declared with pride.

"Cool? Those nicknames are weird!" He exclaimed.

"No they're not! And besides, they like it. Don't you?" I turned to Carlos and Camile in question.

"Of course!" "I love it." They chorused their responses. I turned to Andrew and stuck out my tongue at him.

"What!! You can't actually like those ridiculous names." He said.

"We do like it." Camile replied. I stuck out my tongue at him and he laughed at my childish behavior.

I learnt that they've had dinner so Camile and I consumed a large tub of chocolate ice cream and popcorn while watching through movies in the movie room.

The movie room is like a mini living room with sofas in it and a table at the middle to place drinks or snacks on, with a very large flat screen to watch whatsoever movie you wanted.

At some point, Camile fell asleep and I cleaned up the mess we made in the movie room, carried her to her room and laid her to sleep. I went to go check on Carlos and Andrew in the game room.

The game room was also sized like a mini living room, with sofas for relaxing and then filled with various games. It's just like a mini arcade.

I couldn't find them there so I went to Carlo's room to see if he's there. I saw him sleeping in bed so I left to go to the living room and scrolled through my phone to keep me busy until Mr and Mrs Iginio came back home.

"Camile's asleep?" I looked away from my phone and saw Andrew coming towards me.

"Yeah," I put away my phone. He sat beside me. "How long have you known my parents?" He asked.

"Two years. I thought you'd be asleep." I said to him.

"If you've got a stranger in your house, would you fall asleep?" He retorted.

"Hmmm." I nodded in agreement. We started chatting and a while after, we heard his parents arrive.

"We're back." Stella announced in a sing-song manner.

"Mamma e papà" Andrew said.

"Benvenuti" I greeted. Andrew sharply looked at me, "you speak Italian?"

"Err, a little bit. I'm still learning though." I replied.

"Wow." "The kids are asleep in their room and now I'll be on my way." I said to them.

"La ringrazio." Mr Iginio said. I smiled in response, said my byes and left.

"I am sooo tired." I groaned. "Sorry little baby." Andrew consoled, grinning. I gave him a stink eye look and walked away from him.

"Oh, come on, what did I do?" He asked, feigning a surprised look on his face. Ignoring him, I continue to walk away from him.

He walked faster to catch up to me, "okay I'm sorry, Meggy." He applogized with an insincere look. I raised an eyebrow at him to let him know that I wasn't moved. He let out a snort while trying not to laugh.

I turned around and we continued walkin towards the cafeteria to get something to eat. "I need to go to the library later to work on my assignment. I'm slacking off because it's too bulky and I'm lazy." I complained.

"Wow! Did you just realize that you're such a lazy student when it comes to school work?" Drew questioned me.

I pouted in annoyance, "you didn't need to point it out, young man."

He smirked in response. Drew and I hung out a lot more after the babysitting incident and over the time, we became close friends which surprised me because I never expected us to hit it off that fast. I guess I'm a likeable person.

After getting our snacks from the cafeteria, we parted ways. Drew had another class to go to and I have to visit the library to finish my assignment.

A couple of hours later, the librarian came to me and said he was closing up. I had to leave and decided to finish up at home. I called Amber to know if she was still in school so she could give me a ride home.

"Hey, yeah are you still on campus?" I asked.

"Yeah but I'll be leaving in 30. Why?"

"I need a ride, if you don't mind."

"Sure, I can do that." She replied. "Okay, I'll wait for you by the library, thanks!"

" What! No! The lib-" I ended the call quickly with a grin on my face. I knew she would protest about me staying back at the library because it's a whole different route from the road she'll take when going home and I'm feeling too exhausted to go to her.

My phone rang and I saw Amber on the caller's ID but I refused to answer. She called a couple of times before she stopped calling. I'm pretty sure she'd be cussing me out right now.

I sat by the pavement to wait for her while scrolling through Instagram reels.

A car's horn honked and I looked up. Seeing that it was Amber, I smiled at her and got up from the pavement, walking towards the car.

"You my dear, are a lifesaver." I said to her with a sweet smile on my face on getting into the car.

"Don't even start with your flattery. Why didn't you answer my calls? And don't you dare say you weren't aware because I saw you on your phone." She looked annoyed.

"Well... I was tired. I didn't have the strength to answer calls." I told her.

"Oh but you had the strength to watch TikTok videos right?"

"Wrong! So wrong my love. It was Instagram not TikTok. See, there's a difference." I countered.

She gave an exasperated sign, "how do I even get the strength to tolerate you?"

"Because you love me. Now drive, we're running late." I said and rested my back to make it look like I want to relax and sleep and closed my eyes.

"What were you doing by the library?" She asked, starting the car' and drove on home.

"Finishing an assignment." I answered drowsily.

On getting home, I took a nap before my night shift at the restaurant as a waitress.

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The alarm woke me up and I took a quick wash of my body and wore a long sleeved shirt and a combat short. I tied my hair backwards, put shoes on and informed Amber that I was headed to work. I left and took the bus and got to work few minutes to six. My shift starts at six pm and ends by eleven. It's a high end restaurant owned by Mr Iginio.

I went to the locker room to change into my work uniform and headed out to start my duty.

"Hi Sam." I greeted my fellow co-worker who just finished her shift and I was to take over from her.

"Hiya, Megan." She replied and told me the tables assigned to me.

"Alright, bye!"

She waved back at me and headed to the locker room.

I saw a group of people getting seated at one of my assigned tables and I took some menus and went to them.

"Good evening, welcome to The Food House. I'll be your waitress for tonight, what can I get you?" I greeted, handing over the menus to them. They were four in number, two boys and two girls. I brought out my jotter and pen from my pocket, ready to write down their order.

As I was writing down their orders, one of the girls spoke up, "shouldn't we order for Harry?"

"How'd you know what he wants to eat?" One of the boys asked her.

"I'll call him." She said and typed on her phone and then placed it on her ears.

"Should I wait?" I asked to know if I should proceed with their orders.

"Please hold on a bit." She said politely. It's good to know that some rich kids still have manners. I smiled and nodded.

" Hey Harry, we were thinking we should order for you. What would you want to eat?" She asked. She picked up the menu and started listing out the dishes for the person to choose from.

"Add the Beef Wellington and white wine to the order." She said after ending the call.

"Okay. Your meal will be ready shortly." I responded and wrote it down and went to the kitchen to give the chef their orders. I served them the drinks they ordered while they waited for their meal to be ready.

A boy came and sat down while I was serving the drinks.

"Kathy had placed your order." One of the boys informed him.

"Okay." He said. After serving them, I turned to leave and I heard a 'wait' directed at me.

I looked at them and said, "yes?"

"It's you, the girl from the club." The boy who joined them said, surprise coating his face.