Prologue: My three successful daughters are lesbians?! I... was nothing more than a trash collector.
"Hey!"
"...?"
Crash!
The black trash bag was almost thrown to my head without me knowing, I could hear broken glass inside of it and grimaced. This man that called for my attention laughed and flipped me over with his hand, doing a middle finger gesture. "You're late! Trash day was yesterday! You deserve this!"
He continued on flipping with his hands and I took a deep breather calming myself down.It was distasteful... but I couldn't be mad or tell him angrily how he's such a piece of- garbage."...I am sorry sir. I will do better." I placed the trash bag in the truck and continued onto the next house.At the age of sixteen, I got pregnant with my first child. My daughter who I love so much, with a man I was trapped with because of marriage. My parents yelled at me and threatened to disown me if I don't marry the man that knocked me up.My classmate...
Now I'm twenty-eight."Where is the money?! I know you have it in here somewhere and you better tell me where it is!" He grabbed me by the collar of my shirt, the money that I earned from my trash collector work is at the top of the cabinet."I don't have any money- I... I really don't have it." I looked away with my eyes closed, I really didn't like lying but if it's for my daughters I have to do it because if he gets the money I've been saving up for my girls' college-
"You're lying."I... He hurt me.
A purple mark appeared on my arm, it hurt a lot but I really tried my best not to cry. I could smell the alcohol on him, has he been drinking? Doesn't he know that we're already short on the electric and water bill?!"Stop dad please! Don't hit mom anymore!" My eldest came to my rescue as she pushed him away from me.I was laying on the ground and jolted."Fei don't!""Fucking- not you too. You're annoying dad here, get out! I need that money!" He raises his fist on my eldest daughter. I stood up immediately and wrapped my arms around her protectively.
"Don't touch her! The money is on top of the cabinet! So take it and just leave my daughter alone!" I told him where the money was, I heard him scoffing and laughed."Hmph, I knew you were lying." He reaches for our cabinet and finally leaves me alone.
My bruises, my mental health and the state of my depression was just too much. I couldn't help it- my daughters screaming for their father to stop hitting me was the last straw. He always took my money out for drinking, even the medicine that we use to treat my youngest daughter- he took it."Mama.... Did dad hit you again?" My two daughters who were ten and nine came out of the shadows... that's where I broke down.He knew that she suffered from asthma and I had to hide my money from him. The... final last straw was that I saw him cheating with another woman late at night in a bar. I knew he would go on drinking but I saw him kissing another woman- finally, we could be free.I told my parents what he did and I filed for a divorce. He didn't say anything and just signed it with no problem. Was all of that decade of marriage meant nothing to him? I truly believed that he would change- but I should've escaped when I had the chance."Huh?! What do you mean you're getting a divorce?!""Do you know what the neighbors and our family will be saying?"I showed them my bruises, telling them that I got hurt because of him."Was he drinking?"
"Yes, he was drinking and he almost-"
"Then he was just intoxicated, it's because of the alcohol I'm sure if you two would just talk or communicate more than your marriage wouldn't be hanging at the edge! Are you doing your best as a proper wife?!" My mother questions, and I was enraged.
"Everything... I endured what he did for the past twelve years. I thought he could change, I knew my daughters needed a father... I wanted them to have a proper normal family just like the others... but he- almost hit Fei!" I told them and they were about to cut me off but I one upped them. "I'm going through with the divorce and... I'm leaving this city."I ignored my parents, took all of my remaining money from my bank and left that place.With no high school diploma and I couldn't go to college- I could only work as a janitor in the day and a dishwasher at night. My hands have gotten calluses, my shoes have worn out and I didn't have enough time to myself.I made sure... my daughters got everything they needed.
And if I have extra, I would give them gifts and rewards when I can.
My daughters understood our struggles and they promised to work hard to one day buy me my own house, spoil me with branded bags and they won't ever make me work for the rest of my ilfe when they have jobs."Hahaha! You're all too young to be thinking about that. Just make sure to study hard and get good grades." I hugged all of them and told them... I loved them....I just turned fourty-one and raised three successful daughters."Hah! There we go, honestly making money even my three daughters spoils me is fulfilling~" I tied the top of the garbage bags happily, I earn enough money to buy the things that I want. I can eat at convenience stores with great discounts to save up money.
The ones near expiring are always the best deals.
"Hmm~" I took out my phone seeing my inspiration to keep on going. My three babies, my daughters who worked hard to get where they are. I sat down on the bench to eat my lunch, in order to save money I packed lunches and cooked on my own. "Thank you for the food."I opened my packed lunch but suddenly-Thud!A bottled can was thrown into my head. I felt a slight sting where the can had hit me, I think I got hurt."Hey! What are you doing?! The trash bin is next to me so how could you throw it in my direction?!" I scolded the young man for his ignorance and I just heard him laugh, as if treating my words as a joke."Shut up old lady, you're just a trash collector. Isn't your job collecting trash and all that? I suggest you do your job or I'll make sure to report you and then you'll have no job at all." He took out his phone to record what was happening and out of instinct I smacked it out of his hands.If he takes a video on this- I'm afraid of what the internet may say."Hey, that's the latest model! You'll pay for that-!" He was about to raise his hands to hit me when two people in black suits stopped him.It was my daughter's hired bodyguard, a woman and a man. They managed to pin him down on the ground with a loud thud, it looked like it hurt and even I was surprised."Call the boss and report immediately. The madam is injured. I repeat the madam is injured." He kept repeating a code and I knew immediately what was about to happen next."...I have to go."As I was about to run one of the bodyguards held my wrist gently before pulling me to check my forehead. She frowns, urging me to sit down as they called for backup. "Madam you're not going anywhere- not until we treat you first.""Ahaha... you don't need to.""We also need to call the bosses!"
"N-No don't do that please."
A few more bodyguards came and not even twenty minutes later three luxury cars stopped and as the door opened I could hear familiar voices calling out to me."Mom!" They all yelled in unison and I hid the wound that was on my head."Hey~ How are you guys? Mom is doing fine!" I stood up to try and hug them all but instead they became angry with me.
"Mom, what are you doing?! I told you not to pick up trash anymore!" My eldest daughter Fei Li, who was a successful CEO at her own company, scolds me for picking up trash as my job... but I can't help it.The habit won't go away! And besides I need this job to earn my own money to buy the things I want without asking for money. Do you know how embarrassing it is to ask my daughters for money?"Eldest sister this is why I told you keeping bodyguards for mom was a good idea." My second daughter Mei Li pushes her elder sister aside to run towards me checking to see if I was hurt. She's a professional athlete competing in the name of our country, she's currently at home to take a break."Hmph, who did this to you mom? I'll get them blacklisted in every company there is!" My youngest Jae-in Li exclaimed, she's a famous actor already starring in A-list movies.Each of my daughters are very pretty and beautiful in their own way.There is just one thing..."All of you... please stop nagging your mom and just get a girlfriend already." I pushed their close concerned faces away from me and pouted.They're all lesbians.They care more about me than getting married and experiencing love in their life. That's not right, they should all enjoy their youth! And don't mind their mom who is working hard to earn money."Mom... we're all just worried for you. This is why sister Mei had bodyguards hired to protect you, it's for your safety after all." (Jae-In) my youngest, the cheekiest of them all, pats my head. Since when did she manage to be taller than her own mother?"Mom, listen to Jae-In. We're all doing what we believe would make you safe. I just got back from Paris to compete in archery. Don't you want to spend some time with your favorite daughter?" (Mei) takes out her black hard and ushers me out to her car. "Let's get some ice cream mom or wherever you would like. It's my treat."Fei Li stops her by pulling her ear."You won't be going with Mei, mother. I'll be taking you to a high end restaurant to celebrate my company's anniversary. There is someone else there I would like her to meet." (Fei) pulls my arm rather persuasively, I like high end restaurants but I would need to change my clothes.
"No~ mom will be celebrating with me! I want to bring her to meet some of my celebrity friends." (Jae-In) pulled my other arm and I was being pulled around.Mei takes both of my hands, it was her turn to assert dominance on her sisters. "I'm treating mom to ice cream. I haven't seen her in months. You guys should give me this time with her. I invited Chen to hang out with us."Chen Hui Ying is my daughter's childhood friend in their old elementary school that often eats dinner with us. Honestly she feels like the fourth daughter of the family. "Huh? You're with Chen, why didn't you say so! Girls, why don't we all get some ice cream? I can spend time with you all no worries, just let mom change her clothes first."Being a mother of three... I feel blessed and tired sometimes.