As Gemma arrived back home, she laid on her bed as confused as ever but mostly scared about the fact she was almost taken advantage of. As she laid on her bed, she slowly drifted off to sleep. Not too long as she slept, she got up, remembered she had something to do. She stood up, opened up a loose floor board, and brought put a small metal lunch box, which she laid on her bed.
As she opened the metal floorboard, she had Bagan to count the money she had in it and added the pay she had gotten. As she added her pay, she thought to herself, " Just a few more, and I will be able to go college". When she was done, she's laid the lunch box back and covered it up with the floorboard.
Not too long after she had done that, she went back to sleep. We moments later she heard a banging on her door she tried to ignore it the best she could but I was just not going away, so she stood up reluctantly and opened the front door. "Betty, my dear," Betty's father called out to her. "What are you doing here? How do you know I leave here?!!" She yelled. The old man payed no mind to her but instead started walking into her house " No you don't," she said as she blocked his way" "You've got a nice place, don't yah?" he snickered."This mess isn't nice, " she said bluntly, "but it's better than the old shack I live in, isn't it? he looked up at her smiling " What do you want" she said quickly wanting to cut to the chase "well since you don't want to give your old man some money the best you can do is let me live here" Gemma scoffed "Heck no, get out right now before I throw you out" she spat those words at him.
"Betty, my dear, please just let me stay tonight at least. You can't let your old man stay out in the cold, right?" Gemma looked at him stern, not wanting to budge in the slightest. After much thought, she finally budged "OK come in." He smiled as he walked in. " Good, that's what I thought."
Once Betty's dad walked in he quickly walked straight to her fridge and began taking what she had in her fridge stuffing some into his mouth and the rest into his little pouch that was wrapped round his waist. "So Betty, what you've been up to these days?" Gemma leaned on wallas she turned to him, answering him nonchalantly, "Just been a working."That's good," he said with his mouth half filled with food.
"Hey, can I ask you something?" she said. "Yah anything," he replied carelessly. "Why do you drink so much? Why did you decide to have me and then just..." As a sense of sadness came over her, she became short of word, her words stroke her father like an arrow to the heart, unsure of what to say he just turns to her " I guess after your mother's death I...I just lost myself"he scuffed softly. Gemma looked at him. and realized how hard his life is. " I guess you can stay here more than tonight," she said, trying to act like she didn't care, "thanks," her father said softly.
Betty's dad quickly went on the bed. " How nice," at the sight of that Gemma sat on the couch beside the bed and began drifting off as she yawned and stretched, she kept on wondering who the strange man that saved her was and why he did that, after much thought she decided to put that aside and she slowly drifted off.