What does it feel like to actually find an answer to one of your problems? It’s not like I’ve ever gotten something my way. You’re probably thinking right now that this teenage girl is crazy! No one gets what they want and this is something that everyone says, but, I feel that I’m actually cursed to getting nothing my way! No one will ever know what it feels like to have all the pressure that I have in my life. I'm trusted to do so many things but if something goes wrong, it's all my fault. Does anyone care about me? I don't have time for other people's problems because I've got other people to attend to. Why do people trust me with their personal lives? I just want a break to find my happy ending before I help anyone else. I don’t have any friends that haven’t asked me for at least 68 favors (and yes, I count). All the boyfriends I’ve had never dated me because they like me, they all dated me because it was easy to take advantage of my kindness. Curse my sweet genes! My mom died when I was very young, she was kidnapped and killed by some people she went to high school with. Dad never really told me much about her nor did he really stick around much. I mostly stayed with my aunt from pre school to middle school. When I was in 7th grade dad decided that I was old enough to be independent. I started cooking all my meals, doing all my laundry, and raising myself. Dad owns a big furniture company and became rich when I was 3. We live in a huge house and live on opposite wings so we almost never see each other. You’re probably thinking wow this girl is so lucky! She gets to live in a mansion with no parents, I don’t know why she’s complaining. It’s not as fun as it sounds I’ve never had a single toy besides one mechanical pencil and a couple sheets of paper that I recive monthly. Dad use to tell me all about how mom loved drawing. She would sit outside on an old tree stump and draw the landscape around her. I don’t get to go outside much because auntie told him how easily I get sunburned. I have to put sunscreen in my book bag so I can put it on before walking home from school. Since I don’t get to go outside very often I have the room with the most windows. I’ve studied drawing landscapes all my life and have become pretty good at it. I’m also an only child in case you haven’t already gathered that up, so I’m next in line for Yan Furniture Company. Can’t Wait!(being sarcastic in case you couldn’t tell.) As soon as I inherited the company I will be taken advantage of with the workers there too - or maybe this time things will be different - or not.

What a glorious morning!...

As if! First thing I see when I open my eyes is a sticky note stuck to my forehead. I pull the the sticky note off like ripping off a bandage. Harsh pain comes to the surface of my skin on my forehead as if someone put super glue on the sticky note. I rub my head while reading what the note says.

200 bucks?! Who the hell asks for 200 bucks? It can’t be dad but the maids don’t come to my wing and no other people that live here. *KNOCK! KNOCK! What is that sound? I look over at the window next to me and nearly fall off of my bed.

Shin-Lin, one of the many friends I have that’s always asking for favors, is peering through the window. “How the dingle doppers are you doing that?! My room is on the second floor!” I scream as I get out of my bed to open the window. “Don’t ask questions you don’t want to know the answers to.” He responds as he climbs in through the window.

“That doesn’t even make sense!”

“I don’t have to make sense for people to understand me!”

“...now that’s the most stupid thing you’ve ever said.”

“Anyways...” I say trying to guide the conversation in a different direction. “ Why do you need 200 bucks?” I kinda space out for the next five minutes pretending that I’m listening. It’s not like it’s going to be any different from his other stories. He probably borrowed some money from a scary bald dude with a scar on his face and didn’t pay it back. “And so now I’m like oh no because Mr. Scarybaldscarfaceman sent his guards after me to collect the money or beat me up!” I called it! “Listen Shin, I can’t keep saving you from your problems. I ha-“What about my beautiful face?! He sobs interrupting me. Shin falls on me and starts soaking my tank top with his tears. With him being 6’5 and me being like half that we stumble over onto my bed. My heart starts beating fast because this was the first time a man was on top of me he raised his head with a sexy smirk. Shin-Lin is actually really attractive and quite the ladies man but I’ve never really felt attracted to him before now. His hair is a gentle chestnut brown color and his eyes are the prettiest shade of blue like tiny waves splashing against the shores. Knock! Knock! We both look over at the door. Creeeaaakk! The door opens and one of the maids peeps from behind the door. The color drains from her face as she continues to be speechless.

What was wrong with her? She looks like she just saw a ghost... wait a minute. My brain processed the heat of another body and understood why she was starring. “Oh God!(never use the lords name in vain) It’s not what it looks like!” I screamed in her direction as she remained still. Shin-Lin started snickering uncontrollably. When he finally stopped he turned towards the maid. “You can either leave or stay and watch.” He said as he leaned down closer to me. When the maid still stood there he started kissing my neck. My heart pounded and I pushed him off me. I turned to look for the maid but she had already left. “What the dickinsons was that for?!” I shouted at him he started walking towards the door. “It was the only way to make her leave.” I got up and started his way. “I’m pretty sure that wasn’t the ONLY way.” He stopped walking and turned around. When I wasn’t paying attention I bumped into him as he put one of his arms around my waist and the other on my chin. He lifted it up and got his face closer to mine. I could smell his hot minty breath on my lips. “It was the only way...” he said putting his lips close to my ear. “It was the only way...to tease you!” He started laughing like he was someone’s crazy uncle that’s always getting high. It’s not like I wasn’t prepared for something like this to happen. Shin loves playing tricks on people. I snuck my pepper spray out and put my hand back where it was. “Are you sure that you weren’t the one who was being teased?” I put the hand with the pepper spray into his vision. He smiled and said “You pulled that out after I told you I was teasing you.” Damn it! Caught like an ostrich trying to be a flamingo!

“Just take the money.” I reach for the wab of cash on my desk and hand it to him. While he’s counting the money I push him out the door and slam it closed. Bang! Boom! Sound that cats make! I forgot that that one of the staircases is right outside of my door. Oh well! I walk back to my bed so I can go back to sleep only to find my alarm clock going off. What the actual &$!#%. The time is 7:30 and it’s a Saturday! I could have slept in! Wait I don’t remember setting my alarm clock... That Yee-Hopper! I sprint across my bedroom and open the door. Outside I find my dad with a angry look on his face, Shin-Lin with an embarrassing expression, and the maid from earlier with a guilty image.