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Renee, walking towards Sofia office, where she was handed over the sack letter.

" Finally, the peacock Renee is sacked," Sofia mocked Renee, as she handed over the sack letter to Renee. " I told you that, but you didn't listen to me,now you have finally landed yourself into trouble." Sofia mocked her the more.

" You can keep the letter to yourself." Renee answered her and left.

" She is still proud of herself." Sofia, hissed and added " a peacock will always be a peacock." She concluded and went into Lucas' office.

" The bitch wanted to blaspheme me." Lucas said, the moment Sofia got into his office.

" What exactly is that sir.?" Sofia asked him.

" Leave my office, and focus on your work, moreover, you all are birds of the same feather." Lucas replied to Sofia aggressively.

 Sofia on hearing that, left in a hurry to her office.

" Whatever that has made Lucas shout at me in such a manner, irrespective of my closeness with him, and with the constant sex I have been given to him, must be serious." Sofia, pondering on Lucas' reaction to her. " He speaks of me and Renee being birds of the same feather," Sofia stared at herself from head to toe.

" I am extremely costly to be compared with a rag like Renee, Lucas can't be comparing me with her." " Nevertheless, I always have my ways of getting into his heart, and when I do that, Lucas will have to tell me his reason for firing Renee." She concluded and sat back on her chair.

Renee, trekking, checked her wrist watches.

" This is just noon." She breathed down and sighted big tall trees where she would get shelter.

" I need some breeze, I am hot." She said to herself, walking so tired and weak to the tree.

" What exactly will I tell my mother, is wrong with me.?" " That I, Renee , have finally gotten a child without presenting the father.?" She asks herself, putting down her head in between her knees.

" I didn't see it coming that I will be pregnant for him, just in a single sex had with my boss." Renee breathed down. " This is serious, I just need to be careful before I cause the old woman a heart attack." Renee after saying this, brought out the rest result, and glanced over it again and again. " I am not the first to be rejected by the man with this condition, by the man that got me pregnant, and I won't be the last, I will have to bear my cross, the cost of taking care of the pregnancy, even after birth, the baby, I don't mind leaving Serangoon, unaware to my mother. I can't watch her collapse before my present, for what I have done." She added, bitterly. " Lucas, if you can't feel pity on me, you should have felt that for your unborn child." " Nevertheless, you would hardly do so, seeing that you rejected responsibility right before my present; what a wicked world is this.?" Renee kept complaining. " I curse the day I allow you fuck me." She said as tears dropped from her eyes.

" Lucas wasn't careful when he ordered Sofia to prepare my sack letter." Renee, imagine how Lucas hates her. She struggle to stand from the little wooden chair under the tree. Renee, gasped down breath and continued trekking home. On her arrival home, she met with her mother, who was sighting at her from the stairs.

" How will I convince this woman that it is just a fever, she shouldn't think anything more than that." Renee, thought for a while and encourage herself, little. " Am sacked, what is the reason?" " She will read allt of meaning to what is happening to me. I think I will keep this to myself, or rather tell her that I resigned." She concluded and walked into the sitting room Roxanne then went down to meet with her.

" How did it go, daughter.?" Roxanne walked slowly as she asked Renee her issue.

" Same as I have told you mother, it is just a fever." She answered. 

" You couldn't get yourself some drugs when coming, or at the clinic.?" Roxanne asked her, placing her hands on her daughter's shoulder.

" I will do that later. Meanwhile, I would like to have some rest." Renee answered, and lay on the cushion in the sitting room, looking weak and tired.

Roxanne assisted her, by covering her with a wrapper. 

" Thanks mother." Renee appreciated it. Roxanne with her motherly heart, planned getting Renee drugs with the little she had. She rushed to the pharmacy and got Renee some drugs.

" Where did you got money for this.?" Renee curiously asked her mother.

" From the little servings I have." " Please take the drugs so that you will have a quick recovery." Roxanne told her.

" I need to eat first, I am hungry." Renee, weakly said to Roxanne.

" My God, there is no food at home. I thought you were eating outside, and besides I needed to get some food stuff from the market, which I need to source money from you." Roxanne replied.

" Mother the little I have is what I have used for the check up, I don't have anything with me, not even a penny." Renee answered.

" What will we do, seeing that you are hungry, and there is nothing at home.?" Roxanne asked. Renee breathed down, being a strong lady, she stood from her chair and said.

" I will be going out there to work, it's already late, I believe that the day will favor me." 

" No, daughter, remember you are sick and need to recover before making more steps for our daily bread." " I know I was supposed to assist, but my health won't allow me." Roxanne, admitted.

" Mother, we can't stay hungry, we need to eat. Okay, don't worry I will be fine." Renee assured her mother and started getting ready for the night job hunting.

" How I wished I could help," Roxanne regretted her inability to help out.

Renee continued to walk around, with her eyes around, praying to find a little she would do for the evening.

" I pray I found something doing." She said to herself. Luckily to Renee, she found a restaurant filled with customers who had come to eat, and at the same time has a single staff who washes plates, she has been strongly to do that, seeing that her colleague wasn't at work that evening.

Renee didn't mind when she began to assist without asking. 

" Oh, thanks.!" Mira the plate washer, appreciated Renee. However, the quick washing of the plate prompted the owner of the restaurant to know how Mira.

" You are fast at washing the plate today." Mrs Norah, the restaurant owner said to Mira.

" No, yes ma." " But I did not do that alone, I did it with the help of the lady standing there." Mira pointed at Renee, who sat under the tree, still shivering. Norah called for Renee immediately.

" Good evening madam." Renee getting closer to Norah.

" Why is the problem.?" Norah noticed Renee shivering.

" Am hungry madam, can you help me with food." She pleaded with Norah.

" Come in, come and sit, while I offer you the food. But before that, can you recall the number of plates you have washed.?" Norah asked Renee, having a second thought.

" I don't know ma. But what I know is that I had washed a lot." Renee replied.

" In that case, you should either choose to take the food as part of your payment or I will give it to you in cash." Norah told me about her condition.

Renee thought about her mother, eating the food, will lead her going home cashless or getting her mother some food. She then replied.

" I will like to have the money, I have a sick mother who also needs to eat." Renee answered.

" For that reason, here is your money." Norah deeped hands into her Apro and brought out some money and handed it over to Renee.

" Thanks." Renee collected it, while in her heart, she would buy snacks for herself and her mother. Renee about leaving, when Mira ran to her. " I would like you to come around tomorrow, then I will refer you to a restaurant who is in need of your service, perhaps a store in need of a cleaner." Mira, shows concern.

" Thanks alot miss Mira, I will come around just as you have said." Renee replied."I would need a favor from you." Renee asked.

" What favor is that?" Mira asked.

" This won't be enough for me and my mother, I also need to get some drugs." She added.

" Renee, the little I have is for my transportation, I can't share that with you least I will trekk back home, which is far off my workplace." Mira answered her.

" Alright, I am grateful for the opportunity given to me to help in washing." Renee appreciated Mira as everyone goes their different way.

Renee got home, and found Roxanne sitting, yawning all through.

" Welcome daughter, how did it go.?" Roxanne stood quickly to assist Renee.

" It all went fine." Renee answered her, and gave the snack to her. " I have taken part of mine, you can eat the remaining." Renee said, unknown to her mother, Renee hasn't eating anything, neither have she taking drugs, but have to sacrifice for her mother. 

" I have lost my appetite, seeing how weak and tired you are. Renee, you have to sleep in my room tonight, I need to check on you constantly." Roxanne, showing more concerned.

" My room will be okay for me." " Good night mother, have a sweet dream." Renee wished her mother, and walked down to her bedroom hungry. Roxanne on her part, couldn't eat the snack, she had stayed awake thinking on how life has turned her into.

Renee, lying on the bed, with her face looking at the ceiling, pondering.Was I wrong when I demanded an advance payment of my salary from Lucas. Isn't that my labour.?" Renee kept wondering about all that had been happening to her. She got tired of life and slept off.