"Hey what do you think you are doing? You are just as useless as that sister of yours, How can you mess up something as simple as soup! Why don't you just die?"
Vivian's voice was so loud that the cab driver probably heard what she had said.
Hearing the shouts Nelly was so insensed that she could not hold herself any longer, she pushed the door open and rushed in right at that moment.
"Nonto come here, go get your things and follow me!"
She said that while looking at the Vicious Vivian who could not believe how Nelly came out of nowhere to challenge her.
"Nelisiwe Smith! How dare you come in to this house and challenge my way of doing things, do you think you are better now just because you are wearing new clothes. Who ever gave you those must be out of their mind and straight foolish to even lend you clothes when you can't even feed yourself."
Nelly was surprised at how her Aunt thought but then again it came to her that they didn't have any television in the village, so how would they know that she now can afford to take care of herself.
"Auntie even if I can't feed myself and do not have a place to stay I will not allow you to treat Nonto like a piece of garbage. Why must she be doing all the labour when there's Zara, why can't you get Zara to also help out with the chores"
"My daughter is not a maid, besides she is a student at the beauty college, now tell me how can she be a beautician if she looks like a slave that only knows manual work like the two of you? Now it's either you help your sister out and get this house spotless or take her to the streets where you belong!"
At this point Nelly didn't have the energy to fight with her evil aunt, all she did was smile and said in a low voice.
"To the streets we will go, but don't you ever forget this day."
When she finished talking Nonto had also finished packing the little rags of clothes that she owned, which fitted in a small back pack. She followed her sister out to the car that was parked at the gate.
They both hopped in the car not caring about the angry woman standing in front of the house, who kept pouring curses at them.
"Are you ok miss?"
The cab driver asked in concern, to which Nelly nodded which showed that she was hanging in there.
"Yes, we can go back now."
After a long time of silence, Nonto finally spoke up.
"Sis what are we going to do now?, I'm only just a student I can't help you out with finances."
She knew that her sister was also young, so even if she had found a job, it would be probably at a restaurant or some supermarket which will definitely not be enough to sustain the two of them.
Nelly was only 2 years older than her but life had forced her to grow up, hence she only smiled at her worried looking sister.
" You worry too much, you know I will make a plan. You will get to finish school and most importantly you will go to college."
They paid the driver once they reached the hotel and then got off.
All the way to their hotel room, Nonto had her mouth opened forming an o and the moment they shut the door she let out all her excitement.
"Owh my God, Nelly is this how good your life is? How did you afford this hotel. Goood am I dreaming? Here I was thinking that I will be a burden on you, just look what you can do."
Nelly was amused by her sister's reaction, her reaction was like a confirmation to Nelly that she had done the right thing by bringing her out of that house.
"Don't be silly, I'm still as poor as you know me. Hehehe go shower so that we can go grab something to eat and because I'm in a good mood, I'll let you choose whatever you like to eat."
"Really?"
"Yah, hurry before I change my mind."
Nelly responded as she pushed her sister to the bathroom, but Nonto too didn't forget to warn her before closing the door.
" you better be prepared coz I will not go easy on your pockets, hehehe I what to eat some KFC"
Poor girl, all she knew was the fried chicken from KFC. Although she had never tried it out herself but she had heard some of the kids in her school talk about it and how enjoyable and delicious it was to them , so she too wanted to try it out since an opportunity had presented itself.
Once they both were done with freshening up, they both walked out and headed to KFC.
A few hours after both Nelly and Nonto had left the Smith household, Tony who is Nelly's uncle came back from work in a very sour mood.
He sat quietly at the dinning table, eating his tasteless dinner.
" My husband you will not believe what happened today."
"Vivian, I'm not in the mood for your useless stories, can't you see that?"
"But dad, Mom is trying to tell you that we had an intruder earlier but don't worry, mom chased them away. Now we can live comfortably without worrying about feeding some orphans."
Zara spoke proudly on her mother's behalf, but did not notice the change in her father's face.
"Who did you chase away now, and what do you mean that we will not be feeding more people. Was Nelly here?"
"Yes she did come, she had the nerve to challenge mom's method of disciplining that stupid sister of hers, so guess what? Hehehe mom chase them away. Now they can both live in the streets where they belong."
By the time she finished speaking she was full of smiles, she could not believe that she could finally walk proudly around the village without the embarrassment of having cousins like them.
"Shut up! Vivian, how could you do such a thing? Those are my nieces and we were supposed to treat them like our own, yet you chased them both out of the house. How are we to ask them for help in the future when you failed to treat them with love when they needed it?"
At this point Toni's voice was shaking with anger, mostly it was regret that he was feeling as he was aware at how his wife and daughter were treating his nieces.
"Husband don't you worry, we will never ask for help from those two. They have nothing and are probably starving asking people for food as we speak."
Replied Vivian with a twisted face showing the disgust she had felt about those two people they were discussing.
"Is that so? Why is it that everyone at work are telling me that Nelly Smith from our village was the winner of this year's musical competition. Do you know how much she'll have if that's true, a million Vivian, a million. That's way more than we would ever have in our life time!"
Both Zara and Vivian looked at each other in shock, they could not believe their ears. Nelly the useless girl who could not even afford to go to college was now rich?
"No, impossible! There are many Nelly's around maybe they made a mistake."
Tony got even more irritated as he heard his wife speak so harshly about Nelly, so he took out his phone browsed the winner for the recent season of the comperition, indeed a clear picture of Nelly holding her cheque with conffeti falling on her from the ceiling."Tell me if this is not her?"Asked Tony in a bold tone, leaving both Vivian and their daughter in disbelief."Impossible dad! I'm way better than Nelly, more prettier and much deserving of success but why does it have to be her? I should be the one who is famous and not that orphan out of all people!"" Shut up!, at this point you should've realized that she can be your ticket to success. Once you are done with beauty school you can be her personal makeup artist use her as a stepping stone and there on, nobody can stop you. You will be working with even more prominent people in the industry, wake up and stop being so stupid. "Vivian reprimanded her daughter forgetting the fact that they were not in the best of relationship
Once they were all out of sight Nelly wiggled herself out of Eric's arm, she Certainly didn't want to be held by that man. "Uhh thank you for helping me back there, but Mr Jonas, I'm afraid we need to go to our cab now." Not even once did Nelly look at the man next to her, she only address Robert, the one she respected. Rob on the other hand noticed the gloom on his brother's face and knew right then that he needed to do something. For the fact that Eric voluntarily held a woman's waist was a clear indication to Rob that his brother liked that girl. "Come on, it's still early and I'm sure you guys wouldn't mind some good food so why don't you just come with us. You don't mind right lady? I promise nothing will happen to you guys." Robert begged with a goofy smile filling his face and just when Nelly was about to decline the invitation as she was erked by the presence of the man next to her, her sister Nonto beat her to it, "Yeah I don't mind, Nelly we can go since we didn't pla
The group of people walked out of the restaurant without even noticing that they were being watched.Instead of entering the car with the Jonas brothers Nelly took a cab back home along with Her sister.A few months past within a blink of an eye for Nelly as she was fully booked for appearances as well as the performance of her new single which was released during the final stages of the competition.It was only after seven months when she was released from her duties as her secret was close to being revealed to the public.Her belly had started showing and she too had started feeling tired easily."Could this be the one? What do you think sis?"Nelly asked her sister as they finished touring the last townhouse, it was located on a newly developed estate which had only a few houses readily built, the house was spacious compared to their rented apartment and was beautifully laid out and what topped it off was the fact that the townhouse was fully furnished, all they needed was to final
The room was left in complete silence, none of the two people said a word, it was as if they each were immensed in their own world.Too many questions ran through their minds but none had the answers to them."Was that woman really our mother?"Finally Nonto broke the silence as she wanted to piece together the dots that seemed to have confused her. She too wanted clarification."Our mother died when we were young, that woman is nothing but a stranger to us."Her anger had clouded her mind as she responded to her younger sister, although she had said that, deep down Nelly knew that was not how she truly felt about the woman.Even tthough she was still fuming and slightly confused by the event which caught her off guard, Nelly still regarded Adelaide as her mother but she wasn't ready to admit to it."I'll bring out the bags then."When Nonto heard her sister she knew right then that it wasn't the right time to argue and bicker
As the sisters enjoy their evening of bland food, others were being tortured at an office building in the business district. "No Rob this is not it, we can't take this anymore, you need to talk to the big boss." " yes Mr Rob, you are his brother and he will listen to you. I mean we've been over working ourselves for the past few months, the company has been doing well and we definitely aren't complaining about our salaries but we need some rest." As the employees gathered in Rob's office complaining about being over worked, he felt like throwing himself over the building. 'Heck I too am being over worked, not only do I have to deal with his tantrums here at work but it's even worse at home.' He was so frustrated that he wanted to yell at his employees but he knew better than to do that. "He's the boss and calls the shots, I'm as scared of him as you are. Why don't you guys just go ask him yourselves?" When they turned to look at him and how haggard he was, they felt that what
Some time had passed and Nelly's savings were now running low, taking care of three people wasn't an easy thing to do.She had chose to sacrifice her career in order to take care of her twins for more than a year while also using some of her savings to pay for Nonto's tuition fees as well as the family's expenses.She had been missing from the public eye and most people had even forgotton about her. Her contract from her previous company had expired and they refused to renew it, as she had not been generating any income for the company."Don't worry sis, I will look for a part time job at one of the restaurants near our campus that way I will be able to help out with the expenses.""No don't be silly, you need to finish your studies in time. I'm sure something will come up, it always does."Nelly had a strong faith that she'd be able to get in to a recording company soon, even if it wasn't as big as the one she used to work for, that would be able to help her take care of her family.
"You really don't know, do you?"She then went on to show her all the trending news about her. There were a lot of intimate photos of her with Jamie from the previous day.They were all captured everytime Jamie made an intimate gesture to her, from when they hugged, when Jamie wiped Nelly's mouth for her to when he brushed her shoulder.In all the pictures, Jamie kept looking at Nelly lovingly with tender and gentle eyes. If one did not know the truth, they would surely think that the two were truly a couple.Looking at the series of pictures in front of her, Nelly jolted up in shock and the little fatigue that she had earlier was instantly wiped off."What's going on here, why would they say that Jamie is my boyfriend?" Seeing the look on her sister's face Nonto was convinced that Nelly was telling the truth."Could it be that Jamie is behind all of this?"Nonto thought that there was more to this story than what met the eye."It can't be, Jamie is more like a brother to me and wou
In the following week Nelly busied herself with all the interviews she had with all those companies that had invited her. She sighed as she came out of the last company, it seemed like they all wanted to take advantage of her. What they offered her was way below her payment rate, the terms of their contracts were also ridiculous.Nelly knew that if she were to sign with any of those companies, she'd be binding herself with hell knowingly and would be living a miserable life throughout the contract term.She walked absentmindedly along the street not knowing what to do. She walked aimlessly for about an hour until something clicked in her mind."Right Neptune entertainment! I still have that, I'm pretty sure they are decent people since Jamie referred me to them."She thought to herself as she took out her cellphone and scroll down her contact list for their phone numbers, just as she was about to click the call button, her phone started ringing.It was a string of number that she to