Chapter 21: Concubine’s Memory
Julia is lying on a very comfortable sofa while her sight is roaming all over the large luxurious living room. She knows she is lucky as she nearly missed the chance to live like this. Her mind reminisces about memory months ago.
(2 months ago)
Julia screamed at Silvio, who was positioning his old motorcycle,
"Late again?"
Silvio wiped his sweaty forehead and innocently replied, "Sorry, I had to complete a delivery just now, uhh.. you know this bike is pretty old."
Julia leaned on the wall and glared at her boyfriend, "Why are you still using that junk?"
Silvio answers innocently, "Well, it's really reliable. I have survived many deliveries using that bike!"
"You are such a useless man."
" What.."
"I can't believe I fell in love with you!" She lamented.
"What's wrong with me?"
"If I know you never want to change your life, then I wouldn't have dated you in the first place... I have standards!" She shoved her chest away.
"But I worked hard. I even gave you my hard earned money from the jobs I did."
Julia scoffed but Silvio continued, "The cosmetics you use are from my hard earned money."
" Ahh.. you wasted nearly two years of my time!" She slapped his shoulder.
"I don't know what I did wrong. I love you!" Silvio pleaded but she turned her sight away.
"We need to break up."
"Break up? Did I do something wrong?" He was confused.
"I don't want to waste my time with some broke loser, who had already wasted nearly two years of age!"
"Please, Julia. If you'll just hear me out.."
"Why? So that you desperately need my body?"
" Julia, please.." He tried to grab her shoulder but she slapped his hands away.
"Besides...I already found a new man with actual money." She said while showing off a photo of a man on her phone.
"You..you cheated on me?"
" Shut up! I only went out with another man for the first time last week. He is better than you in every way."
She walked away. Rather than chasing after his girlfriend, Silvio said in a threatening tone, "Julia..you shouldn't just a book by its cover."
She stopped and walked towards him, pushing her chest again, while raising her voice, "You are just a bum..who's better leave before I call the cops and report you for sexual harassment!"
"Fine. Fine. I am leaving."
She sighed.
Then, Julia started dating and even slept with Ben. She was so excited to have found a man with a nice car. A man who could afford to valet. He even bought her handbag. Most importantly a man who could prove her with the lavish lifestyle she's always dreamt off. In the third week, Ben brought her to a luxurious restaurant.
"I am so lucky to have found such a good man." She chuckled," Seriously, I can't believe you are even real."
Ben rubbed her smooth hand, " Oh, stop it. I'm the luckiest guy in the world now. Like, look at you, so gorgeous. It's like God sent you out of nowhere..."
His sentence was interrupted by a waiter who politely returned a card and a bill to him.
"There seems to be an issue with the card."
Julia was dumbfounded but Ben was sighing as if he had been expecting this. He calmly told the waiter, "Please wait a minute."
The waiter stood near them while Ben was waving his card and sighing.
"What's going on?" Julia asked, her beautiful eyebrows furrowed.
"Oh, nothing. Everything is under control. Just..little low on funds right now."
She chuckled in disbelief, " Low on funds? What does that even mean?"
She added, " How are you low in funds? You drive a BMW. You wear thousand dollar suits, and that watch is at least five figures."
"Yeah, you're right. It's true. I put all that on the credit card, several credit cards, to be exact."
She shook her head, refusing to believe his words, "You can't buy BMW using credit cards."
Ops, that BMY is paid by my parents, under rental contract. But, it's good. I will be rich, soon. So, why wait, you know. Live your life to the fullest."
She started to massage her forehead, " Didn't you mention that you and your dad got a contract as a vendor for a IM, the large IT company?"
"We do, it is a small subcontractor job, though. I believe one day I will be big. Unfortunately, for now, I am broke."
He sighed but then immediately clapped his hands as if reaching a realization.
"Wait. Stop. Stop. Ben, you can't be saying that." He spoke to himself loudly.
After exhaling, he looked at Julia, "Look. I am in debt. It's all about mindset."
Julia finally laughed sarcastically.
"Look. I don't want to be that kind of ma right now, but.. it's hard to ask this from a girl I am dating...do you think you can cover for our dinner tonight?"
The waiter who had been waiting, finally interjected, "Have you figured out how you're gonna be paying tonight?"
"Oh, no.." She unconsciously uttered.
"Don't worry. I got the next one." He said in a hushed voice.
After closing her eyes for a while, she took out a card from her handbag and awkwardly passed it to the waiter. Her fair face was red in embarrassment.
"Cheers...to many more, you know..first of many." He offered a toast but her mind was already elsewhere.
"Ahhh! Ahhh! Ahhh!" Her reminiscing was interrupted by a woman's moaning.
A naked woman with long hair was bending her body while Silvio, her former boyfriend who she dumped before, is standing, moving his hip behind the woman.
Karen, the beautiful woman who also lives in the mansion, is grabbing the edge of the sofa where Julia is on. Her face expresses pleasure.
Julia smiles. Deep in her heart, she thanks God. Despite cruelly dumping Silvio, and getting into debt later on, Silvio took her in. After what she did, it's impossible for her to be Silvio's girlfriend but now she and another gold digger, Karen live very well in this luxurious mansion.
In return for that, Julia acts as his personal secretary and lets him use her body for sex. The sex part is something she really enjoys, though.