My choice

My choice

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Kimberly West is the only daughter to the influential couple Kris and Jerk West, they are into agriculture and real estate, Kimberly is been raised up poorly by her mom who thinks the poor are people not to mingle with, as such she hates seeing the poor, only did she knew that she was going to fall in love with Shay the middle-class boy. She hates seeing him in company with other girls like Jennifer and her ex-best friend Malyse. What will be Kimberly's reaction when she finds out she is in love with Shay?

My choice Chapter 1 A rough day

It was sharp seven on the dot when breakfast was served, Kimberly was still in bed as she had passed the day clubbing forgetting the following day was her first day in college, Mr. Jerk was on his way to the dining table he was already dressed for work, behind him was his arrogant wife she was equally dressed for work. They both sat down and started taking breakfast, Mr. Jerk ordered the maid to go get Kimberly, on her arrival, Kim's room was looked, she tried knocking on the door, but Kim sent her away, she came back to the table and informed Mr. Jerk, Mrs.

Kris told her husband not to worry that she was gonna go talk to her personally. After breakfast, Mr. Jerk left for the shoe factory, Mrs. Kris was still in the house getting ready to go meet Kimberly in her room. She gently climbed the stairs towards Kim's room, on her arrival she knocked her door room as it was closed. "Who's that?" Kimberly asked while shouting. "It's your mum," Mrs. Kris replied while waiting on her to open the door. Kimberly quickly stepped out of bed and rushed to open the door, her mum came in and sat next to her bed, she told her daughter to have a sit, she was about to have a conversation with her, Kimberly sat down and was waiting on her mum, Mrs. Kris cleared her throat and began, "Do you know your dad is angry with you?" Mrs. Kris asked while folding her arms around her waist. Kimberly was wondering why her dad was angry with her, she asked why her dad was angry with her and her mum said because of the kind of lifestyle she was engaging herself into. Her dad Mr. Jerk was brought up responsibly and as such did not tolerate Kim's attitude, each time he tried talking to her about it, her mum always tried convincing him she was gonna talk to her. Her mum advised her to be a good girl, the clock was ticking and time was passing, Kimberly got to the bathroom, took her bad and was preparing herself for school, it was her first day in college. Her mum left her and was now about to go join her husband at the shoe factory when she arrived the security guards accompanied her to the office, it was like a tradition, every morning when her car drove into the factory, there was always one guard who held her bag right to her office, Mrs. Kris West was a very arrogant lady, she never responded each time the poor greeted her. They faced this problem every time she was coming but had no choice, they had to continue greeting her for she was the boss's wife. Kimberly was already dressed for school, she wore a simple blue gown, a black pair of covered shoes, and a white school bag, her driver was down waiting for her to get done, it took her some seconds to get down, and the driver drove her to school, when she entered the school premises, she could see other beautiful cars just as the one they carried her into. There was a guard standing by each class, welcoming you and taking you to your sit, he did same for Kimberly as she was the last student to enter the class, the other students were already well seated, where Malyse was seated there was still space the guard asked her if she was comfortable sitting behind and she answered yes. She then sat beside Malyse, greeted her, and stayed quiet, she was so surprised to meet Jennifer and Shay in the same classroom as her. Jennifer already knew the kind of girl Kim was so pretended not to know her and remained comfortable in her seat. The teacher entered the class, introduced himself and asked the students to introduce themselves, they all introduced themselves and in Kim's turn she added she was the daughter of the one who owns "West Shoes", this was how her father's company was called, the teacher then told her he asked only for her name and not her status and she replied saying that was how she always introduced herself when someone asked anything concerning her, from the way she was expressing herself, the teacher already knew she was a troublesome girl and to avoid conflicts between himself and her family, he stayed quiet, gave his lectures and went out of class. During break, Malyse requested they go get something to eat, she followed Malyse and while going out someone called her and when she turned to check who the person was, she discovered it was Jennifer. She ignored her call and continued walking with Malyse, they arrived at the canteen, they gave their command and were waiting to be served. After eating they returned to class and we're discussing since they were having a free period at that time, "So tell me more about you," Kimberly asked. Malyse told Kim that her parents were the owners of a mining company abroad and she was equally their only daughter sent to Montreal for studies. Kim was happy knowing Malyse was from a respectable family, she had found someone with who she was going to be friends, Kimberly was from a rich family and only wanted to be around rich people. In the shoe factory, Jennifer's mum wasn't feeling fine it was only at 10 am that she called one of the staff to inform them that she would not be able to come to work because of her health issues, worst of it was that she had not cleaned Mrs. Kris office and she knew how problematic she was. Jennifer's mum had a lot of work the previous day so she taught she was going to be early enough to clean Mrs. Kris office, little did she know that the next morning she would not be able to come to work, she tried calling her colleague who equally is a cleaning agent like her but her phone wasn't passing through, she knew she was going to be in trouble but all she did was pray for God to soften her heart.

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