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"Zoey!, Mom's calling you." Amy yelled as she barged into Zoey's room.

Zoey was used to it but she didn't really mind. It wasn't like she could complain either.

"Are you deaf?, can't you answer?" Amy said waiting for Zoey's reply.

"I've heard you, Amy." Zoey said and Amy hissed before leaving Zoey's room.

And Zoey followed behind her to her mother's room.

"Okay Zozo, you're going to wash the sheets, scrub the floors and go to the dry cleaners to get Amy's clothes." Eve said to which Zoey frowned.

"What's with the frown?" Eve asked and Zoey dared to say something.

"Why should I do all that when we have maids?"

"Besides, can't Amy go to the dry cleaners to get her own clothes?" Zoey asked and when she was done. Eve started laughing.

"What makes you think that you're better than the maids?"

"And why should my precious daughter do stressful chores?" Eve said laughing.

"But I'm your daughter too." Zoey mumbled but Eve heard it anyways. And she gave her a dirty slap to go with it.

"Don't ever compare yourself to my sweet Amy, you're nothing."

"Okay?"

"Nothing compared to my daughter. Now go do your chores." Eve said in a half yell before Zoey scrambled off.

"Sometimes, that girl needs a beating." Eve said as Zoey ran away.

Zoey sighed heavily as she began to do her chores.

For Zoey, living with the Daniel family was like a ray of light in her gloomy life.

She could remember the first day she came to live with them. She thought that day was the happiest day of her life but now she knows better.

If one knew how the future would turn out, would one still venture into that future?

For instance, would Pluto have stayed on the solar system if it knew it was going to kicked out in the far future?

Maybe, maybe not.

Because for Zoey, she doesn't think she would have refused to be adopted even if she knew it would turn out this way.

The orphanage wasn't running really well then and there was less to eat with more mouths to feed.

Eve had showed up in a black gown like she was mourning. She wore a scowl on her face and it looked as though she was disgusted by the number of unkempt children around her.

She was sweating profusely due to the orphanage's lack of enough ventilation or even an electric fan to fight the heat. And so Zoey had done her best to win her favour.

She went over there and offered her a glass of water, it wasn't cold or chilled but it was something.

Eve had looked at her with raised brows as she collected the glass of water from her and gulped the entire thing.

And the next thing she said made Zoey understand that she had scored.

"I'll take this one." Eve had said that day and Zoey could never be happier.

It was as though her prayers has been answered.

"Now you!" Eve said as she pointed at little Zoey.

"Go get your belongings and let's go." She had said. She looked like she didn't want to be there even for one more second.

"I don't have any stuff." Zoey had said and Eve scoffed before turning and walking back to her car with little Zoey trailing behind her.

Eve's secretary had done the adoption process and Zoey was legally adopted.

"Go with him." Eve had said to Zoey when her secretary returned from the office.

Zoey did as she was told and went in the other car with the secretary.

During the ride to the house, she had been briefed on what her status was in the house.

The Daniel family had only one daughter and she had no one to play with and so her Grandma Nina had suggested that they adopted a child to serve that purpose.

"Why couldn't they just give birth to another child?" Zoey had asked.

Ofcourse, it was a reasonable question and it wasn't like she wasn't happy that she was adopted.

Heck, if they had given birth to another child then she wouldn't be in this car driving to her new home.

The secretary had then told her the truth that Eve couldn't give birth to a child anymore and she couldn't tell her daughter that.

It didn't really matter the reason why they were adopting Zoey anyways. All that mattered was that they were.

And when Zoey had arrived at the house, she was taken somewhere where she took her bath and dressed up in good clothes and not the tattered ones she came in.

She felt refreshed for once in a while. The only time they were given new clothes at the orphanage was Christmas because those were the time where people came to donate the clothes that their children wasn't wearing anymore.

As Zoey walked to the main house to meet her new family, she was excited.

Would they like her?

She heard on the drive here that she was a year older than their daughter so does that mean that she'll be her older sister?

A lot of questions were running through Zoey's mind and she couldn't wait to meet this new people she would call family.

But the moment she stepped her foot into the house, she knew that she wasn't welcomed there.