My Addiction by Ida Gonzalez (best ereader for academics .txt) 📕

The absence of my mother hurts every day for both me and my sister Katherine, however we have each other, and although life has always been difficult I am not complaining, I am happy.

On the other hand, I never heard from my father again, one day he left without explanation and never came back, do I sometimes wonder, what did we do wrong, what went wrong in this equation, or is there just something great and wonderful at the end of the tunnel.

There are times when I feel very lonely, I won't deny it, playing the role of mother with my sister is sometimes difficult as she is at a stage where she really needs a real mother, an example, and me? Well, I do what I can as a big sister, but I feel that it is not enough, that I myself have many things to learn from life, and growing up by force has not been rewarding at all. My adolescence, well it wasn't normal at all, instead of having friends and going out dancing, I had to work to take care of my sister.

 Thank God Katherine is a very understanding girl, we have been very supportive over the years, I work in a restaurant as a full time waitress, I don't earn much, but it gives me enough to make ends meet, spending most of my life in that restaurant, my life is just work, boring? Yes, very boring, and tiring.

But with the craziness of my friend Isabela, a crazy and fun Brazilian, everything is easier, Katherine and her make my days happier and less monotonous, Isabela despite having a life full of secrets and complications is always there lending me a hand with everything and at all times. She is like a sister to me, she has given me her unconditional friendship. In spite of the hard life she has also had to live since her youth, you see, no one's life is bought.

 I wake up in my comfortable bed when I hear my alarm clock ringing, shit! I wish I could sleep a little longer, but that's so difficult, so with much regret I get up still sleepy to walk to the bathroom and take a pleasant shower, I walk shuffling my feet, double shit! I hit my big toe with the door, when I go to learn that there is a small tier there. 

 When I get out of the bathroom I get dressed with the first thing I find, yes that's me, I don't like to dress up much, much less draw attention to myself, the more I go unnoticed the better. When I finish dressing up I go to the kitchen to prepare a delicious coffee, one of those that make your soul happy, before going to wake up my beautiful thing, my sister.

 When I enter I see her asleep like a doll, I let out a laugh before reaching her bed.

 "Come on Katy get up sleepyhead" I kiss her and tickle her, she always wakes up laughing, I like to brighten her days even if it's in this way.

 "Get up sleepyhead you have to get ready so you're not late for school."

 "Mmmm a little more Paula please" She asks, I keep laughing, it's always the same, it's hard to get her out of bed.

 "No, get up and take a shower, breakfast is ready, and we are late, I'll wait for you downstairs" I add.

  "Mmmm you are cruel Paula... "she claims like a doll sprawled on the bed. "Yes, aha I am very cruel, now move that little butt out of bed and go into the bathroom, you have little time to get ready".

  "Ok, ok, I feel like with you I'm in a military academy" I roll my eyes, always so exaggerated.

"Even less minutes left miss, come on, three...two..... "

  "What you need is a boyfriend to make you less bossy," she giggles, entering the bathroom.

 "Kathy!" I reprimand her as the smart ass lets out a laugh closing the bathroom.

Yeah boyfriend, aha, unless the doorman in the building notices me, I'm sure I'll never have a boyfriend, like it's that simple. 

  "Katy today I have double shift at the restaurant, Isa will pick you up and you stay with Sara" I spoke while I drank my coffee and she played with her cereal..... Sara is my neighbor, an old lady who lives alone and is a great person, she always gives me a hand with my sister, I will never finish paying her back for all she has helped me, it's as if my mother had sent me an angel to take care of us in her absence.

 "Ok Paula you know I like being with Doña Sara, I love her cats" I laugh watching her. "Stop playing with your breakfast and finish it Katherine Ricci we are running late" She rolls her eyes and throws me a grain of cereal.

 "Well miss time to go or we will both be late" she ran to the bathroom to brush her teeth throwing what she used in the sink. After ten minutes we left for school, we took the bus, I dropped Katy off at school and I hurriedly walked to the restaurant about five blocks away, that's why I hate wearing heels, but I hardly ever wear them, and I don't know why I complain so much.

 Ten minutes later, I was arriving to my work where I see my friend Isabela with a huge smile as always, whether she is in a good or bad mood, this woman will never be serious, her enthusiasm transmits me joy.

 "Hello, Isa, how are you?" I greet her as soon as I get next to her.

 "Hello Paula, super well splendid" she greets opening her arms and leaving a resounding kiss on my cheek, and what's wrong with her?

 "And what's up with you, why are you so happy, did you win the lottery or something?

 "I wish, but no, anyway, Ay amiga, it's just that last night Santiago called me, he said he would pick me up after work". Santiago is her, let's say platonic love, he is a client from here who has been after my friend for a long time, but according to her she is playing hard to get so desperate, if you can see in her face her desperation to throw herself on him... and him? And him? uff God! How do I explain to her that this man is drooling over her? I think he would even clean the floor where she walks. 

 "Just stop complicating your lives and you give the poor guy a chance and why complicate things if you want to be together..." she giggles....