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Love's Last Wish--- Chapter One
Ava's p.o.v
“Ava, I really tried to get you covered. But…” Moses’s voice trailed off.
He couldn’t beg my boss on behalf of me. I only came 30 minutes late to work. I actually had tutorials and couldn’t find a bus in the busy streets of Las Vegas.
“I get it mosey, I just need a new job like ASAP!!!!!” I said walking to and fro.
Alright! Spotlights on me. I am Ava Evelyn Watson, and if you care to know, I’m a half caste, Yh! I was told my mama was black and my dad white but, do I care? No! Life has never been fair to me and I don’t think it would ever be. My parents dumped me at a monastery, where I was brought up by the then, cook of the monastery, who died exactly five years after I came into her life. I was seven then. Moses’s mother, Aunt Claire who was attending the same church with the cook and worked at the monastery as a butler then, took me in as her very own daughter, and put me in a public school, where I was pretty invisible to everyone. Moses is a year older than me and he attends a different school. So, he doesn’t know how much of a wreck my life is.
“How about you ask at the beach. I heard they needed a new waiter for the summer” he said.
“Yeah! I would try it out. Thanks mosey” I said and hugged him, it felt weird thinking that I just told him off months earlier when he asked me to be his girlfriend. I pulled out of the hug and pocketed my hands and looked away and I guess he left.

FLASHBACK
“Hey Ava, mind if I come in?” Moses said, peeping into my room.
“Yeah! Sure come in. I’m decent” I said, quickly tucking away one of the gifts my mom left for me, a giant pink diary.
“Um…I wanted to make sure I told you something before I go to bed” he said standing in front of me at...