Chapter One (Page Two)

“Come on help me get the ice pack.” Emma giggled and said

“Alright, alright you win.” Chan said, he grabbed the ice pack off the top shelf and gave it to Emma.

“Thanks” Emma replied, she kissed Chan on the lips, before moving back to Hailey’s room. Chan went back to bed.

Emma walked into the room, inside the room Hailey was still sitting on the bed.

“Here, this is for you.” Emma said, hanging Hailey the ice pack.

“Thanks” Hailey said.

Hailey looked at the election posters, in front of her “Vote 1 Chan Wong.” It wrote

“I can’t believe that he is actually a Federal MP.” Hailey said

“I know, who thought that he actually made it? You know? When he used to say, he wants to become a politician, back in law school, I never thought he actually make it.” Emma said

Hailey smiled.

“Press the ice pack against your eye and try getting some sleep, OK?” Emma said

“Ok” Hailey smiled and said.

Emma left the room.

Hailey tried to get some sleep, but in the room next door, she could hear Emma and Chan having sex, they tried to keep their volume down, but considering Hailey’s bed is next to the share wall, with Emma and Chan’s room, she could still hear everything, but eventually Hailey finally drifted off, asleep.


~The next morning, Thursday morning, 9th June, Sydney

Hailey woke up around 7:30 AM in the morning.

Chan and Emma and their children Long and Ming had already woken up and were having breakfast

Chan was wearing a suit and he had his suitcase, sitting in the chair, right next to him. Emma was wearing scrubs. She is a surgeon, within a hospital. Long, the older of the children, was in school uniform, he was in the first grade. After finishing breakfast Chan would take Long to school and Ming to daycare and then go to work, Emma on the other hand, who only worked part time, would pick the kids up after work.

“Good morning” Emma said after seen Hailey walked out of the room

“Hey” Hailey smiled weakly.

Chan took a look at Hailey and then turn back to his food. He couldn’t be bothered to pay any attention to Hailey.

“Hi” Hailey smiled at Chan weakly

“Mmm” Chan gave Hailey a slight acknowledgment, without even raising his head.

Hailey’s hair was a mess, but she still looked like an angel, she is one of the hottest girls most guys would probably have ever met, in their life.

Hailey came from a family with a drunk and unemployed father, who bashes her and her mother up on a daily basis. Hailey’s mother worked as a maid, to sustain the family income. When Hailey was ten years old, Hailey’s mother died of bow cancer. A few months, after her mother’s death, Hailey eventually got bashed up by her father so badly, she ended up in hospital, she was finally been send away, to a foster home. First, she was been send to live with her long-lost older brother, Johansson, who ran away from home, when he was around Hailey’s age. But a year later, Johansson, who was a Sergeant in the army Commando died, in a training exercise. Since then, Hailey moved from one foster home to another, until she was sixteen, where she worked as a night time checkout girl in a Woolworth Supermarket, to support herself, to finished high school and got into Uni.

Hailey believed there is a formula of life and there is a need to act according to it, as if it is a law and if you don’t act according to it, you will be thrown in jail for the rest of your life and it is probably because of her past, Hailey has become a bit of a dreamer, she started to dream of those fairytale romance and started to believe that is what true love and true happiness is and it became what she want and search for. Hailey loves the story of Cinderella, with the prince charming, coming to Cinderella, sweeping her off her feet and they would live happily ever after. Becoming a fairy tale princess, was what Hailey wanted and searched for. Hailey forgot that fairytales, including Cinderella are just stories, not reality, they are fiction, not none fiction, just like a soap opera, which are fictions, constructed by a group of writers, sitting in a big meeting room, rushing to make up a story line, to fill the audiences’ desires, in next week’s episode. Plus, Cinderella’s story, only say she and the Prince, live happily ever after, but never give a justifiable excuse of, why that is the case.

During her first year in university, when she was eighteen years old, Hailey met Sam, a guy that was studying Hospitality in TAFE, it turns out Sam is the type of guy that would bash up his girlfriend, he has an explosive temper and he has no way or interest in controlling it. If you are walking on the street and you look at Sam the wrong way, he would come up to you and want to bash you up and he has little respect for Hailey or care for Hailey.

But in the same time, Sam is also the type of guy, who would sweep a girl off her feet and since the very first day they started dating, Sam would tell Hailey how beautiful she is, how special she is, take her to romantic restaurant on her birthday, valentine day, Christmas and sometime just for no particular reason and he did everything in his power, to portray himself, as a character that will make Hailey fell safe with him, as a protector and it is probably because of that and her own long search for Cinderella romance, which Hailey wanted and believes in so badly, that Hailey unconsciously trapped herself in this relationship, due to these romantic gestures, which Sam offers. It is just like a loving mother, who put up with a bad relationship, just to be with her kids or a woman, who might put up with a bad relationship, just to stay married, to a rich man, there are some forms of conscious or unconscious pay off, for them to stay in those relationships.