The Friendship.......

Dripping with sweat and awfully tired, Rebecca waited to take her bus back home after work. A girl of about her same age came and stood beside her. As they waited for the bus, the two young working girls struck a friendly conversation. “Oh, so you live alone in this town?”, asked Amanda. “Yes, my parents live somewhere else and I live alone due to my job here.” replied Rebecca.

Soon the bus arrived and the two girls chatted as if they were the best of friends. Before getting into their buses, they decided to meet again the next day at a nearby coffee shop. Amanda, Rebecca soon learnt, was working for a private company. She lived in a rented house nearby. The girls, now became good friends sharing their worries and problems with each other. They began to meet daily.

One day, as Rebecca waited in her car for Amanda outside her house, she saw a worried Amanda. Rebecca soon learnt that her house owner had gone for a vacation for two days and had also locked his house. As Amanda didn’t have the key, she had nowhere to spend two days. Rebecca, being a good friend invited her to her house and Amanda readily accepted her invitation.

As Amanda entered Rebecca’s house she noticed what a bad condition it was in. She decided to renovate her house with her own touch of style. Being a weekend, both the girls went shopping. Amanda chose expensive and beautiful artifacts to decorate Rebecca’s house. Her exited friend readily paid for whatever her friend wanted. When Rebecca entered her own house the next day, she couldn’t believe it was her house. It looked as beautiful as a magnificent palace! Amanda was happy to be appreciated. She decided to cook tonight’s meal for more praises but this isn’t exactly what was in her mind.

But when Rebecca woke up next morning she only remembered eating a delicious meal last night. She had no idea why she was lying on the bare floor of her house. As she woke up, her eyes blinked in horror! Her house was bare. All her expensive artifacts, furnishings and even her costly wardrobe had vanished. She couldn’t believe what she saw. Her good friend Amanda was actually a crook.

She soon went to Amanda’s house and learnt that the owner had not given his house for rent at all. When she inquired about a girl named Amanda who had a respectable job, a nearby stall owner said, “Madam, the only Amanda here is the watchman’s daughter who left for some other place last night. But she didn’t work in any company but that lazy child only fooled people to earn a living. Oh miss, were you too taken for a ride by the girl?” the shopkeeper asked with a sarcastic smile. But Rebecca only bent her head in shame on having so much belief in a stranger!

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