The Beginning

Alexandra sat in her Mom’s office, playing with an empty stapler, enjoying sliding the spring back and forth.
Piles of papers and bills sat around them, and some even dated back to early 2006.
‘OVERDUE NOTICE’
‘BILL:: 2,456$ OVER BUDGET’
‘LATE FEE PENALTY: 1,000$’
‘CLOSURE WARNING’
Words in bold print jumped out in large letters, brown coffee stains burring out names and addresses around the bright room, midday California sun streaming through the skylight and many windows.
However, instead of enjoying the day, Alexandra’s mother sat hunched over a clean packet of information, eyeing the man in the dark suit sitting in the other office chair that now had sat unused.
The man eyed the girl with excitement he could hardly keep covered under a mask of calm.
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Harriet’s dream of running her own business had been achieved when she married her husband in 2003.
He gave her everything she wanted, and they worked through the process of borrowing money from their parents and friends, the local bank.
Their business took a turn for the worse in 2006, when one of their customers had gotten food poisoning, and soon, bad publicity took away the floods of people, and soon, their regulars.
Only out-of-towners who were new to the area wandered in, and the occasional old lady or homeless person loitering.
Soon, they were losing everything they had worked for, and plummeted deeper and deeper into debt.
He decided to close the company, but Harriet promptly reused, asking and even pleading family and friends to borrow money, but seemingly everyone but the woman knew this was a lost cause, because no money was given.
Alexandra was born as an accident, a mess-up from a late night stress-relieving night.
Six months later, another accident in the form of a second child was soon discovered.
Newly pregnant and already hysteric, was torn apart hen Andrew left her, saying he wanted nothing to do with ‘the mistake’.
The baby died of natural causes two months later.
Harriet loved Alexandra even through her pain.
Eventually, the overdue bills and closure warnings proved to big to deal with.
Her knight in shining armor arrived in the form of a man in a black suit, giving her a stack of papers, saying if she signed, their fancy company would support her company and expands it all across the California area, with a new, shining reputation.
All she would have to do is let Alexandra go to a company who would watch her. They wanted to do experiments of learning, or something.
She almost signed the papers in the middle of her driveway, but the man insisted she at least read the contract first.
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She soon signed everything.
Harriet Jackson
The man took the papers, and called men to collect the bank notices and pay them off immediately, and put in orders for renovations on the building.
She was crying tears of joy at this news. It was as if god had given her a break from heaven.
She didn’t even bother saying goodbye as the man picked up the clapping baby and left.
She didn’t her toddler whine “Mommy!”
She didn’t hear him call in to report “Subject 0000100 has been obtained.”
She didn’t know what would be in store for her in the future.
She didn’t know she would soon become more then human.
All she knew was she was rich, and she could call Alexander up and give him a piece of her mind and laugh in his face with her new-found fortune.