Chapter 683 (1/2)
Any metropolis that should be as bright as heaven in the minds of ordinary people has dark corners like hell.
So is Manhattan.
From the city's cloud directly fell to the bottom of the Graaff family this period of time have a deep understanding of this, Laura Graaff last month because of attacking diners lost his restaurant job, get Simon hint, already impatient grace directly drove mother and daughter from the apartment she rented for them.
For the first time, the three members of a family that has been completely bankrupt have experienced the feeling of being on the street.
The real connection.
Except for a few clothes thrown out by grace, they only had less than $20 in cash, which was not enough for a meal.
With some expectation, I made a few phone calls to some old friends in the past. As a result, the whole Manhattan still avoided them like the God of plague. In the end, Laura Graff dialed her three brothers' home. In any case, this was their last retreat.
The phone was connected, but as soon as she spoke, the elder brother hung up very hard. Obviously, they still resent that her stinginess caused the children to Miss Brown University.
Second brother and third brother didn't hang up for the first time.
After a few words, I heard that she wanted to take her two daughters to move back to Georgia for a while, but they all immediately refused. Between the words, they all knew that the Graaff family was in big trouble in New York. They were just ordinary small farmers in the south of the United States, and they didn't want to cause any trouble.
Without the help of her three brothers, even if she wanted to force her two daughters back to Georgia, she couldn't afford the fare.
The first night came soon.
The mother and daughter wandered through the brightly lit streets of Manhattan until late at night. They found that the city was so big, but there was no place for them at all. Finally, they couldn't go down and found a park. They huddled in the corner of the park lawn for a night in the different eyes of the tramps who seemed to emerge from the ground.
The next morning, because of breakfast, the little daughter and Laura Graff had a quarrel, thinking that she had annoyed grace and led the three of them to live on the street.
The eldest daughter looked at her with the same hatred.
Laura Graff was not a good tempered woman either. She hit her little girl in the face. She felt that if it wasn't for these two oil bottles, she could be more relaxed. After she was short of breath, she said she didn't want to follow her and just went away. Didn't she like to run away from home? Anyway, now that there is no home, she can go as she wants.
After all, they still make do with each other.
Always have to live.
Laura Graaff tried to find another job, but after three days, both the waiter in the restaurant and shopping mall and the small business recruiting the front desk turned her down. However, a few of them were obviously moved because of her beauty, but they soon got some reminders and drove her out.
On the fourth night, a man driving by noticed the mother and daughter who were huddled in a corner of James Park in Greenwich Village. He ”accosted” them and learned that they were actually mother and daughter. His eyes were even green. He offered a high price of $1000. As long as the three were on the bus with him.
1000 dollars, if it was before, would not even be enough for Laura Graff to buy a bottle of cosmetics.
Now, mother and daughter, who haven't had a good meal for several days, are at their weakest point. Of course, they also know what kind of women men regard them as, but for $1000, they can find a place to sleep, have a good meal, and
The man seems to have seen Laura Graff's loosening and directly raised the price to $1500.
Then, the eldest daughter, Cathy Graff, burst out and yelled to the man to go away.
Men are very patient, saying that this is already a very high price. Manhattan's top call girls can only take so much. Ordinary street girls only need $50 at a time. Aware of Cathy Graff's resistance, the man steps back and says that she can do nothing but get on the bus together.
Noticing that Cathy Graff pulled her sister from her mother again, the man stepped back and said very well that all the sisters needed was to look.
Laura Graff, who is still a little ashamed, saw the reaction of a pair of daughters and thought about it. She tried to find out if a man could get on the bus alone. Unexpectedly, the man turned his face immediately. Although he didn't refuse, he directly reduced the price from $1500 to $100.
After a lot of talking, the mother and daughter finally got on the Ford car parked on the side of the road.
Then the police came down from the sky.
In New York, something is illegal.
The mother and daughter were put in prison for the first time.
Five days.
In this world, there are many people who go to prison for intentional crimes because they can't survive. However, if they really go to prison, they probably don't want to go back to that place for the rest of their lives.It's not a big crime for the mother and daughter, but after learning about the relationship between the three daughters, even the prison guards who are used to all kinds of evil things can't stand that Laura Graff actually takes her two daughters to do this kind of thing together, so their attitude towards her is even worse.
Asked if there was a contact who could bail them out, Laura Graff could only leave Grace's phone number.
When the mother and daughter thought grace spelt had completely forgotten them, the agent finally showed up five days later, and then they lived in the basement of the East Village.
This is elite's public dormitory for model signing in the early days of her career.
It's a small room, four beds, kitchen and bathroom. It's only so. Each bed costs $1000 a month, which is enough to rent a single room outside. However, this is also one of the sources of income for the modeling agency. Since you have signed a contract with elite, if you want to receive training, become famous, and become a supermodel, you must accept the company's arrangement or, more accurately, squeeze.
After the rearrangement, the mother and daughter will have $2000 a month to live on. The money comes from Laura Graff's two daughters, each of whom is $1000. Grace says she will continue to cultivate them.
As for Laura Graff, she was arranged as the assistant of her two daughters. Her daily work was to accompany them to various model training courses and occasional sporadic work. Basically, she was unable to go to the stage to try on a model, to serve as a clothes rack for various studios, but there was no chance to show her face on the magazine runway.
In fact, this is the survival state of most young models in their early career.
There are so many beautiful girls in this world. It's not so easy to come out with only one body and face.
After arranging these, grace seems to forget the three of them again. One of the things she needs to know is just the assistant of the agent.
After sleeping on the street and going to jail, the mother and daughter finally realized their own situation.
The high society of Manhattan has completely left them. Now, the graaffs are just a few ants at the bottom of the metropolis.