Making Ends Meet
What's a girl to do when she's lost it all?
Chapter 1
by 
Jensen7
“I’m ruined.”
Looking at the screen, Ella saw that not just one but three of her biggest investments had all but crumbled with absolutely no hope of recovering. Even with all of her other stocks she would not be able to recoup her losses. She would need to sell her house, her property, her damn car and she would still be coming up far too short. Covering her face with her hands she cried quietly.
“What the Hell am I going to do?”
She frankly had no experience in any other fields, she was very good at playing the stock market but it seemed that she had stretched too far, got too confidant and had lost too much to save herself. Her degree was useless to her in pretty much every other field, and every other job that she had tried that could make the difference now just wasn’t looking for a new employee.
Ella had always thought that she would be fine, her life had been about as close to perfect as it could have been for her modest upbringing. She was beautiful, smart, funny, well liked throughout high school, and had had almost everything she needed fall at her feet.
Though now it seemed that her good fortune had finally run utterly dry. The odds of what had happened to her were so unlikely that she should be drowning in the cash she should have been making, but life had decided to punch her in her clean-shaven sex and laugh at her misery. She thought of her friends and realized that she didn’t have all that many anymore, having dropped all but one from high school like bad habits because they wouldn’t even try to accept said one friend, and any others were closer to acquaintances than actual friends.