hi I'm aella which means star Isn't that cool also I'm the oldest MSA girl here because my story happened in the70s but trust me it's interesting enough and you'll learn a thing or two about hope so please like And subscribe my life was not exactly good we could only eat once a day and our house was falling apart just like my family our dad was always angry and we were very poor but there was a time where everything was fine back when my brother Lucio and I were little dad was a good dad and mom was there they were the most loving parents in the whole world they always played with us in the park and bought us Toys we weren't rich but our family was happy until one day I got fired they scammed me what they scammed me we lost everything he never told us who scammed him we tried to ask him how we could help but he just ignored us and sold our toys and mom's jewelry however things to sell ran out and dad didn't know what to do anymore maybe we can work selling things or I don't know something something yeah Dad we can sell matches or no what why you can't leave school to go to work but I said no we will put you in a public school and your mom and I will see what we can do so go study or something we fought with Dad many times but he wouldn't let us work so we gave up at least mom was still there right Mom what are you doing Lucio and I had woken up in the middle of the night and found mom cleaning the house like crazy oh I'm just cleaning the house darling darling at 3:00 a.m. mom I know you like cleaning but suddenly she ran to us and hugged us promise me you'll help your dad promise me you'll shine brighter than any star in the sky what are you okay Mom yeah what's going on just promise me that can you we promise next morning mom left the house was completely clean and all her clothes were gone we looked for her everywhere even asked the neighbors but no one had seen her it was the worst day of our life lives we cried a lot and Dad wasn't the same after that he got angry he was angry every day so we tried not to bother him we started to work after school and Dad tried to stop us but after a while he just made us promise that we wouldn't drop out of school and we didn't talk about Mom but we always hoped that someday she'd come back Dad worked cleaning shoes and Lucio and I sold matches we walked through the neighborhoods after school and at the end of the day we met at the grocery store to see if we could buy any food we didn't earn much but we managed to save for one or sometimes two meals a day and that was a win for us our lives weren't the best but we tried to be positive you won't believe how much I hey what happened are you okay I didn't sell any matches today I went to hug him and tell him that everything is going to be okay and without him noticing I dropped a $1 bill behind him don't worry Lucio I'm sure tomorrow you'll sell a lot of matches I hope so wait what's that look Estella $1 today they must be her lucky day or something because I have $3 right here you know what that means hot dogs we bought two hot dogs and then we sat on a street corner to eat them we haven't had a hot dog in almost a year and it was delicious but our happiness didn't last long hey kids can't you give a bite of that what no go away there's nothing yours here didn't your parents teach you not to be selfish it's none of your business suddenly the guy ripped the hot dog out of my hands and ran away while laughing I tried to follow him but he was running too fast and it started to rain so I went back to Lucio at least you still have your oh Lucio's hot dog was on the floor well our lucky day ended fudge sorry Estella I always ruin everything that's not true the one who ruined everything was that freak who stole my hot dog and threw yours on the floor but no no don't even worry we'll buy hundreds of hot dogs one day okay let's go home for now our dad came back from work that night and he was angry it sure didn't go well and when he found out we wasted the money he got super annoyed and locked himself in the bedroom everything seemed to go from bad to worse until one day things began to change I was walking around the upper class neighborhood selling my matches but that day The cold was horrible so I came up with the best idea of all walked into the huge garage of a house there were hundreds of cars and it was so warm but oh no there were people coming yeah all my parents cars are the latest model my favorite one is what the fudge a girl caught me hiding among the cars and her expression was really scary what happened is the car okay yeah uh I thought I saw a rat come on we better go to the pool I was saved after a while I made sure there was no one there and went out quietly but the girl from before was looking at me from the garage entrance who are you what were you doing were you trying to steal one of our cars no no I can explain it was really cold out there and your garage looked like a very warm place so I went there that's all I swear suddenly her expression changed she looked less intimidating oh I see well you can warm yourself in the fireplace at my house it's better trust me come on really thank you so much yeah but don't steal anything by the way what's your name Estella nice to meet you Estella I'm cello her name meant sky in Spanish and something about that made me smile she gave me a tour of her house and it was like a mansion and so warm but I knew I couldn't stay that long I should get going I you know mom always said we need a cleaner do you happen to know anyone who needs a job what are you serious do you know someone well me cello smiled and gave me your hand you're hired come in every day after too okay Z's mom didn't like me but but she gave me a chance and the pay was amazing though the best part of it all was that I got a friend every day after I cleaned up cow and I would watch movies or gossip about my classmates or her weird neighbors it was really fun however one day when I was going to her house I saw her fighting with her mom you should be inside studying not wasting time here the cleaning girl is distracting you from your duties cellow she's not doing anything mom I got perfect grades in everything I was just trying to rest a little on weekends well if you're not in your room in 5 minutes studying that girl will be fired when her mom left I walked up to her I hugged her tightly and she cried a little thank you I'll be here whenever you need me since that day we became best friends but her mom fired me after a month and I got back to selling matches however cow was always sneaking off to talk to me so I didn't get that sad and even Lucio met her he didn't like her that much but that was because he was so grumpy for the first time and because of C my life didn't feel so bad one day I even told her a little about our life oh you've been through a lot Estella I feel so guilty that my mom fired you I'm really sorry it was my fault after all all I did was gossip with you don't you remember and don't you ever think of running away yeah of course but we don't have enough money to do it and what if I tell you that I can help you no never I won't accept any money no no I want to escape from my parents too but I don't want to do it alone so I was thinking of telling you and Lucio about it we can run away together and be free what do you think are you really sure C I've never been so sure of anything in my life however when I told Lucio he wasn't as sure as C I don't know Estella we could get into trouble Lucio this is our only chance to do it if Mom could do it run away then we can we also deserve a good life away from Dad Well we'd have to be extremely careful after that our plan started we raised as much money as we could with Clo's help and some weeks later I went to the train station and bought train tickets to Sweden to leave in 2 days Sweden that's where yeah I hope she's still there okay here I feel like a dog at a chess game what are you talking about my mom I told you about her didn't I well sometimes she sends us postcards from Sweden and you want to go find her yeah but we don't know if she wants to be found if she sends you those postcards it must be for a reason is wasn't it Lucio and I smiled at cello she was a really good friend the day came and Lucio and I told Dad we were going to work while cello told her mom that she was going to the mall we only carried a small backpack with some clothes so nobody suspected anything we met at the train station and SEO looked at me and gave me a weak smile when the train was arriving Lucio grabbed my [Music] hand cello what do you think you're doing a woman ran to us and grabbed 's arm tightly do you think you could just run away from home like that what's going on with you you and Dad are always fighting and you only talk to me to tell me to study you guys never really pay attention to me who put those ideas in your head was it her I knew she'd be a problem police police leave them alone they didn't do anything run guys a policeman approached C's mom and before he could notice us Lucio pulled my hand and we ran out of the train station we hit behind a dumpster and saw the policeman running in front of it after being there for a while I started to cry again sh come here listen we can fix it we still have some savings from your last job we can no what why we can't do it without cello we can't leave her behind you're right the same day when we arrived home we lost all hope of Escape dad found all our savings and was upset that we hid it from him so he kept it somewhere else and said it would only be for food but then winter came and I didn't have any winter clothes you should wear the jacket Estella I can stand the cold I'm like an Iceman yeah sure oh come on lighten up today we will sell a lot and eat hot dogs what do you say I don't know it's fine I've had enough you have to stop this shello is fine in her nice little Mansion eating whatever she wants stop worrying about her she's not well Lucio you know it she's better off than we are we didn't talk for the rest of the week and then I got sick on New Year's Eve and luciao was the one who always took care of me but I knew he was very upset so I didn't tell him anything I hadn't eaten all day and the cold was getting to me so I sat on the corner between two houses and looked at the matches in my hands I hadn't sold a single one and I didn't want to go home with nothing I looked into the window of a house and saw a family eating roast Goose my stomach roared and I remembered Lucio I hope he can forgive me I rubbed a match against the wall and its fire warmed my hands a little but it was quickly extinguished I did it again and saw cello through the small flame cello but she disappeared as soon as the flame went out so I did it again but this time I saw mom mom don't go please I miss you she disappeared as soon as the flame went out and I cried then I took all my matches and let them all at the same time and I saw my family there was Lucio and cello eating roast goose while Mom was serving it Mom looked at me and smiled come with us Estella I'm coming mom mom maybe that's how everything [Music] ends or maybe not I opened my eyes and looked around I was tucked up in a comfortable bed and the room I was in was very nice luciao was on a chair looking at me I'm glad you're okay I was so worried what what happened you collapsed from the fever and you almost froze but I found you early you were in a coma the whole week are you still mad the past is in the past and you won't believe it but I found a really good job shello she helped secretly he grabbed my hand and I gave him a weak smile we'll be fine Estella we'll shine brighter than any star in the sky I got [Music] you [Music]