Candace LeClaire had always had life easy. Growing up rich had it's perks. Mommy and Daddy paid for everything. She had wanted to be a model her entire life - She'd always wanted eyes to be on her. She was the center of attention, and a star in her own mind. The world revolved around her... Until suddenly it didn't.
Mommy and Daddy had long since had enough of her ways. They knew that she had no marketable skills even after all of the private schooling that they had paid for, and they weren't going to keep a spoiled brat in the house any longer. They bought her a one way train ticket, and sent her on her way with nothing more than the clothes on her back, and an address scrawled on a scrap of paper...
For the other side of the road. She had 1800 simoleons, and an empty plot of land. How on earth was she even supposed to survive a night out here, entirely on her own, with a huge mansion right across the street? It was a tease, and she knew it. Her parents were simply trying to prove a point. Soon enough, they would be here to take her back home, and there would be a brand new car waiting in the driveway for her when she got there - she was sure of it.
She wasn't thrilled about running around the desert in her heels - something else that Daddy was going to have to replace when he came to get her, but she also hadn't eaten on the train, or since she'd left home the day before. She'd been hoping that the train would have some kind of food service, but her economy ticket had left her without. She wasn't completely dumb, at least she thought that, and knew that plants were edible... All she had to do was find a salad bush. It wasn't ready though. She couldn't see anything on the bush that she could eat. None of the plants that she could find near that plot of land had anything on them that she could eat, and it wasn't as though she could venture too far away - the plot of land was surely that big because they were going to arrive in a helicopter to pick her back up and take her home.
Something she did know about was diamonds. When she'd seen that glint from far away, she'd been sure of it. At least when her parents came back for her, she'd have something to show for her time out here. Some way to show them that she could take care of herself... If only she hadn't destroyed it in trying to get it out of the ground. The 'gem' fell to pieces in her hand, and all she was left with was another piece of paper. There was a diagram on it, but really? How useful was that going to be?
Something else caught her eye, at the corner of the empty lot she'd been sent too, and the way it sparkled... Was it water? Of course not. All she found was a fat frog that had probably drunk it all up. Sure, it wasn't charcoal-filtered ionized spring water in an eco-friendly biodegradable glass bottle, but she was desperate.
Without any food or water, she made her way back to the mailbox at the street. Kids around here certainly weren't very clean. Junk had been discarded here, and she had no choice but to come to the conclusion that her parents had sent her to a garbage dump. What kind of lesson was that supposed to teach her? They had enough money that this kind of problem? Wasn't hers. Her only problems right now were her growing hunger, and her filling bladder... But fine - She would clean up the mess that had been made - Just in case her parents were watching and they would bring her home sooner.
She was just going to have to wait right here. They would be there. They wouldn't leave her out here overnight...
They would be here soon...
They had to have made their point by now...
Right?
