Chapter 2: What is So Good About Being a Lexington?
Despite Theia being a Lexington, she got all of the responsibility without a single drop of the privilege. The only thing they did was help pay for her housing because she shared a house with a Redington and they couldn't afford to lose face in front of them. She earned herself a scholarship, and she paid the additional tuition fees as well as purchased her clothes and books with the money earned from the school's library assistant job, which she had applied for when she applied for the scholarship.
In fact, one of the first things she was told was that the entire company would be left to Alex as she hadn't originally been expected, and he was groomed as the heir his entire life. It didn't bother her because she loved her brother and she didn't particularly want anything from Theodore Lexington. However, he wanted to try to sell her off even though she "wasn't expected" and had never received anything from him. All of the responsibilities and not a single one of the perks.
Apart from the money her brother regularly transferred to her account out of his personal funds, she actually didn't have much. She also saved all the money her brother had sent her, constantly telling her to accept it in case of an emergency. It seems now that Alex was right, as he always tends to be. She giggled happily at the thought. He was the only family member she couldn't leave behind.
Whenever her sperm donor decided to take her out with the family, they provided the clothes. She never had a choice in what she wore and her beloved step-mons----mother never allowed her to keep them either. Not that she'd want it in the first place. She hated gaudy clothes to begin with, and the step-mother's taste was unnecessarily ostentatious at best, vulgar at worst. Then again, perhaps it was purposefully done to create a particular image of her.
The only blessing was that, the majority of the time, her brother saved her from it by buying things that he thought would suit her when they were forced to go to events. However, Theia rarely took him up on it because she knew how much his mother would make him suffer for it afterwards. She couldn't bear to let him suffer just for clothes. She loved him. He was the only one who made her feel like family ever since the day she found out who her father was.
Growing up, whenever she asked her mother, Thalia, about who her father was, she'd just say that he was a wonderful man she had met. However, they weren't able to be together. As young as she was at that time, she couldn't understand why they couldn't be together, but she could see the sad look on her mother's face as she talked about it. Every time Theia saw the sad look on her mother's face, she had vowed not to be with someone she couldn't end up with, especially having a child with them.
In fact, apart from her father not being around, Theia's childhood was great. They were not rich, but Theia was born into a home that was still a bit above the middle class. As in, they could afford a few luxuries that others couldn't, such as a private prep school and a decent sized home. Her mother had worked in PR for a rather sizeable company, so when she realized she was pregnant, she immediately went to her head of department and negotiated with them for a sizeable severance package in exchange for all of her vacation time and maternity leave.
She packed up her things, sold her Manhattan apartment, and moved to Greenwich, Connecticut, in the suburbs. She used the money to purchase a home and then set up a PR advice company, which could be done from home. She often told Theia that when she was born, it was the happiest moment of her life, and indeed, Theia always felt happiness in their home. They didn't have any family around since her mother had left her country of Greece to come to America to avoid an arranged marriage. It was just the two of them, but they never once felt lonely.
The prep school was a perfect choice for Theia as she excelled consistently. Life was wonderful until her senior year in high school. When she got home from school, she saw her mother lying on the ground, unconscious. Panicked, she called the ambulance to take them to the hospital. After the diagnosis, the news got even worse. Thalia was diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme (also known as GBM). This is the deadliest of all (primary) brain cancers and is widely regarded as incurable and universally fatal, killing 95% of patients within five years of diagnosis.
At that time, Theia could barely pay attention to the treatment plan being mentioned and how it would impact them. What she did notice, however, was that treatment would be expensive. While they had insurance, it would only cover up to a certain amount, and Thalia was already at a late stage. What followed was a series of scrambling back and forth for treatments.
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