Scene:

A disheveled girl still in her pajamas, bespectacled, hair amess sitting on her bed with a cup of coffee and the tv playing in the background.

Overall mood of this scene: relaxed.

I'm feeling pretty good right now. Woke up about 2 hours ago but haven't really left my bed yet. I love starting the day off with a good cup of coffee accompanied by some loungin' around. I'm actually not at all cranky about having work at 4 today, even though I spent 9 hours at Subway yesterday.

The Indian woman I work with, Hansa, really opened up to me yesterday. I mean, we're always chatting whenever I work, and I help her with her English homework, but yesterday she was telling me all about what's going on in her life right now. I was amazed at how much she does.
Right now, Hansa is in the process of going through a messy divorce with her douchebag of an ex-husband, named Amit. Lemme back up a little bit: Hansa told me that over in India, her father is actually a millionaire! When Hansa married Amit, Hansa's father gave Amit a business, lots of money and everything to take care of his little girl. Hansa became the proud mother of a little boy (who I can't pronounce the name of) and everything seemed pretty nice. For the most part. Hansa gave everything she ever earned to her husband, not keeping a cent of it. She refused to accept financial help from her father, wanting to do everything for herself. She did absolutely everything for her husband. She was very submissive. So when Amit decided that he wanted a divorce, and wanted soul custody of their son so he wouldn't have to pay child support, there was nothing Hansa could do about it. She had nothing. She ended up here in America, working at Subway, under the mangerial wing of Sunny, her sister's husband (and my boss). She now has to work every single day (no weekend downtime) in order to pay for child support, and her small apartment in Hatfield. The divorce agreement states she can only see her son two weekends a month (she asked me to read the paperwork for her), and during the time she has her son she is not allowed to work. So she works every day in order to save up for the days that she has to drive to New York to pick her son up to spend time with him. Hansa's husband tries to win their son over by spending copious amounts of money on him, she was telling me about how before her son went to live with her husband, he spent one weekend over there and Amit bought him a laptop, a puppy, an ipod, and spent an additional $300 on him, basically giving him whatever he wanted.
I really feel for this woman. She was calling herself stupid for being such a pushover with her husband, it was terrible. Her husband has a better lawyer and speaks english more fluently than she does, so he has the upper hand on their divorce agreement. She told him she wants nothing from him, not even the large sum of her earnings that she had been handing over to him the number of years they were married. I helped her close the store last night, and she drove me home. She works from 9am-9pm every day, and after she dropped me off at my house she was on her way to go babysit her sister's two little girls.
Your day will come soon, Hansa.