2: a Room for Two

We walked until we find out the bar he was talking about. It was full of the smell of beers and a lot of smoke was coming throughout the place. It has a lot of candles and lamps too. I even smell a scent of meat and fish!

A lot of guys are drinking and they are watching a lady sing on the stage. She look like one of those concubine you could see in the period movies.

And then suddenly, someone grabbed my arm.

"What's a young lady doing here alone?" He asked me as if I was really alone. Somebody please help me!

"She's not alone. She's with me" Art hold his arm.

"Oh! LOOKIE HERE! A mouse and a rat caught in a trap!" A lot of people look at us when he said that. It was really unnerving.

"Hey, you should stop that. They are new here" a guy who has a big tatoo around his arms told the guy who suddenly grabbed me.

"Okay, okay. As long as boss says so. You're fine to go" He removes his hands  from my arm and then we go where their boss is to say our thanks.

"Thank you for that" Art said after catching his breath.

"Well, I guess you two are finding a work here? You two are in luck! We are currently hiring" the boss quickly said. We weren't actually finding a work but information on how to go back in our own time.

"Wait a minute. We were just-"

"We'll take it! What do we have to work on?" I interrupt him before he say anything. It's an opportunity for us to have money and at the same time to find any information about this world and time! How lucky it is to ran into a good opportunity like this! We sit in the chair to further discuss the matters of the work.

"Oh how rude of me. I'm the boss here. My name is Phillip" The boss said and gave his hands for us to shake. We shake it too since we are very grateful for his intrusion a while ago. If it wasn't for him, then rhis place would be filled by blood by now. I think Arthur has a knack of making people beg for his life when he teaches them a lesson.

"We should first introduce ourselves. I'm Arthur and She's Maivy." Art pointed out whose who and I smiled to them and curtsied. The boss looked pleased.

"One of you has to cook and the other has to be a waiter" He said that and then he drink his beer. He looks rigid but I think there is more than meets the eye for this person. He may even have a heart of gold.

"Then I'll cook and he has to be the waiter" I told them both. I look at Arthur to find what his reaction is but I'm suprised he isn't mad at me for doing that.

"Okay, I'm fine with that" Art suddenly blurted out.

He agreed with me that quickly or does he just wanted a job?

"When do we start?" I asked.

"By afternoon tomorrow you can start. As for now, the staff will train you" He gave us a headstart for tomorrow. Now, All I have to think is the plan for us to manage how we can find a way to get back in our own time.

"Thank you so much!" We both said.

"No Problem" The boss said.

We went inside and the head maid lead us to the quarters of the maids and waiters.

"So now we start. Art, you will be with Martin and You Miss-"

"Maivy"

"Ah miss Mae" Mae? Its MAIVY!M-A-I-V-Y!

"MaIVY" I corrected.

"Oh I'm sorry. You, miss MAIVY will come with me in the kitchen. You start with the dishes" The head matron just said. Wait a minute? Dishes? I thought I'm gonna cook since I volunteer for it!

"But I thought-"

"You will cook? We will start with your cleaning skills in the kitchen before we train you into cooking the menu here at the bar" after announcing our works, we go to our own places for us to start.

Wow. So they just wanted a slave now huh? If that's what they want, I'll show them how great I am in cleaning this mess!

...

After the training we got from the staff, we got back to our home in the abandoned house. We got some candles from the bar and we lit them up.

"So what have you uncover?" Art asks after removing his suit and shirt. Really Art? Don't you think that I'm still a woman here? Why are you parading your body like I am not here? Do you really trust me that much or do you just not find me as a lady?

"Uhmm- I guess I did heard a bit from the ladies at the dishwashing place"

"Yeah since people from these ages especially maids are more of a chatterbox. Maybe even if they are just gossips, it will lead us to somewhere we need to be" Oh they aren't just chatter box. They even add a lot to keep the story going and that makes it more interesting. A gossip build by commoners.

So I started uncovering what I heard from them.

"I heard that there is a magician at the tower near the Palace Capitol where we are the first time we time traveled. Maybe that magician can help us"

I told him.

"Oh that's a good Idea! But we have to make sure the guards won't notice us so we have to keep on a disguise or else we could be noticed" He replied to me. A disguise so that we couldn't be noticed? Maybe he got one in mind.

"So you got one in mind?" I asked.

"Nothing in the moment. But maybe if I thought about it hard, we needed to be maids or workers in the palace" He proclaimed.

"That'll do"