9. A little thing called time skip

Sooo....this boring life of mine is not that great for me to share with you all. So let me skip it with a few bits and pieces...

I ate, I slept, I watched as everyone tried to keep me entertained,  I did cry when I was hungry or needed a  change of diaper. Other than that I didn't cry much. And as for the remaining activities...let's keep my embarrassing movements away from the recordings. let me forget the nightmares i lived in and the nightmares i dreamed in.

So...

I spoke my first words at the age of one and half and my parents were so proud of me. My first word was Dada since I didn't want to say pa or ma... mommy was sad but I soon learnt to say mommy. She was over the moon. Saying brother was tough with my thick tongue so I just called ronny, and Johnny for our butler... hehe how clever of me... so they didn't feel left out. Our head maid Sarah...

So Sarah the maid was a kind old lady. She helped mom take care of me. Soon she will be replaced. I guessed it because According to the novel the head maid was Billy or something. She was an arrogant lady in  her 30s. She was arranged by that aunt of mine the mother of my bit*h of a cousin. I can't allow that to happen...

There is still time. I will find a capable head maid by then.

I can walk and talk well at the age of 3 so I got my own room. Daddy asked me If I would like a pink princess style room that the designer suggested. I said no... I  hate pink. And Ron already has a blue room so I can't copy that. So Daddy showed me colors and I choosed from them. I can't really say colors to him then he might think I am a genius but am no such thing, am just an adult lady.Better to not get their hopes up and be the mediocre me.. so Daddy showed me all the colors using his phone. I selected an orchid shade . I could have gone with Grey or silver but they are monotone for babies. My parents might worry that I am boring... so my room was ready by two months after my 3rd birthday...

I didn't allow them to put too many decorations as I would like to choose them on my own as I grew up and would most likely change the color theme in the future.

There was a huge bay window in my room but dad kept it locked for now as I was too small and could fall out. And it's on the second level(aka first floor If we call the first level as the ground floor). Hhmmm...guess I should wait a few years to open that on my own.But the view was totally awesome. My room faces the garden and pool area. Our mansion was in the high-end area of the city so the space here is costly as well as very private. And right now the mansion beside ours is unused too...

Ronny's room is beside mine.He has a balcony but i like my room more.I asked dad if we could convert the basement into a playroom. Yeah! This huge mansion has a huge secret basement which is not a secret to me. My dad was shocked when I asked that. The room was unused. It was about three times my bedroom. I found it in one of my expeditions through the house while playing hide and seek with ronny. So the room is actually pretty empty other than some old unused bookshelves and sofas. So according to dad that room was his grandfather's. After his death my grandfather just left the room as it is in his memory. And dad with his busy life kinda forgot about that room. The entry to that room is through a trap door from the lonely and now used as a storeroom, a little away from the kitchen. Yes! this house was passed down to the heirs of the Black family. My grandparents live in the town where they were born in the ancestral house. the weather there is pretty good with lots of farming ground and pretty views.

So dad emptied the storeroom for us to enter freely and the remaining of the basement room was cleaned before it was handed over to me. Hehe... I got the keys for the room when I was 4. So now I can keep my secrets in this room. I asked dad for some installations in the room. Which were a

-television to play games with my brother.

-the repairs of great grandfather's sofas.

- some beanbag chairs. Cause it's fun ;)

Dad asked me to let the bookshelves be as it is. That was my plan anyway. So I can read some books without anyone knowing. In this room two entire walls were full of books. You can imagine my great grandfather's collection from that.Luckily though left alone the books were not too damaged as the room was in good condition except for the dust.I planned to ask dad to arrange one more wall with shelves so one day I can place my own collection there. Sometime in the future. If I were to ask it now he might bring me kid books. Nahh I already have quite a few bed time story books. I would rather not have too many of those. I already know those stories by heart. I used to go read books to kids at the local library for fun in my previous life.

Now that I am 4 I got to know what happened to Sarah. The poor old lady died of a heart attack. I was so sad, i liked her so much. Then Brina the one I thought of as Billy was almost placed as headmaid. But being the smartass as I am, I told my mom that I feel weird whenever I see that lady and I cried. Yup...! The best way to get things done is by crying here. They went crazy that day wondering why a child who is so kind and very obedient to suddenly cry, It means this was a serious problem. So even with my aunts recommendation she was not allowed to even enter the mansion. Then I suggested mom to make Monica our maid since I was a kid to make headmaid. I had been observing people in this mansion since the day I was born. This girl, age 25 now, was very close to Sarah. She is  an orphan picked by Sarah when she was a kid. So Sarah who was widowed soon after being married raised her like her own child and eventually brought her to work here when she was out of college. Though she studied she was not so good at it and followed Sarah to the black's family eventually. Monica was very good at house work and she never envied the family. She was happy to have a roof on her head and food in her stomach. The pay was good and she got a boyfriend here (the driver mendy)... so she was perfect according to me. She even gives me extra snacks. So she was the best choice according to my observations.

In the book she was not mentioned much only about a maid who ran away with her driver boyfriend as she could not take the torture of brina...

So I dropped hints to mom and dad how wonderful of a help Monica would be as headmaid. Though she can't be as harsh as Sarah to maintain the order of the place, she can learn as long as she faces the pressure herself. And all the maids already know her and she knows the work from Sarah. So mom and dad placed her as headmaid. Phewww... one problem solved. I got a Brina free zone...

When I was born ronny was 5 now he is 9. Now he is in 3rd grade. I remember according to the book Ron was taken by our grandparents on mom's side at the age of 10 to attend a private academy near Breeze city. Though mom was reluctant to send him away the academy was best for its educational system and mom and dad were quite busy to take care of us. They thought of sending Alicia too but her cousin poured ideas into Alicia's brain that her parents are abandoning her which led to Alicia throwing a tantrum and saying she didn't want to leave the house. That was the start of original Alicia's downfall.

So after 6 months from now I should go with ronny to stay with my Maternal grandparents no matter what...