Chapter 1 of chapter 6 : Announcement
Announcement!!!
The morning bells wake us early in the morning than our usual time. All maids waking up and running to the meeting hall, I felt so dazzling and yet struggle to join the crowd.
It's might be something important that Lady Pearl wants to inform us about, she doesn't wake us by this time since it was the first time I hoped it something good to hear.
"Attention!! Please!" She ordered, putting all maids in order and stopping the babbling noise we make.
"Good," she said when all stop talking,
Some of us were wondering why the immediate changing of waking up time or has someone done something wrong? That's some of the questions going through our minds.
She takes in a deep breath and breathes out, addresses herself very well before carrying on her message.
"As you all know lords are living here," she said, hands warps together.
Of course, we know about that, there are always lords and masters everywhere, what is she even trying to speak out? If no one makes any mistakes so why are we here this early instead of being on the bed to enjoy the little hours of sleep we are given?
"The only might lord will soon be here" she announced, looking scared and frightened. If she can seem this terrific about someone who wasn't even here and who the present was absent and she seems this way by talking about him, that means trouble! Big trouble is coming!
The way she called him one and MIGHTY lord, that means he is dedicated to being the mighty one. What a lord? Who will this man be for others to refer him as the only mighty
Does that mean he's the SUPREME of this mansion?
"Please, we have to get things done immediately before his arrival to Wales. You would like to see his rages on you or would you?" She asked, that frightened eyes stares at us with pity, liked the sky has changed its color.
"Of course not my lady !" We reply in chorus,
"Good" she continues, " I would advise you stick to what you're told and what to do. Please be very careful around him that's if you're assigned under him"
Assigned under him? NEVER! If a woman can tremble at the introduction of him this way, working under him will be death, yes DEATH!
I widened my eyes on Lady pearl as she went on with information and advice to those of us who serve under lords cause no one knows who will be assigned to that beast
As for me, I feel more relaxant about myself since am a kitchen maid nothing will change that,
Never change that I'm sure.
After the announcement, all maids ran back to work since there's no time to go back to slumber. There's running up and down, couldn't tell what keeping everyone this busy, course, there must be a busy state that's if you value your life.
The kitchen chef I was assigned to work under was so brutal and harsh, she find everything I do annoying and incorrect.
"What the hell are you doing? You black slut!" She growled thundery at me.
"But madam, you say.."
"Shut the fuck up!" She didn't allow me to finish my speech. "You blacks always want to be in control of everything! Do you want to rule my cooking! Huh?" She keeps on screaming to get the head chef's attention.
Master Robert!
For his name sound gentle and delightful but the man seems to be a monster of himself.
I curl down my head, holding on to the pot of white rice I was about to wash.
"What's going on here?" The head chef asked, a man in his fifty's, eyes as that of the fierce, short, and chopping.
"Sir, she's not doing anything right, see" she pointed at me still on the floor, the thought of fear runs through my mind. What did she want me to do exactly? My head is buried on the ground like that of a dead bird.
"She's not washing the pot fast like she's too slow, I need another assistant, not this one rug here"
Did she describe me as a rug? I was totally confused, she told me I was so fast the first time of working that I should take things slowly and now too slow?
Was she trying to get me in trouble? Everyone knows Master Robert is a brutal man himself, who didn't tolerate any slight laziness or omission in his kitchen.
He looks down at me when she finished her dissatisfaction words on me.
"What are going to say about this?" His harsh voice asked, making me trembled in panic.
"S...Sir, please forgive my insolence. I promise to make things right and follow her orders" I pleaded innocently, feeling a bit coward of myself. I rather lied to play along with her roles than getting myself in more messy situations in going against her.
"So you're guilty!" He roars, the moment I could realize myself, I was already laying helpless on the floor. What exactly happened to me? I look up and saw Master Robert angrily unbuckled his belt from his waist bead.
I was hit by him? But why? I look at the chef I was assigned under, she seems happy to watch me died. All eyes glance at me with no words to utter since he's the head chef of the kitchen and kept quiet to watch or goes on with their duties like nothing happened
"You want to make your own rules in my kitchen!" He leans the first strike on me,
I moan in pain.
"This is my kitchen and I don't tolerate any insolent attitude here! How dare you!" He continues with the thrashing on my back.
I cried out in pain, making my voice heard in all the quarters, he never stop or thinks of stopping, liked the sound and yelling of my tears gives him more joy and satisfying his wicked acts on me.
I felt to his submission with no way out and no one to beg on my behalf
After he was done and contented with his beating, let me felt unstable and shaky on the ground, he called on the guards who protected the entrance of the kitchen.
They came in and saluted the beast-man in front of him like a lord which he's not.
"Takes this thing out of here, I want to cook" he ordered, the men lifted me weaken from the ground with both eyes swell off in tears. Eyes gazed at me pitiless and some amazed, I was dragged out but stop along the way.
"Make sure she deserves some punishment, I don't' want to ever see her again in my kitchen for now on she's a kitchen maid, put her along with the dirty maids!"
The men nodded at his response, after all the beating? He still didn't want me to heal my wounds in peace, I let my warm tears out silently as I was dragged out.
Narration Pov.
She was too weak to see where she was hauled by the guards, obeying every lead they follows.
After 15 minutes of shuffling, she was drop on dry weeds outside the mansion to weed on. She slowly picks up the cutlass laying on top of the hard-looking weeds assumed she knows what to do not even told to.
The man walks few steps backward to watched her do what she was instructed to.
Painfully, she stood up and bend down, feeling the harsh pains the whipping cause her,
She knows life was hard and unfair to her even guilty or not, aspects remain the same in her world. She bend to look back if the men are still watching their glance at her, of course, their eyes never fell off from her. She compose herself to do what she had to do not to provoke another wrath on her.
Down she goes
She grinds on the grass gently and no complaints from the men liked them understand she was in pain and never utter a word to corrects or command her.
She felt solace of the gaze around her at least no words, no command, from now on she's no longer a kitchen maid,
Her nightmare
One of her nightmares has been aroused
One of the other duties she hates after being a handmaid to a lord was being a ranch maid those who spend more of their days in weeding, that's the same works she mother does in Lord
She had to wake up early in the morning to Join the ranch maids who are extremely guarded under massive wicked masters.
This was never what she wished for or wants to end up in. She cried on silently as she began her weeding of the grass, then a song twinkle into her mind that's of wish her mother used to sang when things seem hard.
The means of the song was no matter what the hardship there is a better future,
She wipe off her tears and smiled, beginning singing the song.
Suddenly, she felt a strange gape on her.