Chapter 3 of chapter 8 Come here!

Come here!

That was strange, he seem tired and cold, I shut the door as he had requested. He's my master and his words were my command. 

I walks my way down the stairs, with the heavy bucket on my hand, struggling it way down. 

Finally I gets to the next floor, it wasn't that easy but I was happy to get to the bottom. 

"Hey maid!" A voice call which terrifies me to the bone. I turned, " Come here!" It was Lady Emily. of all people,she was the one? I couldn't ignored and walks my way straight to her. 

"Oh, it's you. The black maid which rumors is spreading across the mansion like wild fire" 

I bend down my head. 

"At my lady grace" 

"Hmm" she sighed please. "You do know how to act innocent you dirty slut!" She drags  on my hair tightly to my score. 

Making me gulped at her evil eyes.

"You should keep you dirty self away from my brother! If you love your miserable life. You thing!" She let's go, causing me to fall hard on the ground with my soapy buckets which spread messy on the floor.

She didn't stop there. Using her high heel to hit hard on my stomach despite my screaming and crying. 

"You think a commoner like you have a place here! You nothing but a slut! You'll be forever a maid? A slave! A slut!" 

She continues to hitting on me, ignoring my every crying and pleading. It's seem to gives her more joy seeing me begging for her mercy.  

"Here will never be nothing good about you!" 

She drags on my hair painfully again. " You wants to see madness right?" I was breathing hardly, feeling my heart was about to stop working. 

She drags tightly on my hair hitting it on the stone floor over and over again with no stop. I saw my blood pour out of my head but this woman didn't see to care. All she wants was to punish me the punishment I would never forget.

 I don't know was to do and what to say. As my voice seem lost to the thousands of breathing. I felt my eyes going off. 

The last voice I heard before darkness finally covered my eyes....

"Lady Emily! What are you doing!?"

Some minutes later, I wake up, feeling a hard headache on my head. I rise my hands up and felt a smooth cheat wrap on my head. 

What is it? And where I'm,? The chamber seem different and fancy. There was a fire set in the room, everything seem golden print and there so much different in the room, that can tell I'm not in Sir Marcus or the servant quarter. 

"You're wake. Do you sleep well?" 

I looked at the other side of the room, there was Lady Pearl sitting on a sofa. She seem normal not that cold like the time the Duke chose me as his handmaid.

"I'm sorry.....my lady" I tried to get out the bed but she stops me. 

"You need more rest, your head still hurts" she said. 

I stayed on the bed, staring confused at her. Is this really her? She seem worried and caring. 

"You should be careful. If you want to survived here" she said staring at the direction of the fire side.  "You just starting your life, there are more for you to learn and understand. It's don't matter if you're black or white. You have to understand the way the society works don't let anyone pulled you down all because of different skin color. He wants you but he never wants to show his affection to that. He scared he might lost all he had works for all these years. Loves that never be bought, can you understand that dear?" She gulped at the confused me.  I was lost and confused. I didn't understand what she meant by all that. 

Who's he? That finding it difficult to see his affection to someone I still don't know? 

"My lady... I have duties to attend to in the kitchen and Lady Gogo, would be happy not seeing me attending to them"  I said to her, down head. 

"You don't have to worries about that, I have informed her about your injury and you need some rest for the wound to heal" 

At least, that was a relief, I can't afford to take another punishment after the one I have received from Lady Emily. 

She stays muted, her eyes gazed on the fire path again. Like she was thinking of something, worries and lost in thoughts.

"What about Lady Emily?" I asked to break the slience. 

"Well, she was one of the high court member. So, she seems herself untouchables, and free to do whatever she wants. She only attack you when she heard the rumors you're sleeping with her brother. " She chuckled, 

I felt so embarrassed, "I didn't have anything with Marcus, he just acting the same he was years ago"

"Years ago? That's a long time. You have history together as couple?" She laughed, she do seem different today.

"No Lady Pearl, he was a childhood friend, the only one I have when I lost my little best friend then." 

"What happened to your little best friend?* 

That nightmares, the way we're all laughed before going to play on the field. It's was a sad moment in my life. I miss that little stubborn girl. 

I chuckled, not to let myself down. 

"If you don't want to talked about it, is okay" 

I sighed, it truth but I have to let it go..

"She was shot to dead with other kids that day. What causes the dead was that they throw stones at the white kids, " I keep slient couldn't continue.

"I see"she said and stands up from her sofa. She sat closer to me on the bed edge. 

"Whatever you might have gone through in the past, should never bought you down. If I said don't makes your skin color distinguish you of who you truly are. My dear, the are more coming but are you ready to climb on the forbidden tree without falling off?  You have to know someone, no matter how hard is life, we can survive it, when we believe that nothing stops we how difficult the climbing might be. You have to hold on to the branch, strong branches not weak ones stands still as the black you're" 

"Stand as the black I'm?"

She nods. " I was once taught by a black woman that no matter how the wind blowing, you shouldn't be unroot that easily. A time will come that you would stand facing the society but can you stands strong on the ground?" 

"Society?" I can't still get it. I'm a servant, a maid, a slave and yet she wants me to stand against the society but how.

"You'll understand when the time comes" she stands up and went back to her sofa. Rest her head backwards, eyes shut. 

"You have to rest before your meal arrived, you need strength to continue your day" 

I smiled, She indeed her old self and the Lady Pearl I once knew and admired. 

"Stop smiling and rest" she barks,

How didn't she knows, but her eyes were shut and it was hard to see one, since the room was a little bit dark.

"Rest your head," she  instructed.

I guess, maybe Emma was right there are hope for everyone of us, even begin a black or white. We have a choice, a choice to live a better life....

I did what she asked, Giggled in my sleep and later I slept off..

He was scared, kneeling down on the ground close to the tree, cubbing himself together. He was crying, he calling his mother name. Was he lost? I have thought. I left the wood branch I was picking up and walks sliently to him. 

"Are you scared?" I asked. 

He lift up his head slightly and look at me,

I smiled...

"Who're you?" He asked, looking fiercely at me. Those eyes speaks of danger. 

I swallow up, I steps more closer to him.

"I'm Isabella but you can call me Bella" 

"Bella?" He question still looking disguising at me, like I'm some of a rotten fruit. 

"Are you lost? Where are your parents? did them know you're here?" 

"No, I have no parents" 

"No parents, but I have a mother, she would like to have you too into our family and then when can live happier ever after" 

He glanced confusedly at me, the little boy didn't seen interested in my family I told him. So, I choose to sit closer to him maybe then he might not be scared. 

"I'm here, you can't be scared anymore" 

He looked surprisedly at me. " You seen like a coal, your skin" 

"Oh, you'd love it?"

"No, I hates it, I hates people like you," 

"Okay" but that didn't still makes me moves.

"Why are you scared?" I asked, after some minutes of slience. 

"Because of something scaring" 

"What's that" 

"This" he rise up his shirt, and I saw it , the mark of dead...

" Ahhh!!"

I wakes up but it was only a dream