The In-Between

Trouble

Episode 16

Pim returned home with Zoey and after showering and eating, they stayed together in the sitting room watching a movie.

Pim wasn't really interested in the movie as she just focused on the book.

Mrs Linda was out, May and others were yet to return.

But not long after, Pim heard the sounds of cars driving in and went to check it out and expectedly, it was them.

Pim turned away from the window and sighed.

She felt so scared seeing May. Pim don't think she's ready to face them.

She quickly left the sitting room and went into the kitchen and there she found Jacob busy as a bee.

"Hey" he called as he shot Pim a stare and quickly took his eyes back to what he was doing.

"Hi. Good evening" Pim replied and took a look around.

About three different burners were in and pots and frying pans were on them with contents inside.

"The nobles are back, aren't they?" He asked as he poured some carrots into the frying pan.

"Pim who is totally lost in track of time. She don't know what to do. Who's meal will I make first? Miss Janelle's hash browns? Miss Dezy's poached eggs? Miss May's coffee? Miss Bright's...gosh! I'm foxed" he said with a flurried look and Pim smiled and drew closer.

A mug and tin of cocoa was on the table and he went to them.

"Let me help you out with the coffee" Pim told him as she took the spoon from him.

"Oh, dear. Thanks a lot" he said happily and returned to the pots and frying pans.

Pim opened the cocoa and poured some quantity into the mug and adding other ingredients, she started making the coffee her own way.

"Don't you have an assistance?" Pim asked as they both acted busy.

"I actually had two. But they lost their jobs three days before i got here" he replied andPim flinched.

"Really? What happened?" Pim asked curiously.

'Well, one of them had mistakenly spilled a drink on Miss May's expensive white dress just when he was about leaving for a show. So, she fired him.

"And the other had made Miss Dezy's meal a little too salty and as a result, Miss Dezy had to throw up. So he got fired as well".

"Wow!" Pim said, surprised.

"So you're just the only one left right? Aren't you scared you might be next?"

"What? Hell no. I've been with them for a long time now and I'm already aware of their likes and dislikes. So I'm sure they won't be an error" he replied.

"Wow! You sound so sure.

Uhm...how long have you been working here? Were you during the time of Crystal?" Pim asked and he clicked his tongue.

"Nah. I only got hired about three years ago. I didn't get to meet her" he replied and Pim nodded.

Too bad.

Soon, Pim was done with the coffee and she left it and helped him out in dicing some onions.

"Could you help me deliver the coffee to Miss M-M please?" He asked and Pim enlarged her eyes in shock.

"What? Are you kidding me? Do you want me dead?" she asked and he laughed.

"What makes you think so? Miss M-M isn't all that grumpy" he said and Pim rolled her eyes.

"Well, I guess that's because you're probably a guy: she said.

"So what do you think of the nobles?" He asked after a little pause.

"Well, they're okay- especially Miss Bright. She seems very friendly. And Miss Janelle - we haven't really spoken much though.

But that Miss Dezy, it seems she doesn't like me" Pim said and he chuckled.

"Trust me, Pim. That was what I also thought the first time I arrived. She's just a bad tempered person and yes, she's arrogant. But in time, when she gets to know you, he'll change and become friendly. She just doesn't like to associate with strangers at first sight" he said and Pim shrugged.

"I hope so".

"I'd better deliver this coffee to M-M before it gets cold. Just help me keep the gas on a low heat and keep stiring" he told Pim as he took the cup of coffee in a tray and left.

Pim continued stiring the contents in the pots and after a short while, Jacob returned.

Then he turned all the contents from the different pots into separate plates and arranged them in trays.

"Could you help me with one of the trays, Pim? Please?" He said in an appealing tone and she scoffed.

"I...I...can't..."

"Come on Pim. I really need your help. It'll be faster please?" He said and Pim scoffed and shook her head.

How can he ask me to do such a thing? I've been running away from does ladies and now, he's trying to get me back to them.

Hell no.

"Fine. Since you said Bright's friendly, you can take her tray. At least, you can be sure she won't bite" Jacob said and took two of the trays and left the kitchen, leaving Pim stuck there.

She sighed and looked at the tray. "Do I really have to go there?

But I didn't want to face them."

Pim dalyed a little and finally took the tray, going out of the kitchen.

She walked slowly and nervously and when she got to the sitting room, Pim met them all there - the four of them.

M-M was operating her phone with the coffee beside her.

Dezy was smoking. Bright and Janelle weren't doing anything in respective. They were probably interested in the movie playing on the TV screen.

Jacob was there as well, arranging their meals.

Pim swallowed nervously and walked in, standing in front of the ladies.

"G...Good evening, misses" she greeted with a bow. .

"Good evening, Pim."; Janelle was the first to reply.

"Good evening dear. I guess that's for me?" Bright replied and asked and Pim nodded and placed the tray in front of her.

"Good evening" Dezy said simply and Pim eyes beamed.

"Wow! She did reply to me."

Pim looked at May's and her eyes were still fixed on her phone. She didn't even bother to look at Pim, not to mention replying to Pim greeting.

Pim kept the tray properly on a stool in front of Bright and just then, Zoey came in.

"Nanny, could you help me out with my assignment, please?" She asked and Pim nodded and they went to the dining to Sit.

The dining was behind the sitting room, sitting on it, she could have a side view of the ladies.

"I'll be needing some more cream cheese, Jacob" Janelle said and Jacob left the sitting room.

Pim opened Zoey's books and started directing her on the assignment.

"Have you seen Reak's new dance video?" Dezy asked and Pim looked at them.

"Yeah. That lady's such a stripper. I can't believe she was almost dancing nak*d. And her video's actually pulling the highest likes online" Janelle replied with a scoff and Bright laughed.

"Be careful how you talk about her, Janelle. You know she's Dezy's ex" Bright said and Dezy pouted her lips.

"You're insane, Bright. She was never my girlfriend in the first place" she said.

"Come on, Dezy. She often spends most weekends with you and you've slept with her uncountable times".

"Well, having sex with her doesn't make her my girlfriend. I never asked her out. She just cheaply and stupidly kept giving her body to me".?

"But, you shouldn't had broken her heart by kissing her best friend in front of her".

"Well, I just wanted her to know she wasn't my girlfriend. I've got no time for love and commitment. So, any girl who gives her heart to me is only playing a dangerous game. I'd just fu*k and go"

"Woah, Dezy. That's harsh. But, trust me, when you find true love, it's definitely going to change you".

"True love. Does that even exist?"

"She talk as if she has one" Janelle said.

"Don't worry, Janelle. I plan on taking a girlfriend this week and when I do, I'm gonna make sure we have an agreement that she wouldn't be the only bitch I'll be having s*x with" Dezy replied and they roared with laughter.

"You're crazy, Bright. Then what's there to signify she's your girlfriend?" Dezy said and she shrugged.

Pim smiled and looked at May and her eyes were still buried in his phone.

She hadn't said a word and didn't even react to a thing others were saying.

She was so cold and Pim wondered if she's ever smiled or laughed in her life before.

"by the way, guys." Dezy said.

"Ken called me earlier on and told me they'd be coming over for dinner tomorrow".

"You mean the popstar?" Janelle asked.

"Yeah."

"Whaaaat?

The girls will be coming here for dinner tomorrow? So, I'm...I'm gonna see Ken again?

Oh, my role model!

But she had been rude to me today at the studio. How am I going to face her?" Pim mumble.

"Ken is such a pretty lady. And I'm surprised she still have been in a relationship" Bright said.

"Take your eyes off her, Bright. She's May's crush" Dezy said and Pim eyes dimmed.

May's crush?

"Hmmm. I'm still waiting for that special day when May's gonna have a girlfriend again." Janelle said.

"May has always been a master in the game. She's just on a break for now" Bright said and they laughed.

May didn't even blink.

Hmmm.

"May was really a flirt? But now she doesn't even want to touch a lady. I wonder what happened." Pim imagined.

Not long after, Tidy - her dog - came walking down the stairs.

He wasn't running; he just walked and looked kind of weak.

He got to where May was and she carried him up in her arms.

"Is Tidy sick?" Dezy asked.

"Yes.. maybe I'll get a veteranian to check him out tomorrow" May replied and tried giving him some of her coffee, but he wouldn't take it.

Then she drank from it.

Just then, Jacob came in with more foods in trays and served to them.

"By the way, Jacob" May suddenly said.

"I love the new taste of my coffee. But, it tastes different from yours. Was it really prepared by you?"

Pim eyes dilated immediately.

"Actually, miss" Jacob called happily with a smile and glanced at Pim and she felt her breath seizing.

Pim mouth opened in shock. "Oh, God! Is he going to tell him I made the coffe? No, no, no.

This is not happening."

May has warned Pim never to touch what's hers and if she finds out Pim made the coffee she just drank, she's definitely going to kill Pim.

"Oh, no!" Pim cries silent.

"Actually, M-M" he continued.

"The coffee was made by..."

Pim murmured.

"Oh, God!

I'm dead!"