** * * * *Omniscient Narrator* * * * *
At the castle, Lisa and Gina walked to an enclosed corner of the backyard to gossip.
They were among the maids that served there.
“Lisa, what do you think of the new girl?” Gina queried.
She was the talkative type of Lady, short in height with eyeballs too large for their sockets.
She was among those who were never content with what they were paid.
If they were birds, then she and Lisa certainly has the same feathers
“You mean the pretty one?” Lisa queried
“She’s not pretty,” Gina blurted.
She was extremely jealous
“What about her? I heard the boss is paying her fifty dollars per day” Lisa said in a whisper, peeping around the corners to be sure that no one was watching or hearing them.
“Can you believe that, why we are paid twenty five dollars, not only that, she works part-time while we suffer all day” Gina grumbled.
“I also overheard the big boss instructing Mr Noah to give her dirty and tiring work” Lisa informed her.
Lisa is their informant, she is good at eavesdropping
A smile crept up to Gina’s face when she heard that something evil was going on in her head.
“In that case, we should use it to our advantage,” she smirked.
Lisa was also the less smarter one, her low IQ could not understand what was on Gina’s mind.
“Um, how do you mean? How are we supposed to use that to our advantage?” She queried
Gina shook her head disappointed, she wondered why some of her smarts hadn’t rubbed off on her friend for all the time they had been together.
“Listen Lisa, the big boss instructed that she should be given tedious work, right?”
“Yes!” Lisa nodded
“Then we should gain from it by assigning her our own work, that way we can do nothing all day and still get paid” Gina explained and smiled sheepishly.
She was happy with the idea she had come up with
“But do you think she would agree to do it?” her friend Lisa asked in doubt
“Of course, considering her pay she would and if eventually she doesn’t, then we can report her to the big boss and have her fired”
Now Lisa was starting to like the plan. Although she had nothing against Crystal, she just wanted someone to do her dirty job for her.
While Gina felt jealous of Crystal’s beauty, she had always wanted to get the boss’s attention. Knowing that Crystal was more beautiful, she feared that the boss would feel an attraction for the new lady instead of her.
“You know you are smart” Lisa complimented.
“That’s right, I have told you several times… try to learn from me, I’m the smartest person you could ever meet” she bragged.
The two of them decided to go and Billy Crystal as planned
** * * *
Crystal had just finished her work for the day, it was till 4 p. m. so she needed to wait for one more hour before the daily wage was paid.
She went to the servant’s quarters and sat in the corridor. She felt very tired after cleaning the whole Castle, but it felt easier today than the past 3 days.
Those first three days, she had to take painkillers at night before going to bed.
Sitting on the armchair with her eyes closed, she had almost drifted off to sleep when she felt something drop on her body.
Opening her eyes, she met two angry looking ladies standing in front of her and on her body was a pile of dirty clothes.
Crystal’s body shivered the moment that scent hit her nose, it was coming from the clothes and she knew exactly who that scent belonged to
Logan Stewart!!
However she didn’t understand why the other maids had thrown it on her body or why they were staring at her like that.
“Um… Hello” she spoke in her usual soft voice.
“Ugh! Hello to you too” Gina replied in sarcasm. She didn’t try to hide her displeasure with Crystal
“What do you think you are doing? sleeping?” she scolded
“No, I was just…”
Crystal was still in the process of defending herself when the angry bear interrupted her.
” I don’t care what you were doing! Who is supposed to do all the work in the Castle? Now get up your lazy ass and go wash those clothes!” she instructed harshly while her friend Lisa stood there saying nothing. She was a bit scared
“I am sorry, what?” crystal queried
She was surprised for many reasons.
First the ladies scolding her was a fellow maid, so what right did she have to scold her
Secondly, the lady was just two or three years older than her, it was clearly visible and lastly what she was asking her to do was not part of her job description.
“You had me right, or should I repeat my words?” Gina spoke rudely and Lisa nodded in support
“Excuse me? why should I wash this?” Crystal asked.
If not for the clothes on her laps, she would have stood up, but she feared that they would fall on the floor and she was not ready to hold them either
“This is not part of my job description, so why should I do it?”
“Listen young lady, if you don’t obey our instructions, then we would report you to the big boss and have you fired” Gina threatened
“Yes that’s right” Lisa said in support.
Crystal understood exactly what was going on here, these two were trying to take advantage of her
She would have fought back but she feared that Logan would get involved. She had been avoiding him since she started working here, she didn’t want him to see her or he might recognise her.
Not only that, she didn’t want to risk getting fired because she still had the intention of working for one more week then she could resign, by then she would have raised enough money.
After considering those reasons, she decided to play along with this two
“Alright I’ll do it” she said with a fake smile.
Lisa smiled excitedly as Crystal carried the pile of clothes and headed towards the laundry room, but Gina wasn’t still satisfied, she wanted to make Crystal suffer, at worst, get her fired.
“Wow, Gina you are superb” Lisa exclaimed and Gina grinned from ear-to-ear
Tbc!!