Fifteen Years Later...

Maria's POV

I curled up on my very uncomfortable bed that got foam on it.

  I resist the urge to puke as I perceive the stench of urine that's pouring down uncontrollably from my mum.

  She's diagnosed with a type of disease that got to do with the burst of her bladder and some particles from dirty water that got stuck to her kidney or something.

   My leg steadied itself on the ground as I walked up to the little bathroom in the cottage.

  Glad to see another new day with new things and probably actions.

   I shake my mum once and she woke up.

"Mama, where am I to work today?" I ask as I flung my clothes off, exposing my body and I enter the bathroom to have a quick bath in the awkward house.

    I shiver a little as the cold water ran through my body and I peeled off the hair in my armpits in pain.

  Hope blood don't splash out.

  After I had a bath, I came out and saw my mum sitting upright on the bed we shared. I wore a pair of trousers and my green T-shirt.

  "Mum?" I call her and she turns to look at me.

She looks so much older than her current age.

She's just forty nine and she's looking like a ninety nine years old woman.

   "Is something wrong?" I ask.

She smiles at me and shake her head slowly cause of the fragility of her neck.

  "Where am I to work at?" I ask as I pack my hair in a bun, staring into the mirror that's broken.

  "A cottage near the School Of Red"

  I sigh as I fetch a basket that's empty and also an empty bucket with a bottle of clean water.

"Will you be able to stay alone?" I ask and she nodded slowly.

"Be careful, Mama" I say as I lock the door and exit the compound.

  A bright day of June. Nobody's gonna hold my future from what it has for me.

  I sing a melody as I walk down the streets and pass so many children that greeted while some didn't.

    "Good morning, Mr chef" I greeted and the man that bakes bread for the whole small village smiled at me.

"Ahh... Maria, you'r look'r like a princess'r now'r"

I smile at his charming comment. Don't mind his English, he got the tongue of the Irish.

"Thank you'r sir" I say in his accent that got the "R" figure standing at the end of each word.

I swing the basket and smile widely as I pass so many elderly people and young men and women.

"Hello, Maria" I pause at the shop post of one of the handsome men in town. Silas.

  He let me into his cabin, closing the windows of the cabin so that no one will see us.

  "Silaska! A wonderful surprise" I say as he held my waist and pulled me forward towards him.

  I giggled at his touch but found a way to get out of his grip.

  He's a flirt and if I don't do as he says, he may report me to my mum and she may worry herself to death. So I just succumb to all the radical and rough things he used to do but I don't... And will never, sleep with him.

   Sometimes, he just lets me into his cabin cause of a kiss or something. Or he probably want to see a piece of me.

  I get angry at him a lot and people know both of us as lovers. But I am not actually loving him or making love to him.

All I do is kiss or rather punch him with sweet words so that he leaves my life alone.

  Which I know will happen, even when he doesn't want it to.

   Slowly and casually I step out of the cabin after a little greeting and touching of my arms and sliding it down my collar bone.

  He is handsome though. Got blonde hair with bright grey eyes and he have a girlfriend elsewhere. He just uses me whenever she is not in sight.

That's cheating though, but I also get money from that.

  "How's Mama?" He asks.
"She's good, and y-"

He grabbed me by the arm and held my tightly.

My body slightly touching his.

What's his problem, anyway? Don't he have a girlfriend that always wanted to take advantage of him instead of me?!

I quickly broke the contact and ran down to the streets, hurrying to the school at the cafe place.

  I enter the school compound to meet the eyes of bad guys that are the securities of the school.

Slowly, I mouthed "SORRY" and hurried out of the school.

   I enter quickly into the compound of the house close to the school and before I know anything or where to start, orders had already began.

    "Don't waste time, there's dishes to do" the woman with about six grown up children said from her house which is the fourth house in the compound.

"Yes ma'am. Good morning" I greet as I pull my apron on and tie it behind my waist.

"Nothing's good about it" she mumbled as I brought the bowl of dishes out of the house to the gate of the compound.

I grabbed a bucket and filled it with water, grabbed a bottle of liquid soap that I know have a very nice scent and is very foamy.

I applied little and started washing the dishes.

  As I washed, more kept on coming.

  "Wash this, make sure it's clean" one of her ugly daughters said with a type of tarnished voice.

  She dropped the dish into the bowl carelessly and water splashed all over my face and apron.

  She giggled as she turned to leave, and she bumped into her mother.

"Mum?..."
"Because I got a maid right? She's temporary, you know. Just for today" her mother snapped at her and she groaned.

"She's a maid, mum. That's what they're meant for" she said, slumping her shoulders down.

     She hurried off pass her mum as I washed the dishes and rinsed it with so much passion for it.

"Don't mind my... Clumsy girls" she said and I smiled.

"They can be really annoying sometimes" I laugh softly with her as she went inside to get something.

  Luckily, the dishes were finished up and all clean. I spent about three hours washing them.

  The mother came out with a black leather and handed it over to me.

"Thank you, ma'am I appreciate" I say with joy, cause the leather is heavy.

  She smiles and carries the bowl dishes inside and lock the door as I open the leather.

  $78, 59 cents and a spoilt and damaged phone. My face dropped instantly.

I look up, only to realize that she is not here but inside. 

  After three hours, all I get is a phone? A spoilt one?

  I carried my bucket and basket and left the compound.

   Well... I still have to be patient, one day, all these will be over, I guess.

A/N: Much Love For Reading. Thanks!