Lethal Bride - Season 1 - Episode 8

5 years ago

Lethal Bride - Season 1 - Episode 8

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NANNY

She got up paced and sipped,
trying to shift her thoughts to
other things. A knock on the
door jolted her; she silently
thanked God for the distraction.

She walked to the door and turned the knob, the
first thing that met her eyes
was a sandwich and a glass of
juice. She looked up and met
the beaming face of the maid, “good morning ma’am”, she stared at the maid and
imagined herself being the one
knocking the door with a
tray of breakfast in her hands.

“Ma’am are you alright”. She blinked her eyes back to reality and took the tray
from her “yes I’m fine”. She
shut the door gently and slowly ate.

Crystal packed her two bags with her belongings. Wore a beautifully shaped white
dress and a gold scarf that
dropped from her head to her
neck. She carefully wrapped
the edges of the scarf around her neck. She slowly slided her feet into a black sandals,
picked both bags and got
down stairs to meet Easton
making a call and laughing.

Irritation was written all over her face. She stood with her eyes fixed on him. He noticed
her presence and politely ended the call.

“You look too classy to be a housekeeper”, he tried to tease her, but it wasn’t funny to her, she hated the job. Her face still stayed tight.

He took the bags from her.

There was a cab waiting outside for her.
“Seriously a cab! I thought you were going to drop me off.

This is not fair and I don’t
like this.” Her face already
frowned like a pampered
child.

“You have to do this, just a month and everything would be fine, it would worth it.

You would gain so much from
this raid”, “what about the
club?”; “you are taking a
break”. She let out a long troubled sigh then got into the cab. Easton gave the
driver the address, he waved
her but she didn’t wave back,
she was clearly annoyed.

It was a short trip to the home of her new boss. She stepped out of the cab and
waited for the driver to bring
out her bags. She took it from
him and walked towards the
house. The house looked beautiful with white and grey paint. The lawn looked well
taken care of. Even with the
majestic look of the house, it
had little or no protection.

She got to the door and hesitated for some minutes, she shifted uneasily and had a thought of turning back and never
looking back, but she found
her hand going to the door
bell. She pressed and she could hear it ring inside.

The door opened and in front of her
stood a little girl with beaming eyes smiling from
ear to ear. “Grandpa my nanny is here”, the word nanny cut through her heart
like a sharp blade, everything
around came to a stand still,
she kept repeating the word
nanny in her head several
times to be sure she was not dreaming.

The little pulled her
into the house; her eyes met a
beautiful interior. “Grandpa,
she’s here”, she looked
towards the living room and
saw an elderly man sitting with a staff in his hand.
Immediately he saw her, he
hauled himself up, supporting
himself with the staff in his
hand. Everything still seemed
like a fairytale to her. He brought his hand towards her for a handshake, she took
shook him with uncertainty.

“You must be Rebecca I
presume”. Why he was calling
her Rebecca, she wondered. “You don’t seem to be here”,

he noticed her distraction. “Oh,
I’m here. I am just amazed at
the beautiful décor you have
in your home”, he smiled

“thank you”. The little girl tapped her arm, Crystal looked down to the bright
girl, “my name is Cinderella,
Ella for short, I came to spend
the holiday with my grandpa”. Crystal smiled unable to give the correct response to the little girl, she wasn’t good with children.

She looked at the friendly face
of the old man.

“I thought I was going to be just a housekeeper. I never thought I would also be a
nanny too”. She spoke in her
curiosity about the nanny
title.

“I have a housekeeper, as well as a cook. Your duty is just to be with her and take care of
her and also supervise what is
being cooked and the cleaning
of the house. Look at me, I am
just an old man, my youthful vigor is gone. Look at my leg;

I can’t do the whole going up
and down seeing to the affairs
of this house, my three
children are all grown and
married, my wife is late, I can be really lonely sometimes.

Out of sympathy on rare
occasions my children release
their children to stay with me
during the holidays. This is one
of those rare occasions”. She was already getting bored of hearing his plight, she smiled
“I understand you perfectly
sir”. He appreciated her
understanding and told Ella to
show her to her room. She happily complied as she raced up the stairs making Crystal
to keep up with her pace.

Immediately she got into the
room, her cell phone rang; she
punched the answer button without looking at who the caller was. “Hello Rebecca”, her
face tightened immediately she recognized his voice “why the hell, did you get me this
nanny job and why did you change my name to Rebecca”,

“Just do what you have to do; I would give you instructions on what you have to do”