I was awoken by Maya smacking my face lightly. "Wake up sleepy head. It's time to go and do our chores for the day." I groaned and covered my face with my arm," I don't want to."
I heard her sigh," Well you have to. Now either get up now or do you want for me to go get the king to come get you up." I shot right up and glared at her, "Shut up," I said getting up.
I went to the closet and noticed that it was now full of clothes. "I guess someone came in last night and put some clothes in there."
"Can we even wear any of this?" I asked. "Yeah, just not during dinner time, that's when we have to wear the uniform."
"Where can I find out what my chores for the day are?" "They are going to be posted outside the kitchen door on the wall."
I nodded my head and grabbed an outfit. I decided on a track suit and put on white Jordan's. She started to leave,"Wait, Maya. Where's the shower?"
"Follow me." We walked out the room and headed towards the end of the hall," Here you go." I entered and went into an empty stall and took a shower.
I walked out the bathroom and went back to our room. I sat down at the vanity and put my hair into two buns . I stood up and looked at myself once more in the mirror and let out a breath. Ok let's do this.
I headed up the steps and toward the kitchen. I almost made until I bumped into someone turning the corner and was knocked down. "Hey watch where you're going.
If you had made that quick of a turn without looking both ways in a car, we would've both died," I said while getting up, without help I might add.
"Well we aren't in a car, are we?" said a voice belonging to a person I was hoping to avoid all day.
I looked up and saw the king's smug face. "It was a metaphor, now if you'll excuse me I have places to be," I said trying to walk around him but was stopped by him grabbing my arm.
"And where is that?" he asked spinning me to face him. "Well," I said tapping a finger on my cheek," since I'm being held captive and forced to work for you, with of course no pay, I might as well go do the work I'd rather not do if I want to live.
Now if you'd be a dear and let me go so I can go and do my job, that would be great." I said finishing with a smirk and an eye roll.
He pulled me closer," I'm so so sorry for keeping you from your work, but don't forget who has the authority around her," he squeezed my arm," Am I clear?" I nodded my head and pulled my arm out of his hand.
I started to walk away. "I'll see you around Marie," he said putting emphasis on Marie. I rolled my eyes and kept walking towards the kitchen.
When I got there I looked and saw the chore list chart. I looked for my name and saw beside it were two things.
Clean the living and dining rooms and to clean the master bedroom, including the bathroom and anything that is on the balcony.
I walked around until I found a closet that said 'Supplies' on the outside. I grabbed the supplies I needed and closed the door. I guess I'll just start with the living and dining rooms. They shouldn't take too long.
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Boy was I wrong. I guess I underestimated the size of the living room and totally forgot the size of the dining room.
It took me two hours to clean both rooms each. I can't believe I just spent four hours cleaning only two rooms, and a majority of the time I was trying to scrub stuff off the carpet. For a bunch of supernatural creatures they sure don't care about cleaning up after themselves.
I grabbed my supplies and headed to where I thought the master bedroom was.
I really should have paid attention to what Maya was saying when she showed me around.
I kept walking and noticed that the area in front of me had a different aura than the rest of the castle. It felt dark and mysterious.
I guess I'm in the right place. I walked to the end of the hallway to what I presumed was the master bedroom. I took a deep breath and opened the door.
What I saw was a dump. Clothes thrown here and there, the bed a mess, cans and wrappers all over the floor, I even think I see a pair of lacy underwear hanging on the balcony door.
Wow, and I thought my room back home was a mess. This isn't even messy, this is just nasty and he calls himself a king.
I started cleaning up the floor first because I'm too scared of something running across my foot while I'm trying to clean and make the bed.
I looked up and saw that he had an IPod dock with his IPod plugged in. Might as well listen to some music while I clean. I turned it on to see that he didn't have a password on it. Dumbass.
I looked at his playlist and saw that we have the same taste in music. Pop with touches of hip hop, R&B, rap, and one or two country songs. What I like some country. Sue me.
I shuffled through his music until I found Passionfruit by Drake and pressed play. Well back to cleaning.
I started to dance to the music and it made cleaning the floor feel faster. By the time I was done the floor looked flawless, but I know that it's just going to go right back to being messy.
I started to make the bed and saw things I could've gone without seeing. Ergo, condoms, a ton of condoms. It looked like he bought a 60 pack and used them all in one night.
The thing that pisses me off is that there's a trashcan right beside his bed with nothing in it. I mean how?
I exited the room and went back to the closet to get some gloves. I am not touching any of those with my bare hands.
When I came back I saw that there was a pair of pants and a shirt on the floor.
I know I just cleaned this floor. I picked them up and put them in the dirty clothes. I looked at the bed and saw that it was made. Wait, I didn't do that.
I did a 360 and saw that everything that was left for me to clean was spotless.
I heard a door open and out walked a dripping wet, covered in a towel, king. "Did you do this?" I asked.
He nodded," Yes I did. I hate a pigsty and I saw your cleaning supplies and the comforter off the bed and no you. I figured that you got grossed out by what you saw on the bed and ran away. So I decided to clean it myself."
"But this room was still a huge mess when I left. I was only gone for like a minute, how did you get it clean so fast?" "Enhanced speed," he said in a 'duh' tone,"
Now take your supplies and leave unless you want to watch me get dressed. By all means, be my guest," he said finishing with a smirk.
I felt my face flush," No-o-oo thanks," I said and turned to get my supplies and sped out of there.
Well I almost did. You see I have this disorder called CallPeopleOutOnTheirShit syndrome.
Its where you can't help but get smart with someone, like no matter what is going on you can't help but get smart with someone, especially when they do some dumb shit.
So I turned my dumbass around and spoke to him before he could take off his towel. "My only, I guess you can say, comment is that next time you decide to have a sex-fest in your bed, make sure all the protection makes its way into to the bin that is right beside your bed."
Now after I said that I sped out of there. I was too scared of what he might say or do in response to what I said.
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I went back to my room and saw Maya in there at the vanity. "Hey how did your first day at work go?" she asked. "It went wonderfully," I said sarcastically," I would've been even better if I hadn't have ran into the king not once, but twice today.
First in the hallway and the second time in his room which he cleaned for me because he thought I was too disgusted to do it."
I plopped down on my bed and laid down on my back. "Well, that's how you know that it's meant to be Rose, duh. I mean it's not a coincidence that you 'ran' into him maybe he wanted to see you. And the bed thing maybe he was embarrassed that you had to see that."
I turned my head and caught her gaze in the mirror, "If he was really embarrassed about his room he would've cleaned the whole thing including the floor before I got in there. Now that would've been appreciated."
She scoffed and rolled her eyes," Doesn't matter I still ship it." Now it was my turn to roll my eyes," Whatever."
I started to close my eyes but they were scared open when Maya started to yell," You better get up. Just because the king is yo man don't mean you ain't gotta work. Come on we gotta go set up for dinner. Now get up and get changed."
I huffed but got up anyway and put on the uniform, keeping my hair and makeup the same from earlier.
We headed up to the dining room and set out the napkins and the silverware for the guests. By the time we were done, I could hear some of the guests coming down the hallway.
We dashed back into the kitchen and got handed the trays holding the appetizers. It was mozzarella sticks with what I could only hope was marinara sauce.
I walked out and started to pass them out. The king still hadn't entered but everyone else was there. Not wanting a repeat of last night I put his plate out right after I got done with the others.
I was heading back to the kitchen when I heard the doors for the dining room open and chairs scrapping the floor.
I turned to see the king in all his glory walk in. He headed to his chair and looked around at everyone before his eyes landed on mine.
I looked away not wanting to keep eye contact with him in case he tried to summon me towards him.
I could feel eyes burning through the side of my head, so I turned to see him still looking at me. I gave him a 'what' face and rolled my eyes.
He smirked.
Uh oh.
"I see that tonight a certain someone got my plate here on time," he said causing everyone to laugh,"everyone can be seated. Dig in."
Huh, and I thought he was going to do something. Everyone sat and I made my way out. Well I almost did.
"Marie can you come here real quick." He asked but I knew it was a statement not a question.
When I started to walk toward him, I felt the air thicken. Like something bad was going to happen.
"Yes your highness," I said when I got over to him. He pulled me down to his mouth so no one else could hear him," Don't think I forgot about earlier. We're going to put that sass of yours to the test tomorrow. You're going to be running an errand with me so be ready to get up bright and early."
He let me go and I went to walk away when he grabbed my arm," Oh and wear something sexy for tomorrow night," he said winking and loud enough for everyone to hear.
I felt my face flame and everyone's eyes on me. He let my arm go and I headed to the kitchen.
When I got inside the kitchen everyone was rushing.
I saw Maya over in a corner laughing. "What's going on," I asked when I got over to her.
"One of the new chefs burned the king's entree and now they're all rushing to make him a new one," she said keeping her eyes on the chaos.
"And how is this funny? The king might kill him for burning his food?"
She turned to look at me," I doubt he'll do that." Then she turned to look back at them. I sighed and leaned against the wall.
I hope she's right.