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05: So you're the new one
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2024-10-29 19:42:56The following morning, I woke up to my phone vibrating, seeing numerous missed calls from the same number that called me the previous night. I rolled out of bed and saw it was already past 10, meaning I was awfully late.
Without having time to shower and brush my hair, I just washed my face, dressed, and left the house immediately.
I walked down the road and was not able to find any taxi to take me to my destination. On other days, I would barely leave my house, and a bunch of taxis came flooding in, but that day, when I was already running late, nothing appeared.
I continued to walk down the street until I finally found one and hopped into it.
“Where to, miss?” the driver asked as I squeezed myself into the backseat that was awfully full. “27 Echo Street, Hall Mansion,” I answered. “Oh, so you’re the new one?” the elderly lady in the backseat questioned as she gasped. “New what?” I queried, feeling rather confused about what she was talking about.
She just scoffed and then looked out the window on her side while the man in between us just blinked at us, wondering what the heck we were talking about.
We sat in the backseat as the driver took people around to their different destinations. One by one were being dropped off until it was just me and the elder lady in the backseat. She continued to frown at me like I had done something so offensive to her.
“Miss, do you have a problem with me?” I asked furiously“Why would you say that?” she asked back“Well because you have been giving me weird vibes since I got into the cab,” I replied.
She scoffed again and then looked out the window on her side. Eventually, we reached her destination,, and she hopped out of the car, practically slamming the door. It was just me and the driver in the cab heading to my destination.
“Don’t mind Mrs Link.” the driver laughed. “She is my faithful client. I always drive her around, and she even tips me and leaves me good reviews. I think today she was just in a bad mood.” “Yea…” I sighed“Well, Mrs Link has a daughter, Susanna Link, about your age or something. You look young. Anyway, her daughter Susanna was working for Hall. Dominic Hall, up until last month. I do not like to gossip much, but Dominic Hall is not really a pleasant man from the way Mrs. Link would talk about how her daughter complained.” he replied
I mean, it was not a lie. Dominic seemed like a difficult guy to get through to.
“And I think Susanna was a very strong one. I have once interacted with her; she is quite intelligent, calm, strong, and all of those traits. Now, it found Dominic Hall, who does not like to be questioned and challenged and wants people to idolise him, and she was not going to do that. So, Dominic Hall never really liked her.” he answered.
This got super interesting, and I was also terrified, wondering if I had that power and might like what Susanna had.
“Anyway, he kept trying to find ways to get rid of her. Accused her of theft, but there was nothing, accused her of bringing people over, but there was nothing, of not doing her job well, but anyone could see she cleaned well, but she eventually let one thing slip out. Something that has now made the internet and the local news post and talk about Dominic Hall. So, he used that and quickly got rid of her.” he answered. “People say there are deeper reasons why he did not like her, but that has not come out yet. But there are other stories that are starting to appear on the web. ”
I was just about to inquire when we turned up the road, and we were suddenly at Dominic’s mansion.
He stopped the car, and I fished in my bag for my purse, gave him money and opened the door.
“Bye,” I said as I closed the door and walked slowly to the gate.
I finished checking in quicker and walked to this large mansion nervously as I had second thoughts of working there after hearing Susanna’s story.
“You’re late!” he growled the second I walked towards the wide doors. “I am sorry.” I sighed“I don’t want to hear it.” he turned around and stomped into his mansion.
I followed behind him while he walked over to the island in the kitchen and grabbed his folder and car keys and headed to the main door while I followed behind him.
“Oh no, you came a whole 2 hours late. I cannot be the one to show you around the house. You will have to figure that bit out on your own.” he replied and walked out of the house.
I turned around and slowly wandered around this large building. I walked to the small room and got in, closed the door and removed my clothes. I was standing in that room only in my thready underwear while I looked around in my bag for my maid uniform.
Suddenly, the door swung wide open and I froze when I looked up and found a random guy walking into the room in the guard’s uniform.
“Hello!” I yelled.
He just slowly reversed out of the room and closed the door.
I quickly pulled on my maid dress, which was awfully tight everywhere and very short. I realised I did not bring my biker shorts to at least hide whatever would be showing. So, I had to just stick with my short dress the rest of the day.
I slowly exited the room and walked around tiptoed around the house and carefully opening each door looking for the cleaning tools. I even reached outside and carefully opened the shed out there and landed on the cleaning tools. I grabbed the mop, the broom, a bucket and the gloves and then closed the room.
I walked back to the house and went on all fours as I began to clean the hallway and living room.
“I saw her naked.” some guy spoke outside.
I got up and saw the man that had walked in on my dressing talking to Stanley.
“Like did you see everything?” Stanley asked sounding so interested“No, she was wearing such thin panties and bra.” he replied“Ouu… like lace?” Stanley questioned“No, more like they are old or something,” he answered
I felt so disgusted that on my first day, they were discussing my underwear and seeing me naked.
“Do you think she will be like the last one?” Stanley whispered
“Just give her even one week, and she will be like her.” the other replied while laughing.I slowly walked back to the floor I was kneeling on and started to scrub and dust it.
“Homer!” Dominic said in an angry tone as he walked into the house. “You’re back?” I questioned “No! Why are you cleaning here first?” he asked angrily
I simply shrugged.
“Don’t shrug at me.” he groaned. “You’re supposed to start in my money-making room,” he answered.
I got off the floor and carried my supplies to the money-making room, following behind him.
“You’re going to have to clean it super quick. I have someone coming over to sort out something and I need him to find this room clean.”
I nodded and started to clean around the already very clean room when his landline rang and then he got up so fast and dashed out of the room. I was still stuck in the room cleaning around until he eventually came walking back in with some guy.
I quickly got my things and left the room without Dominic telling me. He closed the door right behind me the second I left. I could hear them greeting each other and ruffling through papers.
“I wouldn’t do that if I were you,” Stanley said as he walked into the house.
I sighed and pretended to be cleaning around the area so that I would be close enough to hear what was going on, but they started to speak in a hushed tone.
“Give Mr. Hall his privacy,” he said. “Okay.” I sighed and continued to clean around the door. “No, I am not sure if it was Susanna who spoke about it but we need to get to the bottom of it.” Dominic spoke from the other side of the door“Yes but we need to know how true it is.” the other guy replied.
It was like they knew I was outside the room. They kept going round in circles and not getting straight to the point about what exactly was going on with Dominic.
Feeling irritated that I could not gather much information, I decided to just search it up to get an idea of what Dominic did.
It took ages to load but when it finally appeared, my eyes fell upon information that I did not want to see.
“Oh my… God!” I exclaimed as I continued to scroll through more and more articles.
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