章節 10: GUESTS AT THE MANSION PART 1
I slowly opened my eyes to be greeted with total darkness.I looked left and right searching for any sign of light but saw none. I tried moving my arms around to see if I could reach out to something. My hands touched a wall and I tried following it to only move around in circles. I looked up to see a little light way up.
"No. No. Not again please not again."
I was in a well. I couldn't climb out of it because every time I tried I ended up slipping and falling back. The ground became muddy and in time I realised water was rising up the well. I continued my trials of attempting to climb out but to no avail did my attempts work.
The water soon reached my neck and I was immersed in it. I started chocking and tried to pull air into my lungs but instead water was pulled in it.
I walk up with a thud when my bottom hit the ground. My chest was heaving up and down violently. It had been long since I last had that nightmare. I looked out the window to notice that it was still dark indicating that height had not yet passed.
I got on my feet and went our of the room and headed for the kitchen. I had forgotten to fill up the water jag I had in my supposed room so I had to drink from the kitchen.
As I was walking in one of the corridors, I saw something move in the corner of my eyes which made me halt. I turned around to find nothing there. I continued walking to the kitchen and felt a cool breeze hit me. I looked around to find where it came from and found one of the windows in the corridor open.
I closed the window and went back to going to the kitchen. I poured myself a glass of water and gulped it all down. I looked out the window as I walked back to my room and saw two big dogs roaming around the mansion.
"Those are some big dogs. Must be one of those hybrid dogs. I wonder where he got them."
I reached back to my room and slid into the covers. The night was cold and the covers I had were not sufficient enough to keep me warm so I huged my knees close to my chest to keep myself warm.
More week passed and I realised I stayed longer than I planed. When I first got here, I planed to escape just as I did back home. But with Damian telling the headmaid to always keep me occupied with work I had no time for my escape plan since I was always tired by the end of the day.
I was drying the clean dishes and putting them back in there place when I heard one the maids tell two other maids." Why does Matilda always give her the simplest tasks to do while some of us have to do the hard ones? And on top of that he never gets punished for her mistakes. Its not fair."
"Ladies move along we are here to work not gossip." Matilda showed up at the kitchen door. The only person who was being nice to me was Rose though I didn't spend much time with her, she always treated me like a friend.
It was lunch time and the food was set at the table. Davin had guests and Bethany was among those guests. Matilda said that the lord wanted me to help the others serve the guests.
I tried resisting at first as I had never served anyone in my life apart from Davin himself.
But after receiving a threat from Davin I gave in and obeyed.
All the guests arrived at the dining hall and took their seats. Bethany sat next to Davin. Four of the maids were helping the guests with there requested dishes and I stood at a safe distance away from the table with Matilda.
"I see you have been doing well Davin" said one the men sitting opposite to Bethany. I noticed how he referred to Davin without any honorifics and continued to say. "The last time I was here you kept shouting at your servants for no reason."
"Are you saying I went crazy?" Davin asked with his head tilted to the side with an expressionless face.
"If you wish to put it that way." The other man shrugged his shoulders. " I mean who shouts at others for no reason?"
"Oh shut it Richy I'm pretty sure he had a good reason." Bethany chimed in.
"Always backing him up. Tying to be a supportive girlfriend?" The man called Richy gave Bethany a crooked look as Bethany blushed when she him her Davin's girlfriend.
"I have no idea what you are talking about." Beth looked at her plate and started picking at her food.
"So tell me how are the guys holding up?" Davin asked ignoring the previous conversation. He glanced at me for the briefest moment which Bethany noticed before moving his eyes back to the people at the table. Before, Bethany hadn't recognised that I was the same girl who stole Davin's attention from her a week ago. Now that she noticed me she looked at me with an evil smirk on her face.
"Well they all think their punishment was a little too rough and they curse everytime they hear your name." All the people at the table laughed. "Some of them tried to run away last week but were caught in the action and were locked up in the confinement rooms."
Bethany looked my way again then at Davin who was paying any attention to her. She then said "You.. The one in the middle." pointing at me and I made a 'me?' gesture and saw her nod."Yes you come here."
I went to her side waiting for her to tell me why she asked for me. Davin looked at Bethany and narrowed his eyes slitly to earn a warm smile from the Lady.
"Could you pour me a glass of the orange juice." I didn't object to her request and everyone's eyes averted to Bethany then me. I wondered why she would ask me to pour her a glass of juice when a moment ago she managed to pour herself a glass of water without any difficulties. She even offered to pour in Davin's glass which he refused.
Never the less I reached for the jug of orange juice and started pouring the containts into her glass. I then felt a sudden pain on my foot and ended up emptying the jug cpntaints on Bethany's dress.
Everyone looked alarmed except for Davin who had a calm face the whole time.Bethany then stood up from her seat abruptly and held my wrist tightly. She started squeezing my wrist and it became so painful that I fell on the ground while she was still holding my wrist.
"You little piece of crap. You deliberately pour juice all over my gown so you can embarrase me?" I looked up at her with pleading eyes."I'm sorry. o didn't mean to. Please forgive me!" I did even know where she was getting the strength to make it hurt so bad. Then it hit me, she was of the same kind as Davin and so were all the others at the table. They all had those red eyes and they looked intimidating but not as intimidating as Davin's.
She raised her hand to hit me and I closed my eyes, waiting for the pain to come. Seconds passed and the pain never came. I slowly opened my eyes and saw Davin no longer on his seat. He caught Bethany's hand which was about to hit me.
"I never gave you permission to punish anyone in my house. Did I." I heard Davin's deep voice from above me.
"But Davin she just poured juice all over me. She did it on purpose. I saw her."
"Oh really now." Both his brows rose up in question. "I'm not stupid Beth, you and I both know What really happened here." he kept his voice low to prevent the servants from hearing what he was saying.
"But she....."
"That's enough Beth. Now its either you go get cleaned up and get a change of clothes or I'll have my coachman escort you back home right now." That shut her up.
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