A helping hand

"Elisha this is the room Baron Radrik prepared for you to live in", the headmaid said and looked with pitiful eyes at me.

She opened the door and I understood immediately why she looked at me with that pitiful expression.

The room was dirty, small and not even fit for a mere maid to live in.

The head maid obviously understood my thoughts and decided to leave me alone to give me some space to realise my “new” life.

After some time I decided too go in. The first thing I noticed was the strong smell (like that in a basement). Still shocked I sat down on the chair and just sat and stared at the wall.

"Elisha", the headmaid said. Apparently she came in just a few minutes ago. But I was so confused that I didn’t even notice.

"Oh, yes", I said.

"Do you need help?", she said and looked at me like at a small kid who got lost.

"Yes, it would be really a huge help!", I said and almost cried.

*I don’t know why I actually held all my tears back all the time. Maybe I was just to surprised or something like that.

"Ok, so at first we need to get a rag and clean your bed, then we clean the desk the shelf and the chair. And at least the floor. The floor is the dirtiest place so we should then clean it at the end", she explained.

"Oh, I see", I said stil not fully aybel to form a longer sentence.

So we went to the lumber room to get the things we needed to clean my room.

"Um,… what’s your name?", I asked because I realised I hadn’t asked for her name yet.

"I am Martha", she said and smiled.

"Can I…ask you something", I asked a bit uncertainly.

"Of course!", she answered.

"Why.. why.. do you help me this much?", I asked.

"Because you are not responsible for the situation you are in. It was your parent’s decision not yours. So I am trying to give you a hand and make the start a bit easier. You know….. when I was your age I worked in another mansion and there wasn’t a single person who would help me. So the time there was quite hard. So I am trying to help those who we’d help", she answered.

I looked up and looked her in the eyes. I could tell that she was thinking about her past and the looked kind of sad. That was the moment I realised that every person has a past were the life was hard. Most people me just don’t want to speak about it and keep it buried in their heart.

"Thank you!", I just said and was happy that Martha helped me.

………

"Martha is this the rag we need?"

"Yes, please take 2 of them."

"Ok"

……..

"Elisha you need to hold the rag like this and wipe like this. Do you understand?"

"Yes”

"Now you clean the chair with this rag and then……"

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"Wow, that wa exhausting!"

"Be prepared Elisha sometimes you work will get even more exhausting that this!"

"Oh, then I think I should be prepared"

laughing laughing

"Thank you sooo much Martha. Really I mean it. If you ever need my help I would be glad to help"

"Elisha, kid don’t take on so much. Don’t worry I was glad to help you"

Knock Knock !

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