Chapter 4:
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It's been two weeks now that I've worked with the Mastersons. I already know the house from top to bottom, and the daily routine.
Friday morning, 7:00 am, everyone eats at the table. Rider gets up and says, 'I'm not taking you to school, maid.'
"I'm not taking you to school, maid."
Rider walks away and heads outside.
Right on track.
'I can take you to school Amelia!'
"I can take you to school, Amelia!" says Blake cheerfully.
I gladly accept his offer like always and head to school.
"Did you finish your history report? Was it due today?! Damn it!"
I sigh at Taylor, always forgetting to do her homework and she somehow manages to get an A in her honor classes.
"Yes, yes, and ha." I said.
We head towards the library for history class. Taylor and I sit with Aaron.
"H-hi Aaron." I stammered.
"Hey Amelia, hey Taylor." Aaron said with a smile.
Oh god, his smile.
Taylor slumped down on the chair and banged her head on the table. "Why must god hate me!" she said.
Aaron sighed, "Let me guess, she forgot to do the report again. How do you even have an A in this class?"
I nod my head in agreement until I heard something that made me freeze, "Hey Rider, can I come over to see your new maid?"
Taylor also looked alarmed and looked at me. I turned around slightly to see who was there, Rider, Nate and their stupid friends. "Is she hot, is she hot?!" yelled a kid with freckles on his face
For gods sake, this is a library! Keep your voice down!
"Well," started Rider. "She looks....decent. She's not hot but she's ok too I guess. She isn't the best looking maid I've her had but she'll do." I turn my head back around and scowl at what he just said.
"I think she's cute."
I turn my head back around again and see who said that. "She has a pretty face in my opinion."
N-Nate?
"Oooo two different opinions from the two most popular boys at school. This has to be good." said a kid.
"What the hell are you talking about," said Rider, "she's really plain and she barely has a chest."
Taylor pats my back, saying it's ok as I lay my head down on the table shamefully.
"Seriously dude, you have some kind of fetish with girls' chests." said Nate, "I don't really care how her body looks like. She's a really cool girl. She knows what to say instead of your other maids who would always just talk about you the whole day."
Why is Nate saying this? I look up at Aaron and he looked like he was also listening to their conversation.
"God Nathan, you're too cheesy. The maid is too skinny. Does she even eat at all?"
"Don't you remember she brought us a cake over that one time? She ate the whole thing when I saw her in the kitchen."
Am I really that skinny? I always eat junk food and I never get fat, what's wrong with me?!
"What about her personality?" asked Nate.
"Well, for starters, she actually likes to clean. My previous maids only cleaned if I told them they'll get a reward afterwards by me. And now, that girl always cleans up for fun. Who the f*ck does that?"
"Well at least she does clean. Before, your house was always a mess. And now, it's cleaner than before. Don't you like anything about her?"
Rider takes a minute to think. The three of us are eager to hear his response.
"Her ass?"
I'm done.
"She accidentally leaned over and I saw her ass. It looks pretty nice."
All the guys at the table started to talk about it while "ooo"ing. I feel so....disgusted by it. I can't believe he actually said that. And I always wear shorts under the maid costume.
"Rider, I mean her personality you idiot. I think she's really nice, i'd probably go to your house everyday just to talk to her. She seems interesting."
"Well, I guess she isn't mean. She plays with Blake when I'm not around so that's ok, I guess."
Taylor started laughing silently at me, "I wonder who she is...."
"Hmm so I guess the new maid is ugly, yet pretty? Or nice, yet mean?" asked Aaron.
I laugh stiffly, "I-I guess so."
Our history teacher, Mr.Torez walks in.
"Amelia, I have your test grade from last week, where are you?"
Oh no.
"She's sitting in the corner in front of Rider's table!" a kid yelled out. I turn around to look at his table. Rider didn't have an expression on his face, neither did Nate.
"I'm coming." I said.
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Everything was very awkward when I got home to the Mastersons. Rider wasn't complaining to me about making his food or cleaning his room.
"Is everything alright with Mister Rider?" asked Sebastian.
"Oh-uh...I'm not sure. He's been acting weird lately."
Sebastian sits down in one of the chairs in the kitchen.
"You should go ask him Miss Amelia."
"Me? Why-"
"Aunt Renee told me her plan when you arrived to the Mastersons. He needs someone to open up more to instead of his immature friends."
I think about what Sebastian and Renee told me, ...he needs to open up his feelings more...
I thank Sebastian and start walking upstairs towards Rider's room. I slowly open the door to see what he was doing.
He was sitting on his desk writing something down, but then he threw the paper in the garbage in frustration. I open the door more and walk inside. I sit on his bed that was next to his desk.
He didn't look up when I walked in.
"What do you need, maid. I'm in the middle of something." he said angrily.
"I-I was just....worried about you. You didn't say mean things to me today so I thought something was wrong since you're never this quiet" I said.
Rider walks towards me and pushes me on the bed, and all of a sudden, he's on top of me. He holds my hands with a strong grip so I wouldn't go anywhere.
"Then make me feel better," he said, "give me your body."
He brushes his lips on my neck, which made me shiver. I felt a small kiss on my neck which made my eyes go wide.
"R-Rider....stop it. Don't do this to me. I-I'm just a maid, remember?"
Rider starts touching my face leaning in towards me this time, "Get off of me Rider, GET OFF OF ME." I kick him from under which made him yell in pain.
"Ow! I-If I want your body, just give it to me. I'm in need of it."
I look at him in disbelief and walk towards his desk. "I made a promise to Blake, that I wouldn't touch you, or even kiss you in any way. So stop doing stuff to me or else I'll kick you there again."
I look around the floor and see crumpled papers everywhere. I opened it up and it said The Cold War. I opened another piece of crumpled paper and it said the same thing. "Wasn't this paper due, like months ago? Because we are far off this topic in class."
Rider struggled to get on his bed, "Yeah, I'm failing every class because I never do my homework. That's why I'm getting so angry"
"What do you mean you don't do your homework? Homework is like half your grade. What do you do other than homework?"
Rider laughs silently, "What I do best at, flirting with other girls." I roll my eyes at his stupid response.
"Well....I could help you catch up in class or something." I said.
Rider looked interested, so he came to the desk and looked straight at my eyes.
"You'd really do that? After how I just treated you?" he asked.
"Sure, I-I mean, I just want to help you get a good grade in class. All my teachers love me so I could probably get you off the hook with some assignments."
"Wow, well then, can you help me with-"
"Wait," I said, "I need something in return."
"Really? I actually thought you were nice for a second there. What do you need? A kiss? I'll gladly accept that."
"Tch, as if. I want you to take me and Blake to the zoo next week."
"The zoo? Why?"
"Because Blake said he's always wanted to see a lion so I thought it'd be a good idea to take him to the zoo."
Rider sighs and thinks about it, "I guess so. But this is for Blake, not for you, alright Sage?"
I smile at him and we both went to work on his assignments. "Alright."
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"Wow Mr.Masterson, you actually completed all your work in one week. I'm impressed."
Me and Rider were in the principles office to discuss his grades in every class. We worked day and night just do this. Rider looked worried though.
"And you helped him, Miss Sage?" asked Mr.Hoover.
"Yes sir." I responded back.
"Well then, doing all your work did raise your grade by a lot which gave you a B+ in every class. But just because Amelia is my favorite student, I'll give an A in one of your classes."
Rider and I both gave a sigh of happiness and thanked Mr.Hoover as we left his office.
"Wow, I can't believe I actually did it." said Rider.
"It was all thanks to me, right?" I asked.
"Oh yeah, um, thanks....Amelia."
He finally said my name, and that made me happy.
"No problem."
We start walking towards our next class which was gym.
"I'm...actually pretty excited to go to the zoo." said Rider, "I think I'm excited to go...because it'll be my first time."
I stop him and look at him with my eyes wide open, "A-are you serious?! Even I had the money to go to the zoo!"
Rider pushed me playfully. "Shut up idiot. Don't ruin my happiness."
We laugh our way down the hallway. I look at Rider and see that he's still smiling.
I like seeing this side of him, the smiling guy who acts all embarrassed. I hope I could see it again.