That night at my monster of a master's house...
"What do you need?"
He asked me to go to his room after dinner. I have a telephone in my room that he can just call whenever he wants needs me.
"For a maid, you sure are rude. It's not because you're under my father's power, you won't be fired anymore. I can always report your ill manners."
I just made faces and sarcastically said, "Sorry, young master."
"Here."
He threw a violet envelope, I grabbed it from the floor because I couldn't catch it when he threw it. He's quite nice, isn't he? He could have at least gave it normally instead of throwing it! Argh.
"What's this?"
"Envelope."
Oh really? I know it's an envelope. He really makes you want to talk in sarcasm.
"Oh, I thought it was a flying elephant. What should I do with this?"
"You're coming with me to a party."
"What? I'm not fond of parties!"
"I don't care. Go out of my room, I don't need you anymore."
Is that so? I went out of his room and went back to my room and opened the envelope.
"What even is this?"
Please be my guest
at my 20th birthday this July 14
8pm at Infinity Palace
I'll be waiting.
Lorraine Keet
This invitation is quite simple but you can notice how elegant it is from the paper's texture and smell. But wait... didn't Chad say that someone else is having a birthday party on Saturday? Where is it happening again? Is this letter talking about the same place as Chad said? Is Lorraine Keet the name of his special girl? And what should I do with this invitation? Why did Cross give this to me? Why do I need to come with him to the party? What would I do there?
The next day, Cross and I went to the Bench building after class. Yesterday, he told me that he had some shoots and he took me with him because I was his great maid.
"Bring all of that to the car at the parking lot, I have an appointment in Bench."
He said after seeing me once the classes were over. He pointed to the things that he wanted to bring and my eyes widened.
"All of those?! Are you serious?!"
It's only 2 big bags and 3 plastic bags that were full of items that he wanted me to bring. Do you guys think that I, a 46kg person, can carry all of those items?!! Not to mention that I'm still tired from all the things I was tasked to do in class!
"When have I ever joked?!" he then turned around. "Move faster and follow me."
I just grabbed all his things. The two bags were hanging on both of my shoulders while carrying the three plastic bags. I started walking while following him, I'm nearly kneeling on the floor with how heavy they are.
"W-wait! Can you please walk slowly!"
Because of how fast he was walking, I couldn't chase after him. I'm carrying a lot of things!
"You're too slow, move faster!"
He said without looking back. I frowned and stuck my tongue out towards him. How shameless! What does he think of me, the Incredible Hulk?! Argh! After 123213241243467 years, we have arrived at the parking lot. Someone please call 911, I feel like dying from exhaustion.
"What is this?!"
He questioningly said after seeing me lay down on the floor with my hand placed on top of one of the bags and my head on top of my arm. I was extremely out of breath.
"Stand up from there, you look stupid. We still have a lot to do."
I raised my head, some of my hair were covering and sticking to my face with how sweaty I was.
"Are you human?!"
"Of course. Stand up already and put all of those things at the back of the car!"
I weakly stood up and bent down to grab the bags.
"Oh you're a human, it's not noticeable."
"Are you saying something?!"
I just smiled at him, "Nothing."
After putting all of his things at the back of the car, I went inside. While inside the car, he grabbed his laptop and opened it. I was surprised when he wore glasses.
"You wear glasses?"
He didn't pay attention to me and just continued looking at his laptop's screen, busy tampering with it. I asked him again.
"You wear glasses?"
He continued ignoring me. Maybe he can't hear me? So I increased the volume of my voice.
"YOU WEAR GLASSES?!"
This time, he looked at me. He removed his glasses and his face looked pissed off.
"WHAT ARE YOU?! A BROKEN RECORD?! ISN'T IT OBVIOUS THAT I WEAR GLASSES?! IS THIS NOT CALLED WEARING THEM?! DON'T BE NOISY THERE AND JUST STAY QUIET!"
After saying that, he wore his glasses again and looked back to his laptop. And I just stayed quiet while making faces. He might be on his period so it might be better not to disturb him. I think he's playing dota. Ahhh, it's so boring. I just continued looking outside.
It didn't take that long before we arrived at the building where he's doing his shoots. He forced me to bring his things again up to the 5th floor, good thing there was an elevator or else I might have punched this Cross already. Maybe he wants me to die from all the stuff that he's making me do.
"Cross, you're late again!" Said one guy after we arrived.
"So?"
Harshly answered by Cross while going inside his room. Everyone just quietly looked at him. His unfriendly presence really is something.
"What?! I thought I was late, what are you all staring at?"
"A-Ah! Yeah!"
Everyone started moving again. Some people went next to him to put make up on his face and gave clothes for him to wear. I just stood at the corner with no one paying me any attention. I didn't know what I should do so I called him.
"Cross--- I mean, master! Where should I put these?"
"Where do you think?!"
That's all he said before he continued ignoring me. Where do I think?! What if I think that these belongs in the bin?! Argh. How annoying, that's why I'm asking! In the end, I just placed all of his items in a corner and stayed there while watching them do whatever they're doing. No one's giving me any attention so it's better that I stayed at the corner to not look stupid. After he was done getting changed, he joined his modelling partner. He's wearing a polo shirt and a pair of jeans while the girl was wearing a skirt and a t-shirt. I just watched them but to be honest, Cross really looks hot because the first three buttons of his shirt were undone. He looks really cool, really a model material. His looks are very captivating while he's modelling.
Even if his attitude is not pleasant, his face is okay if you're just looking at him. He looks handsome and elegant. It really feels different, it's like... ummm. How can I explain it? It doesn't matter, his looks are just different. Your eyes will be glued to him once you see him. He's attractive as long as he doesn't speak because once he does, the mood just disappears. He might be having his midlife crisis that's why he's so grouchy.
♫Here we go come with me...
There's a world out there that we should see...
Take my hand, close your hands...
With you right here, I'm a rocketeer...♫
Everyone was startled when something suddenly started ringing. It was inside one of the bags near me. That's why everyone just looked at me, and I looked back at them with an "i-don't-know" face.
"CAN YOU TURN THAT OFF?! DON'T YOU KNOW THAT PHONES ARE OFF LIMITS IN THE STUDIO?!"
I was taken aback when I was shouted at by the photographer. It felt like his voice was echoing inside the room with how loud it was. The others were just staring at me and you can still hear the song playing from the bag.
"WHY ARE YOU STANDING STILL?! ARE YOU NOT GOING TO TURN IT OFF?!"
"A-Ah! Y-Yes!"
I quickly knelt done to look for the phone inside the bags, why does Cross even have so many of them. Where did he put his phone?
"ARE YOU TURNING OFF THE PHONE OR WHAT?!"
The phone was still ringing and everyone in the room were staring at me, so I started panicking. I can't find the phone!
"ARE YOU GOING TO TURN IT OFF OR DO YOU WANT ME TO DRAG YOU OUTSIDE?!"
The people in the room started whispering to each other while looking at me. I was feeling very embarrassed. I was never shouted at like this in front of so many people, I really look stupid. I don't know what I should do.
"ARE YOU DEAF OR SOMETHING?!"
The photographer started going towards me, maybe to drag me out of the room. I started feeling nervous and very panicked. Where are you, phone? Ah! Finally! I grabbed it out of the bag after finding it and was about to turn it off when...
"IF YOU WON'T TURN THAT OFF, YOU BETTER GET OUT!"
He grabbed my wrist tightly and was about to drag me outside when someone stopped him. Cross removed his hand from my wrist and grabbed phone that was still ringing from my hand and threw it on the floor. The sound stopped but the parts of the phone were everywhere. You can hear everyone being shocked from what he just did but they stopped talking immediately.
"Contended? Now, let's finish this. I have lots of things to do after this."
The photographer just stared at him before quickly composing himself again and told his crew to ready up again. Everyone ignored me again but that's better than being the centre of attention and be humiliated. Really, I was about to cry earlier with how ashamed I was. I don't feel like coming back to this place anymore, all of the people here saw how I was shouted at by the photographer earlier.
I bent down and grabbed all of the phone parts on the floor and tried to fix it. After the shoot, we went back inside the car without speaking. He looked really tired, the shoot took 4 hours because they were fixing something on the computer that I didn't really understand. When we were going home, he closed his eyes the moment we got inside the car. He must be so tired that's why he went to sleep straight away. I looked at him while he was sleeping, I don't know if what he did earlier was to save me from embarrassment or if he's just really annoyed with how dramatic the photographer was. I don't think I'll never know or get why.
"Thank you."
I said to him while he was sleeping, whether he actually wanted to help me or not, I just gave him my gratitude because he saved me from humiliation.
"For what?"
"H-Ha?! You're awake?!"
I thought he was sleeping, he just had his eyes closed!
"What thank you? What are you talking about?!"
He was speaking but he didn't open his eyes, maybe he's really tired."
"A-Ah.... the thing from earlier, when you saved me from humiliation."
"Saved you? Hah!" He just smirked.
"In your face. I just did that because you guys were so annoying putting out such dramas."
I knew it, he's not the type of guy who would play like some knight in shining armour. He would only do things for his own sake, what a self centered guy.
"Well, okay. Sorry I said thanks to you." I answered sarcastically.
"To be honest, it was your fault. You're the one who should've been shouted at. It was your phone! You didn't turn it off."
"It's my fault? It's the fault of the person who called. Don't be noisy, you're disturbing my rest."
Really self centered. He said it's the fault of the person who called? Tss. I just stayed quiet because there was no sense in talking to him. When we arrived at the Sandford house, he went straight to his room. I followed him, bringing his stuff inside his room.
"Just place my stuff wherever you want."
He removed his shirt and went straight to his bed so I saw him half naked. He threw his shirt on the floor then covered himself with blanket and closed his eyes. He looks really tired. I placed all of the stuff that I was carrying at the side and left.
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