“I guess the tour comes after lunch…” I said with a depressed sigh.
“That’s right. Eat up. I don’t want to tell Hayden that you haven’t been eating much…” Auntie said with mock scorn.
Hayden again…
“Ok ok…” I said before I started eating.
The food tasted great now that I was in the mood to have an appetite. I placed a hand over my tummy and wondered if I had started to gain weight. Auntie is spoiling me with so much food and dessert as well.
After finishing lunch, I urged Auntie to take me on a tour of the mansion straight away. I didn’t want to put it off anymore and now that the tour was about to start, I felt oddly excited about the whole thing.
“Follow me closely…” Auntie instructed as she led the way.
I followed her obediently from the long hallway that seemed to stretch out endlessly. The mansion was large and seemed to have many sections. I didn’t know why the boss or whoever it was in Hayden’s family decided that they needed a place this enormous.
“First, I will take you through the commonly used rooms on the first floor and second floor. These rooms are conveniently located at the center part of the mansion. You’ve seen some of the rooms before since you’ve walked past them, but I’ll show you again to make sure that you’re aware of all the rooms,” Auntie explained.
She guided me to the first floor at the center of the mansion. The commonly used rooms were just as she had called them, they were rooms that were in use daily in the mansion.
“This is the main dining room and in the corner is a bar. The next room is the living room for when we have guests. This one here is the private living room. As the name implies, it is strictly for family members and guests are not allowed in this living room. Master Hayden spends a lot of his time in this private living room when he’s free,” Auntie explained.
All the rooms that I’ve been led to were too big for their own good and luxuriously furnished. Auntie led me to a few other rooms including a study room, a library, a mini movie theatre, a fitness and so many other facilities that I thought were probably not needed at home. After a long walk, I began dragging my feet. My initial excitement at finally being able to see Hayden’s home had all but vanished at that point.
The real problem was that apart from the first few rooms, I felt like the other rooms didn’t have any personal connection to Hayden at all. I mean, how often does he actually visit the library. Maybe he does but Hayden doesn’t look like a bookworm kind of guy at all. I found it very hard picturing Hayden sitting still and composed as he read a book in the library. I shook my head to clear that strange and unfitting image away from my head before it began to stick. That was when I realized that I wanted to know more about Hayden’s lifestyle and how he spent his time in the house.
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