Pleasuring the Maid novel Chapter 3

***Ava****

My alarm went off at exactly 9 AM, I wasn't supposed to report to work until 11 so I still had time to do my chores. But instead of leaving the comfort of my bed, I lay on my back on the old bed. My body was covered half way from my waist down by a grey duvet that was quite tattered with a few holes in it. My sleep filled eyes remained glued on the old rickety ceiling. I let my gaze trace the barely invisible patters on the wooded ceiling, while my mind drifted to my unworthy life.

I didn't understand why I was left alone in this world. I couldn't help but think what if my mother had stayed home that day. Would she still be alive? What if my dad had been around, would I have been forced into this bitter loneliness?

I didn't have answers to the what ifs, and so I decided to stop my thoughts from wandering further. I threw the duvet off my body and stepped out of bed, I gracefully strolled to my small bathroom, the old wooden floor creaking under my bare feet. My bathroom was not fancy at all, just one shower head and a sink, no bathtub or big shower heads and multiple sinks. It was just what you'd expect an orphaned girl to live in. After taking a shower I put on a grey Tee, black sweats and black snickers. and strolled to the kitchen for breakfast.

My house was pretty small, one bedroom, with a small bathroom, a small kitchen and an equally small sitting room. But I was happy, I had a roof over my head, I had enough salary to feed me, I paid for water and electricity bills and I was able to pay for bus fare and that was all okay.

I missed my old place, the house where all the good memories I shared with my mother were made. It was impossible to forget such a lively and cosy place. A place where I learnt that true love wasn't a fantasy. My mum made sure to tell me every day that she loved me. I still remember the neighbourhood, it had a serene environment. Every house had flowers arranged on their front porches.

Growing up I didn't have any friends except for one boy but that was a bygone. I remembered how my mum would chastise me every time I left my dishes undone or when my bedroom floor would be strewn with clothes.

'Ava Awino James, do you want me to descend on you with blows! ' She would shout. 'Or you think your little thighs are not so little anymore for my fingers to pinch? ' She would continue. Then she would do the dishes and tell me to run along.

Going back to my break fast I fixed myself a mug of black coffee and sat on the couch in the sitting room. I didn't feel like cooking anything else, my appetite had long gone the moment I had thought about my mum. I just couldn't help it, especially when I was all alone.

Times like this made me miss my mum real bad, If she were here I know she would have made me something good for my stomach. Bacon, waffles, pancakes name them. She was a great cook, making sure I was fed all the time. No doubt in my mind she would have forced them down my throat with a smile on her face. She was a great mum, but she just left me. She perished in a road accident when I was 17, my senior year of highschool, just before my final exams.

The only family members that I ever knew only helped with the burial, and once it was all over and done with, they left. I could see it in their accusatory eyes, they blamed her death on me. That was a year ago, I was better now, I had learnt how to live with the pain. I never got to see my dad, heard that he dumped my mum once he found out that she was pregnant. They were both 18 then, but he just left her telling her that he wasn't ready and that he wanted to have fun and not settle down.