Chapter 1: How I do it, I just don't know
Somehow I had found myself swinging upside down from a metal hook in the storage cupboard. How I had got myself in this situation, I just don't know. But at this current moment in time I was concentrating more on how I was going to get myself out of it. Especially before Gaius finds me. It would be the third incident this week which involved me being stuck in the worst positions and not quite knowing how to get out of them. The worst thing about these repeated "offences" is that I cannot explain how I had got into them. It's been the same all my life. Strange things seem to happen to me and nobody else. It's like trouble is persistently coming after me. In fact I've lost count of the extravagant amount of times I've been locked up in the stocks, it's extremely degrading.
Anyway, I attempted to swing myself towards the shelf that was opposite where I was hanging in hope I could get a good grip on it, use one hand to unhook my dress then gently lower myself back onto firm ground again. Well, that's what I intended to do but of course it did not happen like that at all. I did swing towards the shelf but as soon as I touched it, the shelf and all the contents on it came crashing to the ground. I heard a terrible ripping sound from above and I felt myself plummet through the air, landing with an almighty thud onto the stone floor. I slowly picked myself up from the floor, a dull ache spreading over my back. I looked up to see dear old Gaius standing in the doorway watching me with a slightly bemused expression on his face.
"Gaius" I said as above suspicion as I could, "how long have you been standing there then?"
"Oh long enough" he replied raising his eyebrows so that all the worry lines on his forehead became more prominent than usual. I studied them for a moment, wondering how many of them were caused by me before laying my eyes once more onto his questioning face.
"Amani, why is it that every day I come in to find that things have come flying off the wall or that you have managed to cause yourself an injury or that things have just been turned completely upside down, tell me why?". He walked towards me and helped me up. I brushed myself down before once again peering at Gaius.
"How I do it, I just don't know" I answered finally before plonking myself down on one of the wooden chairs, "I just have a knack for trouble".
"Indeed you do" I heard him sigh, penitence twisted inside of me as I thought of how much trouble I must of caused him through the years. I always felt like that after a wrong doing and it was routine that I disappear outside for a few hours so that Gaius wouldn't have to look at my face for a bit. I soundlessly slunk towards the front door and sneaked out into the vibrant streets of Camelot.