Misaki arrived at the large gates, guarding the mansion behind them. The design of the gates were elegant, with swirls of black iron, not to mention well cared for. Contrary to its dainty appearance, it was quite strong and unmoving, which she realized the minute she tried to open them.
Is there a gatekeeper or someone who could help me? I thought to myself. I turned around to see if the cab driver was still where he dropped me off. But to my disappointment, there was no one behind me, just a long driveway. The second thing I noticed was the number of trees. There seemed to be so many, it looked like a forest, offering a lot of privacy for those who lived in the mansion.
"How did I not pay attention to my surroundings?" I mumbled to myself. I must have been more distracted than I thought.
My mind had been scattered the whole way to England. I constantly worried about how Seika high school was. I was the president there, enforcing the rules, while protecting the girls from the clutches of the dirty boys who outnumbered them. Seika was an all boys school before changing into co-ed, leaving about 80% of the students being male. When I first arrived at the school it was a mess with no one in charge. I made it my goal to protect the girls by making it a cleaner and nicer school. I quickly rose to the top position of student council, with training and hard work. To the boys, I was a demon, always yelling at them and forcing them to follow the rules I established.
The reason I was so hard on the guys was because I absolutely hated men. And the reason was simple, my father left my family in debt, causing my mom to overwork constantly to earn money. My mom wasn't the only one overworked, I had to balance my maid job with school. I also had the constant worry of someone seeing me in my maid uniform. I could've easily switched jobs but I had good working hours and pay. Not to mention my boss was understanding. But after seeing my mom tire herself out again and again, I decided to take matters into my own hands by dropping out of high school to work full time to try and earn more for my family.
Soon after, my kindhearted boss found out about my situation she looked into a job that could earn me more pay than working in Maid Latte. She ended up finding a job offering for real maids to take care of the Walker mansion. Along with living in the maids quarters, I would be given food and more than double the pay I was making at her Maid Latte. I really couldn't refuse this job, even though it meant leaving everything behind. But now my family could relax since I could send my paychecks to my mom. Its not like I needed to buy anything, considering my job would supply me with what I needed.
Even though this would greatly help my family, I couldn't stop the guilty feeling within me. It felt like I had betrayed the girls at Seika and my mind kept wondering back to how they were dealing without having me enforcing the rules. But that wasn't the only thing on my mind, I wondered how my family was. Even though my mom wouldn't have to work as hard, I could no longer see or talk to my family since I was in a different country with no way of getting a hold of my mother and sister. Or any of my friends for that matter. Although no one but my family or those who worked at Maid Latte knew all the details about my new job. I told anyone who was curious that I was just going to work a boring office job in England
There I go again, getting consumed by my worries. I sighed before I pushed all of my problems away so i could think of a way to get past the iron fence.
I tried giving it another push but got the same results. I could try and climb it but if I was caught they would think I had no manners and I couldn't risk a job like this just because of a stupid decision.
Right after I decided against the idea, the gatekeeper walked up lazily and took the lock, that I had failed to see, closer to him. With him just a gate apart, I could see he was not much older than me.
"You really should know how to climb over a fence" he said in between a yawn. "You almost got me in trouble that I was ditching and taking a nap. But lucky for me one of the butlers wondering around saw you and warned me."
For some reason there seemed to be something familiar with his attitude.
"I'm guessing you're here for a maid position, right?" he said looking at me.
"Yeah do you know where I go?" I asked.
When I replied, he started digging for his keys in his pockets of his butler suit. I guess it makes sense that I need a reason to be here before he opened the gate or else anyone could get in and there would be no point for a gate in the first place I thought as he brought the key to the lock. Then it hit me why his attitude seemed familiar. He was just like the boys at Seika!
The lock made a 'thunk' it was opened. He opened the gate enough for me to get in, before closing and locking it again. "follow me" he said as he turned and made his way through the field and toward the mansion.
"Um why are they hiring only maids and not butlers?" I asked hoping to break the silence and learn some information about this place.
"Because we don't have many, all most all of us working here are butlers, since the last one in charge of us didn't hire maids for some reason, he also was laid back and didn't make us work too hard unless there was an important event. Other than that, as long as we don't get busted by the old man in charge, Edward or his son, Gerard, we are fine. Of course the new person in charge is now trying to get us organized or something" he informed me.
"Oh really?" I said with frustration. This was like Seika, with lazy, rule- breaking guys.
I was definitely going to fix this up.