My very first Kuroshitsuji fic, at last! Enjoy!
Disclaimer : I don't own any of the Kuroshitsuji characters.
-If I were a perfect maid-
Chapter 1 – A very, very bad day
"Oh, no! Sebastian will be furious!"
Maylene stood there in the kitchen, staring at the broken dishes and shaking with fear.
"This were the young master's favorite porcelain plates! And the most expensive ones too!"
Somewhere in the mansion, a clock ticked six times.
"The guests'll arrive in a few minutes! This is a catastrophe..."
At that very moment, Bardroy the cook came in to watch over the meal he was preparing and saw the disastrous scene.
"Maylene.. is this what I think it is?" he asked with an abashed voice.
The young maid couldn't help it and burst in tears, jumping in the cook's arms.
"Sebastian is going to kill me! I wanted to take a tissue from this cupboard to clean the plates that I had in the other hand, and I dropped it all!"
"But why in the world did you try to do two things at the same time? You know very well that you can't... none of us can in that house, except Sebastian, maybe..."
Bardroy slightly patted the girl's back, but that caused her to loose her big round glasses.
"Well, let's try to think reasonably... there has to be a solution... we don't have to tell Sebastian yet, first of all..." declared the cook, for himself.
Maylene, putting her glasses back on her nose, shook her head.
"He wanted these plates to be set on the table for tonight. He told me."
While they were standing there thinking, an awful smell filled in the whole room.
"Whoa!" Bardroy exclaimed.
"Bard, the meat!" Maylene shouted, in panic.
The cook rushed to the oven, and opened it after turning it off.
"Ugh!" he muttered, after smelling the burned piece of beef. "That was supposed to be my masterpiece! I was sure to do better than Sebastian with it! Now it's a complete fiasco, thanks to you!"
"I'm sorry,I'm so sorry, Bard..." Maylene cried, grabbing a sponge to start cleaning the oven, from which was coming out a thick smoke. She coughed several times, and her hand suddenly touched the opened door.
"Ouch!"
She took back her hand, all red because of the burning.
"What, did you got hurt?"
"Burned myself..." the girl whined, putting quickly her hand under running cold water.
"You idiot!" Bard answered. "Leave this to me and go clean the plates. This has to be fixed before Sebastian arrives!"
At this thought, the maid shivered, went quickly back to the broken plates and caught a broomstick.
Sighing deeply, she started cleaning.
The whole day had been like this. There was absolutely nothing she could do right since she got up.
And, well, you could say since way longer before that.
Since, in fact, she entered at the service of her master, the Earl Ciel Phantomhive, engaged by the mansion's butler, Sebastian Michaelis.
She sighed again, thinking about all that Sebastian had done to try to teach her to be a good maid.
Was there really nothing that could be done about it? In that case, she just had to quit the job...
A possibility that she had to think about seriously. After what just happened, the Earl sure wouldn't agree to keep her in the house.
"Well, well..."
The sound of Sebastian's voice made Maylene's heart jump. She dropped her broomstick. The thing'd have fallen on him if he hadn't avoid it quickly and caught it back with his right hand.
"What have you done now?..."
"I, I, I... S-Sebastian, I'm..." started the girl, blushing and half-crying.
"Mister's favorite porcelain plates service..." the butler sighed. "This is annoying, I must say..."
He went then to the oven and looked at Bard's rotten meat.
"Such an expensive piece of meat... what a disaster..."
"It was just a matter of a minute or two, Sebastian..." Bard started, trying to justify himself.
"It's all my fault, Sebastian..." Maylene whined. "I distracted Bard with my clumsiness and as a consequence the meat burned..."
The butler gave her a dark look, and his shining red eyes terrorized the maid.
Then he smiled nicely.
"You two did enough for today. I'll fix everything up. And I'll make the service this evening.
Get back quietly to your rooms and don't leave them till tomorrow."
"Yes, sir", said Bard with an annoyed look.
He took the crying young maid away.
"It's certainly better this way, Maylene. You know Sebastian. He'll make it."
"I know he will... but I'm the problem... I wish I were like him... yeah, if only I was just like Sebastian..."
"Hey, don't start saying stupid things. Sebastian is Sebastian, and you are yourself."
They arrived in front of Maylene's bedroom. Bard opened it and took her inside.
"You had a bad day, kid. You should take some rest. Trust Sebastian for the rest and take a good night's sleep. You'll get better tomorrow, right?"
"Thanks, Bard..."
The cook smiled and closed the door. Maylene heard his footsteps in the corridor. She laid down on her bed and realized she was exhausted.
"Why can't I be like Sebastian?..."
That was her very last thought before falling into quite an agitated sleep.
I hope you like it so far. Reviews are appreciated. Thanks for reading!