Gabriella woke up at 6:30 the next morning to a pounding at her door. "Get up!" Mrs. Adams yelled, "You have some new assignments! Someone else just... Took some time off!"
Gabriella jumped out of bed. Still in her nightgown, she pulled open the door. She found Mrs. Adams dressed in her uniform, black dress with white apron, standing at her door.
"Get dress. I need to show you your new duties. You are to do these with your old assignments. Just as often."
Gabriella dressed in one of the uniforms that she got last night. And ran into the hallway and into the employee lounge. The lounge had a big, but old fashion tv, mix matched furniture, and a shelf of used torn up books. A women was sitting on the couch.
Mrs. Adams was in front, waiting for Gabriella to join them. As soon as Gabriella sat down in a chair, Mrs. Adam started talking. "So Sixela quit last night. We all have more assignments to take on. Just until we get a new worker.
"Illa along with cooking, you will also have to clean the dining room. Wash the table and clear the dishes after he eats. Vacuum everyday and take out the trash.
"Gabriella along with the hallways and stairs you will have to clean the living room and the sitting room downstairs. Under the couch cushions and all the furniture. Dust everything.
"Along with the rest of the first floor I will clean this room. Also his bedroom," Mrs Adams stated. "Till we get another person.
"Illa, you can bring up breakfast now."
After a long day of work, Gabriella headed up the stairs to the third story. She was about done, all she had to do was clean the hall upstairs. She quickly found an outlet. The only one in the hallway and that was by the door to the employee lounge.
She was about to plug-in the vacuum to when she heard Mrs. Adams and Illa talking in the lounge. "Not going to send another one. They barely stay a month and they leave because of him," Mrs. Adams explained.
Illa answered, "Troy, I mean Mr. Bolton, will be mad. I mean beyond mad. Angry"
"I know, don't tell Gabriella though. We need her and when she finds out why Sixela left she will leave too," Mrs. Adams told Illa. "I'm only staying, because I have a family to support."
"Funny how one man can make that many people hate him."
Gabriella didn't listen anymore. Her mind was racing. She remembered Troy. She had wondered whatever happened to him. She does not remember when he left. She just remember he wasn't there that he wasn't there.
'Why did he leave?' Gabriella thought, 'And why don't people like him?'
Mrs. Adams popped her head out of the lounge and told Gabriella that she was leaving. Also that Illa was in charge.
But Gabriella was not listening. She still wandering about Troy. She wanted to know why people hated him... But she would figure it out soon enough.
