Chapter 5: From Maid to Ghost to Pet

Alice wagged her tail in excitement and knocked on the door. "Ciao, sono la nuova cameriera… Posso entrare?" she spoke up in Italian since that was what the female requested though she only knew a few words in Italian.

Her cat ears twitched. Was it just her ears or did she heard a tapping of booths just now?

"Aren't you going to open the door?!" a voice from the inside of the room stated impatiently and Alice blinked and opened it.

And was amazed at the mess, Alice gulped.

There were mangas, clothes, papers, trashes, and etc. lying everywhere. It seemed like the place was hit by a tornado and it's even worse than the Grumpy's room.

And that's a saying…

"Ahem!" a young woman stood in front of her in all her glory with an elegant purple princess-like dress. "I want you to clean everything while I enjoy my meal, got it?"

Alice couldn't really answer as the unknown woman just took her food and ate at the only place that was clean and order, a corner with a white and pink dining table for royalty and the blonde could only wonder where that table came from—or why it was so sparkling clean for the matter.

"So I have to clean again?" the young maid could just pout really—or complain for the heck of it. No one liked cleaning especially in some place that could be considered as a dump.

"Delicious~!" the woman—who she still hadn't heard the name of but Alice could guess it was "Vivaldi"—moaned blissfully eating a slice of a short straw-berry cake and the dark blonde could feel herself watered.

Seriously, whose idea was it to cook or bake delicious for the one asking for Italian breakfast again?

…

"Oh." Alice muttered, averting her eyes and trying to clean the room. "Mine."

It was her idea after all so she shouldn't complain much but…

"This is very impressive~ The shortcake's very sweet but still it held some slight bitterness and the prima colazione's not sweet and counter the sweetness of the cake~! Adding Caffè e latte just makes it devine~"

Can you blame a lady to feel hungry?!

It was bad enough that Alice didn't exactly have breakfast yet and the whole hearing the food she made being delicious was just making her starving than ever.

Of course, not that she would say it though.

Alice sighed, getting back to cleaning but then beeped red when a very loud grumble from her stomach was heard.

Vivaldi stared at her in wonder and she raised her hands up. "T-that wasn't me!" Alice quickly said, not really waiting for the question.

Sue her but she didn't really like being pitied on and if her grumbling made her look pitiful then forget being hungry, she'd just do her work and get to eat many food she would make after.

Though Alice's action didn't really make her pitiful, she failed to notice it made her look like a cute innocent child caught in something she shouldn't do and was looking for forgiveness.

And with down cat ears and tail, it added the effect of looking adorable to anyone's eyes.

Vivaldi's eyes turned to her and Alice found herself being hugged in a flash.

"So cute~!"

"Eh?" Alice couldn't help her shocked at those actions. Didn't the older woman seemingly hate her? And plus… "C-can't breathe."

Vivaldi pulled away with a bright smile, looking at the young maid from top to bottom. "Taking a good look at you now, you seem like the perfect heroine in a shoujo manga." she stated happily and the dark blonde could just blink in confusion.

"And your character is just straight out like a combination of all the mangas I've read!"

She was fangirling that Alice could conclude. "An otaku for shoujo mangas?" she asked no one in particular and received no answer.

"Your name is Alice right?" Vivaldi continued on and dragged the girl to the dining table. "I'm Vivaldi and I will you 'Ali-chan', okay? It's a much cuter name."

Alice just nodded at that, still finding the sudden change of attitude weird.

"Then, let's eat together as a start of a wonderful friendship." Vivaldi said—or more like ordered—not waiting for a disagreement nor approval—nor whatever kind of reply.

And who was Alice to say "no" to a wonderful deal—meal?

~.X.~

"Eh? You're leaving?" Vivaldi asked in dismay and Alice could agree to what she was feeling. The dark blonde really had fun with the woman from all their girl talks and stuff.

It was a nice change with all the males she had encountered. But still, she had other duties and technically her outfit just wanted to bolt out now.

Good thing, Alice was holding tightly to an attached pole—why and how it was there, she didn't want to find out—on the corner of the room near the door.

"I still got to deliver the breakfast to all the residents here." she said honestly and waved. "See you, Vivaldi-oneechan!"

Yeah, for some reason the woman wanted her to call her that so Alice just did as told. Not that she mind or anything. It was just name-calling.

Alice walked calmly to the some hallways, finding herself at ease that someone could still be normal—as normal as she could get in one weird family. She was mentally forgetting the danger in this tricky place.

Beep.

"Huh?" Alice looked at her feet, seeing the tiles turned red and let out a nervous smile. "Don't tell me…"

The floor she was standing opening up, creating a hole and she found herself falling into the pitfall.

"Not again! AHHHHHHHHHH!"

~.X.~

"O-ouch." Alice groaned in pain and looked at her surrounding, her senses watching out for a certain pervert. She let out a sigh when she realized she was alone in a simple room with very little light and two doors.

"Hmm. Weird." she muttered aloud, walking in circle. "Where am I?"

Then, the door from her left slowly opened and Alice turned to it. A pair of dull eyes met her own eyes and the girl blinked in confusion.

"…"

"…"

"AHHHHHH!"

The other figure, wearing a black robe, quickly backed away from her, seemingly forgetting to lock the door. "G-get out!" shivering, the other shouted in fear. "Don't come near me!"

Alice stared and stared. "Huh?" okay so she was downright confused but could you blame her? Was she really that scary with cat ears and tail? And the figure seemed and sounded like a male but should a male be afraid of her?

And another thing, her maid outfit just controlled her movements again and the blonde was now slowly advancing to the scared…male?

"Wait!" Alice snapped her fingers in realization. "Are you the one who asked Hong Kong breakfast? I did dim sum as breakfast."

The figure suddenly stopped shivering and looked at her. "Y-you're the n-new maid? N-not some ghost?" he asked cautiously, his fair covered by his long bangs.

Alice would have laughed really.

Ghost. She was mistaken for a ghost? Seriously?!

She sighed heavily. "Yes, I'm the new maid, Alice." the young lady wondered for how many times she was going to say something along that line. "And no, I am not some ghost that you speak of."

"…" the male was quiet and before Alice could comprehend it. She was thrown out the room and the door was shut closed.

Alice looked at the tray on her side and noticed how one meal was missing.

"That was fast." she muttered impressed that the pale looking man from before was able to get the food in a second. "And rude."

Alice looked at the name on the door. "Pierce, huh?" she read aloud, testing the name. "He's a scaredy-cat, kinda different from the other residents."

And not a second to waste, her body moved in another direction again. She looked around and raised an eyebrow at the name she had passed.

"Blood, Gowland…" Alice said to herself, realizing it was from the guys she had met before and shivered at the thought of the next person she'll serve would be if she/he's in the same row as the previous two. "Hope the guy's nice."

Alice stopped in front of a blue door with a name; Elliot. She knocked the door and waited for a reply.

It didn't take long before the door was opened by a young man who stared at the dark blonde intensely, making her cringe a little.

"Cat ears…" Elliot mumbled lowly and Alice's cat ears twitched to hear the sound.

"Yeah, some idiot just gave me a potion that adds this stuffs tome." Alice answered, not really waiting for the question and then bowed politely. "So I'm Alice, the new maid."

"Elliot." the guy keep on looking at the cat ears and the female just couldn't help feel insecure at those stares.

"Um…it's rude to stare." Alice said as a matter of fact and watched as Elliot nodded but still kept on staring. She sweat-dropped at that.

Then, they went inside the room and for lack of words, Alice was amazed at how clean it was. Definitely the cleanest out of all the rooms she had seen.

And looking around, the maid could guess why the young man was staring at her intently.

Elliot's room was filled with animal stuffs and even some small animals so she could conclude the guy liked animals and since she was having cat ears, either the guy wanted to touch or just have one for his own.

Anyway…

"Here's your food." Alice wanted to get out as quickly as possible. "Finland's open sandwiches."

"Ah. Thank you." Elliot smiled friendly and patted her head where her cat ears were. "…soft."

"Er…"

This was what she was afraid of. Sure the guy's fairly normal and friendly but she didn't want to be petted like a pet cat or just simply a pet!

"Yeah, well, I need to go." Alice lied and was about to when her body wouldn't bulge. She froze.

'Sure, sure. Move when I don't want to and don't move when I want to move.' the girl thought bitterly.

"I still have something you have to do." Elliot said happily and he petted the female again. He scratched the cat ears and the cat tail just swished in pleasure.

Alice would like to say that her pride and dignity were being crushed. The guy was treating her like a pet—and heck, she was enjoying it like some lazy cat!

She did everything to control herself but the cat hormones were so powerful.

"Meow~!"

See? She was acting like a cat—a pet cat!

Alice really would kill Nightmare when all of this was over. And he better get that antidote fast or else she would keep on getting situation like this with Elliot.

Then, she felt her body moving again and boy, was she grateful at the call to serve someone else.

Alice glared one last time to the Elliot who grinned in return.

One of these days, she would get them back, especially Nightmare. Definitely Nightmare.

Cat: So um… Bee and I decided to just write chapters separately and I'm sorry if you didn't the way I wrote this chapter... Bee's next so yeah… I got to go write my others stories now!