What Ever It Takes

2 - Tell Me Something I Don't Know

"I would have already set his clothes on fire by now if I was working in your position." Tom laughed.

He and Sidney had spent over an hour outside and he had gotten to know her a little bit; her name was Sidney, she had been working at the mansion as a house help for about a week and she had a grandmother who was living in a care home at the moment.

He also noticed that she had a great sense of humor, for crying out loud he hadn't really smiled genuinely since his brother's sentencing but here she was emitting the loudest laugher out of him.

If he was gonna be visiting the mansion often, he was sure they would be friends.

"Honestly, I'm considering it. I plan on setting the clothes along with him on fire, when I get the chance." She said with a serious face and that alone sent Tom in stiches. "But seriously though, why haven't you driven off a bridge and killed the bastard already?"

Tom stopped laughing and just smiled at the fact that she had thought of saying something that even he himself had thought of doing.

"Because we would drown together, I can't swim." He said sheepishly and bit back a smile as he knew that a quirky response was coming his way.

"Really?" She raised an eyebrow and he saw mischief in her eyes. "Don't you reckon that it's worth it? At least the rest of us won't have to deal with him if you die together."

"What?!" Tom gasped, "are you for real right now?"

"Y-your face." Sidney jumped from the boot of the car where they'd been sitting and bent over laughing at Tom.

Quirky much?

"Shut up and get back here." Tom said when her laughter turned to giggles. "You are one crazy girl."

She jumped back up on the boot and dramatically looked at Tom. "crazy? Please tell me something I don't know."

"Nice necklace," Tom commented when he caught a glance of the half heart necklace dangling from the girl's neck.

She grabbed it in her right hand and caressed it then she tucked it inside her uniform.

"Thanks," she smiled. "Belonged to my mum and my grandma gave it to me when I was five."

"It really is pretty. So grandma has the other half?"

"Not exactly, the other half is supposedly with my father, apparently they bought matching ones before I was born and yeah." She stopped herself before she could be tearing up.

She didn't really remember her mother except for what she saw on photos that her grandmother showed her. Talking about her mother and the tragic love story she shared with her father was unsettling.

She even avoided talking about it as much as she could.

And Tom was considerate enough to not ask any more questions after seeing Sidney's demeanor change.

They spent the rest of the evening talking and getting to know each other until the party was over and Sidney had to go clean up along with the other workers and Tom had to drive the two assistants back to their places as per boss's request.

...

Sidney woke up early as usual and went to take a shower then she quickly dressed up and did her hair up.

She left her room in the servants' quarters and walked across the garden to the main house, admiring the beautiful flowers and landscape on her way there.

When she got to the kitchen, she greeted, highfived, fist bumped and hip bumped her fellow workers in the kitchen.

After breakfast, they all dispersed to their various chores around the house and that day she was assigned to clean the living room.