𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘦 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 ~ 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦

2. House rules

Y/n's pov:

Yesterday I stayed all day in my room. I just kept thinking and thinking and thinking about various things. Am I safe? Is this temporary or is she offering me a home? Why would she help me? Am I okay with this whole situation? I wanna go outside.

I got up from the bed and went to the door. There was a note in front of it with my name on it. I took it then went to a little couch to read it.

Ms Y/l/n,

I went out to catch some errands, I will be back around 4pm. Your breakfast is served in the dining room. Make sure you eat all of it, you need some energy. After that I want you to rest. If you need anything else just ask the maiden.

-Ms Venable

I guess I am allowed to exit my room. I stand up and open the door. The beautiful ivory walls fill my sight. Oh how I love how the pillars look. I walk down the hallway to reach the top of the stairs. The house- or should I say mansion is just so astonishing.

I go downstairs and try to find the dining room. I'm very hungry. When I finally arrive my mouth hanged open. This house just continues to leave me perplexed. It's huge, with a beautiful large creme colored wood table, that looks like it could fit thousands of people. Chairs that I don't think I'm worth sitting on due to how they resemble royalty. The fanciest silverwa-

"Excuse me Miss" I get interrupted by some lady. "Hello, sorry to irrupt, I just wanted to introduce myself. I'm the maiden, Ms Venable instructed me to look after you while she's gone"

"Oh yeah hi, yes she left me a note where she mentioned that. You can call me Y/n. I don't really like formalities" I responded. She just stared at me then left the room.

"Wait m-maiden?" I shouted. She came back rapidly. "Yes madam" Alright then "Ms Venable mentioned that I could have breakfast, do you happen to know where she left it?" I asked. "Sure madam I'll go fetch it for you" she said and came back with a plate of tasty looking stuff. "Thank you"

"Anything else Ms?" She asked. "No, thank you really" She started to leave again but I stopped her. "Wait. Again I know sorry. What's your name?" "Noelle" She responded shortly and finally left at peace.

Ooh now for some breakfast. I look at the watch and it read 2pm. Or lunch should I say. The plate had some blueberry muffins, peanut butter and jam, scrambled eggs and pork sausages. It all just look so good that it was gone in less than 5 minutes. I decided to continue exploring the house.

The whole house has a gorgeous color palette consisting in white-beige-black with gold and purple accents. When you first walk in you can see the giant stairs leading to the second floor. On the right you have a living room with the comfiest looking pillows and couches. There's also the dining room and a big bathroom at the back. On the left there's another living room, but this one has a piano and a little stage for entertainment I think. Then there's a conference room and at the back the most colossal kitchen. It's even a bit ridiculous how big it is. Upstairs we have 4 normal bedrooms, all with their full bathrooms. Then there's a slightly bigger one which is more cozy for some reason, that would be my room. And there's an office.

By now I've explored almost all of the house except one room. I left it for last because it had two doors and they were different colors from the other ones. It looked more interesting. I opened them to be met with a whole house. It was like three time bigger than my room.

It had another living room, a little commodore, big windows with blackout curtains, a king sized bed, a vanity with broken mirrors and many more. There was another door besides the vanity. I ran to open it but it was locked. I insisted wanting to see what's inside.

"What are you doing here" A deep voice said. Oh god. I turn around slowly and try to say something. "I just wanted to explore the house" I said. "You weren't allowed to do that. You just had to follow simple instructions, eat then rest."

"I just thought I cou-" "Could what? Enter my room without permission then trying to break into this door? This isn't exploring this is just snooping around! Get out." She said angrily and pulled me by my arm. It hurt. I was starting to panic. "I don't EVER want to see you enter my room again. Don't you know what privacy is?! Go away I don't want to see you right now" She let go of my wrist and I fell to the floor.

"I'M SORRY, I'M SORRY, I'M SO SORRY" I yelled at her. I hugged my knees while crying. She just stared.

"I'm sorry, sorry, I'm- so so" I whispered while rocking myself.

Ms Venable didn't know what to do. She didn't even know why I reacted like that. Let's just say she's not normally involved in situations like this. She neared me and offered me a hand, but I launched myself to her and hugged her legs while sobbing into her skirt.

Ms Venable's pov:

This was all new to me, but somehow I felt the need to protect her. She just looked so vulnerable. I sat beside her and hugged her while she calmed down. I think about what caused her reaction. Maybe I was too harsh.

After she calmed down I lead her to her room. "There. You should sleep." I told her. She just nodded and stayed still. I was going to ask what she was doing but then she said "Could you... tuck me in?" Oh? "Um... yes I guess I can"

She hopped on the bed and lied down. I sat beside her pulling up the covers trying to make it comfortable for her. "Is that good?" I asked. "It's perfect, thank you" She said. I felt bad about yelling at her the way I did. She didn't know better.

"I apologize" I spoke after a while. "I shouldn't have snapped at you, it wasn't your fault. I am truly... sorry y/n"

Y/n's pov:

Y/n. It sounds so beautiful coming from her. I appreciate that she apologized. It's not something common for someone to say sorry after hurting me. That means she cares.

"It's okay Ms, I'm also sorry for entering your room, you were right about irrupting your privacy." I told her. "Well" she said while standing up. "Rest Ms Y/l/n, you need to." I didn't wanted her to leave, she made me feel safe, but it would be inappropriate to ask her to stay. So I just closed my eyes and allowed myself to fall into dreamland.

In the morning I go downstairs to eat. This time I'm joined by Ms Venable. "I have some rules for you, just so yesterday's incident doesn't happen again. First, you shall not enter my room unless instructed to. Second, I want you to help Noelle with chores, you cannot just do nothing all day. Third, always come to me first when you're needing something. And final, we'll have tea every wednesdays at 3 pm. I need to get to know you. I want to know who I'm letting into my house. That would be all, any questions?"

"Yes actually. Can I go outside?"

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A/N: looong chapter today. I'm so exhausted but I didn't want to leave you guys without an update. Anyway I would love to get tucked in by Ms Venable. I hope you enjoyed the chapter, next one will be up tomorrow. Mwah 😽