Give Me Some Time

8

Based on their schedule for today, they are free. Tomorrow they have schools. We ate lunch in silence, I let them processed the info.

"You can ask me anything, if I can answer, that is. And if you have any difficulties, just call me. I'll be there the as quick as I can run." I told them. They nodded, they were pretending to accept me when I first got here, now I'm gonna make them really accept me. "Once you're done eating, can you guys change into pants and shirts that you don't mind getting dirty in? A hat would be good too." I winked and left for my room to change my attire.

They weren't as spoilt like most wealthy child do even though they're much richer. They listen well to others. I'm still wondering what Jack meant by Mary helping me once she trusted me.
I had asked the maid if I could borrow her garden boots and at first she declined, but after some persuading, she finally give up. Today I'm gonna work on the garden so that it'll be a surprise for Jack and Liam. We only have a week till they come back.

The kids stood in the living room, both of them were questioning their looks. "Hey kids, now follow me." I said and take a bucket of gardening tools outside the house onto my hands. They followed quietly.

"I planned on making this garden lively, consider it as a surprise for your father and Liam once they come back. Perhaps we can use it for tea time!" I clapped my hand in excitement. Noah did too but Mary still doesn't react.

"That is only if you're both okay with that." I turned to face them both and asked. Noah agreed with his hand in the air, Mary crossed her arms to her body. I raised my eyebrows.

"Okay fine, but we better have tea time here regularly. I'm not gonna waste my effort by making it pretty then leaving it to be like this situation again."  Mary said and took gloves from the bucket. We laughed and started working once we're geared up.

Noah collects the broken vases, wood planks and other things to throw away. Mary plucked all of the wild grass into the bucket. I did heavier things that not suitable for them.

Things progressed slowly, but it's okay. The sky turned orange, its late evening and they look pretty tired already. "Hey kids, let's stop here for today, I prepared something for our tea time but it seems its gonna be snack before dinner." I said and took off the gloves.

"How do you know we always do tea time?" Mary asked.

"Is it cake? I like sweets." Noah cut in. Mary glared at him but he doesn't mind it. His eyes were big and round.

"Of course I asked Jack and others, I couldn't be a part of this family if I don't even know what you guys do in your free time. Now run inside and take a quick shower." I tapped their back and push them up to the house.

The garden are now a bit more clean now that no grasses everywhere, no broken vases. I smiled proudly and left for a shower.

I had made sure to tell the maids to prepare the table before I ran upstairs. I took of my dirty clothes and boots, put them in the laundry basket. Once I'm all freshen up, I returned to the dining room where the cookies and cake are already settled on the table.

I felt like I've been asking the maids for too many things whilst I was like them just less than a week ago. I do not want to feel dependent and let them do everything for me. I went up stairs and knocked on their door, falling then for early snack before dinner. The door opened and both of them came out. We walked down in silence.

As our cups are filled with hot lemon tea, I started the conversation.

"Was it tiring?"  I asked.

"I've never done that much exercise in the past, but I wouldn't mind doing it again." Mary replied. I'm a bit shocked that she spoke her opinion faster than Noah, as I knew that Noah was the chatterbox.

"I've been having sword trainings regularly, so that amount of exercise was just a light warm up for me." Noah boasted.

"Well, do you guys want to pitch in ideas on how to make it beautiful?" I asked. Noah looked to Mary, she seemed interested.

"Do I get to choose the plants and flowers? Oh! How about redecorated it entirely?" she asked. Noah winked at me, I can slowly get closer to Mary once I find topics that interest her.

"Sure, write down what you want to have. You too, Noah. Write down what you wanted to put in there, I'll drop by the market tomorrow morning once you guys leave for school." I said and put a cookie in my mouth. The twin imitated and they gasped.

"Where did you buy this? It's so good!" Noah asked. Mary nodded as she put another cookie in her mouth.

"I baked it earlier. Do you have any favourites?" I asked. We talked so much in the dining room that our plates of snack turned into dinner, until everything on it were clean.

"It's late, now go up and sleep. Don't forget to give me your list tomorrow or else I couldn't buy it." I said and they greeted me goodnight and ran off from the dining room. I collected the dishes to wash them but Margaret immediately appeared.

"Madam, let us. You've been gardening all evening, go on and rest." she said lowly.

"Drop the title, please. I'm comfortable with just Sara. And no. I'm not gonna depend everything on maids, you guys had done plenty." I took the plates away and walked into the kitchen.

Doing a little chores have lighten my shoulder, as if a heavy weight was reduced by half. It's hard to get used to this kind of wealthy lifestyle right away. My past eight years that was taken from my teenage years, it had taught me more than school probably would. I missed out high school but that doesn't mean I am stupid. I had use most of my money from working to buy the books.

"Are you tired dear? You've been staring at the wall for awhile now." Margaret asked, snapping me back to reality.

"Ah no, I'm okay. I'll clean this and set off. Go ahead, it's late." I told her. Embarrassingly, I couldn't believe I would blanked out while doing the dishes, what would've happen if I were working with something dangerous under other people?

I cleaned the sink and dragged my feet up the stairs to my room. Just a few minutes ago, I was reliving my memories, now I'm laying on a luxury bed that too big for me. How the table turned.

I had to stay a week from Liam, so all I could do in the meantime was managing the garden for a surprise. I mean, to make him head of the house worthy, I have the most useful method. For now, I don't have to work on Jack's business this week as he told me that Joseph's brothers would assist me. Once they come back home, I will try everything to make Liam perfect.