Mechanical Heart

Chapter 6

Tessa's POV

After the stitches are done and I wake up from my nap, I decide to wonder around a bit. I walk around and see the kitchen, the parlor, the drawing room, and all kinds of different rooms. I meet different people, too. I've met Charolette, her spouse Henry, Jessamine, her courter Nate, Gideon, Gabriel (who is not very friendly to Will), and Church the Cat. I wanted to go outside so very badly, but I was afraid to.
"Tessa! Would you like me to do your hair?" Says Jessamine. "Oh I guess." I reply. My hair was always down and I hardly ever got a bath. My hair was usually matted and caked with dirt and mud. "First we have to wash your hair. I simply cannot brush through it with all that dirt." She says. I go behind the screen and go bare. I wrap a towel around myself and walk out. Jessamine has the tub filled with steaming hot water. I slip in and sigh. It felt so delightful. I felt my aching muscles slowly un-knotting. Jessamine takes my hair and lathers it with lavender smelling soap. After she is done, I get out and dress myself. "Okay, come here." She instructs. I sit down in the chair and she begins to comb through my hair. She takes a pair of scissors and cuts my hair so that it is even. Then she starts to weave my hair in the most eleborate way. She twists is and turns it all around. When she is done, she ties it off with a ribbon and brings it around so that I can see it. "I have never seen my hair look so lively before!" I say. It twists this way and that and it intertwines with itself. "It's called a French braid." Jessamine says. "It looks divine!" I say. "Now, it's supper time, would you like to have something to eat?" She says. I am not really hungry so I say, "No thank you." And with that she walks away, muttering to her self. My eyes starts to shudder close I hurry to bed and as soon as my head hits the pillow, I fall fast asleep.