Ms. Caroline Sobers

Chapter 3
"I beg your pardon ma'am?" Caroline asked, recovering from the shock of what her mistress had just said.
"I will not live in a house where people of a different colour are treated like animals", Valentina shouted as she walked over to her walk in closet to get the clothes she needed off the racks.
Caroline got up from the chair she was using and walked towards the direction in which her mistress was.
"Please Miss Valentina! Think about what you're doing", she pleaded as she grabbed the older woman by the shoulders from behind.
"Caroline stop trying t--", she was cut off by the sound of a loud roar of a man's voice as he entered the room that they were in.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?!", Master Francisco shouted as he saw that Valentina throwing all her clothes on to her huge bed.

"I'm leaving this God forsaken place!" Valentina stated as her pale face was now red and her blue eyes dark with fury.
"Like hell you are" her brother scuffed,still not acknowledging the fact that Caroline was in the room.
"You don't own me Francisco! You think you know it all but you don't!" Valentina was just getting started, "The way you treat Negros is just degrading and I for one will not be associated with it whatsoever"
They stared at eachother with heated gazes.
"Slave, leave", Francisco said angrily still not breaking the eye contact with his little sister.
Caroline didn't need to be told twice. She gave a small, descrete glance at Francisco before quietly walking out of the room.

When the maid had left the room, Francisco turned to his sister and said "Just relax for a moment and tell me what exactly the problem is" Valentina tried to calm herself a bit and slumped down on the cold hard floor in an unladylike manner.

"You've obviously upset me very much Francisco"
Her brother frowned.

"How could I have upset you without even knowing what I've done sister?" As he beside her, he reached for her small hand that was strangely very cold and he intwined his fingers with hers.
"You slapped my best friend and I'm really not used to you hurting people like that...especially females" She looked up to meet her brother's green eyes which were clouded with sadness because of what he had just heard his baby sister say.

"Valentina for the love of God!" Francisco groaned and she could sense the frustration that he was feeling.

"How can you refer to that....thing as your friend?!" She looked up at Francisco in shock.

"She may be my maid but she's also my friend!" She exclaimed.
"Valentina stop!" He said in warning tone.
"How dare you call her a 'thing'?!"
"Valentina stop!" His voice was a bit louder this time but Valentina was too angry to sense danger.
"Don't tell me to stop because you're not my father and as much as you would love to control me,you can't! I'm old enough to know that now!"
"Valentina I--"
"--and as for Caroline! I think she's a beautiful, intelligent and hard working black female and I know that she is proud of the colour that her parents have given her! I am proud to call her my friend Francisco and if that's such a crime, then I'll leave this house and take her along with me!"
"ENOUGH GIRL!!" Francisco got up from where he was sitting and stormed out of the room at the speed of lightning, leaving Valentina on the floor and before she could process what had just happened in her head, Francisco angrily walked inside the room holding Caroline by the collar of her white cotton blouse that only maids were allowed to wear along with a loose black high waisted skirt that was incredibly ugly in her opinion. They also had to wear some ugly black boots that were hidden by the skirt, Valentina once complained to her father about the maids' uniform..... but that was another story.

Francisco looked as though he was afraid to hold her by the hand because the colour of her skin would rub off on his own.

"THIS is the girl you are talking about Valentina" She could hear the venom in his voice, "THIS is the oh so 'proud black woman' that you speak so highly of--" he angrily shoved her forward and poor Caroline looked so scared out of her mind.