Ms. Caroline Sobers

Chapter 6
The following morning as soon as Francisco woke up he went straight to his window to view the garden.
He had been sitting in the garden for three hours yesterday, waiting for the gardner to come. He didn't know why he wanted to see this person so badly. Maybe he wanted to get one of his father's servants in trouble, as immature as it sounded. He would go back out to the garden this afternoon, that was for sure. Until then, he would just relax..maybe go for a swim in his father's pool.

He'd been thinking about the maid all day yesterday. What was her name again?
Candice? Camarie? Cate? Caroline?
Yes! Her name was Caroline! He felt proud of himself for remembering a nobody's name.

That maid had changed his sister for the worse. He had to find a way to get her out of Valentina's life. He would have to do it as soon as possible before the filth brought his sister down to her level.

Valentina held on to the railing of her balcony while she stared at the workers in her father's cornfield. She pitied them all. They worked in the scorching sun all day and were never allowed at least one day off. If she was the mistress of the house she lived in, she would have made some drastic changes.

While overlooking the field that was opposite her bedroom,she spotted one big,black,muscular figure and smiled teasingly and then turned around to find Caroline sitting on a chair that she had been given permission to take out of the older girl's room.

"Caaarroolllinee!",she drawled teasingly, "I spy with my little eye Willow James!"

Caroline sighed but couldn't help but blush.

In every teenage girl's life, she falls helplessly in love with someone who she doesn't stand a chance with. To her, Willow James was a God.
He stood at 5"9, had broad shoulders,an athletic body (earned from hours of working on the cornfield) and a not so attractive face.
Willow's lips were too full and he had a button nose which made his lips stand out even more. He had pimples all around his face and his eyes had a horrible shade of an almost black looking colour.

She thought he had the perfect personality though. That was what he really mattered.
He gave his all to anyone who needed help, he even stood up to a white man once because he was about to slap an old woman and although it had earned him a good whipping from the same man he stood up to, it still made all the Negros look up to him.
In his twenty years of life, Caroline only knew him for one year and that was enough.
The first time they met, he had seen her sitting in the garden and instead of running to tell the master of the house, he simply advised her that it was a bad idea to be outside and went away. He saw her outside the following days and warned her but eventually he finally understood that she was never going to stay away from the garden and stopped warning her. She knew how risky loitering outside would be but she still did and who was he to stop her?

In the coming months, they would meet in the garden after hours when they knew that no one would see them and just talked about anything that came to mind. Valentina knew about them communicating but she had no idea that it was after hours when her maid should have been in bed. Caroline intended to keep it that way. She trusted Willow enough to know that he would never tell anyone her secret.
So technically only one person knew what she did after hours...per say.

"Hello?!" She then realized that Miss Valentina has been trying to speak to her this whole time.
"Dear are you okay?"
"I'm sorry Miss...I got distracted"
"Really?" Valentina giggled, "Might it have been by that amazingly fit devil outside?"
Caroline blushed but said nothing.
"You know, you should really tell him of the feelings you have towards him" Valentina grunted.
Caroline sometimes wondered how such a lady could be such a tomboy in private.
"Ma'am, I cannot--"
"Valentina!!!"
Caroline's voice was cut off by the sound of a deep and husky bark of a man.