Masquerade

Chapter 5: The Royal Introduction

Everything was fantastic. The first few days were described to be so marvelous that I wanted to tell my family about this. While I worked, Yuya helped me with both the documents and the housework. Why did I care about housework? Because I haven't fully trusted him in this yet. I initially put my high hopes in him by doing one activity: doing the washing up. And of course, it failed. So I asked him with another one, and these failed, too. I was upset but quickly calmed down, in my mind, I thought I should not judge a book by its cover, so I did one thing that according to my parents, was risky and complicated, something that even I did not expect about what I had done. I gave him my list and I challenged him to do all of these on the list in five hours. Just five hours and if he completed them, I would judge him again.

" Wow, I am serious, aren't I?" I thought as I made a drink and gave the order to the customer, who was waiting.

The work was simple yet easy for me as I had experienced all of these back when I was a baker including:

- Making cakes
- Make sweets
- Make drinks
-...

With all of these above, it was no surprise that I passed all of the customers' conditions and quality, being pleased by my coworkers and boss, as well as for the first time in my life, I finally had my first salary compared to a short amount of money in my old bakery. I was grateful to my boss because she reminded me of Miss Maria, who took care of me and helped me with these useful techniques in these works a lot. I intended to visit her despite living far from her for a few weeks, but my coworkers told me that she had passed away peacefully before I knew it. It was believed that when she died, she was sitting and sleeping happily on her favorite couch in front of the door looking at the sky, quietly and happily. This brought shocking news because she never told me anything, including her disease. But the truth was already brought to light as they confirmed that she was old and was dealing with her cancer. Thinking that we would be sad to hear this and thinking of asking us to buy medicine for her was both a disturbance to us and an insult to our hard work and effort, a few months before we were fired, Miss Maria secretly put her coworkers into the letters and delivered them randomly and told anyone who had her letters gave to us when it was time. This was when my boss came to us after work and gave me her letter, never in my life had I cried so loudly and emotionally as now. She said that Miss Maria was proud of me and she wanted me to follow my path instead of hers. I was so sad that I grabbed tightly the letter, not noticing it carving my hand. I thought happily, that it was time to move on and continue.

After my shift work, I looked at the wrinkled letter looked at the sky, and bowed slowly. It was afternoon. Miss Maria loved the sunset because this was meaningful to her, she wanted to see it when she retired, but she couldn't now.

" Thank you for everything, Miss Maria. I will never forget what you have done to me. I love your present and this time, I will never disappoint you, Madam."

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Yuya was sitting and reading a newspaper. He smirked. He knew that after having my compulsory missions given to him, I would forget what I promised initially because simply, I worked. Because the list was all easy and boring to him. When I went home, it was... Complete and beautiful. It was so clean that I had to cover my eyes.

" Hello, Snowball. How is it today?"

Snowball was my very first nickname before soon. I initially loved my nickname but in their language, "Snowball" meant " Tiny and cute" which described fully my current identity. This insulted me so much that I forbade Yuya to call it again several times.

" Can you please stop calling me that again at once?!"

" Nope. Because I like it." Yuya said calmly, much to my annoyance.