Blinded By Love (On Hold)

Chapter 3

Blinded by love: ch. 3

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Here I am standing behind the house in the middle of a humongous garden on my birthday getting a landscaping lesson from a man named fred who's missing his two front teeth. Well at least I know what he wants for christmas. I snickered to myself causing the gardener to stop his lecture and give me a questionable look.

I cleared my throat, "you were saying" I said waving my hand for him two continue. He narrowed his eyes at me but resumed his mind numbing lecture. And again I zoned out, glanced around me at the exstrordinary looking garden. There was a central fountain behind me, the sound of splashing was acually making my have to pee. On the far right was an entrance to some maze of some kind. To my left was a small shed were they kept the tools. The whole garden? Was surrounded by a fancy looking gate. The few things I did hear from the head gardner in front of me was that it was a victorian-style garden which I had no idea what that is. I bet you can get lost in a place like this.

"Any questions?" Fred asked. Not knowing what he just said I nodded.

"Where do I start?"

"Manuel!" He yelled, soon I say a young hispanic boy come from the shed.

"Si" honestly that was all I understood out of their whole conversation. Fred turned back to me.

"He will be helping you, showing you the ropes. Listen to him." Ugh, more people telling me to take orders.

"Whatever" I muttered. He rolled his eyes and walked away muttering something in spanish, I wish I knew spanish.

"So your the new help, huh" he asked. He looked about my age. He had a darker tan than me, Pobably from working in the sun all the time. He had dark hair like me but he had brown eyes, unlike my hazel.

"Looks that way" he chuckled. He began to walk towards the gate to enter into the maze region of the garden.

"Lets get a move on we got lots to do" I took the longest deep breath of my life before I followed. I hate it here already.

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After loosing him a couple times I finally found him by a pond. He spotted me coming around the corner. He unexpectedly threw a bottle at me; which I caught just in time before it hit me in the face. I glared at him but he ignored it

"Feed the fish" he told me. I tightened my jaw reminding myself this is why I'm here. I strode over to the edge to peer in the water to see huge unique colored fish swimming around.

"What are they?" I asked as I started to throw the food in the water.

"Koi" he responded throwing food in the pond also.

"Koi?"

"Their japanese koi, also know as nishikigoi, their domesticaded fish." I nodded my head like I knew what the hell he was saying.

"Interesting" I said you could just hear the sarcasum leaking from my voice. He laughed.

"yeah, lets go were done here"

"Thank god." I said throwing the bottle of fish food back him.

We talked a little as we worked. I found out that fred was his uncle and he's been here for two years. It started off as a summer job a while back, his uncle told him to work here for summer but he loved it after that. Honestly I officaly HATE gardening! I pulled unwanted weeds out of the ground. Clipped the hedges getting all the stray branches. And cut the grass with old fashion reel cutters. Where was that mower you can sit in? We called it quits when the sun began to set. All I kept thinking was I'm beging forced to endure this torture for three damn months.

On the way back I noticed the sound of barking as we made it back to the fountain from earlier. Looking in the direction of the noise I saw a figure of a girl walking out of the maze making her way to the house with a golden haired dog in front of her. 'Thats strange, didn't see her in there' I thought. From this distance I could only see a flow of long browish blonde hair before she disappeared in the house with the dog.

"Hey manny?" I said trying to get manuel's attention.

"Yeah" walking out of the shed I turnned my head to him.

"Who was that girl?" I asked getting a confused face as my response.

"What girl?" He asked as he closed and lock the shed behind him.

"The one with the dog" he frowned before his eyebrows raised in relization.

"Oh, your talking about paige" we sarted for the back gate to go into the house.

"Paige?" Still confused as to who she was.

"yep, thats the Redmann's daughter" this caused me to stop in my tracks. Manny stop to look back at me.

"Daughter? They have a daughter?" I asked astonished with this information.

"Yep and she's more beautiful than you can imagaine," He responded resuming his walk to the house. I quickly fell in step with him. "and very intertaining to talk to. I've had the pleasure of talking with her during work"

"Where can you find her." I really wanted to see this captuvating beauty he spoke of up close.

I watched him shrug "usually she's in the garden, she loves it there or she's in the house doing god knows what."

"Hmm" was I could manage. When did the redmanns have a daughter?

"How old is she?" I asked.

"I think about seventeen" he answered. We made it to the door.

"Well see you tomorrow chase" he said waving as he walked down the opposite hallway that I was going.

"Yeah" turning I making my way up the stairs to the room Mr. stick up his ass was so kind to take me to yesterday. Once in my room I collapsed on the bed, Man I'm so exhausted. I just planned on closing my eyes for a minute before going to take a shower to wash of the smell of grass off me and get dinner but once my head hit the pillow I was out.