I breathed heavily.
Today was the day, the day I finally might get an actual job, other than cleaning the store for my mum. I pulled my hair forward and carried on down the road. Thoughts were rushing through my head. Do they know i'm only 18? Have they found someone already? Will they be super posh, or live in a old smelly flat? In the end I decided to just hope for the best. My heels clicked against the pavement as I followed my directions to Aubry Road.
I turned my final corner and found myself down a road I had never seen in my life. All the trees were the same, green leaves, but none on the ground. The patios at the front were the size of a garden. I counted each house number until I reached 32.
Knock Knock. Their golden door knocker made a little sound against the door. I waited patiently inbetween the two pillars that held up the stone ceiling above the door. After a few minutes of waiting, a blonde woman finally opened the door. "Ah, are you Claire?" She asked in a posh tone. "Yes, i've come for the babysitting job" I replied. She smiled and nodded. "Come this way then". I followed her inside the house and took off my shoes before entering the cream carpeted room. "The children are playing in the yard, come meet them" She said.
I walked out into the yard with no shoes on, but their grass was soft and warm, freshly cut. The woman walked me over to the two children playing in a sand pit. "This is Clementine" She said, guesturing to the little girl with curly hair. Clementine looked up at me and gave a timid wave. I gave her a smile back. "And this is Robert, but we call him Rob for short". Unlike Clementine, Rob stood up and came over to give me a hug. "Hello Rob" I said, hugging him back. "Oh, and i'm Samantha, my husband Tyler is at work at this moment of time".
"I'll give you a little tour of the house". "Samantha, your house is truly beautiful" I said, gazing up at the coloured glass figures. "I know" She said back, which I found quite snobby. "This is the living room" She said. The room the enormous. There was a cream leather sofa which stretched out to half of the room, and a 80" TV on the wall. "And this is the kitchen". The kitchen was almost as big, there was a large breakfast table in the centre, whilst the rest of the space was taken up by a fridge, cooker, a freezer which was the same size as the fridge and a bar with all kinds of alcoholic drinks.
"Through here is the playroom". The room was the largest I had seen so far. The walls were painted like a jungle, with all kinds of animals. And scattered around the room was all kinds of toys. "There's a toilet down the end, but we don't have to go there".
Next, we traveled up the staircase, and to the upper floor. "This is my room". The room was painted red, and the bed was huge. There was a cabinet with rose petals scattered across the top and a walk-in wardrobe at the other end of the room. "Here's the en suite". The bathroom was also really big. There was a see-through glass shower at one end and a large bath at the other with a toilet and sink. "You won't ever have to go in here, ok?". "Ok..." I said.
We then went into the room next door. "This is Clementine's room". Of course it was painted pink, the bed was styled as a carriage with large stuffed horses at the end. The wardrobe in here was large but not walk in. There were all kinds of dolls on the floor. "She hasn't cleaned her room yet" Samantha told me. We then continued to the room opposite. "This is Rob's room". It was like Clementine's, but green and filled with dinosaurs.
"Down there are some guest rooms and to the right is a gym. Oh, and outside there's a swimming pool and a Jacuzzi". "So... I got the job?" I asked. "I've already looked through your School Records, so yes, you have the job. You start at seven in the morning, from Monday till Friday".
"Thank you so much!" I said in delight. Everything had worked out fine, and the kids didn't seem too much hassle.
