The New Girl

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

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Excuse the mistakes

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Katerina Gilbert:

A week later and I'm still trying to get my mind off of Paige's visit by unpacking and arranging and rearranging my new room. It was the same size as my old room but I had my own room and a bigger closet. Not that I needed a bigger closet. I barely had any clothes.

I was going to my first day at my new school tomorrow. I was not looking forward to that. But I wanted to start new this year. It was my junior year at a new school. So other than my normal sweatpants and sweatshirts, I got some old clothes my mom bought me a while ago. It was a dark blue tank top with a thin, light gray sweater and skinny jeans. A gray beanie with my old pair of converse[outfit on my twitter]. I grabbed all of that and set it in the linen closet for tomorrow when I take a shower in the morning.

"Katerina, can you come here for a second?" I heard my mom yell.

"Yeah! Be there in a minute." I yelled and finished putting my outfit together. I ran down the hallway checking various rooms to see which one my mom called me from. I kept walking till I reached the kitchen and saw her starring at a poster in her hands with interest.

"What's wrong?" I asked once I say across from her at the table. It was about eight o'clock and I was wondering what she wanted. We already had dinner and I didn't think she would call me unless it was an emergency.

"Nothing dear. I just remembered, when u went to the grocery store, I saw this poster and I thought, since we just spent almost all our money on this new house, one of us could consider applying." She set the poster down and slid it across the table to where I could read it in front of me. It read:

HOUSEKEEPING JOB:

We're looking for someone who could work for the Edward family. Please call the number below for details.

Below the mini description, was a phone number. I grabbed my phone out of my pocket and when my mom noticed she told me to put it up.

"Mom, I'll take this job. It will give you time to get a real job and really pay for this house. If your going to be a housekeeper then you won't have time to interview for a real job. Let me take the small jobs." I tried to reason with her for about twenty minutes when she finally gave in. So I dialed the number. After the first ring, I ran into my room for privacy. I waited for about thirty seconds before someone answered.

"Hello?" They asked.

"Hi. I'm calling about the house keeping job." I decided to get strait to the point.

"Ah! Yes. So what's your name?" It was a guy. I was certain of that!

"Um.. Katerina Gilbert. I just moved I to town and I need some money." Was that too much information?

"Age?"

"16."

"You going to be at the school tomorrow?" Why would he be asking me that?

"Umm.... Yeah."

"I'll talk to you in person tomorrow and we'll talk."

"Ok." I was about to hang up when he said,

"Oh and my names Damon. Damon Edwards."

"Ok. I'll look for you in he morning." I said. I hung up after he confirmed it was ok. I had a new job.

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I woke up at 5:30 in the morning the next day since I was going to take a shower. Wiping the sleep away from my eyes I kicked the sheets off of me and headed for my bathroom. I made sure to grabbed a towel and set it on the floor outside the bathtub. Then I stripped off my clothes and got into the hot water. I haven't taken a hot shower in weeks since we didn't have the money to pay full for our water bill. It felt so good that I spent an extra five minute to put conditioner in my hair and brush through it with my fingers to get the knots out. I grabbed the bar soap from the rack against the wall and scrubbed at my skin in anxiety. I was starting my first day of school today and I had to meet with Damon to talk about me working for him.