FORBIDDEN

I woke up early today as usual of course, I sat up in bed and looked over at Luisa who was still asleep. I looked at her face, her beautiful face, I looked at the red scar left on her cheek how cruel that Smith child was, he had asked Luisa to make his morning tea and she did, she had left it on the table for it to cool down and had gone to get the broom to sweep the floor, when she came back she found him just about to drink it, "Wait" she had said. "What did you say" he had retorted in an angry tone.

"Sir it is still very hot"

"So I asked for my tea if I get it hot it's your fault" he said and took a sip only to throw the cup towards her, it shattered on impact as it landed inches away from her, the hot tea spraying on to her feet burning them, he got so furious that he grabbed her arm forcefully and dragging her all the way to the kitchen he took a butter knife from the kitchen drawer and then switched on the fire he kept it on there, for about a minute and then proceeded to place it right on her cheek. Luisa had cried all day.

I got out of bed and took the horrible yellow uniform we have to wear everyday I also took out a towel and walked to the gruesome toilet they had for us. It was missing a door, we had first started to hang towels at the front but they kept getting taken away (i am guessing by the young masters), we then decided to keep hanging the towels but took them down when we were done using the bathroom. The toilet was about the size of horse stall and smelled like one too, it was always pouring out freezing water. I went to the toilet to find Lulu my best friend coming out. "Hi Valerie"

"Hey Lulu, how's the shower?"

"Surprisingly it wasn't that cold"

"Seriously?"

"Yeah so, i guess i don't have to take down the towel"

"No you may not" i said in a British accent, making both of us giggle.

"Right then you may enter" she mocked imitating my accent,as i entered the shower and Lulu wasn't kidding about the water, it wasn't hot but it certainly wasn't freezing my butt off cold like usual.

i went back to the room me and Luisa were staying in. I entered the room and she eyed me strangely. "What are you wearing?" she asked.

"My uniform" i replied.

"Oh no no, Valerie, don't you remember about the party the Misses was talking about it's today"

"Today"

"Yes now wear what you where supposed to wear" she said tossing me the clothes I was supposed to wear for the party, it was a better improvement than our usual uniform, it was a white dress (for girls) with white gloves (since the MRS. said that she didn't want us infecting her guest with our black viruses, trust me I got so angry when she said that I almost smacked her) and we also had to wear white boots ( I guess we had to wear a lot of white).

After I finished wearing them I sat infront of the mirror and started to braid my brown curly hair, yes I said brown hair the only reason I have curly brown hair, light brown skin and those brown eyes everyone liked to look at, was because my dad was a white man, my mum had to look after me till I was six I was then sold to another slave master to work for I had worked for him for about thirteen years and was then sold to this new master all I knew about this new master was that he was called Peter Smith, that he had a wife and five children three boys and two girls.

Anyway like I said I was braiding my hair when I finished i walked over to the kitchen to help with setting the table. It was then that I met Bennet or Ben for short the boy who had scarred Luisa for life. I had been holding plates to place on the table when all of a sudden Ben came into the kitchen wearing a black suit , he was a good looking man with brown hair and brown eyes, even though he was good looking, he still had a horrible, cold, black heart, he came into the kitchen and bumped into me. I almost dropped the plates, thank god, I had a good grip on them so they didn't fall. "Watch were your going you useless thing" he said in a deep, demanding voice. I wanted to punch him so badly, but I didn't.

"I am sorry", I mumbled under my breath.

"You better be" he replied glaring at me then walking away. I then continued setting the table.

I was completley shy at this party, and i don't even know why all i had to do was serve them then enter back into the kitchen. "Come on Valerie, go serve the soup" said Luisa handing me two bowls of soup that she had kept in a serving tray. i took it imediatly and went to serve it the nearest chair's from the kitchen were Benet and his other brother who i had never seen. I gave Benet the soup who pulled a nasty face I then gave his brother who looked at me and smiled i couldn't see he's face cause my hair had gotten on my face and it would have been weird blowing my hair of my face just to see him so i started to walk away. "great job Valerie"said Luisa as i entered the kitchen. I just stood there now waiting for the party to be over. "You know Valerie since you have already served starters. you can go outside and play" said Luisa winking at me. "Oh thank you thank you" i said giving her a kiss on the cheek and running outside to the big old apple tree. I love being next to that apple tree it's like a father i never had. I love the apple it produces (i don't like apple's but apple's from this plant's are an exception). i had called him papa.

i started to climb Papa, branch at a time till i decided to stop i sat on one of the branche's then closed my eyes oh it was a great feeling as the wind blew on my face. i enjoyed it until i heard footsteps coming up the small hill that the apple tree's humongous roots were. I stood quiet waiting for the person to just pass by "Hello is any body up there" i heard a voice say just below where i was sitting.

"HELLOOO" the person shouted. I moved my head to see who it was but my hair caught on one of the branches and as i moved i shook the branch which had an apple on it and the apple fell and hit the person right on the head. "Ouch OK who did that, was it you Cindy?"

I looked down and saw that it was a boy since he was wearing a suit but i couldn't see his face i was to far up but i could see his head and i saw him turn to look at me, i quickly turned my face away from him whoever he was. I then started to hear him puff and huff exhaustively for about two minutes till i felt some one touch my leg (which was lying over the branch i was sitting on). "Oh sorry" he said removing his hands from my leg i quickly kept my legs down, he was standing on a lower branch while his hands where on the branch i was sitting on "Hello" he said looking at me then seeing that i was black (well light brown but still). My heart started pumping alot faster in my chest. "My name's Thomson or you can call me Tomas or Tom Smith what's your name" he said in a british accent(not that he was british his mum was though) that's when I thought he must have been one of Peter Smith's sons. I took a quick look at him then looked down, Luisa had told me to never look at anyone in the Smith house in eye or else they would give you a big slap on the face. I had already seen a little of his face but i didn't see much since it was kind if dark, but the moonlight was able to show me his face all i knew was that he had blonde hair and blue eyes (all which he got from his mother) and he was really goodlooking too. "Well"he said. thats when i remembered his question. "VVV-Valerie"I said quit quietly.

"What i didn't quit get that"

"Valerie" i said a little bit louder.

"Did you say Valerie"

i nodded my head while still looking down.

"So who's your master valerie" he said. Making me really angry yet all this time I thought he was different, i looked up for a moument forgeting what Luisa said. He looked at me really closely, "You have pretty eyes do you know that Val" he said i was suprised to hear him call me Val only my close friends called me that. All of a sudden i heard someone else coming up the little hill. "Tom where are you" I heard a familiar voice say. "I'm over here" Tom replied. Oh no who was this, my heart started beating fast again. As we both looked down I saw who it was and the person standing down there made my heart beat even faster.