At Your Service

Chapter 10: First Day of Work

I am preparing myself to go to the inn where Jay is the one who is bringing me there because Rune had his hands full at the farm. He's been busy the entire day. Jane is the one who is going to stay at the house since that was the planned. She is the housewife of the house.

So it was already five in the evening when Jay and I head towards the inn.

It's not as crowded the it was the other night but there are a few customers there. I noticed that Frank is talking to a woman around my age. And they seems to be discussing something but it ended when Frank saw us entered.

"Silver and Carmela." He greeted coming to us.

"Good afternoon." Jay greeted back, nicely. "Here's Carmela. Just tell her anything you want her to do and she will obey you."

Frank turned to me and I smiled as a greeting as well. "Good. Your first job is to clean the toilet."

"Excuse me?" My mouth agape.

"It's a joke, kid." He suddenly laughed. "You will be helping my daughter at the kitchen since we have a lot of travellers upstairs."

I nodded and sigh of relief. Jeez, I thought I will go clean the toilet for real.

"Wait...Sarah!" Frank called the woman he was talking earlier.

The girl suddenly rushed her way to him. "Yes, Dad?"

"This is Carmela, she will be helping you out with the cooking. So just carefully instruct her what to do." He told her.

This Sarah faced me and gave me a wide and cheerful smile. "Hi! Daddy told me that you are Red's wife."

I chuckled. "I am."

"Wow, you are so lucky to have a husband like him. He's every girl's fantasy in this village." She cheerfully stated to me.

"Even you?"

"No!" She quickly answered. "Red is like an older brother to me."

Okay then, if you say so.

"I will be going now." Jay nudges my shoulder before walking out to leave me with them. Oh God.

"Okay, lets go." Sarah told me and showing me the kitchen at the back. It was one nice kitchen, I must say. "The travellers upstairs requested some warm chicken soup."

"So, travellers use this village to stop by?" I asked.

"Yep. Some of them stay for days but mostly they stay only overnight."

"So, I will help you make the chicken soup?" I asked, racing an eyebrow.

"Yep, we will make the chicken soup first then we will make the menus." She instructed as she started bringing out the kitchen utensils we will be using.

At first, I thought I will be making a chicken soup on my own recipe but she handed me a book where the instructions and ingredients are listed. I just followed the simple steps and I made the chicken soup nicely done.

"You're a messy chef." Sarah chuckled seeing me pour the soup from the pot to the bowls.

"Sorry about that." I softly murmured.

She went to me and suddenly, she combed my hair up in a ponytail and tied it neatly. No hairs falling in front of my face. "There, never cook anything with your hair down and try carefully pouring the soup like this."

Sarah became very nice to me. She was very helpful while showing me the proper way in the kitchen. Honestly, working as a chef is not my dream job. Since Ariana is already a chef, I don't want to be the same. I took Fashion and Design in college in Regent's University London. And culinary was never my interest but I find it exciting as well. But I love fashion most.