Yesterday's Tomorrow

Chapter 3

Y/n's POV

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Wow. This boy really was as bad as I thought he would be. 'Are the sheets clean?" He asked. ARE THE SHEET CLEAN!? I clench my jaw as I replayed the scene from moments ago.

He let go of my wrist softly. I breathed in and out to calm myself down because arguing or lashing out would get me nowhere, "Well now. That aside, I presume that you would want a tour of the estate then?" Thomas just nodded, "Very well then. This way Thomas." I walked to the middle of the hall, "The bathroom is down at the end of the hall there near your room. The door adjacent to your room is my room." Unfortunately.

"Alright." Thomas nodded, "A-and I prefer 'Tom'." He said quietly.

"Noted." I walked away and down the stairs. Once we were in the kitchen I continued, "This is obviously the kitchen and the dining room. Around that corner is the second bathroom and Jack and Kay's rooms." 'Tom' nodded and we walked outside and down the stairs to the lawn, "This is a ten thousand acre property." I explained as I walked around the house, "Over there is the chicken pen and the house stables. We have some fields of crops around too but there are mainly more away from the house."

"Wow. This place is huge." Tom stated, "So your family owns all of this land?" 

"Yes... well... technically." I gulped. It belonged to Father technically. But apparently him and mother had a will and they gave the property to me... 

"What do you mean by 'technically'?" Tom asked me.

"Nothing. Don't worry about it. Anyway, are there any questions? No? Good." I walked back inside the house not giving him any time to actually ask anything. When I came back to the kitchen I saw Kay and Jack waiting inside at the table.

"Y/n!" Kay smiled at me, "Can you please write my test now?" She asked sweetly. I grabbed a piece of paper and wrote down simple subtraction questions with occasional harder ones for her. She beamed once I gave her the paper and pen. Her tongue poked out of her mouth as she stared at the questions intensely.

"Y/n? Do you think that you could write my test now too?" Jack asked me. His tone was a little cautious because he could probably tell that I had a lot on my mind.

"Oh course." I grabbed another piece of paper and wrote down the long division questions too, "Remember to do the proper workings." I smiled as I handed him the paper and a pencil.

"Thank you." He smiled up at me and started to do the equations.

"Did you feed the horses when you were with them by any chance?" I asked Jack, raising an eyebrow at him. He stopped doing to question he was on and looked up at me with a guilty expression.

"No... sorry." He hung his head low. I shook my head and ruffled his hair.

"I'll go do that now." I smiled at him. He returned the smile gratefully and went back to his paper, "Thoma-Tom?" I corrected myself, "Could you come with me? I can show you around the stables and show you the ratio of grain and food we give them." He opened his mouth to say something but he decided to close it. Instead he nodded his head and followed me as I walked out the door, down the stairs and out to the horse stables.

"So uh, you teach them?" Tom started conversation.

"Pardon?" 

"Your siblings. Do you teach them? Like in homeschooling?" He clarified. I nodded.

"Yes. Well they are only young and they can't really go to school to learn anything, so yes. I teach them what they need to know." I answered.

"But you're only sixteen aren't you?" Tom asked me surprised.