Broken

Chapter 1

Ciara

I kept staring at the message on my phone. I didn't know why I felt so excited about working for Mrs Castillo.
Maybe I was nervous not excited.

No I couldn't  be nervous. I was not nervous.

What was happening to me?

Working for Mrs Castillo felt like a blessing, I mean, babysitting her daughter. I heard the little girl has got quite a temper but I thought I could handle her. At least, after babysitting about 10 kids this month.

Mrs Castillo was one of the most popular and richest business women around. Maybe that was why I felt ervous. By the way, her daughter, Sofia, scared away all her nannies, so, her mom wanted to hire a reliable nanny to take care of her but for the time being I was to babysit her.

I looked at my phone again to check for any message since Mr Dove promised to text me again. None. I rolled over and laid on my back with my eyes closed. When I opened my eyes, I was welcomed by the vibration of my phone.

"Are you sure you can handle this Ms Daniels?"

It was a message from Mrs Castillo's PA, Mr Dove. I sighed in relief.

"Yes sir. I won't let you down."

"Good. You have the address . You'll start work tomorrow by 8:00 am. Make sure you make it early. Goodnight."

That was it. Tomorrow, Saturday, I was going to babysit Mrs Castillo's daughter, Sofia. I had assignments but they could wait till Sunday. I sighed again and sat up. Then, I had a job again but I still had this strange feeling.

I probably felt that was because I beloved Mrs Castillo would expect me to be perfect and I didn't know how I would have done.

Right. That should be the reason. I looked at the time on my phone again and laid back, it was late.

I found the vacancy notice online, initially, I didn't want to go for it because I prefered to work at a coffee shop but something pushed me to apply anyway. By the way, I lost my job yesterday, thanks to the mysterious guy who lied against me. He would have simply tried to talk to Mrs Dongany to give him a job there if he needed it instead lying against me. But thankfully, I got this job with Mrs Castillo because the pay was better. Yeah! She was to pay me $1000 just for a day. Just one day of work.
I closed my eyes to drift to sleep.

Tomorrow's gonna be a busy day.

*******

Beep beep beep.

"Argh... does it have to be this early?" I asked my alarm clock as I rolled to the other side of my bed to continue my sleep since it was Saturday but something struck me and my eyes snapped open immediately.

Mrs Castillo.

OMG! what's the time? I picked my phone and checked. 7:30 am. Dammit!! Going late on your first day won't create a good impression of you. Even if it's a one day job.