Marked by Fate

As pretty as a picture...

I am working in this household for 25 years now and I already know what pleases my masters and how to attend them in thier worst times. The name's Gray and I am a head butler of the Smiths family. Currently I am on way to deliver the tea to my master Richard, he just got back from France. I don't have the faintest idea what cause his mood sour but I know one thing is for sure the household will be turned upside down.

"Sigh". I can only let out a huge sigh.

" Master, can I come in?". As I said after knocking but no response heard so I knock again and so again but heard nothing from master. I wonder if his asleep.

I open the door and was surprised to see my master standing and is looking at something outside the window. What is he looking outside that make him unresponsive? I thought for a second he was not in here.

"Master your tea is here". But my master didn't heard me. He's so busy looking outside that couldn't hear me. As it got me curious I follow where he's looking at and there I found someone standing at the garden reading a book.

heh no wonder he couldn't hear me my master attention was captured by something that even flowers fade in comparison. I can't stop grinning as I rarely find something that could make my master's attention so captured that he lost focus on his surrounding.

"Ahem!" and there my master look at me a little surprised.

"I've been calling you master as your tea is getting cold, what are you looking outside that make you look so mesmerized?"

I ask unknowingly. But my master response make me speechless.

"It's a mixed emotion... for some really weird reason I feel delighted and starstruck. By laying my eyes on her I get excited for whatever reason it's unexplainable that I fined it hard to breathe, and my heart beats fast because of the overwhelming feeling".

Oh uh...hearing my master said that he seems so human, well he is a human but what I mean is a good human feeling.

"Well I understand what your trying to say master, for someone who is like out from a magazine who is genuinely beautiful with perfect face, flawless skin and very attractive who wouldn't be captured..."

I was about to say it must be love at first sight but I bite my tongue I want for my master to understand those feelings and thoughts alone. As I am starting to see that he's changing.

"Who is she?" My master asked curiously.

"I believe she's the new tutor of the young master".

I was so in cloud nine and can't help to tell the others attendant about our master feelings, when suddenly my master found out that the woman he thought was actually a man.

And dang the household was turned upside down...