Rose’s POV:
It would be fifteen minutes past eight in the evening when I got up. It sounded like someone is moving into my room. When my brain functioned properly and I realized that I am alone in this house, my eyes opened and I sat straight.
I saw a brunette bent down. She is doing something with my clothes. She is quite a tall girl, maybe five feet six inches. Just similar to Priyanka. But her body is slender, she is thin. She has pale skin. I was busy observing her when she turned around and our eyes met. She has light blue eyes with a tint of gold. She seems to be of our age. Just when our eyes met she was a bit surprised. But not much. It was like she was expecting me to be widely awake. Two seconds after she smiled at me and walked towards me.
" Hello, Miss Rose Green. I am Sheena your maid here. I hope I didn't disturb you . ", she said smiling.
"Hello, Sheena. You can call me Rose . ", I told her. I continued, " No dear you didn't disturb my sleep . I have overslept today . In the flight time I slept for good five hours . And I don't think I will be able to sleep the whole night . ", I told her chuckling.
My hand moved to touch my hair. I felt that they are in all directions.
'I must be looking horrible, maybe a ghost. ' I thought.
I started to move my fingers through my hair to straighten them and look appealing. Not like a scary one. However, I don't have LKK syndromes but sometimes these things matter. (LKK syndrome means Log Kya Kahenge ? and in English means What Will People Say ? )
" What are you doing with my luggage ?", I asked her curiously.
" Actually when I came back from the grocery stores I found you sleeping. So I decided to put your thing in place. I started with your clothes . ", she answered while pointing towards the wardrobe half full of my clothes.
"These are remaining ones I'll arrange them quickly . ", she pointed towards my bag. I nodded in response.
"Are you hungry miss Green .... Umm I mean Rose ? ", she asked me smiling.
" Uh .. no . ", I answered her. And just then my stomach growled indicating that I am hungry.
" I guess I am hungry . ", I said avoiding her eyes, this was embarrassing.
She chuckled lowly and said, " I can prepare anything that you wish. So do you have any specific demand? ".
" Can you prepare Indian food? Because you know that I am from India. "
" Of course I can make . ", her voice full of excitement at the mention of India. She jumped on the bed surprising me and sat beside me. Her light blue eyes show excitement. She continued, " You know my mother is from India but my father is from America, so we live here. As I said my mother is from India so she has taught me how to prepare perfect Indian food. What would you like to eat ? ", she said in one go.
I thought for a while and suddenly a name hit me. " I like shahi paneer and butter naan. Can you prepare this ? ".
" Of course I can . ", she said standing up and jumping up and down.
" you know what I also like it . ", she squeaked. but suddenly her expressions changed. " Oh, Sheena will you please stop talking. You already have a lot of work. Just come, be fast . ", she said to herself. I am looking at her with my mouth ajar and wide eyes.
" Rose I have to go, I have a lot of work. I'll put your things in place after cooking food. We will talk later. Night maybe, if you like ", she ran out of the room and I heard the last two sentences with a gradually lowering voice, letting me know that she is moving away. She is a cute girl.
I sit up straight and check my phone. No message, no call so I put it on the table. I decided to put my clothes in the wardrobe as there is time for the food to get ready. After everything is settled down I take a quick shower and change into my PJs and Tees.
I get out of the room and I can smell the food even from here. This smell is enough to fill my mouth with water. If the smell is this good what will it taste like?
As I was descending my stomach growled again so I rushed towards the dining hall. Sheena was arranging food on the table when I arrived.
"Sheena the food smells nice. I just can't wait to eat it . ", I told her and started to fill my plate.
I took my first bite and I can't even describe the taste. To say it is delicious will be an understatement. It got to melt away soon it entered my mouth. A moan escaped my mouth.
" This is delicious Sheena . ", I said in between chewing.
"Why are you standing? Come sit here. Join me . ", I pointed towards the empty chair next to me. I pulled her hand to sit next to me. I filled her plate with everything and asked her to start eating.
We continued to eat our food while talking to each other. Meanwhile, I got to know that is a student of design but due to lack of money, she has to work. She has a mother who works at the house of the company's owner. She also told me that Big Boss is very kind as he is paying for her college fee and will appoint her to his company after her graduation as she is intelligent. I also got to know several other facts about 'The Big Boss '. When I asked her how the big boss looks like she answered me that she has never seen him as he very busy person. I was curious to see him and meet him. My mind needed an image of this person so it automatically painted it as an old, gray-haired man with a wrinkled face. It is because when I searched about the company the owner was Martin Ryder, 55, but no clear picture of him. I assumed that he must hate being photographed.
Plus he must be having a kind smile so I edited the painting and updated it mentally.
After finishing our dinner I helped her in washing dishes as she has an exam tomorrow. In a very short time, she can take a very special place in my heart. I like her a lot. I have already accepted her as my lounger sister and ready to help her in every possible way. I asked her to shift her stuff in next to mine and she agreed.
We went upstairs and I helped her with some of her lessons. It was one at night when we decided to sleep. I went to my room and found my phone ringing. I took it in my hands and saw that the caller ID shows it’s Priyanka. We usually call each other at this time so it’s nothing new. We talked for a few more minutes as she has to get up early in the morning.
Now it’s 1:15 so I went under my sheets to sleep. I was somehow surprised to find myself drifting to sleep even though I have slept for almost the whole day.
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When I felt like I have no more sleep in my eyes, I got up. I picked up my mobile from the table. It shows 5:30 a.m. Even though I slept late at night, I got up early. I decided to take advantage of it. I wore my black track pants and a sweatshirt to go out for my morning walk.
After spending half an hour I came back and took shower. I washed with a floral scent.
I walked downstairs to prepare breakfast, for both me and Sheena. I had told her that she need not prepare breakfast for me in the morning. It was really hard to persuade her bit at last she gave in. Instead of cooking food, she can go directly to college after having the breakfast made by me.
Since today is my first day, I am all excited and have decided that I am going to prepare something special. I took out all the ingredients that I needed out of the fridge and placed them on the kitchen counter.
After a while everything is in its place where it should be, I inhaled a deep breath. I have successfully done this !!
Sitting down at the dining table, I can see Sheena walking towards me with a bag. She is wearing a yellow bell-sleeve top with blue jeans.
Sitting beside me she said, “ Rose you shouldn’t have done all this. This is my work and I am supposed to accomplish all this on my own. From next time onwards, I won’t let you do anything. "
“ Okay Okay but for this moment you have to eat it. Have it and tell me how is it ", I said to her and started to fill her plate.
“ROSE “, she gasped.
“What ? “, I asked her. “ Is ……something wrong ?”
“Rose, you have prepared chocolate smoothie with tacos and hamburger . ", she said as her eyes went wide. She continued, " Oh my God, you have also prepared Masala Dosa. You are great ".
"OMG this is just amazing . ", she said as she took the first bite of her tacos. The look on her face can tell me how good it is. Then she ate her hamburger and then masala dosa.
Finally, when she tasted smoothie, her compliments knew no stop so they just went on and on and on.
I also ate the food and appreciated myself mentally. They were really good. Better than my imagination.
Soon after breakfast, she left for her college.
I realized that I am left with not much time so I got ready for the office as I don't want to be late. Not at least on my first day.
It took me thirty minutes to get ready and now it is exactly 8:30. When I got out of the apartment, I found Mr. Oliver outside standing with his car. I smiled at him and he returned it with a warm smile.
"Good morning Miss Green. " he greeted me.
" Good morning Mr. Oliver. You know, you can call me Rose . "
He simply nodded at my words.
I slipped inside his car and he settled down on the driver seat.
The car sped up in the direction of RYDER'S ENTERPRISES.
'How my first day going to be', I thought.