Alex
'Elena' I said when we walked down the hall.
She shushed me 'We not allow to talk.'
'We're not allowed to talk? Who said that? I have every right to talk and so do you. Wait until I meet this fucker, I swear I will freaking pu –'
She shushed me again 'Don't talk like that, he hear everything you say.' She whispered.
Great, just great. So he wasn’t only a pedophile but a sick stalker as well.
We walked past the hallway and down this luxury mansion stairs then stop in front of a big double door. I couldn't help but sucked a deep breath before Elena pushed open the door revealing an absolutely gorgeous room filled with one absolute asshole and one woman who I already met twice but didn't know her name. Like seriously only two people lived in this freaking mansion?
I snapped out of my trance as I felt someone gently pushed me forward that someone turned out to be Elena. Scared wasn’t even the word to describe the feeling she had when I looked into her eyes.
She silently mouthed 'Go in.' Great thing that I knew how to read lips. After that, she closed the door behind me leaving me in the room.
Head up, Alex. Show'em you weren’t a stupid kitten. Once I took one step and another until I got closer and closer to the table, at the same time I took in every detail of the people before my eyes.
The woman, she was still in the same red dress. No lie, red suited her well. On the other hand, the old man. He was still in the same suit as well. The suit he wore the last time I saw him in his office. The way that old man looked at me with the scowl that seemed permanent on his face made me feel uncomfortable. Why can't I just eat in "my" room? All the stares made me full already.
'SIT!' Just like that, I sat to join them for lunch.
We were eating in silence, no one exchanged words. Back home with my family, we never had been this quite whenever it was time for us to eat together and that was a 180 different here.
The old man just left the table after he had done eating. What a lovely husband with no manner he was , then the slim tall woman called Elena.
’Elena, show her around this mansion then escort her back to their room.' I cringed at the word 'their', I refused to let that happen. Not now, not today, not in this life or the next life, which I doubted I would have.
Elene just nodded then motioned me to follow her out of this room.
'Elena, who's that woman? why do you listen to her every word?'
She shushed me suddenly 'We not allow to talk, remember?' She whispered
‘Do I look like I care?’
‘Please’ she pleaded
'C’mon, who was that woman?'
'Fedora Modestova Grebenshchikova'
'That sure is a mouthful' I realized how loud I said that and covered my mouth with my hands immediately 'What did you say? This chick something?'
'Grebenshchikova, she the daughter of leader.'
'Wow, now that makes me her mom' I wasn’t the Virgin Mary but look at the reality now. What a great life to have.
She shushed me when we reached a double door again, she pushed the door open and let me in. It was a library, a big one. I thought it was at least hundred times bigger than my room back home. What could they have in this enormous library? If I were Lynn maybe I would spend my whole life here, but too bad I wasn't her. Ah, I miss her so much, how's she doing now? Does she miss me the way I do?
'This way, Alex Grebe –'
'Don't you dare finish that sentence, I hate that name. I don't want to adopt his last name, just simply call me Alex, it's not that hard, isn't it?'
'Don't be difficult, please.'
'You can always use someone's full name except mine, I mean because that's not my name.' Yeah, I was Alex Davis, not Alex chick something.
'That how we show respect.' Okay, I got it now. They had a different way to show respect to others.
'You don't need to call me that because I'm no different than you, Elena. Please just call me Alex, you can call me that mouthful name only if it's needed, is that okay with you?'
She seemed hesitated first but then she said ‘Okay. Now, this way umm Alex.'
‘There you go’ I smiled when she called me that.
She showed me to every part of this mansion and also introduced me to the other maids and her mom, who was the cook in this mansion.
'No offense Mrs. Popova but the earlier food was flavorless.'
'Flavorless?’
'I mean like had no taste, no salt, no pepper, no anything.'
'Ohh' She smiled when she got what I meant 'Russia food are like that.'
'So there's no salt or anything?'
'There is but not many.'
'Oh okay, I got it but could you put more salt and pepper for me next time ?'
'Sure do.' She reminded me of my mom when she smiled. I didn’t hate her for what happened to me but I just couldn't understand why would she let them take me here?
'Thank you so much, Mrs. Popova!' I loved her already
'Welcome' She smiled again.
Elena was the housekeeper on the second floor along with the other girl, Yana, who refused to talk with us, she seemed to have this permanent scowl just like the old man did.
There were also two other maids on the first floor, Masha and Alla. They were nice. There was also this old guy, Savva who was a gardener, he was so kind just like any other old guy in this world except that creepy old man.
I spent my day riding around the property alone on one of the golf carts instead of being in 'my room'. At first, Elena hesitated because she was afraid what Fedora would say if I were not in 'my room' but I told her that I technically had a higher rank than Fedora, simply because I was her stepmother, right? Just like that, she excused herself to leave and did things she should have been doing.
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