Living in the country meant she had quite a long journey to get to town. She got the first train she could. It took a couple of days. The town was very different to the country. The country was quite and peaceful but the town was very noisy. When she got there she started looking for a job straight away she didn’t have any money to stay at a hotel or anything. It took her ages to find a job she was knocking on doors asking for a job but no one wanted this common country girl with her filthy clothes and her dirty nails. Until she found this one house. She went up to the door and knocked. A man dressed in a nice suit all clean and smelt nice came to the door.
“Hello can I help you?” The butler asked.
“Hello I was just wondering do you have any jobs going for a house maid. I can cook and clean.” She replied
“I will get the man of the house for you.” The butler walked into the house and disappeared into the large living room. A man also in a nice suit, hair not one bit out of place nails clean.
“Hello can I help you?” The man of the house asked.
“I was wondering if you needed anyone to cook or clean for you?” Melia replied.
“As a matter of fact I would like someone to start doing that for me. The wife being pregnant and all she cant keep doing it.” The man of the house explained. By this time Melia had lost her baby but she thought that she had come so far that she didn’t want to go back. “You better come in.”
They both went into the living room. She was amazed with what she saw. Chandlers hanging from the ceiling, wooden floors all shiny and not a speck of dust on anything.
“Right if you are going to work for me you are going to have to wear something a little bit more respectful, like something with a few less holes.” He explained.
“Sorry but I didn’t have a lot of money. This is all I have got!” she replied. She got up to walk out.
“Well I think my wife is throwing out some of her old clothes you can use that for now until you get some money.” He told her.
Melia had been working for the Smiths for a couple of months now. She had all nice clothes and her nails were clean. She had started wearing all the nice clothes that she could never afford when she lived in the country. She had bracelets, necklaces and shoes without any holes in. She was so glad that she didn’t change her mind and go back to the country. She was now speaking fit for high company and had stopped speaking common like they did back home.
Melia and the Master had started to get on really well. So well in fact that she had turned into his Mistress. Whenever the wife was out. The two of them would be laughing and giggling. But once again one thing would lead to another and it would be going further then it should have done. She had starting to think that moving to town was a bad idea but when she realised what she had got out of it she knew it was the best thing she had ever done. She knew that if her mum and dad were ever to find out what she had been doing they probably disown her. She had not got in touch with them since the day she had left and by this time that was two years ago. She had a new life now but there was only one thing wrong Melia was now a ruined maid! And there was nothing she could do to change it.
