Chapter 13 - Anna

[ Anna's Pov ] 5'O Clock Before even the cock could wake us by calling, my eyes slowly opened up. After waking up the same time every day, it became a second sense to me. I would always wake up at this timw early morning, almost at the same point. "Arrhh!" Waking up, a moan escaped my lips which then resonated with the calling of one cock. "Alright then, it's time to get up." Sighing once more as my body wanted to get more sleep but shaking that behavior out of my body I get up and do some small stretches. Nothing special, just some routine ones I do every day to get myself moving. Then I go wash myself and change into my working outfit that I wear every day. Not the same one though, one that is similar to it. My other one is being dried about now as I got some dirt on it from the other day. So changing into my other outfit, I go out of my room and into the servant's room to wake everyone up who wasn't up yet. As the semi-high maid in position after Mr. Redwick, it was my duty to wake other maids up. Opening the door to the room, I see that a few were already up and washing themselves while the others were still snoring. 'Sigh' I sighed seeing them asleep. Oh! How much I wanted to be like that. seaʀᴄh thё nôᴠel Fire.nёt website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality. I shake myself out those thoughts. I am the highest maid around here, I can't think like that. If I am like that then what will the other maids think? What will young master think? No, I can't disappoint him. "Alright girls, it's time to wake up!" "Just a few minutes." "Yeah! We'll be getting up in any moment." "Sleep. Wake. Later." I smiled at their attempt to sleep again and walked towards the desk at the end of the room and brought out a bell and hammer out. Seeing me bringing out the big weapons, the others who were already awake, laughed sneakily but didn't warn their friends. "BANG!" "BANG!" "BANG!" "BANG!" "Ahhhh!" One maid fell out of her bed as she heard me ring out the bell. The others groaned before waking up and saying, "Why did bring out that blasphemous thing, Anna? We could have been up by time, you know." "I'm sorry, can't take any risks. The young master will be up after a few moments." Hearing that the one who fell said, "Why is the fatty suddenly waking up soo soon-" She couldn't complete her words as her bedmate quickly blocked her mouth and pointed at me. The maid looked and saw the dark look on my face and knew she did a grave mistake talking like that in front of me. "I- I'm sorry, Anna… I did- don't think about the young master like that." "Ye- yeah, it probably is the sleep that's talking." The one next to her covered for her as she nodded fervently. "Yeah Yeah, it's that for sure." I looked at the maid for a while as they all felt the room's temperature drop down by quite a bit suddenly. Then without any word, the cold went away as a certain smile emerged on my face. "Oh! Is that so? Well then, it's fine. Just get up quickly and attend to your duties." I said and walked out of the room as they all sighed in relief. ... "Is it just me or did you all feel the same cold as I felt before?" The others nodded at her words. The one next to her hit her on the head with a loud smack. "Ouch! Why did you do that?" "Stupid! Don't you know you don't talk about fat- Young Master like that in front of her." "Sorry… I forgot." The maid said before groaning again, "I just didn't want to wake this early." "I know too, but neveeer say something like that in front of Anna… it would be best if you say nothing at all." "I know she has a screw lose." "About the young master – yes, but about everything else – no." "Even after what happened?" Another maid responded her, one that was the first to wake among them. "Yes. You have seen how hardworking she is right? Even if it looks as if everything is fine and dandy with her, she is also like us. She is tired, even more so than us but hides it better than any of us." "You should learn something from her, behat" "Yeaaah… maybe I will. But for now, I have to wake up and make breakfast for that fatty-" The door to the room opened, as I walked in and said. "Behat, before you forget, today is washing duty, okay." Behat seeing the strangely terrifying smile still on me only nodded in fear as I walked out. "I think she heard you." "No shit-" I blur out their words and walk out to the back garden where the clothes were hung to dry. I go and pick each up and start folding them. "Why do they talk about the young master like that? Don't they know that it's because of him that we have jobs, that they are getting paid because of him, have a roof and bed to sleep on because he gave us." I fold another one and put it in the basket as I walked towards the house. "Anna" Looking around, I saw the young master up and beside the large oak tree that he occasionally spends time with. "You're up already, young master?" "Thought it'd be best if I could get up early and trained myself." This was something recent about the master, he would get up early every day and train. Even if it was hard and he fell multiple times, he would always get up and run or do strange kinds of motions. "Do you need my help?" I said and walk to him. "Stop!" "Don't come any farther." I stop and ask him worriedly, "I-Is something wrong?" "No just stay there for a moment and let me look at you." "You just… look very beautiful." ... Oooh! The young master said something scandalous again! Doesn't he know that if he keeps doing that then those dark thoughts come back to me again.