Chapter 1
Lily's Pov
"Wake up" I heard someone tell me, I knew it was mama, she always does that every morning. "Mama, first leave me rest a little more" I told her. "Mulungi, you have to work, you know your brother needs money to attend to that school" she said and I realized I have to wake and go to work before it's too late.
Oh sorry, I didn't introduce myself, my name is Mulungi, that's what my grandmother named me when I was born which means beautiful,they said I was born when I was so beautiful that's why they call me Mulungi, meaning beautiful, it's only the Africans who call me that but my Christian name is Lily,it was grandmother's British friend who named me Lily saying I was like a flower because of my beauty. My mother,my father and I work for the whites known as the Price, they're among the most rich British in our home country. I work as a mind in their mansion with many other African girls. I am eighteen years old,oh no am making eighteen this year, I work to be able to educate my brother in an African good school that's why I work for the prices. My friends wonder how I manage working in the mansion because they speak English,they wonder how I communicate with them but they don't know that I really know how to speak fluent English since Grandma Tina who named me Lily taught me English when I was still young to the extent that I speak as if am from England. Don't think am exaggerating but it's the truth because Mrs Price always compliments me about my English because whenever she speaks with others maids and she fails to understand, she calls me. Mrs Price is a very beautiful woman who doesn't treat anyone poorly even if you are a black like me, she always treats me like a daughter, she gives me her daughter's old clothes because she is in USA and I love it because they always look good on me. I am really happy to be working for her but Mr Price and others British officials behave poorly to Africans. He is tough and doesn't want any African near him, I always notice him looking at me and I wonder why but when I talk to Aunty Lucy the oldest British maid who cooks their food, she always tells me that he looks at me because am beautiful. Aunty Lucy is another British who is different although she is a professional cook who was brought straight from England because Mr Price doesn't trust Africans to cook his food, he calls us dirty and all sorts of insulting words but all in all, I love working for the prices because I get beautiful clothes from Mrs Price, learn how to cook British foods from Aunty Lucy and also earn money to educate my young brother, also the work is not stressful since I only mop the bed rooms and also clean the gardens, so it's not much work according to what I hear from other maids who work in other British mansions.
Today I went to work late and I found when all other maids have already reached the mansion,by the way,am the only maid who sleep at our home but others sleep in the quarters for maids, I talked to Mrs Price and she accepted me to sleep at my place whereby other maids envy me.
I always have to reach at 5am in the morning but today I came a little minutes late, I found when all the maids were busy with their work and I wondered because we always work like that when their is a special occasion but today it wasn't or maybe I just didn't know yesterday. Mary rushed to me, "Go and clean the upper two bedrooms right now" she told me. I wondered because those bedrooms were for Mr and Mrs Price's children, when she saw me not moving, she added "Young Master and Miss are coming back today by midday and Madam said everything should be clean most especially their bed rooms", when I heard that, I run upstairs to start immediately because I know they will have to change everything old in those rooms that's why they brought new furniture from Britain yesterday.