Aria stood there with Charles and Kevin, her face showing nothing but horror.
"He wants me to wash this?! Even my birth parents never gave me such dirty work!",Aria screamed.
"It's okay, I will be help you anyways, I know he said we shouldn't but my conscience won't let me rest if I let a lady do this kind of work", Kevin replied. "Besides, I have nothing to do today so I got time on my hands", He added.
"What I don't get is what a fish pond is doing in such a house", Aria said thoughtfully.
"Well the master has a habit of obsessing over something for a while and then dumps it when he gets bored", Kevin explained to Aria who still looked lost. "Well he got obsessed with watching acquatic animals so went ahead to get himself an aquarium, you should have seen it in its Glory, God it was such a sight to behold", Kevin said sighing dreamily. "Well that was before the master decided he was no longer interested in acquatic animals so he got bored and ignored the pond, Charles here and I tried to keep it alive and beautiful but there wasn't much we could do with the pay because the pond costs quite a lot, that am sure of. Sadly we watched every marine creature in it die slowly to the very last fish, we couldn't even have the heart to kill it and use it for dinner knowing fully well the master won't notice or probably won't care, we just let it live on until it became tired of hanging on", Kevin explained sadly like he lost a best pal. "Well we got rid of the water and since then the pond has been a habitat for slime and spirogyra, I was thinking of having it towed someday but obviously the master had other plans", Kevin added glancing at Aria.
"Tsk tsk tsk, that's sad but I wish I had the kind of money your rude boss had because then I won't be here taking shit from him like he's the boss of me",Aria said dramatically.
"Well he is the boss of you", Kevin said laughing loudly, she liked the way he laughed, you could tell it was from his heart and he wasn't faking it. He was a jolly good company to keep, Aria decided.
"Well he might be your boss but this baby girl works for no man especially men who have no respect for women",Aria said taking a dramatic spin. "I will be needing a pair of handgloves and a nose mask please", Aria said changing the topic. Last thing she wanted was to hear anything about her tormentor let alone talk of him.
"What for?!", Kevin asked surprised.
"Well, you don't expect me to jump into that dump of a pond without protection from bacteria do you?", Aria asked him smirking.
"Oh that? Well, no", Kevin blabbed blushing from ear to ear realizing how stupid his question was. "Two pairs of gloves and nosemasks coming right up!", He said running off to get them.
"Make that three!", Mark shouted at his disappearing figure. "Noted!",they heard a faint reply from a distance. They chuckled, "jolly good fellow ain't he?", Charles asked Aira, "yes, yes he is", Aira said with a nod. "Just a bit too shy for a man", Charles added chuckling. "Well that's what makes him sweet isn't it", Aira asked smiling. "Well yeah", Charles replied.
"I got them!", Kevin shouted running back to them.
"Right on time lad", Charles said smiling at him. He had grown fun of Kevin working with him all these years, he saw him as his son and Kevin saw him as his father since they were the only family each of them had. They had gone through good times and bad times together and would still do it all again. Kevin was the son he never had and he was the father Kevin never had.
"Let's get on with this and get it over with as soon as possible",Aria said jolting Charles back from his train of thoughts.
"Let me jump in first just to make sure it's safe for our fair lady",Kevin said and jumped in before anyone could object.
"It's perfectly safe!", He screamed from inside the pond. "Well, asides the stink, slime and spirogyra. It's gonna be a pretty good Haven to hangout in by the time we are done with it.", He added after a thought.
"Am gonna go get the brushes and detergent and then connect the hose, be right back.", Charles said moving out.
"Okay",they chorused coincidentally.
"Jinx, you owe me",Aria said to Kevin who wore a confused look.
"You don't know the game?", Aria asked surprised.
"Well, obviously I don't", Kevin replied all red. "Am I really supposed to?", He asked her.
"Well,not really so don't be embarrassed, it's just a childish game, if you coincidentally say the same thing with someone simultaneously the last one to say jinx owes the own who beat him to it",Aria explained smiling.
"Oh, I see, I like it, seems pretty fun",Kevin replied nodding at her.
"So you owe me then but let's save that for later, I'm coming in",Aria said rolling up her sleeves for what seemed to be the twelfth time that morning.
"Hold on, I don't think you can...", Kevin tried protesting but was too late to do so because Aria had already jumped, landing on her feet.
"Do that",Kevin completed looking simply dazed. "Whoa! Where on earth did you learn that from, that was pretty high!", Kevin asked excitedly.
"Well don't be surprised, am not a softie like your regular kind of girl", Aira replied smirking, "you learn stunts like that when you stay in the neighborhood I came from because you never know when it can save your life", she added.
"It was really amazing, like the black widow", Kevin said. Aria just chuckled looking around the pond.
"If anyone told me my life would ever get to this, I would have fucking punched that person in the face",Aira said throwing a disgusted look around the pond.
Kevin was about to reply but felt cool sprinkles of water fall on him. "What the... Charles! Not cool at all", He said looking up to the old man with a hose.
"It's okay! I love the rain and it feels like the rain!", Aira said smiling and doing a little twirl.
"If you are really serious about washing a pond this big you have to atleast get wet a bit so what's the harm if I volunteer to that for you", Charles replied smiling and setting a ladder to enable him come down into the pond.
"You should have jumped down", Kevin said sarcastically.
"And risk breaking my bones lad? Hell no, this old man might be frail but he doesn't wish to be handicapped.", Charles replied smiling.
Aria loved his smile, Charles looked like someone who always smiled no matter his situation. He reminded her of herself and she couldn't help but return his smile too.
"Shall we?", He asked handing over a brush and a bucket of detergent be water to Aria.
"Yes we shall",Aria replied taking the brush and bucket from him, so did Kevin.
Together they washed in silence for an hour. "You know I've tried to mind my business but I can't seem to understand why the boss gave you such a hectic job", Kevin asked looking at her curiously.
Well they deserve to hear the truth, Aria thought to herself, besides they were helping her and if it weren't for their help she won't be halfway through the progress they've made in the past hour.
"Well your boss almost ran me over, accused me of trying to get his attention and tried to hit on me instead of apologizing and I got angry and smacked him, you see I went job hunting and didn't get any luck and I had nothing, no money to keep surviving on till I get a job so I decided to work but as a stripper for atleast three days so I can get some money to live on while I got a better job and guess who my first customer was? Your boss. I got angry and refused to strip so he called the bar manager on me who ordered his goons to beat me till I stripped for your boss but surprisingly your boss saved me even though I smacked him again when he asked me to strip, so having no other choice, I came to work for him to pay my debt and he is really making me pay. Damned man!", Aria said breathlessly to her very amused audience who just stood with mouths agape staring at her.
"You slapped the boss twice?! I knew she was different from the rest of his girls, maybe that's why he saved you", Kevin replied still amused.
"Pardon?", Aria asked obviously confused.
What did he mean?
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