1) The Princess
"I swear Gaston, if you dare to go near me, Myers senior will chopped your head and sent it to your family in Ohio!"
Gaston step back, trying to make sure his step is smooth enough so that wouldn't hurt the angry princess's ear that no one put attention what ever the problem anyone cause in this very early morning. She woke up straight at seven, maids put things in their right place, they serve fresh cupcakes like how she told them last night, but there's like something lack regarding how they treated her.
Well, its almost like that everyday. Like everything is lacked, never gone right and always wrong in her eyes.
Gaston sometimes hates Stephanie for always good at breaking his good mood he built hardly after waking up in the tired morning.
Gaston isn't alone, people in La Casa di Myers knows how bad is Stephanie demeanour. Everyone think it's understandable since she is their boss daughter and everyone in here know what will be happening if Stephanie ever open her mouth and tell something bad to Joseph Myers. Its a best luck if anyone could go out of this house in critical condition.
"Gaston!"
Its always him. Its always Gaston. Look like Stephanie actually didn't know the others maid or her companions name. But it annoyed him.
"Gaston! How many time i have to said! All of you are stupid or what? Are you deaf? I hate furry carpet! Do you all want to died just because of this stupid carpet you step on?"
She Scream again. And even though Stephanie can't see, but she got a super good hearing ability. That make everyone here didn't have a courage to even sighed. Stephanie has a good memories, she could tell who are in this room just from hearing their breathe, and sometime she could tell who is just entered the room just from the smell of their parfume. It's make her look like she isn't blind at all, like he could see everything with her doe-eyes, that Gaston found it very pretty. Now, all he could see is black glasses that on some days are to big for her small face.
But he still found her pretty.
But he still found her annoying little girl.
Gaston has seen the death of people in his tip of pistol he hold, the people that he killed. But he strangely can't used to Stephanie's bratty, wicked, and peevish act like a virgin girl got her very first period.
"Now, get rid of this carpet. Burn them, all the fucking furry carpet on this whole house too. If i ever step on this furry carpet once again, i will make sure i stepped on your face first before i wrapped you in this fucking carpet and burn you!"
Gaston roller his eyes, he getting more and more annoyed. Stephanie never barefooted in the house, the only reason he could feel the soft fur was because he use not so high flip-flop. Her sensitive skin could feel the tickles from the soft fur. Gaston take a steps forward, that's the only thing he could think, and bear with the consequent later, because hearing Stephanie raging speech over expensive furry carpet will never meet dead end.
Its such a waste to let go of twenty thousand dollar.
He lifted her, much to earn shock gasped from the prettiest witch he ever seen.
"You dare to touch me, Gaston?! You have a death wish?"
"I'm sorry Signorina, but i'm sure you don't want to stay longer in this shitty carpet,"
Stephanie want to voice her protest, and burst profanities because her precious skin make a contact with Gaston's.
Hell, ni one in this household allowed to touch her unless it was Nonna.
Nonna is an Italian for grandma. Nonna here is the baby sitter Stephanie had since she was a child. While know her mother whereabout. Maybe she was lost in dessert, and somewhere in the deepest wood of Amazon.
Nonna job is taking care of every private things of Stephanie's, including giving her back scrubed if she decide to be a brat.
Gaston put her down and lead her to soft fluffy couch on the room next to the big glasses window that Stephanie loves to sat while her finger tips dance on the paper, reading braille books. On some other time, when she were too focus, when the sun light bathe the room and kissed her skin, Gaston won't believe he find it endaringly beautiful sight. Maybe the prettiest thing in La Casa di Myers among the others. His hear race whenever it happened, and thanks to Joseph Myers daughter that been the cause of it.
Stephanie blushed slightly, pink color tainting her perfect round cheeks that clear without make up.
"You.. you have order the books, haven't you, Gaston?" Now, she talked more politely, but still sound hard as before. But, she does sound like a real woman now Instead of a witch.
"Still on the shipping, Signorina," he answer. Putting a hope that she would understand that send things from across the country need more time than a week, and she can't have it within a minutes just because she said so.
Steph let out a sighed, then get up from the couch a little bit too fast, as if she was in a good mood. She swung her leg so that her flip-flop fly somewhere in the room. Gaston swift his body to make him self safe from getting his own body hit by flying flip-flop.
"Gaston, i want my shoes, black boot, if you ever take something else...."
"You will teach me a lesson, i know Signorina. I will be really careful as i put it in you." Gaston said, remembering all the words Stephanie always said whenever she asked for something.
The girl sighed, she sit again arogantly. Gaston could feel the annoyed stares from people in the room, he could understand it, since working with Stephanie would likely to create a great pressure. The pretty girl are the hugest resource of stress in La Casa di Myers more than Mr Myers itself.
Gaston courched down before Stephanie. The girl dressed in Shirt and black leather jacket that she unbothered to zipped up. Her long, slender leg were wrapped nicely in black ripped jeans, she let her shoulder lenght hair styled untied. She kinda look like she was about to go to rock or metal concert, probably only with a little addition of mascara or full goth make up.
Gaston surely said that she would slay it.
Gaston put her her boots, make sure that he didn't tied it tightly, and softly tapped Steph's knee.
"Is this too tight, Signorina?"
"No, its perfect," she answered, her face just red as tomato.
Steph stand up once again, only a few inches away from Gaston. From the distant of their gap, Gaston could see Steph's bare faced feature, she look just great. A little part of Myers are there, she got his nose, and his hair. Gaston supposed that maybe the rest of it are come from her mother. She must be really pretty.
"Okay, Signorina. Do you want to wear scarf too? Its cold outside," Gaston asked which reply by Steph with shakes head.
"You use it yourself. Cover that mark up, it disgusting,"
Gaston were shutted from the world, as if he was taken into the dark. He think and think, maybe, just maybe Stephanie is lying about her being blind, she could actually seeing everything that's why she could know something was off, or something is not right. And that's maybe Mr Myers plan to see how loyal is his servants was.
But, Gaston were there when Stephanie lost her sight, so it couldn't be only just act. It was too natural to be just a pretending.
So, how could she know about 'mark' in his neck? As long as Gaston remember, he had put enough foundation to make it unobvious.
"Pardon me?"
"I'm blind, Gaston. But my ears are everywhere in this house, and my smelling ability is still normal, probabaly better than yours. Next time, buy foundation less smelly,"
Gaston thanked for Stephano to not voice it loudly, or in the voice someone's could hear. And he is lucky, that he didn't fight woman. He can't imagine what will happened if he ever hit Stephanie because hell, she can't shut up.
Yeah, maybe he know. He know the fact really well that he didn't even want to imagine about it at all. If that ever happened, he will get out of this house in coffin!