Natasha woke up in the middle of the night and kept a frowning face as she heard the moaning and grunting sound coming out from one of the room next to hers and it bothered her so much..
"What's going on there?," She asked herself as she sat up on her bed, not seeing around her room as the room was still dark and the day hasn't fully break yet and the power supply was off.
"Oh oo!" she murmured to herself again as she heard the lady's voice sounding like the lady was in pains and the panting like the sound of two bodies colliding, like the man was slapping or hitting on the lady.
She wanted to go there to find out what was happening but she thought against it, remembering she had earlier seen some of the girl's dressed semi-nude like a prostitute when she had first arrived.
She stood and went to the restroom in her room to ease herself, and after she returned back to her room, the grunting sound had already faded and she thought probably she was dreaming and haven't heard anyone's voice earlier.
She went back to lay on her bed and drifted to sleep.
The following morning, Natasha still laid on her bed not wanting to leave the room as she didn't want to see the woman that had claimed to be her mother. She turned and rolled to the other side of the bed facing backward and just then Mira came to knock on her room door startling her to wake, as the door was still locked from inside. Natasha stood up and went to open the door, while Mira stepped in.
"Natasha!, Are you just waking up?," Mira asked as she stepped into the room and went to open the curtains wider enough for the sun to shine in.
"You shouldn't lock the windows next time to allow ventilation into your room," she told Natasha as she opened the window too and turned to face Natasha.
"Okay," Natasha softly replied and went to sit back on her bed watching Mira whom went to her beg.
"Have you taken your bathe this morning?" Mira asked as she helped her offload her little bag admiring the bag as it was a handmade knitted bag.
"Who made it?," She asked Natasha, admiring the bag.
"I did," Natasha replied.
"Oh, you can knit too?. I also used to knit purses and caps too when I was still younger and in the mainland with my mother before I came of age and meet boss madam," Mira said.
"Okay," Natasha faintly replied with a smile.
"Come down now and take your bathe, and don't lock your room door again, The cleaner will soon be here to mop your room as she's cleaning mine that's why I came here to inform you," Mira told her.
"Where's your room?" Natasha asked and she replied, "The room opposite to yours off course. We have about ten to twelve rooms here," Mira told her and her jaw dropped.
"Why?, Is here an hotel or mom's house?," Natasha questioned and Mira laughed out smiling.
"Have you been to an hotel before?" She asked Natasha.
"No . Just that I heard an unfamiliar sound earlier this morning and I don't know which room I heard the sounds from," Natasha replied and Mira's face lit up in embarrassment...
"You heard wrong silly girl, but you shouldn't be paying attention to such sounds unless you are interested in what we are doing."
"No am not, God forbid." Natasha quickly refute and Mira only smiled, and playfully touched Natasha's breast, "Isn't a man that will still marry you, silly girl." Mira shifted away from Natasha and gave her space to come down from the bed so she can go to the bathroom.
"Hurry up, the cleaner will soon be here, wait let me ask her to skip this room and clean the room next after yours," Mira said as she left Natasha and went out to instruct the maid on skipping the room.
"Hey Edith!," Mira called as she stepped out.
"Yes Ma'am," Edith replied
"Skipped this room, you come back to clean it later, go clean the next rooms."
"Okay Ma'am" Edith replied, She was a middle-aged woman and her job was to sweep, clean and dryclean the cloth for the girls.
Mira went back into the room and Natasha had already gone into the bathroom to take her bathe, she left and went back to the living room to meet boss madam whom was none other than Natasha's mother.
"Good morning Boss madam," Mira greeted Natasha's mother whom sat on the long couch placed in the living room while the rest of the girls sat facing her in the opposite couch while one was seated on the floor and counting money from last night episode.
"Has she woken up?," Madam Bola asked staring at Mira as she came out and took her seat amongst them.
"Yes boss, she's taking her bathe," Mira replied.
"Okay Mirabel, I thought she was still sleeping," Madam Bola said.
"No, she actually heard my voice last night," Mira told her boss and the rest if the girls bursted out laughing, "She did?," Cindy asked smoking a cigarette as she relaxed on the furniture chair she was sitting on.
"Girl you moan to loudly and that's kinda bad," Cindy said as she blew out the smoke thru her nostrils.
"She will be hearing more of that and she will get used to it," Madam Bola said.
"Do you want her to join in what we do?," Mira asked Madam Bola with a frowning face and just then Natasha stepped into the large living room and heard Mira's question to her acclaimed mother, whom sat on the couch while another sat on the floor counting money in the center of the living room. Waiting for her mother's response, Madam Bola quickly replied,
"No off course, she's too young for that. She will actually be going back to school first."
"Okay that's sounds better," Mira responded while some of the girls glared at her for being protective of Natasha.
"She's a beautiful girl and I don't want.. Ooh, she's already here, Natasha! You are looking so sweet this morning," Mira said as she stood up and went to meet Natasha.
Natasha walked slowly to meet the girls in the large living room.
"Good morning all," She greeted them shyly as they were many girls in the room, some she hadn't seen last night when she arrived with her mother, were also seated in the living room. She looked downward feeling nervous and an Igbo lady among them stood, "Ah han, Boss madam your daughter is too cute, wow!," She walked towards Natasha and turned her around.
"I am Amara, sorry I went out last night with a client and I returned back so late, you are looking so sweet my dear."
"Amara! return back to your sit!," Madam Bola said not liking how Amara was checking out her daughter.
"Okay boss madam," Amara walked round Natasha first, scanning her backside and front and blinked an eye to their boss madam smiling, before returning back to her seat.
"She's cute!," Amara said as she finally sat down. She was a 25yrs old lady.
"Amara, keep your eyes away from her and focus on your business.." Mira warned.
"What?. Did I say anything wrong, can't I admire the god given beauty, unlike your bleached skin," Amara jabe at Mirabel and the two ladies started quarrelling.
"Enough girls!, this is not a market place" Madam Bola scolded them and they kept mute and stopped quarrelling, using their eyes to send warning signals to each other.
"Sit!" Madam Bola commanded them and they all sat down back at their respective seat.
"Come have a seat Natasha," Tope said as she sat closer to Juliet and Mide, while Lola sat on the floor counting the money from the previous night with their clients.
"Leave her to stand, let me properly introduce her to you girls" Madam Bola replied Lola. "Come here Natasha," She called and Natasha went to meet her.
"This is my daughter I had told you girls about, that I used to send money back to my mother in the village to take care off. But as Mami is no more, she cannot be left alone in the village. Well she won't be joining us in what we do here, and I will like you girls not to involve her in any discussion about it and Mira your room will be relocated to the back and away from hers.."
"Oh oo! Boss madam why?,' Mira complained.
"Don't ask to foolish question fatty, you know why?," Amara shot back at her.
"Girls enough, we will be having some new addition but not now and I will like you girls to behave yourself and not cross the lane with my daughter.. Avoid her and focus on your jobs, is that understood?."
"Okay Boss madam, we have heard." They all replied.
"Good, You can all get back to what you were all doing," Madam Bola dismissed them as she stood up from the couch.
"Lola keep the record of the cash from last night, and Amara I got a call from your client complaining about your stubbornness, you won't be sent out again to perform."
"Boss Madam he lied, don't believe him, that man his too dirty, you won't believe he asked me to lick his anus.." Amara quickly closed her mouth, using her hands
"Amara!!" Mrs Bola shot her a deadly glare as Natasha was still in the living room with them.
"Oh sorry boss Madam I had forgotten, I actually meant Abdomen.."
"Is okay we will discuss about it later, you can come and see me in my room later" Madam Bola told Amara and she walked towards the exit door with Natasha following her from behind.
"Okay boss madam," Amara heave a sigh of relief and she left the living room going back to her new room as she was totally avoiding Mirabel.