The days in Mr. Henry's home became lovely and happier and less boring for Bridgit and the old butler. Kyler was the sun that had not been shinning in that house. As days passed, Kyler felt more lonelier than she had ever felt. She never continued with the game to know Mr. Henry better. She had realized that it would make her seem cheap and jumpy, a person she was not. She didn't even think of living a lie. Not in her character developed life.
Earlier, she would have tried to do something to please people but now, No. She refused strongly. With that, there was never really anything to say to Mr. Henry. She only hoped he still remembered her request for a job. She forced herself to read the rule book employees in the house were given just to clearly know how this bossy Mr. Henry really worked with people. Bridgit had been more than willing to lend it to her because she honestly didn't want to be answerable for her wrong stubbornly made choices.
Kyler was getting fed-up with being treated as a queen, yet she was no queen. Not for anybody, not for Henry. She soon started to borrow money from Bridgit instead. At first, Bridgit gave out open handed and with a kind heart. However, days turned into weeks and one day she borrowed a huge sum to give to Andy the butler so that he would buy her a laptop but instead Bridgit asked for it from Mr. Henry who gave it to her and told her not to tell Kyler he had been the source. She was so left out from the world. By now Bridgit was her new best friend. The only person she really talked to. Being in the presence of Mr. Henry had started feeling weird and odd and she didn't like it.
He was such a workaholic. She only heard him either in the middle of the night walking past her door to his room or very early in the morning as he went. He was his cold mean self as usual, and nothing really made him happy she noticed. She clearly didn't like it but it was not like it was her obligation to teach him how to live with people. One day, Bridgit and Andy had gone to the market and had been shocked to find Kyler moving her belongings to Bridgit's quarter when they came back.
"Hey, why are you doing this" Bridgit asked her worriedly.
"I just hate staying in the big house with a cold man who makes me uncomfortable whenever he is around with all his rules and attitude. I am also a bit lonely and it makes me remember my awful past."
"Oh, sorry. come get a hug first" she said walking towards her and squashing her little body in a bear hug.
"but..."
"No buts, Bridgit. I am bored. I don't enjoy this big luxurious life anymore. I was born rich, and I lived together with my brother for only ten years and then he went to China to learn how to fight. It was a passion for him. I lived for the rest of my life with a nanny. Old enough to be my grandma and she died once I finished high school. I saw my brother then for the funeral because he loved her and boom. He vanished again to China. I would host parties every weekend, visit places with friends. Friends I never felt I fit with. Obviously, they were all from the rich aristocratic families but none of them was seeking for something real. ..."she was sobbing and sniffing and then continued.
"It hurts to be lonely. You overthink, you hide your pain, you live a pretense, smiling that you have a large circle of friends and boyfriends, but it never felt like me. For days I would wish I was a spendthrift and an extrovert. Just so I can live and enjoy all I had at my disposal, but it never happened. I was doomed to be an introvert and it sucked. I really hated myself. "She clung on Bridgit, and they walked into her living room and sat down.
"I've never told anyone this and it always hurt. It hurts right now when I live in the same house with such a handsome man, but he wouldn't dare sneak in my room and just touch my face. "She stood up and unknowingly her volume increased too." I regret this so much. Can I tell you what I did to my former husband? Maybe it's the reason he never loved me like really loving me. I had seen him in one of the bars I frequented in France, and I had seen him a couple of times with girls. One day though...(sniff) the girl he had waited for never came and he was hurt, and I was sitting in the next table. Seeing him getting agitated, I went and sat with him, soon we were making love in one of the hotel rooms and afterwards, we talked. It was then that I promised to help his company if he would marry me, and he had accepted. I was so fucking naive that his pretentious love seemed real to me, and I fell for him so hard that now it hurts deep. That's why I won't simp to a man who hates me like his own shit. Even if I live under the same house with him but today, I thought that now that you're my best friend, I could live with you here than with a man who hates me to even look at me for weeks in the excuse of work."
Bridgit was crying. Her eyes were filled with sympathy for her best friend. She needs more love than one could offer and unfortunately one that Mr. Henry didn't have.
"Do you have a crush on him?" she asked still sobbing for Kyler's sake. It was such a sad story for a lovely woman.
"I don't know and may God forbid it. He doesn't have what it takes." she said angry at him but trying to calm down.
"Then why are you moving out? Because he doesn't even glimpse at you? Or talk to you? or can barely touch your face?"
"You know what? You would have said it earlier that I am not welcomed here, before listening to my sad story that I know you think I made up." She said angry at Bridgit now and stormed out with some of her belongings going back to the house. She was almost traumatized to come face to face with Mr. Henry who was sitting on a lawn bench just near Bridgit's house. His two bodyguards stood next to him stiff as poles.
"WTF!" she shouted catching Bridgit's attention, and she came out running only to be on a stand still. Kyler was rooted on the ground when Bridgit's mind thought of an excuse as first as possible.
"Good evening, sir...., I'm...we're taking some things she had brought to my house over....ouch..... the days back to her room." She said biting her tongue and going back into the house. Seconds later she comes out with more things and nudged Kyler to follow her. They walked in silence and once in Kyler's room they both asked each other at the same time, "what did he hear?"
Kyler wished he had heard nothing while Bridgit wished he had heard a lot.