As the car drove smoothly down the tarred road, Maddie turned her head to Andrew to receive a smile from him, compelling her to smile back. Something occurred to Maddie so she asked Andrew, "You didn't go to school today?" Thinking about it, he hadn't been at school on Monday morning either, which was the day they had met. Did he skip school a lot? She didn't like it. Andrew shook his head in negation as a response to her question, and then said, "It isn't a big deal as I am being homeschooled." "Oooh," was all Maddie could say. He was homeschooled? Why? She could think of a number of reasons why but then, was it even what the boy wanted? To be homeschooled? She didn't want to press on the topic but she couldn't quite help it as she was concerned. She was curious too but she was more concerned than curious. She couldn't help but think, if she was going to be a good nanny to the boy then she must get to really know him. "Do you like being homeschooled?" she asked Andrew and she did

"Wow!" Maddie exclaimed with widened eyes as she took in the overall decor of her bedroom. The room was Chic and Polished yet Simple at the same time. The room was spacious and rugged. The lighting was natural as there were two large windows aligned on both sides of the room with the bed, which had covers and pillows comprising of soft pastels of peach, and mounted right in the centre of the room. A few metres in front of the bed was a desk with a minimal chair giving the vibes of a cozy workplace as a laptop was right on top of the desk with a few books piled by the side, and a flower vase containing fresh flowers on the other side, and just a few metres away from where the desk and the chair was set up was the door which Maddie and Andrew had stepped in from. Not far from where the bed stood, by the side, was another door, leading to the toilet and bathroom. The interior colouring combined peach and white, including the wallpapers. There was also also a huge wardrobe set up on one

Jake kept his gaze fixed on Maddie, she stood transfixed staring at him from the distance he had left her. First he pressed his eyebrows closely together in wonderment, and then he cackled a chuckle as a thought occurred to him _ She wasn't hesitating because she was reading another meaning to his request now, was she? "Wait a minute! You are not actually thinking that I am asking you to come with me into my room because I want to be alone with you, are you? Jesus Maddie, you are in no way my class!" Jake's words came as a slap across Maddie's cheek, knives piercing through her heart deeply. And the condescending look he held as he looked at her while sputtering those words was not helping matters. Did he really have to outright insult her by calling her classless? Did her? Maddie raised an eyebrow as she played Jake's words in her head again. What happened to using honorifics with her? He had called her Maddie! She was trying so hard to keep it all in, the anger coursing through

Maddie felt so warm and full just watching Andrew eat with so much relish that she barely even touched her own food. Andrew's chair was taller than all the other chairs in the dining room so that he could be able to eat comfortably from the table. One thing Maddie had noticed about Andrew was that he usually ate his meal wholeheartedly and she liked it. The sudden beeping of Maddie's phone made her avert her gaze from Andrew to her phone, which she had placed on the table. She checked to see that her brother had sent her a text message. She opened it. It read: "Guess who else has a job now? Me!" He added a winking emoji and a dancing emoji to the text. . "Really? He gave him a job already," Maddie mumbled in surprise and Andrew's head turned to her. "What did you say Miss Maddie?" Andrew asked her as he had clearly heard her saying something but had not heard what she had said because of how low her voice had been. "Oh it's nothing Sweetie, I was just saying something to myself, t

In her bedroom, Maddie continued to study the book she had started reading in the morning but she couldn't concentrate as her mind kept wandering. She couldn't help but wonder why Jake and her brother wasn't back home yet. Did Jake usually work until this late in the night on weekdays or had he perhaps travelled out of the country and wouldn't be back that day? After all, Andrew had mentioned that he loved to travel a lot. But if he had indeed travelled, had he taken Mathew with him? Mathew would have at least informed her via call or text if that was the case though. Maddie couldn't help but wonder why Jake was being so good to her. Giving her a high paying job, and even giving her brother a job. Not to mention loaning her a million dollars to settle the loan sharks, he had even been willing to pay her that exact amount of money as monthly salary to be Andrew's nanny but being someone who hated more than anything to take advantage of others and to be a charity case, she had stopped h