The Mafia's Weakness

(New Job as a maid)

Stefania

The duty bell rang out loud in the hall, I and the other maids scurried through the hall ways down to the task board. Madame Rosita was standing there with a huge book in her hands.

Madame Rosita was the head maid, she was in charge of all maids. I looked around, everyone here looked happy. I hope I would be happy too. I was greatful to Fredico for telling me about this job, the pay was nice. At least I would stop skipping meals to make ends meet.

There was free food, even a room to myself that I don't have to worry about house rent. This mansion was extremely huge, a little part of me wants to know how the exterior part looks like, but we were warned to never step out.

To be honest, I was kind of curious. There is a lot of mysterious things about this mansion. The scary looking guards that were every where and the fact that Fredico had to drug me before bringing me here. All he told me was knowing too much would kill me. My life might not be that precious, but I am not ready to die yet.

It was hard to predict any new faces here, but one thing that is common among each and everyone of us, is our ambitions I guess.

"Good morning ladies!" Madame Rosita shouted with her frog like voice.

"Good morning Madame Rosita," we all replied, I rolled my eyes as she began to clap. We were about fifteen maids in the task board, they all looked kind of happy, I guess I was the only one with a bored look.

"The master will be arriving tomorrow." She said, pausing to look at everyone's faces as if she could read what was going on in our minds.

I couldn't help but wonder who the master was, well for a big mansion like this, there should be a master for it.

"Pay attention girls!" She snapped, palming her auburn hair that were already receding at the hairlines. Madame Rosita would surely be suffering from hair loss soon.

The girls mumuring behind me kept quiet immediately, but they didn't stop giggling, I didn't understand the reason for their excitement.

"We all need to prepare for the master's arrival, we need to clean up everywhere till it is sparkling clean. Is that understood?" Madame Rosita asked.

"Yes, Madame Rosita." We all replied.

I rolled my eyes, is it even possible to make the whole place sparkling clean, Madame Rosita seems to be feeling important.

"Master is coming tomorrow! I hope he notices me at least." A girl with large boobs, said dreamily. She was standing close to me, and I could not understand the reason why she was blushing.

The girl behind her scoffed

"Master does not like busty girls," she said sticking out her tongue.

I rolled my eyes for the fourth time today, these girls were actually stupid than I thought.

"Listen up girls," Madame Rosita shouted again.

"So who is going to clean up the master's quarter?" She asked, with a large grin on her face.

I looked around to see everyone's hand up, except mine. They all looked at me for a few seconds before looking away. I rolled my eyes again.

"What is so special about cleaning the master's room?" I muttered under my breathe, scoffing.

"Are you kidding me?" The girl opposite me said with her mouth open.

"I don't think you are normal." She whispered, shaking her head in pity.

"Am I meant to be normal?" I asked, raising an eyebrow up.

"Yes, I guess." She replied proudly.

"Well normal is boring, I am proudly a weirdo." I said, tsking.

"You there!" Madame Rosita said, pointing to me.

"Me?" I asked in confusion.

"Yes, I appoint you to clean up the master's quarter's." She said, without a smile on her face.

Everyone's eyes turned to me, I raised my hands up in surrender, since they were all looking at me like I was the bad one here.

"Bitch!" The girl in front of me whispered for me to hear clearly.

"Pretender," she added. "That was your plan all along right?" She scoffed.

I was speechless, I couldn't figure out the right reply for her. This was not what I wanted. I just wanted to make money and get the fu*ck out of here.

Other maids began to murmur.

"Oh wow! You are all against me." I muttered to myself.

"She is new Madame Rosita, I think you should let someone experienced like me clean up master's quarter's." One of the girls at the front said.

Madame Rosita kept quiet for a minute, she was staring at me as if she wanted to change her mind, which I don't mind.

"It is so sad that some of you don't know your place again." She said with a strict tone.

"Who is the head maid here?" She asked, with her eyes still on me.

"Madame Rosita." We all replied.

"Who assigns tasks?" She asked, folding her arms around her chest.

"Madame Rosita." We all replied again. The girl who talked began to tremble, it was obvious she was in trouble. Hopefully she won't get sacked. Poor thing.

"Bruno," Madame Rosita beckoned to the guard at her left side. Bruno was huge and he had a big hideous scar covering the left side of his face.

"Take her to the punizione room." Madame Rosita commanded. I could hear the loud gasps, that made me realize one thing, the punizione room must be a very bad place. Bruno grabbed her arms and dragged her away.

"Who else wants to tell me what to do?" Madame Rosita asked, smiling this time around. Nobody dared talk, everyone kept quiet.

She began to assign the other maids to different duties, she made sure she marked everything down in the book in her hands.

"Now!" She exclaimed, snapping her fingers.

"You can now go about doing your tasks. Remember! Get everything done perfectly. Madame Paloma would be there to check everyone's work." She added, waving us away.

"Stefania!" She said with a very loud voice that pierced my eardrums.

"Yes, Madame Rosita." I replied, bowing sightly.

"Follow me." She said, sashaying to the left and to the right.