14:FEELS BETTER

I went to her office and knocked. I didn't stay there for long before she told me to come in and I opened the door carefully not to make noises to annoy her. It was noticeable that she didn't like me so I did not want her to hate me even more than she does already.

"I'm done with cleaning the polls, Miss Sam..." I said after getting inside and standing before her desk. I don't know what she was busy doing on her computer because she did not even look at me. She was typing very fast that I even wondered how she could do that. I stood there for almost ten minutes and she didn't look up or say anything. Considering how tired I felt and how my legs were not letting me have my own way I decided to say it again.

" Excuse me, Miss Sam, I'm already done cleaning the pools... do you still want to inspect them?" I asked again and she looked up, eyes beaming with anger.

"I heard you... Just an FYI... I don't like people who say one thing more than once... as you can see I'm busy... You took the whole day to clean the swimming pools why would I bother to check them this late... It's your daily work now, isn't it? Just go to the kitchen and help there I've instructed Mrs. Peters and she will know what to do with you..." she said and without being told I proceeded to the kitchen.

Getting on the elevator I leaned on it. I felt that my legs were too tired and I couldn't continue standing straight so I had to support myself. I met with Jennie in the kitchen who had come to take something. She is a waitress, that's why she is dressed differently. She pulled me to a corner where there was no one, there were almost fifteen people in the kitchen and they were all busy.

" Hey, what are you doing here? Are you done with the pools?" I nodded but she still wasn't pleased.

"Then what are you doing here?... You need to rest you've done a lot of work... Aren't you tired? " she said and she looked at me with pitiful eyes. Nononono as much as I want to rest I can't show my weakness in front of any human no matter who it is.

"I'm good... Perfectly fine... I've already rested and besides, I'm not here to relax, I'm here to work right?" I asked and she looked at me with a plain blank face.

"Hey, newbie, wanna get to work, or do you prefer to go home?...get me fish from the freezer" Someone shouted and they both looked at the woman, are all chefs this plump? She wondered.

"That's Mrs peters, always shouting I guess it's a thing the chefs do... go and get her the fish... She ain't too friendly..." Jennie said and pointed to the fridge then left. I looked at the frozen fish in the fridge, they were a lot of them. I couldn't help but feel pity, these were just like me, so if this is how they do to fish then they could do that to me too right? Frozen and kept in a dresser, waiting to be cooked and then eaten by them. I couldn't imagine how a fish choked to death once it was out of the water, suffocates struggled to breathe, and then eventually dies in the hands of the humans and then cooked. As I took one of them or felt like I was the one who had killed them, felt like I was betraying them.

"Hurry up girl" the woman shouted at me again and I immediately took it to her.

It felt like she was the one doing the excessive work there. Get me a knife she gets it, get me meat she gets it too, get me fish she does that too, get me a pan, get me vegetables, get me milk or cups she does it too. It was not just Mrs peters who was telling her this alone but it seems everyone else there was. She felt like they were choking her. She didn't stand even for a minute, it was either she was washing dishes or chopping something or maybe getting something for someone else. Somethings she had to find them for herself because everyone there seemed so busy and no one cared to look at her, as long as she gave them what they asked for. This went on and on and minutes turned to hours.

"Get me twenty plates right now" Mrs. Peters shouted and she stopped washing the dishes and went for the clean dry ones. She didn't want to can't a lot because she knew they would brake so she carried only a few until they were twenty and placed them next to Mrs. Peters where she could acquire them easily. She then went back to washing the dishes.

" Slice these onions lengthwise... I need them now" Another girl said and she had to stop what she was doing again and to her.

"How do I do that?" The girl looked at her weirdly. " I mean... I've never sliced them before just show me please...." she whispered and the girl showed her. Not harsh like the others. She said thank you and then decided to work on them. It wasn't that hard, the only hard part was that her eyes were burning.

"Here... Lemme do it for you go and was your eyes" it was Jennie. She said taking the onions from her.

"Are you done with your work?" she asked in a whisper.

" Yeah, my shift is over.....look around almost everyone is done and others are coming... For the night shift, we have to hurry because you'll be left alone with the dishes... go and wash your face" she said and I hurriedly went to the washroom and washed my face. At least it felt better now. On getting back to the kitchen, I found new faces except for Jennie who was washing the dishes. She must have realized that I was a bit surprised.

"See, I told you..." Jennie said and I went to her. She was almost done with the dishes. I tried to help but she said I should rest. I had

to let her help me. I had overstayed at the washroom to get some rest so right now I didn't mind if she offered to help me.

"Done... Let's go" she said after minutes and I followed her. I left her in her room and I went to mine to get changed. I took a shower and sat on the bed. I had taken a long shower but I could feel that my body was still hot and tired. Jennie knocked, I had sensed her and went to open the door. She was in bedtime pajamas and was carrying some foodstuff.

"We didn't take supper so I went back to the kitchen and took this," she said after comfortably seating on the bed.

"Do you like this?" she asked me and I looked at her waiting for her to tell me what it was.

"It's Korean fried rice and chicken... Not spicy though, it's super sweet... They didn't want her to have it so I had to pay for it" she said and I smiled at the way she pouted while saying that. It looked so yummy that I had to try it and trust me, it is sweet.