The poor Chaperone

The Records room might prove to be the most boring places of this huge visiting parlor, but it contained a lot of plots and methods applied in the past to learn from. She was reminded of the time when her father, Roy and her were a team to play around with the world. She would search the information as she was very detailed about them with proven facts, with Roy being the one to turn the authority in the room in such a way that he would turn himself as the owner of someone else's home. While her father was the one to bring the two forces together, he had contributed the greatest part in teaching them to rule.

'Always remember to stay close to Roy. So close that he trusts you with his life. Only then you both will be safe.'

Her father passed away abandoning her but his words stayed with her; his voice resonating in her ears until now. Maybe it's the ego of all males to think that women will need backing up from them, that's why he said that. She rolled her eyes at that and resumed her search. Turning off the pages and folding some of them in order to go through them again later, she versed her attention at the video recordings stored in CDs. The minutes book contained the written part of what happened in the meeting, whereas the CD part contained the whole video of every meeting she wanted to watch through.

These people had arranged the room in such a way that only the paper material is available, but the CD Player was not installed to watch from. Considering how Roy didn't install one yet, made her question his ability of making important decisions. What was the use of the CDs if you don't have a CD Player? Shaking her head, she looked into the books again to search anything related to the meetings for Oil Supplies or any Private meetings. But why would any Private meeting be written in the records? The only reference for any discussion regarding Oil was done on September 28, 2017 which was two years prior. After that there was no discussion about it anywhere in the books. If there was a persisting problem until her birthday in December then why wasn't any records made for that particular time?

Thinking that she won't find anything in the books, she turned her attention to the CDs and stacked up all the meetings for the three months September to December 2017. There were nine of them. Now she had to make a way of taking these to her room in the palace without anyone's notice. She was hooking up her skirt after getting up from the table when she heard some voices coming out of the door of the room. Hurriedly Ella kept the books back in their position, grabbing hold of the CDs, she unbuttoned her shirt from the breasts below, where she had clasped a holder on her stomach for stashing the CDs. There was a reason why she wore a loose fitted top today, which was enhancing her breasts but it made her work easier. Believing that no one would be looking out for these soon-to-be-missing records for a while, she carried her heels soundly from the floor which creaked in response and hid behind the door as it opened inside. The voices now becoming clear to her she found two people to be entering the room, with Daisy being one of them. Holding her breath, she thought of making an escape without notice, it was then that she remembered the ID she had 'borrowed' from her friend was lying in the table where she had kept absent minded. Her brain chose this moment to present it in her mind!

"...she would have taken it here," said Daisy.

"Why here? This place gives me creeps. If I were to steal it, I would go into more interesting places," the other one said dreamily.

"No! I know her. I should have known she would do something like that. She never listens! Look for her on that side. I'm going to have a really long conversation with her once I catch hold of her."

Granted Daisy was her friend but Ella hardly thought her friend would perform the friendly duties now. After the both entered the room, the door was left out by them to shut by itself. Which didn't happen completely as Ella had put two fingers of hers to stop it from closing.

"Did you find anything?"

"You are to search for a woman not a thing Amy. Look for her."

Wincing a bit Ella carefully shifted closer to the door in order to sneak out from here without any notice. As soon as she dragged each particular part of her out of that room with her left toe being the last to exit the opening, she closed the door muttering, "Shit!" The door had closed a little too loudly, considering it was left to close on its own. She heard her friend's voice faintly from inside,

"What was that?"

"Door."

"Didn't you close it?"

"I don't remem..."

Ella didn't wait to hear the rest of the conversation and descended the stairs with the heels on her hand and herself buttoning up the top. Unfortunately for her she came face to face with the boy Simon while she was buttoning the breast button. Now that looked herself into the boy's gaze, she understood what the situation might look like. She cleared her throat passed through the red-faced boy. Walking a few steps ahead she put on the heels and exited the parlor without looking anywhere or greeting anyone, just composing herself to get back to her old room in order to go through the CDs she had requited.

The little amount of luck Ella felt, would be thrown out of the window especially with the way Simon's master Roy Knight was told about the surprising presence of hers in the parlor. Simon being the chaperone for his master was supposed to do everything that his superior instructed. When he found the Mistress to be exiting from upstairs, he believed that she was in search for his master and he had returned to relay him the news. He would have said the Mistress about the whereabouts of Mr. Knight but he was feeling too shy to even speak to her, without accidentally roaming his eyes around the places he shouldn't be. So, he thought to help out his Mistress by informing his Master about it.

"Sir, I think Mistress was looking for you."

"You think? Why, she came in your dreams to tell you that?" His master had still not glanced at him to see his red face which was still evident since he found Mistress Ella at the stairs.

"Um, no sir. She was here. I thought that she might be looking for you." The boy answered embarrassed.

Roy stopped writing his notes and only then looked up to see his assistant as red as a tomato. "Do you have fever? You are completely red."

That only made the boy look down and away from his master's scrutinizing gaze. The chair creaked which meant that his master was leaning back in his chair with full attention on him. He gulped at that.

"What did you see exactly Simon."

"I swear I didn't see much sir!" He said hurriedly with his hands clutching each other and pleading his master. Roy narrowed his eyes at that.

The boy then chanted, "I was returning to you after handing over the file to Mr. Harper, when I saw Mistress to be exiting from the stairs. Um, yes sir I didn't see anything else."

"Then what made your face look so shy suddenly?"

"Cold. I-I am feeling cold Sir. Can I get the day off?"

"Better. I can give you your job off," Roy threatened, noticing this boy to be skipping something he thought of questioning him in another way, "What was she carrying Simon?"

"Her shoes. And she was making her hair. Her shirt-" the boy covered his mouth with the slight slip of the tongue and looked up to meet his master's eyes which assured him that he would be hanged for what he did unknowingly! Simon prayed the lord wherever he was to spare his life, and take his job away in exchange whereas the man in the room was aware that the woman was up to something. He clutched his hands into fists thinking about that.