Humiliation.

Charlotte stood and due to the heavy woollen uniform was sweating and as she wiped the sweat from her face she caught the smell of Rosa’s feet on her fingers. Charlotte grimaced and Rosa seeing she smiled to herself. Charlotte opened the garden shed and looked at the sit on gasoline-powered mower. She saw the key in the mower and tried starting it but nothing happened. Charlotte tried twice more and still nothing so she went back to Rosa and told her. Rosa said she would have to use the manual lawn mower and she better be quick as Rosa had other tasks for her.

Charlotte went back and struggled to pull out the manual mower but managed. Rosa went back in the house and using Charlotte’s email account sent an email to USB and told them that they were no longer required to handle the Samuels affairs. She then sent an email to her friend Fatima of Fatima, Shelacta, Frieda and Ursula. The partners had had the welcome shortened to FSFU when anyone contacted them. She told Fatima that she and her firm would handle all the affairs of Charlotte from now on. Rosa then went to the living room kicked off her shoes and lounged on the couch and put on a movie while Charlotte was in the garden.

Charlotte was struggling with the mower trying to push it. The sun was staring it downward curve but under woollen uniform, Charlotte was sweating and white circles had started to form under her arms. She struggled all afternoon and finally finished putting the mower back in the shed. She looked at her hands and saw that blisters had started to form. She heard the ring of the bell and went back inside the house and found Rosa lounging on the couch. Rosa took one look at her and told Charlotte she had five minutes to go shower and change her uniform and then report back to her.

Rosa berated her more before Charlotte went upstairs telling Charlotte she did not want a stinky maid serving her. Charlotte’s face reddened with the humiliation as she turned and went upstairs looking at her watch, another six hours and the nightmare would be over.