Relaxed

The rest of the day is quite relaxed.

After I shower and change, I stop by to see what the girls are up to.

Ram continues to clean the rooms on the second floor. Since I distracted her a bit by working out, she didn't get that far.

Hermione has just finished cleaning the library when I come into the room. We chat briefly, but I leave after a few minutes.

Ikumi, is busy downstairs in the kitchen. When I come into the kitchen, she is putting away some appliances. "I would need a few more things so I can cook properly" she says to me when she spots me.

So we sit at my laptop for a few hours to order cooking utensils to keep Ikumi happy.

With that, it's getting close to evening before I can sit in front of the TV and quietly watch some sports on TV.

For dinner, Ikumi calls us all and we are presented with another feast from her.

After everyone has finished eating, I want to discuss something with everyone.

"You have been behaving well the last few days, and I hope you find it easier to be here with me. I have thought about something, if you continue to behave like this during the weekend, you will all get a gift from me. I was thinking that you might need something for your free time, so I thought I'd get an MP3 player with some music for each of you."

Hermione and Ikumi are happy, but Ram doesn't know what an MP3 player is. However, after we explain it to her, she is also happy.

"You will only have access to a music program with the player, nothing else. If you continue to behave well, I will keep getting you smaller gifts" I say to them and they are a bit happy.

"Also, I was thinking that tomorrow before I go to my event we might go to the pool for a bit. It's supposed to be good weather tomorrow so it would fit."

"Sure I'd love to," Ikumi says, already looking forward a bit. "I'd be happy to swim a bit" Ram also says and she also seems happy.

In Hermione's face, however, I see a hint of **** for a very short time, before she shifts her expression again and also happily agrees.

She is quite talented at pretending, but not as good as an actress.

We all get up and go to our rooms.

Once in my room, I change and lie down on the bed, exhausted.

Ram and Ikumi seem to be slowly getting used to life here. Only Hermione worries me a little. She tries to rebel against me, I have to do something about it sometime. But for now I play on as if I hadn't noticed anything.

I close my eyes and quickly fall asleep.

Authors note: So I am done with my exam. Therefore it will probably go on in the next days again in the normal 2-3 day cycle. I'm looking forward to write the auction, because I'm looking forward to it since I started with the story.