Episode 31 : Developing Relationship
He was really shocked to hear her say would be leaving, like really? he looked at her and saw the determination in her eyes, his grip on her slowly released then she quickly stepped away from him.
“You’re leaving?” He asked.
“Yes Sir, I’m leaving, I always feel you don’t like me being your daughter’s nanny,if you don’t want me here anymore I’ll leave, in fact first thing tomorrow morning you won’t see my face anymore” she said.
She slowly looked around the decoration she had put hard work on,she let out a sigh.
“I’m sorry for all these sir Charles, I’m sorry for being a fool always” she said then ran up to her room with tears rolling down from her eyes.
He went into his room then sank on the bed heavily, he suppose to feel happy that she would be leaving, at least that was what he always wanted right? But why did he sad?why did he feel like he was losing something so precious to him?
He lay flat on the bed, she shouldn’t have give him a surprise birthday party, now he is beginning to think about his late wife, how she died on the night if his birthday, ever since that night he got the news from the doctor.
That his wife has passed away he vowed never to celebrate his birthday again, he was already getting used to it, he was already get used to not receiving birthday surprises just as Clara usually does him, and now Mira brought back those awful memories,
he almost got mad when he saw those decoration set up for him, and he yelled at His daughter, his sister and Mira and now she said she resigning, he did not mean to to be rude but no one could understand the pain he was feeling in his heart,on one.
Mira wrapped herself on the bed while she wiped uncontrollably, sir Charles really embraced her tonight and it was so unfair, was it because she had feelings for him,she shouldn’t have maltreated her just because she had feelings for him, that was the reason.
why she had decided to leave, she was are already tired of his harsh attitude towards her,she knew it would be difficult for her to leave the house she was already used to but it was for the best, sir Charles does not value her so it is best she leaves.
She took her pink diary which was on her drawer then she began to jolt something in it, whenever she feel too emotional she always write in her diary.it was like a companion to her.
“Aunt Mira!”
Charles heard Catherine calling while she ran down stairs still in her pyjamas, at the sight if her father Catherine frown her cute face.
“Daddy I can’t find aunt Mira, where is she?”
She asked him, Charles bend down to her size then he held her hand.
“Honey, I’m really sorry for yelling at you last night, daddy was really in a bad mood last night” he tried to cover up, Catherine looked at him for a while then sighed.
“Don’t tell me sorry daddy, say that to aunt Mira, you really yelled at her last night, she really work really hard to give you a surprise party and now she us upset, you have to apologize to her” she told him, Charles was just starring at her.
“She must be really angry and now she is avoiding us, do you know where she is?” Catherine asked looking around, Charles stared at her then sighed, ready to spill the breaking news.
“She left” he said quietly.
Catherine frown at him.
“What?what do you mean she left?” She asked.
“She is no more working with us pumpkin, she left this morning”.
Catherine jerked her hands from as tears came out of her eyes.
“No!!!!”
Episode 32 : Confession to Catherine
“You’re lieing right? She can’t leave, no she can’t just leave me” Catherine began to cry.
“Baby,please stop crying” Charles made to touch her face but she slapped his hand away.
“Don’t touch me daddy, why did you send her away? Aunt Mira did not to you but you kept on yelling at her, she did nothing wrong but you sent her away” Catherine weep.
“No pumpkin, I didn’t……”
“I want aunt Mira back” she yelled.
Charles exhaled patiently.
“She’s not coming back, but I promise to get you a new nanny, in fact a better one” he said.
“I don’t want a new nanny, I want aunt Mira back, I want my friend back, I won’t talk to you if you don’t bring her back, oh daddy! what have you done? why did you have to do this?” Catherine cried,then she ran up to her room, Charles stood up and watched her crying up to her room.
He really felt pain in his heart, he never knew they were this close, his daughter looked at him with hatred and betrayal just because of Mira and now he was beginning to feel guilty, he should have try to persuade her to stay.
No! He is not going to drop his pride because of nanny who does not know her place, it was better she leave so he could start over again, Catherine would get over her soon, he told himself.
Mira sat on the bed then she looked at her luggage in Beatrice hand who was still in her pyjamas, yes she left the mansion so early, she does not want to see faces, most especially Sir Charles face.
“After what you’ve done for him he just threw you out like some scumbag, he is wicked, seeing how handsome he looks I thought he was nice but I guess he just a goat under a sheep form” Beatrice said angrily.
Mira only cried silently while she watched her angry friend.
“He really embarrassed you last night and its so unfair, and now he sent you packing”.
“He didn’t send me away,I left on my own will” Mira said quietly.
“Oh well that’s great then, I was better you leave that house than for you to receive daily insult from him, there are other job opportunity our there and I’m sure you will find yours” Beatrice said but it made Mira to burst into tears, Beatrice felt pity for her.
“Don’t cry best, it’s fine” Beatrice sat beside her and console her.
“It’s just that….I’ll miss Catherine so much, I’ll miss everybody in that house…..”
“Including Charles?” Beatrice asked her, Mira lower her head giving her no reply.
“You will miss him too?after what he had done to you?that ungrateful soul……..”
“You won’t understand” Mira mutter.
“Then make me to”.
Mira sighed as she wipe her tears then she stared at her friend.
“I’m in love with him”.
Beatrice mouth and eyes fell open.
“What?”
“Yes, you heard me right, I’m secretly in love with sir Charles, I’ve been keeping this feeling to myself and……..”
“He does not love you back” Beatrice said.
“Oh Mira, please don’t be foolish, this man sees you as a common nanny and nothing else, so you better stop daydreaming about him” Beatrice warned.
Mira paused for a while.
“I want to be alone” she mutter.
Beatrice was still seating, Mira gave her a pleading looking.
“Please” Mira said.
Beatrice sighed then nodded and then kissed her on the forehead before leaving the room.
Mira entered another round of cry, could she be fooling herself as Beatrice has said?could loving sir Charles be a mistake? Beatrice could be right, sir Charles never value her or her feelings, he only sees her as a Nanny and nothing more, she meant nothing to him.
Episode 33 : Catherine’s Insightful Question
Few days passed, Charles thought he would get over Mira but he couldn’t, it got worst each passing day thinking about her, it even worsen when his daughter.
kept on avoiding him, she told him that she could not stay with him anymore as long as Mira was not with them, she wants to return back to her grandparent, how great!
Now his own daughter sees him as an enemy now, well he had no choice but to return her back to his parent, and now he was back to square one,and now the house became odd, he cannot believe he was beginning to miss them.
One evening after he came from work, Charles went straight to Catherine’s room, he looked around the room and sighed sadly, he really missed his
little pumpkin so much, having her around was the best feeling, he guess having a nanny for Catherine was fine but the problem was the nanny, oh Mira! She was really…..he cannot just.
define her.
He turned to look at Mira’s door then he found himself going into the room, the room was dark,he switched on the light, he could still remember the first day he brought her into this room, she was smiling and he could see she loved.
the room. His eyes fell on the bed,Mira had slept on this bed, he began to imagine her image on the bed, then he sat on it and then moved his hand on the bedspread, and then he brought the bedspread close to his nose, he could still perceive her fragrant, he tightly closed his eyes and kept on inhaling her scent, he suddenly let go of the bedspread, he wonder what he was doing, she meant nothing to him.
He had stayed longer in the room so he decided to leave before his eyes fell on a pink Jolter which was laying on the floor.
He bent to pick it up and then realise it was Mira’s dairy.
“I guess she must have forgotten it” he said wanted to return it but he he began to feel so curious to know what was written in it.
Episode 34 : Realization of His Feelings
He stared at the diary for a while, he should keep it back, it was not good to meddle into someone’s privacy, but curiosity has gotten the best of him, he found himself sitting on the bed and then opening the book.
‘I’ll be leaving for new York Tomorrow,
I can’t wait to meet.
Beatrice, I’ve missed her a lot, I just hope I find a good job so that I can save enough money to further my education’
He turned to the next page.
“It’s my first day at work, I’m a nanny now and I love it, being a nanny is great when you have a wonderful kid to babysit, her name is Catherine and she is so pretty’
Charles smiled slowly while he turned to the next page.
‘I have a new boss, a handsome.
One at that, he is so handsome.
and I can’t believe that I’m blushing, but there is one thing I understand about him, he is always angry and I don’t know why,
he rarely smiles’
He turned to next page.
” my boss is so strict with me, he acts like he hate the sight if me but I wonder why I still like him’
He paused and stared at the page for a while then he turned to another page and found his name written in bold letters and a love shape surrounding it.
He looked at it in confusion before going to the next page.
‘Why is love this difficult to understand, after what sir Charles did to me,after all the humiliation.
I still love him, yes I love Sir
Charles so much but he doesn’t want me or seeing the sight of me,
It’s best I leave since he doesn’t value me, I guess I’ll just have to carry this feelings for have for him alone’
Charles read the page over and over again, what?
“She loves me?” He muttered.
His heart melted instantly, his come he never notice that she was in love with him?
He have treated her so badly and she kept on enduring his tortures, he started hating himself, she love me!it kept on ringing in his head.
Charles sat in his office, he tried to distract himself with some work, ever since he read Mira diary he have not been himself, he felt so confused on what to do, should he go and met her?even if he does what is he going to tell her?
Suddenly his door burst open and then Katie walked in looking so angry while his secretary follow from behind.
“I’m sorry Sir, I tried to stop her but she wouldn’t listen” Gloria his secretary said.
“I want to talk to you Charles” Katie yelled.
“It’s fine Gloria, you may leave” he said while Gloria nodded before leaving.
Katie placed her hands on her hips while she just stared at him.
“Could you please have your seat and stop starring at me like that” Charles said while he gazed back at his laptop.
“Why won’t I stare at you?you her acting different Charles and I doubt if you’re still my brother” she said angrily.
Charles let out an impatient sigh then looked up at her.
“What so you want Katie?” He asked.
“Why did you send her away?”
Instantly Charles knew she was talking about Mira.
Episode 35 : Inner Conflict
“I did not send her away, she resigned” he said, Katie scoffed.
“And you are happy about it right? The poor girl got tired of you and your rubbish that’s why she had to leave” she said.
“She was so engrossed in giving you a birthday surprise party with Catherine, where does such nanny exist! You really insulted her, if I was in her shoes I would have given you a kick on the head” she said glaring at him.
“She is not like you” he muttered.
“Yes she’s not like me, Mira is so pure and gentle and I wonder why you’re this blind to see notice it” Katie said.
Charles looked at her as he threw a deadly glare at her.
“It wasn’t my fault if I was too harsh to her, she just keep bringing back those lost memories that I choose to leave behind three years after Clara death,
I said I don’t want a nanny in my house but you wouldn’t listen, you went and brought a Nanny, not just any nanny but…..a perfect one” he shouted at her,Katie stood and watch him.
“She was being too perfect Katie and I hate it, she was so close to everyone in that house and I was jealous, I felt she was doing things to me and my emotions and I just can’t explain it” he said while he stood up and backed her feeling so angry.
“She is awaking some feelings in me and I don’t want it” he said tiredly.
Then he felt Katie’s hand on his shoulder.
“You are in love with Mira”.
On hearing that he turned to look at her and saw her smiling.
“What did you say?” He asked.
“I said ,you are in love with Mira” Katie repeat, Charles chuckles.
“No I’m not, stop saying rubbish”.
“No you saying rubbish, look at you Charles, you are in love” she said smiling, Charles back away from her.
“You’re getting me wrong Katie, I’m not in love with anybody, I just…….”
“You just won’t admit it, and it a pity if you loose her and I won’t forgive you if you do” she said firmly and left.
Charles sat on his chair while he replayed what his sister just told him, could he really be in love with Mira? And then his mind went back to Mira’s diary where she wrote her feelings for him,she loves him but he never gave her the chance to express it.
His thought got distracted as his phone rang,it was his father.
📱Hello dad…
📱hello son, you have to come over.
Charles could hear some hint of restlessness from his father’s voice.
📱is there a problem dad?
📱yes Charles, it’s Catherine ,she’s sick.
📱what?? I’ll be right there.
He stood up and hang up without hearing any further words from his father.