“Heya!”

  “Hello.”

  “Whatcha doing?”

  “Tea duty.”

  “For…?”

  “The little lady.”

  “Oooh, I just walked past her room, she is just so adorable! I heard her talking to her imaginary friend. She calls her Allison!”

  “Is that so?”

  “She is just SOOO adorable!”

  “You’ve already said that.”

  “Huh, guess I did! Anyway I gotta get this laundry to the wash, see you!”

  “Alright.”

  She was bored. Same things everyday, every week. The same cheerful newbies chatting her ear off, the same type of children ordering her around.

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  She had not seen the little lady yet, but she was sure it would be all the same.

  When she got to the little lady’s door she stopped and put on a fake expression that is better to interact with children, her job was to give her the attention that her parents couldn’t after all.

  Knock Knock

  “May I come in, my lady?”

  “Yes!”

  The maid opened the door as she saw the little lady covered in a bed sheet with a face drawn upon it.

  “My lady, what is it you have upon your head?”

  “Nothing!” the lady’s voice echoed from the other side of the room

  The maid whipped her head around to find the real lady sitting in the corner.

  “What on earth did you cover with a sheet to pull such a prank?” She turned around to find the object covered in a sheet turned to look at her with its drawn on face.

  “Oh, that.. is a.. clever.. trick, how on earth did you manage it with that thing?” the maid told the lady while looking away from the thing.

  “She’s not a thing. Her name is Allison.”

  “Oh. isn’t that nice. I'm curious what you covered with that sheet, it looks so close to a little girl! Perhaps a doll?”

  “No.”

  “Really…” The maid turns to face “Allison” with her hand reaching out to pull the cloth off.

  Swish

  nothing’s there