The Struggles of Being a Maid {for Ashely08}

[CleverFox]

The life of a maid was filled with hard work but there was a certain reward to it.

Eighteen year old Liliana Reynolds, Lily for short, didn't really mind being a maid and she had a fairly good lifestyle as far as servants went. Good food and a nice room to stay in, as well as the wages that she earned. The one drawback to her employer was the fact that the man had a strict discipline policy and said discipline involved corporal punishment in the form of spankings.

Which Lily wasn't really a fan of even if she did submit to them.

Currently she was dressed in a frilly black and white maid's uniform and dusting some of the decor, her blond hair pulled back into two pigtails. Unfortunately she ended up knocking a vase to the floor, her hazel-green eyes widening as it crashed to the floor and shattered into about a million pieces.

"Oh no," she said as she moved to pick up the pieces quickly.

[Ashely08]

Noah Shellman was an eccentric, rich young man. He lived in a fancy mansion on the edge of a cliff far away from town. Now that by itself isn't eccentric as much as it is solitary; but what made him stand out was the way he handled his staff. Unlike normal employers, he wasn't quick to fire his employees for their mistakes or disobedience.

Instead he lived by the policy, "A stern hand goes further than a pink slip." The saying wasn't catchy in any means but Noah lived by it anyway. In other words, Noah punished his employees through old-fashioned spankings.

To add to his eccentricities, Noah was only in his early twenties and had hired almost an entirely female staff. The cook, the gardener, even his butler were female-the only exception being his limousine driver. And then, of course, there were the maids.

Speaking of which-

CRASH!

Noah's head snapped to his office door, eyes narrowing and a sigh escaping his lips when he realized what was going on. Getting up, he set down the important paperwork that he had been going over and left his office; practically storming through the halls.

He exhaled an angry breath when he saw one of the maids- Ms. Reynolds- on the ground, trying to pick up the pieces of his now deceased lamp with her bare hands.

"Ms.Reynolds." He began. "A word, if you please."

[CleverFox]

Lily couldn't believe that she had allowed this to happen, she was trying to be so careful and yet still she sent the apparently very fragile piece of the decor crashing to the floor. In much the manner of Humpty Dumpty the thing didn't survive the fall and Lily knew that there was no way that she was going to be able to repair it, much to her chagrin.

She was in the process of picking up the shattered pieces and cleaning up the mess when she heard footsteps approaching.

Without really needing to look up Lily knew who it was going to be, there was really only one person that it could be. Yes there were other servants in the house and yes there was a chance that it could be one of them but Lily knew that she wasn't that lucky by any stretch of the imagination. Sure enough when she looked up she saw the irritated look of her master, that getting a guilty look from her.

"Yes sir," she said when he asked for a word, Lily knowing that while it was phrased as a request it was far from it.

Leaving the remains of the destroyed vase on the floor in a pile to be cleaned up later Lily rose to her feet, dusting off her mid thigh length skirts and then walking over to Noah. "I'm really sorry Mr. Shellman, it was an accident," she began as soon as she was standing in front of the man.

[Ashely08]

"Your sorry," Mr. Shellman repeated lowly. His lips widened into a sarcastic, dry smile. "I suppose since you're sorry I can overlook that fact that your smashed a fifteen-thousand dollar vase...after all, you're sorry." The young man closed his eyes and put his hand to his chin and made a "tch-tch" sound. After a few moments he opened his eyes, the green gems attempting to burn a hole through Ms. Reynolds by simply gazing at her.

"Then again, you didn't learn before and you're probably not going to learn now...especially if I were to let you off the hook this time." He called out in a loud voice with a genuine smile. "Clean-up on aisle twelve!" Noah still had a childish sense of humor as he had number the hallways and rooms to make it more fun when calling for someone. Not too mention it helped new staff members get around easier.

Noah then reverted back to a serious demeanor and told Lily to follow him to his office. "You will receive proper punishment there." Not that he needed to tell her, all of his staff was used to this by now. And any who weren't would be eventually after they adapted.

[CleverFox]

"You don't have to be so mean about it..." Lily couldn't help but say, looking at him.

His anger she could handle, she did realize that she deserved it, but the way that he was mocking her seemed more fitting of a bully in high school rather than a grown man. She was thinking that maybe she should just quit this job at this point, offer to pay him for the vase that had been broken and be on her way, the way that he was treating her really just not sitting well with her.

"You cannot learn not to have accidents...they call them that for a reason," Lily said when Noah said that she hadn't learned, the young woman shaking her head at his childish call for someone to clean up the mess. That was another of those things that she thought was completely unnecessary and not at all befitting of the man's age.

When he told her to come with to his office Lily moved to follow but she shook her head once again and said, "Maybe it would be better for both of us if I just resigned. You can find someone who can do the job better...and I can escape further taunting."

[Ashely08]

Mr. Shellman raised an eye-brow. "If you wish to quit then feel free too. Simply pay for all of the damages you have caused during your stay here in full and I'll let you go." He told her. Considering her clumsy nature and the expensive nature of the items he purchases, the total was quite high.

"Additionally," He continued, "Whether you quit or not, right now you're still obliged to receive punishment; so please follow me." He continued walking to is office. He could care less if one of his employees quit. All it did was leave room for someone new to join the staff. And Noah did like meeting new people.

[CleverFox]

"I would have to make payments and you know it...I don't have that kind of money and never will," Lily replied when he made the comment about paying for the stuff in full. She listened as he said that she was still obligated to receive punishment and while Lily knew that wasn't something he could force on her for whatever reason she still followed him.

She could have called him on it and said that it was assault but she didn't do that.

If she were to be asked by someone Lily wouldn't have been able to really give a reason for that, honestly. Because she couldn't answer that question even for herself.

[Ashely08]

"Then I suppose you will continue working here or suffer a lawsuit." Noah told her as he walked into his office. "You can choose what implement I use. Or I can use just my hand but it will be longer and more severe." Noah told her.

Noah always allowed his employees to pick what they were punished with as it amused him to see them always fret about what to choose (they usually went with the hairbrush as it ended faster with that then the slipper and was softer than the paddle.

While leaving her to choose his weapon, Noah went behind his desk and sat in the chair. It had removable arms, allowing him to sit in his favorite chair while still being able to punish his employees effectively.

[CleverFox]

Lily looked at Noah when the man issued what was in her mind a threat and while she had a witty comeback in mind for that, which would more or less dare him to sue her and risk his rather weird practices to become common knowledge and scandalize him, the young woman actually kept that to herself.

Following him to his office Lily almost groaned when Noah told her that she could choose the implement. She hated the fact that he did that and she wanted to protest but once again she bit that back in the interests of not making this situation worse.

Though how it could be worse was anyone's guess really.

Knowing that this was not going to get any better Lily walked over to where the implements were kept and predictably chose the hairbrush. Holding it in her hand as though afraid that it was going to burn her or something Lily walked over to the chair where Noah was currently sitting and offered it to him.

"This, sir," she said, still not happy about the situation at large.

[Ashely08]

Noah didn't hide his smirk when Lily offered the hairbrush, her face scrunched up into one that screamed of unfairness. "Hmm, you don't seem to be fond of the hairbrush," Noah mused aloud. "I think I'll do you a favor and just use the paddle." Taking the hairbrush out of her hand, Noah dropped it into the trashcan under his desk and then grabbed the biggest and scariest looking paddle on the wall.

"Besides, this is way past your first few offenses. I think you need something stronger." The young adult spoke casually, almost as though he was talking about wine- not that this particular maid was old enough to drink anyway.

Seating himself back in his chair, Noah removed the arms before grabbing Lily's hand in a firm and unbreakable vice and pulling her over his lap. He then pat her covered butt a few times. "I'll give you a choice. I can start with my hand and then finish with the paddle without pulling any clothes down; or I can bare your naughty bottom and finish the spanking swiftly with the paddle. Either way you stand in the corner." He told her.