Chapter 6
“Sweet like candy…”

Once upon a time, a young girl woke up happy on a Monday morning for her first day at her new job. She had the most beautiful and elegant wardrobe she had ever had. And the most important , she had met the boy of her dreams. Maybe it was going to last only for the summer, maybe, it was going to go on after that, maybe it was going to last forever, maybe it’s going to end in a week… whatever the outcome, she felt good with him and she was going to take full advantage of this relationship.

She got out of bed, took a shower, thinking about last night, about kissing Terry… she had never felt that way before. She had never believed the descriptions made in the romance novels, but now, she could writer a novel base on the magnificent kiss she shared with Terry…

William had drove her and Annie home late last night. Candy was walking on clouds as she hugged her mother and her grandmother. She had bought clothes for them too.

As she got dressed with her beautiful clothes, she was signing and humming. She got to the kitchen where her mother was making breakfast for her. Her grandmother was sitting at the table.

- Good morning mommy! She said hugging her

- Good morning baby!

- Nana! She said hugging her

- You’re a happy camper, said her grandmother

- It’s my first day at my new work at the castle…

- How was your week end? Asked her grandmother

- It was wonderful! Annie and I had so much fun especially when we went shopping! William is so nice… I could’ve bought the whole store if I wanted to…

- Well I hope it doesn’t go to your head, said Maria

- Don’t worry dear, said her mother, you’ve got a very good daughter…

- I hope so…, said Maria

- Don’t worry mom, when summer is over, I’m going to go back to school and start applying for colleges and scholarships…

While she was talking she was eating her cereals and drinking her orange juice. William sent the driver with a car to come and pick her up.

- My ride is here, mom, bye! Bye nana!

Candy left and she got in the car. As she was going to the castle, she was thinking about Terry. She was thinking about her feelings. The song on the radio was playing:

♪♪Since I met you I begun to feel so strange
Every time I speak your name that's funny
You say that you are so helpless too
That you don’t know what to do

Each night I pray there will never come a day
When you up and take your love away
Say you feel the same way too
And I wonder what it is I feel for you

Could it be I’m falling in love [With you baby]
Could it be I’m falling in love [Woo]
Could it be I’m falling in love
With you
With you
With you
With you

I don’t need all those things that used to bring me joy
You make me such a happy boy
And honey you’ll always be the only for me
Meeting you was my destiny

You can be sure I will never let you down
When you need me I’ll be around
And darling you’ll always be
The only for me
Heaven made you specially

Could it be I’m falling in love [With you baby]
Could it be I’m falling in love [Woo]
Could it be I’m falling in love
With you
With you
with you,
With you

And darling you’ll always be
The only for me
Heaven made you specially

Could it be I’m falling in love [With you baby]
Could it be I’m falling in love [I wanna know now baby]
Could it be I’m falling in love
With you
With you
With you
With you

I walk around with my heart in my hands hey
Walk the street as long as I can baby
I used to sing fa fa fa fa
But right now I feel so good I sing la la la la
Once you get me up
Won’t let me down
Just let this feeling carry me on
Skip the beats with my heart girl♪♪

Candy listened to the song, thinking:

“Am I falling in love with Terry? This is just my luck to fall for someone who’s living in another country!” she thought

Once upon a time, a young English boy was waking up on his warm and fluffy bed after a night of wonderful dreams. He woke up happy for the first time. For as long as he could remember, he was grumpy first thing in the morning, until he at least had his cup of tea and sometimes it doesn’t work, he’s grumpy all day. There must be a reason for his perkiness. The song playing on the radio in his room was, “Could it be I’m falling in love?”. He listened to the song until the end and he asked himself.

“Am I falling in love with you Candy? Up until last night, I was sure of one thing; that I was very attracted to you, but ever since we kissed… it’s like it sealed your image to my brain…when I think of you I feel like my heart is going to fly… I’ve never felt like this for any girl, not even for Lizzie…” he thought

He got out of bed, took his shower, singing:

“Could it be I’m falling in love with you Freckles?”

When he was done getting dressed and singing, he went downstairs to have breakfast. He found Archie in a good mood.

- Hey dandy, said Terry

- Grandchester…

- Did you score with Candy’s friend last night

- I just made out with her… what about you? Candy

- I don’t kiss and tell…

- Right! That would be a yes… She in the office working

- She’s here already?

- Yes…

- I wouldn’t want to disturb her while she’s working…

- Especially with Uncle William training her himself…

- I’ll wait until she has a break, said Terry

- In the mean time, you want to go horse riding?

- Sure, said Terry smiling, let me finish my breakfast

The two boys finished their meal and they went to the stable, got horses and they went for a ride. They came back by lunch time starving.

Candy worked with William the whole morning. Candy liked learning new things, she was happy to be working with William.

- It’s lunch time, he said you have an hour break …

- An hour? Thank you! Said Candy

- So let’s start again around 1:30 pm

- Fine. Let’s go have lunch...

Everybody was in the dining room. Aunt Elroy saw Candy and smiled to her. Candy approached her and gave her a hung. Eliza was stunned.

- How are you doing, Candy, asked Aunt Elroy

- I’m fine

- How’s your first day at work?

- Good, very interesting…

- William is not making you work too hard?

- No, he the nicest boss I’ve ever had!

- Candy is a fast learner, said William smiling

- Too bad you have to work over the summer, said Eliza, we’re going to have fun by the pool…

- I’m sure you’re proud of yourself, sitting on your ass, doing nothing, said Candy

The others started laughing.

- How dare you talk to me like that? Said Eliza furious

- Well you provoked her, Eliza, said Aunt Elroy, maybe a little work wouldn’t be so bad for you

- What? Said Eliza

- William, do you think you can find job for your lazy nephews for the summer?

- I’m sure, I can work something out, said William

- Eliza, you had to open your big mouth! Said Neil upset

Eliza was sulking, looking at Candy with angry eyes. Candy looked at William.

- But, I didn’t mean to…, started Candy

- Don’t worry about it, said Aunt Elroy, you set a good example for the others… You won’t be getting any allowance money anymore, you’re going to work for it

- What??? Said Neil

- What’s the point of making you work if we’re still giving you money? You’re going to slack on your jobs! Said Aunt Elroy, this way if you don’t work, you don’t get paid…

- Great! Said Neil, damn you Eliza!

- All right, let me go work thing out and I’ll come and tell you what I’ve decide…, said William, Candy, you have another half an hour…

- Thank you

William left the room and Terry took Candy by the hand, and they went upstairs. Aunt Elroy looked at them smiling. Terry took her to his room.

- What are we doing here? Said Candy

- Do I need to draw you a picture?

He leaned and took her lips in a fiery kiss.

- I couldn’t stop thinking about you, he said

- I couldn’t stop thinking about you , she said

They made out for about ten minutes.

- I have to go back to work

- You still have a few minutes

- I know but I don’t want everybody to know that I was here in your room kissing like there was not tomorrow…

- But…

- We can go somewhere after work and make out all we want…

- Fine, said Terry smiling let’s go out side see the others…

They went outside, after Candy went the washroom to freshen up. They found the others sulking because William was looking for jobs for them.

- I can’t believe mom and dad agreed with Uncle William! Said Neil

- What? That you actually have to do something worth the allowance they give you every month? Said Alistair

- Our family didn’t get where they are by sitting on their behind, said Anthony, I think it’s good to learn what if feels like to earn some money…

- Eliza, said Archie, you’re not talking?

- Giving it’s her big mouth that got us into this situation, said Neil

- That should teach to be so rude, said Anthony, if you were nice, you wouldn’t be forced to work during our summer holidays…

Eliza was just sulking. Candy and Terry came to sit with them. They started talking about other things. Then Candy went back to work.

- I’ll see you guys later, said Candy

- Bye baby, said Terry

When Candy got to the office she found William looking for jobs for his nephews…

- You’re really doing this? Said Candy

- Yes, I am…

- Eliza and Neil are not happy…

- Those two have always been lazy…

- I’ve worked since I was 14, because I didn’t want to bother my mother for money. I knew she didn’t have a lot of it…

“Your mother would’ve had all the money in the world and all the comfort, if she wanted to” thought William

- You’re a very generous girl, said William, and for your goodness, I’m going to let you chose the jobs for the gang…

- Really?

- Yes, here is the list of potential jobs the office just faxed me…

- I get to play God, with their job choices? Coolie!!!

Candy looked at the list. There was all sort of different job, from blue collar jobs to white collar jobs!

- Well at least they were spare the part where they had look and have interviews

- Since summer has already started, I thought we could skip that part, or they won’t “conveniently” not find a job for the whole summer…

Candy looked at the list of jobs. She was smiling. She made the list of what she gave and to whom and gave it to William. He looked at the list and smiled.

- You can be cruel too, he said

- Revenge is a plate best served cold…

On Candy’s list; Alistair was going to be in the engineering department, Anthony was going to work in with the gardener on his roses, Archie was an intern in the legal department, Neil was at the factory doing general labour, Eliza, was going to help in the company’s cafeteria and Terry was in charge of organising events in the community, which meant he was going to work at the castle a lot, with Candy.

- I hope you and Terry are really going to work

- Of course, said Candy, I’m not a slacker, you know that

- All right, I trust you…, said William, you get the files ready for them and by the end if the day, everybody will know what they will have to do tomorrow…

Candy got to work and got everything ready. Then she worked on other things with William. When their work day was over, William went to give the gang their new summer jobs.

- WHAT??? Said Eliza, the cafeteria?

- That’s all that was available, said William, all the good summer jobs are gone now…

- But… damn you Candy

- Enough Eliza, put a sock in it! If you had , we wouldn’t be in this mess…

- Mess? Said William, having a job handed to you on a silver platter, is a “mess”? You were spared the part of looking and interviewing. And millions of people around the world rely on this “mess” to live on, they pay rent, utilities, feed their children, buy them clothes… you should be more respectful Neil…

Neil looked down.

- I’m sorry, he said

- The legal department, said Archie, cool…

- Engineering, said Alistair, my dream!

- Gardening, said Anthony smiling

- What did you get Grandchester, asked Neil

- I get to organise charity events for the community …

- Why didn’t I get that? Said Eliza, or a job at our bank?

- If you wanted to work at the bank, you should’ve applied when summer started, said William, but wait, that was not part of your summer plans! So you take what we give you!

Eliza was sulking and she went to her room to rant to her friends. The boys were happy about their job and were more or less looking forward to it. Candy got ready to leave.

- The driver is going to take you…, said William

- No need…, said Candy

- I promised your mother that I was going to assure your transportation… when you’re coming from my castle, I want to make sure you get home safely…

- How can I argue with that? Said Candy, all right then…good bye William

- Bye Candy, see you tomorrow

- Bye guys! Said Candy

Terry walked with Candy to the car.

- You want some company? He said

- Yes, said Candy

They both got in the car and left the castle. William was shaking his head. He had a bad feeling about Candy and Terry’s relationship. If only she still had her boyfriend… but she would’ve break it off with him for Terry, he was sure about it. He could feel their love…

In the car, Terry was talking to Candy.

- That was a very interesting job repartition, he said, did you have anything to do with it?

- Why do you say that? She asked

- Your archenemy ending up in the cafeteria…

- I swear that’s all that was left, it was either that, or clean the stables…since I didn’t want the horses to suffer the presence of that witch

- You thought the company employee deserved her? I would’ve gone for the stables… imagining that slut cleaning the stables is priceless…

- Well if she gets fired from the cafeteria, her only other option will be the stables…

- I knew we were on the same page! Said Terry taking her lips

They made out until they got to Candy’s house.

- Would you come with me to the movies tonight? Asked Terry

- I’ll have to ask my mother, but yes, we can meet downtown…for a nice romantic movie

- I’ll go for romantic movie…

- Really…? And you intent to look at the movie… ?

- Looking is part of my plans…

He kissed her again and she got out of the car. The car left and Candy got home and got dinner ready. Her mother and grandmother arrived a hour later and they asked her how was her day. Candy was very enthusiastic telling them about her job.

- I’m happy you like it, said Maria not too please

She had secretly hoped Candy would hate it… but she knew it was a long shot.

- Yes, said her grandma looking at her daughter, you’re going to learn so much new things

- An d so much more money than at the diner!! Mom, my back to school, I won’t need any clothes, just the school supply! I can keep my money to take you on a trip next summer!

- Candy, said Maria, it’s not your job to take care of me…

- Come on mom, you took care of me, I’m going to take care of you as soon as I earn enough money, you’re not going to work anymore you’re going to stay home and get pampered…

Candy hugged her mom and she went to call her friend. Dinner was ready and Maria got the table ready. Her mom was looking at her.

- To think that you could’ve given your daughter everything she’s ever wanted if you had accepted your lover’s help

- He was not going to buy me out

- He made you a baby; it was his responsibility to take care of you!!!

- Mom, we are not having this conversation!!! Said Maria leaving the kitchen

Later in early evening, they all had supper. Then they did the dishes and Candy was allowed to go out.

- Thank you mom, she said

- Remember your curfew…10 pm…

- Mom, I’m going to the movies, can you make it 11 pm just in case?

- Only, if the movie finishes after 10…

- Thank you mom, said Candy, I’ll see you later…

She left to go get her best friend Annie.

Chapter 7 (to be continued)