![]() You don’t expert expect girls just on teens to be experts in hair and makeup, much less know all about body shape. Lea and Nora were experts well before their time. I was just never there long enough to get immersed in it. Daniel was not expected back until midnight. There is no sense in sending kids to bed before they are tired because they just keep getting up, and with two you can find yourself against a tag team that can never be beat.īut usually I arrived much later. Keep the tempo up and soon they will get tired and be ready for bed. I said that it was always my policy to play some games with kids in my care. When Lea and Nora got home, they were keen to play. Somehow, I seemed even more listless than usual that day – at least, that is what I put it down to. I had some books with me, but I was not in a mood to study. He had left a key for me to collect and I got around to his inner-city mansion before 3:00pm. Whose does?ĭaniel had a function to go to straight from work so he called to ask if I could be at his place after school. So, it seems that her life did not turn out perfectly. She must have seemed like a princess to them, dressed in her fine clothes and jewelry, as she kissed them goodnight before going out to some grand ball or whatever. By all accounts she was pretty, and charming, and she married a wealthy man. I suppose they had the example of their mother. Who would? Princesses only exist in fairy tales – right? I didn’t believe that was possible, at least not then. So, I called them “Princess Types” because they had been brought up to believe that if you were sweet and pretty you would find your prince and life would be perfect. I guess they were aged only 11 and 12 when she died, as they were 12 and 13 when I met them. So, her death left Daniel with two daughters Lea and Nora, to look after. I heard some say that she was a bit of bitch too, but I never speak ill of the dead, or the living for that matter. She had been a socialite, whatever that is. His wife had died a year or so before I turned up, of some kind of blood cancer. The truth is that his situation was a bit of a tragedy. “My girls manipulate other girls too easily,” he said. But why would I have? He had two daughters, but he said that he was going to try having a guy to look after them when he was out. The I got a job sitting for Daniel Watts Bryant, a banker big in the City, although I had never heard of him. I would rather play video games, but even that gets boring for me, after a while. Everybody assumed that I would be able to go to the park and throw a ball to them, or whatever. Do some study.Ĭollege set up a network to find work. I guess I am just one of those people who does not handle stress well. I was finding things tough at college and I did not need the pressure of a regular job adding to my stresses. But the truth is I was looking for work that made me money but was casual. My Entry in the Reluctant Princess Contest
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