Deceived by Desire

"Do you think you are worthy to sit on the dining table with us? Who the hell do you think you are? Get the hell away from here. You will only be called by a maid when everyone in this house has eaten." Those were the words spoken by Melinda's grandmother.

Melinda Davids is a twenty four year old lady. She lost her mother when she was ten years old and her life has been a living hell ever since then.

The only thing she is grateful of about her family is that they did not deprive her of her right to education and which has helped her achieve a master's degree in apparel design.

Designing is in her blood, her mother was very good at it but she never got the chance to polish her talent because she got pregnant. She used to tell her that she wanted to be a designer that will be known world wide, but all her dreams were shattered when she got pregnant.

She had to leave school and look for a job so that she will be able to take care of them since her parents also had to resign from their jobs when they vacated the city in fear of being killed by her grandmother, that is her father's mother.

She loves designing outfits and everyone in this house wears what she has designed for them when attending functions. Of course she is not allowed to attend those functions.

Oh yes by the way she is also not allowed to say that she has designed those outfits they have worn but luckily enough none of them have ever thought of taking the praise for her work.

Her grandmother was spitting those words out of anger. You know what she is angry about, you will not believe it if you were told about it.

Her grandmother is angry at the fact that she decided to apply for a job, she was even called for a job interview without any of them knowing this.

She had two interviews that she had taken in this company, the first interview was a written interview and the second one was an oral interview, and it was just a few days after the written interview.

As for how her grandmother found out about this interview, she also wishes to see that person. The only thing she knows right now is that her body hurts so much from the beating she has received from her grandmother.

She stood up from the dinner table and dragged her feet to her bedroom, her body aches all over and she was also dying of hunger.

She only had a slice of bread in the morning. She did not eat all day because they first sent her in the morning to buy a few groceries that had finished from the kitchen. Then she also ran some few errands when she came back from the grocery store.

Her grandmother woke up in a very good mood today, she knows this because every time she wants to bake a chocolate cake it is because she is in a good mood.

When she left this house, everything was fine. They were all in a good mood. Her sisters and cousins were all happy that they will have chocolate cake today.

By the way just so you know her grandmother is the best chocolate cake baker in their society in such a way that every time there is an event, they ask her to prepare a few cakes for them.

She usually uses Melinda to bake the cakes,and she has mastered the recipe although she acts like she is reading the recipe every time they bake.

She has vowed that she will continue to act stupid for as long as she can because once they discover that she can now make it without reading the recipe book then she will be their slave forever.

Her grandmother always calls her an imbecile when she asks what she should add next when they are baking. She uses words like "you are too stupid to even master a simple cake recipe, are you even my son's daughter. My son was so smart that he excelled in everything he did. The only thing he did wrong was to impregnant that stupid mother of yours. You really take after your mother." She would curse her after that.

However, Melinda does not care whether she calls her stupid or not because she has learnt over the years that once they see that she has learnt to do something they always tell the helpers not to do it anymore because she was now able of doing it.

The only reason her grandmother makes her bake the cakes over and over is because they always come up well. They are always well risen, soft and crumble. Which makes people to always drool over the cakes every time they see them.

When she was eleven years old she was stupid enough to run to her grandmother and told her that she has grown up in such a way that she now knows how to do table setting.

From that day onwards the helpers were not allowed to set the table unless she was not around to do it, which hardly happens.

She grew up with her mother, her mother was apparently her father's first love but she was never accepted by her grandmother.