The King the Stable Boy

Allison’s POV:

I kept the boxes on the floor as I entered the place. As I moved my eyes around, I noticed that it is painted in a small cinnamon brown and ivory white in color with old and dusty furniture.

“Don’t over think over this place” Rylee, my roommate said from behind as she carried my bag inside.

“Hey… thanks” I said and took my bag from her.

“It’s okay…” Rylee said.

“Um… And ah… I wasn’t overthinking” I smiled and while looking around, continued, “It’s just that this place looks quite old”

“Yes it is…”Rylee said. Walking forward and looking around the house she added, “It is the owner’s grandma’s house. She died, so they are renting it” Rylee said.

“Oh she died in this house?” I asked anxiously.

Rylee laughed and added, “No… Don’t worry. She died in the hospital. When she got very sick, the owner took her to his own place to take care of her and after some weeks she was admitted to the hospital and after that she died…” Rylee explained the whole story.

“Oh I see… That’s really sweet of the owner to take care of an old lady” I said in amazement.

“Yes, of course it is… He’s really nice. He never bothers me if I am ever late to pay the rent. He understands very well that we students work hard to study and to earn” Rylee praised the owner.

“Oh nice…” I said and looked around again.

“It’s not that bad…” I added and smiled.

Rylee laughed and started, “It is not at all bad for you…”

“Really?” I asked and wondered, “How?”

“Because from here… it is just a ten minute walk to your new school” Rylee said.

“Wow… That’s great” I said happily.

“Yeah and considering, that there is no school bus system in this school… It is actually great” Rylee pointed out.

“No school bus system?” I asked her in confusion and walked forward to keep my bag on the couch as it was quite heavy to stand while carrying it and listening to the things, Rylee was disclosing.

“Yes… Don’t you know that?” Rylee asked in confusion.

“Ah… no” I said and widened my eyes.

“You see, it’s an elite school, with elite education and elite students belonging to elite class families. So there are no students who can’t afford a car or a driver to drop them to school, you know” Rylee revealed and my eyes were left open and my jaw dropped down.

“What happened?” She asked while placing her hand on my shoulder.

“Um… no… It’s just that before coming here, Mr. Owens, um… my previous school’s teacher… he told me that this school is quite elite and it is one of the top schools of Louisiana located in Maneville town. But he didn’t tell me that this is so going to be upper classy that there would be no bus system…” I said making a nauseous face.

Rylee chuckled and we started walking towards the stair case in the corner of the living room when she started, “Allison… Do you know how lucky you are to get into that school?”

“I know, but…” I started while we climbed up the stairs.

“You know very few students get scholarship to this school once a year and so many students can only dream to go in there” Rylee pointed the fact out leading me to think about how ungrateful I was being. As we reached up to a room, Rylee turned to me and said, “This is your room. You can rest here for a while before you unpack”

“But the boxes are downstairs” I said to her.