This chapter is dedicated to Teefabulous for coming up with three awesome ship names.

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It was a sunny afternoon, Unwana, who happened to be my course mate, suggested we sit under a tree.

I spread my 'SMALL BUSINESS ENTERPRISE' handout on the green grass. Mrs Odeh who happened to be our Small business enterprise lecturer, gave us an almost impossible assignment last week.

"Ehem," I heard Unwana cleared her throat. I lifted my head to look at her, "I heard from Chidinma, that you had an interview yesterday." I rolled my eyes, Chidinma can never keep her mouth shut.

"Did she mentioned the type of job?" I asked Unwana. I needed to know if Chidinma went that far. It will be bad if she starts mentioning to everyone that I went for a house help interview.

"No..." Unwana pouted her brown lips, "But she said it pays well."

Well maybe Chidinma isn't a talkative.

I turned my attention back to my books. "Yeah it pays well, but I haven't received a feedback yet." I said without looking at her.

"What job is it again?" Gosh, can she get any less nosy.

"Hey, did you do Mrs Odeh's assignment?" I asked, trying to change the subject. Thank God it worked.

"I did. I paid Andrew to do it for me."

I looked at Unwana with stunned eye, "Andrew still does that?" Andrew was my ex boyfriend. Lol.... 100lvl boyfriend. After he had his fun with me, I thought life at school would be perfect. But Andrew had other plans. Andrew was poor just like me, he did people's assignments, so he could take care of himself and also pay his school fees.

One unfaithful day, Andrew walked up to me and decided to call it off. And his excuse was and I quote, "Itoro, understand me. I need to focus, I don't have money to be spending for both of us. You girls ask a lot." son of a bitch! And he was my first.

"He needs the money, what do you want him to do?" Unwana's voice brought me back to reality.

"Well, it's his life." I spat, before focusing my attention back on my work.

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I sat on my bed, looking at my torchlight Nokia phone. All of a sudden, I heard ruffling. I looked up to see that Chidinma had sat upright on her bed, her eyebrows furrowed has she looked down at her laptop.

"Chidinma, what is it?" I voiced out my thought. Chidinma didn't speak for a minute or two so I decided to ignore her.

"You've gotten an email," Chidinma answered. I swung my head once more to her direction.

"Is it from__"

"Yes!" Chidinma answered. And almost immediately I jumped out of my bed, and landed on hers. I looked down at her laptop to see the reply. Truly, there was a message from The Valentine's. I looked back at Chidinma.

"I've been accepted," I said with wide eyes, "I've been fucking accepted!"

"I know!" Chidinma mirrored my expression, "I'm so happy for you."

"Me too," I jumped with joy. Immediately I remembered Unwana, I stopped smiling.

"What is it?" Chidinma asked, her tone laced with concern.

I turned my attention to my best friend, "Chidinma, besides Gerald, don't mention this to anyone."

Chidinma stood up in front of me, as I watched her with confused gaze. She kept her left hand on her chest, and lifted her right hand. "I promise with your life Itoro, I won't mention this to anyone."

Trust me, that got me laughing. I knew what she did there.

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I was fidgeting in front of the Valentine's gate, waiting for Musa to open the gate for me. When Musa finally opened it, he told me to go in - just like that.

I looked at Musa with raised brows, "Are you sure?"

Musa grumbled for the last time before answering. "Oga said I should tell you to go in when you arrive."

I nodded as I took a deep breath, before walking into the magnificent mansion.

Once inside, I sat on the comfy chair that was close to the stairs. I decided to get comfortable before Mr Valentine comes to address me. African Magic movie was playing on Mr Valentine's flat screen TV, and it was a scene about Chiwetalu Agu, shouting "I will confess," in front of the villagers. I rolled my eyes.

Nigerian movies.

I looked up, to see Mr Valentine decending from the stairs.

I stood up as a sign of respect. "Good morning Sir,"

"Have your seat," Mr Valentine gestured for me to seat.

"So, how do you feel now that you've gotten a new job?" Mr Valentine asked as he sat on his personal seat.

"Excited Sir," I beamed.

Mr Valentine nodded. "I've spoken to Atinuke to give you a tour round the house." As if on cue, a chubby light skinned girl came and stood in between Mr Valentine and I.

"Atinuke," Mr Valentine began, "This is Itoro, the new maid. Itoro this is Atinuke, the cook."

I swung my head to the side, as I raised my hands up in a friendly manner. "Hi," Sadly, Atinuke didn't return my warm greeting.

"Atinuke here is going to give you a tour while I go attend a board meeting at the company. Panda! Panda!" Mr Valentine shouted. A very huge dark guy came and stood beside Mr Valentine, making Mr Valentine and the rest of us look small.

"Panda this is Itoro, the new maid." Mr Valentine introduced again. "Itoro, this is Panda, my body guard."

"Hello," I waved at him, he just looked at me with a scowl on his face.

Okay......

"Panda, Daniel left for the company right?"

"Yes Sir," I flinched at Panda's deep voice.

"Alright let's go, I've got an important meeting. Bye Itoro."

"Bye Sir." I waved a little at Mr Valentine as he left the living room.

"Follow me," was Atinuke's short command. I furrowed my brows at her, but did as she said.

After the grand tour, Atinuke dragged me to the kitchen.

"This is my territory," she growled. "You don't take anything without my permission."

"Ye___" I was cut short when we heard the front door slammed shut.

"Stay here. What I don't want, is for you to mess up what I've been planning." And with that, Atinuke left the kitchen to the living room. I quickly tiptoed and peeped through the walls that divided the kitchen and dining area.

The dark tall guy had his back faced to my direction, so I couldn't see what he looked like. As the both converse, I could pick out little of what they were saying.

"Atinuke," The dark guy said in a bored tone, "I had early morning lectures, I don't have time for this."

Atinuke stood in front of him in a flirtatious manner, as her fingers trailed up and down his upper arm. "No problem Sir, you must be tired. I could relax you if you'd like?"

"I'll pass," The dark complexion guy rejected her on the spot. I would have felt bad for her, but I didn't. She was kind of a jerk towards me. The dark guy turned to face the direction of the stairs, and that's when I had a better view of his face. God was he handsome.

He was different from his brother and father, which made me wonder what their mum would look like. Unlike his brother and father, the guy in front of me was dark in complexion. Okay, he wasn't that dark, he was..... In between. He had a well structured face and his full pink lips were pronounced and tempting. He had his full eyebrows carved in a stylish manner, and his dimples were showing - even when he wasn't even smiling. His abs, God his abs where so tempting, no wonder Atinuke couldn't resist him.

He climbed up the stairs, without sparing me a glance. Once the dark greek God was out of sight, I decided to head back to the kitchen.

"Enjoyed the view?" Atinuke's nasty voice stopped me on my track. I whipped around quickly to see Atinuke frowning down at me.

"N-No," I simply said.

"Get your lazy being to the kitchen, they don't pay you to laze around." I nodded, not ready to cause any trouble. I looked up the stairs again as my mind wondered what the dark greek God would be doing.

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A/N Wow guys, this is the longest chapter I have ever written on C.R.U.S.H.

Words: 1402 words.

P.S This story does have a schedule and it's going to be every Tuesdays and Saturdays.

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-Eddy