Seeing me wearing an apron, one of the women asked, "Olivia, is this your housekeeper? She is so young!"
Another person asked as if it were the most natural thing in the world, “Hey, where are the shoe covers? Hurry up and get them. These gifts are heavy. Come and bring them inside.”
"Really lack of manner!"
I was about to ask them to leave, but Olivia quickly intervened. “Isabela, we’re expecting guests today. Mr. Hernandez must have mentioned it to you, right? So, hurry up and bring these things inside, otherwise, if Mr. Hernandez knows about this, he might get upset."
I was not sure if these few people were the friends that Donald had met recently, so I held back my temper and took their gifts inside.
I vaguely heard someone behind me say, “Olivia, your housekeeper has a high temper. Anyone would think she’s the lady of the house.”
Olivia’s face was lit up with smugness as she raised her voice, “Don’t say that! What if she refuses to cook again?”
When I returned to the kitchen, Olivia followed me in, "Isabela, I brought some friends over to your house today. I hope you don't mind, do you?"
I looked at the smug smile on Olivia's and everything clicked in my mind.
"So, they are your friends, huh?" I asked.
Olivia casually flicked her hair. "Yes. Mr. Hernandez said that I had been wronged last night, so he wanted to bring you to apologize to me."
"He even bought me breakfast this morning and he asked me out for dinner. However, I had already made plans with my friends. How could I stand them up? So, Mr. Hernandez proposed to bring my friends with me here to taste your cooking skills as a way for you to apologize to me."
Seeing her triumphant expression, my grip on the soup ladle tightened.
After getting her fill of my pained expression, Olivia asked, “Where’s the fruit? Oh, you’ve already prepared it? Then I’ll go ahead and serve it.”
As she walked past, she whispered into my ear, “Thank you for the hard work, old woman.”
The moment she left, I slammed the ladle to the floor and pulled out my phone to call Donald.
Just as I dialed his number he walked in from the front door.
He ended the call before it even rang, asking, “You’re all here already? Didn’t you say you'd come half an hour later?”
Olivia smiled sweetly. “As guests, we shouldn’t arrive late, so we came a bit early.”