I got reborn as a maid

It was a strikingly hot day in the middle of summer, the birds causing a flurry in the sudden and rare breeze we had gotten as in the chaos, there came a soft linen sheet falling into my face.

"Ahhh-"

I gave a short cry as I wafted the damp linen off my face, the residue of water remaining on my nose as my small body took a step back. My hazel eyes blinked various times in my disorientation before I then looked up to the sky above me. Though the sun was shining as brazenly as it always had been, it was hard to miss the distant slow moving army of bulky Columbus clouds in the distance... I peered from round the washing line, standing on my tip toes to get a higher look.

"Woah, there might be a storm soon..." I muttered, wondering just how storms in this place actually even worked... before I patted my hands off my white apron, turning away from the washing line and picking up the washing basket from beside me. Well the washing would most likely be dry before that point so it didn't matter too much.

Dear mother and father in a different world,

How are you doing today? I am doing quite well right now!

It has been a week now since I woke up in this new world as a new person. It has also been a week since I started my new job...

I stopped and noticed myself in the reflection of one of the many large windows decorating the bottoms of the lavishly decked out outer hallways of the large manor house I was serving. Looking at me were bright and hazel young eyes of a thirteen year old girl, her chestnut coloured hair done up in low bunch pigtails, strands falling to either side of my rounded face. She was wearing the sort of maid uniform you would hear from fairytales... ah yes, this young girl was me... I gave a small sigh to myself, continuing on my way. I wasn't going to get used to this anytime soon.

I was once a sixteen year old girl living in Tokyo Japan, believe it or not... however, due to a terminal illness I had, I never got to go outside or do much. All my life was spent inside of the hospital, not doing much of anything at all, my only solace at the time being the numerous otome games I used to play to pass the time and give me some semblance of company in the lonely hospital room I spent my days in. Eventually my illness got so bad, I could no longer move, nor could I even play my otome games anymore. I spent every day from there on in, just lying in my bed and worrying my poor parents who had been burdened with an ill child. If anything it was for the better of all of us that my illness would soon claim my life so young, I wasn't living much of a life at all anymore after that.

I thought that, that was where my story would end, however, I instead woke up one morning with a considerable portion of the memories of my past life in tact... and I was a thirteen year old girl.

'I was thirteen at the time my body stopped moving... it's almost as if the world is trying to give me those three years back...' I thought to myself whilst staring at my hand contemplatively as I walked down the hallway.

Right now I am living the life of a girl called Antoinette Silverston, an orphan child who spent most her life in an orphanage. It made me a little sad to learn I had no mother or father in this world... but at the same time I wouldn't want new parents to replace my older ones anyway. I have been transported to another world, sort of like those light novel stories I faintly remember reading often whilst in Japan. This world was far different from how it was on earth, it was almost like I had been sent back in time to medieval Europe. I now live in a world with a clear line between aristocracy and peasants, there is even an emperor of this place. This country called Isen. I had never heard or been to such a country in my life, yet oddly upon hearing the name, it rang a bell for me. I couldn't quite put a finger on where I had heard it before however. Despite having chunks of my memory still, some of it still seemed a little scrambled.

Anyways, when I was woken up, upon gaining consciousness as Antoinette, I had been informed by the sister who owned our orphanage, in quite a ushered manner might I add, that I had been adopted by a very rich and powerful person and that I was going to be sent to a estate to work as the family maid.

'I had no idea who the sister was and I fell over when she tried to get me out of bed since I forgot that I knew how to walk again...' I recalled in slight embarrassment to the memory.

It's all a little hazy but from there I was taken to the orphanage in a daze, all the way to the manor house in which I am in now, and from there on in I started my work as one of the younger maids.

Apparently it's normal for kids as young as ten years old in this world. They wouldn't have gotten away with this in Japan, in fact as far as I recalled, some provinces didn't allow you to get a job until you was eighteen, let alone me being a thirteen year old girl and working.

In any case, I don't know what happened to the original Antoinette. Whether I have been her this whole time now and only just recalled my past life memories, or whether I just woke up as her one day. But wherever she may be, I just want her to know that I will take care and cherish the her of this life. I won't die young in this one. So thank you for giving me this second chance at living!

One would think that it was a lousy cut of the deal, being reborn in a new world, but only being reborn as one of the maids. However, I wasn't complaining, much rather I couldn't be happier! Because in this world, I could run around and do chores; I could make friends and work hard; I could finally live like a normal person for once. I could finally be part of a world that I couldn't be part of in my previous life, so for that I was very grateful! In fact I made it my personal task to take advantage of my position as a maid and work hard every single day to live and use my body to the fullest! One day I was going to become head maid of this estate and live my life keeping clean and busy! That way this life wouldn't be going to waste... and my dearest mother and father in another world, would not have any regrets in loosing me...

I placed the basket to the side of the wash basin, before I rolled up my sleeves, deciding to clean up more of the clothing that had been left on the side of the basin. I turned on the faucet to the wash basin, water rushing through with a small rumble of pipes, the sound of water drowning out the noise of the world outside. I picked up a small but rather luxurious looking shirt as I held it before me, for a moment being caught off guard by the golden threaded patterns upon it... before I tilted my head faintly. The amount of clothes that came down to the laundry room that weren't maid or butler attire was always very little and quite sparse. It was almost as if only one person live in this house aside from the people who served it. But that would mean that this person was either very small or a child... I heard that there was a lord of this manor, yet I had yet to meet him as of this moment. For all I knew, the lord may not have even lived in this manor, it wasn't weird apparently for nobility of this world to own multiple estates. I turned my body swiftly and dropped the shirt into the laundry basin, deciding I had dwelled on the matter far enough and that it was time to get to work. I supposed that I would meet him, sooner or later... the person who adopted me and took me on as maid of this house.

***

"Young master, your food is ready now..."

A young boy with jet black short hair looked out of the large window with a darkened library room, his deep crimson eyes looked out to the Columbus clouds rolling in from the distance unstirred. He looked back to the voice coming from the large door behind him emptily. Before, without a word, he decided to leave his position from the window, heading towards the door...

***

Dearest mother and father in another world,

Do not worry for I am actually very happy now!

I hope that wherever you are now, that you two are also happy and at peace....

I promise, I will make use of this new life I have been given, and live every day to it's fullest! So don't worry about me!