Redoing and conquer

I pick up the broom and a big dustpan of the size of one stair, I look at the stairs and took a big breath and started to climb until I reach the top, then I started sweeping the stairs, one by one, I had to squint my eyes sometimes and I stop a lot of times to cough the dust out of my mouth.

I was tired already, but I needed to continue, one's I finished with cleaning all the dust, the next was to mop the stairs, I took the bucket to the kitchen and saw outside, it was already past midday

“The time in there sure goes fast when you don’t see any light” was what I thought

I pour water until it reaches half of the bucket capacity and start adding cleaners to the water, and then I start to squeeze out all the water with my hands.

“Why didn't they give me the one with the lever?”

That was just a brief rest I took the bucket with me and the mop with the other hand, I look at the stairs again and started to mopped, one by one, ones I feel that the mop wasn’t doing as great as the previous stairs it was the turn to put in the bucket again and squeeze out one more time. The thoughts of my mother cleaning the house were coming through my mind.

“I’m sorry mom, I didn’t appreciate your job enough, if this is your divine punishment, I will take it”

And just when I feel that there was no end to it, I reach the final step, I sigh in relief, but that was just the first thing to do, I still needed to clean, the sides of the stairs and the basement, I had luck to find the box just the moment I reach the end of the stairs but the basement was huge.

I clean my boots and went to the kitchen to grab something to eat, I wash my hands and open a small fridge along with the box of groceries, bread, some meat, pasta and some tomatoes, I began to prepare spaghetti with meatballs, it took me a little working in a small stove that they provide but it ends pretty well. When I was finishing my food, I could see the window and how the sky was turning dark blue, I scratched my head and returned to the basement.

I took the broom and started to clean the side of the stairs, cleaning from the top again, and it was very scary, I had to improvise using some sticks from adding extension and I had to hold myself to the edge, so I didn’t fall out, looking down the stairs made my feet feel a strange sensation, like electricity surrounding my entire body, I didn’t feel vertigo before, but maybe it was because I wasn’t in such extreme situation, even though I was afraid, I still kind of enjoy it.

Until I slip, the sound of the broom falling off as the sticks were pull apart for the fall, I could hear it in an amplified way for the large of the basement from top to bottom, I was holding half of my body against the edge of the stair, I was trying to recover but I didn’t have too much to hold into it, I try to balance myself but I was too tired to try something, I could feel my strength fell off and was about to give in.

I try to balance my body once more and put my foot on one of the edges of the stairs, the next was just trying to send all my body to the stairs, and I did it, I started to breathe heavily, as I was leaning on the wall I went downstairs and pick up the broom to do the rest of the sides, I was already midway so better do it now.

Once I finished, I save the sticks that I found around the basement and started looking for a duster in the box and when I took it, below it where glasses and a mask to cover my mouth, I was about to kick the box but I just let it out with a big sigh, I didn’t have any energy left to make a show, I just wanted to finish quickly to have some rest, so I put the mask and the glasses on and started to clean every shelf I was coming across with, the good thing about this basement was that I could see everything from where I was, it was big, sure, but it wasn’t the end of everything, and there wasn’t that much furniture, so all I had to do was cleaning up with the duster and a piece of rag then clean the floor with both broom and mop.

I smiled victoriously as I saw all the places clean, I put all the things that I use on a different box and started climbing up with the bucket, along with the broom and mop.

I left all of it in the kitchen and clean my hands once more to eat dinner, there were still plenty of food that I made on midday, so I just heat it up again and eat it

With not only my body but my mind broken, I went upstairs with some blankets and search for the nearest room, I open what was supposed to be a small room, but I was bigger than my own apartment, but that was the only thing I notice beside the bed, a big one where I just throw myself into it and fall asleep quickly, everything was so calm, and dark, that along with the tired I feel made me loss myself in the softness of the bed, but that wouldn’t last long, I get up and look with confusion at the door, a noise like a hit was the thing that wake me up, it was my time to investigate, I took the candle plate, light up the candle and exit the room