Chapter 15: Snakes (1)
"I'm tired," Annalise muttered, leaning back against her door after she entered her room.
Working for Beatrice was less work than the jobs Mavis assigned to her, but she was tired nonetheless. Another day had come to an end and tomorrow would be her day off to do whatever she wanted.
"I just want to soak and get in bed," she said, bending down to take off her shoes.
She already filled her stomach thanks to Beatrice dismissing her early and Jonah being more than happy to pass her dinner before the other servants. It was by some miracle that Mavis had not walked into the kitchen and found her eating.
Annalise proceeded to walk further into her bedroom, taking off her uniform as she did so, but before she could get the first button open, something caught her eye. The blanket on her bed seemed to be moving. It wasn't a lot of movement for her to have seen by the door, but now that she was close to her bed, she could see there was definitely something under the blanket.
"What now?" Annalise asked out loud.
Annalise cautiously lifted the blanket and to her surprise, there were beetles and worms with dirt, placed under her blanket. Some had crawled away and started to roam her bed, looking for an escape.
"I am not in the mood for this. Who disturbed your life to try and scare me?" She asked the tiny creatures.
Annalise ignored them for now and went to the window to open it. "There's a good breeze tonight. I will sleep with it open. I'm afraid all of you will have to find someplace else to sleep tonight. I don't like sharing my bed when I'm so tired. I'll make sure to get revenge on the people who disrupted what you were doing," Annalise said as she picked up the beetles and worms one by one.