The Au Pair

The Au Pair

An Au Pair And a Millionaire

By E.Goldsby

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Big city. Million residents. Two lonely people, two strangers, seated in front of their desktops on different sides of the city and trying to escape the loneliness there, started a coincident correspondence.

He – a businessman, and his life flows calmly and measured. She is a poor and naive...au pair, a maid, who endures humiliation from her host family. She wants nothing more than to find a pen pal online so that she'll have someone to communicate with.

Soon, they'll discover that their chance meeting will turn their worlds upside down.

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Her name was Lisa. Slim, with long brown wavy hair and unusual blue eyes. A princess, many called her. Cinderella, she thought of herself, once again, ironing T-shirts for her guest family.

Being an au pair wasn‘t a dream job, especially for a young girl of twenty-two years, just having graduated from university with a degree as a teacher of foreign languages. Lisa could easily find a job in her quiet, little home town, but the soul of a romantic and naïve girl craved something other than certainty and routine.

Lisa was not raised with a silver spoon. She lived in a modest apartment with a loving family. She was deprived of her happiness and carefree childhood when she was six-years-old. To help pay off her family‘s debts, she and her little brother had to sell products at the local market from their parent‘s factory, as well as vegetables and fruits grown in their summer garden. The factory her parents worked for went bankrupt and instead of getting a salary, they received flour as payment. However in her spare time from selling apples, Lisa studied very hard and finished from one of the best schools in her small town. Having successfully passed the exams for entering the university, she received a scholarship at the age of eighteen, and became almost independent from her parents.

Now, she was twenty-two with a teaching diploma in foreign languages. Her life seemed to be laid out in advance. After university, she would take a low-paid teaching job with naughty children at school or kindergarten, or she could work in a small company in her provincial town. Then she could start her own family and a vacation once a year at the nearest lake. Everyone in her small town lived like this. It was an endless circle from which it was impossible to escape, the circle of routine, more routine, and a simple provincial life.

The world seemed so enormous, interesting, unknown, alluring and frightening to Lisa. Studying foreign languages and looking at exciting pictures of distant countries left her dreaming of adventures and journeys to distant lands. Lisa dreamed of traveling, and seeing something completely unknown to her.

The dream of travelling solidified within her from year-to-year, more and more. She eagerly learned foreign languages at school. Like many other young people of her age, full of energy, enthusiasm and illusions of youth, her dearest wish was to travel around the world. But how could it be possible to undertake such a journey for a young graduate with no money or connections?

The dreams would have remained dreams, except on one ordinary day, Lisa stood in the hallway near the office waiting for the next seminar in her university. Accidentally distracted from her homework, which, as a good student, she had been painstakingly writing all night long, Lisa saw a little a small ad hanging on the wall among other advertisements and schedules. According to the ad, young people with an education could try their luck and submit a resume to spend a year helping families with childcare and housework.