She stopped for a drink and a cigarrette as she watched her boss prance around the patio in his attempt to dance. He caught Tara staring at him and hurried down the steps.
"Rafferty! If you spent more time working than ogling me you'd get this work done a lot faster!" He yelled before starting back up the steps.
"I wasn't staring at you, I was thinking what a fool you looked!" He didn't hear this comment unfortunatly.
Tara grinned to herself as she turned back to her spade. "Ogling him? He wishes!" She thought to herself.
Tara blinked as the sunlight cut through her curtains like a knife, she rolled over to turn away from it as there was a knock at her door.
"Tara baby, i'm back!" came the voice from outside.
Tara immediately recgonised the voice and hurried to the door.
"James!!" she cried as she hugged him tightly.
James and Tara sat on the bed as they talked excitedly.
James was the younger brother of Tara's posh git boss Andrew Dawson-Reade, Andrew had no respect for anyone below him in society, he had got all his money from his parents, hadn't earned a single penny of it, James on the other hand was a little closer to the ground. Tara was the family's gardener, she had left her hometown of Dublin to escape her abusive father, spent many months in town centres drawing portraits and living rough until she landed the gardner's job at the Dawson-Reade's mansion in Hertfordshire.
Andrew hated Tara but yet he still employed her, probably because of James she guessed, James admired her self confindence and strong will, and of course her pretty Irish looks, he spent many hours talking to her in the hut where she lived in a secluded part of the grounds, James had just gotten back from Australia and they had so much to talk about.
"Oh.........guess what!!" James shouted, "Andrew...... is getting married!!
"Oh my god, someone is actually going to marry him? Who is the poor woman?" Tara said curiously.
"Oh she's actually quite nice, she's called Katherine Middleton, from oxford, I don't think she's very into Andrew though, they met in Australia, I think her mother forced this marriage upon her or something, they've only known each other a month after all."
"Well maybe i'll see her around, she sounds okay." Tara said smiling at the thought of a rich powerful woman being around the place.
"Yes, and she looks okay too, exactly your type!"
Tara and James jumped at the sudden knock at her door.
"Rafferty, what the fuck are you doing in there? my fiance is coming round and the garden is a mess!"
Andrew shouted angrily from outside.
"Well I better be going now Tar, get to work Rafferty!" James said giving her a playful nudge.
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