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All characters in this story are over 18 and purely creations of fiction. Everything depicted is intended to be consensual acts involving adults. This is meant to be a fun story with only a loose connection to real life. This is meant to be read for enjoyment, so hopefully you have some fun reading it. Thanks!**
The whole world seemed to fall apart all at once. My life had just started to really get going when it happened. I had graduated high school with amazing grades and test scores and had gotten an amazing scholarship from a nearby prestigious university. I was looking forward to living in the dorms and really getting the college experience. With me leaving my parents had sold their house and bought a nice little cozy home in Canada, where my mom was originally from. I was on my own, and ready to face the world. Or so I thought.
It all came crashing down without much time to react. It happened just before I was set to move into my dorm. Due to a variety of policies the economy took a nosedive, and every business had to slash spending and cut back. And since universities were run as businesses, that meant they too found ways to decrease spending. All over the country students who were just about to start classes were notified that their scholarships had been revoked, and tuition prices had dramatically risen.
I was one of many young adults suddenly left without a way to pay for classes, and my dreams of a college education were crushed. I tried looking for a job, but there was nothing available that would even come close to getting me enough money to pay the increased rates of tuition. In fact, the job market was in a spiral. There were an increasing amount of labour intensive jobs available, but the wages were as low as they legally could be. Prices were shooting up as well, making it an even more difficult situation. The only places that seemed to be benefitting from all this were strip clubs, as there were abruptly a huge number of young college aged girls in desperate need of easy money.
With my parents having moved I was stuck without even a place to live, so I had to beg my older step-sister to let me stay with her. My step-sister worked in town doing PR for some fancy tech company that was doing amazing despite the economy. We had a fairly good relationship so she would have taken me in no problem, but the issue was that she didn't live alone. She shared her house with her best friend, Sofi. Sofi was the one who actually owned the house, and was very protective of it and didn't like visitors. In all the time my sister had lived there I had never gone over, in fact my sister had once admitted that no guy was allowed there without Sofi's explicit approval.
The only thing I knew about the place was that it was huge. It was on an acreage slightly outside of town, with multiple buildings on the property. I had driven by it once and it was surrounded by high hedges and tall fences on all sides, but I could see a good number of beautiful trees and an extremely fancy modern looking house. It was actually the size and extravagance of the property that gave me a shot to get Sofi to allow me to live there.
The place took a good amount of near constant lawncare and maintenance to look so good as it did even just from the outside. Sofi previously had a contract with a company that did the work for her, but in a short span of time all of their most experienced workers needed to leave the country and the company collapsed soon after. Sofi tried to find another company to do the work, but they all were dealing with similar issues. The few lawncare specialists that had enough workers, especially any experienced ones, were charging exorbitant prices.
I had done some lawn work for a few people while in high school, and had even helped with a friend's family business that did the work occasionally, so I had a good amount of experience. My sister had mentioned this to Sofi, and Sofi had reluctantly agreed to let me live there if I did all the maintenance and obeyed a very peculiar and stringent set of rules. I accepted as soon as I heard the offer, not even waiting to hear the list of rules I would need to live by. I was desperate for just a place to stay, and didn't even care much about the pay rate.
When I first arrived I was stunned by how magnificent the property was. Several acres of wonderfully landscaped yard with a huge number of trees of all sorts, and even some fruit trees. There were several gardens with neatly landscaped paths that were bright with flowers and plants of all colors. It had several water features, and a huge pool. There were even several buildings other than the main house. A building beside the pool had half a dozen guest rooms, and there were a few cabin-like other buildings around the property. Every building had some high tech features installed, letting Sofi control the lights, blinds, windows temperature, and more all from her phone. I was only allowed to go inside the main house, which was the first rule I was given.
I found out quickly that the rest of the rules were very strange indeed. Sofi apparently worked from home, and had some strict requirements about the environment she liked to work in. During her work hours I was not allowed to be in the house. This was not so big a deal as the work on the property was enough to keep me busy nearly the whole work day. Occasionally I would be asked to stay inside, and strictly prohibited from going out for a number of hours. This was a little harder to obey as I wasn't really allowed outside my own room, but it at least gave me time to relax. Most rooms besides my room, the main living room, and the kitchen were off-limits to me. This was enforced by locks on nearly every single door, and Sofi regularly checked the numerous security cameras to make sure I wasn't trespassing anywhere I shouldn't be.
Most curious about Sofi's work habits and the rules that were impacted by them were her coworkers. I didn't know what sort of work Sofi was in, but for some reason she almost always had a few of her coworkers over to work with her. I couldn't blame them too much, because Sofi's house was so amazing I would have wanted to do my work there too if I could. I was completely forbidden from interacting with any of her coworkers, so I didn't see much of them, but it seemed a bit weird to me how they were almost all extremely pretty young women. It was also strange at how many different coworkers Sofi had, as from a distance it seemed like it was almost completely new people coming every day.