It was a bad day. A very bad day.
Red got the call from her Master informing her that he was coming home from work early. There'd been a fight with a coworker, it seemed, and her Master was reprimanded despite having done nothing wrong.
"Three hours early!" she bemoaned. She took a look about the house. Normally, she would watch her soaps on the tele until about four o' clock then spend an hour quickly tidying up so that things were presentable for when her Master came home. She quickly moved about, tossing dirty laundry into a basket while kicking an empty storage tub into a closet. 'He's going to kill me for being so lazy today', she thought as she threw the laundry into the closet, out of sight.
She froze in moment in fear as her mind raced. 'Dinner! Oh shit!' She quickly moved to the kitchen, remembering suddenly that tonight was Monday and Monday was meatloaf night. She spent a few minutes preparing things before tossing it in the oven; fidgeting nervously, she turned the stove on and put some water to boil for the potatos to be mashed later.
As she briskly walked down the hall from the kitchen to the living room, she heard the slam of a car door outside. She froze in terror, daring to move only her eyes to glance at the wall clock. "Oh shit," she exclaimed to herself again. "He must have been speeding. It must have been really bad!"
She paused only briefly, trying to decide whether to let her hair down first from its ponytail or to remove the robe, or to kick the slippers out of sight. She was to greet her Master on bad days nude and knelt. She could hear the th-thud, th-thud as he quickly came up the steps. Before she could even react, the door flew up with a loud wham!
He walked in, wearing his uniform, and looked about the room. Immediately his eyes caught on to things and he began to rattle them off machine-gun style at her.