FIVE MEN AND A MAID - 1st chapter

PROLOUGE1

The car stopped right in front of the porch of the manor.A window rolled down.Chatter could be heard,the men were in an exuberant mood.They got out,one by one,five of them,each tall and lean,with playful looks on their faces.Perhaps hoping to have a very good vacation indeed,but what awaits them,is even better.Or is it?2

A MEET OF THE EYES,AND A DISASTER3

"Hurry up,hurry up,I tell you it certainly isn't in your right to be in time,my sweet,our guests will be arriving any moment,"4

rasped the keeper of the manor.5

"Very well,very well,"answered a velvety,calm voice.6

"Respectfully yours,madam,but everything is prepared,perhaps you could tell me what I have forgotten?",said the same voice,from behind a curtain.7

"Oh do groom yourself well my child,"the woman said,with a twinkle in her eyes,"As you see,the whole drive,our men shall be lost in the beauty of scotland,but....you,uuhhh...never do know how men are.For all we know,they may as well....loose their hearts over you!"8

"Oh such utter nonsense!"9

The girl picked up her overlong dress and ran up the stairs.10

The bell rang.Suddenly someone yelled,"Chris you nutcase,mind not scaring me with that bloody fake cockroach,quit it,man,quit it!"11

"Scared of roaches Jake?Poor roach,probably even more terrified than you are of it!",mocked yet another voice.12

"Guys,shut up!We will do better not to have kindergarten kids among us!",said YET another voice.13

"Chics?Did you say chics?Where,where??"14

All further ado was ended when the young woman came descending down the stairs.15

Now if there was an apt word to describe this woman,we'ed all be blessed.For now,I shall use beautiful.Leaving aside beauty and words,let us get back to the fight of our five young men.The woman opened the door.There was an absolute hush,for well,yes,the beauty of this woman,was a bit too much,on men.16

Dressed in a plain green summer dress that came an inch up her knees,she might as well have been a poppy freshly plucked from the most royal of estates.Just like a poppy,beautiful,addictive,but dangerous.Beautiful pink lips,pouting like a rosebud.Dark smouldering eyes that saw through you,burned you.Tall,willowy,a sigle curl of her auburn hair resting on the swell of her breast,her skin peaches and cream,a man's dream in being.But she was no bimbette,and our men will realize that now.With sharp eyebrows and an outlined jaw,she was the woman ready to put her wit against the world.17

"Good evening,gentlemen,"she said,in her fluting,deep voice.18

"Welcome,our manor has been awaiting your,much esteemed presence,I hope that,you do,have a good time here."19

Dumbstruck.That is the word I should choose for the men.She moved her feline eyes from one man to the other,judging them in her sensual manner.A specially star-crossed looking one was shaking his bottle of whiskey.He shook,a,ahem,tad bit too much,so obviously the cork popped open,and sprayed the other four.Now when you are trying to impress a woman,and not a very easy one,if I may add,it is not a very chivalrous thing to stand soaking in whiskey.With an amused look in her oriental eyes,she merely stepped away from the epicenter of the disaster.20

"Ronny you nutcase!You wait till we get you!Bloody idiot!,"were the aftermath exclamations of the mishap.They all climbed upon "Ronny",as though trying to kill him,looking more like a couple of badly trained puppies.21

Both women were aghast.Our oriental-eyed woman turned to the keeper,hands on her hips."Well???",she said,eyeing the men.22

"I-uh-my dear,I must run,please excuse,"she rushed out with that.23

There we are.All alone in a manor on an isle in scotland,one seductive woman,five men,what happenes next?24