Chapter 2

"Servants?" Heidi said, obviously surprised and excited.

"Yes," I said, "They will tend to your needs, everything from preparing meals, to fixing a hole in your sock."

Heidi smiled a big smile and continued to walk around her new home.

"So, Heidi, this is the family room..." I said as I showed her around.

Our family room has all the modern entertainment, a big screen TV, video games, and huge plush couches and recliners.

"This room screams laziness," Heidi said. "Kids, you we will start our regiment right here tomorrow!"

"Ok, " I said. "You're the expert."

We had a treadmill and a weight machine in storage, which we helped her bring out and move to the corner of the family room.

My wife then showed Heidi to the guest bedroom room that was right next to ours.

"Ok, Honey," my wife said. "This will be all yours until you decide to leave us; make yourself comfortable...the bathroom is on just the other side of our master bedroom."

She helped Heidi unpack her things, clothes upon clothes, hand weights, jump ropes, etc.

"I will leave you now, go ahead and come downstairs in a few minutes, as the servants will be ready to serve dinner."

Heidi was the last to arrive at the dinner table.

"I might tend to worry about a pretty young girl like you stuck out in country with us," I said. "I have to warn you, it might be hard for you to find a boyfriend in these parts!" I joked.

"Oh, don't worry," she said. "I think it's time for me to cool it on the boyfriends for awhile; I just got over some lousy experiences. Men!" she said frustrated.

"Well, I hope it's a vacation from that stuff," I said, trying to cheer her up.

Just then the food was brought out.

"Prime rib tonight," one of the servants said.

"Oh, meat, I....." said Heidi.

"Are you a vegetarian?" I asked.

"Well, I had this boyfriend who was into the vegan stuff, but....oh forget it," she said. "I won't last long on a cattle ranch if I don't start eating meat!"

We laughed as we dug to our delicious meal.

After dinner, our favorite desert – flan – was brought out and they offered the first piece to Heidi. She said that she had not tried it before and immediately fell in love with it.

"Good thing I am not the one going on the diet and fitness routine!" she laughed as she reached for her second piece of desert.

As the servants cleaned up after the meal, Heidi sat in the family room with Larisa, Angela, Marcela, and Ricardo. I overheard some of the conversation.

"I saw the way you guys eat," Heidi said. "Large portions at dinner, then desert, then I suppose you sit around here afterwards?"

"Then maybe Margarita gives us a snack from pantry, too!" Angela, the fattest child of the four, said while sitting on the couch with her belly hanging out just below her shirt.

"That has to stop," Heidi said sternly. "Your belly will just grow and grow if we don't put you on a diet. Now, I want to see all of you here tomorrow an hour after breakfast. We will start our routine," she ordered.

Heidi then bid them goodnight and headed upstairs as she was exhausted from her trip.

"She's beautiful," said Angela. "I want to look like her someday, I don't like this fat!"

"Yeah me, too, but you have the most work to do," said Marcela, rather cruelly.

"I have to get into shape; the girls tease me and I don't think the boys like my belly and big hips," said Larisa. "Heidi does seem like a bitch, though."