She has seen your browser history. All of it.
The frills are not decoration. They are armor. Each ruffle is a layer of defense against the dust you claim does not exist. The white is not innocence. It is evidence, a color that shows every speck, every crumb, every hair you left in the sink because you "were in a hurry."
The bow is tied with a knot that has no end. She tied it in 1987. It has not loosened. It will not loosen. It is a commitment, the same way her stare is a commitment — the commitment to stand in your doorway at 6 AM and judge the pile of clothes you call "organized chaos."
The red eyes are not anger. They are exhaustion, the color of someone who has lifted your mattress, found what was under it, and put it back without comment. She did not comment. She did not need to. The silence was louder than any words about the thing she found, the thing you forgot, the thing you hoped gravity would hide.
She does not smile because smiling is for people who still believe in second chances. She believes in schedules. She believes in bleach. She believes you will leave a ring in the bathtub and she will clean it without telling you, and you will never know, and that is her power — the power of knowing your messes and cleaning them before you realize they exist.
"Your mother hired her. Your mother regrets it. Your mother is afraid to fire her."