Bambi POV.
The thing with humans, when you aren’t at the top of the food chain, you’re not even in the middle, you’re at the bottom of the lowest bottom, there’s nothing left for you, nowhere to go but up right? But what up, there’s no up for people like us, where would you go? You’ll be eaten up and spat alive by the supernaturals.
Do you want to know what happened to me? What about my friend? My only friend Colin, I lost my friend, he found a way to get up, the only way t go up, he belongs to one of the supernatural now, he belongs to his mommy, alpha Thalia, she’s a scary woman, she still allows him to come over sometimes, maybe once per month. He messages me on the phone when he’s feeling big, when he got his phone and when he remembers to message me.
Right now I’m getting dressed, not in my work clothes, no this dress, I bought with my own money, it’s longer than the one they love to keep me in, falls right under my knees, my heels made me look longer, bigger in age, the tiredness was obvious on my face.
My eyes were red and puffy, I cried again, no amount of make-up can hide it, my hair was down, the way she loved them, back before, before everything, brushed and curled at the bottom of it. I felt hollow, I felt ugly, I was a shell of a girl who had to grow up so quickly, I’m twenty years old, but look and feel like I’m ancient, I’m so old, I’m so tired, another tear fell down my face, but I was quick to wipe it away, I can’t cry anymore, I had to hold my tears at bay.
“Are you ready?” Colin asks me, he’s the only one I have, and he’s only here cause I need him he, can’t stay for long after the day ends he’ll be back with his mommy and I’ll be left alone, really alone this time.
“Yeah,” I say, seeing him wearing a black suit, I never saw him in a suit, humans don’t get to wear suits, unless if they got special occasions and a supernatural mommy.
We both left my house and got in the black car, I can’t afford a car, it was his dominant car, and I’m there since I need a ride, the cemetery wasn’t that far away, all humans get buried in one place, not many got a big funeral, who am I kidding, none of them gets big funerals. I was just happy that Colin would never die, his dominant gives him immortality shots, ones that would keep him here for a very long time, I’ll never have to put my friend six feet under.
The only place left for you to go, after being beaten down, after being forced to work as maids your whole life, and then a sickness would come over you, sickness with no cure, until now, until six years late, you are dead, going to your last place, the only place left for you six feet under. This was my own mother’s funeral, and it was just me, Colin, and his mommy, no one else would come, no one here for me, or her.
I stood in front of the hole in the ground, it was deep, way too deep for my liking, but we have t burry her deep enough not to be robbed, even the graves get robbed in this world, bodies get body parts missing, blood, clothes, anything, even the body could be stolen. We all stood around the hole, there was no priest, no last word said, not even a flower I could put on top of my mother’s dead body, two of the cemetery workers put her down in her last resting space, her last bed ever.
“Bye mama,” I say tears going down my face freely, Colin held my hand, being the only one there for me while his mommy took a step back, letting us say our goodbyes, soon the dirt started to be pushed over my mother’s body, hiding her face, I couldn’t see her anymore, I’ll never get to talk to her again, my mother died six years ago, when the sickness got the best of her when I was pushed to work to take care of her when I the medicine was the only thing that kept her going until now, it’s finally time for her to rest, no more medicine, no more soup, and no more pain.
“She’s in a better place,” Colin says hugging me as I cried some more and more, I kept on crying, as the dirt fully covered my mother’s body, hiding her fully from me, there would be no stone on top of her grave, there would be nothing for her, it’s just this a big pile of dirt with my mama underneath it.
Colin had to drag me away with the help of his mommy, she practically carried the both of us away, toward her car, and started the drive back toward my home, where I’ll be living alone now, where there would be no one for me to worry about or take care of, and I’ll be home alone.
“If you need anything, Bambi, call me,” Alpha Thalia says, handing me her card with the company’s name on top of it and her number, Moon and Howl company.
“Thank you alpha,” I answer her keeping my head low, knowing I best keep my head down in front of an alpha.
“Come on Colin,” she says taking his hand and dragging him with her, I sat on the floor having nowhere to go or sit in, just me now, all alone, no one here to keep me a company to talk good about my mother, to tell me stories about her, just me and the empty house, her empty room now, no more screaming, no more asking for medicine, nothing.
“Hello,” I say wiping my eyes and hearing my phone ring.
“Red, you got a job for tonight,” Eliot says through the phone, we still work together, after all these years.
“My mother died,” I say sniffling.
“Then wear black,” he says through the phone.
“Eliot! I’m not going to work, not ever again! I’m retired!” I yelled through the phone, doesn’t he have a heart?
“Great Red, call me when you starve!” he says with a chuckle.
“My name isn’t red! It’s Bambi! You don’t even know my name!” I yell through the phone yet again.
“Sure thing Red,” Eliot says getting on my last nerve, it’s strange how much life could shatter us, how it could turn us into robots with no emotions, no care about others or us, all Eliot thinks about it is work, and being paid, through me and others. I ended the call, I threw my phone away, crying, I’ll figure something up, I can find another job.