Bambi POV.
I did everything that I didn’t mean to do, I didn’t want to meet the boss, and here I’m holding his hand while we meet the other littles, I didn’t want to let it go, but that’s the idiot part of me talking, the one that used to love reading stories and falling for the boss, but I found out a long time ago, you can’t fall in love with your boss or anyone you work with.
I never mentioned this, not to Eliot, nor to Colin, I might have fallen a little bit in love back at the beginning when my clients were really nice to me when they called me sweet words and gave me extra gifts or hugs when they talked to me. I’m such a pathetic girl, all it takes for me to fall for someone is for them to talk to me, I was talk deprived, but then my dreams were crushed, I was only seventeen years old, and who thought the big scary supernatural loved me for being me, and not to ask for more sick desires of theirs.
Soon my dreams were crushed and I found out, that the extra niceness is only to ask me to stay for longer without charging them, or to ask for things that I would positively refuse to do, would never actually do it. Now that I learned that, why the hell am I still holding the boss’s hand, knowing that nothing good would come out of this, then why am I still thinking something good would come out of this?
“And what’s your name little guy?” he asks Paul, the one who was ready to flee, the little guy was out of his place between all of the littles, just yawning, and tired.
“He’s Paul or Pauly, he’s the youngest,” I say, finally letting go of the boss’s hand and holding Pauly’s he needs the hand hold a lot better.
“That’s a nice name, Pauly, you liking it around here?” he asks him, talking in a nice sweet voice to him, instead of the dominant scary one, making my heart melt when I had nothing to do with this.
“Mhm, Bambi and Mommy Hazel are the best!” he says, the way he said mommy Hazel, I had my slight doubts he might be falling for the boss, wrong choice my friend, wrong choice.
“That’s good honey,” he says and moves to the next little one, leaving me to be with Pauly, I couldn’t help but watch him, saying hello to every little one there is, everyone was either holding each other’s hand or one of the trainer’s hand.
“Okay, everyone, we’re going to the rooms,” the boss, who I don’t know his name even says, calling everyone to their room.
“The trainers and the assistant would help you get there,” Hazel says, Pauly’s hold on my hand got tighter.
“Want me to take you?” I ask him, and he nods, I turned to the trainers and our boss checking if it’s okay.
“Take him, Bambi, he got his room key with the number over it,” Luca informs me, I took the key from him and checked which room he’s at, then started the walk over there, all the littles sleep in the room closer to the middle of the floor, while we’re staying over the edges, probably to keep a better eye on them.
The little room was similar to mine, except their bed had railings on the side, to keep them from falling I guess, clothes were given by the company, all of them little clothes.
“You like it here?” I ask Paul, the room even had a night light for him, along with a teddy waiting on the bed for him.
“Mhm, it’s nice,” he says with a smile, I had my doubts about him, and well all of the other littles, they must be supernatural to be able t afford to stay here.
“I got to leave, do you need anything?” I ask him not sure what else to do, I’m not a trainer, I’m just their assistant.
“Nope, I’m good thank you,” he says jumping on top of the bed and giggling, now that I made sure he’s fine, I left the room and moved to our office, meeting up with the rest of the team, including the boss.
“Everyone is settled?” the boss asks, we all nodded yes, the trainers took their seats and finally breathed, today was very long.
“God I’m tired, Katie, no acting up, please,” DJ says with Katie sitting in his lap, cuddling with him.
“Tired, you meanie,” she answers him in the cutest little voice.
“I know everyone is tired, and I appreciate all the tough work you did today, but we need to talk about our rules,” he says getting all of our attention.
“Shoot boss,” Aiden says closing his eyes looking like he’s ready to sleep more than to listen to anything.
“We’re here to take care of the littles, but we also need to take care of ourselves, that includes our hygiene, food, sleep, and our mental health,” he starts in his dominant voice, demanding everyone’s attention.
“We’ll do,” Dj says.
“DJ, I know you’re Katie’s daddy, but the littles are our job, make sure to keep your personal life to the side, and in case you need a day off, take the day off. In case Katie needs assurance that you are hers and not one of the little’s daddy, take her to the office, take your time alone, and then get back to work. I’m not against work and love relations, but keep it professional, once the littles are tucked in, feel free to be yourself.” he says looking at me, it felt like the words were meant for me, but what relation is he talking about, I’m single as frick, he means DJ.
“That includes the rest of you, if you need time off, take time off, if you need to be held, need someone to talk to, just come over to my office, the door is always open,” he continues, I won’t be going to my boss to tell him to hold me.
“If I have to call any of you to have a talk about how tired you look, why you’re snapping or being late, I will deal with you the same way we deal with titles, tanning your bums and putting you in the corner,” he says, making my eyes go wide, he can’t be for real.
But my contract did mention that the head of the department could punish me, I guess that includes the whole department.
“Now go have your dinner and rest,” he says dismissing all of us.