Work.

Bambi POV.

"You ready?" Eliot asks, after my meeting with one of the house masters, I took the rest of the day off, I pretended to be sick, and they told me the money would be deducted, I didn't care or mind, I was just too scared to stay there that day.

I ran home to my mother, who else would you run to? I was scared and she was the only one who was there for me, the one who'd hold my hand and make me feel better, I ran up to her room, finding her asleep, she's always asleep lately, she can't get up or move or do much, but I need her.

"Mama," I say feeling younger, needing to be young again, I can't be a big girl, I can't be an adult yet, I'm too young and I'm scared.

"Ohhh..." mom says, no real words leaving her mouth, but I needed to talk, she's still my mother, she could hear me right? She could feel me?

"Mama a guy at work...he...he was doing naughty things with another girl," I say, meaning the maid, the one who ordered me to clean the room, my mother kept on moaning in pain, but I think she means the pain of mine, the one where I'm terrified.

"And then he looked at me, and I was scared, and I left the work," I say, that got my mother's attention, not in the way I expected her to be mad at scared for me, not at me, my mother's whole face turned red, she couldn't talk really, but she could point at me, and was extremely disappointed that I dropped off work.

"But mama I was scared," I say tears going down my face, I was terrified, she did a sign that tells me that she didn't care, that didn't mind if I was scared or not.

"What if he touched me?" I say, and she rolled her eyes at me, pointing to her medicine bottle, the one that's almost over, that's all she cares about anymore. The medicine? Not me? What happened to my mother?

I ran out of the house that night, I went to Colin's I cried there until I fell asleep, my friend held me, not understanding what was going on, why I'm crying or what was wrong with me, he just held me knowing I need him, he was the only one I had in this world now, the pain and the sickness have taken away my mother.

"Are you sure you want to get to work?" Colin asks me the next morning, I hardly slept, I wasn't feeling okay, I felt sick and tired, but I had to get going.

"Yeah, I'm fine Colin, last night, I was just tired," I lied, it was a lie, I wasn't near fine.

"Are you sure?" he asks me again, Colin always worries about me, only if he knew what's waiting for us, he'd save up some of his fear.

"Mhm, of course, you got the school to get to," I say, although I'm the one who dropped out, he still has school to get to.

"I can skip a day, not that I'll be someone someday," he says, but I knew his dream was to get to university.

"Nope, you got uni to get to, now get going, study for the both of us!" I say giving him a push to get up and get going, he won't be going if he's worried about me.

Next, I went to my house, got dressed in my house, I wore my uniform and started the walk, I'll have to take the bus, they offer us free bus rides, they are only enough to take us from work and back home, to one-stop, but even then, we'll have to walk to get to the house.

I got inside the house and started my daily work, trying my best to avoid everyone, I skipped my date with Eliot yesterday, and this takes us back to calling me.

"Earth to Red," he calls out loud again, I looked at him with a blush, I didn't mean to get distracted.

"Yeah, I'm done," I say I was done with my work for the day, but I did owe my friend a date, not really a date, but we're going to sit together and hang out, just like me and Colin do.

"Let's go," he says holding my hand, I didn't mind holding his hand, we're not dating, it's not anything, we're just holding hands as I and Colin do, when we go out on the street, it's safer that way.

"Where are we going?" I asked him, we left the house and are walking around the streets now, I have no idea where we are going, I only knew the house where I work and the bus stop.

"Somewhere," he says, not specifying at all where we are going.

"Watch your steps," he says, we left the building part and are moving more toward a part where it's only wood, don't wolves run around these woods? It would be so cool to see a wolf, they are such magical creatures, I think they might be my favourite.

But meeting a werewolf is different, it's scary, and I don't think I want to meet one of them, I have enough of them, and cleaning their homes and places is all the interaction I need to do with them. I kept walking with Eliot, hoping I won't see any of them until we found a rock to sit on, he sat first giving me a hand as I sat next to him.

"You liking your new job so far?" he asks me, is he kidding me? I hate my job!

"It's okay," I say with a fake smile, clearly lying.

"That much," he says laughing out loud, he laughed so bad, I was worried he might fall.

"What are you laughing at?" I ask him with a big pout on my face.

"You hate the job so much," he says still laughing, what's so weird about me hating the job?

"And you love your job?" I ask him, with a raised brow, I doubt anyone would be enjoying cleaning anywhere.

"Heck no, I hate my work, but you know it pays well," he says, but yesterday he was explaining to me why we are being paid so little.

"But we're hardly paid any," I say but he only smiled.

"Oh stay with me Red, I'll show you the ways," he says with a smirk, the ways? Like taking food from the kitchen that's meant to be thrown away? I just smile and nod, it was nice to eat something other than canned soup for once.