Teaching Fluttershy

Chapter 7: Time passed.

School was going by rather slower than usual and it was mainly due to my concern for Fluttershy and everybody in my neighborhood. Any way I kept getting carried away from my classes but other than that everything went swell, nobody in my class knew about her and that was honestly better. But when it came to Pamela, things were still pretty hard to let go…

In the few months that she’s been living her with me I’ve also managed to teach her to use the phone in case of emergencies, along a few other things that might be important for her to know. Both her and my birthdays passed, I got her some books about animals but if it was just us two living together I would’ve bought her a bunny or any other pet.

“Peter, your sister called today.” My mom said as she read a book on the couch, Fluttershy was on the other sofa also reading a book I got for her about animals, I still can’t believe that my mom actually accepted Fluttershy, even though she did try to get rid of her once but after that everything went back to ‘normal’ per say.

“Really? What did she say?” I asked, I was doing some stuff on my computer for school.

“She said she needs your help.” She answered still focusing on her book.

“Help with what?” intrigue I asked again, I liked helping out my sister a lot.

“She said if you could go see her at their store.” She finished saying, I could only imagine what she wanted me for.

“Well then I guess I should go see her, can I borrow the van?” I asked saving my work and started to put on my coat.

“Just remember to fill the tank, last time I barely made it to the gas station.” My mom said a little angry.

“Sorry but don’t worry I won’t forget.” I chuckled lightly before grabbing the van keys.
“Be right back then.”

“Alright take care.” Fluttershy said taking her eyes of her book and turning to face me.

“You too.” After that I placed my headphones on my ears and left the house towards my destination.

I pulled up to the store’s parking, I could see my sister attending some customers she seemed kind of busy at the moment but hopefully by the time I went in there would be less people so we could talk about whatever it is she needs from me.
“Het sis.” I said walking into the store cause for a doorbell to be heard.

“Oh Peter thank goodness you came, give me minute and we’ll get to business okay?” She said before finishing attending a customer.

“No problem.” I said taking a seat in one of those tables that most supermarkets have to sit and eat. It took her about another five minutes before all the customers where gone, she left the counter and proceeded to sit with me.

“Okay so what did you need to talk about?” I asked her as she sat down.

“I need you to work here for me please.” She said right away.

“Huh? Really?” I said still analyzing what she just said.

“You’ll only be coming Mondays through Thursdays; please I’ll pay you 20 bucks daily.” She pleaded from the other side.

“Well …sure! I mean what do I have to do? Just come and help out?” I asked, my insides filling with joy towards the fact that I got what I needed, a job and one that was going to be paying some good money, at least to start saving, I was still one year away from being able to live on my own.

“Yes, just come, work at the cash register, clean, stock items. You know the basic stuff, please and if you do great I’ll even give you a raise.” She finished explaining, I was definitely accepting this job.

“Okay then when do I start?” I said eagerly.

“Well if you can, tomorrow would be nice.” She asked smiling at me.

“Sure no problem.” I said smiling from ear to ear.

“Oh thank you Peter, I knew I could count on you.” She said reaching in to hug me from the other side of the table.

“You’re welcome, well I better get going, i have some homework that needs to be finished, you know this whole technician in electronics career take a lot of thinking and I need full concentration.” I said checking my watch to see the time.

“Okay, I’ll see you tomorrow then?” She said as we both got up from the table.

“Yup! Without a doubt.”

I was so happy on the way home, I made some calculations in my head to see how much money I could make in a year and it was enough, well enough to at least rent a two bedroom apartment and to pay the bills.

“How it go? What did she need?” My mom asked as I entered the house, I still had a big grin on my face.

“All I’m going to say is that I am employed.” I said raising my hand in the air, sort of like the Freddy Mercury meme.

“Really? That’s great honey, your first job and your sister as your boss, I’m sure she’ll do great introducing you to the working life so you’ll see how it feels to work for the stuff you want.” She said, getting excited as well over the news.

“Where’s Fluttershy? I want to tell her too.” I asked my mom, I really wanted her to know as well.

“Oh she’s upstairs in your room, maybe watching TV or something.” She said pointing towards the stairs.

“Thanks.” I said before dashing of towards my room to tell her the great news.

I walked into my room to see Fluttershy sitting in what was now her bed, she was playing the Wii which I got for my birthday but she really enjoyed playing it, plus it controller was easier for her to use and she spent a lot of time playing it so I really didn’t mind.

“Oh you’re back, how did it go?” She asked pausing her game and turning her face to look at me.

“I got a job.” I said walking up to her, I gave her a hug because I knew that in a year it would hopefully just be the two of us.

“Oh that’s great! What do you have to do?” She said accepting my hug without any problem.

“I just got to clean or stock items, you know simple store stuff.” I said shrugging a bit.

“Well I’m happy to hear that, just don’t overdo it to earn more cash.” She said smiling.

“Don’t worry, I won’t.”

Spring went by rather fast; a lot of rainstorms and that meant a lot of lightings and thunders during the night mostly, this cause Fluttershy to wake up a lot in the night scared and made me sleep with her on her bed. As for the job, I opened a bank account and at the end of each week I would go and deposit that week’s earnings.
My brother started to help me to get Fluttershy into the theater by opening the exit door so she could go into the screening room undetected, this mainly being due to the fact that I couldn’t find many places to take her to, I mean after all it’s pretty boring to just stay in the same place day after day, I also managed to figure out that Pamela lives fairly close to the store where I work at so every other day she stops by to talk, of course only when she isn’t working.
By the looks of it and the current position I’m at, everything seem to be going as planned and in a few months I would be able to place my own rules and hopefully Fluttershy would be there to continue making my life more enjoyable.