Two Cowboys Next Door by Jay S. Wilder

Author:Jay S. Wilder [Wilder, Jay S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-12-07T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 2 - Natalia

There weren’t enough fingers on my hands or enough toes on my feet to count how many times I’d told Charlie a.k.a “Little Thor” not to body slam his pile of blocks. Yet here we were again. Same scenario, different day because Charlie was wearing a Ninja Turtle t-shirt, not the one with boats, and his face smeared with red juice stains, unlike yesterday’s chocolate milk. I closed my eyes and rocked the poor kid in my lap. He was balling so hard, I worried he’d hyperventilate as my hands smoothed down his small, hot back in what I hoped were soothing motions. Instead, he let out another shriek.

I closed my eyes and held him closer, shushing too. From being practiced, I knew I had about two more minutes left of soothing before his small sticky hands would push into my boobs until he popped out of my arms. He’d wipe a tan arm under his snotty nose and run off to play at the water station. Kid’s brains were awesome, fearsome things. They could cling to fear for the longest time to where it broached into adulthood, or they could shrug it off and go on playing. Except you never knew what you were going to get with them.

Made my life as a daycare worker both joyfully spontaneous and mind-blowingly chaotic. Toss of a coin to see what we would have today.

As promised, Little Thor was shoving his fingers into my chest as if he could push out the back of my body. With a small smile, I let him go. I’d barely released him when he was launching himself into a full run across the room. Resilience got to love it. I stood up from my crouch with a wince surveying the other kids. All seemed in order. They were all at their different stations and no one seemed to be fighting yet. But it was early in the morning. No guarantees that things would stay quiet when those bastards ruled the roost.

“You did good,” Heather, my coworker, nudged me in the ribs with her elbow. She was carrying a jumbo pack of extra strength paper towels and straightening up the arts and crafts room before naptime. “Cherry might give you a bonus if you keep it up.”

Our boss lady and supervisor would be right on time to do her rounds soon. She did her thing about every hour and a half on the dot. For now, she was probably locked away, monitoring her millions of nanny cams installed around here. I didn’t care. I didn’t need a camera to do my job right. I actually cared for these kids. Heather knew that better than anyone. I offered her a small smile and went back to tidying up the side of the room where the little hellions hadn’t been for the past half hour. Even knowing given five minutes in the space, it’d be a train wreck all over again. What was life without a little chaos?

“I honestly don’t know how you do it, Natalia.

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