Managing Boys

Managing Boys (10)

“Idiots,” I couldn’t help but grumble to myself.

Annabelle let out a sigh as she placed her hands on her hips. “I just can’t believe what they did.”

I gulped, knowing that it was coming. She was going to fire me. Here it comes…

“Do you mind watching them for a little bit while I take a few calls?” she asked me.

I just stared at her. She didn’t yell, she didn’t scream. She didn’t even hint at the fact that I was being fired. Was this some kind of joke, or did I somehow get off the hook?

“I’m… not fired?” I blinked, unable to believe that that wasn’t the first thing she had to say to me.

“No, of course not.” Annabelle was the one to blink now. “Why would you be fired?”

Did she somehow not understand how bad what had happened was? She was their manger, not to mention Grim’s mother!

Annabelle now smiled at me, as if she understood what I was thinking. “Don’t worry, dear,” she assured, patting me on the shoulder. “Ash explained how you tried to stop them from going to that club, but they wouldn’t listen to you and left without you.”

I gaped at her, now looking over at the four boys that were still very interested in pushing a plastic cup across the coffee table to each other. But when I looked at Ash, I couldn’t help but silently thank him. Even when he was drunk, he managed to save me from getting fired. I had to bite my lip to stop myself from smiling.

“You can go make your presence known to them now,” Annabelle sighed, patting my shoulder once again before pulling her phone out of her pocket. “I have to go make a few phone calls.”

I nodded, turning back toward the boys. I was thankful that I wasn’t fired, but still pissed that they’d gone off and done something so stupid. Did none of them even think about the consequences?

Ben was the first to see me. “Aria!” he cried, jumping up from his spot on the ground and nearly waddling his way toward me. He crushed me in a bear hug, nearly knocking me over. “Hello, Aria!”

“No, get away from her,” a new slurred voice now said, and Ben was suddenly being pulled away from me and replaced by Ash, who pressed me against him tightly. “Aria’s mine!”

“No, no fair,” Ben whined, trying to tug Ash off me, but failing miserably. “I want to hug Aria! I want to hug her! She’s mine, she mine!”

I really didn’t understand these boys, and I didn’t think I ever would.

“Get off of her, both of you,” Grim snapped at them, and the two boys did what he said and padded back over to their spots on the ground. “Dumbasses.”

For once, I couldn’t help but agree with him.

The boys went back to pushing the plastic cup around, and I just watched them for a minute or two. They really were the stupidest people I had ever met.

“Guys,” I started, but it didn’t get any of their attentions at first. “Guys!”

This caused them to jump. They all looked so out of it and it was really pissing me off.

“You guys are complete idiots,” I informed them, but they all just looked up at me as if they didn’t even know who I was. “I leave you alone once, and you go out and make fools of yourselves! Do you know how bad you look? I can’t even imagine how everyone else is reacting! Oh, I don’t even want to know…”

Ben smiled at me stupidly. “Oh, come on, Aria… It’s not that big of a deal.”

“Not that big of a deal?” I nearly shouted, not believing he had actually just said that to me. “It’s a huge deal! You guys could have gotten into a lot of trouble, or you could have gotten hurt! I wouldn’t have been able to forgive myself if something happened to you guys!”