7 o’clock, on a cloudy Friday afternoon, I was dying to take a warm shower and eat something as I walked to the front gates. I had been at this job for three months now, it wasn’t my first choice, but with Covid shutting down most jobs, I couldn’t complain. I got the job from my friend Macy, she was a keeper at the zoo since high school.
‘It will be a piece of cake,’ she said to me before she left on vacation last week, ‘just watch out for James, he’s got a crush on you girl.’
I scoffed at her winking, smiling face.
‘You’re so dumb.’ I laughed, rolling my eyes at her.
It was true though, I wasn’t blind. He had made it a point to drive into the lot at the same time as me every morning. When it was time to feed the animals and the end of the night, he would brush past me in the small storage room, his breath hot on my neck as he breathed ‘excuse me’ seductively in my ear. I didn’t mind though, he was handsome, and I’d been horny since lockdown started.