I rushed into the store and saw Hero, sitting on the receptionist chair that I usually sat on.
“You’re late.” He says with a smile. “I’ll have to dock off 10 dollars from your paycheck”
“Oh come on, that's not fair!” I complained as he got off my seat. It's not my fault that we didn’t realize we took that long in there… I then notice that deer girl standing next to me and I quickly jump away from her and fall onto my seat. “Okay why the hell are you still here?” I say pointing at her. She shrugs and innocently replies,
“I dunno. I don’t have anywhere to go! ╮(╯∀╰)╭” I grab the side of my head, trying not to lose my shit until Hero speaks up.
“Hey who’s this?” He says pointing at the deer girl. I tried to tell him who she was but… I realized something mid sentence.
“I- Actually I don’t know she sort of just appeared. I don’t even know her name… What is your name anyways?” I say turning to her. But she just shrugs again. “No name, huh? Well then… Hero! Your first job! Help me come up with a name for her!” Hero is caught off guard but he quickly gets out a pen and paper and starts writing away. I also grab a writing utensil and start going off as the deer girl starts raiding my kitchen behind us.
“Let's see…” Hero says as he keeps writing down names. “Shredder?”
“Too dark” I say, shooting it down.
“Sunshine?” He jumps back with.
“Too bright.”
“Cutie?”
“Too on the nose”
“Nostril?”
“Litterally on the nose”
“Yeah none of these are good… I’m kind of stumped on ideas.” He says looking back up at me. But then he goes up to the deer girl and holds his hands out. “Hey! Hold still! I need to see the full picture…” He says stepping back and holding his hands out like a camera… “Hm… Pudding.”
“What?” I say, confused.
“If she was a type of food, she would be pudding.” Hero repeats. And places his hands down. I was about to say how that was an awful name but the deer girl laughs.
“Pudding! I love that name! Thank you Cappy! ヘ(^o^ヘ)” She says clapping. Hero adjusts his hat and smirks confidently as I roll my eyes.
“Oh come on! I could have thought of a better name!” I yelled.
“You’re just mad you’re an apple” He says before getting a broom.
“Wha- I am not an apple!” I yell in defiance. Pudding laughs in the background and yells back.
“Don’t be mad, Apple!(╹ꇴ◠)”
“THATS NOT MY NAME!” I snap back. I sigh but then realize something. I point at her and start explaining.

“Hey, you don’t have a place to go, right? If you help out around the shop every now and then, I’ll let you stay. But no raiding the kitchen.”
“Okay!” She says almost immediately. “There’s no crackers anyways! (⁀ᗢ⁀)” I’m amused by her enthusiam as she picks up a mop and starts using the wrong end to mop the floor. Hero goes up to her, gets her own mop, and demonstrates how to actually do it. The two work in sync to make sure every speck of the floor is clean. Once they were finished, Pudding fell down on the couch that was usually for guests while Hero was doing practice swings with the mop like it was a baseball bat.
“Hooome run! That's the winning strike from Hero Harris, with the knights moving on to the finals!” he says to himself before putting the mop down and laughing. “You know, I used to want to be a big shot major league baseball player. Stupid, right?” He says with a chuckle. Pudding perks up and starts talking.
“I don’t know what baseball is but that sounded fun! You should try it!” She says happily but Hero shakes his head and adjusts his hat.
“Nah, it’s too late for me. I’m already too far gone.” He says holding his hand out as I write him a pay check. “Alright, thanks man. Have fun with your big bro.” He says lightly tapping Pudding. She seems confused and speaks to herself.
“Big… bro…?” She says before staring at me. I was busy closing up the shop until I hear her run up to me and yell out, “Big bro!!!°˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°” I sigh… I guess I’m an older brother now… I should probably go to the store and buy her some crackers… I wonder how Matt is doing…

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