I had a whole thing planned that I was gonna tell the man when he came home. I imagined that I was going to make everyone cry at how emotional and sincere I was being, and he was going to make me employee of the month!

I didn't even manage to say hi because he made his way straight into his bedroom with all his ladies. I kept looking at his bedroom door for a good five minutes with my hand still up in the air wondering what the heck just happened.

"I think introductions would have to wait."

I nodded. I was not about to interrupt their thing just to introduce myself.

Bear was still sound asleep when I came back to his room. His little chest rising and falling with every breath he took, completely unaware of what went on outside. He probably didn't even know that his daddy even came home! I couldn't wrap my head around the fact that he didn't even ask if Bear was alright or not.

Whatever they did in there took them about two hours. I tried so hard not to imagine anything. He came out without the ladies, all showered up. He was taller than Zenya. Even sitting down on the couch he was taller than me. Remember when Zenya said that Bear will lose all his hair when he grows up? Now that I am face to face with a shirtless adult alien, he could safely say, yes that sounds about right.

For research purposes, I looked hard. But all I could see was well-toned tan muscles across his chest and arms. His workout regime must be insane. Humans had a far easier time adjusting to aliens who were more humanoid. There are some that look more reptilians that freak us out when you see them walking around with their scaled skin and sharp teeth. Not trying to be racist or anything but imagine yourself coming face to face with a crocodile that walks on two feet, wouldn't you be scared?

"Shortie, meet my brother Kaiden Jack Declan Oban, you can just call him Jack. And Jack this is Madeline Short, Espath's babysitter"

It took me a moment to realize that Zenya was talking to me since I was so engrossed in my ahem, research. Why do these people all have long names? Their entire family registry must be a novel!

And boy! He was jacked alright. No wonder he gets all the ladies.

In a perfect world, I wouldn't have said that out loud but Zenya snickering beside me proved that it was not a perfect world and I have in fact said all those things out loud.

Oh, Fishsticks!

I looked up to find Mr. Oban raising an eyebrow at me. I have now officially creeped out every Oban on the planet.

"I mean, nice to meet you Mr.Jack, Bea..."I shook my head. "Your son is asleep now. He'll wake up in a couple of hours and you can..."

He waved his hand. "Let him sleep."

He got up to leave. What the heck? This is the first time I have even met the man. Shouldn't he make sure that I'm not some creep? He is trusting me with his only child, after all.

"I had you investigated before you were even interviewed. Do you have any more questions for me?"

Not with that attitude. I shook my head.

"He isn't exactly close with Espath. I mean normally our males aren't involved a lot in the childcare."

It sounded a lot like she was apologizing on her brother's behalf. I'm glad she thinks my opinion on him matters but it wasn't her fault that in my head he was a total dick.

So they were like actual bears. Papa bears don't hang around once the deed was done either. Still, though, I couldn't imagine Bear growing up to be indifferent to his own father and his children. Mr. Oban was the only family he had after all.

Before I left I kissed my little Bear goodnight. Now that I have seen how Daddy Bear was like, I wanted to shower Bear with all the love that I have.

I know what you are going to say? Shortie you can't judge him based on a couple of hours. Maybe he is jetlagged. Give him a couple of days.

Well, I did. I gave him two whole weeks. He was not home most of the time. He had a business to take care of and even when he was home I barely saw him even glancing at Bear's room.

"Mr. Jack checks on Bear when I'm not here,right?"

I was trying hard to give him the benefit of the doubt, so I was trying to get the other side of the story from Jessica.

"I'm sure he does Shortie."

"Have you seen him go to Bear?"

Jessica's eyes lowered and she hesitated to give me an answer.

"I'm not here some nights."

Bear was getting restless too. He cried a lot and was really hard to put to sleep. He hated when I tried to get him to sleep in the evening. I say it because deep inside he knows that I'm going home. I'm sure Mrs.Miller and the others probably feed him and clean him at night but that was not the kind of love that Bear needs in his life.

The only one paying attention to my Bear was a bald blue alien woman who was with Mr. Jack. If she sees me with Bear when they came home she always makes sure to come to say hi.

Some days the only way I could get him to drink his formula was if I took him to the window to see outside. I couldn't blame the little guy. The beautiful plush furniture, the stupid glass decor and the modern art on the wall was driving me crazy. I felt like a bird cooped up. I wanted to go out and I wanted to take Bear out with me. I could just imagine the little guy lighting up when I show his the birds, the people walking their dogs and car's driving by.

"So you think it's not okay for that man to love more than one woman, even if he has the time and the money to handle them all. How close-minded are you?"

Erine has a problem of listening only to half of what I say. We were having brunch at their place on Saturday and I thought I would try to get advice from the smart people but right now I was regretting ever opening my mouth.

"No! I didn't say that I just think it's not okay to ignore Bear all the time"

"They are aliens Shortie. They might be different from us." Clara said. True, that what everyone says, even the people on the internet.

"But Bear's part human and he doesn't have a mom. What if he grows up without ever knowing what good parental love is?"

Erine laughed. "Parental love? Where did you learn that, from one of those free world cartoons?"

"First of all, they are called mangas and no! I read it in a forum."

"What do you think will happen to him when he grows up though? He'll think that's it's okay to love more women like his father? That he'll think monogamy is not okay?"

Why did she come back to that again? I regret telling them about the ladies now.

"Forget everything about the women! That's not the point"

"Do your job Shortie! The last thing that man needs is a babysitter nagging him to spend more time with his kid, he must have other things to worry about."

But my job is to do what's best for the baby. How will I do that when his own family acts like he doesn't exist?

"How the hell will you be a good mother if you really think that?"

Mom gasped like I murdered a puppy in front of them.

"Madeline, apologize to your sister. How could you say that?"

Was I wrong though? She started it, so where's my apology? The only reason I said sorry was because I didn't even have dessert yet and I didn't want to get kicked out.

"How's the application dear?" mom asked Clara trying to change the topic.

"They talked with Dale and he told them he wouldn't be needing babies of his own. So I think we'll have a better chance."

Erine did say that this Dale person belongs to one of the minority groups that had more allocations this year. So they should get approved pretty quickly and my sister better learns to be a good mother by then.

I needed advice. Better advice than he is an alien, different from us, let it go. Not from strangers on the internet and definitely not from my sister. I needed an expert. Someone who knows a lot about childcare.

If I am lucky, he will be working today.