Page 13 of Nanny for the Rockstars

“She will be,” Julian says.

“What makes you so sure?” I ask.

“The fact that she took the job in the first place. We could argue all day long about the details and the semantics, but at the end of the day, there’s no changing the fact that she told us to our faces she hates us, but she still took a job that’s going to expose her to all three of us regularly. She knows what we do for a living, and she’s not stupid. I bet you anything she already knows she’s hitting the road with us,” Julian explains.

“He has a point on that one,” Caleb says with a nod, and I’m forced to agree.

“I guess we’ll know for sure tomorrow,” I say. “Did you text her?”

“I did, she’ll be here at ten in the morning,” Caleb says.

“Then it’s settled,” Julian announces. “Now turn up the game and shut your mouths. Hendrix is sleeping and I think we should let him as long as we can.”

Caleb turns up the TV, and I grab a beer from the fridge and sit down. I watch the screen with my brothers, but my mind is on Jeanette. I still can’t believe she came in to be interviewed today, or that she’s the one we hired.

It doesn’t seem real.

But I’m not dreaming. She really is coming to the hotel tomorrow to talk about the specifics of the job, and she’ll be starting in the next day or two. She’s officially back in our lives.

And I’m interested to see how it will unfold.

SIX

JEANETTE

“Hey, sorry it took me this long to get back to you, but life’s been crazy. So, you got fired? What’s going on?” Colleen’s voice comes through my phone.

I had texted her while sitting at the coffee shop, letting her know that I’d been fired from my job and was scrambling to find another. She was one of my only friends in high school, and while I didn’t consider myself close to anyone except for the triplets my junior year, she was likely the closest thing I had to a best friend.

It was particularly difficult during my senior year when the triplets bullied me, and at the same time Colleen was getting closer to the guy she’d been with since she was a freshman. But she was there for me as much as she could be around the other things going on in her life, until after high school when the two of them eloped and moved to California.

We still stay in touch as best as we can, even if there were times throughout the years when we went long stretches without speaking to each other. It was only natural I reached out to her when I lost my job.

“It’s okay,” I tell her. “It’s probably a good thing you took this long to get back to me with all that happened in the past two days.”

“What do you mean?” she asks. “Have you found another job?”

“I think so,” I say.

“You think so? When will you know for sure?”

“Well, they did tell me I have the job, but it’s a matter of whether I’m willing to go through with taking it. I don’t know if it’s a good idea,” I admit.

“Okay?” Colleen’s tone tells me she’s confused, so I decide just to launch into the entire thing.

“You remember the triplets? You know, the ones I was with in high school?” I ask.

“Ugh, those assholes?”

I hear her rolling her eyes through the phone.

“How could I forget? And aren’t they all famous now? I can’t believe they actually are making it as rockstars,” she says. “But wait, are you going to work for them?”

“I think so,” I admit.

“Jeanette!” she scolds me. “Why the fuck would you do that? And what are you even doing anyway?”

“It gets crazier,” I tell her. “It turns out they have a kid.”

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