Cecilia

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☆ "Cecilia and the Satellite" - Andrew McMahon ☆

History

Her master, Jeoffery Ferrison, was a successful businessman with no time for anyone else. He was rude, blunt, and had very high expectations. He had founded a coffee shop chain called Jumping Bean Coffee, and it grew incredibly popular. However, when his main shop began to suffer from an increased flow of customers, the employees took the blame. There was not enough of them to keep up with the flow of business, and with the way he treated them they would almost always quit within a month or two. A manager of one of the other shops suggested he buy a grem, although she had imagined it to have more of a pet or child role, teaching the man kindness and patience. But in an effort to persuade him, she mentioned that it could help out around the apartment or in the shop, and he grabbed hold of the idea. Invested in the thought of ordering a custom-made manager, he bought a grem.

What would his ideal shop manager need? She would need to be obedient and humble. He was the boss, the owner, and they were just the organizer, a glorified employee. His ideas were the right ideas, his plans for the shop were law. Shop managers needed to follow those orders and requests with no argument. She would need to be patient with the many customers, and be able to be incredibly hardworking because of the lack of employees. He would probably have her work as both the manager and barista. Obedient, humble, hardworking, patient, avoiding arguments. She wouldn't quit because he owned her. Of course, he would pay her, and she would have her own free will and time off work, but her main purpose was her job.

For once in his life, the businessman took time off work for someone else. He was at home when his new grem arrived and he briefly showed her around the penthouse and told her what she needed to do. First day of work would be tomorrow and she would be properly trained. Hopefully within the month she would be competent enough to assume her place as manager.

Thrilled to have a father and amazed at the vast, modern-styled apartment she found herself in, young Cecilia decided she loved her new home. However, once he finished the tour he left her, in the small library, so that he could go work in his home office. This wasn't a holiday, after all. Work could not wait. Cecilia read for a few hours to entertain herself, occasionally creeping to her master's office to tell him about a funny thing she had read or ask the meaning of something she couldn't understand, before shying away at his impatient responses. She worried that he was upset at her lack of understanding of the books and began to study them more earnestly to show him she was smart. Distracted in these different worlds, she found herself up very late into the night before she fell asleep on the couch.

At first, Cecilia loved her job and worked hard, determined once again to show her master how skilled she was, since he always seemed to be disappointed in her. Eventually, though, the days blended together and her job wore on, and through reading in her free time she discovered her true passion. She saved her pay and used it to buy a small bookstore, so that she was able to work with books surrounding her. It also became a home to her; a place where she felt much more safe and comfortable than she did in the emptiness of the apartment, which was filled only by the cold disinterest of her master.

She hopes to one day become an author or her own, but for now she hardly has the time.