The pressure in the X household reached a boiling point. Mr. X was having an affair with his co-worker, and Mrs. X was descending into a spiral of paranoia and perfectionism. I was working sixteen-hour days, neglecting my own life, my studies, and Caleb.
The golden light of a New York City autumn was doing absolutely nothing to improve my mood. I was twenty-one, armed with a fresh anthropology degree from NYU, zero job prospects, and a bank account that consisted mostly of lint and optimism. My name is Annie Braddock, and according to my mother, I was supposed to be interviewing for a position at a prestigious financial firm on Wall Street today.
I watched through the cracked door as Mrs. X laughed with her friends, playing the part of the perfect wife and mother, while her actual child was heartbroken just a few rooms away. "Enough," I whispered to myself. DiГЎrio de uma Nanny ComГ©dia, Drama, Romance 200...
"No," I said, standing up straight, feeling a wave of calm wash over me. "I am the only person in this apartment who actually looks at your son. He doesn't need another French tutor, Mrs. X. He needs you." I was fired on the spot.
Of course, my own life was becoming a complicated juggling act. To keep my mother from having a heart attack, I maintained the lie that I was working in finance. I would change out of my sweatpants and into a pencil skirt in the subway station every evening before heading home. Then, there was Harvard Hottie. The pressure in the X household reached a boiling point
"This is unacceptable, Annie," she said, her voice cold and trembling. "You are staff. You are not his mother. You have overstepped."
He lived in the penthouse of the X's building. His real name was Caleb, but in my head, he was the embodiment of every Ivy League crush I’d ever dreamed of. He was tall, had messy brown hair, and possessed a smile that made me forget my own name. X was descending into a spiral of paranoia and perfectionism
"I prefer the term 'urban anthropologist observing a bizarre tribal culture,'" I replied, flushed.