,, he kisses men your honor ,, { rodger x glisten }

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[ RODGER ]

Life with a daughter from a past marriage. No one talks about how hell it is looking after a 9-year-old who has the attention span of your best friends dog. As much as I love my daughter, things get hell sometimes. Like last night, she woke me up cause she broke her barbie. Oh how I wish I could glue that doll's head to the rest of its stupid torso but she loves how she can move its head. I love Toodles, I really do, but sometimes I wish I could go back to my old life of murder mysteries and solving cases in a desperate need of me. Ever since my ex wife, Teagan, got pregnant with Toodles, I had to push my career behind me and work from home as a girl dad. Gosh how much I hated that.. Anyways, enough about my daughter, I gotta introduce myself.

Hi, I'm Rodger the magnefying glass, but it's Rodger for friends and friends only. I can't go around Gardenview with people calling me my full name. I've been working in Gardenview almost my entire life. Just some ''murder mystery'' cases for all the kids that come here to spend their day with me and the rest of the toons. And our boss, Dandy, tends to be strict with our daily schedule and make sure there is as much spending time with the guests, as we have all by ourselves when Gardenview is closed. We all have our own rooms, mine, of course, is detective themed because that's what I am built to resemble.

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I, as always was tidying up my room. It always blows up into chaos once I let Toodles in. She's one hell of a brat when you were there when she was born. Just as I was done with the room, I hear the regular small ''ding dong'' indicating an announcement was coming in. I left my room and headed to the main lobby where every other toon was already in, listening in on the announcement. I take a comfortable man spread on a sofa and raise my attention to the speakers.

''Dear toons and Toon handlers! We are getting another toon to join us! He represents makeup and fashion. Please respect him and you'll get it back! He will be joining us and the toon handlers tomorrow on our daily meetings!''

The familiar voice of Dandy sent my skin to crawl.

''A new toon? Again? Didn't we get one last week?'' Boxten asked, his eyebrows raised as he glazed over at Sprout. Sprout on the other hand was already heading back to his room.

I didn't mind a new toon. It just meant more to worry about incase that one went Twisted..

I stood up once everyone was already gone and headed back to my room, closing the door after me and attending to my daughter Toodles who was somehow there. I just take a heavy breath and sit down next to her.

''Why are you here? You know dad's exhausted with your constant nagging right? Don't tell me you broke your barbie again..'' I explained, rubbing my face with despair.

''I uhm.. I mightve broken my barbie again..'' Toodles handed me the barbie, it's head popped off, again.

I didn't nag and popped the head back in, trying to hold myself from gluing it on next time.

''Thanks dad! Love you!'' she got up and ran out of the room, leaving me sitting on the bed alone.

''Love you too kid.'' I responded, exhaustingly tired. Sometimes I even questioned if I really loved her. I'm one hell of a father..

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The next day rolled around pretty quickly. Everything I did last night was just lay in bed and reflect in on my mistakes. One of them, suprisingly, wasn't having Toodles. She keeps me company and holds me from going insane. Fuck, why did I word that like I regret having Toodles. All my thoughts have been only negative about her. It's time I take on an actual good father role. And with that comes to attending and playing with my daughter. But that would have to wait till the new Toon was settled in. I of course was signed to show this new guy the places and get him comfortable. Gosh. Let's just get this over with..

There he was.. I laid my eyes on the new toon, his golden brown hair curled up ontop of his head, his makeup applied neatly without a singular bump, his yellow body slim and glowing with a bright pink bow wrapped around his waist. Everything about him was perfect.

''Hi boys!~ I'm Glisten the mirror but that's Glisten to you all. Now which one of you guys is Rodger? I heard he was supposed to help me get settled and used to this new place!~'' Glisten greeted everyone and our eyes met, making me gulp and my mind race in dirty thoughts.

Jesus Christ Rodger hes the new toon! Get your mind out of such dreadful things! I rose my hand.

''Rodger, that is I, sir..'' I stood up and walked up to him, Glisten clearly interested in my presence as he handed me his handbag and sunglasses that were, ironically, heart-shaped. I just took them and started leading him around Gardenview, greeting everyone and explaining the places and what each room was meant for. He was listening to everything I was saying, atleast he seemed like he was interested. That was good, atleast..

The last stop was Glisten's room. I took him there and the second he opened the door, his eyes widened. The room was every girls dream: Everything was either pink, white or yellow. The walls had many makeup and fashion icons posing in their iconic ways, there was a huge pink bed and a desk with a huge pink mirror and led lights. Glistens eyes were trailing his room down before he walked in and took his heels off, feeling the soft rug under his feet. I smiled silently at how excited he was before placing his bag and sunglasses onto his desk and heading off to leave him exploring his room.

I entered Toodles' room and sat down next to her.

''Hi dad! Are you here to play with the barbies you got for me?'' She turned to me and asked, her eyes shimmering with excitement.

''..Yes. Yes I am.''