Hired for wedgies

Chapter 21: The Price of Forgiveness

My new attitude change has had positive and negative effect to my life and others around me.

To start, I've finally been getting more sleep. Early in my work days I switch my clock to ring earlier than usual even though I could set it much later than what it currently was. This early alarm change was all thanks to Bradley, of course.

If I didn't wake up at a specific time, I would be greeted with the sight of my underwear covering my eyes. This actually happened a few times during my first month of working. Of course I learned pretty quickly that I'm going to lose some sleep to avoid pain.

Well I said screw that and set it to my time I had it when I first started. It was so good to have my extra time of sleep back. In exchange, though, I was met with an atomic wedgie as my alarms rang. I didn't really care though.

Sometimes I would just take it off and get ready for work. Other times I would take it off and go back to bed for a few extra minutes. Hell, sometimes I was too lazy to take the wedgie out and went to sleep like that. It really didn't matter.

I could tell that Bradley was viewing this as a chore. How do I know this? I can feel it, which is weird. There was less enthusiasm with each one he gave me and it was soon it was a quick tug over my head. Just one and done.

Johnny lost interest in me rather quickly. He knew something was up but didn't understand what happened. He pretty much avoided me like the plague. On the inside I'm kinda happy I don't have to deal with him.

Work so felt the weight of my attitude adjustment as well. Whenever I do something that doesn't please Andrew or Kyle too much, I'm given a dangling wedgie on the spot. Of course this would be in front of the entire office who would laugh at the example being made out of me. This happened even more than usually with this new attitude but it quickly began becoming dull like my morning wedgies.

At first everyone in the office would laugh and mock me. Soon they smiled and acknowledged the humiliation of my punishment, but the emptiness that I displayed that I felt nothing being dealt to me at all. Soon after that, any public wedgie I got became kinda awkward. I don't panic or react to what happens to me and I feel no shame to it.

Talking to them also became awkward, at least to them. Talking to someone so casually after being publicly humiliated is really off putting. Some of them even felt embarrassed to talk to me after getting a wedgie like that.

Andrew and Kyle pretty much hopped in the boat Bradley was in. Giving me Wedgies almost the entire work day was exhausting for them. Even when they did do it, they got no reaction at all, making it seem like a chore that needs to be done, rather than a joy. They too lost their enthusiasm to wedgie me.

An unfortunate effect of my attitude though was my interactions with Betty. She still manage to get my heart pumping but any response I gave to her came out cold and heartless. Attempts of her flirting never reached me and I could tell this was hurting the both of us. Still I couldn't help it. There really was only one thing I really felt.

Broken.

Which is strange cause I've moved on from the whole Nakata incident. It's just the aftermath of it remains. Betty still showed she cared by getting me a therapist to talk about the whole thing. In the end it didn't really do much.

Negatives aside, this does have a positive. My work output had increased exponentially. I was scheduling meetings, managing the other floors, and even handling the branches on top of the Nakata shoe company. I was too hot to touch in the office. So in a way, it's an absolute win.

Well, thought it was. It all came to a head after a month of my activities. I noticed it but didn't bring attention to it.

A lot of members had bags under their eyes. Even Andrew and Kyle had bags under their eyes. They looked exhausted for being bodyguards but they continued to keep a vigilant watch. After two weeks of wedgies to me almost non-stop they pretty much stopped. It was almost like they were too bored or too tired to do it. Another win!