Diary of a Zookeeper (Day 1)
A little fun thing that I wrote inspired by @emptyaevin that's not quite done yet. There's a lot of setup for now... But this is only day one. The rest of the days are going to be coming in when I have time. Right now, I'm running on empty (sleepwise) and need to snooze up, buuut trust that this'll have MORE coming soon~ Enjoy the little setup!
Day 1
I wanted to keep a little diary here to record my time being a zookeeper here at TUM, The Uncatalogued Museum. An exotic animal zoo wasn’t really on my job search, but this was the only place that was hiring, and I thought it would be a good thing to put on my resume. My job isn’t too bad; I clean up pens, I maintain some of the functions, run the shows, yada yada. Nothing too crazy. I think it’s the creatures here that are crazy. There’s a werewolf here that they bring out during moonlight hours, a few mothmen and women, hell, I managed the pens of the Loch Ness a few weeks ago before I was put on my newest assignment today.
I guess I should have started this diary on the first day of the job, but I guess now’s a good time than any.
So I’m taking care of a mermaid.
Or, I guess the higher ups said ‘overseeing’.
Aevin’s her name. She’s… well, she’s a really pretty thing. Beautiful scales on her lower half, her upper half is about as covered as you’d think. Billowing hair, pretty eyes… Kinda chubby, which…
Well. Shit, that’s hot.
I’m glad I can keep this somewhere private. Half of the creatures here are hot as fuck. Which is weird when I think about the fact that this zoo’s open to the public. Then again, bars are public spaces and this place has a lot of food and alcohol to go around. Never questioned it till now, but fuck it whatever. When I was introduced to her, she didn’t speak at all. She waved, smiled and all that when she surfaced from her water, but that was about it before she had to dive back down and do a show.
I think the instructions given to me by the higher-ups were what made me want to start this diary. My supervisor told me what she was like— very sweet, gentle, all that, but then he said that she tends to get greedy. As a way to train her, he said that her food should come from the patrons that watch her show. I mean, that sounds fair, right?
I guess the strangest thing was that I was told not to provide her with food directly until ‘Feeding day’.
Like… okay?
I figured it’d be like those shows at the aquarium. Every so few hours in the day, there’s a feeding time and then that was it. Rinse repeat.
I got to actually see a show while I was doing my talks this evening. Aevin’s particular skills are a sight to watch. She goes up to people, presses herself to the glass, blows bubbles. Swims around, does a few twirls under water…
Not one person gave her anything though. And since I was prohibited from feeding her until that day came around.
…Which gets me to… This part.
I said it was weird for the zoo to do this. I know. But. I happen to have… a thing for this. Hunger.
I hate being hungry myself. I get cranky. Hurts like hell. Anyone else? That’s hot as fuck.
Big bellies, thin bellies. Big bellies turn to thin bellies the longer they’re left without food. That’s… really hot to me. I don’t know if the higher ups knew, or if they assigned me to her because of that, but what I knew was Aevin was definitely hungry by the time the Zoo closed and I did my final duties. I didn’t notice it at first. She kept appearances while I did my thing, but during the silences, I noticed she did… well…
She.. She pushed her stomach to the glass one time. The soft flesh squished against the surface of the glass where someone was standing; some guy with some cocktail shrimp. She was swaying her hips around, rubbing her belly against the glass. She blew a few bubbles, but with the way she was breathing, she definitely was peckish after doing her ob for so long. That’s when I heard it. Her belly.
I was right next to her, but it was as if I heard it clearly. A low whine that made her stop her little dance she was doing and look pleadingly at the man. He smiled, put his hand against the glass where her tummy was. As soon as that interaction was done, and he left, she went right back to her routine of swimming.
I’ll admit. I was… well, a little turned on. Granted, I was working, cleaning up whatever trash was near the glass, so I couldn’t really do anything about it, but for that to come out of her after all day…
I didn’t really do much after that. I mean, by the time that happened, it was close to closing and we had to lock up. But…
God, all I can do is imagine how much noise her stomach is making now. She’s all in that cold tank, probably clutching her stomach… No, not yet. I don’t think she’s there yet. I think it’s going to need to be a few more days before the real results happen. I need to see those results. I want to have her tummy groaning. I need it.
…I don’t know if she’ll let me touch it though. Maybe. Maybe … Ugh. The ‘Big Show” is supposed to be in the next five days. I don’t know if I can wait that long.
…And I don’t think she can either.
