I held Carmen's small hand in mind. I felt as if I would crush it if I squeeze too hard or if I hold it the wrong way. It makes me laugh a little thinking of hall small it actually is compared to mine. She looks up at me as we walk to her class and I stop laughing at putting on my serious face. She looks back upfront and pays attention to our walking.

We finally get to her class and we stop at the door. I let go of her warm hand making mine feel the cool breeze of people passing by us. "Be good, please don't get in trouble this time" She slightly nods at me and walks in. I sigh and begin my walk off to my class.

The walk to my class felt long to me for some reason. And my bag was heavier than usual seeing as I was carrying all of Carmen's late work from Biology. What has she been doing all this time? She told me all her grades and work were up to date and all turned in. And she was falling asleep during class? I always put her to sleep at 8:00 PM. The only reasonable explanation for her being sleepy is that she's staying past her bedtime.

I finally get to my classroom, the final class of the day. I go and sit down next to my brother Elijah who is already seated and taking out his notebook. "Dude I didn't get to eat anything at all during lunch..." I tell him taking out my notebook.

He laughs at me and faces my way, "Yeah, I saw you struggling to feed Carmen. It was funny as hell dude. She's the first person who wouldn't let you spoon-fed her" He laughs at me hard and I just roll my eyes at him. Now as I think about it he's right, she's the first little I've had who wouldn't let me spoon-fed her. Well until I forced it onto her...but she needed to eat something I couldn't let her be hungry. Mr.Flinn walks in and class starts.

The class gets boring after a few minutes. All he's talking about is things we already learned last year. I need to punish Carmen for her bad behavior. And the fact she has so many missing assignments. Every time I asked her if she finished her homework she always told me yes.

But, I don't feel as if I can spank her yet. The last time I grabbed her a bit too hard she began to cry and didn't talk to me for a whole week. Something must have happened to her to react that way. That's why I'm trying to warm her up to my touch by just holding her hand whenever I can. And never too hard because I don't want her to feel anything negative towards me.

Finally, the bell rings to signal it's the end of class. I pack up my things and grab my school bag. "You still coming over tonight for the party at Oliver's dorm right?" Elijah tells me as we are about to exit the classroom. "Yeah of course, but I'll be a little late because I'm gonna try to get Carmen to do at least some of her missing assignments" Elijah laughs at me and tells me good luck. We head our separate ways and I head over to Carmen's classroom.

As I get there their door is still closed showing their class hasn't been let out yet. The little's class is always let out 10 minutes after the dom's so the doms could have time to get to their class and pick them up. I'm here five minutes earlier than expected. As I wait I can hear the clean-up song being played and littles all singing along with it. I laugh a little they're all off-key but it's adorable non the less. A lot of doms start to show up waiting for their little and Casey comes to and stands near me.

"Hey, I got a question" I turn towards her.

"Shoot," I say.

"Is your dad coming next week? Your mom was talking about it when I was fixing some papers for her today," She tells. I give her a confused look. I didn't know my father was coming. He only comes here to the school when it's urgent or when he wants some time with my mom and us. "I'm not sure, but maybe he just wants to spend some time with us," She nods her head.

The classroom door opens and littles start coming out and into their doms arms. I walk into the classroom and Carmen walks towards me. Once everyone was out of the classroom and it was just the teacher, Carmen, and me the teacher walks towards me.

"I presume you're here because of Carmen's missing work?" I nod at her and she goes over to her desk. She opens her laptop and brings out another stack of papers. How many assignments is she missing already? It's barely the sixth week of school!

"Some of the other teachers have also reported a lot of missing work and that she hasn't been paying attention in half her classes" She hands me the stacks of papers.

"I'm so sorry, I promise you She'll start being better at doing her work," I tell her. Carmen looks down trying not to make eye contact with me nor the teacher. "Well I'll let you two go now, I have a meeting to go to with your mother Zane" She waves at us goodbye and then leaves me and Carmen in the empty. I put the stack of papers in my bag with the rest of the papers and hold my hand out towards her.

She takes it lightly and we walk out of the classroom. Instead of heading towards the direction of the little's dormitory, I head in another direction still with Carmen's hand in mine. I look down a little to see Carmen confused about why we weren't heading to the dorms. As we get closer to our destination of where we were walking towards I slow down.

I let go of Carmen's hand and sit down on one of the benches at our destination. She finally must have mustered up some courage and stares at me and I stare back at her. We're silent for a little bit. Just the two of us staring at each other saying nothing at all.

I never noticed how deep of a brown her eyes were up until now. And how her lips are perfectly shaped. She does have dark circles underneath her eyes though, which must be because of the lack of sleep.

"Why did you lie to me?" I question her. She doesn't answer me just keeps staring. I wonder what is going on in that little head of hers.

"Carmen, if you don't tell me your punishment won't just be taking away your juice and make you write lines" Her face drops and she just sighs.

"I just didn't want to do it," She simply says then starts to bite down on her lip. I've noticed she does that every time she gets nervous or shy. I left out a breath, "There has to be another reason why you didn't want to do it." She shrugs at me.

"Fine, then every day after school I'm going to help you with your homework from now on," Her facial expression changes to a shocked looked as if she didn't want my help. Even though she doesn't want my help I'm still going to help.

"I don't need your help I can do it on my own, no need to help me," I shake my head at her.

"Well with what the teachers have told me, it seems as if you do need my help. Now come on we're going to start on that homework of yours." I stand up and begin to walk, Carmen quickly follows behind me like a little duckling.

We get to her dorm and she opens the door letting both of us in. Carmen goes into her room and I walk over to the table and sit the paperwork down. I pull out my phone and look at the time, already 4:30 PM. I pull out the chair and sit down waiting on Carmen to come out of her room. She comes out in different clothes. She changed into an adorable bee onesie.

I awed and her and she blushed a little bit. Her cheeks turning into a rosy pink. She comes over and sits beside me. I slide her work to her and we begin.

She does half the work all by herself but on things, she doesn't understand I help her. Sometimes she gets frustrated but then she gives me the look to help her so I do.

A couple of hours pass by and we finish all her biology, English, and math. I look back at my time and it's 10:30 PM. "Alright come on Carmen time for bed it's past your bedtime well finish the rest of the work tomorrow morning okay?" I push my seat back and stand up.

"What? But it's Friday Zane can I please stay up another hour...please...?" She gives me the puppy dog eyes.

"No, Carmen you have to get your sleep, Carmen. Now come do I have to carry you to bed?" She huffs and stands up walking towards her bedroom. I follow behind her. She jumps onto her bed and grabs her stuffies. She looks adorable holding her stuffies getting ready for bed.

"Do you want me to get you a pacifier to help you sleep, Carmen?" I ask her. She nods at me and I head for her closet right outside her room. "WAIT! It's not in that one!" She exclaims to me. I stop in my tracks and turn back to her. "where are they?"

"They're in the drawer over here." She points to it. I walk over to it and grab her a matching bee pacifier to go with her onesie. I hand it to her and she puts it to her mouth. I tuck her in and then I turn on her night light which she has on her bedside table and turn off her bedroom light.

"Goodnight Carmen sweet dreams," I tell her and exit her bedroom. I leave her dorm and lock it. Now it's time for my night to begin...

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