My name is Lennie Sherman, and I am a python handler. However, I gradually realize that the python doesn't quite like me.

Every time we meet, it will always use its tail to hit my private part and then hiss in my face.

My name was Lennie Sherman, and I worked as the main handler for a male white ball python.

However, I eventually realized that he didn't seem to like me very much. Every time we met, he would always hit my private part with his powerful tail, then hiss in my face.

I couldn't stand it anymore, so one day, I yelled at him, "Why are you doing this to me? Do you have a thing against me?"

I had been working at this zoo for a month, and I was undoubtedly the handler that the snakes here hated the most.

The python I'd been put in charge of handling was a white ball python named Basil Lisk. I'd come up with the name for him myself, and the snake seemed really pleased with his given name, judging from the way he kept slithering after me all day.

However, things were different now.

"Why did you tell the other snakes to ignore me?" I huffed, unable to accept reality.

Even if Basil refused to let me feed him, I could still feed the other snakes in the zoo. However, I heard that he'd gone and hurt the other snakes last night, warning the snakes to stay away from me.

I gently stroked Basil's scales and said to him, "Listen to me, Basil. I've never done anything in my life to cross you. Stop telling the other snakes to stay away."

I was already at my lowest point in life, and yet, I was still made an outcast by the very snakes I was supposed to handle. I couldn't believe it.

And to think that Basil had been the one warning the other snakes to stay away!

I saw Basil hissing before wrapping his body around me like he'd been offended. I knew then that he was treating me as his prey, and I quickly grabbed his head before he could strike.

"Basil Lisk! Have some conscience, won't you? I've been trying to feed you for days, but you refused to eat. And now, you want to eat me instead?"

However, I realized that Basil wasn't exactly squeezing me very tightly. Rather, it felt weird, as if it were someone hugging me tightly in their arms.

I figured that this feeling meant I had been single for far too long. I was starting to lose my head too!

Basil then struck me on the face again.

It would always turn out like this. Even though he wouldn't strike me too hard, just a little graze of his fangs that didn't hurt, I still felt that I was being treated very unfairly.

Why wouldn't Basil strike the others? Why was he only targeting me instead? Why was I his only target?

Fine. I told myself that it didn't matter so that I could lure myself into a false sense of comfort. Then, I grabbed Basil's head again and kissed him hard between his eyes.

"It's alright. I'm fine. I'll make sure to shower you with my love so you'll like me back. That works for me too!"

I could feel Basil's body suddenly going soft and slack.

What was going on? I'd only just kissed him on the head. Did he really have to behave like he was so disgusted with me?

Basil struggled to get away from me before slithering away in a hurry. I watched in amusement as he fled into a tree and hid there.

However, I quickly realized something weird.

Why had Basil, a white ball python, suddenly turned red all over?

I could tell that his scales were turning a bright red color, especially those around his head.

I panicked and immediately called the vet. If anything happened to Basil, then my career would be over.

However, Basil was being an idiot and refused to come down from the tree.

"Did I scare you just now, Basil? I'm sorry, but…"

I suddenly chuckled and showed him my pearly white grin. "If you don't come down here right now, I'm going to kiss you everywhere until your scales shed!"

Then, I watched smugly as Basil immediately slithered down the tree.

I couldn't believe it. Was that even a threat? And to think that it had actually worked on a snake!

Before I could even rejoice, Basil suddenly slithered right up to me and pressed his face closely against mine.

What the hell? What was Basil trying to do? Was he thinking of striking me again?

I grabbed his head and chided him, "Now, be a good snake and let the vet have a good look at you! I really don't know what's going on in your head all the time. Plotting schemes, aren't you?"

The vet, Dr. Philip Morgan, gave Basil a thorough check-up and frowned in confusion.

"This snake's heartbeat is a little too fast and erratic."

I looked at Dr. Morgan anxiously. However, he merely returned my gaze and said slowly, "It's mating season."

No wonder Basil had been in such a terrible mood lately. It was his mating season, which explained his restlessness.

What a dummy!

I informed the manager, Fred Vulcan, about Basil's condition before introducing two snakes to Basil. When I let him out of his enclosure that night, however, Basil chased after me for miles.

I was so done with him. I just didn't know what that idiotic snake was thinking, always trying to attack me every single day without fail.

Finally, our chase concluded with him striking me in the private part again.

"Basil Lisk! You stupid, stupid python!"

I hated it.

I was his handler, and yet, I had to spend the majority of my workday worrying about him nonstop. Why did he keep targeting me and bullying me like this? What had I ever deprived him of?

Fred then told me later on that Basil had struck and chased away the two female snakes I'd introduced to him as his potential mates. I was stupefied.

No matter how much Basil hated me, he should still be more serious about selecting a mate for himself during that season.

I glared at Basil and began lecturing him seriously.

"Basil Lisk, those are your wives! You idiot, how could you strike your own wives and chase them away? Aren't you afraid of spending the rest of your life as a miserable loner?"

I'd just finished speaking when Basil suddenly slithered after me again.

What the heck did he want this time?

Basil eventually caught up to me and struck me in the private part again. I was so mad that I yelled at him in frustration.

"You bastard! I'm not going to care about you anymore!"

I then wiped away the tears from my eyes and ran all the way back to my dorm.

I was so, so done with Basil.

I'd been diligently waiting on Basil hand and foot since the beginning of time, and yet, his way of repaying me for my effort was by striking me in the private part every single time. He was such an ingrate!

As I continued thinking about Basil, I eventually fell asleep from exhaustion.

There was no air-conditioning in my dorm, and the night was too warm to sleep comfortably. However, I suddenly discovered a source of coolness right next to me, so I leaned in even more.

It was so comfortably soothing that I couldn't stop my hands from wandering all over the cool source. My brain was still quite foggy, but I could clearly remember the scene from earlier today when Basil struck me.

"Bad snake… Why won't you like me?"

I had been caring for him for so long, but he just kept bullying me back in return. It would be a lie to say that I didn't feel hurt by the whole situation.

"But I don't hate you. I like you a lot. Will you lay eggs and have kids with me too?"