"We'll be gone till 11:00. Make sure he is fed and in bed by 9:00, and clean up any mess you two make." Karen had put in full detail how she wanted her baby boy to be watched, and Sarah had heard it plenty of times to know what to expect.

"Karen, I got this. I've done it plenty of times before. Just go out with Dad and have a nice time." Karen looked into Sarah's eyes and gave a little sigh. "Well, alright then." she said, picking up her purse and coat. "Just make sure you lay off the silly fantasy story's alright. You don't need to be filling his head with nonsense. He needs to learn educational things."

"Depends on how you look at education."

Karen gave her that 'well you know what I mean' look.

"Yes yes. No stories, no more TV, only healthy food, ok, ok. He is only a child you know." stated Sarah.

Don't give me that tone young lady. He is my child and I do not need you to tell me whats best for him."

"Yeah, you're probably right. Dad should do that." said Sarah with a smirk.

Karen scowled. "I don't know why I tell you these things anyway. I'm sure you're going to do the opposite of what I just told you anyway."

"Yeah, probably." said Sarah with the smirk still on her face.

Karen huffed and made a B line for the door. Just then Sarah's father, all dressed up for the night out, made his way down the stairs and for the door to meet his wife. "Ok, Sarah. Behave while we are gone. No parties." he joked.

"AWW! Darn it! Now what am I going to do?" Sarah played along, Karen getting more annoyed by the second. Her father looked down at his wife and sighed.

"Alright Sweety, we'll be home in a few hours. I love you! Love you to Toby!" and with that, they were gone. Sarah waited for the car to pull out of the drive way to make her move as she waved from the window. She spun around to meet Toby who was sitting at the table waiting for his Dinner. It was around 5:30 in the evening, and Karen decided she wanted to go out at last minute, calling Sarah over from her apartment a few blocks over.

Sarah had been away at college for about five years now and made her career as a drama teacher at her old high school. She owned an apartment just a few blocks away which she shared with a friend she met at college, who just so happened to be a High School art teacher at the place she was working. They both had little money, and a lot in common, so they decided to share an apartment which they have lived in for the past three years. Sarah had just got done with college, and her friend had been done a year earlier than her, but they both still had to go back every now and then for those teacher things. Just not every day.

Toby met her gaze. "Alright! What is the first thing we are going to do that will piss you're mother off, but she wont even now it happened?" she asked Toby.

Toby was about ten now and could do a lot more at this time than he could have done before, like major pranks, and keeping secretes, and being able to understand his situation more, between himself and his Mother Karen. Sarah joined him in the kitchen.

"First we should order pizza." offered Toby with a giggle.

"Alright, that sounds good, but we should order something more unhealthy than that."

"Oh, ok." Toby said, looking down and thinking. While living in this house after that unfortunate Labyrinth incident, Sarah had learned not to take Toby for granted, and the two ended up being thick as thieves. Sarah finding a play mate that could not only understand her love for fantasy and Drama (being the one to teach him about it) but also finding and learning things from each other, acting and painting, reading and writing for him, for hours everyday, throwing one or two little pranks in there for the Mother once he got old enough. But only when Karen was too out of line. And Toby had someone to sneak him treats and read him wonderful stories to go to bed to.

Sarah spoiled the child, as Karen disciplined and threw down the all you can eat healthy only upon Toby. Sarah was responsible and mature going around most things, though she knew that Toby was just a child and every child must have fun, and pig out sometime. Though Karen could see her point, she didn't want her child to be another Sarah. Stubborn and with her head in the clouds.

"Oh, I know! Let's get some Cheesy, Meat Lovers Pizza with extra Cheese!" said Toby with excitement.

"I was thinking Mexican food, but I can see you really want pizza. Oh alright. If you insist." Sarah walked over to the phone dangling from the wall in the kitchen a few feet away.

"We can also get ice cream too!" said Toby a little too excited. But, hey, it was a rare thing for him, unless he could get his mom to buy it with his puppy eyes.

"Oooh. Yes, but it has to be strawberry. Remember, healthy." stated Sarah with a smile.

"Right. You sure Karen wont find out?" asked Toby.

"Ok, for one; you call her mom, and two, she said healthy, and meat and cheese and tomato is very important for a healthy dinner." She said punching in the numbers to the Pizza Hut. Toby giggled. Fifteen minutes later the driver with Sarah's and a few other pizza's past by Karen and her husband on the road. Karen peered at the driver with a glare, knowing all to well where he was going. Her husband looked over at her from the drivers seat. "It's alright. There is no reason to believe he's going to the house." he said.

"Your daughter's there. We have every reason to believe that he is going there to the house." Karen stated.

Her husband just shook his head in annoyance and they continued to their restaurant destination.