Baby Sitting
"Why are we doing this again?" Tk mumbled from Tai's bed.
"How much money do you have again TK?" Tai asked. He was to be cleaning up his room, an agreement he promised his parents once they gave him his own room. What he really was attempting to do is hide everything - in his closet.
"Told you it wouldn't all fit in there," Davis flipped through a Sport Illustrated Magazine.
"Shut-up!" Tai sighed as he finally heard the click of the door, taking a set next to Tk. "We are doing this because we are broke. How hard is it to baby-sit a few kids?"
"I don't," Tk shrugged, "I never babysat before."
"Well I have," Tai wrapped his arm around his younger friend, "It's going to be a piece of cake. We take them to the park, let them run about, eat lunch and boom, down for a nap till mommy and daddy come to get them."
"Yeah but six kids?" Tk gave him a puzzled look.
"Sure, six kids!'' Tai smiled, "At twenty dollars a head it um…." Tai gave Davis a look while snapping his fingers.
"Hey, don't look at me!" Davis continued to flip through his magazine.
"One hundred twenty dollars," Tk told him.
"Right and divide that by…"
"Forty dollars each," Tk continued.
"Right and it's only one day!" Tai smiled. "Don't you want to take Kari to the movies?"
"HEY!" Davis stood up, "I'm taking her to the movies!"
"No your not, I am!" Tk cried.
"I asked first!"
"I asked her!"
"Hey cool it both of you," Tai shook his head, "Lets just get through this ordeal before we worry about who is taking who out, alright?" Tai smiled when he heard the doorbell, "That should be our little money makers now!" He rushed to the door to find a mother holding a small girl in her arms. "Hello!"
"Hi Tai" the lady greeted the brown hair boy with a smile, "Thank you so much for watching her at the last minute."
"Ah, it's alright Mrs. Conner. I like little Suzie, she reminds me of Kari at a sweeter stage of life."
Mrs. Conner smiled grew, "Well I hope you don't find her to be too much of a handful. Now here are the numbers you asked for in case of emergency. Also, I brought a list of her favourite foods."
"Thanks!" Tai turned around as Tk and Davis walked out, "Oh and this is Tk and Davis, they'll be helping me watch Suzie."
"Three of you? I feel so much better…are you sure she won't be too much for you boys?" Mrs. Conner asked.
"Nope, I've watched Kari before so I know how to handle them." Tai smiled.
"I never watched children before but kids seem to like me." Tk tried to give the mother some reinsurance.
"I have experience with being a child, I was one once a child." Davis gave a huge smile.
"Um, he won't be in charge of Suzie Mrs. Conner." Tai frowned at Davis. "He is really here to um…entertain us. You know, like a clown."
"Oh, Suzie is afraid of clowns!"
"No fear, he just acts like one but never dresses up like one," Tai smiled.
"Unless you consider those goggles…" Tk started to put in.
"Don't mess with the goggles!" Tai and Davis both cried.
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Before long the boys found themselves alone with six children. Two boys and four girls, all doing their own little thing.
"Tai," Davis came towards him, "I was just playing with Beth and…well I don't know how to tell you this."
"Just spit it out," Tai looked down at the picture he was coloring with Suzie.
"Well….Beth over there," Davis pointed to a little girl in that stood in the corner, "Just did number one on the carpet."
"What!" Tai glanced over at the girl. "Isn't she wearing diapers?"
"I don't know, I didn't look under her dress!" Davis eyes grew, "That doesn't seem right!"
"What?" Tai growled and stood up, "Suzie, I'll be back okay?" Tai walked over to the red head little girl, "Beth, did you pee on my carpet?" He watched as the girl nodded her head. "Do you know why you took a pee on my carpet?" the girl nodded, "Do you want to tell me why you peed on my carpet?"
"I couldn't find the bathroom," She whispered to him.
"Oh. Well let me show you where the bathroom is and we'll get you changed into clean cloths that your mummy brought you, okay?" Tai smiled at the little girl as he took her hand.
"Beth took a piss on the carpet!" one of the little boys told the other.
"What does piss mean?" the other asked.
"It's a bad word and we don't say it," Tk told them both, "Now lets build the roof of the house."
"Piss isn't a bad word!" the boy told him.
"Yes it is," Tk told him, "And we aren't allowed to say it."
"Well what do you say when you have to piss?" the boy asked.
"Do I piss?" the other asked.
"It is a bad word and yes you do but we say going to the potty," Tk told him.
"Only a piss head says that!" The boy looked at Tk with cross eyes.
"Tk's a piss head?" The other boy asked.
"HA HA!" Davis laughed.
"Shut up Davis!" Tk yelled. "Max stop saying that word!"
"What word?"
"That bad word!"
"What bad word?"
"He means that word piss.'' The other boy told him.
"Kevin you're not suppose to say it either!"
"I didn't say it, Max said it!" Kevin told him.
"I just heard you say it," Tk frowned.
"I was telling Max what word was a bad word, I didn't say it like I said it!" Kevin told him.
"Just…" Tk took a deep breath, "from now on, it's potty okay?"
"alright…" Both of the boys agreed.