"WOULD YOU JU-"
"HOLD STILL WILL YA-"
"OH...NONONONONONONO DON'T CRY"
This was Clarisse's fourth…? Fifth time babysitting Mellie's little gremlin. The first time hadn't been so hard, mainly because the kid had been asleep the entire time. The second time everything was going great until αγάπη του ουρανού, or TOU (Literally pronounced like toe) for short, decided he wanted to turn himself into a tornado and totally trash Clarisse's cabin. And it was all downhill from there. Currently, the brat had crapped his shorts, and Clarisse, bless her heart, was making an attempt to change him. If parenthood was as hard as he was being right now, then she would beg Hera to never place another dirty diaper in her sights again. And wasn't Chris talking about how he wanted 5 children just yesterday? Ho-HO…honey, he's got a big storm coming-
WHOOSH
Tou blasted in the air morphing his goat legs into jet streams as he twirled around the room like a fighter pilot, effectively peeing over any and every piece of furniture in his parents den.
"TOU! GET DOWN FROM THERE YOU LITTLE-"
Tou laughed, light and airy and completely innocent, and dipped across the room, getting little hoof prints all along the clay walls.
"OH MAN"
Clarisse then decided to take long awaited initiative. Snatching, and empting a waste basket on the floor, she waited for the little venti to come back around again, with an empty pizza box as the lid. She prepared to leap as Tou circled around for what would certainly be his last time because it was NAP TIME.
Bracing herself, she leapt in a glorious attempt. Tou's wisp crowded in the circular waste can and shot Clarisse back easily 20-30 feet out the window.
Her back hit the solid forest soil like she was made of bricks. Quickly regaining her bearings, she took hold of the trash can, holding the pizza box firmly over the top.
"Gotcha you little brat"
Tou's laugh echoed, and Clarisse could the feel the vibrations in her own grip. Trudging her sore butt and Tou's can back to the den, she shut the door and sat on the pizza top, securing him still.
"We're home! αγάπη του ουρανού-!"
The couple gaped around the room. Mellie's eye's bulged at the window, the one with a Clarisse size…em….infraction.
"What in Pan happened here…"
Gleeson hedge wrung his baseball bat in his hands like he was thinking of eating it.
Tou shot Clarisse up on a cushion of air, zipping out his prison, twirling in the air, before settling down on the ground with a smile.
"Me and Clareeshy-"
"Clarisse"
"-Clareeshy played football! But I think she won though…but I was still almost winning! But then I was the football! And-"
He rambled on as the others in the room just watched.
Unbelievable, Clarisse thought.
"Is that what you thought this was? Football!"
Tou seemed oblivious to her irritation, bounding up three feet off the ground until his lips kissed her cheek.
"I had so much fun Clareeshy! Tank you!"
The daughter of Ares blushed, then frowned and furrowed her brow, "Yea whatever…"
Hedge was still gaping like a fish, "The window-"
"WELL GOTTA RUN GOOD NIGHT!"
Stupid kid, she thought as she rubbed her cheek with a grin.