Disclaimer: The usual.
EXCEPT:
If you weren't aware, Ted DiBiase's got an older brother, who's had his share of some of the seedier side that life has to offer. That's true. Google him. But the kid in here is totally fiction. An 11-year old girl that Mike has full custody of, and he's having some child care issues for the summer.
Oh, and the kid is going to get smacked. We're not apologizing for it, either. If you have a problem with that, hit 'back' on your browser, but we're gonna go ahead and think that you'd probably want to smack her yourself. No real kid was injured in the writing of this story, although a lot of kids this age with a mouth like this could probably do with a smack.
We'll go ahead and start with the kid's bio, so you know what you're dealing with: Registration: Mikayla DiBiase
by Mikayla DiBiase on Mon Jul 08, 2013 5:38 am
Name: did you not read the title of the topic? Duh.
Age: 11
Mikayla is the daughter of Mike DiBiase, which would make her the granddaughter of the Million Dollar Man, WWE hall of famer Ted DiBiase, and Ted Jr.'s niece. As a single dad with custody of his daughter (which should indicate how much of a prize Mikayla's mother is if he got custody), Mikayla is off of school for the summer, and every summer seems to present different challenges with child care. Mikayla insists she's fine at home by herself, but Daddy's not having it. She's ELEVEN, not TEN anymore. God! Last year, a babysitter had been tolerated, albeit barely. There may or may not have been threats by summer's end that had Mikayla on notice to behave, or else. But she's lived with Daddy for more than half her life, just the two of them, and is highly annoyed that this year, he won't let her stay home yet. Somehow, "13" is supposed to be the magic number of what age he'll let her mind herself while he's at work, but that's TWO YEARS away yet. That might as well be forever!
The attempt of him trying to bring in a babysitter several weeks ago resulted in a fit thrown unlike any Mike had ever seen out of her...to get that sort of reaction out of her takes a lot, because really, when all's said and done at the end of the day, she's a good kid...so for her to have thrown herself headlong into the tantrum of the millenium, other strategies are being used. Plus, don't think that the cost savings of letting her visit family vs. The price of child care isn't considerable. So, the arrangement was to be a rotation of her grandparents during the weeks in July, with going home to Daddy on the weekends. August was to be split up among her uncles.
An argument with her stepgrandma, of which needn't be recapped here for public reading (let's just say the family knows how salty she got and they've spoken about it accordingly) occurred not even two weeks into July.
While Grandpa is willing to try again in August, Mikayla found her bags packed and she's being shipped toUncle Ted for the moment. This is to give some cool-off time to Gram and what Grandpa is calling "reflection time" for Mikayla.
Yeah. Reflect on how I told you I didn't NEED a babysitter in the first place and could have been home with Daddy. Whatever.
(No, she didn't say that part out loud. But she thought it and is still thinking it. If she can wear down her uncles as easily as Gram, maybe she'll be home where she belongs in a week or so.)
You still here? Move on to Chapter 2, then. That's where it kicks off.