Courtney had to mentally scold herself for staring at the guy in front of her, she probably looked like a creep to him. He was tall but not so much as to be considered a giant, and had black hair but green streaks throughout, He clearly had muscles and his shirt failed to cover them. But Courtney realized that teal eyes seemed to travel through the family since Duncan had them just like his little sister, but he looked so good with them.
"I didn't know Sophie had a big brother," Courtney inputs while placing stray hairs from her messy bun behind her hair. Well, that was a big ass lie, she told herself mentally, Mom said the Jones' had an older child. But Courtney figured he would be younger, maybe about ten years old.
Duncan raised an eyebrow and Courtney's eyes were drawn to his many piercings, hell he had some on his eyebrow, some on his ear, and she could've sworn he had a tongue one as well. "I guess my parents forgot I existed." He scoffs and walks past her to the kitchen.
Courtney did not know what to do, so she stayed silent while she cradled Sophie back to sleep, "You said your name was Courtney right?" Duncan asks her suddenly, continuing their introduction.
Courtney simply nodded, "Courtney Rivera." She replies along with adding her last name.
Then Duncan smirks again, "My parents talked about you, plus your parents come around often. You're some sort of princess, huh?" Duncan laughs as Courtney is taken back by the sudden nickname.
But she didn't like it one bit, "I'm not a princess!" She fires back and bounces Sophie who seemed to enjoy her babysitter's and brother's interaction.
Her reaction just made the punk laugh, "Yeah you are, always doing things perfectly, a golden child."
How dare he? Courtney thought, He acts like he has me figured out or something, who does he think he is?
"You don't know anything about me. Just by your appearance, I can speculate you're a punk and a vandal who loves to do nothing but cause trouble." Courtney sneered as Duncan pulled a beer out of the fridge.
"Got that right, princess." He winks playfully and chugs the beer down quickly.
Courtney had to turn around and place Sophie down in order to hide the redness coming to her cheeks.
"Well," Duncan lets out a huge burp as Courtney gags, "I gotta go do "vandal" stuff, but it was great to meet you princess." He waves and places a black jacket and holds on to a motorcycle helmet. He turns to leave but goes to pat Sophie's head gently, "See ya around, Soph. Give your new babysitter hell." He whispers to her for Courtney not to hear, but she did and scowled at the words.
Next thing she knew, Duncan was out the door, leaving her and Sophie alone again. "Please tell me you don't have any other obnoxious brothers." Courtney mutters as the young child giggled in response.
The next day at school, Courtney didn't hesitate to share her encounter with Duncan to Bridgette in class. And as usual, Bridgette was incredibly invested since she loved her best friend's stories with guys.
"So is he hot?" Bridgette asks with a sly smile, but also trying to act like she was working to not upset their teacher.
Courtney held back a smile, "He has a certain charm to him,"
"So in Courtney speak, that is a definite yes!" Bridgette squealed, too loud which made the whole class stare in the girls' direction.
"Ms. Emmerson, Ms. Rivera. I'm quite certain silent study, should be silent!" Their english teacher, Mr. Deltorro scolded them as some students laughed.
"Sorry," The girls replied in unison, but told each other to finish the conversation.
Finally the bell rang for lunch and Courtney was able to finish telling her story to Bridgette. "So I asked my mom if she knew anything more about him since she talks to his mom, and he is 19 graduated high school already, which his parents were surprised about."
"Oooh he's older AND a bad boy? Court, you hit the jackpot." Bridgette nudged her best friend as they sat down at their usual table.
Courtney rolled her eyes, "He is so not my type though, I'm sure if I wasn't holding his sister, we would've killed each other on the spot."
Bridgette laughed at the thought of Courtney fighting a guy, "Well then get to know him better. Maybe this bad boy thing is a front."
This made Courtney choke on her food, "Oh no, I'm staying far away from him as possible, I can't stand him. Plus I don't want to lose my job."
"I guess," Bridgette sighed, why couldn't Courtney just live a little? "But it's senior year, at least try to have some fun."
Soon the Duncan discussion was finished once Geoff reached their table, "Hey babe. What's up, Courtney?" Geoff smiled brightly at her and offered a fist bump which she gladly returned. It was really hard to hate Geoff, he just easily got along with everyone.
"Hey baby, I was just giving Courtney boy advice." Bridgette smirked over at Courtney who shot back a glare.
Geoff grinned, "Court, I have a lot of my friends who are interested." He offered with a small shrug, but Courtney couldn't see herself dating a surfer party boy.
"No thanks, Geoff. I'm fine staying single, plus I have my big debate coming up, don't want a boy to distract me from winning." Courtney claims proudly and walks off with her lunch.
Geoff and Bridgette share a sad look before continuing eating.
Courtney was surprised to find herself relieved once she arrived at the Jones' for her second day on the job, some quality time with Sophie was exactly what she needed to put her mind at ease. The Jones' had given her a key to the house so she used that to get in and was surprised to see Mr and Mrs Jones still there.
"Oh Courtney, great timing. We were just getting ready to leave." Diane smiled as she placed a dress onto Sophie who was wide awake today.
Thomas fixed his badge, "She just woke up from her nap, so she should be calm for a while. Diane, they want us at the station , now." He tells his wife as she nods and kisses Sophie on the cheek.
"There is food for you if you get hungry, Courtney." Diane offers.
Courtney smiled, "Oh thank you, that's so sweet."
"We will be back later." Thomas calls out as the couple leaves which left Courtney to work.
Courtney placed Sophie in her play pen as she started to clean the house as well as work on her debate. "Hmm what if I attack with my statement of….no that sucks! C'mon Courtney, you're better than this." She began to mutter to herself as she began to delete everything she typed.
"You always talk to yourself, Princess?" Courtney yelped again by being startled then scowled at the familiar voice.
"You need to stop sneaking up in me, Duncan. I hate that." She starts to say, not peeling her eyes from her laptop screen.
"Sorry Princess. Didn't mean to startle you." Duncan said in a fake voice to imitate Courtney and it made her blood boil.
She glared at him, "Stop calling me Princess." She snarled in irritation and continued to type on her laptop as she could feel Duncan's eyes on her. He lets out a low chuckle and walks over to pick up his little sister.
"What are you doing?" Courtney asks as Duncan begins to play with little Sophie.
Duncan scoffs but doesn't turn to face Court, "Um playing with my little sister, what does it look like, Princess?"
"I meant here," Courtney corrected with a slight cough, "The reason your parents hired me is because no one would be able to take care of Sophie." She did not let her eyes dart one second over to him.
Duncan found the girl in front of him so interesting, the way that she wasn't all over him like previous babysitters, she had priorities and she stuck by them. He reached over with Sophie still in his arms and made his way in front of Courtney.
"Hey princess, why don't you join us then?" Duncan asks with a sly smile when Courtney actually looked up from her work. She gazed up at Sophie who was giggling at her, almost as if she was encouraging her to come. After mentally debating with herself, Court placed her laptop to the side and sat down beside the Jones' siblings as Sophie waddled her way to her babysitter.
"She likes you," Duncan commented as Courtney looked at him with a puzzled expression.
"How do you know? I've only watched over her for a day." Courtney lets out a small chuckle once Sophie starts to explore her face.
Duncan shrugs, "Well, with the other babysitters, Sophie would've had them screaming by now, or just quitting. She's a wild one, I like to think she got it from me."
Sophie lets out a gurgle and then a statement with hard to understand words, resulting in both Courtney and Duncan looking at her confused.
"What are you saying, Sophie?" Courtney coos at the baby, and she just clapped her hands in response.
Sophie seemed to understand that both her brother and babysitter couldn;t understand her so she started to get frustrated and began to get fussy.
"Oh crap." Duncan groaned at the expected temper tantrum.
"No, no Soph. You don't need to cry, remember you're a good girl, and good girls don't cry." Courtney says while bouncing the baby who's cries began to fade and Duncan stared in amazement.
"H-How did you do that?" He asks.
Courtney shrugged the question off as if it weren't a big deal, "Well with what I've noticed from my mom growing up, it's never too early to enlist discipline."
Before the pair knew it, the day had passed and Diane and Thomas had arrived home from work.
"Courtney, I do hope everything is-" Diane stopped dead in her tracks as she saw Courtney rocking Sophie who was slowly falling asleep.
Courtney beams when she sees her, "Oh hello, Mrs. Jones. Sophie just ate so I'm putting her down for a nap."
Diane gasped and looked over at her husband, "Thomas, the house isn't a wreck, the baby is calm, and the babysitter isn't screaming. I think we found a keeper." Thomas chuckled slightly at his wife.
"Careful Diane, we don't want to scare Courtney off." Courtney simply shook her head when she overheard the exchange.
"Oh don't worry, Duncan told me about the other babysitters and trust me, I don't see myself leaving anytime soon."
Thomas raised an eyebrow, "Duncan? Our son, Duncan?"
Courtney nodded, "He helped me with Sophie, he left to go out somewhere I presume."
"Oh well, that's nice of him. About helping you out, I mean." Diane coughed and Courtney shifted at the tense conversation.
Suddenly, the front door opened again and revealed the delinquent himself. "Hey princess…." He rolled his eyes at the sight of his parents, "Hey Ma, Pa."
Diane smiled and hugged her son as he tried to break off, as Thomas just nodded in the direction of his son. Courtney could tell the strained relationship between the father and son.
"Well I'd better be going before my mother worries," Courtney places Sophie in her bassinet and kisses her chek, "I'll see you tomorrow, angel."
"Thank you so much for tonight, Courtney. Tomorrow, Diane and I will be home but we will be surrounded with paperwork so you can still watch Sophie." Thomas explains with his wife nodding along.
"Tell your mother I said hello."
Courtney smiles, "I will." She grabs her coat and computer and heads for the door.
"Later, princess." Duncan smirks as Courtney groans and rolls her eyes at the nickname.
"Bye, vandal."