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kiddie-sitting

an axamine

by disposableOVEN

"Axel, don't curse."

"But Namine, it's my thing."

The blonde turned to face me. She flipped her blonde hair over her shoulder, then kneeled down so her face was in front of mine.

"Little kids are here!" she whispered urgently, and then glared at me.

I stood up from the bench. Three little kids were playing hide-and-seek behind the tree nearby.

"I can be uh. What do you call it?"

"Conservative."

"Riiight. Watch and learn." I lifted my hands over my head. "GIGGLEZ, KIDDIES!" I screamed, pressing my toungue back so that I sounded more high pitched and congested.

Two of the kids stopped in their tracks. They turned to me.

One of them was smiling, until she saw me. She plopped her little butt down in the sand and started wailing. I swear, her tears were going everywhere, like her eyes were shooting darts.

Yeah. I guess the black markings on my face didn't help matters much.

Soon, the little girl's other friend came from the behind the tree. She looked about seven.

"Fourty nine! FIDD-EE! READY OR NOT, HERE I - OH MY GOD!"

Add another little wailing girl, and I've got myself a death wish.

Namine sat nearby with her sketchbook, the look upon her face stern and disappointed.

I gave my best cheesey grin, folding my hands behind my back.

Her expression remained serious. She almost didn't seem conscious. Hm. Maybe if I give her a little slap on the chee-

"Don't even." she stated bluntly.

Oh, shit. What? How'd she- Whoa.

"I'm really that bad at kid-sitting, aren't I?" I said, scratching the back of my neck.

I noticed a small smile beginning to form on Namine's lips. There we go. A bit bigger. Bigger.

OH GOD IS SHE GRINNING?

Insert ear-piercing laughter. This girl is usually quiet, but when she laughs, damn.

I sat down next to her.

"You've got to stop making those markings on your face, Axel. It um."

"Scares them?"

"Yeeee-ah."

"What would you like me to do? Draw little fluffy puppies and kittens on my cheeks?"

Namine's eyebrows raised expectantly.

"OH GOD NO I'M NOT GOING TO TURN INTO YOUR ANIME DRAG-BOY."

"Axel! Axel! I was kidding!"

I stopped my ranting.

"Oh. Kay. Thank gawd."

Everything was quiet again.

I started to hum some elevator music I heard on my way out of the apartment.

"Axel, stop it."

"Boy, everything I do really makes you pissed, doesn't it?"

"Yeah, because it makes me lose my concentration-"

"Aw, how sweet. Everything that I do makes you lose your mind. Looks like somebody's infatuated-"

"I am NOT infatuated-!"

"Sure about that?"

"...No."

"Kay, then I'll just keep annoying you."

I kept humming.

"Axel, shut UP!"

I continued humming.

The last note of the chorus turned high pitched, as Namine crashed her lips against mine.

I never imagined something so wonderful, so serene, so utterly perfect as-

"OH MY GOD COO-TIES!"

"Don't let them get you!"

Insert chorus of 'EEEEE-U-WWWW's.

"Shut the hell up, kiddies."

"Namine! Don't curse!"

usual disclaimer applies.

anything can happen, when molly uses her imagination, yes.

exOH; molly