This one was a horror to do, mainly because I thought it was a really big word count and wrote tonnes, then saw I had nearly 500 words so had to cut a load! Hope it turned out sort of okay, though?

Prompt: Colouring Book

Words: 381

"Barbra, no, don't do- Tony, Tony darling please stop- Don't do that, Charlotte!"

Kurt was frantically taking pens out of the hands of small children, stopping orange juice spillages and making sure no child died under his supervision.

And it was going swimmingly.

"I'm going to ring your mom. She won't be happy to be interrupted in rehearsal, will she? She has got a very important day and- No no no, not the cushions!"

Kurt sat down on the floor, head in hands. He remembered why he and Blaine had never adopted kids. But Rachel had promised they'd be fine. Pfft. Yeah.

He lifted his head when he heard the phone ringing. The kids stopped yelling for two seconds, then continued again with more fervour, desperate to know who was on the other end of the phone. As Barbra tottered towards the device, Kurt jumped up. He ran past the young girl and got there first. "Hello?"

He could barely hear the voice on the other end for the screaming that the kids were doing. He pressed a palm against the ear not clamped to the phone. "Sorry? Who is this?" He struggled to hear anything at all.

Kurt snapped. He turned around, took the phone away from his mouth, and shouted, "Oy! Shut up! Sit down, be quiet, let me take this call! I don't care if you're hungry, I don't care if you want to watch Spongebob, I don't even care if you're on fire. I just want you to be quiet for five minutes. And maybe then I'll consider baking something, because right now I want to go all Hansel and Gretel. And not the version where I end up in the oven." He turned back to the phone as the kids sat in stunned silence. "Sorry about that, what were you saying?"

There is a quiet on the other end of the phone, then a gentle laughing. "Do you want to me come home, baby?"

Kurt sighed and managed to smile. "I couldn't even hear it was you," he admitted. "They have been driving me crazy. The walls have become a colouring book."

There was a pause, then Blaine said, "I'll be back in ten minutes. Try to avoid cooking any of them before I get there."