THE JOY OF BABYSITTING
Leo was at Jason and Piper's apartment floor, watching over the three children: Josh, Jess, and Trina. Percy and Jason were at work, and Piper, Annabeth, and Calypso were helping Hazel find a wedding dress. Everything was going fine and normal, well as normal as it could get whenever Leo would babysit. Jess was playing with her dolls, Trina was watching The Little Mermaid, and Josh was playing with his toy car. 'So far so good' Leo thought to himself. All he needed to do, was to feed them lunch and get the three of them to take a nap. The lunch part was easy, but the nap part not so much. Getting Jess to take a nap was very easy since she sleeps a lot, but Trina doesn't, she won't sleep unless she's really really exhausted, and Josh refuses to sleep unless Trina's also asleep, as long as he still has a playmate awake, he's wide awake.
After Leo has had their lunch prepared, he received an emergency call from work which required him to get there ASAP. He can't bring the kids to work, and he certainly can't leave them alone in the apartment. 'Time to call a friend' Leo thought as he pulled out his phone. He first called Sally, but she was in a book event with Paul and Estelle. He tried calling Rachel, but she won't pick up. He called Nico and Will, but they were on their way to have Lunch with Will's mom. He called a lot of people but all of them were not available. Leo was left with two options, it was either call one of the Stoll brother's, or Clarisse and Chris. He considered the Stoll brothers, they both had son's who Josh can play with, but both of those son's were as sneaky and mischievous as the Stoll's. Leo didn't think Jason would appreciate it if he's two-year-old son, suddenly learned how to steal candy. So he ended up calling Clarisse and Chris and hoped that Percy won't mind that Leo took his little girl to the daughter of Ares. Clarisse did not want to help Leo at first, but after a lot of begging and bribing, and promising to pay her, she finally agreed and promised to come over in five minutes instead of Leo taking the kids at her place.
"Thank's for coming," He told the couple as he let him in the apartment
"I expect payment Valdez" she grumbled looking around "Where are the little monsters?"
"First, they're not monsters; and Second, they're over there" he pointed to the three kids sitting in front of the television
"They look pretty harmless" Chris observed
"Please don't jinx it" Leo told him
"It's almost lunchtime, their food is at the microwave, just heat it up, but not too hot" he explained "make sure to give Trina some water before she start's eating, do not attempt to give her any ketchup or mayonnaise or she will puke. Do not get Jessica's dress dirty or she's going to cry, but if she tells you that her dress has dirt or a stain, change it immediately before she throws a tantrum. You won't have much trouble with Josh, just don't give him a stapler, Piper's orders."
"Got it" Chris said giving him a thumbs up
"Oh and one more thing" Leo added "If Josh kisses Trina make sure you get it on camera" he gave them his camera
"Valdez, they're two years old not teenagers"
"Oh trust me, that has happened before" Leo made his way to the three children "Uncle Leo's going to work for a while okay? Uncle Chris and Auntie Clarisse will watch you, you three behave okay?"
Josh and Trina nodded their head, while Jess being the rebellious baby that she shook her head furiously and stuck out her tongue.
"They'll behave" Leo assured the couple and went out of the apartment
Chris went over the kids and sat beside them "Hello" he greeted
He got no response from Jess, she just ignored him and continued to play with her dolls, while Trina looked at him and went back to watching her show, Josh was the only one who smiled at him and said hello.
The little toddler went over to him and said "You look like the mailman"
"You mean Hermes?" he asked and the little boy nodded
"He's my father"
The boy stared at him for a while, he probably didn't understand how Hermes could be his father, Hermes probably appeared to him as a man around Chris's age or probably even younger. He finally stopped starring at Chris and went back to playing with his toy car.
While Chris was trying to talk to the little kids, Clarisse heated their lunch, trying to stay away from the kids as much as possible. Clarisse never got along with kids, and she doesn't plan to. After heating their lunch, and setting the table. Clarisse walked over to Chris and the kids "Okay little brats time to eat, get up" they must have been already hungry since they ran their way to the kitchen. Chris helped them to their chairs and made sure to give the little Jackson a glass of water before she eats.
"I want my pink plate!" Jess screamed pushing the white plate away from her
"There is no pink plate! Now eat!" Clarisse screamed back as Chris was helping Josh and Trina with their lunch
"Pink plate! Pink plate! Pink plate!" the girl screamed louder
Clarisse called Leo and asked about the Pink plate, it turns out the little girl had a whole set stacked in one of the cupboards, a pink plate, a pink glass, a pink metal straw, a pink spoon, and a pink fork. Once all her pink utensils were in front of her, the girl started to eat. 'This girl is a pink addict' Clarisse thought to herself as she watched the little kids eat their lunch.
After lunch, the kids were back in the living room with Clarisse, as Chris was washing the dishes.
Trina came over to Clarisse and waved a Finding Nemo DVD in front of her "Can I watch this?"
"No" she told the kid who looked at her like the way Annabeth look's like when she's planning the best way to pulverize her.
"Just kidding kid" she told Trina laughing "You're as serious as blondie"
"You're mean!" Trina screamed and kicked her leg
"OW!" the girl kicks like a horse, well her grandfather is the god of horses so that probably explains it.
A while later, Jess stood in front of Clarisse holding a pair of pink safety scissors
"Where did you get that?" she asked her
"Can I please cut your hair?" the girl's straight blonde hair framed her face which made her look like a Barbie doll, an evil Barbie doll holding a menacing pair of scissors
"Why don't you cut your doll's hair?"
"Her hair is pretty" she picked up her doll and waved it in Clarisse's face
"Did you just call my hair ugly?"
"Yes" the girl nodded and looked at her doll "Her names Silena, she told me to cut your hair"
If Clarisse wasn't scared before, she certainly was scared now. Aside from the fact that she thinks the girl just talked to the ghost of her best friend, but also because it reminded her too much of when Silena Beauregard wanted to cut Clarisse's hair.
"Can I?" the little girl pouted and gave her puppy dog eyes
"Fine. But just a little" Clarisse never really cared too much about her hair anyways
"Yey!" Clarisse sat on the floor so that the little girl could stand on the sofa
The girl didn't do much of a good job, Clarisse's hair looked like a choppy mess but the girl smiled so brightly, seemingly proud with her work that Clarisse thought it was worth it. gods of Olympus, she was having a soft spot for the kid already.
"Like mommy's hair!" Jess shouted with glee
"We should paint her nails" Trina said walking towards them forgetting about Nemo
The blonde girl dropped the scissors and ran towards a bedroom, and came back holding a bottle of pink nail polish. Does this girl own anything that isn't pink?
"Can we? Can we? Can we?" the girls asked jumping up and down
"Sure why not?"
If cutting her hair wasn't that much of a mess, the girls painting her nails certainly was. They didn't know how to do it. At one point, Clarisse was sure that they were painting her hands instead of her nails. Thank the gods of Olympus that Silena taught Clarisse how to apply nail polish. She ended up painting both the girl's nails and teaching them how to apply it in the process.
Chris then walked out of one of the bedrooms, carrying Josh in his arms. Chris's hair looked like he'd been shocked with lightning, which he probably was.
"What happened to you?" the couple asked each other
"Josh accidentally shocked me with lightning when I took the stapler away from him" he placed Josh beside Trina and looked at Clarisse's hair and hands
"These two wanted to give me a make over" she told him
He sat next to her and looked at the two girls who were trying to paint Clarisse's toe nails
"You sure you still want kids?" she asked him
"Yep" Chris said looking at her
Clarisse looked at the little brats who had managed to get Josh to help them
"You know what? Maybe having kids won't be that bad" Clarisse said before Trina spilled the nail polish all over the carpet. "Or not"
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