THE JOY OF BABYSITTING
Reyna Avila Ramirez-Arellano has been in charge of a legion, an army, a statue, but she has never in all her years of existence (even in her stay at C.C's spa and resort) has been in charge of two little kids. Usually, when Jason and Piper are at Camp Jupiter, Hazel was always the one who offers to babysit them. Reyna would just drop by for a while and then go back to her duties as Praetor. But Hazel had just given birth a few days ago, so she couldn't babysit. All the other options for baby sitting were all unavailable, Nico and Will were off getting vaccines for the little boy (I'll let you guess who's idea that was), Leo and Calypso were fixing the ARGO II, and Jason and Piper were going to meet Annabeth's dad to get a package for Annabeth. So, the twins were left with Reyna.
The twins were behaving when their parents were in sight, but the moment the door closed on Piper and Jason, the twins, most specifically the little girl went running around the room. Then they saw Reyna's chair, and started fighting on who gets to sit on the chair.
"I'm praetor of new Rome!" Jessy screamed
"No! I am" her brother screamed and pushed her off the chair
They started pushing each other off the chair, screaming and kicking (Jessy is a bit of a kicker). Reyna used her commanding voice, the one she uses to command an army.
"STOP!" she screamed
The twins momentarily stopped their fighting and looked at Reyna, then turned their heads and went back to fighting. 'Remember, they're not an Army or a legion, you can't talk to them as a Praetor' Jason told her before they left. 'Just be their Aunt' Piper told her.
Reyna took a deep sigh and said "Who wants hot chocolate?" that got their attention, the twins stopped fighting, got off the chair and ran towards Reyna
"Me!" they both screamed
It wasn't really cold outside for hot chocolate, but the twins didn't seem to mind. They were quietly drinking the hot chocolate that Reyna had bought for them. Jessy was being so careful not to spill her hot chocolate on her dress. She was wearing a Camp Jupiter T-shirt that was too long for her, that it was now her dress, with a gold belt on her waist, and pink shoes. She was five years old but she was more concerned about her outfit, than other teenagers. While Josh, was wearing jeans with his Camp Jupiter T-shirt.
"Auntie rey rey?" Jessy called her
"Yes?"
"I like your braid, can you braid my hair like that too, please?" she asked really nicely while throwing in her puppy dog eyes.
"Finish your hot chocolate first, then I'll braid your hair" Jessy smiled and gulped down her hot chocolate, Reyna never saw a little girl finish hot chocolate that fast, the little girl stood up and went to sit on Reyna's lap waiting for her hair to be braided. While Reyna was braiding Jessy's hair, she noticed that Josh was being too quiet.
"Is something wrong, Josh?" she asked the little boy who shook his head in response and went back to starring at his empty cup of hot chocolate
"He wants to go home" Jessy whispered to her
"Why?"
"Lovesick" Jessy answered and giggled "Grandma taught me that word" she whispered again to Reyna. She knew that by Grandma, Jessy was referring to Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty.
"What?" Reyna asked confused as to why a five year old would be lovesick, they can't even use swords yet, let alone understand love. Then she remembered something that Piper had told her, that her little boy seemed to be crushing on Percy and Annabeth's daughter: Trina. Reyna finished Jessy's braid and told the little girl to sit next to her brother.
"Don't be sad, Joshy" Jessy hugged her brother and kissed his cheek
"I'm not sad" he replied
"Yes you are, you look like sadness the cartoon" Jessy giggled and saw that her brother didn't even smile "Sorry" she told her brother
"Daddy's buying us french fries later if we behave" She told him trying to cheer up her brother, but with still no luck. She grabbed her brothers face and tried to force him to smile, but he just waved her off.
"Jessy stop" he whined and pouted
"Now I'm sad" Jessy pouted "Auntie rey rey can I please have a cupcake?"
"Chocolate?" she asked the girl who nodded "How about you, Josh?"
"Blue cupcake?" he asked
"Yes, I'll get you a blue cupcake" Reyna answered standing up "Behave while I get your cupcakes, okay?"
When she got back to their table, she saw that Jessy was still trying to get her brother to smile.
"Smile Joshy, you have the prettiest sister ever" she giggled lying down on Josh's lap and smiling up at him. Reyna could see that there was already a smile tugging on the little boy's lips,
Reyna placed the two cupcakes in front of them, Jessy immediately sat up and started eating her cupcake. But Josh wasn't eating his cupcake yet.
"It's blue like you asked, Josh" she told the little boy
"Trina likes blue cupcakes" he said and looked down at the cupcake
Jessy made a face and looked at Reyna like 'Can you believe my brother?' and then did what any five year old would do. She took her brothers blue cupcake and smeared some frosting on top of her brothers nose.
"You look like a blue cupcake, Joshy" she laughed and gasped "Trina will like you now too!"
Josh took what was remaining of his sisters cupcake and tried to do the same to her
"No! No! My hair!" the little girl screamed as some frosting got to her hair
The twins ended up chasing each other with their cupcakes, who knew frosted cupcakes could become weapons. Reyna was about to stand up to stop them, but the twins were laughing so much that Reyna decided to let them have their fun. Soon enough the twins went back to their table, frosting all over their faces, hair and clothes.
"Come on kids, let's get you cleaned up before your parents arrive" she told the two
Reyna decided to give the twins a bath, how hard could it be right? She even thought that giving them a bath together would be easier than giving them a bath separately, wrong. The twins splashed water and soap at each other so much, that even Reyna looked like she had a bath, with her clothes still on. 'Being in charge of kids is harder than being in charge of a legion' Reyna thought 'at least she I didn't have to give the legion a bath'. After giving the twins a bath, dressing them up, and sitting them down at the living room to watch a movie. Reyna felt exhausted, but looking at the twins still teasing each other and laughing, Reyna knew that she had a good time as well.
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