THE JOY OF BABYSITTING
Percy, Annabeth, and their daughter were at the mall getting some last minute shopping before the baby arrives. Actually, they already had everything they needed, but Annabeth insisted on getting back ups, and back ups for the back ups. They also asked their daughter, if she wanted to buy other toys that she'd want to give her baby sister, or toys that she'd want for herself. So far she got a small purple teddy bear, a blue dolphin, and a blue owl for her baby sister.
"How about you sweetie, Do you want anything?" Annabeth asked her daughter who shook her head in response
"You want a new toy, baby?" Percy asked her
"No, daddy"
"New clothes?" Percy asked their daughter again
"No"
"I think I know what she wants" Annabeth told Percy and grabbed their daughters hand
They made their way to the bookstore, Percy carrying all of the bags, and Annabeth walking hand in hand with their daughter. When Trina saw the bookstore, her eyes lit up and her smile was so bright.
"Pick anything you want, sweetie" Annabeth told her and Trina ran to the nearest shelf of books
"Like mother, like daughter" Percy said placing an arm around Annabeth's belly and kissing her cheek as they watched Trina pick a book. She was grabbing books that she liked and stacking them on the floor, next to her. A few minutes later, Trina was sitting on the floor going through her stack of books. She had about eight books stacked on the floor, and it looked like she was only trying to pick one. She kept looking back and forth between the books, and was thinking hard. Annabeth knew how hard it was to pick just one book. Percy sat next to their daughter and looked at the books she had on the floor. All of them were children books, and she doesn't have any of those yet at home.
"Why don't we get all of these, baby" Percy told Trina who immediately looked up at her father
"Really daddy?" she asked smiling
"Yes, sweetie. Come on let's go pay for it" Percy said grabbing the books, he helped their daughter to stand up, and headed for the counter.
Annabeth remembered when their daughter, Trina was born, Percy told her that he wants to be able to buy their daughter whatever she wanted. Since that when Percy was growing up, they didn't really have much money to spend on anything other than their basic necessities. She knew that Percy was working really hard to live up to that promise. Their daughter however, was not much of a spender, she'd ask for a few toys every now and then but all she really wants are books. Their daughter loves it when they read her story books before bed. She loves it so much that she'll even throw books at Percy just to wake him up, to read her a story.
Before they left the counter, Annabeth saw Trina look at a Superman puzzle game.
"You want to get that too, baby?" she asked her
Instead of answering, Trina hid behind her daddy's legs and smiled shyly at Annabeth.
Annabeth laughed, knowing why their daughter had that reaction, and why she was looking at the Superman puzzle game.
"Do you want to get that for Josh?" Annabeth asked and Percy tried to hold back a smirk
Trina nodded but kept half of her face hidden behind Percy's leg
Annabeth took the puzzle and handed it to her daughter "We'll get this one, but you have to get one for Jessy too, okay?"
"Okay mommy" Trina answered as she held the puzzle and started looking for something to give to Jessy. She settled for a Princess puzzle game, and showed it to Annabeth and Percy.
"Do you want to pay for it yourself?" Percy asked and she nodded
Percy carried their daughter, and gave her a few dollars, so she can hand it to the cashier and pay for the puzzles herself.
"Thank you daddy, Thank you mommy" Trina said as they left the book store
"Anything for you, sweetie" Percy kissed their daughters cheek and she giggled
When they arrived at their apartment floor, Percy helped Trina arrange her new books on her shelf, then arranged all the baby supplies and toys in the nursery. While Annabeth was resting on the living room, and talked to their unborn baby.
"Mommy can I give these to Josh and Jessy now?" Trina asked her as she and Percy entered the living room.
"Sure, baby. Why don't the three of us go over to their floor?" Annabeth answered standing up
The three of them went up to Jason and Piper's apartment floor, and knocked on the door waiting for someone to open it.
"Hey guys!" Piper smiled and gave all of them a hug
"Hi Trina, what do you have there?"
Trina waved the two puzzle games in front of Piper "for Josh and Jessy"
"Oh that's so sweet of you, Trina. Come in guys, they're at the living room watching a movie"
"TRINA!" Josh cheered as he saw the little girl, and quickly made his way to her to give her a hug, Trina hugged him back and gave him the puzzle. While Annabeth and Percy made their way to sit beside Jason, who had Jessy in his lap, eating candy.
"For me?" Josh asked and Trina nodded
"Thank you, Trina!" he cheered and kissed Trina on the cheek, then sat on the floor to look at what Trina gave him.
"Awww" Piper cooed
"How about me?" Jessy pouted and made her way to sit on the floor as well
"Here you go, Jessy" Trina said handing her puzzle
"Yey!" Jessy cheered and hugged Trina so tight that she yelped, though she didn't seem to mind. "Thank you Trina"
The twins were still sitting on the floor, looking at their puzzle's with Trina helping them.
"She saw the superman puzzle first, and I guess she thought that Josh would like it" Annabeth told her friends
"He really does like it, look at his face, Piper" Jason said while looking at his son
"You kids want some candy?" Piper asked and placed a bowl of candy in front of them
Jessy immediately started stuffing her face with candy again, as she looked at her princess puzzle piece.
"What happened to the 'I won't give them too much candy' rule?" Annabeth asked Piper
"I thought I'd give them a treat today. Jessy's taking advantage of it" Piper laughed
"I have blue gummy bears Percy" she said and handed him the bowl with the gummy bears
"Yey!" Percy cheered which made Annabeth shake her head at her husband
"Percy's love for candy can match our daughter's" Jason chuckled as he watch Percy stuffing his mouth with the blue candy
"Nah. Your daughter's got me beat Jason"
Meanwhile….
Trina was helping Jessy with her puzzle, while Josh was getting blue M&M's from the bowl. When one of his hands were full with blue candy, he tapped Trina's shoulder and offered it to her.
"Blue candy" he told her smiling "for you"
It was Trina's turn to kiss Josh on the cheek "Thank you, Joshy" she told him and stretched out her hand for Josh to place the candy in her hands. But instead, Josh took one of the M&M's and offered it to Trina's mouth
"Say aaah" he told her. She opened her mouth and waited for him to feed her the candy. This went on for quiet a while until all of the blue M&M's were gone and eaten by Trina.
Jessy who was quietly watching the two, giggled to herself, and gasped as if an idea came to her. She looked at her parents, then back at Trina and her brother.
"Joshy kiss Trina too" Jessy told her brother giggling "Kiss. Kiss. Kiss" she chanted
"Oh no" Jason and Percy groaned
"Oh shut up both of you" Piper scolded them laughing and waited if her son would actually kiss Trina
"Would he actually do it?" Annabeth whispered to Piper
"I don't know" she answered
"Kissy Kissy" Jessy chanted still giggling
Josh leaned over to Trina and kissed her on the lips, smiling at her afterwards. But instead of smiling back, Trina got a handful of candy and shoved it into Josh's mouth.
After swallowing the candy, Josh laughed and stretched out his arms for a hug, which Trina obliged.
"Thank you for the gift, Trina" he told her
"You're welcome"
Jessy climbed on the couch and sat on her mother's lap "Joshy and Trina make me happy, mommy"
"Why baby?"
"Prince and Princess" she said yawning and pointing at the two children who were still playing with the puzzle game "Love is fun, mommy. When can I get my own prince?" she asked but her eyes were already closed and she was already fast asleep
"Hopefully not soon, Princess" Jason said and kissed his daughters forehead as she slept.
Percy and Annabeth looked at their daughter, who was still playing with Josh. Truth be told they don't really mind that their little girl had just been kissed by a little boy. They were still kids anyway, and who knows how much of these events they would actually remember when they grow up. At least it was a little boy that they know, and who they see as he was growing up. 'Maybe they were destined together by the fates anyway' Percy thought to himself. He just hoped that his next daughter, won't find one that quick.
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