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"Ouch!" You little shit!

I grab my leg and hop around on one foot as pain throbs through my leg. The little monster, Tristin, is at it again. He kicked me in the shin, and then ran off, laughing. It's the third time today.

"Tristin, come here, little guy. Would you like some candy?" I hop around the black leather couch, while trying to catch his arm. The little guy is fast, even though he's so small. It still surprises me. He's like some kind of tiny ninja.

He looks back at me while sticking his tongue out. "You can't fool me, lady. I know these tricks." He gets close to me, and right as I go to grab him, he takes off really fast and jumps over the couch, making it look effortless and easy.

He looks back at me laughing and starts jumping on the couch while his blonde hair bounces all around his cute, little evil face.

I knew I should've kept an old couch around, just for incidents like these.

"Tristin, stop jumping right this minute! I'm counting to three, and by the time I get to three, you better be off that couch, or I'm calling your mom!" I reach for his arm and trip over the shoelace of my Converse, landing on my face in a mostly empty plate of spaghetti that Tristin refused to eat for over an hour. "Oh... Gross. Come on! Would you stop and listen for once?" I push the plate away from my face and just lay here for a minute taking deep breaths. I know if I don't calm myself, I will blow up any minute and that's the last thing I want to do.

My patience is wearing thin. Very thin.

Tristin jumps off the couch, landing next to my head. It makes me jump back. "One... two... I'm getting close to three, you better clean up that mess before I get to three!" he mocks. "Okay... three!"

I jump up and run as fast as I can, grabbing the little pain in the ass by his foot, as I tumble back to the floor with him.

He looks at me with his long hair falling in his eyes and then starts kicking and screaming. The kid looks like he's being attacked by some maniac stranger.

"Tristin, stop it!" I grab his arms and legs and try holding him down from going wild. "Ok, I'm sorry, I'll get you some candy. I promise this time." Why do I always give in?

Tristin looks up at me while wiping a fake tear out of his twitching eye. "C-candy? I would like some candy, Kalise." He grabs my hand and we both get up.

Yeah, I'm sure you would, you little...

We walk by the staircase and I scream upstairs to my roommate, and best friend, Luna. "What's taking you so long, did you fall in or something? Or did your face fall off?" She's been in the bathroom for over an hour now, supposedly applying makeup. I know she does this on purpose so she can sit on her pretty little ass while I take care of the kids and do our job.

I slap a hand on the railing and just keep walking, so I can calm Tristin down, before he begins screaming his head off again.

When we get in the kitchen, I pick Tristin up and set him on the counter. He's five years old and very small for his age. I swear he's the cutest little snot blowing devil I have ever seen.

He reaches for the bowl full of candy with a sparkle in his little green eyes. "I want skittles!" he says as he starts searching through the bowl of candy, pretty much knocking everything out in his search for the rainbow. "I don't see any skittles... I want skittles!" He looks at me and frowns. "I said I want skittles!" He throws the bowl down and starts crying.

That fake crying little turd, I'll give him something to cry about...

I pick up the bowl and slam it on the counter with force while a smile plays on my face, trying to keep as calm as I can. "I'm sorry, Tristin, we don't have any skittles," I apologize to him, then pick him up and set him on the ground. "I'm sorry, buddy." I reach into the bowl and grab out a heart shaped sucker. "Here's a sucker."

He knocks the sucker out of my hand, stomping his cute little foot and starts screaming, "I hate you! I'm telling my mommy!" As he screams, he slips and falls to the ground, and then looks up at me with a blank expression.

I can't help but laugh at the cute little face he's now making. I put my hands around my stomach and break out in laughter. "Oh, how cute... you okay?" I point down at the ground where he sits, looking at me with hate in his little eye.

We both get distracted when the doorbell rings.

I quickly reach for Tristin and pick him up off the ground. I walk him toward the door, as he digs his feet into the carpet. "Can't I stay a little longer?" he whines.

This kid must think I'm crazy enough to actually take him longer than I have to. Ha!

I smile to myself as we get closer to the door, closer to freedom and closer to peace and quiet.

Out of nowhere, Luna comes flying past us, her long brown hair slapping me in the damn face, as if she's in a hurry to get to the door. I get ready to reach for the handle when she reaches for it, slapping my hand away.

"I've got this," she says and then opens the door, putting on a huge smile. She brushes her hair behind her shoulder and then reaches for somebody's hand and pulls them inside. "Well hello there, cutie, I'm Luna."

As I look up at the door, I set my gaze on the most beautiful guy I have seen in my whole life. This is no exaggeration. The man is beautiful.

He smiles as he runs his fingers through his messy brown hair.

I try to turn away, but I get lost in his green eyes.

He reaches a hand up to the door, causing his muscle to flex. He's very fit and dressed confidently and sexy. If Tristin is the devil, then this has got to be an angel, coming to save my ass.

I have never met Tristin's father before, so this must be him. I had no idea that anyone could be that damn gorgeous.

I try to speak, but everything in my head just sounds too stupid, so I don't.

He looks back and forth between myself and Luna before resting his eyes on me. "Hi, I'm Kale," he introduces himself then points at his face. "I think you have a little something right here... and oh, right here." He smiles at me and pretends to clean his face off, before he reaches his hand out to shake mine.

Oh shit, great first impression. Tristin...

I go to reach for Kale's hand, but end up getting smacked by Tristin's little arms as he runs and jumps into Kale's arms. "Uncle Kale! I'm so glad that you came to pick me up." He throws his arms around Kale's neck and squeezes him. "I missed you, uncle Kale! Did you bring me some Skittles?"

The uncle, huh? That sounds much better than daddy.

Kale frowns at him and reaches into his pocket. "No, I'm sorry, buddy." Tristin looks up at him with his bottom lip quivering, to which Kale pulls his hand out of his pocket and shakes it in front of Tristin's face. "Of course I got you skittles, buddy!"

Tristin grabs the skittles out of Kale's hand and then points at me. "Kalise is mean. She didn't give me any skittles!"

Kale looks at me and shakes his head, smiling. "No skittles... I think that would be enough to even break my little heart. Who doesn't keep skittles around?" He turns his eyes away from Tristin's, making eye contact with me again.

I feel my face turn red as he winks.

I elbow Luna in the side, as she just stands there with her mouth open, looking at him.

Kale looks back and forth at us both and then clears his throat.

Awkward!

He smiles at me and then turns to head out the door. "I'll be watching Tristin this week while my sister, Adi, is out of town. I have to work at eight tomorrow morning. Would you mind if I drop him off around seven thirty?"

Oh my goodness, he's so sexy. Say something.

Luna elbows me in the side and smiles at Kale. "No, that won't be a problem at all."

Clearing my throat, I shake my head and then reach for the door as he walks out. "Yeah, that's fine with us, if that's fine with you, of course I..." I point at my face. "This is... um..."

Luna shuts the door, separating me from my stupid mouth. "What the hell is wrong with you? You're lucky I shut the door, saving you from further embarrassment." Luna looks at my face before she grabs a noodle off that was stuck to my forehead, and eats it, because apparently, she doesn't care what goes in her mouth. "Mmm, I'm starving. Is there any left?"

I point at the kitchen and reach to wipe my face off. "Yeah, in the fridge," I reply to her then follow her to the kitchen and grab a towel that is sitting next to the sink, running it under the faucet to get it damp.

Sighing, I take the towel and throw it over my face and let out a deep breath.

Breathe, just breathe...

Luna snatches the towel from my face and stands there, just smiling at me. "What?"

She laughs and then points at my face. "That guy was totally hot, and you had spaghetti on your forehead. It really doesn't get any better than that." She starts eating a plate of cold spaghetti while laughing at me.

"Well, I'm glad that you find my humiliation funny. You're a horrible friend."

Sometimes, I feel like reaching over and slapping the dumb out of her.

Closing my eyes in frustration, I snatch the towel back and throw it over my face again, wiping it off. "I'm going upstairs to take a nice, long bubble bath. Please, please, don't bother me; I feel like I'm going to freak out right now. Tristin can be a huge handful and you pretty much avoided us all day, so thanks. He may look like an angel, but he's far from it."

Luna jumps up on the counter while throwing her plate in the sink. "Yeah well, he has a super-hot uncle though. Maybe he will ask you out. I saw him checking you out and eyeing you up."

I head up the stairs while looking back at her. "I don't date any of the kids' parents. Never have, and never will. It's a rule. My rule."

I get almost all the way up the stairs when I hear Luna, "He's not a parent." She looks up at me from the bottom of the stairs. "I'll date him, if you don't. I'll corrupt that pretty boy so hard."

I choose to ignore this and just throw myself in the bath, in hopes that I won't accidently, on purpose, drown myself.

He's totally gorgeous, but he still counts to me as a parent of one of the kids that I watch. There's a chance he'll be around more to pick Tristin up and I can't chance getting involved in case things don't work out.

Plus, Luna already takes care of sleeping with all of them anyway.

I'm a virgin, and I plan on staying that way for a while...