Adventures in Babysitting
“I really am sorry about this..” Masky tried again, half pushing Boy behind him. The five year old wrapped his arms around the elder boy’s leg and buried his face into Masky’s hip.
The mother wasn’t ready to be mollified and pointed a red painted finger in Boy’s direction. “I want your parents number! This is beyond excusable, he bit my daughter! What if she needs to see a doctor?”
Stuck between a Karen and his baby brother, Masky was fairly trapped. He could feel Boy cough against him, small body shaking under the violent hacking. “He’s just a baby ma’am, there’s no need-”
“If you can’t make him behave then he shouldn’t be allowed near normal children!”
Masky paused, head tilting back a bit as he stared at her with narrowed eyes. Before he could even get started with the bitch, Hoody came running up and got between them. “Found him, he was playing with some puppies in the dog park. Ready to go? C’mere little man,” scooping up the preschooler and getting coughed on right in the face for his troubles. “Wow you’re gross.”
“We are NOT done here!” the woman cried out shrilly. Her eyes had gone so wide there was a ring of white around the irises. Sweat was starting to bead across her forehead and Hoody knew they definitely had to leave. Some people were just a little more susceptible to the Slender Madness..
“We’ll get back to you on that. Maybe you should check on the chickie and make sure she’s okay? Ok? Good.”
It wasn’t often Hoody was the voice of reason, but the look on Masky’s bare face was not boding well and the baby was sick and if he left Toby alone too long who knows what Hoody would find back at the car..
“C’mon Boss, time to git while the going is good.”
After one last, long stare at the woman with her stupid asymetrical haircut, Masky turned to leave. Or tried to. It could have been her own natural stupidity or the uncomfortable buzzing in her brain, but the infuriated mother grabbed his arm and yanked the teen back around to face her.
Not for long though. Soon enough she was laid out on the ground with Masking looming over her, cracking his knuckles as her jaw began to swell.
On the good side, the chaos from that little slip of temper allowed the boys to get the hell out of there and back to the car. Toby, handcuffed to door handle and out of reach of the keys, perked up once they arrived and took Boy off Hoody’s hands easily. “Hello my germy little friend! Have fun? Spread some plague around?”
Hoody started muttering as he slammed the door shut on them. “Let’s go to the park, he says. It’s just a cold and he should play with other kids, he says…”
“Shut your damn mouth,” Masky growled from behind the wheel.
It should have been fine. It should have been fun! With Jeff and Eyeless out on a job for Slender, Masky and Hoody were perfectly capable of watching over the baby. So he’d gotten a teeny tiny cold, they were dealing with it. So maybe they’d needed to bring him along for a shopping trip that had to be done during the day… So maybe Boy was a little cranky ‘cause he needed a nap.
“Hey uh.. you guys did feed him at some point, right?”
“...shit.” Hoody sighed.
Boy coughed from the back seat, a sulky look on his face under the fluffy bear-eared hat.