"I need you to watch Didyme for me today," Mac said to Jo over the phone.
"I have to work, Mac," she replied, knowing that he knew that.
He huffed, "You can take the day off. I need you to watch her."
"Alright," Jo said.
Thirty minuets later, Mac and Didyme showed up at her apartment. Mac handed Jo Didyme's bag and headed for the elevator. She grabbed his wrist.
"Do you want a cup of coffee?"
No was all he said before he left quickly. In the elevator, Mac called Christine.
Jo huffed like a child and turned to the little girl who had made her way to Ellie's room.
"Mom, why is there a kid in my room?" Ellie yelled from her room.
"Do you remember Mac, my boss?" She asked once she was in Ellie's purple room. Ellie nodded. "That's his daughter."
Ellie gave Jo a confused look, "Why are you watching her or is he here?"
"I'm watching her because he still hasn't gotten her signed up for daycare."
Ellie nodded and finished getting ready for school and left quickly, grabbing a piece of toast on the way out of the door.
"Looks like it's just you and me, Kid. What do you want to do?" Jo asked Didyme.
The toddler was very quiet today. She just shrugged and ran to the kitchen. Jo was worried about the little girl. Didyme didn't talk at all for the next few hours.
At six, she said, "Why did Daddy leave me?"
"He needed to get stuff done, Sweety."
"What kind of stuff? Mommy never left me by myself with other people."
"Your dad's a very busy man," Jo sighed, sitting next to the girl, turning on cartoons.
In her mind, this little girl deserved more than a father who was too busy to sign her up for daycare. She has been here a week or so, yet she was still just left with friends of Mac. Jo wanted to be a mother to this little girl who had just lost her own, but she knew that she never would be. Mac only saw her as a co-worker, nothing more. Besides, he loved Christine. That's how it was going to stay for a while, much to Jo's disappointment.
