Bluejean Baby | austin butler

twenty four

Hallie Owens

Me and Austin were back in LA for some meetings and other various things we had to do, and we were getting to babysit for Ashley finally. Which i'm kinda nervous about because I've never actually met her, and she's like an icon. So this is definitely new territory for me.

"I'm so nervous." I said. "Why?!" He asked. "I don't know. I've never met her and now she's trusting us, of all people to look out for her child." I said. "Okay first of all, i've met her and I know this child and know he's the most precious child ever. So duh, she's going to trust us." He said. "Okay fine. But i'm still freaking out." I said.

"Don't freak out, seriously. It'll be fine. We are going to be fine. She's going to love you." He said. "I hope so. She could think i'm amazing on social media and then meet me and bam never wants to see me again." I said. "That won't happen. I've told her some great things about you." He said. I smiled, "Well I appreciate that." I said. "You almost ready to go? We gotta be there in like 20 minutes. So get excited instead of nervous." He said wrapping his arms around my waist. "I'm trying." I said.

We left for Ashley's house and pulled into the driveway about 15 minutes later. "Wow this is beautiful." I said looking at the big house on the hill. "She really has the perfect spot." Austin said. He walked around the car and intertwined our fingers as we walked up to the front door. "My heart is about to beat out of my chest, oh my god." I said. "Please don't pass out. I don't know CPR." Austin said. I punched his arm knowing he was being sarcastic. He rang the doorbell and it opened a few seconds later. There Ashley stood with Jupiter right beside her. "Hey guys! Come on in." She said. Austin stepped inside first holding my hand as I walked behind him. She closed the door behind us, and we went to the living room. She pulled us both into hugs, "God I missed you so much." She said to Austin. "I missed you too!" He said smiling as they pulled away from the hug. "And you. It's so nice to finally meet you, i'm your biggest fan I feel like. Ugh I just really live for your instagram post." She said into our hug. "I'm so glad I got to finally meet you. I've heard so many great things and obviously seen them too." I said. "Well I've heard and seen so many great things about you also. Chris is almost ready and then we will be leaving. Obviously this is Jupiter. She's an angel. She will probably need some food in about an hour, there's some stuff in the fridge. Just whatever your heart desires honestly. She loves to read books, and play with her dolls and stuff. Basically anything as long as you have something to do with her." She said laughing.

I squatted down to be on Jupiter's level. "Well hello there. Aren't you just the most precious thing." I said in baby voice. She smiled and reached out towards me. I picked her up and placed her on my hip as I grabbed at her fingers to play with them. "Well you're a natural. Come back tomorrow please?" Ashley jokes. I laughed, "Seriously you must have a gift." Austin said. "No, I just love kids." I said, smiling up at him.

When Ashley snd Chris left, Me and Austin first tried to figure out what activity to do first. After deciding on some coloring, we got bored of that pretty quickly and moved on to playing with blocks. That was my expertise apparently because Austin conveniently got a phone call and had to step out.

After about an hour on back to back playing, and singing songs with Jupiter it was dinner time. We made her some mac and cheese, and Austin went and grabbed me and him something. After we ate it was bath time, which was my favorite part of babysitting. I loved getting to pick out little PJ's and playing with various toys in the bath. Jupiter gave me a small smile as I washed the shampoo out of her hair.

Austin picked out Goodnight Moon as the bedtime story which just so happened to be my favorite book from my childhood. "My mom used to read this one to me." I said, brushing my thumb across the illustration on the cover. "Mine did too." He said. He gave me a soft smile, and placed Jupiter down in her bed. "It's such a good one." I said. "It really is. One of my favorites." He said. We laid down on the bed next to Jupiter and read her the book, each one of us taking turns to match our voices with what we thought the characters would sound like, and excitedly pointing to the different drawings on the thick pages. When the story was over, I glanced down at Jupiter who's eyes were squeezed shut.