Starkid One Shots

Sogblim- 'Time Alone'

Jeff's laptop, connected to the TV, blared loudly as the music of the Barney theme song from the living room abruptly stopped as him and his wife both groaned in annoyance, laying in bed.

"Babe, just leave it," Rachael murmured, covering her face with her hands.

Jeff sighed, "I wish I could. Just hold on for a second, honey. Jasmine?!"

"Yeah Daddy?" the child from the living room answered back as her mother muttered, "Mood killer."

"Can you please deal with the laptop?"

They could hear Jasmine going over to the laptop and clicking something, and Brian Holden's voice came sounding through the apartment.

"Hey Jasmine... Jas? Where are your parents?"

"In their room," Jasmine replied, "They said they need to have some time alone together."

Teasings from other participants on the livestream, especially Joe Walker, were thrown around the conversation and Rachael's chocolate brown eyes suddenly widened, "Jeff... I think we forgot about the livestream today."

A look of horror appeared on his face as the both of them scrambled out of bed, throwing on their clothes, which were strewn across the floor.

"Well... I hate to cut that time short, but your parents really need to come on now. Do you mind calling for them?" Brian said through the computer.

Jasmine didn't need to be told twice, she ran to her parents' door and knocked on it, "Mommy! Daddy! Uncle Bri's looking for you!"

"Just a second sweetheart!" Rachael yelled as she attempted to grab her hair tie while pulling her black t-shirt over her head, "Jeff, you go first. I still need to throw on some makeup."

He nodded as he gave her a quick kiss before running out the bedroom door, ushering their daughter back to her room to play with her toys. Rachael, meanwhile, hastily threw on some makeup and finished it in a new record of five minutes and ran out to the living room, grabbing the baby monitor and her phone and sitting down next to Jeff on the couch.

"Annnnd Rachael's here!" Joe Walker teased, "How was your 'time alone'?"

"Oh shut up," she rolled her eyes, still upset that the only time they could spend together that month was cut short by a livestream. Suddenly, Rachael's attention was drawn to the baby monitor, where their eighteen-month-old, Jayden was standing up in his crib and definitely up from his nap. Taking that opportunity, she excused herself and went upstairs to get the baby, who immediately reached out to her as she entered the room.

"Hey Jay, had a good nap?" she cooed, lifting him out of the crib, "Well you need a change."

After changing his diaper, she carried him down to the living room and got him to say hi to the others before setting him down next to her where he played with his Thomas the Tank Engine toy happily.

"So now that everyone's here," Brian announced, "Let's take some questions and challenges!"