The Babysitter

So far so good

While Sander was enjoying the chaos, Tiffany asked Damien, "I thought Blaire and Kat were coming with you guys."

"They decided to ride together instead, apparently they needed to run an errand before heading over." Damien explained.

Just as Damien stopped talking the front door swung open. The boys stopped their wrestling and Sander stopped laughing. They all turned and looked at the door.

"HEYO PARTY PEOPLE!" A female voice yelled from behind the door.

Two girls walked into the doorway and closed the door behind them. One was a dark skin girl with her hair in two puffs on her head. She was wearing similar eyeliner to Tiffany's and purple lipstick. On her body was a black shirt with the sleeves ripped off and dark purple shorts. Fishnets trailed down her legs to her black combat boots. The other girl had pale skin with basically the same makeup but had dark red lipstick. Her hair was freshly dyed silver and was in a French braid. The silver haired girl wore a choker on her neck, a crop top with an alien on it, and galaxy leggings. She was holding a leather jacket in one arm and balloons in her opposite hand.

The girl with pig tails grabbed the balloons from the other girl and ran straight to Sander.

"I like to make a good first impression so here," The girl spoke as she handed the balloons to Sander, "My name is Blaire!"

"M-My name is Sander," Sander nervously said accepting the balloons from the new stranger.

The other girl walked up to Tiffany and handed her the leather jacket. "Here, we grabbed your jacket too." The girl said to Tiffany.

"Thanks Kat," Tiffany replied.

"Oh yeah, and I'm Kat," Kat yelled over to Sander.

Sander so far trusted the girls more than the new males in his house. He felt immediately more comfortable around them because they reminded him of Tiffany. Suddenly Blaire ducked down and grabbed Sander. He yelled for a second out of surprise. She then quickly placed him on her shoulders.

"You guys seriously don't know how to party do you? C'mon you lameos," Blaire exclaimed as she ran around with Sander.

Sander first was yelling in fear but it quickly turned to giggles and screams of joy. Tiffany smiled watching them and turned to the others, "Well, you heard the lady."

Kat plugged her phone into the speaker she brought and began to play recent pop music. The next hour was filled with laughter, good conversation, and playing games with Sander.

3:13PM

"FOUND YOU," Sander yelled at Damien who was hiding behind the couch, "You weren't even trying."

"I wasn't playing this round." Damien lied.

"LIAR EVERYONE IS PLAYING!" Blaire yelled from her hiding spot in the closet giving her position away, "Whoops"

4:25PM
"My voice is so weird!" Sander giggled holding a hole shut in a helium balloon. Tiffany inhaled helium from the balloon she was holding and said in the high-pitched voice, "Dad when will I hit puberty?"

The group laughed together in different pitches due to the amount of helium balloons they had. The only one who wasn't laughing or joining any game for that matter was Victor. He just stood in the corner checking his watch every five minutes. Sander was enjoying himself too much to even notice Victor, not to mention the fact that Blaire and Kat haven't been out of his face since they arrived. Sander enjoyed their childlike behavior and playful attitudes, it gave him a sense of safety. The boy was too occupied laughing with Kat and Blaire to notice Damien and Tiffany whispering to Victor. In fact, the only thing that grabbed his attention and stopped his laughter was-

CLAP!

Tiffany clapped once loudly and got the whole room's attention.

"Alright, if we suck anymore helium we'll probably die," Tiffany giggled, "So I say we move on to the last party game."

Skylar came back inside from smoking a cigarette at that moment and joined the rest of the group saying, "What did I miss?"

"We're gonna play another party game!" Sander exclaimed.

Skylar looked at Tiffany and lifted his eyebrows, she nodded in reply.

Sander takes his gaze away from Skylar to look at Victor and for the first time that day, he saw Victor smile.