The nanny

Chapter 3

Mike had been working for Kara, for a little over a month now. And despite his best efforts to ignore his feelings for her, spending so much time with Kara every day after she got home from work wasn't exactly helping at all. In fact, the more time he spent with her, and the more he got to know her, the more his feelings for her grew even stronger. Plus no matter how many times he told himself that nothing could happen between them, because she was his boss, he still couldn't control what he felt. And not just for her, for Kelsey too. Although what he felt for Kelsey was completely different than what he felt for Kara... but he'd still grown really attached to her really quickly, and he cared about her more than he'd ever cared about any of the other babies he'd nannied.

Mike sighed as he raked his fingers through his hair and rolled over in his bed. Trying once again to clear his mind and fall asleep. When suddenly his phone rang.

*Why would someone be calling me this late at night?* He thought as he rolled back over and quickly, picking up his phone off of his bedside table hoping that it wouldn't wake up his best friend/roommate.

Without his glasses on, plus the brightness of his phone blinding him, he couldn't tell who was calling him. So he just hit the green answer button. And suddenly all he could hear was the sound of a crying baby. But not just any baby. No, he'd know the sound of that cry anywhere. It was Kelsey. And He immediately knew by the way she was crying that something was wrong. His heart started pounding in his chest at the thought of something happening to the precious baby girl he'd grown so close too. And then he finally heard something else...

"Mike? Are you there?" He could hardly hear her soft voice over the baby crying so he pressed the phone against his ear even harder.

"Yeah... yeah, I'm here. What's wrong? Is she okay?"

"I don't know..." He could hear that Kara's voice was shaking like she was trying not to cry.

"She feels so hot and she's been crying for over an hour, I can't get her stop. I've tried everything Mike. I also tried calling the doctor but no ones there and I didn't know what else to do or who to call... I'm sorry." She huffed.

"No don't be it's fine. I'll be right there okay?"

"Okay." She replied as he hung up the phone and quickly got out of bed. He pulled on a t-shirt since he was only wearing shorts. He then put on his glasses, picked up his phone, and car keys as he slipped on a pair of shoes and headed out the door. The roads were pretty empty since it was 2:30 in the morning and Mike made it to Kara's in about five minutes. Once he was there he used his key to open the door and walked in to find Kara bouncing the baby. Both of them were crying now and the site of it made his heartache, all he wanted to do was to hold them both in his arms and make both of their tears stop falling.

"I'm so scared!" Voice was barely a whisper. "I don't know what's wrong with her." Kara told him as they walked towards each other.

"I know you're scared." Mike replied as he placed a hand on Kara's shoulder. "But it's gonna be okay. Can I see her?"

Kara sniffed and nodded. "Yeah of course." She replied as Mike took the baby out of her arms and into his own.

"Hey princess..." He said as he gently kissed the top of little Kelsey's head. "Oh, you are pretty warm. Does she have any other symptoms besides a fever?" He asked looking up at Kara.

"Um... well earlier she had a stuffy nose, a little bit of a cough, and some diarrhea." Kara looked back at him, her tears had eased up some since Mike had arrived so she could talk easier now.

"Okay." He nodded. "Have you taken her temperature?"

Kara sighed. "Well I tried to but she wouldn't keep the thermometer in her mouth."