Babysitter

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Brooke's POV

Yesterday went by way faster than I wanted it to. I was supposed to mope around yesterday but I mostly just slept.

This morning I got a text a from Mrs. Williams asking if I could babysit Emma today. She already assured me that Brandon wouldn't be home. Apparently he went to a concert with his friends, fine with me.

Yesterday Zachariah, Brandon's brother, got home from Juvie and that's the reason why I'm babysitting. Mrs. Williams said that because he just got home she doesn't completely trust him so I have to go watch Emma, even though he's home.

I only takes me about 5 minutes to get to the Williams house so I got there pretty quickly.

I knock on the door and awkwardly shuffle around on my feet, waiting for someone to answer.

Just then I get a phone call.

"Hello?"

"Hey Brooke, it's me, Mrs. Williams I had to get to the hospital fairly quickly so I just left Emma with Zach I figured you would get there fairly quickly."

"Ok, that's perfectly fine Mrs. Williams but thanks for letting me know." I say.

"No problem, tell Emma I told her to be a good girl for you."

"Will do, bye."  I say as I hang up.

I once again knock on the door.

"I didn't order Girl Scout cookies, it's probably for the house next door." A voice says before slamming the door in my face.

I knock once again, but harder this time.

"You girls truly are persistent." The voice says.

"I'm not a Girl Scout!" I say, frustrated.

"Oh, it's Girl Scout season they have me on edge." Zachariah says as he opens the door for me.

I roll my eyes and put my coat on the coat rack and drop my keys in the bin.

"It's Bailey right? No.....Oh I know! It's Bella!" Zachariah says jokingly while walking with me to the couch, where Emma is playing with her dolls.

"It's Brooke." I say aggravated.

"Oh right, the girl who's been dating Brandon for a couple years." He says.

"I was the girl who dated Brandon for a couple years." I say angrily.

"Oh." Is all he says.

"Hey Brooke!" Emma says with a big grin.

"Hey princess!" I say with a smile.

"Are you here to play dolls with me today?" She asks.

"Yep." I say with a laugh.

Zachariah then begins to tickle Emma.

She starts laughing like a mad man.

"Help Brooke!" She says while laughing.

I just smile at them, deciding it's fine till it escalades.

"Help Brooke! I'm going to have an accident!" She yelps out.

"Zachariah, stop it! You're going to make her pee." I say, scolding him.

"I'll stop if you call me Zach for once." He says while looking at me.

I roll my eyes before saying, "Stop tickling her Zach."

He thens stops tickling her and she runs off to go to the bathroom.

"If she would of peed you would of been cleaning it up Zachariah." I say while shaking my head.

Before I can even process what's happening Zachariah starts tickling me.

Even though I tried keeping it in, a fit of giggles escapes my throat.

"Get...off...of...me...you...fat...pig." I say in between laughs.

"I thought I told you to call me Zach." Zach says while he continues to tickle me.

Just as I'm about to say something Brandon walks in.

"What's going on here?" He says, anger lacing his voice.

"We've only been over for less than two days and you're all over my brother." He says.

"I knew you were slut."

Once the words are said my mouth opens, but nothing comes out.

Brandon just walks up to his room like nothing was said.

"I'm really sorry." Zach says while looking at his feet.

"Yea." Is all I say in return.

"Was that Brandon?" Emma asks as she walks back into the room.

"Um yea, he's up in his room." Zach says while looking at the stairs.

"I'm going to go see Brandon." Emma says as she races up the stairs.

"I think you guys can handle her from here I'm going to go."

I quickly grabbed my coat and keys before rushing out the door. Nobody tried stopping me, and I was truly thankful.

Facing Brandon just became ten times harder.

Once I got home there was nothing to do other than eat ice cream and watch "The Office", which sounded  perfectly fine to me.

I drifted off, until I was fast asleep. Momentarily forgetting all about Brandon, and his offensive remark.