In The Name Of Trouble

Chapter 53

The sound of an alarm jolted her awake. She had slept on the couch. The sound was coming from upstairs. Another alarm joined in followed by four more. She pressed her hands against her ears to block the annoying ringing. She went up the stairs and the sound became louder.

Then the alarms stopped, one by one. One of the doors opened and out came a little girl wearing pink pyjamas with unicorns on them. She had pretty tiny blond curls. She was rubbing her eyes. After that she looked at Cash and yawned.

"Are you a stwanger?"

"No I'm not. What the heck is your name?"

"Jewy" she looked at her straight in the eye. She saw that the girl had green eyes.

"What? Jewey?"

"Yes, Jewy."

"Ok then Jewey, what do you do now?"

"I go bwush my tweeth. Where's mommy?"

"She ditched you. Ok then go, shoo." She motioned her away.

All the other alarms stopped but no kid came out. Cash decided to check it out. She chose one of the closed doors and opened it to just peek. She could see a boy, probably a ten year old, was sleeping peacefully in his astronaut bed with a spongebob blanket. A bit too old for this but she doesn' care.

Should I wake them up? Yeah, it'll be fun. She opened the door wide and stepped in. The boy was a blond, just like the previous one.

"Hey kid" she tapped his shoulder "Wake up you asshole."

The boy turned and his eyes opened slowly. He looked at Cash and before she could say anything.

"Thief!!!!" A hand shot out and punched her in the gut. She quickly recovered from the shock and before the boy could scream again, she shut his mouth with her hand,muffling his screams.

"Zip it boy or I'll kill you." The boy suddenly became motionless and stayed still like a statue "Good boy. Now listen up, I'm not a thief ok? I'm your babysitter. Are we clear boy? What's your name?"

The boy nodded and she removed her hand "Hans. Are you really our babysitter?"

"Yes, now go wake your siblings up before I get hit again." The boy nodded and scurried off. Cash sighed and went back down and sat on the couch. This is gonna be easy.

Half hour later, a girl came down. It was Jewey. She came up to Cash and asked for breakfast.

"I don't know to cook Jewey."

"Its Julie. What kind of a babysitter are you if you can't cook?" The voice came from behind her. She raised herself a bit higher from her position on the couch to see a blond haired boy. He was looking at Cash "You are the babysitter right?"

"I am. You are?"

"The second eldest, Alex."

"Ok then Alex, what do you guys have for breakfast?"

"We usually have pancakes and some of us have toast."

"I can make toast."

"Good, cause we're starving." A brunette girl came down and when she looked at her babysitter she stood there and narrowed her eyes at her "Do I know you? You seem very familiar?"

"Who? Me? No, we have never met." She started moving to the kitchen.

"You're very familiar. What's your name?"

"Canal. Canal Juttsake." She took the loaf of bread and began slicing.

"Ok then. I'm Rylie."

"Don't care." She threw the slices in a toaster and started it "How many slices for each of you?"

"Two."

"This is gonna take a while."

"Where is our mom?"

"Honeymoon."

"What!?!?" Alex and Rylie asked in unison.

"Honeymoon."

"With who?!?"

"Your dad, Ken. Uhh, duh."

"Our dad's name is Dave. Who the fuck is Ken?"

"Oh, wow. This is awesome."

"Our parents split last year."

"Aww that's so sad. Anyway, toast is ready. Gather your asses around the table. Where are the other three? I thought there were six of you."

"There is."

"WOOOHOO!!!!" A boy came sliding down the barrister, the one who hit Cash. Hans. And were followed with two other kids.

"Breakfast is served." She began to put two pieces per plate.

"Who's she?" One of the boys asked

"Babysitter, Canal."

"I'm gonna need your names. And your ages. Start from the eldest."

"Rylie. 13."

"Alex. 12."

"James. 10."

"Hans. I'm 8 and a half."

"Unnecessary info but I'll take it."

"Mason. 7."

"Jewy. I'm 4."

"Cool."

"What about you?"

"Me?" She put a hand on her chest "I'm 18. Anyway, let's come back to drama. You guys don't know any Ken?"

"No!!"

"Ok ok relax. So you're mom practically was dating someone without you knowing?"

"Ya. Looks like it."

"Amazing. You wanna know what I'd do?"

"Hey pass me the sauce."

"Sauce? With toast?"

"That's disgusting James."

"Not for the toast." Rylie gave him the sauce "To do this!!!" He squirted some of the hot sauce on Cash's eye.

"Holy fuck!!! I'm gonna kill you!!" She went around looking for water through her blurred eyes

"Oh my god!!! Canal. Hold up. I'll get some water and ice." According to the voice, its sounded like Alex. She could hear James laughing. Tears began to flow because of the pain.

A few minutes later, Alex and Rylie helped get the hot sauce of her eye.

"Awe you okay?" Julie came up to her and gave her a wet tissue. Cash couldn't help but chuckle at the sight of this kid.

"I'm fine Julie." She took the tissue from her and dabbed her eyes.

"Are you really ok? I'm sorry Mason and James are really hard to control."

"No problem. So now what do you guys do?"

"We usually do our homework. But we haven't gone to school for a while. So we don't have work."

"What do you wanna do?"

"Don't know."

"Hey, you guys like ice cream?" They nodded their heads.

"I've got money. I'll take you to an ice cream parlor. Gather up the rest and get ready. We'll leave in an hour." They both smiled and ran up

"Guys, we're going out!!!!"

"Yeah we are!!! Put on some good clothes and we'll go!!!" They all rushed up the stairs.

I think I'm actually going to enjoy my week with them, she thought.