Athena and her mom have just moved to New York City her senior year of high school. Athena wants nothing more than to attend Columbia University in the fall. However Athena must work 3 jobs just to make ends meet for her and her mom. So when Lisa, a...
The bell rung and everyone filed out of school. I put my headphones on and walked across the parking lot, carefully.
"Hey princess wait up!" I hear an annoying voice call. There is only person who calls me that. I stop walking and turn around slowly me.
"Asshole, how have you been?" I ask smiling fakely.
"Your nickname hurts." He said fake wincing and I roll my eyes.
"I saw you talking to Jay at lunch." He said.
"Stalking me are we?" I say laughing.
"Anyways, I came to warn you." He told me with his hands in his pockets.
"Warn me?" I laughed.
"I'm serious he is bad news." He told me.
"Funny because I heard the same about you." I told him.
"Oh I'm not saying that isn't true, you should stay away from the both of us." He says. Ouch.
"I'll make a note to stay away from you but Jay seems nice." I say starting to walk. He walks beside me.
"I'm serious." He tells me.
"And I seriously don't care, why do you?" I ask.
"What?" He asks.
"Why do you care so much?" I ask him again.
"I don't!" He says harshly. Okay that is exactly what a person who cares would say.
He stops walking and leans against an expensive black car. That thing must have cost a fortune.
Without warning he speeds off and I continue walking. What a weird day. I put my headphone in and listen to Lana Del Rey.
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When I get home I am alone. Mom must still be at work. I open a bag of Hot Cheetos and do some homework. I have an interview in 2 hours. I am interrupted with a knock on the door.
I open the door to see a tired middle aged women smiling.
"Hi you must be Athena." She says. What in the world?
"I'm sorry do I know you?" I ask politely.
"Sorry, I'm Lisa I work with your mom. She told me you would be home." She says and shakes my hand.
"Is everything okay?" I ask worried.
"Oh no she told me you were looking for a job, I have a 4 month old daughter, Violet." She told me.
"I'm looking for a babysitter." She told me. I wanted to be nice but I couldn't survivor on $10 an hour.
"I love kids but with school and work I don't know I could do that." I told her sadly.
"$30 an hour or more please I can't bring her to work with me." She pleaded. My mouth dropped.
"30$ an hour?" I asked in disbelief.
"More?" She asked.
"No no that's a lot." I told her.
"I'll take the job!" I said smiling.
"Great! I work afternoons and nights and weekends." She told me. I am going to be busy.
"When do I start?" I ask.
"Well I was hoping you could come over and meet her and we can go over everything." She said smiling.
"Sounds great let me grab my phone and call my mom." I told her and ran to my room. I texted my mom and got into the car with Lisa. She seemed very sweet.
We pulled up to a legit pent house. They must be rich.
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"My son isn't home yet but you will meet him sooner or later." She said laughing. The place was beautiful and huge.
"Come come." She said and motioned for me to come up the stairs. The opened the door to a beautiful pink and grey nursery. A beautiful baby slept in an expensive looking crib.
"She's beautiful." I whisper and she nods.
"I just want to get to know you I mean you seem responsible enough but this is a big thing." She tells me and sits in the rocking chair while I sit on the admen.
"What are your goals in life?" She asked.
"Well I want to go to Columbia next year and study natal nursing." I tell her and she smiles.
"I love kids especially babies and have 3 younger siblings that live back in Canada." I tell her.
"Well you sound too goo to be true." She says laughing quietly.
"You see I have an older son but he uh has had some trouble bonding with Violet." She says.
"So I don't like him alone with her, he doesn't know what to do." She confides in me.
"I understand." I tell her and she hugs me.
"You are so sweet." She tells me and I thank her.
"You will be apart of the family now I mean I will need you on vacations and things like that as well, my husband isn't exactly in the picture right now." She tells me.
"Okay." I breathe out.
"I hope I'm not freaking you out but I will need you tonight." She says.
"That's fine." I tell her.
"I'll give you the tour and I'll be back around 8 sound good?" She asks.
"Sounds great." I respond. She shows me around. This place has 7 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms. There are all kinds of rooms including a gym and spa room. I don't I have ever been in a building this big.
"I've got to head out but my son will be home in a few minutes." She says.
"The babies schedule is on the fridge and I will get you your own key soon." She said. The schedule is precise and very detailed.
"I can't thank you enough." I say and she hugs me and leaves.
I head into the nursery look around. I connect the expensive Bluetooth baby monitor to my phone just so I always have it and go back to the huge kitchen. I make Violet's 6 o'clock bottle and heat it up. I hear her begin to stir and head into the nursery.
"It's okay shhhhh." I said and picked her up and gave her her bottle. I rocked her and burped her. I rocked her to sleep and keep her in my arms.I heard the front door open. This must be her son. I hear the person approach the door.
"You must be the babysitter." An unamused voice says into the dark room. I recognized the voice.
