"Hey, Lexi, I need you to be here thirty minutes early so I can show you around the house and show you what to do." Said my cousin, Kayla.
"Ok, girl, I'm 'bout to leave the room now, I'll be there in about twenty minutes."
My cousin Kayla said she needed someone to take care of her toddler and newborn while she worked Monday -Thursday and offered me a job 'cause she knew I needed the money and she didn't want to put her kids in a daycare with people she couldn't trust. Kayla and I are first cousins and we used to be stuck together like glue when we were kids. Some people used to ask if we were twins when we were out together in public because we kind of look alike. Our mothers are twins and we both look like our mothers.
My name is Lexi Parker. I'm 22 years old and new to the city of Atlanta. I moved here from Chicago four months ago after my parents were killed in a terrible car accident. I have been living out of a hotel room in the hood for the past two weeks because I lost my job a month ago and couldn't afford to keep up with the rent that I was paying for my two bedroom apartment. Bitch ass manager talking 'bout money was missing out of the register and he blamed that shit on me. I didn't take shit from his ass, but I wish I had. All that hard ass work I did for minimum wage and a bitch ain't got shit to show for it. Don't even have a fucking pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of. I ain't tripping off that shit no more though, I'mma get my muthafucking bread up and live the life I dreamed of.
Today was my first day on the job. I haven't meet Kayla's kids yet, only saw pictures of them on Facebook. She has a two year old daughter and a four week old son from her fiancé, Jaycee. I pulled up in the driveway of the address she gave me. I walked up to the door of her big, nice, brick home and knocked. Kayla opened the door for me with her baby in her arm.
"Come on in, Lexi. Good to finally see you since you been in the A."
"Good to see you too, and my baby cousins."
"Gone in the kitchen and washed your hands, so you can get Jr. for me."
I walked in the kitchen to wash my hands and then Kayla started showing me around her four bedroom, three bathroom home. The house was big as hell. They had an indoor pool, a game room with a pool table and a 50 inch flatscreen TV in it. The shit was a baby mansion and marvelous for a 23 year old like Kayla to be living in.
She told me everything I needed to know in order to take care of her newborn baby since I didn't have any kids of my own and had no experience with new baby's. Then she walked me down the hallway.
"Lexi, meet my fiancé, Jaycee." She opened up the door to their master bedroom and introduced us.
"He will be working as well while you babysit, but sometimes he gets home before I do. Whenever one of us gets home from work, you can go ahead and leave."
Kayla told me everything I needed to know, but, hot damn! She didn't tell me that her man looked this muthafucking good!
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Homewrecker: The babysitter
Short StoryLexi is a 22 year old single woman who moved from Chicago to Atlanta after her parents were killed. Lexi has a cousin name Kayla living in the A who is looking for a babysitter for her two small children. Kayla offers Lexi the job and little does sh...