Babysitter's Club

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[boilover]

He's a good boy. Leave him alone. I promised to be nice to your train wreck, you gotta stop calling mine a freak.

I am! I barely yelled at him. Only like twice

[catchacold]

I'm just glad yours is at least a sarcastic and cynical little shit, makes him more human.

How about no yelling? Just say that you and Teddy want cake.

[boilover]

I know. Right? I was worried he was like a very polite robot boy I mistook for real.

Teddy wants cake? Is that what Ax is suppose to be doing?... hmm. I should encourage him.

[catchacold]

No, he's as bratty as any teenager, just not in the normal ways.

Yes, be encouraging and get cake!

[boilover]

Does he have any ideas what he wants to do after whore?

Other than cake maker

[catchacold]

He has no ideas. He trusts me to have them.

I have a few.

[boilover]

What kind of ideas?

Share. Maybe I can hint at them. I finally got him into the kitchen under the guise of entertaining Teddy. They're baking.

[catchacold]

Mostly I think he needs to do something creative. He has a good eye, he has talent. He's lacking confidence.

[boilover]

I guess we could try encouraging him. Hartley is creative too, maybe they'll be good influences on each other.

So if the kid doesn't have a job, where is he going to live?

[catchacold]

For another few nights he can share the couch with Hartley, then I got plans in the works.

Wonder if him and Hartley will finally be dating for real.

[boilover]

You gonna get him a place or kick his ass back into care?

I hope not. They keep making cutesy eyes at each other.

[catchacold]

His own space, at least. Maybe not all by himself.

What, you don't like them together? So cute.

[boilover]

Just make sure it's somewhere stable or he'll be right back to whoring. He's a dumbass. He does dumb stuff when he's unhappy. Like become a whore.

Nope, they bug me. They're all cute and hold hands and it's gross and annoying.

[catchacold]

It will be somewhere stable, I got ideas. He won't be unhappy. I take care of my team.

...what's gross about it?

[boilover]

... Oh God, not this again. You and your teams. They always screw you in the end, Leonard. Don't get attached.

They're teenagers and they're all lovey-dovey. It's gross. Feelings everywhere.

[catchacold]

Who else is screwing me? I got you, Teddy, Lis. Now I guess Hartley and Axel. Team, family. Whatever.

Oh yes, it's very intense. The other day Lisa and Hartley were arguing over what an emote Axel used meant, they were both close to tears.

[boilover]

Cause you always get super into the team thing and you get disappointed or ... weird and intense. Just be chill. We're not a team. We're just ... family.

Yeah, I know. Axel is worried that if Hartley sees him baking, he'll think he's 'gay-gay' not just gay. I don't know what the fuck that means.

[catchacold]

Family is more intense. What team did I ever get into?

I've no idea. I am pretty sure Hartley tends to just think 'yay, muffins'.

[boilover]

You were always forming them. Then shooting them. All my game buddies, dead :(

We all do. I told him that. He's worried if he puts effort in, he'll look like a dork.

[catchacold]

I only kill with good reason and these days you got nothing to do with that. No more of your buddies dying.

Tell him that Hartley spends about an hour every time before Axel comes looking at himself in the mirror and trying out things with water in his hair and ending up looking the same as always. Also point out to him that his boyfriend barely sleeps for all the studying, composing and practising he does and that although he already graduated high school.

[boilover]

Yep. I'm a boring dad, I remember.

Nah, I ain't gonna tell him that! It makes my kid look like a wussy nerd and Axel looks cool by comparison. I just told him to man up and bake some damn cupcakes because I'm hungry and I fucking like baking too. It seems to have helped. I'm now making cookies with hi,.

[catchacold]

Yay, Mick cookies.

I mean, Hartley's not ashamed of trying hard. He's ambitious. He needs to be, the places he's applying to are expensive as all hell.

[boilover]

I'm making them in the shape of bears for Teddy. He can very slowly eat cookies now but he gets more cookie around his face and on me and his bib than he does in his mouth.

I told him that, he shrugged. He's a teenager. They don't care. I never cared at that age either.

[catchacold]

You should make animal shaped cookies, those are best to eat for Teddy. And me. Mostly me.

That's what you think. He has budgets drawn up for any potential scholarship he might get. He has a whole tiny notebook that's all filled with neat little budget plans.

[boilover]

I'm making you dino cookies.

Seriously? God, he is such a nerd, isn't he? I'll help him. If I can and I got a pretty good job. He's giving me a hand with my studies, I owe him a little more have ten bucks for watching my kid and free food.