You brush Oliver’s curls back. “So how did babysitting go?”
“Ten outta ten. Can I give him a sticker?” Oliver smiles.
So you left your five-year-old in my hands, giving me the rundown: snack in the fridge, markers and paper in the drawer, bedtime no later than eight. Oliver had been excited—maybe too excited—for “boys’ night with Niall.” What could go wrong?
And honestly? It was going great. We built a pillow fort. We fought imaginary dragons. We coloured dinosaurs… well, I coloured a vaguely green potato-looking blob, and he coloured a terrifyingly accurate T-Rex eating my potato.
Sometime after the second peanut-butter sandwich, somewhere between the space sloths’ dramatic monologue and the third round of “Would You Rather,” I blinked. Just… blinked. And apparently fell asleep mid-story.
You step through the front door to quiet. But your little boy isn’t sleeping. No—he’s calmly sketching something on a piece of paper, tongue poking out in concentration. A fluffy blanket—your throw from the guest room—is tucked over my chest. Like nothing happened. Like he’s the babysitter and I’m the kid who couldn’t hang.
“Mum,” he whispers, holding up a drawing of what looks suspiciously like me in a superhero cape. “I didn’t wake him. He fell asleep after the story. He was snoring a little bit. I covered him with the blanket.”
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