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Trev was a man of very little skills. He knew how to make drinks, cook very simple food and basic tasks. But despite that, he was always up to help out. Anytime you needed something Trev would always be right there to help out.
That's why when Jimmy walked into work looking like a zombie, Trev knew he needed help.
Jimmy had just become a father six months ago. Trev has never seen himself having kids anytime in the future, but he can tell becoming a dad isn't as easy as some claim it is. Trev has seen the millions of baby pictures Jimmy’s wife has shown him, and their kid looks exactly like his father despite them sharing the same name.
Jimmy sighed and put on his apron. "Peppers teething." He yawned. "He's been crying all night because of it. As much as I love him he's one handful."
"Like father like son." Trev smirked.
Jimmy rolled his eyes at Trev's comment.
"You know if you want I could babysit him for a night." Trev worried for his coworker. His sleep and well being was important to Trev.
Jimmy scoffed. "Good luck. Your signing your own death certificate. Besides, have you babysat a six month old?"
"No. I've never had the chance to. I mean how hard can it really be?"
Jimmy smiled. "Boy are you in for a ride."
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Trev had drove to Jimmy house after work which conveniently wasn't to far. He stepped out of his car and walked to the front of his house. He always loved how there house looked. He rang the door bell and a couple seconds later his wife opened the door. Trev could tell Jimmy was taking her out on a date because of how nicely she was dressed.
"Oh, hey Trev! You must be the babysitter." She smiled.
"Yep! I'm mini Jimmy's babysitter!" Trev always adored his wife. He still doesn't know how Jimmy was able to swoon someone this nice.
She welcomed him inside. "Thanks for offering to do this. As much as we love our baby, it's nice to have this time alone."
"Oh it's no problem. You guys deserve this."
She smiled sweetly at him. "Well here's a list of all the things Jimmy Jr needs. Jimmy had already changed and fed him so he hopefully shouldn't need any of that for a little while." She continued to ramble on about everything he need to do. Trev made sure that he payed attention to everything she said. This isn't something he wanted to mess up.
"Let him rest babe." She smiled at Jimmy as he appeared in the kitchen with the mini version of him. Jimmy Jr had on a cute little dinosaur onesie and was holding a little turtle stuffed animal.
She gasped as she saw the outfit her son was in. "Oh my god you put him in his new onesie! He looks so good!"
"He loves it." Jimmy Jr threw his stuffed animal on the ground and grabbed his dads hair instead. "Hey! One off these days your gonna hurt me." Even though Jimmy was technically scolding his son, Trev still released how different he was. Trev had remembered the times during his wife's pregnancy when he would tell him how much he would be a terrible father. Trev would keep telling him over and over again he would do great. And sure enough this moment proved so.
Everyone in town could tell Jimmy loved his son. There were pictures of his kid along with his wedding day pictures behind the bar.
“Do you know how to hold baby’s Trev?” Jimmy tested Trev just in case and he passed. Trev now had Jimmy Jr in his hands. “We should be home by midnight. Call us if you need anything. Please call if you need help or even if you have a stupid question.”
Trev nodded at watched the two Pesto’s leave for the night. He looked down at Jimmy Jr. “So it’s just us right now. What should we do?”
Jimmy Jr looked up at Trev like he was a stranger. He smiled and poked Trev right in his left eye. Trev sighed knowing that it would be a long night.
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A couple minutes later Jimmy Jr started to cry. Trev had tried everything. And that even included bouncing him in his arms around the house singing a very out of tune version of, ‘California Gurls’ by Katy Perry. But nothing seemed to work.
So he walked over to the kitchen were Jimmy’s wife had left the schedule. The first thing on it was to feed him…again. This was then followed by instructions of how to get his food. He placed Jimmy Jr in his high chair while he got the food ready.
After he carefully followed each step, his bottle was finally ready. He handed it to Jimmy Jr to which he threw on the ground. Trev was shocked. He didn’t expect that to be his reaction, if he’s so hungry then why would he just throw his food on the ground? So Trev tried giving him his bottle again in hopes for a different reaction. But the same thing happened, over, and over, and over again.
Trev picked up the bottle and glared at Jimmy Jr who was having a giggle fit. “This is funny to you?” The baby continued to laugh as Trev decided just to put the bottle back in the fridge and brought the next food on the list out, solid food.
He grabbed the small container of puréed prunes thinking that’ll be good. He dumped it in a larger bowl. He looked over at Jimmy Jr who was throwing his toys on the ground with a smile on his face. He looked back at the bowl of prunes and decided it was better off not giving this to him.
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“Stop chewing your feet.” Trev said for what felt like the millionth time. Jimmy Jr, with his foot still in his mouth glared at Trev and continued to chew it. “Dude I said stop!” Trev said and instead gave him a plastic red ring toy to chew on. Luckily Jimmy Jr took that and started to chew it.
Trev started to feel the wave of exhaustion take over him. It was only 10 pm, meaning the Pesto’s would finally be home in 2 hours. He never says this, but he wishes he never offered to babysit a six month old.
Jimmy Jr crawled into Trev’s lap and pushed the red ring against his nose cause him to burst out into a fit of giggles. Trev smiled at Jimmy Jr. Until he smelt a horrible order. The worst part his he knew were it was coming from…
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After another hour of throwing things, screaming, and pulling on parts of Trev’s face, Trev had enough. He marched over to fridge and grabbed his bottle. Once he got back to the couch he held Jimmy Jr has he had his bottle to calm him down.
As Trev watched Jimmy Jr, his eye lids got heavier and heavier and before he knew it he had fallen asleep with Jimmy Jr still in his arms.
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Jimmy had parked the car in the garage and the two of them got out and started to walk inside.
“Tonight was lovely.” She smiled at Jimmy. “Thanks for that.”
“Anything for you.” He gave her a small peck on his wife’s lips before unlocking the door.
“Do you think he gave him a hard time?”
Jimmy laughed. “Oh yeah. No doubt.” He unlocked the door and the two of them stepped inside.
“We’re home.” Jimmy said. But no one answered. The two of them started to panic. What happened to their kid? And Trev to.
As his wife walked into the living room were she was filled with relief as she saw Trev and Jimmy Jr on the couch. She grabbed Jimmy Jr from Trev. Jimmy walked in and sighed of relief.
“I’ll get the guest room ready.” She said as she walked off with Jimmy Jr.
Jimmy walked over to Trev and shook him awake. “Good morning Sleeping Beauty.”
“Wha- oh my god Jimmy I’m so sorry I didn’t mean to fall asleep I swear.”
“Hush Aurora. We’ve got the guest room set up for you since your not driving home. We can talk about this tomorrow.”
“Thanks Jimmy. Oh and, I’ll be taking my death certificate as well.”