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Null was not good with kids, that’s something he was firm with when the teachers discussed what he could do to help support the school, especially after he sort of—kind of—tried to kill them and destroy their home of a game. He’ll do anything but deal with kids, he’ll clean toilets!--- and they don’t got any!
So right now, he was more of less stuck at restocking supplies for the school, carrying boxes filled with all kinds of items like Bsoda to safety scissors, he tries not to question the logic of this wacky world.
It’s a bit difficult to see with all the boxes he’s carrying, though it looks like the boxes are floating--- so he doesn’t notice Playtime skipping by. Her rope gets tangled in his legs which causes both of them to fall over, Null scattering the boxes items all over the floor.
“ah sh---t—” He glitch curses out, forcing himself to sit up, clutching his head before suddenly remembering what happened, quickly turning to Playtime, “hey—kid!”
Null froze when he saw the little girl hunched over her ropes, completely snapped into two, tears we filling her eyes as Null started to panic.
“hey—hey kid it’s okay!” He tried to calm her down, waving his invisible hands, “ah—sh—how does Baldi deal with this?”
“here..lemme—uhh” he takes the two snapped ends of the rope and ties them together, showing the temporarily fixed rope, “t-there?”
Playtime sniffed and wiped away her tears, she beams as he clutches her newly fixed jump rope.
“Thank you mister!” she says, smiling.
He gets up from off the ground, rubbing the back of his head, “uh..no problem kid”
“Can you please play with me?” she then asks.
“ehhh I dunno..” he wasn’t much of a physical person but at the same time he didn’t want to see her cry again…
Baldi happen to be walking down the hallway when he hears Playtime counting, he doesn’t think much of it until he picks up another voice he never thought of hearing with her. Peeking around the corner, he spots the glitchy man, trying to play jump rope--- you’d think for a guy that floats it would be easy.
“—4!—5! You did it! let’s play again some time mister!” Playtime beamed with glee before hurrying off.
Null catches his breath, stretching out his back, “Maybe---maybe later..”
Once she was out of view, Null rolled his shoulders back then he soon spotted Baldi, who was now leading against the corner with a smirk across his face.
Suddenly, Null’s see through face goes all pink, “YOU WERE---STA—ING—THERE THE—WHOLE---IME!?!?”
“it was so sweet of you!” Baldi cooed, making Null’s blush go even redder, “see? I knew you had it in you!”
“ugh just PLEASE--- don’t let principle know about----this” He groans, rubbing his face.
“No promises~” the teacher teased.
At least Baldi had the decency to help him clean up his mess.