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It was a Saturday morning like every other for Clay. Waking up, taking a shower, making breakfast, just getting ready for the day until his doorbell rang. That's unusual he thought. Sapnap was in another country and he didn't expect any guests. When he opened the Door there was a woman standing outside, he knew her from somewhere but couldn't quite tell from where. "Thank God your Home" the Woman started, "I'm Caroline from next Door." Explains where i recognize you from he thought. "Do you need something?" he asked.
"Well i wanted to ask if you could watch my daughter for a bit. The Babysitter just cancelled and i can't take her to work with me." She looked really stressed. "It will just be till i find another babysitter. I will pay you for your troubles and-" "It's okay" Clay answered "I'll watch your daughter, you don't need to pay me" he smiled at the woman, "just bring her over before you go to work." "Thank you so much." Caroline answered with relief. Before going back to her House.
A few Minutes later the Doorbell rang again and there was Caroline and a young blond haired girl.
"Hello", she said with a smile, "I'm Mary. It's nice to meet you" "Well hello Mary, I'm Clay and i will watch after you till your mom gets back from work." he answered returning the smile. "Thank you again" Caroline said drawing Clay's attention back to the girls mom "I'll try to get Home earlier today, here is my number if you have any questions." She handed him a sticky note before crouching down to her Daughter " And you have a fun day and listen to him, okay sweetie?" "Yes Mommy." "I love you sweetie." "I love you too Mommy." Caroline smiled and hugged her Child once again before standing back up smiling at Clay and going to her car to drive to work.
After Clay and Mary waved till they couldn't see the car anymore they got into Clay's house and went to the kitchen. "Have you had Breakfast already?" Clay asked her, "Cause i did not." Mary chuckled "Mom packed me some Fruit." she answered getting a box out of her backpack. "Looks good," Clay said looking over "I'm going to make some scrambled eggs. You want some as well?" "No thank you." Mary answered and ate another blueberry. Clay turned back towards the stove to make his breakfast when Mary asked him something "Do you have whipped cream? I promise I'm allowed to have it." Clay chuckled, "Are you sure you're not lying?" "Fine." Mary pouted " But Strawberries taste better with whipped cream!" Clay chuckled once again going to the fridge. "Don't tell your mom. It's our secret now." And with that he put the whipped Cream in front of Mary who lit up instantly.
"So how old are you?" Clay asked eating his scrambled eggs while Mary was still eating whipped cream, Strawberries long gone "I'm six!" Mary answered, proudly to be so old already. "So your in what? First Grade?" Clay asked again. "Yes!", was Mary's far to eager answer. She must really like School Clay thought. "Where does your mom work at ?" was his next question. "At the Hospital." was his answer from the girl who was now looking in her backpack for something, whipped cream nowhere to be seen . That explains the hurry Clay concluded. "Do you wanna draw with me?" He looked over to the little Girl now with a coloring book in front of her, offering him a pink pencil. Clay took the last bite of his Breakfast before answering "Sure thing." and taking the Pencil from the kid.
"So what color is the sky supposed to be?" "Purple!" "Alright." They had already colored in 3 Pages of the unicorn coloring book. this was a lot more fun then Clay thought it would be. "And what color is the unicorn gonna be?" "RAINBOW!" He chuckled, all unicorns so far have been rainbow. Why would it be different now? They would have probably kept coloring if Clay's phone alarm hadn't gone of in that Moment. He looked at his phone, it was almost 10 am. They have been coloring for the past hour. "Alright", Clay said, still looking at the phone like it had betrayed him, "i need to go shopping today and it looks like your coming with me." "YAY!" That was not what Clay thought would happen. "Can we go to the plushie section?" "Sure" he was pretty sure he just died of cuteness.
After messaging Caroline to ask if she had any booster seats in her house, and waiting for a reply, Clay and Mary went over to her house to get said booster seat. Thankfully Caroline packed a key in Mary's Backpack. After another couple of minutes spend getting the seat to the car and getting Mary into the seat, they were of to the supermarket. "What do we need to buy?" Mary asked after some time in the car. "Toast, Cheese, some vegetable and fruit, and whatever you want to eat for lunch today." "Pancakes?!" "Yes." "YAY!"
"Alright," Clay said "last check before check out. Cheese?" "Yes!" "Toast?" "Here!" "Carrots and Apples?" "Yes and Yes." "That should be everything then.", he was about to roll their cart into line when Mary piped up again "WAIT!" "What is it?" "You said we would go to the Plushies!!" Dream chuckled "Guess we forgot one thing then.", he turned the cart around and went to the Plushie section with a very excited Mary sitting in the Cart.
"No you cannot get them all. I said one." "But look at them!" Mary stood in front of Clay clutching five Plushies to her Chest. Clay had no idea how she managed to hug them all at the same time but she did. "Mary one of those costs like 30$. I'm not gonna buy five of them!" "But i can't choose." Mary said her eyes getting more teary. Clay sighed. "How about one of them and the small ones of the other ones?" "YAYYY!!", was all he heard before Mary rushed of to get the smaller Plushies. At least one of us is happy he thought before checking if he had enough money with him for all those Plushes.
He did indeed have enough money and he was also pretty sure the cashier was a bit jealous when she saw all those plushes ,but that could just be his imagination. Mary, very happy with her prizes, sat on Clay's Couch probably making up some story's already. Story's Clay thought. Wait a Second. He promised to talk about the lore with Tommy today! He completely forgot in all the chaos that was his morning. He quickly pulled out his phone and opened Discord.
"Tommy so sorry to ask but can we pls delay our call to the evening? Something came up and i won't have time this afternoon." "No Problem Big D! Ttyl"
That was surprisingly easy Clay thought to himself before continuing to put the stuff away he bought with Mary earlier today.
"Can i help with the pancakes?" Mary knelt on one of the kitchen chairs so she could properly see the counter "Of course you can." Clay answered putting down the last ingredient for the pancake batter, flour. "Come over here i got an apron for you." Mary got of the Chair and went over to Clay who put an apron over her head that was definitely too big. He tried making it fit as good as possible before getting a chair over to their site so Mary could actually help. "Alright, first 1 cup of flour." "On it!"
The team worked surprisingly well together, expect for some flour chaos at the start. In the end they had some really good pancakes ready. Clay put some aside for Caroline, thinking she may appreciate not needing to cook dinner later. "So you want sweet or savory pancakes?" "I don't know what that means but i want cheese and ham!" Clay chuckled getting the stuff out of the fridge "Alright then, here you go." "Thank you!"
The afternoon went by fairly quickly with both of them on the floor playing with Mary's toys and later watching Frozen. Clay looked at his phone. It was almost 8pm, Mary's mom was still not home. Just a few seconds later a message popped up on Clay's screen.
"Hey you two, sorry but work won't let me leave yet. I don't know when I'll get home, could she stay with you for just a bit longer? Just let her sleep on the Couch if she gets tired I'll pick her up later"
Think of the devil Clay thought. He looked over to Mary already sleeping on the couch, she fell asleep sometime during the second movie covered in her new Plushies. Clay smiled before silently standing up and going to get his laptop so he could actually have the call with tommy.
"Ok that sounds good. So I'll see you on the SMP soon then. Have a good night." "Yeah till then. See you Big D." And with that they ended the call. Clay glanced at the time. 10 pm. He looked at his phone, no new messages. He sighed. Ok then he thought. He unlocked his phone went to the chat with Caroline and texted her.
"Hey there Caroline, Mary is asleep and fine don't worry. I'm also going to go to bed now. You just get home and enjoy the night I'll bring her over tomorrow. And no it's no trouble we had a lot of fun today.
He quickly send the message before he could change his mind. Then he went to get himself a blanket cause he was not about to let Mary sleep alone in a house she had been in for only a day. He fell asleep way faster than he thought, now realizing how much energy the day really took. The House was quiet both of them dreaming of the events of that day. Both happy.