PODCAST · fiction

CHAPTER 1:

by Ilies

My parents will be gone for most of tonight and Christmas morning tomorrow for some stupid work thing they both have. We usually have Christmas at six. We have to wait for Mommy and Daddy to get home first. Mom told Brad, my oldest brother, that we would have a babysitter because she didn't trust him to watch all five of us by himself. Mom often let Brad watch us, but we had broke a lot of things the last couple times we were left alone. So mommy said that she would get Rebecca to watch us. Rebecca came to the house at five. She was very pretty and Brad couldn't stop staring at her. Mommy and daddy left a couple minutes after Rebecca got here. This was the first time Rebecca had watched six kids at the same time before. I don't think she knew what she was getting herself into. My youngest sister, Molly, who's three, threw a tantrum after our parents left. Levi and Garrett, my younger twin brothers, who are both five, started fighting.Brad talked with Rebecca most of the nig