The Babysitter's the Real Baby - Part 1 (Patreon)

Kate had always had a bit of superiority complex. Even when she had started going to college and got a little bit of a wakeup call from the real world, Kate had still always felt like she was the coolest and most mature person in the room. She had been a babysitter for a long time while she was growing up and it always felt like such a power trip for her. She was pretty sure that most of the kids she babysat for ended up hating her at one point or another, but she didn’t really care. They were just stupid kids after all, it’s not like she had to worry or care about their opinions of her. She could get away with teasing them, punishing them for annoying her, and sometimes she’d admittedly even bully them. In her opinion she never went all that far though. She told herself that she was trying to ‘toughen them up a little’.  Besides, all of them were either too scared to tell their parents what she did when she was alone with them, or the parents would normally believe her over their young little kids who were prone to occasional lying.

Then, one day, Kate got a new babysitting job. She didn’t take jobs nearly as often now that she was almost a college graduate, but this one paid way too well to pass up. She still lived at home, so she didn’t really need to make money, but her Mother had insisted that some work would be good for her.

At first Kate didn’t think there was anything unusual about the job, until she double checked the name of the ‘child’ and the address and was shocked at how familiar it was. After thinking about why it sounded that way, it finally clicked!

She had done this exact babysitting job before! Same address and same child’s name! It was the same person she had worked with almost a decade ago! Something was fishy...

Turns out though, it wasn’t an error! When she called the household she talked to a Mother that she had truthfully forgot existed and hadn’t talked to in years. The moment she heard her voice though, memories of taking care of a young girl named Megan came flooding back to her. She didn’t even know how many years ago that had been, Megan had to be much older by now.

As Kate talked to the woman though, she heard the whole story.

Even though she was practically an adult herself by now, Megan still needed to wear diapers because of medical issues. And partly because of that, her Mother much preferred to get the girl a babysitter still to make sure she was well taken care of. Megan didn’t really like it, but she chose to follow her Mother’s rules.

Kate thought back and remembered Megan. As a child she’d always been very shy and pretty easy to babysit. She’d usually just cook her dinner, send her to her room so she wouldn’t bother her, and tease her every now again. Despite it being a decade later, she knew Megan would continue to be one of the easiest babysitting jobs ever. What could go wrong?

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The job itself was a little over a week later, when Kate had a little more time to deal with the fact that she was going to be babysitting an adult, which had thrown her for a loop a little. She didn’t know if the fact that she had actually babysat Megan as a kid made this situation better or worse. Regardless she didn’t really care that much. Megan’s parents had always paid a ton, being on the wealthier side of things, and now they were paying even more because of the oddness of the situation.

Kate arrived at the house and Megan’s parents gave her the usual babysitting talk about emergency numbers and food, etc. Though she wasn’t really sure all that was necessary given the fact that their daughter was practically an adult herself.

Finally, they showed themselves out, telling her they’d be back sometime around the following morning, telling her that Little Megan was in her play room before shutting the door behind them.

“Play room?” The confused Kate said aloud. She knew that Megan was still wearing and using diapers and apparently could get into enough trouble to require a babysitter, but for the most part she figured that she’d still be looking after someone who was practically an adult. Maybe not...

Walking through the nice house as if her old babysitting job had only been yesterday; Kate decided she better go check on Megan and get this odd job’s weirdest part of seeing her new/old charge for the first time again, out of the way. She was headed towards her room when she passed by the supplies Megan’s parents had left for Kate to use. Among the supplies were a big white package and she knew immediately what they must be. She had done enough babysitting jobs in her life to know what a big package of crinkly pants looked like. As she sat down on the couch with the package she ripped it open, wanting to get a good look at one of them.
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This story was written by Zander Chesney

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