A Summer of Babysitting Hell

I had the whole summer to myself. It was going to be one of the best summers I had ever had. I did not know I was in for a summer of babysitting hell. It was the first day after school had ended and my mom came in my room. She told me that I would have to baby sit my little brother for the whole summer. I quickly demanded to know the reason. She said that she and my father had to work all summer. I did not know what to say. I just sat there dumbfounded. The first day that I had to baby sit, he invited some of his friends over to play. I figured nothing bad could happen, so I let his friends come over. Boy was I ever wrong! First, they broke my mother’s favorite lamp. It shattered into so many pieces; you couldn’t even tell that it had once had a shape. They had been playing football in the house. After that disaster, I told them to go outside. Why did I do that? They were throwing the football and broke a garage window. I could only as myself what more could happen. I got a break from the troublemakers when they went home for lunch. Much to my dismay, they came back. They got into a fight over who was winning the football before they left. One kid got his nose busted and my brother got a black eye. After I got everyone calmed down, I told them to come in the house and watch television. That even turned into trouble. They had a fight over the remote control. They wasted Kool-Aid over the kitchen floor. The pillows and cushions from the couches were lying all over the floor. I was at the end of my rope. I yelled for all the kids to go home in a hurry. I made my brother help me clean up. At about 5:25, my parents came home. They asked what happened. I recanted the story of everything that had happened and stood in anticipation of my punishment. My parents told my brother that his friends could not play in the house anymore. My mom offered these words of wisdom, just think; it can’t get much worse than this. She smiled, but I was not smiling at all. It was only two days after school had ended and I was wishing for school to start.