Over the next week, Sunset Shimmer was all I could think about. She was in my dreams when I slept and the thought of her kept distracting me form my homework. I couldn't pay attention in school because my mind just kept going back to her beautiful face. Oh man, what I would've done just to see her one more time. Little did I know that soon, my wish would be granted.
Friday night came again and my parents were going off on another date. "You sure you don't mind watching your brother again, Strike?" my dad asked as he and Mom were about to head out.
"Actually, Dad," Strike began. "I've got a date tonight, too. I'm supposed to go pick her up soon, but don't worry. I already got my friend to look after Cres for tonight. She's really responsible and she'll take good care of him. I promise." Just then, there was a knock on the door. "Ah, see? Right on time."
As soon as Strike opened the door, my heart stopped dead. It was her! The beautiful solar fire-haired angel herself. Standing in my doorway. I couldn't believe it.
"Hey, Sunset," my brother greeted her as I tried hard to keep myself together. "Mom, Dad, this is my friend Sunset Shimmer. We go to school together. She really took a liking to Cres last week, so I figured she wouldn't mind babysitting him tonight."
"You don't have to worry about a thing, Mr. and Mrs. Moon," she reassured them. "Crescent will be in good hands with me. I promise."
"Well, if Meteor Strike vouches for you, then that's good enough for me," Mom said. "What do you think, Crescent?"
I didn't have it in me to say a full sentence yet, so I just nodded my head way too fast and said "Uhhh... y-yeah."
Strike rolled his eyes while Dad gave a chuckle. "Just make sure he does all his homework, eats his dinner and gets to bed by ten. And no dairy. He's lactose intolerant," Mom instructed.
"Yes, ma'am," Sunset replied. "I won't let you down."
"Good," said Dad. "Have fun, boys. We'll see you later."
All three of us waved goodbye as Mom and Dad walked out the door and drove off. Sunset turned back to Strike. "You'd better get going, too," she said. "You don't wanna keep that date of yours waiting."
"You're right. I don't," Strike replied. "Just one more thing first." He came up to me and whispered seriously in my ear. "I hooked you up, bro. Do NOT blow this! You got it?" I nodded my head. Part of me wanted to slug him for going behind my back like this, but I was mostly extremely grateful to have another chance with the girl of my dreams.
With that, Strike grabbed his keys and headed for the door. "What was that about?" Sunset asked.
"Just making sure he knows to do what you say or I'll wedgie him into the next millennium."
"Well, that's not very nice," Sunset said with a smirk.
"Hey, I'm his big brother. It's my job. Later!"
Now that Meteor Strike was gone, it was just me and my smoking hot new babysitter. "So..." she said crossing her arms and looking at me like a mom. "What do you think we should do first?"
"Well, uh, we could play a board game," I suggested. "The closet under the staircase is full of them."
"That sounds fun, but we can play AFTER dinner," she retorted sternly, "which I'll be making while you're upstairs doing your homework."
"I kinda had a feeling you were gonna say that."
"Best to get it out of the way now so you don't have to worry about it all night."
I couldn't argue with that. Plus, it gave me an idea. The only homework I had left to do was my math homework, but maybe if I got all the answers right, I could wow Sunset with my awesome mathematic skills. I went upstairs to my room to finish my homework so Sunset could get dinner ready and when I came back down, I'd show her what a genius a really was.
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Figuring out all those math problems took me about forty minutes, but I was fairly sure they were all right. By then I could smell the delicious aroma of spaghetti and meatballs and I knew dinner was just about ready. It was good timing, too, because I was really getting hungry, so I headed back downstairs to the kitchen and brought my worksheet with me to show Sunset.
When I got to the kitchen, Sunset was drizzling marinara sauce on the noodles. "Good timing," she said. "Hope you've got an appetite."
"Yeah," I said, "but first, would mind checking my math to make sure I got all the answers right?"
"Sure." She put down the ladle and started glancing over my math sheet, carefully scanning each answer. When she was done, she raised an eyebrow and nodded her head. My spirits soared as I could tell she really liked what she saw. "I'm impressed," she said. "Most of these answers are correct."
My smile diminished a little bit when she said that. "Most of them?" I asked.
"Yeah. There's just one here that's a little bit off," she clarified. "Here. Let me show you."
I followed her to the table where we sat down and she pointed out the mistake I'd made on the fourth question. "See here? Where you said 'v' equals 85?" I nodded my head and she proceeded to explain how the problem should have been solved.
To be honest, though, it was a little hard for me to concentrate on what she was saying. Her breasts were pressed against the table and I couldn't take my eyes off of them. Plus, there was the beautiful smell of peach-mango shampoo coming from her hair. And the fierce twinkle that shown in her eyes as she calculated the math problem was also quite dazzling. How could I pay attention to pointless math with such a distractingly radiant woman by my side?
"Crescent? Crescent!"
Sunset's voice snapped me out of my trance. "If we think about the problem like that, then what do you think is the real value of 'v'?" she asked me. I struggled to think of something to say fast. I skimmed quickly through what she had written down and tried to make quick sense of it.
"Uhhhh..... 87?" I guessed with an awkward smile.
She didn't say anything for a few seconds. Her expression was a little hard to read, but she must've known that I'd taken a complete shot in the dark. "That's right," she finally said. I breathed a sigh of relief. That was a close one.
From now on I'd have to be more careful about how I acted around her. And I had to come up with some other way to impress her. But I decided to think about that later because at the moment, I was starving.