Tonight, Samhantha decided, was a good night. She was currently lying on the floor, her upper back propped up by a small pile of pillows. Arranged around her were several bowls of chips, candies, and other assorted goodies. Said bowls were half-full, indicating that she'd been grazing out of them for some time. To her immediate right was a flat-screen TV, currently playing a cartoon that the two little girls she was babysitting tonight, Mimi and Nina Green, were currently watching. Said little girls were using the side of Samhantha's doughy belly as a pillow of their own. It stuck up in the air, round and bloated, filled with all manner of unhealthy foods: the jumbo burger she'd eaten after school, the lasagna she'd eaten for dinner, and the snack food that Mr. and Mrs. Green had said was okay for her to eat.
This was par for the course whenever she babysat at the Green residence. The girls had asked her after the first time she'd babysat them to make their favorite pillow bigger and softer, and who was she to deny them? It's not like she didn't know what a steady diet of junk food would do to her physique; she'd been pretty chunky when the Greens had first hired her to babysit their daughters while they'd started heading out on date nights to rekindle the fire in their marriage. She'd hit it off with the girls wonderfully, and so she'd become the go-to babysitter whenever Mr. and Mrs. Green decided that they needed a night out together.
Tonight was one of those nights, and so Samhantha had been called in to watch Mimi and Nina while the Mr. Green took Mrs. Green to dinner and a movie. She'd helped the girls with their homework (Mimi was in 2nd grade, Nina in 1st), they'd played some card games (Nina was the most vicious Go Fish player that Samhantha had ever met), and now they were winding the evening down with a few episodes of the sisters' favorite cartoon. Well, they were, at any rate. Samhantha was more focused on snacking right now.
Samhantha was reaching for another fistful of chips when she heard a noise coming from...
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