With something fairly benign, actually... At least, benign at first sight.

Amanda’s eyes narrowed, we both knew what she meant, but I wanted to hear it from her “Here’s the deal, if we finish all our homework within, say, one hour, you have to do everything with us, you're not our babysitter, you're just one of the girls.”

There it was, I was pretty sure that this wasn't as innocent a request as it was being made out to be, and I knew they couldn’t let an opportunity like go by, I’m just surprised that they didn’t pull this sort of thing sooner, perhaps it had something to do with their inability to cut loose at school as often as they used to, thanks to our deal.

“Half an hour.” I bargained, it might have been too late to try something like this with Lisa, but these kids were still new to this, so I might have been able to attain some leverage over them just yet. “And if you can’t make it, then you have to do everything I tell you to.”

“How would we even finish everything in half an hour?” Cameron protested, I just smiled shrugged, if they wanted to play this game, I was not going to make it easy for them, and I wanted a chance to get back at them for all the grief they put me through.

• The girls agree to your conditions, almost too readily.
• The girls hesitantly agree.