"Okay on the count of three we are going to spray this paint on them," Jay told his niece with a smile as he handed her a paint can and made his way towards his two friends who had made the mistake of falling asleep. Mal just smiled as she grabbed the can and quietly followed after Jay. Jay was trying to bond with his niece while also helping get some mischief out of her since she would never survive with the way she was acting now.

    "Okay one... two... three!" Jay screamed out as he and Mal began to spray the paint on Evie and Carlos. Evie and Carlos both just jumped up when they felt the paint making Mal and Jay start laughing as they high fived. "Whoo! That was awesome!" Mal screamed out to Jay while laughing at Evie and Carlos who were both covered in paint. "See I told you! Stick with me and we can do plenty more things like this. Next I'm so going to take you out and teach you some of my stealing moves," Jay told his niece with a smile making the girl smile more. "Really? That sounds like so much fun!" Mal screamed out happily.

     Oh my gosh! What is this? Oh my gosh, look at my outfit it's completely destroyed! Jay I'm going to kill you!" Evie screamed out when she saw all the paint on her clothes, and she knew that it was him that was trying to influence her daughter and turn her against her and Carlos. Jay just laughed as Evie grabbed his arm and dragged him away from the others as Evie was angry at him.

      "What is wrong with you? I don't want you to teach her that it's okay to mess with us. Carlos and I are her parents and we don't want you to be teaching her to not respect us. We may all look the same age and she may not know that we are really her parents, but we are still her parents and she is still just a baby. I want my baby to respect me even if she doesn't know the truth," Evie told Jay as she didn't like how Jay was acting like her baby was really some teenager. This was killing her and Carlos, but Jay seemed to be having a great time with this and that was making her more upset. Jay would rather her baby be a teenager that didn't even know who she really was than to be the baby that she was supposed to be.

       Jay just sighed as he looked at Evie. He knew that this was hard for her to see her baby as a teenager, but Evie needed to understand that they had to act like how normal friends would act and messing with your friends was a part of normal friendship especially on the Isle. "Okay Evie I'm sorry, but we need to make it look believable. Plus we need to get some more mischief and toughness out of her. Right now she is way too innocent and soft. She'll get destroyed out there," Jay told his little sister.

     As normally it would be okay for her to be innocent since she would normally be a baby and many of the villain kids didn't mess with babies because even the villain kids knew that it was wrong to mess with an innocent creature that could barely even do anything, but right now Mal looked like a teenager and an innocent teenager would get killed.

       "I know that, but she still needs to respect us. Now let's just go back over to Carlos and Mal before it becomes too suspicious," Evie told Jay as she dragged him back towards Mal and Carlos who were both running around laughing with spray paint in their hands as they were trying to spray each other with the paint.

       Evie and Jay both just laughed as they watched Carlos run around with his daughter. They were both having so much fun playing around with the paint. "Whoo! Direct hit!" Carlos screamed out excitedly as he sprayed paint right onto Mal's face. Mal just laughed as she wiped the paint off and aimed right for Carlos' hair. Mal jumped up when the purple paint landed all over Carlos' hair. "Ha take that!" Mal screamed out happily enjoying her paint victory. Carlos just laughed as he was really having fun playing with his daughter even though she thought that they were just friends it was still fun.

     Evie just smiled as she liked seeing Carlos bond with their baby even though their little bonding experience made a huge mess in the hideout as the hideout was now completely covered in purple and red paint. Evie immediately changed from smiling to stern when she realized that she was encouraging Mal to make a mess and she didn't even really deal with Mal for messing with her and Carlos earlier. She had only gotten mad at Jay which was just sending Mal a message that it was okay to do it again. Plus Evie had decided that she would secretly still be parenting Mal even if Mal didn't realize that Evie was doing it. Everyone had that one mom friend all she had to do was play it off like she was that friend.

  "Okay that's enough. You two are completely covered in paint. And look at the mess you made. Clean this up before one of us slips and falls in the paint," Evie told the others in her scolding mother voice as she was trying to make it seem like she was the mom friend of the group, so that her parenting towards Mal would seem normal.

   Carlos and Jay both just looked at Evie in confusion as she was acting like she was their mom too which she had never done before. Mal just rolled her eyes as she looked at Evie thinking Evie was being ridiculous as Evie was trying to act like their mom. "Relax Evie. You're acting like your our mom. And I don't know about the boys, but I do know that you are definitely not my mom," Mal told Evie, having no clue that she was actually talking to her real mom.

    Evie just looked at Mal as she was trying so hard not to let Mal's words get to her, but it felt like a knife to the heart to hear Mal say that she wasn't her mom. Evie knew that it wasn't Mal's fault, but it still hurt really badly to hear her baby say that she wasn't her mom. Evie just put on a fake smile as she looked at Mal.

    "Oh I know that, but I am older than you and I've always been like the mom of the group. You know looking after you guys and making sure that you are doing the right things. Especially since our parents aren't around much. You just don't remember," Evie told Mal with a fake smile as she was trying to make it less suspicious that she was acting like her mom since Mal just thought Evie was insane at this point.

      Carlos and Jay finally picking up on what Evie was trying to do finally joined in on the conversation. "Yeah and I'm like the dad of the group, Jay is like the big brother, and you're the baby since you're the youngest," Carlos chimed in on the conversation. Mal just looked at Carlos as she began to laugh. "What you are the dad of our group? Shouldn't Jay be the dad since he's like bigger and I'm pretty sure he's older than you? Plus you look more like the older brother and definitely not the dad. I can see Evie being the mom, but really you're the dad?" Mal laughed out as she thought that it was hilarious that Carlos was supposed to be like the dad in their "imaginary" family.

       Carlos just looked at Mal and tried not to look hurt or offended as her words had really hurt to hear. His own baby had just admitted that she would basically rather have Jay as her father figure than him even if she didn't know that she had just said that to her real father.

        Jay noticing his friend growing sad and upset just looked at Mal. "Mal, Carlos is the dad since he is way more responsible than I am. And even though he is a little bit younger than me he is way more mature than me. Trust me we need people like Evie and Carlos to look after us and be like our parents. Evie and Carlos are amazing parental figures. In fact without them you wouldn't even be alive right now," Jay told his niece while giving Carlos and Evie a look as they all knew what Jay meant by his speech.

      Mal just smiled as she looked at Carlos. "Yeah I guess you're right. He doesn't seem that bad now that I think about it.  Now come on Jay we need to clean up the mess we made earlier. And maybe after that we can go out and you can teach me how to steal like you were talking about earlier," Mal told Jay with a smile as she grabbed an old rag and began to use it to clean up the paint.

      Evie just looked at Mal and Jay. "No! You guys will not be going out stealing. That is way too dangerous and I won't allow it," Evie told the two playfully, but also giving Jay a serious and threatening warning to not take her baby out and expose her to the other villains. Jay just nodded as he let Evie know that he got her warning.

       "How about we wait a little bit on that whole leaving the hideout and stealing thing," Jay told his niece as he couldn't afford to anger Evie or Carlos. Mal just sighed as she looked at Jay. "Okay fine I'll wait, but I want to go out soon," Mal told Jay as she didn't want to be cooped up in the hideout and she wanted to go out and explore.