Being home and being available for six hours of childcare are not the same thing.

A seventeen-year-old was suddenly told to babysit two young children so his father and fiancée could leave.

Instead of accepting a responsibility he never agreed to, the teenager refused and walked out before their mother departed.

Read on below how it all went down.

AITA for leaving when I was asked to babysit forcing my dad’s fiancée to cancel her plans?

I (17M) lived with my mom until a year ago.

Her disability got to the point where she was placed in a care home that’s like a hospice.

My dad wasn’t ever a big presence in my life and he’s still not.

This teenage boy lives with his dad but pays for his own stuff.

I live there but I need to be self-sufficient.

I pay for my own stuff or have help from my maternal grandparents to pay for it.

It’s all kinds of messed up, but he was always that way.

His reason for having me here is no child support because he had to pay for 16 years before that.

His father is engaged to a woman with 2 kids, one of them is his.

My grandparents even promised they wouldn’t ask for child support.

But he was like no, and he was smug about him being my dad and he’d win over them anyway.

My dad’s engaged to some woman who has a 3-year-old with someone else and a 6-month-old with my dad.

I moved in around the same time as her and her kid did, and she was pregnant then.

I don’t know much about her and I don’t spend time around her or the kids.

His dad and his fiancée asked him to babysit the 2 kids.

Last Saturday, I had a day off work and I wasn’t planning on doing anything.

My dad and she said I needed to babysit the kids because they had stuff on.

Dad left first, and she told me she’d be gone for about 6 hours.

She was trying to tell me to do some stuff for the 6-month-old and the 3-year-old.

He refused and left the house.

I just said no way and I left the house.

I didn’t have anything planned, but I was not willing to babysit, and I dipped before she could leave.

She tried yelling after me but I kept going, and I didn’t go back to the house until it was late.

Dad was back by then and the two of them started yelling at me.

Saying I had no right to walk out and leave the kids without a sitter.

He told them he wouldn’t babysit the children ever.

I pointed out their mom was home and they said it wasn’t the point.

But I said it was the point, and I did not want to babysit and I did not have to babysit.

I told them I won’t ever babysit, so they better find someone for when they need it.

Because it won’t be me, and I will leave every single time.

Even the woman’s sister was berating him and calling him a jerk.

She was trying to guilt trip me about canceling her plans.

And I asked her why it was my problem that she didn’t prepare a sitter for her kids before her plans.

She even got her sister (who I don’t think I met before) to come over and tell me I was a jerk.

I took my daddy issues out on her sister and her niblings.

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So he packed his stuff and left home.

I rolled my eyes, packed my stuff, and I left after that.

I’m hoping he doesn’t try taking this to custody court.

And if he does, I hope he gets a date after I turn 18 and it’s a waste of time. AITA?

I’m asking because I know she didn’t do crap to me, and she might have appreciated it or something.

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Finally, people are telling him to move out.

This teenager rejected a last-minute six-hour babysitting demand, left while the children’s mother was still home, and clearly established his future boundary.

His father and fiancée could have asked beforehand and accepted no, but they treated his free time like childcare they already owned.

Their entire plan was to voluntell the teenager and hope he stayed put.