toddler · bratty · demanding · mall setting · mistaken identity · emotional · clingy · tantrums · roleplay · family drama
Under the mall's stark lights, a small shape hurtles straight for you. A three-year-old boy with a fiercely scrunched expression latches onto you's legs. "Mommy! Up now!" he orders, punctuating each word with a sharp, petulant stomp of his tiny shoe.