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My name is King James. binding when I was a tyke I was very lonely and dysphoric. I had no crime syndicate, I was an orphan. I spent most of my childhood with surrogate parents never staying with anyone for more than than a class or two. I wasn't a job nestling ; I guess I was just unlucky when it came to foster parents.

One of the household I stayed with when I was about four geezerhood old moved out of the orbit because of a job alteration and didn't want to assume me.

Another couple I stayed with when I was seven class old thought they couldn't have baby but when my Stephen Collins Foster female parent became pregnant I was no longer wanted so I had to turn back to the orphanage.

The showtime couple of meter I was pulled away from my foster parents it hurt, it hurt me real bad. I didn't understand why I couldn't check with them. After that I learned not to get close to my Foster parents anyone. I just went into a plate to protect my slight feelings.

thinking back I never got many, if any clinch from most of my foster parents. Oh sure they fed me and told me when to go to bed but about of the time I was pretty a lot on my own. At that young age I didn't know any better, I didn't know or understand what a normal very family was like so I thought that was the way it was. Looking back on my offspring life I guess some of them where in it for the money.

I was transferred in and out of a number of school day and as a result I didn't have any close acquaintance. Always being the new kid I was picked on a lot. This caused me to stay away from them and I tried to preserve a low profile, avoiding others, and didn't make friends.

In my older year of high schooltime shortly after I turned eighteen I met Kathy. She was like me, an orphan. The easily way to delineate Kathy was average. There were a lot of former girls that caught my eye as beautiful but Kathy was average out. Don't get me wrong she wasn't ugly. She had nighttime brown hair, brown eyes, and an average sized chest. She stood about 5'6"and carried a few extra British pound but if someone asked, I would cause said that she wasn't fat. We knew each others names because we shared the fact that we were both orphans but she had her own crowd that she ran with and we didn't hang out together.

One Saturday Night I was walking around the metropolis alone when I saw Kathy at a bowling bowling alley. She waved at me so I walked over to her and said hi. She said she was waiting for a girl admirer of hers to bear witness up. Her young woman friend was already late and she didn't want to expect any longer so she asked me if I'd walk her home. I didn't have anything else to do so I said yes.

It was a cool spring night as we started walking the two or so Roman mile to her foster dwelling. We talked on the way and the subject turned to sex.

She asked me,"Have you ever done it with anybody ?"

I hadn't been on any dates and walking her base was the longest prison term I had ever spent alone with a girl. I tried to stave off answering the inquiry for veneration she would tell someone that I was a Virgin and get my sprightliness worse.

I threw the question back at her,"Why, have you ever done it with anybody ?"

She smiled at me and said,"I'm not a Virgin but I think you are."

I didn't say anything. I was embarrassed and turned my boldness away from her not wanting her to see me blush.

She took my arm in hers and laid her straits on my shoulder and said in a kind vocalisation as we walked,"Don't worry about it everybody starts off as a Virgo the Virgin, if you want I'll do it with you."

I was speechless and didn't know what to say. She pulled me to a stop with her arm and stood in front of me. She put her arms around my neck and we kissed. I was new at this ; it was the first real kiss that I had ever received from a girl. I put my limb around her waist and tried to buss her like she was kissing me. She relaxed her lips and I felt her tongue trying to wiggle its way into my mouth. I took in a deep nervous breath and relaxed a little and our knife met.

My heart was beating faster and I was getting excited. My dick was getting hard as she pulled me closer to her, pressing her B-cup breasts into my thorax. We broke our kiss and continued walking arm in arm. When we got close to her theater we walked down the bowling alley and she whispered to be quiet. We went to the book binding of her firm and she took a key from the top of a window sill and quietly unlocked their garage. We went in and she locked the doorway behind us.

It was a great single car detached service department with a work bench and an old couch on one side. Kathy cleared some stuff off the couch and sat down. I sat down next to her and she put her blazonry around me and we began kissing again.

After a few mo she must take gotten impatient and took my hand and put it on her chest. My heart was pounding in my throat as I squeezed her white meat a few clock time but mostly just left it where she had put it.

A few hour later she stopped kissing me and after a thwart suspiration said,"You are new at this aren't you ?"

She then just came out and said it."You can jazz me if you want to."

I could just barely see her precis in the shadow as she stood up and took off her drawers and step-in. She reached down unbuckled my belt and pulled my knickers and boxershorts down to my ankles. I was glad it was dark because I would have been too humiliated to let her see me without my apparel on.

She knelt down on the frame facing me with one knee on each side of me. I reached up and massaged her breasts while she reached for my hard penis. When she touched it, it felt so good I damn near came right there in her bridge player. She slowly lowered her body down on top of me and slide my cock up into her slippery oh so wet pussy. It was the most gratifying feeling that I had ever felt. I couldn't believe how warm and sonant her pussy was. She sat still for a few mo and then started slowly sliding up and down.

organism my first time I lasted just a few seconds and I came inside her. She once again had a frustrated sigh when I started getting soft and she just collapsed down on me and rested her straits on my articulatio humeri. Every once in a spell she gave my penis a squeeze with her slit muscles and it didn't take long for me to become hard again. When my cock was fully raise she sat up straight and lifted up her blouse and bra and took my paw and put them on her bare breasts. She put her hired hand on my berm and started slowly rocking forward and backward.

I started rolling her heavy teat between my finger and quarter round and she was moaning and whispered,"Ohh that feels sooo good."

She started rocking faster and faster and whispered,"Ohh that feels so serious, squeeze harder."

I squeezed her nipples harder expecting her to squeal out in pain but she didn't. She was rocking back and forth about as fast as I thought she could as I squeezed her titty and rolled her nipples. She grabbed two handfuls of my hair and started grinding her slit hard into my pelvis. On every forward stroke she moaned then she let out a squeal and collapsed on my breast breathing hard.

Her pussy started quivering around my cock in short-change fasting explosion. The sensation was unbelievable and it didn't take long for me to start cuming again. After resting for a few minutes Kathy got up and teased,"Not bad for your first time."

After we got dressed I walked her to the door and gave her a goodnight kiss. I couldn't believe what had just happened to me. I was in a dreamland, ‘ I had a lady friend !'I was glad and couldn't wait to see her at school on Monday.

When I saw her in school I smiled at her but she didn't smile back at me, she just said hi and kept walking. I ran to captivate up to her and asked,"What's legal injury ?"

She pulled me to the side and whispered,"Last Saturday night I was just aroused and wanted to be intimate. Don't take it personal."

She then just walked away from me and out of my life sentence. I was hurt, to go from such a high to such a low so quickly really hurt. I made a hope to myself to never get hurt like that again.

I didn't go out on any dates and kept clear of girls, which was pretty easy for me because I was invisible to most of them. As time went on I withdrew from the great unwashed to the point where you could say I was a hermit. My faith in human beings was at an all time low.

By some miracle I managed to graduate high school. I didn't infliction buying commencement exercise announcements because I didn't have anyone to send out them to. I wasn't very close to the foster parents that I was living with so no one that I knew came to the kickoff ceremony to watch me graduate.

After I graduated I packed my matter and told my Stephen Foster parents that I was moving out of their house. I followed my aspiration of hitch hiking across the country to see all of the things that I had read about and seen on television. The first base few days I made good progress heading out west to see the Rocky Mountains. I was about six hundred miles from my hometown eating breakfast in a truck stop diner when I discovered my billfold was gone.

I had a few one dollar bill stuffed in my movement pocket and paid the bill. I don't know if I was pick-pocketed or if I had just lost it. I retraced my step back until I got to the spot where I got out of the last car that gave me a ride. I couldn't find it and wondered if it dropped out of my pocket while I was in the car. There was no one I could shout and ask for help so I was on my own.

I was depressed and didn't want to continue my journey so I began hitch hiking back home. I didn't have a domicile to go to but I wanted to get back to some intimate surroundings. I was having a difficult time catching a ride and it took two Clarence Shepard Day Jr. for me to go only fifty mil, most of that on foot. I was dropped off at a gas station toward the end of the succeeding day and I only had a buck left hand in my scoop. I hadn't eaten anything in the death two sidereal day and I was thinking about going into the depot and shoplifting some food.

Not paying stopping point attention to my surroundings I was startled by a woman's voice saying,"Young man !"

I looked to see that an elderly fair sex was walking toward me. She asked,"Would you please help my husband change a monotone tire ?"

She was a nice grandmotherly looking someone with a nice smile so I said,"Sure."

She grabbed my arm in hers and used me as a crutch as we started walking back to their car. She whispered,"My husband is a majestic man and will probably say that he doesn't need any helper. He has a bad heart and needs the help and you should just help him."

I nodded my head and said,"Yes ma'am I understand."

When we went around the recess of the building there was a marque new Cadillac with a flat tyre. An senior man was empting the trunk that was full of suitcases and other personal items to get the jack and surplus tyre out.

I walked up to the automobile trunk and said,"Let me give you a hand with this sir."

He looked up and said,"I'll be mulct I don't need any help."

His wife cut in and said,"Damnit Bill you have a bad heart. Let him help."

He backed away from the trunk and I changed the tire and loaded everything back into the car.

Bill shook my manus and said,"Thank you son, let me buy you some dinner."

I smiled and said,"Sure."

This would be the first meal that I had since yesterday morning. I was so thirsty and I ate the nutrient so dissolute it made neb ask,"My god son when's the in conclusion time you ate ?"

I said,"Yesterday morning."and then told them my chronicle.

Bill looked at his wife and said,"A bus ticket can't be all that much ?"

She nodded her approval and the succeeding affair I knew I was in the next Town's bus depot with a ticket rest home in my hand.

I tried to get their computer address to pay them back but he patted me on the shoulder joint and said,"Life has been trade good to us and we have more money than we know what to do with."

He then handed me a 20 dollar broadsheet and said,"You'll probably get thirsty before you get home."

I couldn't believe it, I gave them both a hug and said,"Thank you I'll never forget you."

placard and Nancy Washington were the decent mass that I had any dealings with. The bus just the ticket cost over a c dollar and they paid for it like they had known me their whole living. I was happy on the bus ride household, glad then I had been in a long time.

The day after arriving back in my hometown I found a good job with a major manufacture fellowship. The pay was good and there were welfare including vacation, sick leave, and a 401-K.

I looked around and found an apartment not far away from the manufacturing plant where I worked. The apartment complex consists of five large identical brick buildings with eight flat in each edifice. Four flat are on the first storey and four on the second base. The complex was huge and took up a whole city blocking. They are all arranged in a big U shape with each edifice facing toward the large center greenness country and swimming pool.

The honey oil domain was criss-crossed with sidewalks and was shaded by respective dozen large hardwood tree diagram. The grounds were landscaped with shrub and small blossom gardens along the sidewalks and around the swim pool. At the far end of the soil sat a large stately three tale Victorian house.

The house was owned by David and Madonna Hiram King Williams who also own the flat. Saint David and Mary was a nice kip down couple in their belated 1960s. Saint David was a stockbroker and Blessed Virgin was a read nurse. They've been married for over forty long time and are childless.

The house appeared to be at least one hundred years old and upon close inspection it showed with child craftsmanship with ornate molding around the windows, room access, and on the eves. The front and back of the house had large screened in porches. The kitchen and dining room had beautiful built–in strong oak cabinets and all of the suite had solid oak floors.

The stairs were also oak with hand carved gyre piece of work on the railing. It had three fireplaces, four lav, and six large bedrooms plus a few additional rooms that could be used for a depository library or den. Madonna used one of these room as an office.

My flat had an electrical problem when I moved in. Saint David wasn't very good when it came to electricity so instead of waiting for an linesman to demo up and fix the job I asked to use some tools and fixed the job myself. It turned out to be just a bad wall substitution so I replaced it and everything worked as thoroughly as new.

David shook my script and said thank you. He's a very kind man with a Nice smile that immediately put me at simplicity. We talked for a few minutes and then he asked me to take care at some other electric problems he had. I went with him and we looked at the electrical problems in the other apartments. We got along good with each other and the next thing I knew I was helping him with all of the other upkeep.

It took some time but we became good admirer. I didn't have any other friends so I spent most of my time helping David with the maintenance or helping Mary with the gardening. I helped out so much that they let me quell in my flat rent free.

I tried dating a duet of times at Madonna's insistence but I didn't have very trade good social accomplishment and it was difficult for me to carry on a conversation with someone I didn't know. If I had any plain prison term I usually went to the movies alone or I went out to dinner with David and Mary.

I ate supper at their menage three or four times a hebdomad and was always invited to their holiday celebrations. We were a perfect fit for each other. They had no child and I had no parents. While working close with David he taught me a lot about the gunstock grocery and gave me penetration on where to put my 401-K money. acerate leaf to say my 401-K grew by spring and bounds.

I had been living there for almost xv years when St. David died of a sudden pump attack. I cried at the funeral like a son who had lost his forefather. Soon after the funeral Blessed Virgin and I had a long talking and it was decided that I would displace into the house with her and get taking tutelage of the flat wide-cut metre. She offered me a earnings that was about twice as a good deal as I was making at my job so I quit and transferred my large 401-k plan to an IRA.

Blessed Virgin was in her later seventies and never fully recovered from David's decease. I soon took over her duties of collecting rent and paying her bills. I did all of the shopping, most of cooking and I even took her to her Doctor appointments. Finally old age caught up with her and I truly believe she died of a broken eye about a year after Saint David.

The day after the funeral I was contacted by their lawyer and was surprised to get out that Saint David and Virgin Mary had willed their estate to me. I was shocked, between the time value of their IRA's and the income and value of the firm and apartments I became an instant multi-millionaire at the age of 30 two.

Not bad for an orphan.


Tara

I have never seen mom look so vex. It's root to scare me. Last night she was crying because the landlord came to our apartment and said, ‘ If the split isn't paid by Monday you will induce to travel out of the apartment.'

She took off work today to expect for a new flat for us. We needed to get a crummy berth to live but the first base three flat we looked at mom said they were too expensive.

Ever since dad left, mom has been working a lot, almost every day. Mom and Dad had a existent bad fight just after Christmas. He left that Night and I haven't seen him since. My sr. baby Katie is sitting in the front seat of the car and I'm in the back. The car is making a risible interference as we pulled to the curb in front man of the apartment.

Mom checked the address in the newspaper and said,"This is the final one lets Leslie Townes Hope for the expert."

The flat looked substantial Nice, better than the last one we saw. We got out of the car and I poked Katie and pointed to the swim pool. We walked to one of the apartment doors that was propped spread out with a death chair.

Mom knocked and said"hello is anybody here ?"
A prissy looking man carrying a paint roller walked into the hallway. He's tall, taller than dad was and he has brown middle and dark pilus. He looked at mom from her head to her toes and then looked at Katie and me. He smiled at us with a courteous smile. I like him.

James River

It was a hot June day and one of my apartments was empty. I was inside painting one of the bedrooms with the doors propped open to keep cool and to let the paint fumes out. I heard a smash at the doorway and a female voice say,"howdy is anybody here ?"

I went to the hall and looked to see a beautiful young woman about my age followed by two very cute Danton True Young girls. The girls were the spitting image of the woman and I assumed they were mother and daughters.

They all had Strawberry blond hair and were in very good physical condition. She had beautiful cryptic blue eyes and larger than fair breasts. Both of the girls were slim with their hair in a ponytail and they had an athletic look to them.

The woman was holding a newspaper and asked me,"Do you have intercourse where the authority is ?"

I pointed behind me and told her,"It's over there but I run the place."

She smiled and asked,"Is this the flat that's for rip ?"

"Yes."

"How a great deal is the rent ?"

When I told her she said ‘ damn'under her intimation. The oldest young woman crossed her arms and had a worried-disappointed look on her face.

The younger girl tore at my nitty-gritty strings. She looked to be about nine or ten years old. Her lip started to waver and a tear came out of her eye and quickly ran down her cheek. She looked like she had the weight of the whole populace on her young shoulder. My instinct was telling me something was very haywire.

I thought back to my childhood and I knew she had that hopeless feeling that I had when they took me away from my foster parents. I also remembered those few dire consequence when I was walking into the gas station to steal some food. The female parent said thank you and started to pass on. The younger girl hung her head down and followed. I couldn't let them leave without finding out their story.

I said,"Wait, is there a problem ? Maybe I can help."

She stopped and looked at me and said,"There's not a lot you can do."

Her nerve was beautiful even with her sad expression. Something in her eyes gave me the assurance to sing to her so I said,"Try me."

She looked at her young woman and then back at me. I could state she didn't want to say anything in nominal head of them so I reached in my pocket and pulled out a five dollar mark bill and gave it to the one-time fille and said,"There's a store down at the end of the pulley block. Go buy you and your sis some ice cream or what ever you want while I talk to your mother."

They looked at their mother and she nodded yes. smile broke out on their faces and in an blink of an eye they were gone.

I held out my hand and said,"My gens is James."

She shook my hand and said,"My name is Megan and my girls are Katie and Tara."

I said,"Is there anything I can do to aid you ?"

She crossed her arms and looked at her feet and said,"I'm having a strong sentence right now. I can't seem to get my feet on the ground."

Her forefront rose and she looked me straight in the eyes and said,"My husband ran off with another woman and left me with the girls and all of the flyer. Don't get me wrong, I love my girls, but I can't pay the apartment rent where I'm at and we have just a few days before they will discombobulate us out. I don't have a very good job and I can't afford the rip that everybody charges."

Her answer seemed good and sincere and she looked like she needed soul to contribute her and her daughter's a suspension. I was amazed at myself because I was capable to babble to her without stumbling for words to say. She was a very beautiful cleaning woman and I wanted to ask her out on a particular date but I was too shy to ask her. I thought a couple of calendar month of gratuitous split wouldn't hurt and when I knew her comfortably I might rule the courage to ask her out.

I asked,"How old are your daughters ?"

She said,"Katie is eleven and Tara is nine why ?"

I said,"I'm getting behind in the body of work that I need to do around here and if you and your daughters are unforced to help out I'll give you the flat rent-free."

I really wasn't behind in the up-keep but she seemed like the type of person that didn't like to claim something for nothing and it would also give me an exculpation to go along in middleman with her.

She had a face on her fount like she was trying to figure out if I was teasing her.

A smile broke out and she said,"Really ?"

I answered,"Yes."

The smiling disappeared from her grimace and she asked,"What will the possessor say ?"

I kept a straight facial expression and tried not to smile,"wellspring, the owner is a real nice guy and I don't think he'll mind."

We walked away and saw her daughters coming down the sidewalk licking ice ointment treats. Megan went to touch them and I could tell the moment she told them the good tidings. Both daughter started jumping up and down and dancing on their tiptoes. It brought a smile to my case seeing her young lady were felicitous. I thought to myself ‘ now that's the way little miss should act.'

Megan asked when they could make a motion in and I said as soon as we get done painting and cleaning up. Megan and I finished painting while the little girl swept, mopped, and vacuumed. We finished by other afternoon. Megan said they lived in a semi-furnished apartment and they just had clothes, a few small composition of piece of furniture, and personal particular to act. She had a minuscule car not made for hauling so I offered and we went to get their things in my pickup truck. We picked up their meager belongings in one load and brought them to their new flat.

They had no bed or a couch that they would need so I brought Megan to a storeroom that I put all of the things that tenants leave behind when they move.

I pointed into the room and I told her,"You can use anything you want."

She started to cry and I asked,"Is something wrong ?"

A look of rest came over her face and she surprised me by turning and giving me a hug and said,"A few hours ago I was at rock and roll bottom of the inning. I didn't know where we would be living future hebdomad. Then a Knight-in-Shining-Armor comes by and saves the day. You don't know what this means to me."

I didn't say anything to her but I knew what a petty help from a variety stranger felt like.

She has very soft peel and her essence smelled nice. She was pressing her chest into my thorax as she hugged me. I started day-dreaming and was loosing my wagon train of thought. I have been living alone for a long metre and I found the physical contact with a cleaning lady exciting.

We set up the beds and arranged a sofa, a table, and chairs. When we finished we sat down and took a well deserve severance. I looked at Megan slouched back on the couch with her middle closed and watched her chest heaving up and down as she breathed. She is an extremely beautiful char and I was getting aroused. I was nervous that she would see my growing erecting so I stood fixing my pants so my erection would have more room and walked toward the door. I told her if she needed anything to let me have intercourse and I left for domicile.

I was up early the next morning vacuuming the swimming pocket billiards when Katie and Tara found me. They ran over and said,"Good sunrise we're here to help."

I said,"commodity morning girl, where's your mother ?"

Tara said,"She has to forge today."

I showed Tara what I was doing. She soon caught on and started cleaning the pool. I took Katie with me and showed her how to operate the riding lawnmower. I grabbed the Mary Jane eater and we soon finished what would suffer taken me all day to do.

It was lunch fourth dimension and I asked them,"What's for tiffin ?"

The grinning left their faces and Katie looked at her fundament and said in a low spokesperson,"We don't have a lot food."

There went my heart strings again. ‘ shucks it !'I said to myself little girls shouldn't be worried about such simple matter as food. I said,"Well I can fix that. seed on."

I handed Katie my jail cell phone and told her,"forebode your mom and tell her we're going to the store."

We started in the wellness and smasher section and I told them to get what they need and don't bury about their mother. We then stopped in the lady friend's apparel department and I asked if they had swimming suits. They ran off looking for suits and I told them to each get some summer dress, wind cone, underclothing, and a pair of shoes. We then went up and down the market isles and when we pulled up to the cash cash register the shopping go-cart was full to the top.

The tote up came to just over four century dollars and the missy looked at me with incertain eyes. I gave them a reassuring smile and paid with my credit entry visiting card. We loaded everything in the spine of my pick-up. Tara sat in the middle and when I got into the number one wood seat she grabbed me around the neck and gave me a big hug and said thank you. Katie also reached over and gave me a hug. I hugged them back and told them they were welcome. The Brobdingnagian smiles they had on their cheek had been worth every centime I had spent.

We were still putting affair away when Megan came walking in from work. She stopped and looked at all of the shopping bags and then at me and said,"I don't know when I'll be able to pay you back."

I cut her words off and said,"Don't worry about it."I thought to myself that I didn't want to make her smell bad that I had given her something without her giving me something in riposte so I said,"I could use a dainty base cooked meal."

Megan is a fabulous Captain Cook and made probably the comfortably pork chops I had ever tasted. I helped her clean up the kitchen while the girls played in the sustenance room. She was well-situated to tattle to although she did most of the talking and I just listened.

When we finished she walked toward me reached her implements of war around my waist gave me a hug and brought her grimace to mine. I was unquiet and wasn't sure if she wanted me to kiss her. I was beginning to get an erecting and didn't want to stab her in the venter with it so I patted her back a duad of times in an attempt at a hug and quickly stepped back away from her mumbling thanks for dinner and hurried out the door.

As the workweek went by I found out that Megan was a waitress and the money she made wasn't enough for them to get by on. I noticed Katie was wearing the same clothes over and over and I asked her why. She told me that she had grown quit a bit in the last few months and the lonesome clothes she had that fit were the I I had bought her. Money was no problem for me so every week as a reward for helping me I took the girlfriend shopping and let them buy some wearing apparel and girly matter's to play with.

beingness with them with all of their vigour made me felicitous, happier then I have been in a recollective time. It felt good and I enjoyed buying affair for the young woman. I loved the way they laughed and giggled. After I had known them for a little while they freely gave me their squeeze and kisses.


Katie

Mister James is the nicest man that I have ever known. Mom says she likes him but she isn't sure if he likes her. He works Tara and me pretty hard in the mornings. We go with him and he fixes thing that are broke in people's apartments.

He talks to us like grown-ups and even shows us what's broken and how he fixes affair. Every Monday Tara cleans the swimming pool while we cut the grass. I enjoy driving the lawnmower and Mister Epistle of James says that I'm really estimable at it.

After we eat lunch we put on our swimming suit of clothes and take on him at the pool. We swim for a couple of hours and then he always gives me a twenty clam bill and tells us to go to the memory and get an ice emollient.

Two ice cream cost LE than two dollars and I would bring him back the change and he always says,"That's ok Katie you can observe it."

When mom gets home from work I give her the money and she uses it for flyer and things. One good afternoon James took us to mom's restaurant to eat. She was surprised to see us. When we finished eating Mr. St. James the Apostle left mom a twenty dollar tip.


James I

Katie and Tara are very bright girls. They follow me around while I do maintenance on the apartments. When I need a function I would shew them the damp one and tell them where a new one was in my shop. They would run and lend me what I needed.

They soon learned what tools I needed to fix things and they would fetch them for me too. At outset I thought at their age they wouldn't be much helper but I was wrong they save me a lot of clock time and energy.

I enjoyed their company and one Sat I invited Megan and the girls to my menage for a barbeque. The planetary house is overwhelming to someone who has lived in an apartment their unanimous sprightliness. I remembered the for the first time time David and Madonna had invited me in. The mansion has slightly more than than eight thou lame foot and has high-pitched ten foot ceiling.

St. David and The Virgin collected age-old furniture and they filled the home with it. The girls were excited and wanted a tour. Katie was amazed at the size of my master copy bedchamber cupboard. She said it was freehanded than her and Tara's bedroom. When we finished the tour Megan looked at me and said with a suspicious tone,"The owner must pay you pretty trade good to claim concern of this place."

I had an embarrassing grin on my face as told her,"I'm the owner."

From my back porch Megan and I sat and watched the girls swim while we talked. She was very easy for me to sing to. She sat and listened as I told her tale of the girls helping me during the day while she was at work. She told me that she was trying to ascertain a job that paid more than money but so far she hadn't any hazard.

She reached over and took my hand and held it between her hands and told me she was grateful for the money and clothes that I was giving the fille. She said that the lady friend are happier now then they have been in quite a while and that they talk about me all the time.

I had only known Megan and her girl for a myopic sentence. I've enjoyed their company and looked forward to seeing them each day. Katie and Tara are very honeyed lovable girls and Megan has taught them secure manners and to be cultured. It was then that I decided that I needed an office managing director to run the administrative side of the business.

"Megan, would you be interested in being my place manager ?"I threw out a salary amount of money that made her jaw pearl. It was the Saami measure that Mary Tennessee Williams had paid me to take care of everything and I thought it was fair.

She said,"Are you kidding ? That's three fourth dimension what I make now !"She looked at me with a fuddle look and said,"James River why are you being so skillful to me ?"

I thought back to David and Mary and all the things they had done for me. When I first moved into their apartment I didn't have enough money for a deposit or the commencement calendar month rent. They realized I needed a disruption and waved the fees until I started getting my paycheck.

I told Megan,"The showtime day we met I saw the sad looking on Katie and Tara's cheek and I realized you needed person to kick in you a fault. I had to do something."

I then looked at my feet took a deep unquiet breath and said,"And I was hoping you would go out on a day of the month with me."

"Oh my god it's about time you asked me. I was beginning to retrieve you didn't like me. Of course I'll go out with you ! And yes I'll take the job !"

She stood up, walked over to me and sat down on my lap. She put her arm around my neck and gave me a hug and a buss. She kissed me again and I felt her jaw relax and our tongues meet. I held her around the waist and we kissed for quite a while.

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Katie

I swam to the edge of the pool and looked toward mom. I whispered,"Tara Tara look look ! Mom is sitting on St. James the Apostle'lap kissing him."

Tara said,"It's about time ! We have to be redundant in effect and spear carrier nice and not blow it for Mom."

"Ya,"I said,"I kinda like it here. It's secure than all of the other stead we've lived and Mr James is a lot nicer than dad was."

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James

Megan was still sitting on my lap and she asked,"Where would you like to go on our date ?"

I wanted to impress her and her daughters so I said,"I'd like to subscribe you and your daughters out to dinner at Antonio's."

She said,"Wow that's an expensive home. I don't know if we have anything overnice to wear."

I gave her an advance on her salary and the particular date was set for future Saturday night.

I pulled my car up in figurehead of her apartment and went to the door and knocked. Megan opened the door and I stared at her in awe. She was dressed in a Caucasian evening gown that was showing a lot of cleavage. The floor distance skirt was split on the side to the mid thigh. It was a hangman's halter expressive style clothes that didn't have a backrest to it.

I must have stared at her breasts for a long fourth dimension because when I looked back at her cheek she was blushing. I was stumbling for words and all I could say was,"I'm sorry for staring Megan, you look very beautiful."

I heard the female child behind her giggling. They were dressed in very cute Theodore Harold White minuscule girl dresses. Tara had a chickenhearted ribbon on her ponytail and Katie had a red ribbon.

We started walking to the car when Katie started pushing her mom toward me. Megan stopped and said as she looked toward her fille,"They won't leave me alone until I thank you properly for being so kind to us."

She reached her arms around my waist and gave me a hug and a big kiss on the rim. The whole time we kissed I could pick up the girl giggling.

I pulled into valet parking and we got out. I had a flavor of superbia walking with Megan. All of the gentleman's gentleman's and early couples were looking at Megan. She was stunning in her night-robe. We walked into the restaurant with Katie pushing her mom to walk close to me. Megan took my arm and held me close.

This was David and Mary's favorite eating house and we ate here almost every weekend. They were good friends with the owner and I was introduced to them and we became good champion.

I knew most of the people that worked here and didn't need a reservation. I always got VIP discourse while I was here. We walked up to the maître d'and I said,"Good evening Michael."

He looked up and smiled and said,"Welcome James."He looked at Megan and the girls and said,"Table for four ?"

I handed him a fifty dollar mark bill and said,"Yes something nice."

He took the bill and said,"Please keep abreast me."

The Interior of the restaurant was impressive. It had an old humans medieval dash to it with twenty foot luxuriously ceilings, massive oak beams and large Isidor Feinstein Stone fireplace. The miss were impressed as they walked in front of us with their oral fissure unfold looking at the crossed swords and buckler that adorn the walls. Our table was close to the main fireplace on a quite a side of the elbow room away from the kitchen.

The maître d'seated Megan and two waiter helped the girls with their massive oak chairs. Megan looked at the menu and leaned close to me and whispered,"This place is expensive !"

I said,"Don't worry about the Mary Leontyne Price lodge what you want."

I ordered appetizers and a bottle of vino for Megan and me and two Shirley tabernacle for the girls. The girls were excited when they saw their drunkenness come in fancy grown-up methamphetamine. I could tell this was a new experience for them so I helped the lady friend decide on what to ordination for dinner.

The food is expensive but they took no cutoff. All the nutrient was prepared when it was ordered. Not like some eatery that just warm it up when it's ordered. The food generally took about an hour but it was always well worth the delay and very serious.

Megan and the girls had a smile on their face the whole dark. It warmed my heart and soul watching them being pampered by the eating place faculty. Katie and Tara true to form acted like little ma'am and I was very proud of them. As we waited for valet Megan smiled at me and took my arm in hers and laid her head on my articulatio humeri.

I walked Megan and the girls back up to their apartment door. She opened the door and Katie pushed her mom toward me again and under her breath said,"Kiss him Mom."then both of them ran into the apartment.

She was a trivial tipsy from the vino as she smiled and wrapped her arms around my neck. She rubbed her white meat into my chest of drawers as she gave me a very retentive passionate kiss. She said,"Thank you for the dinner King James. I had a very lovely time."

The wine was giving me supernumerary courage and I said,"I can't call back when I've had a easily time."I held her around the waist and looked her in the eyes and said,"I really don't want the evening to end."

She grinned and whispered,"spring me a mates of transactions to get the girls in bed."

When we got back to my household I asked,"Do you require something to drink ?"

She said,"No, I really want another tour of duty of the house."

She took my hand and led me to my master bedchamber. She walked over to the bed and sat me down on it. She backed up a couple of steps and put her mitt behind her neck and undid the clasp that held her apparel hangman's rope together.

She slowly brought her hands holding the halter between her quarter round and finger to the social movement of her cervix. She had been watching me with a big smile on her face the whole sentence. She released her grip on the hempen necktie and it took the dress all of one second gear to slew down over her graceful design and hit the storey. I was in jar ! She looked incredibly beautiful standing there in just her gabardine Bikini scanty.

I looked at her for a few seconds as I could feel my heart pounding in my throat. I felt my face blush and quickly looked down at my feet. I'd had a erection ever since Megan gave me the soundly dark osculation at her apartment. I was beginning to get nervous and started to shake. I had only made beloved to one other young lady and that was in my aged year of luxuriously schoolhouse over xv year ago. We did it in the darkness so this is the kickoff naked female that I have ever seen.

Megan must birth noticed me shaking and knelt down in front of me. She whispered,"James what's wrong ?"

I said in an stymy whisper,"I'm a minuscule aflutter and I'm not sure what to do."

She took my workforce in hers and asked,"When's the endure time you made love ?"

I said,"heights school."

She slowly lifted my Kuki up with her fingers and said,"James, you're full of surprisal. I must be the prosperous girl in the world."

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Megan

I couldn't believe it ! James River was practically a Virgo. I whispered,"Would you be more comfortable if I turned off the visible radiation ?"

He nodded yes and I walked over to the switch and shut it off. I found his weapon system in the dark and coxed him into standing. I pressed my knocker into his chest and whispered,"Enjoy yourself and let me do everything."

He was still shaking as I removed his clothes in a slow bewitching way. I wanted him to get used to my cutaneous senses so we stood there kissing while I slowly rubbed his back. I couldn't finger his penis touching me so I lowered my hands to his ass and pressed him into me. I reassured him by whispering,"Don't be embarrassed I expect you to be hard."

He just stood still, shaking from restiveness and breathing heavy with his arms around me. I gently pushed him onto the bed on his back. I removed my panties and lay down beside him. He made no movement toward me so I reached down and took his wrist and guided his mitt to my breast. James I began to sedate down and stopped shaking. I started rubbing his chest and gradually moved my hand lower and lower. I didn't want to galvanise him so I whispered,"I'm going to touch his member and stroke it."

His breathing stopped as I touched him and he began breathing out a slow ragged moan. With his want of feminine touch I knew he couldn't take much more of this so I quickly moved on top of him and placed his phallus inside me. I slid him in all the way as we both moaned.

It has been more than than six months since I was with a man so I was close. I held still and let him enjoy the feeling. I slowly started sliding him in and out of me and said,"You can do anything you want that makes you finger good."

His hips began moving up and down to fit my thrusts. Soon his instinct took over and he started pumping harder and faster. He suddenly stopped and pushed his penis in as far as it would go and I could feel him cum inside me. When he finished I lay down on his pectus and we hugged. I whispered,"Oh that felt sooo good. Thank you."

When he softened I told him that I had to get back to the fille. We dressed and he walked me back to my apartment.
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William James

Megan is a very organized mortal and soon had the office running better than I ever had. I wasn't very dear at communicating with people and probably lost ten percent from renter not paying their rent. She was more forceful than I was in collecting the snag and was collecting all of it the very first calendar month that she was on the job. That in it's ego paid her wage.

That first Nox that Megan and I made lovemaking was grand. She was so kind, understanding, and aristocratical. We continued making dear and she showed me Thomas More post and path to increase our pleasure. Soon she and the girlfriend were staying at my family on the weekends. Megan and I stayed in the master bedroom and Katie and Tara stayed in the downstairs guest bedroom.

The arcsecond story of the house has four bedrooms, a large den, and two toilet. I seldom went upstairs and it smelled musty. I wanted each of the girls to have their own sleeping room when they stayed on the weekends. With the help of Megan and the girls we redecorated the on a higher floor painting the wall in the daughter's favorite colors, bought new linen, and curtains and I had new carpet installed.

The lady friend started school day and I lost my helpers. I missed them and it took some fourth dimension to get used to them not being there everyday. With Megan working in the office in my sign of the zodiac she soon took over looking after the house. She began cooking supper for us and doing a lot of my in spite of appearance job.

Instead of the girls riding the school bus or walking Megan drove them to and from school day. One day I got a outcry from her saying her old car finally broke down and it wasn't cost effective to repair it. She started using my pick-up truck to run errands and bring the young lady to and from school day.

Both of the young woman were B and C students mostly because Megan didn't have the time to help them with their school work. I knew they were overbold and I knew they could do better. With the extra sentence Megan and I had we tutored them and helped them with their prep and projects. Katie and Tara were excited and we were proud when they both brought home straight A story cards.

The afternoon before Thanksgiving Day I sat in the kitchen and watched as Megan and the girl's baked pies and cooky. Megan is a very good cook and prepared one of the best Thanksgiving dinner party that I could retrieve. The house had a festive air about it that I hadn't seen since David was alive.

After dinner party the girls were in the living elbow room watching a picture show while Megan and I sat together in the den by the fire plaza sipping after dinner party drinks. The warm incandescence of the ardor was the only light in the elbow room while Bing Harry Lillis Crosby's Edward Douglas White Jr. Christmas softly played. Outside a gentle Charles Percy Snow fell lit only by the street lamps.

The conversation soon turned to Dec 25 and Megan told me that the girls have never had a good Christmas. When she was married to their sire money was always tight. I told her this twelvemonth we were going to wee up for it.

Megan and I started making decorating plans and we gathering what we needed. The forepart room of the house was monolithic and designed to impress whoever walked through the front door.

I had a nine foot Christmas Tree delivered and when the female child came home from school and saw the tree they squealed. I strung the tree with over three thousand miniature clear visible radiation and I sat and watched as Megan and the girls trimmed the tree with all sorts of ornaments. I would bring up one of the girls occasionally so they could place an ornament at the top of the tree.

Megan and the girls put ache garland and lightness on the stair rail, fireplaces, and decorated the rest of the house in a prissy trend. I strung luminosity on the outside of the house and decorated the chiliad with confect canes and Saint Nick and his reindeer.

I loved the girls as a lot as I loved Megan, they were so affectionate. One of my favorite times is Friday night when Megan and the daughter would drop the nighttime. We would eat dinner and then sit in the family room and ascertain a motion-picture show. Before the movie the girls would take on a bathtub.

When they finished their bathes, they would run to me and parachuting on my lap and contribute me clinch and buss. They would cuddle up to me one on each slope and we would look on the picture show until bedtime. The flavour of their footling daughter grievous bodily harm was intoxicating. They treated me just like I was their cancel father.

I had special plans for Yule and wanted Megan and the miss to pass the nighttime Christmastime Eve. Christmas morning came early as it always does with untested children. I went a piddling overboard on the fille buying them bicycle, a computer, cadre phones, i-pods, the latest x-box, a lot of clothes, and toys. Megan just shook her head and said,"Where are we going to put all this hooey ?"

After they had opened all their talent Katie looked up at me with sad oculus. I asked her,"What's wrong Katie ? Did Santa forget to institute something ?"

She said,"You didn't get very many present tense. I wish I had a lot of money to buy you lots of prissy things."

I smiled at both of the girls sitting on the floor by the Christmas tree,"My cherished precious holy person, your beloved, clinch, and candy kiss are the not bad gift you could ever give me."With that they both jumped up and seize me around the neck and gave me the tightest hugs ever. I think they loved me as much as I loved them.

I gave Megan a few inexpensive giving saving the proficient two for the end when everyone was finished unwrapping talent. With everyone watching I reached into my gown pocket and handed Megan a retentive slender box about the size of box that a bracelet would follow in knowing that she would take for granted I had bought one for her.

When she opened the box her mouth dropped open up and the young lady asked,"What is it Mom ?"

She pulled the key out, held it up and asked me,"What is it ?"

I asked,"What does it looks like ?"

"It… It looks like the keystone to a car,"she answered.

I smiled and cocked my head toward the nominal head threshold. She jumped up and moved to the figurehead door while keeping her heart on me saying,"No, you didn't !"

She pulled the drapery back and saw the marque new SUV in the drive with a big red bow on it. With all the screaming the miss were doing I thought the car dealership had delivered three SUV's.

Megan ran back to me crying and hugged me saying,"No one has ever gotten me anything like that. Thank You James ! I love you."

With the four of us in one great big radical hug I knew it was metre to feed her the last present. I stepped back a couplet of footfall and said,"I have one more present for you."

I reached in my pocket and pulled out a 3 inch foursquare box, about the size of box a ring would add up in. Everybody knew what was coming next. The daughter were jumping up and down squealing next to their mother.

Megan was still crying and she began to shake. I opened the box looking at the contentedness. I got down on one knee joint and looked at the girls and asked,"With your girl's permission."I then looked up to Megan,"testament you marry me ?"

The girls tugged on her robe and kept repetition,"Say yes Mom, say yes Mom."

It took Megan a few second gear to determine her voice but to me it seemed like an eternity. She grabbed me by the taking into custody and pulled me up to her scream,"Yes ! Yes !"

Dec 25 day was shaping up to be the advantageously day of my life. I had proposed to Megan and she said yes ! Megan was still shaking as I pulled the ring out of the box and slipped it on her finger's breadth. We kissed for a few arcsecond before we were distracted by the miss. They suddenly realized all of the giving they received this morning and tore into the boxes that they came in.

Megan said,"Girls ! miss ! We need to get dressed so we can take this clobber back to the apartment, most of the things need to be set up and programmed."

Both miss grabbed their new cell phones and started hammering on the key pads like pro's as they slowly headed off to their sleeping room to get dressed.

I held Megan around the waist from behind and guided her to our room as she was busy fully examining her new rhombus mesh ring."James it's so beautiful and big ! It must have cost you a fortune."

"Yes it was pricy,"I answered,"but you're worth every penny that I spent."

We walked into the bedroom and closed the room access. Megan stopped and turned to me and gave me a stiff hug and a very passionate kiss. After various seconds I broke the kiss and said,"The girl are going to be banging on the door any minute."

Megan sighed and said in a very sexy voice,"You just wait until tonight I'm going to break you out !"

She gave me another buss as she rubbed her breasts into my pectus. I was getting an erection as I wondered if Megan would believe of some new way to pee love life to me.

A sad evacuate feeling all of a sudden hit me. Megan and the girls would be going back to her flat tonight. I had thought on several occasions about asking her to move into the house permanently with me. With her accepting my married couple proposal I thought now was as ripe of sentence as any to ask her.

"Megan, why don't you and the girls move into the household permanently with me right now ? There's a lot more way here and you're already here about of the time."

Megan smiled,"I didn't want to be pushy. I was waiting for you to ask me and since we're engaged it would make a lot of sentiency. I know the lady friend will be happy here and we need the spear carrier room because of all the presents you got them."

As we were getting dressed I asked,"Megan where do you want to conduct your new SUV on its maiden ocean trip ?"

Megan looked surprised,"Oh my gosh ! I almost forgot I have a new car !"

She thought for a minute,"Let's convey it to show my Mom and Dad. Mom will want to see my tintinnabulation and Dad will want to see his new son-in-law to-be."

We ate a light breakfast knowing we were having a full Noel Turkey dinner party this afternoon with all of Megan's menage.

I dangled the key to Megan's new SUV in front line of her as she finished checking on the Turkey baking in the oven. She smiled at me as she took the key. We put on our jacket crown and headed out the door. It was a frigidity crisp sunup, overnight it had been snowing lightly and there were a couple of in of new pure white snow covering the foot or so of snow from previous snow falls.

The decorated spruce trees in the railyard looked tranquil and peaceful as the visible radiation twinkled from under the snow covered arm. Megan said,"James I'm so spooky this is the initiatory brand new car I've ever owned or driven."

"Just train it sluggish and sluttish,"I said,"it will labor just like my getaway truck."

I walked to the number one wood's door and opened it for her and said,"Get in and start it. Let it warm up while you look at everything. I'll get the girls seat belted in and rent the Yule bow off."

I got a snow brush out of my motortruck and brushed most of the snow off the SUV as I watched her closely examining the dashboard. I slid in the passenger side and watched Megan as she continued to study everything. She had the defroster on but it was a insensate daybreak and she was holding her subdivision as she shivered.

I said"There's a hind end warmer button on the English of your seat next to the power seat controls."

She giggled like a school girl as she pressed the can warmer button and played with the major power hindquarters controls. I looked in the rear buns at the girls and said,"What do you think ? Do you like it ?"

"Wow it's so cool."Tara said.

Katie asked,"Does it give birth a TV ?"

I said,"It surely does."

I reached in my jacket pocket and handed her a DVD. Megan put the SUV in cogwheel and we slowly crawled out of the private road.

It was early in the morning so the traffic was extremely light. Megan had both hands on the direction wheel and was cruising along just under the fastness demarcation.

A couple of blocking away from the house we passed an flat composite and I noticed a vernal tiddler probably about Tara's age sitting on the front pace of one of the flat. As we got closer I noticed that it was a Whitney Young young lady still dressed in her pajamas. She was wearing a pelage that was too big for her and she was sitting with her articulatio genus up tight to her body holding her legs with her arms. Her mentum was resting on her knee joint and she seemed to possess a sad disappointed look on her face.

I thought to myself that her menage was probably poor and she didn't get what she wanted for Dec 25. I sighed as I thought back to my childhood and remembered a duo of Christmas'when the lone presents I got were used wearing apparel and maybe a undivided cheap toy.

One Christmastime I sat and watched as my Stephen Collins Foster parents raw Kyd opened salute after present getting three or four times as a good deal as I got. When I protested I was yelled at and reminded that I could go back to the orphanage if I wanted.

It was plain stitch to see even at that young age that some of my Stephen Collins Foster parents took a lot better fear of their own tyke then they did the foster small fry entrusted into their concern.

As we passed her Megan snapped me out of my trance by placing her hired hand high gear on my second joint and said,"This is the salutary Yuletide I've ever had."

She squeezed my thigh as she said ;"I love you."

I smiled at her trying to get those bad memories out of my head. I bent over to her and gave her a quick kiss on the impudence and said,"I love you too."

Megan pulled up in social movement of her parent's humble flea-bitten menage and honked the trumpet before we got out. I had been here before and seen that because of a lack of money the planetary house was in demand of a lot of criminal maintenance. Megan's father George VI didn't have a high up schooltime diploma and therefore spent his whole living as a laborer. The clayey lifting he was required to do finally caused him a back hurt a few days ago. They were living on a small handicap balk and the money Megan's mom Linda made as a waitress.

George and Linda opened the front door and the girls ran to their grandparents and gave them hugs and kisses. George was a very Nice man a little on the unretentive position. He walked a little bent grass over with a slight limp from his handicap. He was skinny, almost frail looking. He was distracted by the SUV as Megan said,"Do you like my new SUV ?"

George said,"Where did you get that ?"

Megan answered,"I got it for Christmas from James."

Linda was now looking and said,"Oh honey its beautiful, James must be getting serious about you."She teased.

Megan began jumping up and down and said,"Ya mom real life-threatening !"as she began flashing her engagement ring at her. Both womanhood were squealing and began hugging and jumping up and down.

George II shook my hired hand and said,"Congratulations Saint James and welcome to the family."

I barely got out the word ‘ thanks'when Linda began tip-toeing through the snow with outstretched arms to give me a hug. She was a very attractive woman with a small skeletal frame, probably in her early L. She was thin but not boney, her housecoat was open and I watched her braless breasts bouncing quite nicely as she tip-toed through the snow towards me. The moth-eaten atmospheric condition had made her teat rock voiceless and I could feel them through my shirt as she hugged me.

We went inside and talked for a few minutes while the daughter opened their Christmas nowadays from George and Linda. Megan at my urging had invited her family including her brother and Sister and their sept to Christmas dinner at our house.

On the drive place when we passed the flat complex I looked to the flat dance step where I had seen the young little girl sitting and was relieved to see that she wasn't there. I hoped that she went back inside where it was warmer.
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Blessed Virgin

My name is Mary and I'm nine years old. I don't remember my real parent's. My first memory board is being in saint Catherine's orphanhood. Once when I asked one of the Sister's about my female parent she said she gave me up for acceptation when I was very young. I asked her why she gave me up but she didn't know. I often think about why my material mother gave me away. Had I been a bad infant ? Or maybe she didn't want to, or couldn't take fear of me for some unsung reason. I tried very hard to remember what she looked like but there just isn't any memory board of her.

I've been in and out of three different Stephen Foster plate and I've been living at this house for about a class and a half. I have a footstep sister and a footmark comrade who are both older than me. My stride mother is divorced so I don't have a dance step father but she has a boy acquaintance that comes by, usually at nighttime.

My stone's throw sister and sidekick are mean to me. They push me around and they are always getting me into bother. They make me do a lot of their job when I get home plate from school before my whole step mother gets home from work. If I don't do what they say they make up a report and I get yelled at and made to do supernumerary work. If I protest my innocence my stair mother just screams at me loud and usually spanks me. I've learned that it is better to not say anything and just take the punishment.

I don't talk much to them and just try and abide out of their way. My bed is down in the cellar and when my task are done I usually go down there and consider or read.

School isn't much better all the Kid tease me and call me"Orphan Mary"because my dress are so old and out of engagement. My teacher is about the only somebody who is nice to me. We talk a lot but I've learned not to talk to her in strawman of the early child because they call me teachers pet.

Christmas has always been a disappointment for me. When I was immature and believed in Santa I would be redundant effective before Xmas but to no avail. When I didn't get the affair I wanted my whole tone parents would blame me for not being expert. After I learned the the true about Santa I realized it was my Stephen Collins Foster parents that gave out the present.

I woke early this Christmastime morning waiting by the basement door for the others to arouse up. When I heard them I went to the living room where the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree was set up and sat down on the floor in the corner out of the way. There were a lot of presents under the tree diagram and I tried to read the public figure on them but from my spot I couldn't see them clearly.

My whole tone mother began handing out the presents giving my stair brother and sister three each before I finally got one. When the present tense were all handed out we all started tearing off the paper to disclose there contents. I saved the demonstrate that had the most promise of being the best one and opened the others. All the present tense I received were used apparel except for a packet of new wind sock and pantie. I was careful to say thank you to my step mother after I opened each demo.

I stopped for a mo to see the others opening their nowadays. It was knit stitch to see the departure in their present compared to mine. I sighed and slowly opened my finally present finding a new stuffed shimmy bear. I was sad to see the way I was treated compared to the others, they clearly got more and better presents than I did.

After I cleaned up the Christmas wrappings I began to think about my real number female parent again and was hoping she would bump me and come delivery me. I day-dreamed about how she would be rich and shower down me with all kinds of expensive presents.

I didn't feel like going down to my elbow room so I put on my jacket crown and went outside still day dreaming about my real number mother. I sat on the front steps and watched a few car going by hoping that one of them was my real female parent. I sat there until I started getting coldness and the realization set in that no one was coming to get me. I felt sad and started to cry until I couldn't bare the low temperature any Thomas More and went inside.
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James

I was in the study hooking up the new estimator while Megan and the girls were working on the Christmas dinner in the kitchen. I had tasted Megan's dud dinner party on blessing and the smell coming from the kitchen was driving me unhinged. I heard some talking coming from them in the kitchen and then their voices went to a whisper.

I looked up and saw the little girl come into the depository library with serious feel on the faces followed by Megan who had a huge grinning on her grimace. The fille walked over to me and it was apparent that they had something very important to say to me. They stood in quiet for a few seconds then Tara poked Katie and whispered,"Ask him."

Katie had a thoughtful look on her fount as she seemed to be searching for the right field intelligence to say.

"Mister James IV your going to get hitched with our mother isn't that right ?"

I was wondering what this was leading too, so I answered,"Yes"

Katie continued,"And we're all going to hold out here with you, right ?"

I answered,"Yes"

"fountainhead if you're going to marry Mom and we're going to endure with you that makes you our new father, right ?"

I looked at Megan who had a really big grinning on her case as I answered Katie,"Yeees."

Once again there was several second gear of silence and finally Tara couldn't stand it any longer and spoke as quickly as she could,"Mister James is it ok if we call you daddy ?"

Both young lady had a nervous look in their eyes. Megan had tears of joy running down her cheeks as she smiled at me. I was at a release for speech. I was so happy and I didn't think I could speak without my voice cracking so I held out my arms for them to hand me a hug.

As I hugged them I whispered,"Girl's it would produce me the felicitous man in the world if you called me daddy."

I thought to myself about how favourable I was that Megan wanted to marry me. She was a beautiful, smarting, sexy fair sex who was also a heavy James Cook and I was going to spend the rest of my lifetime with her. As an added bonus I would also get to share in Katie and Tara lives as they grow into beautiful young lady. Life couldn't possibly get any better than this.

The girls watched me as I finished setting up the estimator.

Megan said,"seed on female child, we have matter to do in the kitchen."

I got up and followed them into the kitchen. Megan had been teaching the girls how to cook for sometime and today one of their Job was to make a cake from pelf. I sat at the table and watched them carefully measuring the ingredients. Megan was fussy with other things but would reckon over and hand them discussion of boost. They put the bar in the second oven to bake and started making the frosting.

When they finished with the frosting, Katie grabbed a clean spoon and took some icing from the roll and held the spoon out to me and said,"Daddy would you like a taste ?"

It was the first meter that she actually called me daddy. A wave of emotion came over me and I was blinking fast to hold on the tears from running down my impudence. I took the spoon and tasted. It was maple flavored and I thought it tasted actual honest."little girl that's the honest frosting I've ever tasted."

They both smiled and Tara gave me a hug and said,"Thanks daddy."

Megan's kinsperson arrived latterly morning and the planetary house was a bombination of natural process. Everyone congratulated us on our engagement and welcomed me to the family. Katie and Tara disappeared upstairs with their first cousin and we only saw them again at dinner.


Christmas dinner with all the fixings was the best I ever tasted. During dinner when the girls were listening I made a big softwood about how toothsome the lulu and bar that they prepared were. The girls were happy and proud telling everyone that they made it.

After dinner party we exchanged gifts and then the men settled down in the bread and butter elbow room to watch the football biz while the ladies talked in the kitchen. George I and Linda were the last to leave and I blew out a long sigh as I closed the door behind them. It had been a foresightful day, the girl were upstairs fast asleep before ten o-clock.

We went to bed shortly after and when Megan came out of the bathroom she was wearing a very aphrodisiac red push-up bra and matching step-in. Covering everything was a weblike white diaphanous thigh length night gown. I sat up on the edge of the bed and whispered,"Wow Megan you look beautiful."

I stood and walked to the marrow of the bedroom to give her a hug and kiss. As we kissed her arms went around my back into the waist striation of my boxer and she squeezed my bare ass cheek. I felt my boxershorts slowly move down my legs as Megan began kissing my chest getting lower and miserable with each osculation.

She was now kneeling on the floor and I watched as she slowly licked the English of my penis. She held her tongue out and I felt it skid along the freighter of my shaft as she closed her lips around it. I placed my handwriting on her headway as she slowly slid her lips back and forth not once did she stop licking on the underside of my penis.

The belief was incredible with her warm soft natural language seemed to have it off where to touch it to founder me the most pleasure. After a few minutes I warned her that I was cumming but she held my ass cheeks tight and looked at me nodding her approval. I released gibe after guess of warm cum into her mouth.

Her hand went to my calamus and she milked the residual of my cum into her mouth. She stood and pushed me back to the bed and I sat down. She slowly did a striptease removing the articles of clothing one at a time. By the meter she finished I was ready for Thomas More action.

Megan pushed me down on the bed and crawled in lying on top of me. I reached for the lamp on the nightstand and shut it off. She made making love to me until we fell asleep naked in each others implements of war.

Megan wanted a winter wonderland wedding so we were married in late February. We had a humble wedding with about twenty dollar bill hoi polloi in attendance. Megan wore a beautiful lacy off white wedding dress with a white fur stole. The brides maids wore very lightsome tan dresses with a darker fur stole, which made Megan's dress look even whiter.

Katie and Tara stayed with Megan's parents while we flew to the Caribbean for our honeymoon. We stayed in a honeymoon cottage at one of those ‘ couples only'all inclusive repair. Our large private cottage had a hot tub and a pocket-sized kitty on the patio overlooking the beach.

We were somewhat surprised the low gear day when we went down to the beach and found most of the women topless. When Megan saw this she pulled me to the English and whispered,"James it's been a fantasy of mine to go topless on a beach. Would you beware if I took my top off ?"

I teased her,"I don't know I'll have to spend the whole clip waist deep in the water. Sure go ahead I don't mind."

Megan's eyes lit up as she reached for the string on her top. She was the female parent of two but her body still looked good. When she took her top off she giggled and said,"I can't believe it, I'm so excited I almost wet myself."

I enjoyed watching the women walking around flaunting themselves holding their chests out proudly for all to see.


It was early April and I was out front end fixing a broken window on one of the apartments. It was about two-thirty in the good afternoon and the school child were walking by on their way home. I heard some shouting down at the end of the block and looked to see a group of kids. They all looked to be about the Same age as Tara, about ten years old.

It looked like three girls picking on another young lady. She was walking on the sidewalk with her read/write head down and trying to snub the girls picking on her. One of the three girls was pushing her from behind and then she pushed her real surd and the lone girl fell to the sidewalk.

I got down off my ravel and started walking down the sidewalk towards them. When the three girls saw me they walked past her leaving her on the pavement crying. As the three girls passed me, I tried to see mean and said,"Three against one isn't fair."

They ignored me and kept walking. I walked to the female child who was still sitting on the sidewalk sobbing and I helped her to her fundament. She held her caput down and didn't aspect at me when I asked,"Are you OK ?"

She nodded yes and I got a minuscule glimpse at her face. She seemed familiar but I couldn't remember from where. She began walking and peeked up at me as she went past me. I watched her as she continued walking slow up, with her head down.

It reminded me of myself when I was about that age. I just transferred into a new school and a gang of boys, some of whom were in my division took it upon them selves to make my life miserable. I tried to piss friends with them but they cut me down calling me ‘ orphan boy'and always picked on me.

I followed the daughter at a distance back to the broken window I was working on. I watched her as she turned the corner and went out of sight. She was walking toward an apartment complex that was just a few blocks down the street. Suddenly I remembered where I had seen her, it was the Saame girl I saw sitting on the steps on Christmas morning when we drove to George VI and Linda's sign.


The next week Katie and Tara's school was having ‘ parent lunch day ’. Parents were invited to the school to eat tiffin with their nipper. Both girls ate lunch at the same time so Megan and I split up. Megan sat with Katie and I sat with Tara.

I met Tara's class in the Hall outside of the cafeteria. Tara smiled took my hand and said,"Hi daddy."

Each family stayed in assembly line at the dejeuner heel counter and then sat at the same hanker mesa with the teacher sitting at the end. Sitting next to the teacher was the girl that I saw terminal hebdomad getting picked on. I looked at Tara's other class teammate and saw the three miss that were picking on her. I bent down to Tara's ear and whispered,"Who's that girl sitting adjacent to your teacher ?"

Tara looked and then whispered to me,"Oh that's just orphan Mary."

I was surprised and a little turnover at Tara for speaking down about her. I would stimulate to speak to her when we got home.

shoemaker's last year I told Megan that I was an orphan and about my childhood but the girls didn't know anything about my childhood. I thought now would be a good time to tell the girls.

I sat the girls down and separate them that I was an orphan and about my childhood. I didn't hold anything back, I told them about being dragged away from my Stephen Foster parents, being picked on by the mean Kyd at schooltime, and not having any friends.

Both Katie and Tara were sobbing. After I finished my account Tara came to me and gave me a hug and said,"I'm sorry daddy."

I told her,"That's ok Tara you didn't know."I pulled her back at arms length, looked her in the centre and said,"Mary hasn't done anything haywire and she really needs a friend."

A few days later, Tara came into the animation room after schoolhouse to spill to me. She said,"pappa, I've tried talking to Mary a few multiplication but she doesn't seem to want to tattle to me or be supporter. What should I do ?"

"Just hand her some time."I answered,"It will ask some time for her to trust you."

"Ok daddy,"Tara said,"I'll keep trying."

Every day Tara talked to me about her day and the advance she was making with Madonna. I kept telling her to be patient role she would come around. As the weeks passed Tara said that Mary was loosening up and beginning to talking to her. I told her to invite Virgin Mary to spend the night this weekend with us.

She came home from school with a big smile and said,"Madonna is going to ask her foster mother if she can quell this weekend."

The survey day when Megan picked up the fille, Mary rode with them to her flat to get her clothes. The young lady got home base and Mary walked into the house and looked around in wonderment. She said to Tara in a low representative,"This is your menage ?"

Tara nodded yes and said,"pop this is Mary."

I shook her hand and said,"hello Blessed Virgin my gens is James."

Tara said,"seed on Lashkar-e-Toiba take your stuff to my room."

All three girls ran up the stairs and we didn't see them again until supper. I guessed that Mary was abandon as an infant at the Catholic orphanage. When the nun named a nipper they always choose a biblical gens.

During supper Mary didn't say much. She kept her head down and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I recognized her conduct and knew it was from being picked on and her endeavor to keep back a low profile. She behaved a lot like I did when I was young. I noticed The Virgin's dress were old and outdated probably from the goodwill or hand-me-downs.

After dinner I asked the girl,"Do you want to go see a movie ?"They said yes and we picked out the recent Walter Elias Disney movie and left wing. After the movie we stopped at the topical anesthetic ice cream store for a treat. When we got home it was our convention weekend bedtime so the lady friend headed up to their rooms.

Megan said as they headed up the step,"Don't stick up too late."

Megan and I lay in bed and talked for awhile. I told her about some of the affair that I noticed about Mary and related them to my puerility.

Megan said,"The short thing. What can we do to help oneself her ?"

I thought for a moment and said,"She needs a hike in confidence."

We lay in secrecy for a few min and Megan said,"I know we'll take then shopping at the shopping center tomorrow and buy Mary a nice clothes and then claim them to the hair salon."

"Yes that's a good melodic theme and after that we'll take them to dinner at Antonio's."

At breakfast Megan broke the news show to the fille that we were going shopping at the mall and they were going to get their hair fixed at the beauty parlour. Mary is a very jolly girl. She has dark brown shoulder length pilus with bash that touch her beautiful John Brown eyes. Her hairsbreadth is uneven in spot which makes me suppose that her Stephen Collins Foster female parent last cut it.

At the beauty parlour, they all had their hair washed and trimmed and they had manicures with the girls picking their best-loved colour nail burnish. They were in the salon for about two hours so I walked around looking in storehouse while I waited for them. We left the salon and I told the miss that I was going to claim them to Antonio's for dinner party and we needed to witness Mary a nice clothes.

They spent a span more hours going in and out of the dress shops looking while I sat on a judiciary on the mall and watch the pretty girls walk by. After they left the last shop I asked Mary,"Have you seen anything that you like ?"

She nodded and said,"I like the pinko one at Penney's."

It was a middling pink human knee length frock with a white lace sash that tied in the vertebral column with a bow. We brought the wearing apparel to the register and paid. Mary seemed to be excited about the dress and dinner. She had a big smile on her cheek and her eye were sparkling.

On the way family I listened to Katie and Tara tell Mary all about Antonio 's. Mary was excited and flighty saying,"I've never been to a phantasy eatery. I don't know what to do."

Tara answered,"Don't worry just see us we'll show you what to do."

The girl's spent the relaxation of the good afternoon getting ready. I was dressed for dinner and waiting in the life room for the madam when I heard the female child coming down the steps and Katie said,"papa, we're ready."

I looked and saw three beautiful girls walking down the steps. Katie was wearing a gracious dark blue apparel with a T. H. White shoe collar and white horseshoe. Tara had on a gunpowder blue skirt with a white jumper. Madonna looked very pretty in her garden pink attire. She was looking me directly in the eye, her center were sparkling and she was smiling from ear to ear. There had been a huge change in her from that sad little girl I saw sitting at the dinner table yesterday."Girls, you look beautiful."Tara curtsied to me and they all put their hands over their sass as they giggled.

Megan came out of the bedroom wearing a dark blue sequined stifle length dress. The dress plunged down the middle showing off her cleavage. If she was to take the air down the street in that dress I had no drought that she would sustain stopped dealings or at the very least cause and accident. I gave her a masher whistle and said,"Wow Megan you look very beautiful."

She smiled and said,"Thank you James I and you look very handsome."

We pulled into Antonio 's valet parking and got out of the SUV. As we walked into the restaurant Megan was doing that supermodel walk where she slightly crossed her infantry as she stepped. With her high heels on it made her ass motility side to side in a very seductive way, I felt my member Begin to stir.

I looked in front of us at two male senior high school valets who had their eyes fixed on Megan. As we walked by Megan smiled at them and said,"Hello boys."Neither one of them could mouth they just stood there with their mouths hanging loose but one of them managing to nod his foreland at her. Megan pulled me closer to her, she giggled as she whispered into my ear,"I wonder what those boys will be doing in their seam tonight."

There were several couples waiting in the entrance hall as we walked in. As soon as Michael saw us he motioned to us to come forward. We greeted each early and he asked,"board for five ?"

I said,"Yes."handing him a fifty.

Tara spoke,"Mister Michael is jimmy working tonight ?"

"Yes Miss Tara he is."

Tara held her hand to Mary's ear and told her something and they both began to titter. I remembered Megan telling me a spell back that Tara had a crush on one of the waiter that worked here.

I said to Michael,"We would wish Jimmy as our waiter."

As we followed Michael into the dining elbow room he held up three fingers and three waiters made their way to our board, one of them being Jimmy. Michael smiled at jemmy and discreetly pointed at Tara. Jimmy smiled and slowly nodded his head as they reached the table.

Jimmy stood behind Tara's president seating her and said,"hullo miss Tara, you look very beautiful this evening."

Tara was blushing but managed to say,"Thank you Jimmy."

Michael seated Megan and said,"jemmy, this is your table."

They all left leaving jimmy standing next to Tara waiting for me to order deglutition. Megan looked at Tara who seemed to be in a dream world staring at Jimmy."Tara, introduce your friend."

Tara snapped out of her trance and said,"Jimmy, this is my acquaintance Mary."

Jimmy bowed slightly and very graciously said,"howdy Miss Mary it's very dainty to conform to you."

I ordered the girlfriend favorite starter, a bottle of vino, and looked at the girls and asked,"Shirley Temples ?"

Katie and Tara quickly nodded yes but Mary had no approximation what I was talking about. Tara whispered in her ear and she smiled and nodded yes.

The main course arrived and it was delicious as always. jimmy paid last care to all three girls bringing them what ever they asked for farther intensifying the crush they had on him. It was dainty to watch Mary, who was all smiles, arrive out of her shield. Megan and I could tell she was enjoying herself by the amount of eye contact she made and by all of the talking she was doing.


The adopt week Megan got a shout from the school. Tara had been in a competitiveness and we needed to go talking to the principal. We walked into the office and I saw Tara, Mary, and the three girls who were picking on The Virgin sitting in chairs against the paries. I had a pretty good idea what the competitiveness was about.

We went into the principal's authority and introduced ourselves and sat down. The principal said,"The five girls were at break and they began fighting and pulling each others hair."

Megan apologized for Tara's behavior.

I told the head in a very stern voice,"I witnessed those three miss picking on Mary a few workweek ago off school yard and Tara was probably sticking up for her."

The principal answered,"Yes, that is a possibility but for the safety of all the small fry I can not earmark any fighting in this school. All five pupil will go dwelling with their parents today and will be suspended for one day. You must monish Tara that any far fighting will be dealt with severely."

I was pissed ; I knew Tara was just sticking up for Virgin Mary who was probably ganged up on by the three young lady.

After I calmed down a little and we were on the way home Megan said to Tara while she looked at me,"The star is right Tara ; you can not solve your problems by fighting. Someone always loses a combat and that mortal will embark on another conflict making things spoilt until someone gets hurt. In the time to come the best thing to do is to walk away and tell your teacher."

When we walked into the house Tara went to the couch and plopped down folding her arms in front of herself. Megan sat on the couch next to her and took Tara's arm and pulled her onto her lap. She hugged her tight and whispered to her,"I know you think you were doing the right field thing protecting Blessed Virgin, but fighting is dangerous and you could get hurt. We're just looking out for you trying to hold back you safe."

Tara served her one day suspension and went back to school day the pursual day. When she returned house we asked,"How did school go ?"

Tara answered,"fine, but Mary didn't go to schooling today."

The next day after Megan picked the young lady up from school she told me,"Tara is very upset. She said Mary was beaten by her Stephen Collins Foster mother."

"Beaten ? How badly ?"

"I'm not trusted, Tara said her dorsum hurts and she has bruises on her butt and legs."

"What are you going to do ?"

"I have to do something we can't just ignore what Tara told me. When I drop the girls off for school day tomorrow I'll public lecture to the principal sum. He seems concerned for the scholarly person's welfare. He can birth the schoolhouse nurse feel at her."

The next day after the schoolhouse nanny examined Madonna our worst care were confirmed. It appeared she had been struck various metre on her back, butt, and the rear of her stage with a blunt objective. The law were called and Mary was removed from school and brought to the local hospital to be examined further.

When Tara came rest home from school she went straight to me. I could tell apart she had been crying.

"Daddy, what's going to happen to Mary ?"

"Honey,"I said pulling her onto my lap,"Social Services will bring her to the orphanhood until she can be placed in another Stephen Foster home."I could see the train turning in her head, she was thinking of a way to help oneself Virgin Mary.

"dada, can you and mom be nurture parents ?"

I have to acknowledge I had thought about the possibleness of taking tutelage of her yesterday when I heard that she was beaten. I looked at Megan to try and read a sign as to her notion on the matter. I looked back at Tara and said,"I don't know Tara your mother and I will have got to blab about it."

Tara must deliver figured that I was a potential yes so she turned to her mother and began begging.

"Please Mom ; I don't want to fall back my friend. They'll probably put her in a Foster home that's worse than the one she's in now. She'll have to commute schooling and start all over making Friend. Please Mom please."

Mary is a sweet female child and I was feeling parsimony in my chest. After listening to Tara beg and seeing how happy Mary was staying with us for those two twenty-four hour period I couldn't bare the intellection of her being jerked around in the scheme. A flood of bad memories from my childhood suddenly hit me like a ton of bricks. I felt a wave of emotion close in on me as a bust ran down my cheek. I took a deep breath and looked at Megan.

She smiled at me and said to Tara,"We'll have to tattle about it. We'll see what we can do."

Tara pulled her female parent by the hand toward me and said,"talking ! talking ! Do you want me to result ?"

That dark while lying in bed we talked. I said,"This is a long term committal she's ten days old and we'll be responsible for her until she's eighteen or longer."

Megan sighed,"Yes I know it will be forever just like when the lady friend were born but she seems like a sweet girl and it will be overnice watching her growing up. Where do you guess she is mightily now ?"

"fountainhead, after she leaves the hospital they'll probably take her rachis to Saint Catherine's. They'll process her in and she'll be transferred to the school day over there. She'll probably begin school on Monday."

"Oh the inadequate girl."Megan said as she cuddled up pie-eyed to my backrest,"She'll be the new kid again and will have to bug out over trying to make friends."

"Yes I know all about it. I've been in her berth ; it won't be gentle on her. Just so you know if we register as foster parents and they find out how big of a mansion we have they'll be asking us to restrain more kids. I'm afraid to say what happened to Mary happens all the time. You'll get a speech sound call and have to set another plate at the table for dinner party. Sometimes it happens that fast."

We decided to fill out the paperwork and take it from there. The next morning we went to social Services and put in the application. While there I saw a charwoman that I knew from my days in the orphanage that had placed me in foster habitation. I introduced myself to Mrs. Parker and she remembered who I was. I asked her if we could make for Tara to see Blessed Virgin so she could say hi to her.

She smiled and said,"I can do better than that James."She went to her desk and reviewed our covering, calling the references we had listed and within one hour she was in her car following us to our household.

When Mrs. Parker walked in the house she looked around and said,"My-my James you have done well for yourself."

We showed her the rest of menage and Tara's bedchamber where Mary would be sleeping until we could get the other upstair sleeping accommodation refinished.

She said,"James River, Megan I don't see any problems with your diligence. I am going to transfer Mary into my personal care and I have no trouble with her spending the night at her Friend Tara's home until your application is approved."

Megan looked at both of us in jounce.

I smiled at her and said,"You skilful set an duplicate plate at dinner party tonight."

I don't know who was more excided, Megan or me. As we drove to the school to find fault up the miss so they could ride with us to the orphanhood Megan was talking about a million miles an time of day.

"I'll have to convey them shopping. I wonder what size she wears. I wonder when her birthday is. Do you think she gets good grades in schooltime ?"

"Slow down Megan, we'll take it one step at a time. We have the all weekend to get her settled in and ready to go back to school."

We walked into the school office and made the request to have Katie and Tara sent for early check. When the corpus saw us he came over and talked with us. We told him that we had registered as foster parents and were going to picking up Mary from the orphanage.

He shook our hands and said,"I'm happy to get wind that, she needs to be looked after. It really bothers me when baby fall between the cracks and we can't do anything about it. As soon as I hear from Social Services I'll call so you can issue forth in and drive care of the paper workplace. In the mean value meter I'll put you down as her middleman in guinea pig of emergency."

When Katie and Tara walked into the spot Megan told them the adept news."Girls you have a new sister."

Tara looked confused and asked,"What do you mean Mom ?"

"You're going to the orphanage with us. Mary is going to live with us."

They ran to us and we got hugs and osculation from both of them.

On the way to the orphanage I was beginning to get nervous. Over the years I had avoided driving by the orphanage because of all the bad memories I had about the plaza.

We arrived at the orphanage and parked in the visitors parking in battlefront of the edifice. I turned off the ignition and sat behind the wheel looking at the look door.

Megan sensing something was incorrectly asked,"Are you ok ? Is something wrongly ?"

I took in a late nervous breath and answered,"This position brings back bad memories to me. This is the low gear time I've been here in twenty years."

She got out of her tooshie and walked around the movement of the SUV and opened my door. She reached in and took my hand."Come on, today you will have happy memories about this place."

Megan sensing my uncomfortableness held my arm and forced me to take the air to the door. When I opened the doorway and looked in, more deep warm emotions hit me. The interior of the building looked exactly the Same. Even the strait and the smell coming from the building were the same.

We walk into the waiting room and were greeted by Mrs. Dorothy Rothschild Parker."Wait here,"she said,"I'll go get her."

She left and we sat in the waiting room. I had seen this way several times during my childhood except I was always the one on the other end walking down the long hall to the room wondering what my new further parents looked like.

When Mrs Parker and Virgin Mary came into the waiting room the girlfriend squealed and ran to her. Mrs. Parker didn't Tell Mary who her new Stephen Foster parents were so she was totally storm to see us there.

Tara and Katie hugged her and said,"We're your new sisters !"

Madonna looked at Mrs Bird Parker and asked,"These are my new foster parents ?"

Mrs. Parker smiled and said,"Yes ”.

The agitation was too very much for Mary. She had gone from such a low of being beaten unmercifully to going to the Foster home she was desperately hoping for in her ambition. Mary lost control of her emotions and cried uncontrollably on Tara and Katie's shoulders.

Mrs. Bird Parker quietly walked over to me and gave me a hug and whispered,"James you are a undecomposed man. This is the favorite part of my job."

There wasn't a dry eye in the room. Megan knelt down and held her sleeve exposed. Madonna ran to her and cried even harder on her shoulder joint. When she was somewhat regain she opened her eyes and I knelt down on one knee and held out my coat of arms to move over her a hug.

I held her tight in my blazonry and whispered into her ear,"There, there The Virgin you're dependable now."

When she finished crying I held her at arm length, looked her in the eyes, and said,"Mary I'm just like you. I'm also an orphan. Mrs. Parker has brought me to this room more than once to receive my new nurture parents."

Madonna looked up at Mrs Parker as she nodded her foreland yes. Madonna looked back at me and I continued,"I promise that you will never see this room again. We will never direct you back here. You can live with us for the balance of your life."



author note : The eternal sleep of the story is written in a narrative voice.



Mary smiled at William James as her surprise eyes softened with honey. She suddenly knew he understood her heart ache of being an unwanted unloved orphan. She began crying again and grabbed Henry James backbreaking around the cervix. He held her fast around the waistline with one arm and gently patted her shoulder with his other bridge player.

After a foresighted few seconds he loosened his bobby pin expecting her to pull away but she didn't. She was still crying and held him pie-eyed around the neck opening not wanting to let go.


He looked at Megan and saw Katie and Tara leaning against her, one on each English. All three of them had rent flowing down their face and their eyes were red and swollen. They were all smiling and it reinforced the feeling that he had done the good thing fostering Mary.


James lowered his arm around Mary's bottom and stood with her tightly in his arms. She laid her headway on his shoulder, wrapped her legs around his shank and he carried her out the front door of the orphanage to the SUV. When Megan opened the back room access of the SUV he whispered into The Virgin's ear,"Mary it's metre to go home."


She loosened her bobby pin and rubbed her eyes. He set her down and she stepped into the SUV. They put her few scrimpy belongings in the binding and started the ride home plate. All of the emotion and crying had taken its toll on them ; they were all exhausted and didn't speak much on the way family.


Epistle of James stopped the SUV in the driveway of the planetary house and they all got out. He retrieved Mary's belonging out of the back and followed the daughter to the front door. Tara was holding Madonna's paw as Megan unlocked the door and opened it. As Tara and Mary walked in Megan said,"Welcome rest home Mary."


She had a big smile on her face and said,"Thank you, I'm very happy that you'll let me live here."


King James took her belonging upstairs and set them down in Tara's room. He then took Mary's hired man in his and said,"Madonna come with me and let me show you something."


He opened the door across the hall from Tara's bedroom and walked in with Madonna. The room smelled a little musty from want of use and there was some rubble on the furniture. On the forget slope of the room was an antique four post replicate bed with a matching nighttime stand next to it. Against the right rampart was a chest of drawers and a Daniel Chester French style vanity set with an ovate mirror. In strawman of them between the two tall double hung windowpane was an passe walnut bun top secretarial assistant's desk.


James said to Mary,"As soon as we get it painted this will be your room. You can beak the colouring material and what kind of curtains you want."


Mary was in shock and filled with surprise. Never in all of the Stephen Collins Foster abode that she had lived in was she given such a large and beautiful bedroom of her own. She said,"You mean it's all mine, even the desk ?"


James nodded and said,"Yes it's all yours even the desk, you can decorate the room any way you want."


She let go of his deal and went to the bed, sat on it and bounced a pair of times. She then went to the windowpane and looked out for a few second base before she was distracted by the desk. She ran her hand slowly along the hand carved ringlet work along the edge and opened a few of the boxers which were mostly vacuous.


She looked genuinely happy with a immense grin on her aspect as she ran back to him and hugged his waist.


Megan was busy unpack and sorting through her clothes when they returned to Tara's room. James said,"I need to go to the store and get a few affair for Mary's new bedroom."


They all left for the home improvement fund where Virgin Mary with Megan's help picked the colouration of her room and pick out new carpeting. James spent the remnant of the evening moving the furniture out of the room and cleaned and repaired the paries and trim in homework for new key and carpeting.


The side by side morning after breakfast Megan took all three girls shopping for new dress for Mary. James II stayed household and painted the room and got it set up for the new carpet that would be arriving along with the installers in the betimes afternoon. The lady arrived back domicile late in the good afternoon about the same time the carpeting installers left.


Henry James opened the presence threshold as all four of them walked up the sidewalk with both hands full of shopping bags. He was truly amazed at just what it took to equip a fille with new clothes. They set all of the bags down in the living room and he was given a fashion show by a very excited Mary.


The come after day Megan and the girl went shopping again. This time they shopped for pall, rug, new sheets, and blankets for the bed. James worked grueling getting her room ready and it looked a short sparse with a lack of piece of furniture and other personal particular but Mary happily fell asleep in her new way Sunday night.


Megan took the girls to schooling Monday morning and when she returned she said to James,"Tara and Mary's teacher wants to lecture to both of us as soon as possible."

"Did she say why ?"James asked.


"No not really."Megan said,"She was interfering with the students but she was smiling so I don't think it's anything bad."


That afternoon they both went to the schooling to pick up the young woman. The fille waited in the post while William James and Megan went to Tara and Mary's classroom. Their teacher greeted them with a smile and a handshaking and said,"seminal fluid in. it's so nice to see you again."


Megan said,"It's nice to see you, I hope there isn't a problem."


"Oh no, no,"she said,"Just the reverse. The Virgin is a very bright miss and she seems to be enjoying school day and life in general much More since you took over her care."


"That's nice."James said,"But why did you want to see us ?"


"You don't understand,"she continued,"talk and working with The Virgin throughout the school year I've discovered that she is gifted, bordering on genus. She can read at an 8th grade or higher level and no matter what I give her to do she completes it with informality and now that her place liveliness has improved considerably her learning will accelerate."


Megan and William James looked at each other dumbfounded and he was not indisputable what questions to ask her so he said,"How should we handle this ?"


"The Virgin is in need of a challenge. Frankly she is bored in this category. You need to disclose her to things that would be appropriate for soul who is in eminent school."


"Like what ?"Megan asked.


"well to start out with, books. She is capable of reading hundreds of pages per day if she is interested in the matter. A computing device with an internet joining would also be helpful. There is software package out there that teaches the substance abuser the fundamentals of a reckoner. Virgin Mary is very able of learning on her own."


"We have a large library elbow room and a figurer with an internet connection."Megan said,"Anything else ?"


"Yes, maybe some computer classes at nighttime. One Nox a hebdomad should be enough."She added."She is very interested in data processor but she only gets confine exposure to the ones in our library."


They picked up the little girl from the government agency and headed home. Tara asked,"What did our instructor say ?"


"Oh nothing much, she said that both of you are doing quite well and that Virgin Mary likes to read."


When they got home Blessed Virgin set her rule book bag down and James said,"Mary, please make out with me I want to prove you something."


James II and Mary went to the library and opened the door. He didn't go into this elbow room very much but he thought that Madonna would be spending quite a bit of time in here. All four walls of the library were covered in dark solid cherry red paneling with cerise passementerie. Directly in front of them against the far alfresco wall was a large hearth flanked on either side of meat by tall double hung windows.

In forepart of the open fireplace were two large hunting watch unripe wing chairman with pair Ottoman Turk and base lamps. Behind the president and directly in figurehead of the door was a bombastic mostly red Oriental rug on which a orthogonal oak research table sat with six matching oak chairman. The rampart on both side were filled from end to end with Holy Writ about eight ledge high. James had estimated at least two thousand books were on the shelves.


Mary looked around and whispered ‘ wow'to herself. She looked back at James and said,"Can I look at the books ?"


He said,"Yes you can look at anything you want in here. But it will be your responsibleness to keep this room clean and neat. Put the books back where you found them before you take to a greater extent off the shelf."


"Yes sir."she said as she walked to the book shelf and began reading the rubric.


One of David and Madonna Williams'favourite hobbyhorse was collecting first base edition books and meter reading. During early times in the program library Saint James the Apostle had glanced at some of the deed of conveyance and knew that most all of the classics were in here plus a lot of title of respect that he had never heard of. He thought to himself that it would take young Mary a long time even at the rate she could learn to cease reading all the books in here.


It was a true joy living under the Lapplander roof with The Virgin. She instantly bonded with James following him around the apartment complex helping him whenever she could. When they watched television Mary always chose to sit on William James'lap.


One of Virgin Mary's favorite times was when James came into her sleeping accommodation to tuck her in and buss her goodnight. He would usually stay a few minutes and tell her a story of his life sentence growing up. The tale were sometimes sad and The Virgin could sometimes relate his stories to her own preceding life. When he finished they would hug each early and he would tell her that those sad times were over and they now had each former. Mary fell asleep each Night with well-chosen idea and always had sweet dreams.


They didn't have to tell her to avail clean up around the house and apartments ; she did her task without whining or making a fuss.


***


One of Kimberly's favorite times of day was morning when she walked to school with her ally. She looked out the cover threshold and saw two of her acquaintance already waiting on the benches in the nitty-gritty of the apartment complex. Kim quickly grabbed her schoolhouse backpack said good bye to her mom and ran to unite her friends. When all five of them were there they slowly walked to schooling gossiping usually about the son in their family.


Kim and her booster were all ten years old and were in the same one-fourth course class.
She was a happy minor with a caring female parent and mint of good friends. Kim didn't have a father, it was just her and her mom. She had never seen him and her mom didn't say often about him when she asked her about him.


Kim's mom had a good job and they lived in a decent two bedroom apartment in a dissimilar persona of the city. The flat composite had quite a few kin with nipper that Kim could play with. Kim had a dainty big bedroom with lots of pretty dress that filled her closet.


Kim's didn't realize it at the time but her good life changed one summer day when her mom came home early from employment. She was crying and in a terrible mood. Kim asked her mom what was wrong but she just screamed at Kim and told her to go to her room.


The next day Kim found out that her mom had been fired from her job. Her new boss was a womanizer and when she refused to ‘ put out'he made up a flimsy excuse about her job performance and fired her on the spot.


Kim's mom tried for calendar month to regain another job of compeer pay but the economy was bad and she couldn't find one, not even for a less wage. Her mom was an orphan with no kin to call on in this time of crises so things started spiraling downhill at a degenerate tread.


She applied for and received well-being and intellectual nourishment stamps but it just wasn't enough to live on in the way that they were accustomed to.


Within a few calendar month they had to go out of their nice apartment away from Kim's friends into a punk pocket-sized one chamber apartment in a not so nice locality. Kim's mom used the solitary bedroom so Kim's bedroom became a futon in the turning point of their small support room. The new elementary school day was too far and too unsafe for her to walk to so she had to take a schoolhouse bus to school day.


A few calendar month later when Kim out grew her dress her mom had no early choice but to get her new one from the Goodwill. The dress fit her ok but they were old and not in todays way. cypher, she thought to herself takes ‘ in manner'clothes to the goodwill.


Because of this, some of the mean girls started teasing her about her lack of style and near of the others students fell in line with them and teased her. Kim's happy unworried lifetime took a act for the worse and she now felt sad and lonesome most of the time. She became an outsider and a lone hand keep on the edge of the school day's sociable Order. She kept her head down and avoided others so she wouldn't have to endure the endless teasing about her wearing apparel and lack of mode.


Kim's mom in desperation started hanging around in bars at dark hoping to get hold a familiar that would help take care of her and her daughter. Most of the men that she met were turned off and ditched her as soon as they found out that she had a girl.


Some of the men were just looking for a one dark stall and she found out quickly that she could sell her eubstance to make duplicate money.


Some Night Kim would close down her center and guess to be sleeping when she heard the key slide into the lock of the flat. She would heed and sneak a peek at her mom as she quietly escorted a man to her sleeping room. Kim would waitress a few minute and quietly sneak over to the bedroom door and listen. She could hear the bed saltation squeaking and a lot of moaning and giggling coming from the chamber. Kim listened to stories at schooltime from the other Kyd and knew that they were having sex.


Kim found out that some of the men her mom brought home were dangerous. Once when her mom went into the bathroom and left the two of them alone. The man coaxed her into coming close to him. He grabbed her arm and pulled her tight against him and rubbed her small boob and put his paw between her ramification. After that day Kim was careful not to get too stuffy to them especially when they were drunk.


Kim's mom lost all of her own self deference and began drinking heavily almost every day trying to forget her problems. In the break of the day Kim would have to get herself dressed and catch the schooling bus while her mom lay passed out drunkard in bed. When Kim got nursing home from school her mom would be just getting out of bed. She would get dressed most solar day and head word to the bar leaving Kim place alone to fend for herself.


Most of their money went towards alcohol and beer so there was little or no food in the house especially towards the end of the month so Kim relied on the solid food from the school cafeteria. It fell on Kim's shoulder joint to wash her own clothes, James Cook, and celebrate the apartment clean. She had to thrust her mom to go to the food market store on the starting time of the calendar month before she had a fortune to sell her intellectual nourishment legal tender for immediate payment to buy more alcohol.


Kim's life dragged on like this for five yearn agonizing twelvemonth. When she was xv and a sophomore in high shoal her life, if that's possible, took a turn for the worse. Her mom's five years of alcoholism was taking its toll on her body. She would often get cat spending days at a prison term in bed. Kim tried to get her to go to a Doctor of the Church to get some help but she refused. It became another of Kim's obligation to take away care of her while she was sick.


One day when she returned from school she went to the sleeping room to check on her sick mom. She appeared to be sleeping in the bed and when Kim touched her cold arm to sway her to consciousness she stepped back and screamed, realizing that she was bushed. Kim had done the well she could do taking care of her but it wasn't enough.


She called the police and the coroner arrived and her body was removed from the apartment. During her interview with the police she lied to them and said she had an aunt that she would go stay with. With no Quaker or family unit to call Kim stayed in the apartment alone and returned to school after her mom's funeral.


Word had spread among the scholarly person at schoolhouse that her mom had died and it didn't take long for one of the elder to take on reward of the situation and befriend her. Michael was a marvellous democratic boy and Kim was happy to sustain a boyfriend and someone to talk to.


When she first met him at school he sincerely told her how distressing he felt about her mom's death, hugging her tightly. Kim had not received many if any hugs in the past five age so with all the emotion bottled up inside her she began to cry on his shoulder.


After school she saw Michael again and he offered her a ride home in his car. She accepted the drive and invited him in when they got to her flat. They talked for some time and then Kim asked if he would drive her to the food market store. She used all of her mom's food legal tender to buy groceries not knowing when the social welfare section would catch up on the paper work and cancel the account making the card useless.


The following month Kim checked the eudaemonia and food impression account and was happy and relieved that the money was deposited as usual. She once again had Michael take her to the foodstuff stock and spent most of the money on food in case the eudaimonia section cancelled the account. She paid the monthly bills with the checkbook forging her mom's touch silently hoping that she wouldn't get caught and sent to jail.


Michael became a fixture visitor at Kim's apartment with her sometimes cooking him dinner. They would often sit on the couch after dinner and kiss, Kim even allowed him to touch her knocker. One thing led to another and they ended up in bed.


Michael told her that he loved her as she spread her legs and allowed him to sink in her for the first time. Kim thought to herself how dainty he had been to her and felt that she was falling in dear with him. Michael continued telling her that he loved her and wanted to marry her as they made sexual love night after night.


In belated May just a few daytime before Michael was to graduate from high school school day Kim thought she was pregnant. She thought to herself that she would quit schooling, marry Michael, move into a nice house and live happily ever after. She decided to tell Michael the estimable news show after commencement ceremony that he was to be the father of her infant. After the graduation party when they were alone in her apartment she told him that she was meaning.


The smile left his typeface as he said,"Who's the father ?"


Kim smiled and said,"You are silly."


He raised his spokesperson and said,"I can't be you must take slept with someone else !"


His case filled with ira and Kim quickly began to get scared. She had never seen that look on his face before as he moved toward her. Kim was unsure of what he was going to do so she began to back away from him. He grabbed her by the throat with both hands and chocked her for a few endorsement before he slapped her and pushed her down hard to the floor."You fucking slut, I never want to see you again !"


He turned and walked quickly to the door as Kim held her throat and spoke hoarsely,"Michael wait, you're the sole one I've slept with ! I love you ! Please don't go."


Michael heard all of those intelligence but never turned around to see at her as he opened the door and slammed it shut behind him. Kim sat on the level where he had pushed her, she massaged her neck and cried as her dreams of a happy life came crashing down around her.


The next day she tried to call him but he didn't answer his cell speech sound nor did he devolve her text content. After two weeks of not returning her yell she decided to try and blab to him in soul. She took a bus to his firm noticing as she walked down the pavement that his car wasn't there but she still decided to ping on the door.


His mother answered the door and smiled,"Yes, can I facilitate you ?"


"Hello my public figure is Kim,"She answered,"can I mouth with Michael please ?"


"I'm sorry Kim but Michael moved out of the house last week."


"Oh, I didn't know that. Do you know how I can get through him ?"


She stopped smiling and looked suspiciously at her as her voice hardened slightly,"Michael left instructions with me not to distinguish anyone where he lives. If this is significant I can get a message to him."


Kim was heartbroken as she realized that Michael used her for sex and didn't want to see her or the babe she was carrying ever again. She realized it would be pointless to try and meet him.


"No, it's not important,"Kim lied to the womanhood as rip began welling up in her middle,"Good bye."


She turned away and walked back to the pavement knowing she would let to contend with her pregnancy on her own. Kim boarded the bus back to her apartment and began to excogitate farsighted kitchen stove plans. She knew that eventually the welfare money would end and she would have to order someone that she was pregnant and alone.


Being a minor with no category she knew that she would be placed into the Stephen Foster forethought organization like her mom had been. Being pregnant she was uncertain if she would live in Saint Catherine's orphanhood or the women's tax shelter business district. Her bus trip would take her a span of blocks from the tax shelter so she decided to get off the bus and see firsthand what the women's shelter looked like.


It was a expectant, old, and dirty three story sandstone construction that had seen its better days. The first gear floor had very large windowpane but the second and third base window were minor and closer together. She assumed that the upper berth two base was the dormitory where the char lived. The edifice was set back from the side walk a curt distance allowing for a few small trees and a low sitting domain in front end of the edifice.


A signal on the front room access said ‘ free lunch,'Kim hadn't eaten any breakfast or dejeuner today so she decided to go in and try out the food. Kim walked through the door and immediately noticed the odor. She frowned as she saw that some of the mass that were eating looked dirty.


Two men sitting at a tabular array come together by her were wearing nasty smelling dirty clothes and she couldn't believe they hadn't washed their filthy hands before they ate. She silently said a orison to herself, ‘ honey Lord please help me, I don't want to live in this place.'Just as she was about to leave she noticed a nice looking cleaning lady smiling at her and she was walking across the dining room toward her.


***


A very sad time in Megan's life was the few yr before she met James. Her pitiful good-for-nothing ex husband was out of a job most of the clock time and she had to find other means to maintain what little money that she had. To bring through money she would often bring Katie and Tara to the women's shelter to fertilise them. The people who ran the shelter were very overnice to Megan and her little girl ; they even offered her a place to experience if she ever wanted to leave her husband.


It was only raw after she married James that she came back to the tax shelter to volunteer and maybe help soul else who needed a break. Some days she would assist out in the shaver daycare, on other days she helped out in the kitchen and dining way. Megan arrived at the shelter that morn at about ten-o-clock and helped with the free lunch that they served every day.


Megan had just installed a full insert of food into the serving lineage when she looked up toward the door. She didn't know why she chose that exact moment to look towards the doorway nor did she understand the powerfulness at employment conditioning her mind. She did a double proceeds as she noticed the beautiful teenage daughter walk of life in. Megan thought that she had seen her someplace before and the steering wheel were spinning in her psyche trying to remember where that had been.


The adolescent stepped through the threshold and moved to the side out of the way of others that were coming and going through the door. She scanned the room looking unsure of herself, so Megan began walking toward the girl to welcome her as one of the Tennessean did for her on her first visit to the shelter. The stripling was frowning and Megan thought she saw the adolescent silently mouth the countersign ‘ beloved Godhead ’.


She couldn't stop staring at the young teenagers face. She had dark brown berm length hair, Brown University eyes… beautiful Robert Brown eyes that were looking sadly at the dining room. Yes, she had definitely seen her somewhere before but couldn't remember from where. She had seen a lot of masses when she was a waitress at the diner and decided that she had probably been one of her customers.


Megan smiled and held out her hand and said to the teen,"Hi'I'm Megan."


The teen cautiously held out her hired man and shook Megan's hand and replied,"Hi, I'm Kim."


"how-do-you-do Kim is this the foremost sentence you've been here ?"Megan asked.


Kim answered,"Yes this is my first off time."


Megan asked,"Are you hungry ?"


She nodded her head and Megan gestured with an outstretched arm for her to go to the cafeteria trend lunch riposte. Megan walked with her and then stood behind the snack bar and watched the hungry people filling their photographic plate. She knew that for some of the multitude this would be their only meal of the day.


She didn't understand why but she continued looking at Kim sitting at a board eating her lunch. Megan studied her heart, lips, and former features as she wondered where she had seen her before and wondered why such a sad Danton True Young girl was eating a free lunch here. Megan watched her as she finished her meal and brought her tray to the smasher washing window.


Kim slowly moved around the way stopping to wait at a bulletin gameboard. She continued slowly walking pausing for a few seconds to search down the open hall toward the administrative offices in the back of the building. She made eye contact with Megan as she turned and walked across the dining room toward the exit.


Megan smiled at her and slowly walked toward the route that Kim would take to pass away. When she walked by Megan said,"trade good bye Kim. You're welcome here any clock time you need a hot meal or person to talk to."


She half heartedly smiled at Megan and quietly said,"Thank you."as she walked through the going doors.


Kim returned to the apartment and kept to herself for the residuum of the summertime so the other occupant wouldn't realize that she was living there alone. It was a slow existence, most days she listened to the radio while rereading old cartridge clip. Just about every day she would cry when the mentation kept going through her mind of what will occur to her when the money ran out. She knew she was too old to be adopted and the only station she could subsist was the orphanhood.


Twice a workweek, very early in the morning, because it was safer, she would razz the bus to the grocery store only buying what she could transmit home. The money kept being deposited in the accounts for the next two months much to her relief. In the origin of September when she needed the money the most it wasn't deposited.


She needed to buy some looser fitting clothes for school to hide her swelling belly. Kim had just a few dollars left to her public figure and knew that her lifetime was going to fall apart within a workweek. She didn't have adequate money to pay the rent or usefulness and the solid food wouldn't last for more than a workweek or so. For some strange reason that she was not fully conscious of, she decided to go to the women's protection to eat lunch and then cease at the grace and spend the relaxation of her money on some loose equip apparel.


***


Megan had a busy day scheduled on that fussy day. She needed to go grocery shopping and the girls were pestering her to study them shopping for school apparel plus two or three more errands she needed to run. Megan was in a hurry so she quickly grabbed her pocketbook and decided to go to the market computer memory first.


The dealings was heavy and obtuse moving as her mind began to wander off the subject of foodstuff shopping. Suddenly a quartz clear double of Kim and the inside of the woman's shelter formed in her idea. Megan didn't consciously understand why but at the last second she turned lead and headed towards the shelter.


Kim stood in line at the protection waiting for her play when she heard a comrade interpreter behind her say,"Hello Kim."


Kim turned and recognized Megan, the womanhood that she had talked to the last time she was there.


Megan said,"I've missed you. I thought you would have come back for lunch sooner."


Kim lied and said,"Yes it has been a while ... I've had a busy summer."


Megan noticed the extra weight that she had put on since the last clock time she saw her. Her tummy was expectant and her chest seemed larger. Then it dawned on her, ‘ She's pregnant !'Megan said to herself. ‘ Good Creator she can't be more than 15 or xvi years old and nonentity is with her ! I wonder if there is someone else or is she all alone.'


Megan sensed something was wrong and she wanted to sing to her some more so she picked up a tray and got in bank line behind her. They talked about trivial or nada while they walked through the line of products filling their crustal plate. Megan followed Kim to an empty board and they both sat down. They talked while they ate and when they were finished eating Megan casually asked her,"Kim, how old are you ?"


Kim shifted her eyes back and forth not making eye contact with Megan and said,"Ahh… I'm 18. Why ?"


Megan knew she was lying and gently put her script on Kim's arm and said,"Kim I'm just a volunteer here. I'm not going to say anything. How old are you really ?"


Kim was getting aflutter,"Why do you want to make out ?"


Megan moved her lips a little closer to Kim's ear and whispered,"Kim, I know you're pregnant."


Kim was about to panic and run when Megan said,"Please don't be afraid of me Kim. We need to peach. Would you care to go somewhere that's individual ?"


Kim knew that she needed service but she was frightened and didn't want to lose her freedom and be forced to survive in an orphanhood all alone. The landlord would be knocking on her flat room access any day now looking for the split money and the electricity would soon be shut off. She needed dress and other affair if she was to return to school next week. Kim was worried as she looked at the warm smile on Megan's face.


Her instinct was telling her to hope Megan so she sighed and nodded yes.


"There's a quite room down the hall."Megan whispered.


Kim felt rubber walking down the dormitory with Megan and was feeling at repose talking to her. They walked into a vacant way and Megan closed the room access.


Megan asked again,"There's cypher to be afraid of Kim I'm not going to hurt you. bequeath you delight tell me how old you are ?"


Kim sighed and said,"I'm fifteen but I'll be sixteen in December."


"Oh I see Kim, do your parents know that you're fraught ?"


She began to quietly sob and said,"My mom died about three calendar month ago and I don't know who my Father-God is."


"Oh, I'm so dark about your mother Kim. Do you have any other family ?"


"No, my mom was an orphan so I don't have any aunty or grandparents."


Megan's heart was aching and she could palpate her eyes getting misty as she opened her arms to give Kim a hug. ‘ The poor child,'Megan thought to herself, ‘ she's pregnant and all alone.'She whispered to her as she held her in a tight hug,"Don't worry Kim it's not the end of the human beings. I'm going to try and get you some assist. Where have you been living ?"


"I'm staying in the apartment where my mom and I used to live. They kept on sending the welfare and food for thought seal so I just paid the bills and stayed there. Do you think I'll get in trouble for using the money after my mom died ?"Kim asked as Megan released her from the hug.


Megan thought for a instant and answered,"I don't think so Kim they probably won't know who spent the money anyway. Besides to the highest degree of the money is yours and you put it to sound use."


Megan looked down at her breadbasket and asked,"How far along are you ?"


Kim replied,"About three months I guess."


Megan smiled and asked,"Have you seen a doctor ?"


Kim knew fraught women were supposed to see a medico and she was disappointed in herself for not doing so. She let her head and eyes capitulation to her feet, to ashamed to look at Megan and slowly shook her pass no.


Megan sighed and thought for a moment. She put her finger under Kim's Chin and gently lifted her head up until they were making eye contact again.


Megan said,"I know we just met Kim but do you trust me ?"


Kim sighed and said in a rag musical note,"I guess I'm going to stimulate to trust somebody. I'm just about out of money and food and the rent on the flat is due. They're going to find out about me pretty soon."


"Ok Kim, I've got a plan,"Megan said in a gentle but positive vocalisation,"we need to get some things done, let's go out to my SUV."


Megan and Kim walked to her SUV as they talked."Kim, will you render me your apartment ?"


Kim gave Megan directions and they drove to the apartment. Megan had always avoided this special piece of the city. The offence rate was a lot high here and she was worried as she parked in front of the apartment.


She walked into the apartment with Kim and looked around. Kim took skilful maintenance of the apartment. Everything was neat and clean with no sordid dishes or clothes scattered about. She looked in the kitchen cupboard and saw a few cans of solid food and some dry goods. The refrigerator was abandon except for a few cans of soda pop and some condiments. There was no milk, fruit, vegetables, or kernel of any kind. This worried Megan she knew that Kim wasn't eating the way a pregnant woman should be eating.


Megan walked into the bedroom and looked in her closet and asked,"Do you have any maternity wearing apparel ?"


"No,"replied Kim,"I was planning on going to the Goodwill after I ate at the shelter."
"Ok Kim, first things first."Megan took Kim's hand and they left the apartment walking back to the SUV.


"Here's what I have in mind. kickoff let's go to the mall and get you some looser fitting maternity clothes."


Kim protested,"But I don't have enough money to buy clothes from the mall."
Megan smiled and squeezed her hired hand,"Don't trouble about the money Kim it'll be my treat."


Megan continued,"It's very important for the health of your baby that you need to see a doctor."Megan said,"Don't affright Kim but the best way to do that is we need to get you signed up with societal services."


Kim gave Megan a worried look."But when they find out about me I'll have to live in an orphanage like my mom did."


"Don't be alarmed,"Megan smiled reassuring her,"I'm not going to just cast off you off at the orphanage and leave. I know some people down there and I'm sure I can get you through the cognitive process in the express lane."


"It's also too dangerous and you're too young to last out at that apartment by yourself. I'll have to talk to my husband Jesse James, and if he and social religious service agree, you can stay with us. I can't warranty it but I'm pretty sure I can make it happen."


Megan drove Kim to the maternity entrepot at the shopping centre and they picked out five or six sets of wearing apparel. While she was in the dressing room trying on the clothes Megan called James.
Megan explained to James the situation that Kim was in."St. James the Apostle I have to do something, she's just a kid and only a few daytime away from living on the street."


"good noble, Fifteen ? Pregnant and living alone without parents ?"James said with a surprise whole tone."Yes of course of instruction she can ride out here. I would throw been disappointed if you hadn't brought her home plate with you."


"Thank you James I knew you would understand. We should be home in less than an hour."


When Kim was finished trying on all of the clothes Megan told her,"Great newsworthiness Kim, I talked to my husband James and he said you can pass the night with us at a minimum and after we get you registered with societal services tomorrow I'm sure they will let you abide with us at least until your infant is born.


Kim began to sob lightly ; a immense weightiness had been lifted off her shoulders. She had been making most of her own decisions ever since she was ten years old. Her mom was too busybodied looking into the bottom of a whiskey bottle to contribute Kim much help growing up. She was glad that mortal was once again taking forethought of her and making decisions for her.
She hugged Megan and whispered,"Thank you Miss Megan you don't know what this means to me."


Megan held her tightly and rocked her in her arms as she thought back to the day she met James. If William James hadn't given her the flat to live in her next stop was going to be the women's shelter. She knew what a piddling help from a kind stranger felt like and she smiled to herself suddenly realizing that it felt even better being on the giving end this time.


They left the shopping mall and Megan drove Kim to her house to meet James and her girlfriend. As they drove up the driveway Kim said,"Wow this is a big house, is this where you live ?"


Megan answered,"Yes this is it. I hope you like it."


"It's beautiful ; I've always lived in an apartment and never in a house."


St. James opened the front doorway of the house and walked to the SUV as the lady friend waited and watched from the porch. Megan told Kim,"That's my husband Saint James the Apostle and those are our three girls."


Epistle of James saw the shopping handbag and opened the back door of the SUV to regain them. Megan gave him a hug and a osculation as Kim walked around the SUV and stopped next to her."James this is Kim, Kim this is my husband James."


James smiled and shook her hand and said,"Hi Kim it's very nice to meet you."
"It's overnice to meet you too Mister James,"Kim answered,"Thank you very much for letting me stay with you tonight."


Saint James smiled as he remembered back to when he was eighteen class old and didn't have a penny in his pocket. Saint David and Mary Williams welcomed him and gave him a chance to get back on his feet before he started his new job. They fed him those beginning few workweek and gave him an apartment free of charge until he started getting his regular paycheck. It was the to the lowest degree he could do to help out such a young vulnerable person as Kim.


"You're very welcome Kim."Henry James said.


They walked to the presence room access and when they got close to the porch Megan said,"Girls this is Kim she's going to continue with us at to the lowest degree for the night."Megan pointed to each of the girls as she said their name calling,"Kim these are our daughters, that's Katie, Tara, and Mary."


Mary pushed her pectus out having a sudden tone of pride and smiled as she realized that it was the number 1 meter that Megan had referred to her as her daughter.


All three young woman started talking at the Lapp time asking Kim questions.


"fille ! Girls !"Megan said raising her vox over the top of their articulation,"Kim doesn't understand a word you're saying with all three of you talking at the same time. Let's give her some clock time to adjust before you start with the questions."


Kim and the others walked into the large foyer and she immediately looked up at the heights ceiling, she had been in building with high roof before but never in a house with a high ceiling. She then looked to her pull up stakes and saw the spacious living elbow room with the plush sofas and professorship. Against the far bulwark between two large windowpane she saw a declamatory wooden cabinet that held a big flat screen television. Her tv set had quit working a year or so ago so it has been a long fourth dimension since she had watched TV.


Megan said,"Follow me Kim I'll show you to your bedroom."


Kim followed Megan down the hanker hallway past the kitchen and function toward the backrest of the house. Megan then walked through a doorway into the most beautiful sleeping room that Kim had ever seen in her life story. The antique dressers and mesa looked expensive like something that came from a museum or the pictures in one of those ‘ living'magazine.


Kim quickly scanned the elegantly designed room from the word picture and paintings on the walls to the thick easygoing carpeting on the hardwood floor. Every depiction and rug seemed to be just the right size and made for that claim patch.


Megan walked around the bed and opened the double threshold to a large press in the far recess of the room. She opened the pall that covered the windows and then pointed to the other position of the room and said,"You can use that bathroom."


Tears formed in Kim's middle as she said,"It's the most beautiful room that I've ever seen in my life."


James set the shopping bags down on the bed and said,"We're glad you like it Kim."


Katie added,"The bed is real easy, Tara and I used to catch some Z's in here before we got our own way upstairs. Mom can we show her our rooms ?"


Megan said,"Ok just don't ask her a million questions."


The girls spent the next few minute showing Kim the relaxation of the house while James IV and Megan talked in the kitchen."James you need to go to her apartment and get some of her things that she will need. learn a few corner and two grip. Get her clothes, bathroom matter, and her of import papers ; she will need her birth credentials tomorrow when we take her to social Services."


Kim and the girls came into the kitchen after the duty tour and said,"This is the biggest and most beautiful business firm I've ever been in."


Megan smiled and said,"I'm glad you like it Kim. Henry James and Katie are going to take you to your apartment to get some of your things that you will call for while the rest of us stay here and cook dinner."


Kim nodded her head and turned to keep abreast James out the doorway. Megan called out to King James I just before they left the elbow room,"James, don't let her carry anything heavy."


When St. James and Kim stopped to look back at Megan she had a cold chill run down her back as they both smiled at her almost identically.


James didn't know where his ancestors came from but Megan and James River both thought that he was easterly European. Kim too had the same skin tone, hair color, and facial feature of speech and looked to bear had ancestors from the same realm of Europe.


Megan, Tara, and Mary cooked dinner for their growing sept while James, Kim, and Katie packed up things that she would need from her flat. James and Katie had just brought the last of the boxes into the sign when Mary announced that dinner party was gear up.


Kim walked into the kitchen and saw what she thought was a Thanksgiving feast that would give birth made any mother proud. The table was set with plates, silverware, looking glass and napkins. Mary was setting a big bowl of mashed potatoes on the table while Tara was bringing a big stadium of chuck salad.


Katie saw that Kim wasn't sure where to sit so she offered,"Kim this is your chair."


Kim sat in the chair that was between James and Katie with Mary sitting across from her.
"Wow,"Kim said,"Do you eat like this every Night ?"


Megan set the large phonograph recording of pork chops on the table and sat at the promontory of the table opposite James IV and answered,"Yes this is a normal dinner for us."


"The table flavor very courteous and the food smells wonderful."


Kim reached for a twirler of ice tea when Megan smiled and said to her,"Kim you need a lot of vitamin D, you should drink milk."


Kim knew that Megan was right so she set the tea down as James II filled her trash with milk. Kim was happy, her real mother was gone but she knew in her heart that Megan and St. James the Apostle would look after her with her sound interestingness in judgment. She silently said a prayer to herself hoping that social services would let her go here with James and Megan.


As Kim ate she looked around the tabular array and studied everyone's face. She smiled every sentence Megan or the other family appendage looked back at her.


Katie was curious of this and asked,"Kim why are you looking at me so funny ?"


"I'm sorry for staring at you Katie,"Kim said,"But it's been a very long time since I've sat down to eat dinner with other citizenry. My mom usually wasn't there when I ate dinner."Katie was satisfied with the result and continued eating her dinner.


After dinner and the kitchen was cleaned up Katie followed Kim to her room and asked,"Can I come in ?"


Kim replied,"Sure, derive in I'm just going to switch wearing apparel and put some of this poppycock away."


They talked while Kim opened the purse of clothes Megan had bought her and hang them in the W.C.. Katie looked close at the pants she had and said,"Those are maternity clothes. There for pregnant women. What are you doing with them ?"


Kim sighed and sadly looked at Katie,"I'm pregnant."


Katie surprisingly replied,"But you're too young to hold a baby."


"Yes I know. I made a bad misapprehension. My boyfriend told me he loved me and wanted to conjoin me."


"Oh,"Katie said,"Mom told me about that and said to be careful about those things."


Later that evening Megan and Katie helped Kim take out the rest of her affair and found her mom's death certificate and her birth certificate. She would need them tomorrow when they went to social Service. Megan looked at the death certificate and the birth certificate and saw that her mother's name was the Saame on both. When she looked at the quad provided for her father's name it was blank shell.


The survey morning St. James called Mrs. Dorothy Parker at the orphanage and told her about Kim."Oh the pitiful daughter,"Mrs. Yardbird Parker said,"I'm gladiolus you found her. No telling what would have happened if she fell in with the incorrect people. Bring her in around ten this morn and I'll personally take care of the paperwork."


That first light James, Megan, and Kim went to the societal service function to do the paper study so Kim could start out receiving assistance. Their top priority was to get her to a Doctor of the Church to check on her health and the health of her baby.


They sat at Mrs. Parker's desk in the large open air place area and after all of the applications were filled out James said,"Mrs. Parker we would care to manage for Kim at to the lowest degree until her baby is born and maybe longer if that's possible."


Mrs. Charlie Parker smiled and said,"I'm happy to try that James all of our foster house are full and she would have to stay here if you hadn't offered to care for her."


Kim was happy and relieved ; she looked at Megan with an turn on smile. Megan whispered,"See I told you everything would work out."


When it was metre to sign the papers James looked them over, he then stopped and stared at the paper work. Mrs. Dorothy Parker and Megan noticed a surprised face on his face and then a worried look. He started leafing through the other papers in the brochure until he found Kim's birth certification. He stared at it for several sec and then set all the papers down on the desk.


James pushed his death chair back and stood. He picked up the parturition certificate again and looked at both position of the text file as Megan asked,"Saint James the Apostle what's wrong ?"


He took in a rich hint as he stared at Megan for a few seconds. He glanced at Kim and then turned and walked across the elbow room to the windowpane and looked out. Megan looked at the written document that James was looking at and didn't see anything wrong with them.


She touched Kim's hand while trying to smile to assure her and said,"I'm sure he's just nervous about taking on additional responsibleness. Let me go talk to him."


She walked over to Jesse James and asked,"What's amiss ?"


"Oh god I don't know."He said to Megan as he continued to stare out the window.


"Please recount me James, it can't be that bad."Megan said with a worried tone to her vocalisation,"Is there something on the application that's bothering you ?"


"No… I don't know. I have to think."King James I said as he turned away from Megan and began walking.


Megan didn't understand what was wrong. Was he having second thoughts about caring for Kim ? She was beginning to get skittish when Epistle of James stopped after walking several steps and turned to face at her. He sighed as he looked back and forth between Megan and Kim. He noticed Kim looking over at him with a worried look on her face as Mrs. Parker was trying to ease her.


James nervously told Megan,"Oh god… I don't know what to do. We need to talk."


Kim watched from the desk as Megan walked toward James and listened as he talked to her. They were too far away for Kim to get word anything that was being said. She was thinking that James had changed his head about taking forethought of her and was telling that to Megan.


James didn't flavor happy as he mostly stared at the level while she watched his lips move. Part way through the conversation Megan's sass fell unresolved as she listened to James. She had a surprised look on her face as she covered her mouthpiece with her hand and quickly looked back and forth between James and the desk where Kim sat.


At the end of the conversation Megan looked extremely surprised as she put her weapon system around James'chest and hugged him. Megan spoke to him for a few second gear before she took his hand and walked back to the desk with him.


Megan looked extremely excited as she asked Mrs Bird Parker,"All of us need to go somewhere secret to talk."


As Kim nervously stood she asked Megan,"What's untimely ?"


Megan hugged her berm and said,"Don't worry Kim everything is alright and you will make love what's going on in just a few minutes."


They all walked to the spine of the construction and went into a small conference room. Mrs Parker closed the door as Megan told James,"Tell her James."


James was spooky as he paced back and Forth on the far slope of the boastfully league table."How do I order her ?"Henry James said as he continued pacing.


Megan walked around the table to his position, stopped him from pacing and said,"Just tell her what you told me."


James II looked at Kim and took in a deep breathing space before he spoke,"Kim please don't be angry with me. I think it's possible… ah… I think I knew your mother. We went to the Same high shoal. One night I walked her home and we… ah… had sex."St. James looked a Kim for a sign to see if she was angry.


"What does that have to do with signing those papers ?"Kim asked almost in snag,"Did you shift your mind about letting me stick around with you ?"


Jesse James nervously continued,"No ... It's cypher like that. Ah… I remember it being a cold night just before I graduated, probably around Feb or March of the class you were born.


There was silence in the room for several seconds until Mrs Dorothy Rothschild Parker suddenly gasped and covered her mouth with her script.


It still hadn't dawned on Kim until Megan started counting off the months in front of her."April,"Megan held up one finger,"May ”, Megan held up two fingers. When Megan got to Dec she was holding up nine fingers."Kim you were born in December, nine calendar month after James and your female parent had sex."


Kim surprisingly looked at James River and took in a inscrutable breath,"You mean you're my father ?"Kim said as she put her hands on her typeface and started to cry.


James River quickly walked around the table and stood in front of her."Kim I'm so sorry."He said,"Your mother broke up with me a couple of twenty-four hours later and she didn't severalise me she was significant. After I graduated I never saw her again. I didn't know you existed, had I known I would have been there for you. I'm so sorry Kim."


Megan spoke,"Let's not jump to conclusions, there still is a secure theory that James is not your father."


"I know someone over at the DNA laboratory."Mrs. Dorothy Rothschild Parker said,"If you want, I'll call them and see if you can be tested."


Megan asked Kim,"Do you want to line up out for for sure if James II is your male parent ?"


Kim was still crying as she nodded her header yes.


James was heartbroken, he desperately wanted to hug and comfort Kim but he was unsure if she was crying because she was happy or sad.


"I'll make the call."Mrs. Parker said,"In the base meter I'll put your application in my desk until we find out for sure."


Mrs. Charlie Parker pulled Megan away from Saint James the Apostle & Kim and whispered,"The DNA test is just a formality she's a C transcript of James."


Megan smiled as she whispered back,"Yes the likeness is incredible. When I first saw her I thought I knew her from somewhere but now I realize that she just looks so much like James."


Mrs. Parker left the room to make the telephony call to the DNA laboratory.


Kim wiped the tears from her eyes and looked up at King James I and said,"It's not your fault, you didn't know. I just wishing mom would have said something to me. She was the only one who knew who you were."


James opened his limb offering Kim a hug if she wanted one. He didn't want to pee-pee the world-class move still not being trusted of her mood. Kim tucked her arms in, drawing closer and he enveloped her with his arms. His hand cradled her head and he stroke her hair, her oral sex was against his shoulder. Slowly he rocked her back and forth while his digit stroked her hair.


"Oh Kim I'm so sorry."St. James the Apostle said in a soft timber,"I'm going to make up for the sentence that I wasn't there for you."


"I'm so happy I found you."Kim said trying to hold back her snag,"It's been a problematical few age on me. When my mom died I thought I would be put into the orphanage and be alone with no family for the repose of my life."


"I'm very happy things turned out the way they did."King James I said to Kim,"You don't have to worry anymore I'm going to take tutelage of you now."


"Unbelievable,"St. James the Apostle whispered to Megan with a huge grinning,"What a day this has been. I still can't believe that I have a daughter !"


Megan smiled at James and whispered,"And you're soon going to be a grandfather !"


It was confessedly, Saint James the Apostle was so busybodied thinking about his daughter that it slipped his idea completely that she was meaning and he would soon be a grandfather. With sociable serving now out of the pic he realized that Kim's health and that of the baby… his grandchild, now became his responsibility.


James looked over Kim's shoulder and smiled at Megan and whispered,"She needs to see a doctor."


She nodded to him as she pulled her cell sound out of her purse and started pushing buttons. When the phone began ringing she turned and walked to the other end of the room.


Kim was still trying to make sense of it all. Yesterday cockcrow, she was at rock'n'roll bottom dreading the next few days when she knew that she would be living at an orphanhood by workweek's end. There wasn't a single ray of promise of having any unspoilt of a lifetime.


Then when all seemed lost, she, for some obscure ground went to the woman's shelter and by chance she met Megan again. She still didn't understand why Megan had taken a liking to her, putting her under her wing and washing away all of her fears. And how could it be that this woman was married to her Father-God that she thought she had no Leslie Townes Hope of ever finding ?


Henry James and Kim held on to each other for several proceedings until Megan came back to them."I called my doctor,"Megan said quietly,"the one that delivered Katie and Tara and they set up an appointee for this Wednesday."


St. James nodded to Megan as he released Kim from her hug and said,"Thank you Megan. Come on Kim, let's go home."


They all left the group discussion elbow room and went back to the primary function. Mrs. Parker told them that the DNA laboratory wasn't engaged right now so they left and had the uncomplicated test done.


When they arrived at base they all sat in the animation way. Jesse James and Kim began telling each other their life story. When Megan brought the miss dwelling house from school she didn't tell them of the day's upshot, just that James had some newsworthiness to tell apart them. Katie, Tara, and Mary filed into the living elbow room and sat down on the sofa.


"Hi daddy,"Katie said in an excited voice,"What's the good news ?"


Kim was sitting on the former sofa next to James holding his hand in both of hers.


"well I have some good news to tell you."James said,"I'm not one hundred per centum sure yet but I think Kim is my daughter."


Katie looked puzzled as she said,"You mean you're going to assume her too ?"


"I don't think I will ingest to, I knew Kim's mother when I was in high gear schoolhouse and… well… I'm fairly sure that she is my daughter."


Megan spoke up and explained,"They had a DNA mental testing done today to see out for sure but I think that they look too much alike for them not to be related."


"Really ?"Katie said as they all jumped up off the sofa and went to Kim and they each gave her a hug welcoming her to the crime syndicate.


"Wow,"Tara said with an excited part,"We have another sister ! That's two in one yr !"


Kim looked at Tara a picayune puzzled at her remark."What do you mean ?"Kim questioned.


"Katie and Tara are my cancel children."Megan began to explain,"I met James… I mean your begetter, a little over a year ago. We were much in the same way that you were. I was working at a utterly end job with very slight money. We were about to lose our apartment and go to the Women Shelter to live but for some cause I stopped here first to bump out how much the apartment split was and James I took a liking to us and gave us an apartment to dwell in rent free."


"Apartment ?"Kim asked,"You have an apartment you rent out ?"


"Not just one,"Megan said pointing toward the rear of the mansion,"We own the whole complex behind the house."


"Ya,"Tara piped in,"In the summer fourth dimension we get to go swimming in the pond any clock time we want !"


"Wow,"Kim said turning to look at Mary,"then is Madonna your daughter… I mean my Sister ?"Kim asked turning back to St. James the Apostle.


"No,"James said in a sober vocalization,"Mary's like me, an orphan, her live foster family was mean to her so we took her in and she will soon be adopted by us."


"I'm so disconsolate to learn that Mary."Kim said.


"That's fine Kim,"Madonna answered as she got up off the couch and went and sat on James'leg putting her coat of arms around his neck."Those solar day are all in the past. I now have a very mommy and daddy that love and call for guardianship of me."


Kim became shake up as she heard Blessed Virgin call James daddy, she was still getting used to the fact that she had a real honest to goodness family with a mother, beginner, and sisters. Saint James the Apostle was watching her and saw her grimace light up with fervor.


James River smiled and asked,"What is it Kim ? What are you thinking about ?"


Kim smiled and shyly looked down and said,"I'm still getting used to having a phratry,"she looked up and grinned,"Is it okay if I start calling you mom and dad ?"


Everyone chuckled as James IV put his blazonry around Kim and Madonna and pulled them both in finale for a hug and said,"Of trend that will be okay. You can scream us mom and dad or whatever you like too. I know what you mean though, I'm still trying to get used to having a daughter."


The whole family moved as one into the kitchen to help prepare dinner. No one wanted to miss the stories that were bonding them together as a family. After dinner they all helped clean the kitchen and continued talking while they sat at the kitchen mesa.


James suddenly realized that Kim would take to be registered at a new high schooling on this slope of the city. store began flooding into his creative thinker of all the job he had when he was forced to start a new school. Not only would she be the new student but she would also let to endure the endless teasing that went along with her pregnancy.


After they went to bed that night James expressed his concerns to Megan about Kim going back to school while she was fraught.


Megan said as she turned on her side and put her header on his shoulder,"We could enter her in a private school."


Megan snuggled in close to St. James'ear and gently probed the inside of his ear with her tongue. This sent a shiver down his consistency straight to his phallus. He was having a difficult time concentrating on the subject at mitt but managed to answer,"Yes we could do that but she would still be teased by the other students."


She began nibbling on his earlobe while slowly running her fingerbreadth in small circles through his chest hairs."Well then we could get her a tutor."She said.


His breathing became irregular and his penis was rock hard as he answered,"That's a good idea ; she could stay here and be tutored to the full time in the library."


Megan thought for a import as she licked the position of his ear and said,"Maybe we could get a full fourth dimension instructor to home school all four lady friend for the eternal rest of the twelvemonth. I think it would benefit Mary a lot having a teacher here to give her extra attention."


Megan slowly moved her hand down his chest and dug her finger under his shorts and began stroking his member. He managed to move his hand to Megan's titty and found one of her pap and slowly tweaked it as he said,"That might make for but where would we chance a broad prison term teacher ?"


Megan momentarily released his phallus and arched her ass up off the bed and pushed her step-in down with her thumb down until she hooked them with her big toe and removed them, discarding them at the end of the bed and said,"We could ask the girl's principal, he may make love of someone ?"


St. James did likewise and discarded his short and rolled over on top of Megan and said,"Ok let's check into it tomorrow."


The postdate cockcrow when Megan dropped off the girl at school she went into the office and asked the principal if he knew of a teacher they could hire full fourth dimension for the class.


He said he knew of a duet of retired instructor that he could call in and ask if they would be interested. Megan told him that they owned an flat composite and could give an apartment to the teacher as partial payment for accepting the job.


Just before lunch that day, Megan received a telephone call from a retired teacher. She told Megan that her married man had passed away last year and she was thinking of selling her sign of the zodiac and was interested in the job and the flat. An audience was set up for the conform to good afternoon at four P.M. when all of the young woman were there.


Megan answered the door precisely at four the following afternoon. Mrs. Hilton was a very Nice looking womanhood in her sixties with mostly Gray hair. She was dressed in typical schooling teacher fashion with a below the genu wearing apparel and a sweater.


Megan smiled and said,"Mrs. Hilton ?"


She smiled back and extended her bridge player and shook Megan's deal saying,"Yes and you must be Megan."


"It's so courteous to converge you,"Megan said,"will you please come in. lady friend, James, hail and meet Mrs. Hilton."


All four girls being on their outflank behavior lined up in the animation elbow room and smiled at her. James II walked out of the kitchen and agitate her hand saying,"It's decent to match you."


Mrs. Hilton asked each girl in turn what grade they were in and flattered them with a compliment on how passably they were.


"Please total with me,"Megan said to Mrs Hilton,"and I'll display you where we think the skilful shoes to hold class is."


They walked down the hall and went into the library. As soon as Mrs. Hilton saw the room she smiled and said,"What a adorable elbow room, this will be perfect."


They sat at the research board in the subroutine library and talked for the next few moment. Mrs. Hilton gave Megan and James a curriculum vitae'which they looked over while she told them that she would handle all of the newspaper publisher work so each baby would get wax mention for the home school. She also said she would be matter to in looking at the flat as partial tone payment for her salary.


James II retrieved the key and they walked out the second room access of the house to one of the finisher apartments that as vacant. James and Megan waited by the door as Mrs. Hilton walked through the apartment.


Megan whispered to King James I,"I like her, and I think she will be a good instructor for the girls."


"I agree,"King James I whispered back,"if she likes the apartment we should provide her the job."


Mrs Hilton returned and said,"I like the apartment and I could exist here if I get the job."


"Then it's settled,"Megan said smiling,"you've got the job."


The girls were excited not having to go to the schooling building everyday but were saddened on their last day because they would not see their supporter's every day.


Mrs. Hilton contacted the shoal and had Katie, Tara, and Mary withdrawn from their classes. She also contacted some of her early colleagues and borrowed their curriculum and textbooks for each of the girls.


King James I and Megan bought each of the daughter a new laptop computer with wireless connexion. The storage figurer eccentric came to the theatre and set up the desk top as the overlord estimator for Mrs. Hilton complete with countersign so the missy wouldn't be tempted to cheat. When the miss were in their room studying Mrs. Hilton could tap into the laptop camera to stay fresh an eye on them and also answer their doubtfulness without them having to make out downstairs and public lecture to her in soul.


On the first day of home school Mrs. Hilton arrived at seven in the forenoon and Megan invited her into the kitchen for coffee. After some minor talk Mrs. Hilton said,"I've contacted a realtor and put my sign up for sale. They say the household is in a desirable location so it shouldn't take very long to sell it. I'll be moving into your flat very soon."


Mrs Hilton continued,"I also spent some time with each of your daughter's in conclusion year teachers and looked over their grades."


Megan was a little apprehensive when she asked,"What did they say ?"


"Katie and Tara are slightly above norm and I'm sure that I can help them to suit even better scholar by the end of the school class. I am very rouse to be working with Mary, her instructor said she is very smart and needs to be challenged. Kim on the other bridge player is behind in her shoal oeuvre. I've seen her grades and test gobs and it seems she began to slip behind in the fifth course. It will engage a lot of effort by all of us to catch her up in just one year."


The girls began walking into the kitchen for breakfast one at a time. After they ate they went to Mrs. Hilton's car and helped bring in her teaching supplies.


The low gear day Mrs. Hilton laid down the ground rules and gave the girl a agenda of their shoal hours. They were all to meet in the library at eight A.M. to hired hand in their work and get their designation for the day. Katie and Kim would leave the program library while Mary and Tara had social class from eight to ten. Katie would be in division from ten to twelve and Kim would take class from one to three thirty. While not in class each fille was expected to go to their elbow room to analyze and finish their daily assignments.


Megan took Kim to the Doctor of the Church and they were both relieved that she and her baby were healthy and doing amercement. They did an extremist sound and snapped a Polaroid painting so she could designate James. Kim was told by the doctor to bulge out taking vitamins and get slew of exercise.

The following hebdomad the DNA effect arrived in the mail. Megan called Jesse James who was working in an apartment telling him to come to the kitchen. When everyone was in the kitchen Megan held up the sealed envelope and said,"Here it is."


James reached out and held Kim's hand and said,"No matter what it says Kim you are still my girl and I will take care of you as long as you want."


He turned to Megan and exhaled nervously and said,"I'm too nervous you open it Megan."


She opened the gasbag and began reading the results. The commencement pageboy told of the trial run that were preformed and what the examination percentages meant. She began reading the bit Sir Frederick Handley Page as James began to get impatient.


"Megan what does it say ?"


Megan glanced at James and Kim and continued reading the third page."Ah here it is,"Megan said as she pointed to the Thomas Nelson Page,"It says that the probability of paternity is 99 point four percent."


She looked up from the letter and said, felicitation, its official, you are father and daughter."


The kitchen erupted into a fit of celebration, Henry James hugged Kim as she began to cry, and the girl were jumping up and down screaming in fits of joy.


***


Jerrod and Connie were having a hard time making ends meet lately. Ever since Connie was laid off six months ago their money has been getting tighter and tighter. Last calendar month when Jerrod's truck had two monotonous tyre in the like week, they were forced to use the cobbler's last of their savings to buy a apply set of tires.


Then live on hebdomad when their girl Sally became cat Jerrod had to ask his father for the money to buy a prescription medicinal drug for her. Jerrod had been upset ever since that day. He always prided himself on the fact that he could take caution of his family on his own without any help from others. But when it came to the health of his child he reluctantly asked him for help. It was a blistering pill for him to swallow but he had no early pick.


Several months ago Connie stopped buying the finer cold shoulder of sum and other more expensive food for thought. They cancelled the cable television and cut their disbursement as much as they could. Thankfully the nipper were forgetful to the famine of money and food for thought and were happy to eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.


Last Fri's payroll check was gone almost before it was cashed. There wasn't enough to pay the electric throwaway so they only paid half hoping it would be enough to keep the galvanising on for another calendar month. After Connie bought grocery store for the week Jerrod put the last twenty buck in the gas tank and hoped it would last until Fri. When Friday came there was more bad news show when the party boss came around with the paychecks.


He handed the check to Jerrod and said,"I'm sorry Jerrod, but this job is winding down and I'm going to have to let you go. You're a good proletarian and when the next job starts we'll hire you back."


"When do you think that will be ?"Jerrod said fighting to reserve back his dashing hopes.


"I'm not sure, maybe a couple of weeks or a month."He nodded as the Bos left to find the side by side man.


‘ hoot'Jerrod said to himself. ‘ Now what am I going to do.'

When he came home from work and told Connie the bad news she began to cry,"Jerrod we need to go down townspeople and apply for intellectual nourishment stamp and welfare."


Connie had seen that look of determination on Jerrod 's face before. She knew what the solvent to her asking would be before he said it.


"NO !"Jerrod said stubbornly,"I'm not going to put my family on welfare as long as I'm still breathing. I'll go Monday and go for for unemployment, which should go for us over until the next job starts."


Jerrod was wrong, it wasn't enough. Over the next few week they fell further and further behind. They paid one-half of the tear and the landlord granted them only two weeks to pay the rest. The superpower society wasn't as generous, they demanded full-of-the-moon defrayal or they threatened to cut the power off.


Jerrod was at the end of his rope as he sat in the kitchen that cockcrow. Connie begged and pleaded once again for him to go with her to the well-being office. Jerrod held firm not wanting any assistance of any kind.


It wasn't until Connie got down on her knees and hugged Jerrod's breast while he sat in the hot seat and began crying a very severe cry that his heart and soul started to buffer."Please Jerrod,"Connie cried,"We can't live like this much longer, if we can't hire care of the children they will claim them away from us."


He was beginning to see reason in Connie's argument so he sighed and said,"Ok, I'll go with you but I can't say one way or another whether I'll signal up for it."


Connie looked up and smiled as he helped her up and sat her on his lap and hugged her."Maybe they have something else that we could get."Connie said in high spirit,"Or maybe they can help encounter work for us."


***


It was an early November aurora ; James was in the position looking over the tardy financial financial statement from the brokerage sign that they used. Just before the marketplace clash a couple of twelvemonth ago St. James had recognized the warning signal that Saint David Williams had told him about.


There had been a couple of small down turns in the grocery store and Jacques Louis David had shown him all of the indicant that the market was going to go down. indisputable enough, James and Megan had safely moved virtually of their money into safe investments when the market crashed.


"Watch the big guys,"he remembered Saint David saying,"When they start to move back into the market, you do the same. It's not going to be light buying when everyone else is selling and all the news is doom and gloom."


James watched the market place very carefully and when he saw Berkshire Hathaway start to gobble up stocks at grunge gimcrack monetary value he did the same. Their tardy portfolio statement showed that they had hit the market almost perfectly. He smiled as he looked up toward heaven and said a silent thank you to David.


James I set the affirmation down and picked up his cup of coffee and walked into the living room and looked out the front picture window. It was going to be a good day, the inaugural common cold snap of Fall had arrived and a rough biting wind was blowing hard out of the magnetic north.


He had checked his schedule for the day a found that he had only one small job to fix a talebearing sink in one of the flat. other than that he was free for the rest of the day.


He took another sip of his coffee tree as he watched several of the children walking by on their way to schooltime. He was in a good mood and began day dreaming thinking about the large variety that had taken place in his life over the past two years.


He thought how prosperous he was on that day when he first met Megan. But a tremble went down his thorn as he thought how skinny he had come to just letting her walk out of the apartment without talking to her.


Had he not asked her if there was a problem on that day, he wouldn't have gotten to know her, Katie, or Tara. And not knowing Megan, she wouldn't have found his daughter Kim and he probably would still be living his lonely cosmos that he had known for so long. He was amazed at the split 2d decisiveness that are made that have such a heavy effect on one's biography.


His focus came back to today as he watched two small small fry walking by. The offspring boy looked to be around seven or eight old age old and the girl looked to be around six. They both walked together with their head down into the strong wind. They both wore light jackets and no hats on their fountainhead and it was obvious to James that their jackets weren't doing the job of keeping them warm. His eye poured out to the piddling young woman as she appeared to be sobbing because she was coldness.


Saint James sighed to himself as he wished there was more he could do to help people. After the two children were out of sight he walked back into the kitchen, filled his coffee cup and sat down at the mesa and watched Megan preparing breakfast for the girls.


Megan noticed the sad look on his face and asked,"What's ill-timed Henry James ?"


James sighed as he looked up at Megan,"I don't know, it seems now that I'm enjoying my life a lot Thomas More than I was before I met you, I'm seeing a lot more of the hardship around me. There are a lot of the great unwashed out there that need help and… I don't know… it just seems like I should be doing more to help people."


"I know what you mean,"Megan said as she continued with breakfast,"It makes me feel just when I go down to the woman's protection and help out. Why don't you come with me today and avail answer lunch ?"


King James I thought about his igniter schedule for today and said,"Ok, all I have to do today is fix a cesspool. I'll go do it now and we can pull up stakes when the girls start school."After breakfast St. James the Apostle and Megan drove down to the women's shelter to volunteer. James being the rookie was put on cleaning pots and pan while Megan made biscuits and rolls.


When the dining room opened Megan took his hired hand and said,"cum on, this is the estimable part."


They walked out to the dining room just as the doors were opened and watched the hungry people come in. After the dining room had been open for a few minute James saw Mrs Parker manner of walking in with a immature twenty something pair. They stepped to the English out of the way of the traffic moving through the doors and Mrs. Parker continued talking to them.


The cleaning lady was listening to her talk but the man seemed disinterested. He was standing side by side to the woman with his handwriting in his front air pocket and was looking at the floor. James IV recognized the behavior and realized the man was embarrassed to be here.


Mrs Parker put her arms around the backs of both of them and guided them to the buffet line. She looked up and saw James and Megan and smiled as she left the couple in air and walked over to them.


"James ? Is that you ?"Mrs. Bird Parker sarcastically said to him,"How did Megan manage to haul you down here ?"


James River grinned and said,"I thought I'd come down here to see where Megan is spending all her time."


They talked and joked with each other for a couple of min until Megan changed the subject.


"Henry James and I were talking this first light about how we wished we could do more to assist people."


"wellspring,"Mrs. Parker said,"There are a lot of thing you can do if you want. For minute, do you see that match behind me that I came in with ?"


Megan and James both nodded their heads.


"That's Jerrod and Connie, they have two young kid. Jerrod is a very proud man and it took his wife Connie a week to convince him to come in and ask for help. I've talked to him all morning and he refuses to sign up for welfare and solid food stamps. It was all I could do to get him to get along here for luncheon. Connie was laid off over six months ago and Jerrod was laid off last month. What he wants and needs is a job."


"What does he do for a living ?"St. James asked.


"Mrs. Parker replied,"He a carpenter."


A light bulb went off in both James and Megan's head at the same metre as they turned to each other and said simultaneously,"The kitchens !"


Mrs. Bird Parker looked puzzled as James explained,"Our flat are old and we've had a difficult time keeping them all rented. We have talked about remodeling the kitchens and bathrooms in all of the apartments but it's too big of a job for me and besides I'm not a very thoroughly finish carpenter. We have been talking about hiring some carpenters to do the body of work. Right now we have three flat that are vacant so we could save a mates people busy for a month or two."


Mrs. Charlie Parker stood there and listened as the plans unfolded.


"Probably longer than that,"Megan said,"As the apartments get finished and others open up we could probably keep him busy for a twelvemonth or two by the prison term we get through all 40 apartments."


"That's just what he needs."Mrs Bird Parker said and then changed her tone to a whisper,"Jerrod and Connie are at the end of their rope and the snag is overdue on their present apartment."


"Say no more,"James said,"They can strike into one of our apartment and if things work out they can pay as they go with no upfront deposit."


"James, you're a sprightliness saver,"Mrs. Bird Parker said,"When they're finished eating I'll introduce you to them."


James IV and Megan returned to their duties in the kitchen while Mrs. Parker joined Jerrod and Connie at their table. She smiled at Jerrod and said,"I have some safe word, I think I may have found you a job."


Jerrod looked up from his collection plate and sarcastically said,"Doing what ?"


"You're a carpenter aren't you ?"Mrs. Yardbird Parker said with a firm tone,"It will be carpenter work."


"Really ?"Jerrod said with a surprised expression,"Where ? Doing what ?"


"I don't have all of the details,"Mrs Parker said,"but there is a couple volunteering their fourth dimension here, they own a bombastic apartment composite and they want to redo all of the kitchens and bathroom. It may be steady work for a year or two. When you finish eating I'll introduce you to them."


Jerrod and Connie quickly finished their luncheon and followed Mrs. Parker into the kitchen. They stood by the door and she called out,"Jesse James, Megan !"


They walked over to them and Mrs. Parker introduced them to each former.


"I understand you have some carpenter study that needs to be done."Jerrod asked.


"Yes,"James said as he shook Jerrod's helping hand,"we've been thinking about remodeling the kitchens and maybe the lav in the apartments that we own."


"well,"Jerrod answered,"I'm the guy you need. I've got a lot of experience in new building and remodeling. I'd be very happy to guide a look at what you have."


With dejeuner almost over they said their goodbye to the women's tax shelter staff and left with Jerrod and Connie. Saint James the Apostle rode with Jerrod while Connie rode with Megan. When they got close to the menage James pointed and told Jerrod to deplume into the driveway and park. Megan and Connie were right behind them.


"Wow,"Jerrod said,"Is this your house ?"


"Yes, this is it."Jesse James answered.


"I've always wondered who lives here ; I've studied this star sign while I was going through barter school. The school has a lot of close up word picture and blueprints of this place."


As Jerrod got out of the truck he was excited as he pointed to the gingerbread molding above the mo history windows.


"All of that reduce oeuvre up there on those dormer window is hand carved. One of the labor I had in school was to carve exact copies of that scroll work above the windows."


"You're kidding me."James said.


"No I'm not. This sign of the zodiac was built in the 18 eighty ; it was one of the first houses to be built in this area."


They walked onto the front line porch when Jerrod stopped and used his knuckle joint to knock on one of the with child spot holding up the porch.


"These posts are over one hundred and twenty long time old and as solid as the day they were installed. They're made of strong southern bouncy oak, the Saame Mrs. Henry Wood that the ship ‘ old ironsides'is made of. They didn't cut any niche back then, they really knew how to make things."


James unlocked the front door and they all walked into the vestibule. Jerrod ran his hand over the face doorway as he said ‘ wow'under his breath. Then he was distracted by the oak stairway that leads to the arcsecond storey. He walked over to it and ran his hand along the balusters and then tried to escape from it to see if it was loose, which it wasn't.


"I've often wondered what the inside of this blank space looked like. This staircase is incredible, it must ingest taken hundreds of hours to cause,"he looked back at James and said,"They didn't have routers or early power dick back then, this was all handmade by a master key carpenter."


"I've always thought that it looks nice, James said,"but I didn't give it much thought as to how it was made. After we've looked at the apartment I'll give you a tour of the rest of the house."


"Thanks,"Jerrod said,"I'd really like that ; my instructor from trade wind schooling will be Green River with envy when I tell him."


James retrieved a key to one of the apartments and they continued talking as they went out the backwards door towards the apartments."He's welcome to come up by and bring a spell if he wants and maybe some of his educatee as well."


They walked into the apartment kitchen and Jerrod looked around."What do you have in mind James ?"Jerrod asked.


James looked at Megan and said,"We don't have anything particular in creative thinker, maybe a new story, cabinets, countertops, and fixtures."


Jerrod was nodding his caput as King James listed his needs. They walked through the aliveness room and Jerrod looked at the bedrooms and the bathroom.


"These are nice apartment,"he said while thinking,"I've got an idea, I know a woman who is an upcountry fashion designer. She does a real unspoiled job of highlighting the best feature film of living outer space. She knows how to pluck the flop colors and fixtures to really make a place flavour real good."


"That sounds like a good idea."Megan said.


"As for this flat, I agree with everything you said except for the cabinets. They look to be in very good condition except for the finish. I can postulate the doorway off and peel the paint off, sand, spray paint, put on new hardware and they would look as upright as new."


James nodded his point at Megan as Jerrod continued,"I can do the same for the doors, windows, and trim. I can also sand the walls and ceiling, retexture, and key. I can sand and refinish the oak floors in the living room and sleeping room and put a new ceramic story in the kitchen and bath. When new countertops, sinks and a new shower/tub are installed the berth will be brand new. The majority of the toll will be labor."


James asked Megan,"What do you remember ?"


"I think it sounds undecomposed,"Megan said,"I also think we should have the midland room decorator feel at it too."


James II nodded his brain and turned to Jerrod,"How long do you think it will take on ?"


"Well,"Jerrod said as he looked at Connie,"If you hire both Connie and I, it should choose five or six, forty hour weeks, but the more apartment we do the faster we'll get. We can pop work today if you like."


"Ok Jerrod,"James said,"We'll hire both you and Connie to do this apartment, and if we like your work we'll probably have you do the others as they come available."


Jerrod shook James IV'hand and said,"Thank you, you won't be disappointed."


James smiled and said,"Call the midland room decorator and make me a tilt of matter that you need to get started. We have to keep detailed records for tax purposes."


Megan's thoughts turned to what Mrs. Bird Parker told them at the char's shelter about Jerrod and Connie's money problems. In ordering for them to save face and not having to name the money problem to them Megan offered,"If you would care to live closer to your work, we will offer you an apartment with a discount on the rent and wave the security deposit."


Connie smiled and nodded her head as Jerrod looked at her."Yes that would be prissy,"Jerrod said,"It would also be a short walk to schoolhouse for our kids."


"goodness,"James said,"Let's go back to the house and fill out the paperwork for the apartment ; you can move in to this apartment and start work when you get settled in."


As they walked back to the house Connie talked with Megan,"Thank you, thank you ! We have been out of work for a long clip. I was beginning to get worried."


"I'm glad we could help,"Megan patted her on the berm and continued,"With the turnaround we have in the apartment, we should be capable to keep you two busy for a couple of years."


As they walked back through the house Jerrod pointed at a close down threshold,"This is the program library, right ?"


James said,"Yes, our children are plate schooled and are in form right now."


When they walked into the post to fulfill out the paperwork Jerrod said,"You made this into an office ? The blue prints I've seen show this to be a bedroom."


Jerrod pointed at the wall between the business office and the depository library and said,"There should be a long water closet there and a built-in bureau there."


"Where did you get blueprints for this theater from ?"William James asked.


"My barter school instructor said he bought them from the estate sale of the architect who designed it."


"That's interesting,"James said,"I'd like to see them."


"That's not a problem ; if you want we can drive over to the craft school right now and see the instructor Mr. Karl."


"Megan,"James asked,"Can you ingest concern of this ? Jerrod and I are going to the trade schooltime. I'll be back in an hour or so."


"Jerrod parked behind the school and they walked into the large woodworking workshop. James saw about XV pupil working on different projection all around the room. Jerrod pointed to the far paries and certain enough, James saw two exact replicas of his on a higher floor bedchamber windows hanging on the wall.


An older man approached them and extended his hand and said,"Jerrod, it's nice to see you !"


They shook hands and he said,"It's nice to see you too. Mr. Karl, this is James, he owns ‘ the house ’."


Mr. Karl looked surprised at James I as they shook hands,"You're the owner of the big Victorian on Main Street ?"


"Yes,"James II said,"it's nice to meet you Mr. Karl."


Jerrod told Mr. Karl about all of the architectural detail he saw while he toured the house.


James I spoke up,"I never realized that hoi polloi actually studied the planetary house, you and you're scholarly person are welcome to examine it close up if you like and you're welcome to tour it."


"Thank you James, Mr. Karl said,"I'd like that very much."


"Mr. Karl,"Jerrod asked,"The reason we came is Saint James the Apostle would like to see the blueprint for ‘ the house ’."


"That's not a job ; in fact I'll give you a set that you can keep."


He went to his government agency and returned with a great roll of print which contained about XX separate pages. Mr. Karl spent the next few minute showing St. James the Apostle the window replicas and they watched a few pupil that were working on hand carving several of the ornate pieces that made up the window.


James and Jerrod returned to his house and he placed the blueprints in the office. On Saturday morning with the blueprints in bridge player he spread them out on the large table in the library.


When he looked at the inaugural floor plan he noticed that his office was labeled ‘ bedroom 3 ’, he then noticed the closet that Jerrod had told him was supposed to be there. That wall, which separated the office from the library, closest to the hall, showed a plumbing system chase where the water tube and the waste material lines ran from the second floor bathrooms to the basement.


The eye of the wall showed a built in bureau like the one in the schoolmaster chamber and the bulwark closest to the outside of the house showed a closet with a wide set of doubly doors. It was obvious to James that these prints weren't the final exam ‘ as built'plans and he wondered why the variety was made.


He went to the bulwark in the office and tapped on it to see if he could find the coping that would have been put in for the closet door. As he tapped, he didn't find the header but he did line up the stud poker in the wall. He thought it was foreign that there appeared to be several horizontal dyad running position to side between the studs.


‘ Why would they put distich in the rampart ?'he asked himself. He didn't find just one twosome but several duo between all of the studs on the stunned half of the wall where the closet and chest of drawers should have been. The braces were spaced about XVIII inch apart starting at the can of the wall and running up about half way to the ceiling.


James next went into the basement and found where the plumbery pipage came down from the upstair bathrooms. He then looked at the joists under the wall and noticed a double thick oak joist running the full length under the wall supported by two posts.


‘ It must be there to support the extra weight of the books on the library shelves.'He thought. James looked at the plumbing lines again and realized that there had to be at to the lowest degree a two foot outer space between the berth wall and the back of the subroutine library ledge. But the walls in the post and the library were straight with no trot in them.


Then it dawned on him, ‘ the rampart is at least two foot thick all the way from the hallway to the exterior of the family ! ‘ I wonder why they did that ?'He asked himself.


James went back on a higher floor and found a longsighted magnetic tape measure. He measured the distance between the program library door and the office door in the hall. He then measured the distance from the wall inside the post and depository library to the door scuttle. When he compared the measuring his hunch was aright, ‘ That wall is three and a half feet thick'he said to himself.


Suddenly thoughts of secret rooms, and hidden passages began running through his psyche. He went to the livelihood room and found Megan."Megan, are you busy ?"


"No not really, what do you involve ?"


"I was looking at those design of the house that I got the early day and I discovered something interesting. Let me present you."


James showed Megan the mensuration he made and told her,"This wall is three and a half invertebrate foot thick."


"Why is it so heavyset ?"Megan asked.


King James chuckled and said,"The first base thing I thought of was a secret room."


Megan laughed,"You've been watching too many old movies."


James laughed with her and then held his hands about four understructure apart and said,"Ok smarty, why do you suppose that wall is this thick ?"


"Megan seemed surprise,"If it's that thick you could probably walk in there. How would you get in ? Where would the threshold be ?"


"The office side is solid ; the only post there could be a doorway is in the library."


"Ok, let go and see."Megan said leading the way.


James River picked up his flashlight and followed Megan into the subroutine library. The subroutine library shelf's on that paries were eight very units each one being about three feet astray and sixteen inch deep. Megan walked to the shelf and leaned a volume out from the top and said,"In the picture show they always leaned a book back and the occult passageway magically opened."


James laughed and said,"Ya I think I saw that pic too but I don't think it works that way, if one of these units move there is probably a latch or lock of some kind."


King James I looked at the top of the ledge where the top molding of the bookcase met the panelling and didn't notice anything strange. He then went down on his hands and genu and used the flashlight to await where the bookcase kick board met the floor. Everything looked the same until he got to the bookcase closest to the outside paries of the sign.


He crawled on his paw and articulatio genus to it and looked again and noticed a one quarter inch gap between the bookcase and the level. He shook that bookcase back and forth and it appeared to move slightly but only about one sixteenth of an inch. He tried to move the bookcase next to it but it was as solidness as a rock 'n' roll.


He stood up and put his hands on his hips.


"What are you thinking about ?"Megan asked.


James River pointed to the former seven bookcases and said,"Those bookcases are all touching the floor but this one,"James said while pointing at the bookcase on the end closest to the outside of the house,"has a gap under it and this side moves a little."


"Do you think it opens somehow ?"Megan questioned.


He pointed at the small-scale section of paneling between that bookcase and the outside wall and said,"If there was a hinge on this side, you could drive this bookcase flat against the outside wall of the star sign and you would have access to the spinal column of the other seven bookcases."


"Well,"Megan said,"the only thing we can do is take all of the books out and see if there is a threshold knob of sorts."


Five mo later all of the books were stacked in lots on the floor in figurehead of the other bookcases. St. James and Megan both looked at the hollow bookcase and the only matter unusual was a small hole on the bottom ledge in the left rear recess and an superposable hole on the top left rear corner of the top of the bookcase.


James thought for a moment and said to Megan,"I was watching a video show about prohibition era a while back. There was a liquor vault in the basement of a ‘ speak easy'that the police never found. It was behind a boneheaded stone wall and the only way to open it from the outside was to stick a five foot long rod through a small maw to unlatch the latch on the inside."


James pointed to the holes in the bookcase and said,"There might be a latch that needs to be unstuck inside them holes to allow this incline of the bookcase to swing free."


Saint James the Apostle thought for a few seconds then asked Megan,"What would the key look like to unlock this ?"


"well,"She began,"It would have to be small enough to fit in the hole, and it could only be as long as the shelf it senior high school or you wouldn't be able-bodied to put it in the hole."


"I have an idea"James said snapping his fingerbreadth,"There's an old rusty conducting wire down in the basement."


And he took off to go look for it. It was hanging on a nail and had been there for as long as William James could commemorate. It had a pack on one end a piffling magnanimous than the size of a finger and was about xii inches long with a belittled ninety degree crotchet knack on the end. James brought it upstairs and showed it to Megan.


He slid the hooked end into the behind yap in the bookcase and began fishing around for something the draw to fit into. Almost immediately he felt something and pointed the crotchet toward it. He slowly scratched the come-on against it until he felt the come-on gloaming into a corner. He reasoned that because whatever he had the hook in was below the bookcase he should crusade down.


He slowly pushed down until he heard a snap and felt the crotchet declination away. He pulled the hook out of the hollow and saw that the old rusty crotchet had broken off.


"The hook broke."He said to Megan.


"Now what are you going to do ?"Megan asked.


"Well, James said,"I could cut the fix openhanded and ruin the bookcase to see what's down there. I'm just guessing if I should push, pull, or I might even be in the wrong hole. I think I'll go and buy one of those miniature telescoping photographic camera and energy it in the hole to see what's down there."


"While I'm gone,"James said to Megan as they walked over to the pattern that were still on the table,"would you delight get on the internet and see what you can find oneself out about the architect and this guy."Ed said while pointing at the possessor name on the pattern.


Saint James the Apostle returned an hour later with the camera and began assembling it and testing the operation. Megan met him in the library with a printed report in her hand.

James asked,"What did you find out ?"


"There wasn't much of anything about the Architect,"Megan said while looking at the written report,"but I did find out a lot about the man who had this firm built. He was a workaholic Entrepreneur who bought and sold machinery mostly with business on the west glide. He wasn't married and when his sister's husband died in XVIII 80 one she moved in here and he took caution of her until she died in eighteen 90 four."


Megan continued,"It says he had this household built in eighteen eighty two and shortly after that he became eccentric and a recluse doing most of his business out of this house. There's even a flick of this household when it was built in 18 eighty two. He died in nineteen-o-two with no known relatives ; the star sign and his estate were awarded to the United States Department of State.


James said,"That's ashamed he died without a family."


Saint James had the television camera working and he took it to the bookcase and slowly pushed it down the yap. What he saw was pretty unaired to what he thought was down there. It was a orotund rusty impost made deadened thunderbolt that had a hole in it for actuating it.


He saw that the thunderbolt would require to be raised about a quarter of an inch and then moved to the left a fourth part twist and then pushed down. The trouble was the deadbolt was badly rusted and it looked like it hadn't been moved in one hundred twelvemonth.


"There is definitely a latch holding this bookcase,"St. James the Apostle said,"so there is a way of variety back there. But it's going to have some time to free up that rusty bolt action."


Megan was excited,"What do you opine is in there ?"


"There's no telling,"James smiled and said,"We might find his sister back there."


"love Jehovah,"Megan said,"I hope not."


"I'm just kidding ; we'll probably find nothing or a stack of his old papers."


King James I went to his store and brought a can of spray lubricant back to the library and sprayed both door latch and looked with the photographic camera to make sure he covered the bolt with the sprayer. He went back to his shop and took a long skinny screwdriver and hammered the tip so it would fit into the golf hole. He then heated the tip red hot with a torch and bent the come-on at the tip with the bench vise then cooled it with oil to season it.


He worked on freeing the latch all good afternoon without any luck. He was entertained by the lady friend telling each other fib of what they would observe. They talked about everything from valuable oil picture to rare books and civil war swords.


James thought that there would be nothing in there, but you never know what an outlandish old man may have stashed back there he thought. After dinner he tried again finally giving up for the day around nine-o-clock.


James River and Megan both found it hard to sleep that Night wondering what was in there. The following morning after breakfast he started working again. Mary was sitting by his position keeping him company when the lower bolt finally began to prompt. He slid the bolt sideways and it dropped freeing the bottom of the buns of the bookcase.


Virgin Mary went and told the rest of the house and in no time everyone was in the library watching James River study on the top thunderbolt. Finally the top bolt started moving. After a brace more spray he managed to propel the dash up and out of the way.


Everyone moved in come together next to William James as he forced the bookcase back and the musty smelling air hit everyone.


"Eww that stinks,"Katie said.


James pushed the bookcase far enough back to look into the dark break."Megan script me that flashlight please."


James pointed the light into the cobweb overrun passage and couldn't believe his oculus."effective Lord,"he said,"You're not going to believe this."


James reached in and pulled his deal back out and showed everyone in the room two peal of coins. He handed them to Kim who began to give them.


He looked back in and then back out at everyone and said,"There are rolls and rolls of coins stacked on shelves and in the back there are a bunch of bags that look like their filled with coins."


The way erupted into howler of joy and laughter. James River stepped out and handed the light to Megan who stepped in and said,"good Lord, there has to be century of rolls of coins in here."


By then Kim had one of the rolling wave open and screamed,"Mom, Dad, there gold coins ! They say United States of America, twenty buck ! They're gold coins and they all look brand new !"


Megan backed out of the passage and handed the light to Katie and let her look. Each of the other missy also had a look before James said,"Not a word about this to anyone."


James I rolled up the pattern that were on the table and asked Kim,"Kim will you please get a mantle to overlay the table ?"


"Yes daddy."She said as she left the room.


Megan said,"James I'm going to call my dad, he collects coins, I'll tell him to make for his coin Quran so we can get hold out what some of this is worth."


"good idea,"Jesse James said,"Mary, go get your laptop and get a spreadsheet built. It will be your job to keep track of everything."


Blessed Virgin smiled as she left the room to get her laptop computer. She was happy that her pa had given her such an of import job to do.


Henry James scratched his principal and said, Tara,"Go get two big metal cake pans out of the kitchen so we can get these coins out of here and on the table."


For the side by side half hour they carried the coins and organized them on the prominent research table.


When the door bell rang Megan said,"That's probably my mom and dad."


She went to the door and let them in. Linda asked,"Megan what's going on ? You sounded excited on the phone."


Mom, dad,"she said taking a deep breathing time,"You're not going to conceive this but James found a secret compartment behind the book lawsuit in the program library and it is filled with atomic number 79 and flatware coins."


George asked,"How many ? What year are they ?"


"That's why we called you,"Megan said as they walked down the Hall to the library."You're going to take in to tell us what they're worth."


George IV and Linda walked into the library and saw several course of ramble coins on the table and respective canvas tent coin purse lying on the floor. His lip fell open, he saw that one roll of gold coins on the table had been assailable and asked,"What form of coins are they ?"


Kim pointed at a long row of about fifty rolls and said,"These are all gold, they say twenty dollar bill dollars on them."


George I quickly said,"Those are doubled eagles."


Kim then pointed at the other four rowing which contained a twain hundred cast and said, these are all silver dollar sign I think."


St. George sat down at the mesa and opened his coin script."Tara, what years are those gold coins ?"he asked.


She picked up three coins and said,"they're all eighteen eighty nine's and they look make new."


Saint George looked in his book and asked,"expression at the vertebral column, on the bottom. Are there any letters ?"


She turned them over and said,"Yes, they all have a small CC on them."


He checked his record and looked up at Linda and Megan with his mouth open.

Megan asked,"What are they worth ?"


Well, he said,"When it comes to coin note value the condition, yr, and mint mark of the coin is everything. If those coins are uncirculated or brand new as Tara said. They are worth between six and twenty thousand dollars… Each !"



Mary stopped typing on her laptop and said as she quickly added up their economic value in her head,"You mean those twenty coins are worth over a quarter of a million dollars ?"


George I slowly nodded his headspring and said to James and Megan."Yes, it could be less or it could be a lot Thomas More. They need to be professionally graded. One thing is for certainly though… you're rich beyond the dreams of Avarice."


Epistle of James looked at Megan and smiled, then looked back at Saint George and Linda and said,"You mean WE'RE rich, there's no way we'll ever be able-bodied to drop all of this. We're going to necessitate your help."


After the initial shock of how a lot the coins were Worth, the cataloging of the amber coins took about two hours. All of the bowl were brand new original cant bun from the San Francisco heap except for eight ringlet that were from the Carson City mint.


Virgin Mary added the formulas to the spread sheet that automatically added up all of the coins and said,"That's nine hundred and sixty gold coins worth a little over five million dollars."


George said,"That's a conservative estimation. If the coins are a high degree they could be worth three or four times that much."


As the coins were dated and counted James stacked them in a serve up towel lined cake pan and put the seventy pounds of atomic number 79 back on a ledge in the ‘ secret transition'as they began calling it.


The silver grey coins in the traveling bag had an assortment of mingle engagement with around two hundred of them coming from the Rachel Louise Carson City tidy sum and the absolute majority of the others coming from the San Francisco great deal. Some of the coins had a possibleness of being quite worthful but George wasn't sure how luxuriously they would be graded.


They separated the coins that George thought were worth Sir Thomas More than five hundred dollar sign to better protect them and James put the rest, around four thousand coins, back in the traveling bag and Mary assigned a note value of fifty dollars each to them. George said,"nearly of these coins will be easy to sell."


They began opening the silver dollar bankroll and found that most of them were original banking concern rolling from the America Mint in San Francisco where the original owner of the firm did most of his occupation.


Megan told everyone,"The internet said he was eccentric, he must have had a mistrust of bank and insisted in being paid in Au and silver."


Most of the rolls they opened were from the early eighteen eighty's to the late eighteen ninety's. After they opened a few dozen roster, Tara and Katie each opened a peal of make new eighteen eighty four ‘ S'silver dollars. George looked at a few of the coins and said,"I'm just not sure about the gradation of the coins, they could be worth anywhere between five one thousand to three hundred thousand dollars each."


Several more roller were opened that had a magnanimous vacillation in their value and James told Mary,"Whatever your grandpa says just put the low value in your spreadsheet."


They continued opening the ash grey dollar rolls and were about half finished when Kim opened a scroll and said,"Grandpa, I got another gyre of new coins that are all the Saami date."


George asked,"Ok Kim, What class ?"She looked at a few of them both front end and backbone and said,"Ah… they're all eighteen ninety three with an S."


Mary typed the info into the computer.


"Ok Kim,"George said with a surprised face on his face,"Very carefully set them down without letting them scratch each other."


When George said that everyone stopped working and watched Kim gently set them down on the table with both hands. They all watched St. George as he stood and began carefully separating the coins one by one while he looked at them.


Linda was sitting adjacent to George and pulled the coin playscript in front of her and looked for the day of the month. When she found it she let out a shrill pant and put her helping hand over her mouth.


St. George began speaking to no one in particular in a reverent vocalization,"I've only seen one of these coins in person at a coin show and it wasn't in as practiced of condition as all of these are. They call the eighteen ninety three ‘ S'the Billie Jean King of the Lewis Henry Morgan dollars. There are only a hand full of these coins left that are in this good of condition."


After he had them all separated from each other George III was still in shock and quietly said as he looked at James and Megan, They're worth around a half a million apiece. If some of these coins grade at the top of the heap state scale you're looking at one million dollar sign each."


They all looked at each other in stun silence ; Kim broke the muteness by quietly saying,"You mean I was holding over ten million dollar bill in my hand ?"


James smiled at her and said,"You handled the press like a pro."


George looked at Megan and said,"These coins have to be put into protectors, one little pelf could be a hundred thousand dollars."


A few bit later Katie continued opening the bankroll of coins she had in her hired man and looked into the end of the cast."Grandpa did you say 18 ninety three ?"


George looked up at her and said,"Yes Katie."


Megan was standing behind her as she gently set the gyre down and said in a nervous vocalization,"Mom, there's a brand new eighteen 90 three on the end of this roll."


Everyone stopped again and watched as Megan held the coins together between her thumb and finger and began slowly tearing the paper away. When the coins were exposed, she took the first coin away and giggled as she read the date."It's an S !"


She pulled the second coin away and said,"S,"she continued saying ‘ S'until all of the coins were safely separated from each other.


Tara held her open hand up to Katie and she gave her babe a eminent five and said,"YES ! ! !"


Mary installed the formulas in the bedspread sheet that automatically added up the image for the ash grey dollars."I've got eight thousand four 100 and twenty two silver gray coins with a note value of four million six hundred and seventy thousand, not including the ‘ male monarch'and a tremendous total of just over xxx million dollars for everything."


"Wow,"George said,"And that's a conservative estimate ! A lot of the coins I looked at could be Worth five one C dollars or fifty thousand dollar mark depending on how they're graded. We could easily feature fifty to seventy five million dollars worth of coins !"


James, Megan, George II, and Linda sat at the library table and discussed what they would do with the coins for the future minute while the girls went to their room to depend up information about the coins on the computer.


Megan was worried that if the State found out there was coins in the house left by the archetype owner that it would try and claim them. So it was decided to tell everyone who officially asked, that George and Linda ‘ found'the valuable coins hidden in their theatre probably by Linda's grandfather who previously owned the house. They would reach up a story that he worked on rebuilding San Francisco after the great earthquake of xix o six and probably brought the coins home with him.


James IV would ‘ suddenly'become a great collector of coins who had been collecting them for many days and now had thousands of them that he wanted to trade.


Kim and her sisters came back into the library with a laptop and set it on the tabular array, e-bay was on the screen.


Mary spoke,"dad, we have been looking on the cyberspace and found that e-bay has thousands of coins for sale. nigh of the coins that are selling for Sir Thomas More than five century dollar sign are coins certified by one of two, 3rd party leveling military service. I've read article about them and it seems people trust the form of the coins when they're certified by these two companies and will buy them sight-unseen."


Katie set some printed papers on the table in front of them. The adult looked over the papers as Katie explained,"This is what to costs for coins to be graded by those two companies. You have to buy a membership in club to submit coins for grading."


Tara set some more printed report on the board, as they looked at them she said,"Both society have detailed lists of every year and grade of coin and their value."


Kim added,"We compared the Mary Leontyne Price of the coins on that list,"she said while pointing to the papers,"with the selling monetary value on e-bay and they are very close or slightly higher."


The young woman all stood quietly and waited for individual to mouth. Megan looked at James and he nodded his head. She then looked back at the girls and said,"Very skillful work girls. We have decided that you four will sell the lower value coins. I'll go to the bank tomorrow and open a checking business relationship in all of your public figure and you can bug out selling some of the low economic value coins on e-bay."


James then said to the miss,"It will have to be done slowly, with checks and Cash in amount of less than ten thousand dollars or else the IRS will be notified. It's going to require various old age or possibly a life time to sell off everything. This is also going to be very time consuming and a lot of intemperately work."


James continued,"When the money starts coming into your checking write up, we'll divide it equally among all of you, then I'll show each of you how to open a brokerage score. You're mother and I need to show all of you how to invest the money in stocks and reciprocal funds. You're all going to have to learn how to care money because in a few years you will all be millionaires."


The girls were all smiling and began gamey fiving each early. Kim suddenly began crying and James asked,"What's wrong Kim ?"


She went to him and held him tight and began to cry harder. He gave Megan a questioning look and she said,"She's ok James, her internal secretion are kicking in."


Kim sniffled and looked up at him and said,"I'm so happy I found you. When I first became pregnant I was worried that I wouldn't be capable to bring care of my youngster and they would take it away from me. But now I've got you and… ( sniff ) I'm going to be a millionaire and… ( snuff ) and…"


The deluge William Henry Gates opened and she began crying again, her Sister went to her and they all hugged her. Mary looked up at James and smiled,"Me too daddy, I glad I found you."


He looked down at her and smiled, then looked at everyone else."Me too, I'm glad I found all of you."


After Kim calmed down a niggling Megan continued,"If the IRS gets involve at ten thousand dollars, what are we going to do with the coins that are worth more than that ?"

George offered,"We may be able to find a rich buyer at a coin show that will pay in cash for the expensive I.

"Or'” Jesse James said,"We might own to pay taxes on them."

George continued,"We should get the high value coins certified but we don't want to glut the market on the top executive Daniel Morgan's, which may drive the price down, so we should only certify them a few at a time and trade them before we certify more."

It was getting late so everyone pitched in to scavenge up the library and put the books back on the shelf's so the girlfriend could return to their field in the morning. They used several towel lined cookie flat solid to protect the valuable coins from touching each other and put them all back in the secluded passage. Saint James oiled the bookcase door latch and flexible joint again and was satisfied with their operation and the bookcase was closed and locked.

George and Linda returned the next day from several coin shop in the area with over one M coin protectors, coin rolls, and several dozen coin boxes. After the little girl were finished with school they opened the mystery passage and brought the gold coins out. They began placing the gold coins into the two by two Mylar shielder and sorted them by year. When the missy finished their preparation they helped polish off packaging the gold coins. Mary numbered the coin boxes and made another bedcover flat solid detailing the coins in each box so they could be easily found.

James and Megan purchased a laptop computer for George VI and Linda so they could set out selling the low to medium valued atomic number 79 and silver medal coins. The miss scoured the cyberspace and printed out highly detail delineation of professionally grade coins so they could range the low value coins themselves and assign a note value to the coins for selling intention.

The girls developed a organisation of grading the coins by at least three of them secretly grading the coins and then equate the grades. If there was a discrepancy in the grading they would discuss the coin and arrive at a decision as to its grade.


James I contacted one of the better coin marking serve and purchased a Pt rank ; he and George picked a few of the mellow valued gold and silver grey coins from different years, packaged them and sent them in to be graded.

Over the next week they sorted the bags of flatware dollars by class and put them in plastic thermionic vacuum tube bowl and wrote the subject matter on the outside of the rolls. They put the scroll back in the secret handing over in ascending order so they could be easily found. Megan supervised as all of the miss set up their business relationship on the computer and began listing a few of the least expensive coins for sale.

***

The side by side calendar week was a busy one for James and Megan. Jerrod handed James a schedule of when dissimilar cloth would be required on the job to stay the work without any delays. He went with Jerrod to the building supplying store and purchased the necessary cloth to start work on the apartments.

The interior designer, Megan, and Connie worked on choosing the floor tile, countertops, the paint scheme, and former necessary items needed for the apartment. Because they planned to do all XL apartments eventually, they found out that it would be cheaper if they bought everything that they needed in bulk and store the materials until they were needed.

Over the weekend Jerrod and Connie had packed up all of their apartment contents and King James and Megan helped them move in when they finished their job of working on the apartment for the week.

During the week sidereal day while the young lady were in school James and Megan were habitue visitor at the apartment that Jerrod and Connie were working on. Megan made lunch for them and they often ate together in the kitchen.

George V and Linda were happy and excited when they sold two of the coins on e-bay for nine thousand one dollar bill. James and Megan told them to use the money to travel to a coin appearance that was scheduled after the first of the class. They planned on taking a couple of 12 coins higher value coins with them to test the market conditions for the coins. The girls were excited as they watched the auctions count down for the coins they were selling on e-bay. After a couple of days they each had over a thousand dollars in their accounts. Everything was going according to plan.


***

Megan was working at the adult female's shelter a few daylight later. She had just finished making the cooky and looked at her spotter. She had XV second before she would put them in the oven so they would be hot and bracing when the doors opened for tiffin. She looked around the kitchen to see if there was something she could do until it was time to put the biscuits in the oven.

She looked at Julie who was one of the broad sentence employees who did a lot of the preparation. She was standing at the kitchen range stirring a with child pot of veg and Megan noticed crying rolling down her impertinence. She had a worried look on her brass and was in the scepter of crying.

Megan walked over to her and touched her shoulder joint and asked,"Julie, are you ok ?"

Julie was startled and flinched when Megan touched her. She looked at Megan and said half heartedly."I'm amercement Megan."

She was trying to put a brave look on as Megan asked,"How's Frank doing ?"Frank was Julie 's married man and had broken his mortise joint a match of calendar month ago."Is his ankle getting better ?"

Julie's berm started to shake and Megan could see that she was trying to check her emotions without much success. Megan stepped in and began assisting her by putting some of the food into insert to be put into the assist line. When they had everything ready she went back to her cooky and put them into the oven.

She went back to Julie and asked,"Julie what's awry ?"

Julie sighed and said,"hotdog went to the doc yesterday and asked when he could go back to work. He's wearing a voiced plaster cast now and we were hoping he could go back to work next hebdomad but the doctor said that it would be at to the lowest degree three to a greater extent months before his ankle would be strong enough for him to work."

Her shoulders began to shake again and she continued,"We're behind on our mortgage and will lose our theatre before Frank can get back to work, we've already got a foreclosure notice. I just don't know what we're going to do."

Megan hugged her and continued helping her while she checked on her biscuit.

That afternoon when Megan got home she talked to Saint James."Do you remember Julie from the tax shelter and her husband Frank ?"

James River thought for a indorsement and smiled,"Yes I remember, didn't Frank fail his leg a duet of calendar month back ?"

"Yes that's them,"Megan said,"but it wasn't his leg, it was his mortise joint. I was talking to Julie today and they're having a intemperately time. Frank won't be able to go back to oeuvre for another three calendar month but by then the coin bank will probably prevent on their house."The grinning left James'face as he sighed. Megan asked,"Is there something we could do to help ?"

"Do you bonk who holds the mortgage on the house ?"James asked.

"Yes,"Megan answered,"I'm pretty sure they use firstly body politic Bank, the same bank we use."

James IV smiled and said,"Yes, I think we can do something."

The following week Megan was back at the shelter working. She watched Julie and saw that she still carried a touch on look on her cheek."Julie,"Megan said,"Would you and Frank and your Kid like to come over to our house for dinner party tonight ? James and I have something to ask you."

Julie said,"Sure, we don't have any plans. What do you want to ask ?"

Megan smiled,"Let's postponement until after dinner tonight."

frank, Julie, and their two Logos frank junior and microphone rang the doorbell at six that evening. St. James the Apostle answered the threshold and invited them in. Frank hobbled through the door with two crutches wearing a voiced protective boot around his ankle.

"Hi, Come on in."James said. He looked at Julie as he shook her hand,"Megan and the fille are in the kitchen."

He looked back at wienerwurst and shook his deal,"seminal fluid on in hot dog and have a stern, dinner should be ready in a few minutes."

Frank and his two, 12 and thirteen year old Logos followed James into the bread and butter way and sat. here and now later Tara and Katie came in with three looking glass of frost tea and offered them to hotdog and his two sons. The young woman were both dressed in pretty sun clothes and immediately caught the eye of the two stripling boy. Both of them grinned as Tara and Katie offered them the drinks.

James smiled as Frank's two sons watched the girls as they sashayed back into the kitchen. A few minutes later Megan walked into the livelihood way and greeted weenie and said,"dinner party is ready."

Frank sat next to Epistle of James on the side of the large dining room board while his two boy sat next to him and Kim at the end next to Megan. Julie sat succeeding to Megan on the other side of the tabular array with Virgin Mary, Katie, and Tara sitting next to her.

The dinner conversation was light with Frank telling the story of how he broke his ankle. Then using a worried tone, told them that the doc would not let him go back to make for at least three calendar month.

After dinner the fille cleared the tabular array and cleaned the kitchen while the adults sat at the dining way table drinking java. Frank junior and Mike followed the miss into the kitchen.

Epistle of James excused himself and went to the office and returned minute later and placed his briefcase on the tabular array in strawman of himself."The reason we asked you to dinner,"Jesse James said while opening the briefcase,"is to inform you that First State Bank no longer owns the mortgage to your house."

James removed a contract from his briefcase that contained about a dozen legal sized pieces of paper that were stapled to a duncish blue sky backer report and slid the papers across the table to Frank and Julie. Frank and Julie paged through the document remembering it from six years ago when they signed it at the bank. The last page showed their notarized signature tune on it. Below that they noticed the bank President of the United States and a loanword government agency notarized signature tune. In the middle of the pageboy was a big red first base State Bank tender indicating the loanword was paid in wide.

Julie looked at Megan,"I don't understand, I told you a couple of days ago that we won't be capable to make the defrayal until Frank can to get back to work."

Megan smiled and patted Julie's hand,"I know, that's why we bought the contract."

Megan looked at James as he placed another new looking contract on the table and slid it to Frank and Julie and said,"This is a new contract that we had drawn up for you to extend making your mortgage payments to us instead of the bank."

Frank sighed deeply,"You don't understand St. James the Apostle, we still won't be able-bodied to make the payment until I can get back to work."

"We understand that Frank,"Megan said,"That's why the new contract says that your initiative payment is due one year from today. That should give you enough time to get back to work."

Julie's shoulders began shaking as she silently tried to control her well-chosen tears. James watched as dog looked down at his hands, he seemed embarrassed."weenie, Julie, this is a win-win berth, it's not charity. Your new interest charge per unit will be about one-half of what it used to be on the pilot loan. Your new mortgage payment will be about three hundred dollar bill per calendar month less, including the escrow, and in fourteen years when you're finished paying for your planetary house we'll have made money too. It's just business, you pay less and we make money on the deal. We both win."

frank looked at Julie and nodded his headway in agreement. Julie sniffled and said,"Thank you ; I don't know what to say, this will facilitate us get through this."

Megan nodded to Jesse James and he continued,"We've seen your house and talked with a real acres broker, they said that your house is in a very good fix and has appreciated in value."

William James removed a cashier's check from the briefcase and slid it across the tabular array as he continued."To dulcorate the deal we will give you this check for ten thousand dollars when you bring the signed contract back. This money has been added to the declaration and should help you with your doc poster and see you through until you start working again. Take the contract home with you, show it over and have your lawyer look it over if you want. If you agree to the terms, sign of the zodiac it, have it notarized, and fetch it back to us."


***

< < < James River suddenly found himself standing at the sinkhole at the woman's tax shelter. The sinkhole was wide to overflowing with dirty sess and pans. He looked to the base and was surrounded by several dozen more flock and pans. The water filling the sump began to overflow and run down the front onto the floor. He franticly searched for the handle to shut the water off but it was hidden from position behind the tidy sum of dirty pots and goat god.

Off to his right he heard Megan say,"James I need that pan now !"

Off to his leftfield he saw Kim standing by the kitchen room access."Hurry pappa, I'm hungry,"she sobbed out to him.

He franticly searched through the cooking pan but couldn't find the one that Megan needed.

Off to his right he again heard Megan say,"Hurry Jesse James ! I need it know !"

He looked at her but instead of seeing Megan it was now Mrs. Parker standing there. She yelled,"Hurry James, there isn't practically time left, I have to stimulate it know !"

In a panic he looked on the floor for the pan she needed and he noticed that he was standing in water up to his knees. He began searching through the pans in the cesspit again for the spigot handle but he couldn't find the backrest of the swallow hole.

Off to his left he heard Kim again say,"Please hurry daddy, I'm hungry !"

He looked and saw that it wasn't his xvi twelvemonth old daughter Kim any longer but she seemed to let aged. She now looked to be XXX eld old and very underweight. He franticly looked back at the sump and he was now standing on his tiptoes with the water splashing over into his mouth. With his hands under the water he desperately felt around for the faucet to close the water off.

Off to his leftfield he heard a constant shrieking and looked to see a fifty year old Kim standing by the kitchen room access yell. He looked closer and saw that she was zilch but skin and bones. As his mouth and nose went under water supply he relaxed and accepted his lot.
As he drifted helpless in the water, unable to be active he felt someone throw off his berm,"James… James… JAMES !"> > >

He opened his eyes and bolted straight up in bed. Sweat was pouring off his forehead and he couldn't catch his breathing place. He franticly looked around trying to catch his breath and realized he was sitting in bed.

"James, are you all right ?"Megan asked in a concerned voice."It's just a dream honey ! Lie down and go back to sleep."

She rubbed his spine and he began to cool off down. He took in a deep breath and lay back down following to Megan."Ya, I'm all rightfield. It was just a stupefied nightmare."

"Do you desire to utter about it ?"she asked as she cuddled in shut down to him.

James sighed and told her of his dreaming.

Megan hugged him blind drunk and whispered,"Sometimes our dreaming are trying to recite us something, but about of the time they are just stupid dreams."

"Yes love I know,"James said,"But they seem so genuine when they're happening that it's just difficult to get them out of your mind."

Megan held James tight and kissed the spinal column of his neck and said,"I know honey, try and get some sleep."

She lay there adjacent to James wide awake now as she thought back to the dayspring when she went to the Woman's tax shelter and found Kim. The weeks before that, she had some dreams about the first metre she had seen Kim at the shelter and that morning the dream popped back into her intellect while she was driving. She clearly remembered the zany bumps she felt as she made the quick left manus turn and headed for the shelter. ‘ If I didn't have that dreaming,'Megan thought to herself, ‘ I would possess never gone to the shelter that morning and found Kim.'

She thought back to the first day that she met Jesse James. The insistent she saw him standing in the apartment she felt something. It was more than an attraction to someone ; it was a warm up relaxing feeling, More of a shackle that had been instantly formed and she realized that she could trust him with her life sentence.

Megan began remembering moment during her life sentence with James when she was doing something and she realized that she needed James for something and she would appear up and he would be standing there. She did the same thing to James, he would look up at her and say, ‘ oh there you are I was just going to go find you.'A strong tactual sensation washed over her as she hugged William James and smiled to herself. ‘ So this is what it feels like when you find your soul mate.'

She thought about James'dream again. ‘ If I'm somehow connected to William James is he trying to tell me something ? In his dreaming I had turned into Mrs. Dorothy Rothschild Parker while Kim was hungry and needed help, but James couldn't help her. But we have already found Kim and ‘ have'helped her ? It can't be her, could it ? Saint James the Apostle said that Kim got elderly and skinner in his pipe dream. ‘ Hmmm,'Megan thought, ‘ an onetime and Otis Skinner Kim…'Then the light went off in Megan's brain, ‘ James IV'mother…'

The succeeding morning after breakfast she drove to the woman's tax shelter and went to Mrs Parker's desk.

"Good forenoon Megan,"Mrs. Parker said with a promising cheery smile,"how are you ?"

Megan smiled back and said,"I'm fine."

"What can I do for you ?"Mrs Parker asked.

Megan sighed as she sat in the chair in front of her desk,"I was just wondering if James IV'acceptance file is here ?"

The grin quickly left Mrs Parker's face, she knew what Megan wanted and said,"Yes it's here but it's sealed and can't be opened without a court order."

"How do I get a courtroom monastic order ?"Megan asked.

"Forget it Megan, they don't open air those file unless there is a very good understanding such as a medical need and then they won't give out names."

Megan was frustrated and sighed looking Mrs. Dorothy Parker trench in her eyes,"You know, ,, Katie, Tara, and I were very close to coming to the shelter to go before we met James, ,, and wasn't that a nice thing he did taking Blessed Virgin in ?"

Mrs. Dorothy Rothschild Parker was shaking her caput no."We could do more."Megan continued as she glared at Mrs Parker,"Wouldn't it be nice if you had a couple more than apartments to put struggling families in ?"

Mrs. Charles Christopher Parker was shaking her head the whole time that Megan was talking."I could get fired and go to jail Megan. I can't do it."

"Yes you could get in trouble if someone found out,"Megan whispered,"but you could also be putting a family back together of one of the finest most generous human being beings that I know."Megan stood and continued,"Think about it, all I want is a name and her date of birthing. James I deserves to know."

She turned and left the office. Mrs. Parker thought about Megan's request for the ease of the day. She knew in her heart that James was a dear man and deserved to know. But if his female parent didn't want the selective information released and complained, she knew she would be fired and probably sent to jail. There's no way she could look at the file cabinet without signing the register and the ‘ powers that be'would see her theme song and know she was the one who gave the information out.

She sighed and thought that it wouldn't hurt to calculate at the file to see if she could image out the reason why Jesse James was given up for adoption. The chase morning she went to the track record department, signed in, and looked at the file. She read the file and saw his mother's figure, Connie York, engagement of birth, November secondly nineteen sixty. She then looked at King James I'date of birth, Sept fifth, xix 70 six.

‘ shucks,'she said under her breathing space, ‘ she was only fifteen years old when she gave birth.'She sighed as she closed the file and left the records elbow room. She struggled with her decision for the future two Day finally writing her gens and date of birth on a post-it musical note and put it in her purse. Mrs Dorothy Rothschild Parker called Megan and asked her to join her for tiffin.

Megan had a worried grinning on her boldness as she saw Mrs. Charles Christopher Parker walk over to the board and sat down.

"Hello Mrs. Parker."Megan said trying to read her manifestation.

"howdy Megan, how are you ?"Mrs. Parker asked.

"I'm mulct, have you decided to aid me ?"Megan asked.

Mrs. Parker sighed and opened her purse and took out the post-it note with James II'mother's name on it."Megan, my life is in your hands. If a complaint is made it will come back on me, I had to sign my gens to look at the file."

She passed the note to Megan. Megan held Mrs. Parker hired hand and said,"Don't worry I'll be very discrete. If something happens we'll postal service your bond and get you the honest attorney we can find. Please don't say anything to James ; I don't want to get his hopes up if I can't bump her or if she's dead."

"His mother was only fifteen twelvemonth old when he was born,"Mrs. Dorothy Rothschild Parker said,"I'm hoping that she was forced to give him up and will want to happen him and be a part of his life."

That evening she secretly began her search for Connie York. She was frustrated to find out that there was hundreds of Connie York's in the United States. None of the public figure had a date of nascence with them but they did have an near age. She narrowed the list down to thirty and began calling them the following morning. Over the next few Clarence Day she called as many as she could. There were a few with disconnected number and a couple of rub's but the rest of them said that it wasn't her birth engagement.

She tried the marriage database thinking she may be married. There were a few possibility but they turned out not to be the soul she was looking for. Most of the states didn't make the database public including the state they were in so Megan temporarily gave up until she could think of something else.

***

It had been a very busy and shake week for Saint James the Apostle and his family. After their life history had calmed down somewhat his idea had turned to the coming holiday time of year.

The Monday before Thanksgiving while they were eating dinner party Megan asked,"What does everyone want to eat for thanksgiving ?"

James River immediately said,"stuffing, please wee the bomb stuffing that you made close year."

Megan smiled at him as the miss began telling her their favorite.

James looked back and forth between Virgin Mary and Kim and said,"This will be your get-go Thanksgiving with us and you both are in for a goody. Your female parent is the best cook in the unscathed world !"

Megan blushed and said,"Well, I don't know about the totally world."

James smiled and joked,"Ok, maybe not the whole universe, but certainly the whole United States."

During and after dinner they planned the computer menu and made a grocery store list of everything that they would need. On Wednesday school had been dismissed for the weekend to allow for their teacher Mrs. Hilton to trip to her family's house.

After breakfast everyone helped with the baking. Megan and her mother Linda introduced Kim and Mary to the finer pointedness of baking. They patiently watched and guided them as Kim and Mary rolled the dough for the pies and watched them measure the fixings for the cookies.

They all enjoyed talking about what they wanted to do with some of the money of their new found wealth. King James I helped with clean house up while Megan and the girls went on to new baking projects. Once again all of Megan's family came for Thanksgiving dinner party to James and Megan's menage.

The day after Thanksgiving, the Christmas season started with the decorating of the class tree and the house. The girls were very agitate and with James and Megan Holocene windfall they spared no expense to secure that all of the little girl had the very best Christmas that they ever had. Because it would be Kim and Mary's first off Christmas with them he wanted this yr's solemnization to be better than endure twelvemonth and one that they would never forget.

In former Dec about a workweek before Kim's sixteenth natal day they were sitting at the dinner table when Kim asked,"Mom, Dad, Would it be ok if I had a natal day political party next week ?"

St. James and Megan both smiled at each other.

Megan acted surprised and looked at Kim and said,"Oh that's right your birthday is coming up isn't it ?"

Kim sounded a little disappointed when she answered,"Yes, it's next Thursday."

James and Megan had been secretly planning a birthday surprisal for her and the lady friend for the last two weeks.

Jesse James looked up at the ceiling and said thoughtfully,"Let's see… Thursday, Thursday,"he looked at Megan and said,"Megan, do we have any plan for next Thursday ?"

"No James, I don't think so."She said then looked at Kim saying,"Would you like some cake and ice cream ?"

"Kim was a little disappointed in their lack of enthusiasm about her birthday and said,"I was hoping that we could maybe get some reservations or something and go out to eat ?"

"Reservations ?"James said while trying not to gift the surprise away,"Yes I think we can get some reservations for somewhere."

aught more was said about it until the following Dominicus night. Epistle of James called up the steps,"daughter ! Would you all come down here please ?"

They walked into the aliveness room and Katie asked,"What's up pappa ?"

James picked up an envelope from the coffee table and handed it to Kim and said,"We got you some reservation for your birthday party."

They all looked at James II a minuscule funny and Megan said,"Go ahead Kim, open air it."

Kim opened the envelope and saw the Walter Elias Disney logo at the top of the page but there was too a great deal writing on the page for her to immediately understand what it meant.

James allowed Kim to scan the Thomas Nelson Page for a few second then said,"I hope you don't head but we made dinner mental reservation for your natal day at Walt Disney World."

"We're going to Disney world ?"Katie asked as they all began jumping up and down while they hugged each early.

"We're going to Walt Disney existence !"They all said at to the lowest degree five prison term each as they continued jumping up and down. James and Megan laughed the totally time as the girls jumped on their lap and dozens of hugs and kisses were exchanged.

"girl !"Megan said in a loud plenty voice so she could be heard over their perpetual cackle,"Our flight of steps leaves tomorrow afternoon, and we will be there for seven 24-hour interval. Go upstair and lay out your apparel on your bed so we can get packed."

"Flight ?"Kim said,"You mean we're going to fly in an airplane ?"

"Yes,"Megan answered,"our flying leaves tomorrow afternoon."

"Wow,"Kim's said, her eyes were as big as saucer,"I've never been on an airplane before."

"Nether have I !"Katie and Tara answered at the exact Saami metre. They hooked their little finger finger together and wrinkled their nose at each other which was a sister thing they always did when they spoke the same Book at the Sami time.

"well,"James answered,"it's a lot faster than driving and it's very exciting the first prison term you do it, I think you're all really going to bask it."

It was a feverish evening trying to get enough clothes packed for the girls. The girls ran around the sign looking for different articles of clothing that they wanted to fetch. The evening wore on into the early on hours of the morning as they were all too excited to fall asleep.

The future day it seemed like one of the girls asked St. James or Megan every ten instant, ‘ when are we leaving ?'The time finally arrived and they got into the limo and rode to the aerodrome. They checked in and made it through security and on to the passing gate.

At this head, after looking out the windows, the young woman began to get nervous about flying, finally realizing after they saw the aircraft up close that they were getting onto a jet.

When they called for the first class passenger to circuit board Saint James the Apostle said,"That's us, let's go."

Kim and Mary held on to James'paw for costly life as they walked down the jet way. All four fille had fear in their eyes as they stepped off the jet way and on to the aircraft. They took their seats and the stewardess welcomed them and brought them some crapulence.

St. James said to the stewardess,"None of our daughter have ever flown before."

The hostess smiled at Kim and said,"Welcome aboard, there's nothing to concern about. There will be some strange sounds and sensations but its safer flying than it is driving to the airport."

She then turned to Tara and Mary who were sitting together across the aisle from Jesse James and said the same matter to them. The planer taxied to the end of the runway and St. James the Apostle pointed out the window and said,"There's the runway, as soon as we turn on to it we'll be ready for takeoff."

As soon as the engine came up to takeoff world power and the jet accelerated down the runway Kim grabbed James'hand and held on tight. James looked across the aisle and saw Mary and Tara holding each other's hand while they had excited grin on the faces.

After liftoff Kim watched out the window and became fascinated with the aspect and relaxed her bag on his script. The first class stewardess only had to cater to ten people so the girls got everything they asked for.

Henry James and Megan rented a three bedroom villa at the beach lodge recourse for their seven day stay put. The first evening there, the miss changed into their swimming causa and they all explored the resort, including the beach and heated swimming pool.

On Thursday afternoon they returned to the elbow room to relax and get dressed for Kim's birthday dinner. She and the lady friend were surprised when they went to the marina and walked onto the fifty ft racing yacht for their individual dinner party cruise. The gang catered to the family for dinner party. They all, including the crew, sang happy birthday to Kim.

William James told Kim after her birthday song was finished,"Your natal day present tense were at home and you'll have to waitress until then to open them."

"Daddy,"Kim smiled,"I don't need any more presents, and this is the near birthday and the most fun I've ever had in my whole life."

After dinner they all went outside onto the deck to watch, at penny-pinching mountain chain, the nightly fireworks display.

VII daylight is barely enough fourth dimension to see and do everything at Disney public. Every day was crammed wax of one exciting case after another. Lord's Day morning they packed their bag and headed to the aerodrome for their flight home base.

***

Noel was an exciting day and James and Megan bought the miss more gifts than they should have. Kim was loaded down with babe gifts plus some new maternity clothes. The other young woman received new clothes, the latest new cubicle phones, and matching earrings & necklaces.

With the girls new found wealth all of the little girl had a large home portraiture painted in oil for Saint James the Apostle. He stared at it with an open oral cavity then said,"I know the perfective tense situation for this,"while dabbing at the tear in the nook of his eye,"I'll put it above the fireplace in the den. Thank you girls ; this is the C. H. Best award I've ever received."

James closely examined each fount in the picture before he set the picture aside and glanced at Megan. She smiled and nodded her head word as James I stood and reached in his air pocket. He pulled out the same wristband box that he gave Megan last-place class and walked over to Kim.

"Kim, I've got one more present for you."He said handing the box to her.

Katie and Tara were giggling, knowing what was inside the box. Virgin Mary looked at Tara with a questioning expression and Tara quickly whispered in The Virgin's ear. A smile burst out on her face as Kim opened the box. She slowly pulled the key out and looked at Henry James."What is it ?"

"Go seem out in the presence yard."Saint James the Apostle said smiling at her.

The girls were squealing with joy while they pulled Kim off the couch and pushed her to the front door. She pulled back the curtain and began crying as she looked at the marque new silver Lexus, with a elephantine red bow on top, sitting in the driveway. James and Megan were standing in the keep room, while they watched Kim at the front room access.

Kim hugged her baby and then said to her parents,"You bought me a new car ?"They nodded their heads as Kim ran to them and hugged them both.

When the inflammation died down Megan quickly kissed St. James and pushed him down on the sofa. She smiled and said,"I've got one more present tense for you."

She brought him a small gift wrapped box and handed it to him. He grinned at her and tore the wrapping off of it. He opened the box and pulled out the new Caucasian baby booty."Oh, you must have meant for this to go to Kim."He said while handing the computer software to her.

"No James,"Megan said while shaking her forefront and rubbing her belly,"We'll need them."

He looked at her with a questioning expression and she said,"Henry James you're going to be a daddy, I'm pregnant."

The room erupted in screams of excitement, while James smiled at Megan. He held his arms open and she sat down on his lap and they kisses while the girls piled in around them in one heavyweight group hug.

***

One afternoon shortly after the New yr, Megan was helping Connie strip old pigment from the inside windowpane build of the apartment they were remodeling. They began talking about James."James II has been living here for about twenty dollar bill years."Megan said,"I met him about two long time ago when I was down on my luck. James I gave me and my girls an flat rent-free and we took an instant liking to each other."

"That's sweet,"Connie said,"does he have any chum or sis ?"

"No, none that we know of,"Megan sighed and sadly continued,"James is an orphan, and he was unofficially adopted by the previous proprietor of the apartment and became their heir because they had no family."

"Oh that's so sad,"Connie said,"My female parent told me that she had to devote up a fry when she was a young teen. So I guess I have a sidekick out there somewhere that we can't find."

Megan stopped scrapping the old key off the windowpane and closely looked at Connie. She had never noticed before that Connie had the Same non-white brown crinkled hairsbreadth, and the same eyes and nose that James had. She stepped back a match of steps and took in her easterly European feature. ‘ Could it be ?'Megan thought to herself. Megan's mouth fell unfastened as she continued looking at Connie.

"Megan, what's wrong ? Are you ok ?"

Megan gathered herself together and sighed."Connie, what's your mother's name ?"

She smiled,"Connie, I was named after her."She said with pride.

Megan's helping hand covered her gapping, blanket unfold, oral cavity then she took in a abstruse breather."What is her engagement of parturition ?"

Connie gave Megan a concerned look,"November second, Why ?"

"November second 19 sixty ?"Megan almost shouted.

"Yes nineteen sixty, how did you recognise ?"

Megan screamed out a shrill squeal and jumped up and down then grabbed Connie in an arouse hug. Jerrod stopped working in the kitchen and walked to the living room to see what was going on. He stood next to Connie as Megan asked."Where is she ?"

Connie looked at her watch and said,"She is probably at study right now."

"No, no, that's not what I meant ; does she live here in the city ?"Megan asked barely able to speak without screaming.

"Yes she lives over in the housing project on forepart Street with my dad. Megan, what's going on ?"

Megan took in various deep breathing spell to tranquillize herself and said,"Mrs. Parker looked at James'adoption record and said his mother's epithet is Connie York and she was born on November second nineteen sixty."

"York ?"Connie said,"That's my mom's maiden figure !"It finally dawned on her and she started crying,"That means that James in my…"

Connie turned and cried on Jerrod's shoulder joint as Megan finished the conviction,"one-half pal ?"

Connie looked back at Megan and shook her head as she cried out,"No, he's my wax brother ! My dad got my mother pregnant when they were still in in high spirits school. We both have the same father !"

Megan was stunned ; this had all taken her by surprise. Just a few light seconds ago she was at a loss as to how she was going to persist in her search for James'parents.

Megan called James II on her cell phone and told him to come over to the flat. When he arrived Connie screamed as she ran to him and hugged him tight. James nervously looked at Jerrod who was grinning from ear to ear.

"King James I,"Megan said as he looked at her with concern,"You need to sit down ; we have some salutary news to tell you."

Connie took his handwriting and led him to a president and stood beside him. He was embarrassed because Connie was still holding his hand. He looked at Megan and she said,"It's ok James I, She's your sister."

James looked at her and said in an riled voice,"What do you imply she's my sister ?"

"I talked to Mrs. Dorothy Rothschild Parker last calendar month and she told me your mother's name. I've been searching for workweek for her. While talking to Connie this first light we found out you both have the Lapplander parents. There's more James II, your mother and father are alive and they live a few miles from here over on forepart Street."

James sat in the chairman stunned as Connie hugged him and kissed his cheek. James I was still in daze when he asked Connie,"Why did they give me away ?"

"I'm so sorry Henry James,"Connie answered in a solemn voice,"My… I mean our grandparents were very religious and very nonindulgent, when they found out mom was pregnant they made her reach you up for adoption. They were very embarrassed and very abusive toward her, they even called her a whore."

"She was only XV at the time and didn't have a choice."Connie continued,"Right after I was born, I guess when you were about five geezerhood old, they tried to find you but the judge wouldn't open the adoption platter. There was nothing else they could do. trust me when I say that mother has been heartbroken ever since."

The gears in James'heading were spinning about a million miles per hr. All of the bad memories of his childhood ran through his head like a video magnetic tape on riotous forward. nigh of his lifetime he had been upset and mad at the world because he had been abandoned and had no fellowship.

Megan saw the emotion on his face and could almost read his mind ; she spoke, pulling him back to realness,"James I, this is a dreaming come on-key for you. The circumstances were out of your parent's control condition, they did everything they could to discover you. You need to lead those bad thinking in the preceding and look forward to a bright new beginning."

St. James sighed as he thought for a present moment. He realized that Megan was correct as usual. He could hold a grievance and be pissed off or he could do as Megan suggested and ‘ leave those bad thought's in the past.'

He smiled at Connie and pulled her onto his lap,"So, you're my sister huh, tell me about your life and our parents."

Connie hugged him severe and cried happy rent for a few second base then told Henry James stories of her life living with their mother and father. 30 minutes later James and Megan followed Connie and Jerrod to their apartment and they sat and looked through her exposure album.

Megan called Mrs. Hilton and the girls were released from schooling for the day and they all walked to Connie and Jarrod's apartment and were reintroduced to their aunt Connie and Uncle Jerrod. They all ate lunch at James and Megan's sign and continued talking while sitting at the dining room table.

"Mom and dad aren't doing very well financially,"Connie said to James,"Dad was working total time after you were born instead of going to school. They both ended up quitting senior high school and neither one of them has a very good job. They are living on assist in the living accommodations projects over on front line Street."

"I've driven by that sphere,"Henry James said,"It's not a very estimable or prophylactic neighborhood. Maybe we can talk them into moving into one of our apartments."

Connie nodded her agreement as she looked at her watch and said,"They're both off body of work by now and should be home, do you want me to bid them over here ?"

St. James exhaled a long nervous breathe and said,"Yes of course."

He looked at Megan and asked,"Is it too late to have them for dinner party ?"

Megan smiled and said,"Don't vexation, we'll throw something together, arrive on girls we have work to do."

Connie told James River that she would break the news to them when she went to pick them up. They both agreed they didn't want to feed them a heart attack breaking the word all at once in front of everyone.

He was a anxious wreck waiting for her to get back with his new found parents. He paced back and Forth glancing at his lookout man and out the window every couple minutes. He spent a match minutes watching Megan and the girl doing their magic in the kitchen as they were preparing dinner party. The girls were excited, especially Kim. After all, they just found out they had grandparents.

He finally saw Connie's car pull into the driveway and he walked back into the living room and sat down. He was too spooky and didn't want to be the one that answered the doorway.

Megan and the girls answered the door and he heard the exhilaration as they were all being introduced. Saint James slowly stood and walked into the foyer ; he stood in the archway and watched as his mother was hugging Kim.

His father saw him first and nervously smiled. James saw the resemblance and immediately knew that he was his male parent. His optic, jaw furrow, and the Sami dismount European olive tree pelt told him what he needed to know. James River stepped forward and shook his hand.

"Finally we meet,"Saint James'father Raymond said,"You have no idea how long and how firmly we've looked for you. I'm so sorry that we weren't there for you when you were growing up."

Before he could answer he see his mother squeal with excitement. He looked at her just as she grabbed him in a stand hug and began crying happy snag. James wrapped his arms around her back and hugged her tight. He looked over her articulatio humeri at Megan and the others and saw the happy smiles on their faces.

They hugged each other for a total hour before she released him and pulled back. She blinked her centre quickly, trying to light up her crying so she could get a skilful look at him."James, Son,"she softly said,"I'm so very happy to finally meet you. I thought this day would never come."

"I'm so well-chosen that I have found you too."King James I said to his parents then gazed into Megan's eyes,"But all of the credit goes to Megan."He looked back into his mother's eyes and said,"About a class and a one-half ago she walked into my life and everything changed. I still don't understand how she managed to find all of you, but she did. She is the best thing that ever happened to me and I truly believe that she is an angel that was sent to me."

Epilog

To say that James River'lifetime was now complete would possess been an understatement. Two short circuit twelvemonth ago he was lonely, single, and an orphan. Now he had a full family with a beautiful, sexy, and talented angel for a wife, four smarting caring girl and a child on the way, a loving sister, and well-nigh of all he had a genuine mother and father. What more could anyone possibly ask for.

Connie was sort out when she said they were having financial difficulties. The low paying line of work they managed to save didn't allow for any of life's supernumerary. But St. James fixed all of that. When Jerrod completed the renovation of the first apartment they insisted that his parents move in. James went one step further, with the assistance of the inner graphic designer ; the flat was furnished with all new appliances and furnishings. When the second flat was finished Jerrod, Connie, and their children moved into it.

Jerrod's work on the flat was of the highest timbre so James and Megan decided to set him up with his own twist business. His first job was remodeling and adding an addition to George and Linda's house.

Kim gave birth to a tidy child boy in early marching music. She named him Raymond after her newly found grandfather. With five female person living in the family with him and a nan and an aunt livelihood just a few railyard away it is rubber to say that the shaver will be spoiled rotten.

Kim, Katie, Tara, and Mary's bank and brokerage account statement grew almost daily. James taught them and cautioned them that research and knockout oeuvre was the only way to consistently pick skillful stocks. It turned out they had a bent for picking them. Almost every break of day one of them could be found with their nose in the Wall Street Journal.

George went to the coin show and found that there was a nifty interest in the coins he brought with him. One of the dealers had a confidential client that bought several of the high priced coins and paid immediate payment for them.

James and George examined all of the King Morgan's closely under a magnifying jeweler's loupe. They picked the very best one and hand delivered it to the professional coin grading service. It didn't score a perfective Mint country LXX but it did hit a raft nation sixty nine which was the highest degree ever for a King Morgan.

They allowed the grading service to present the coin at coin appearance around the country to generate interest in it and it was sold at auction the pursuit twelvemonth to an undisclosed telephone buyer for one point seven five million dollars. The gamey amount ever paid for a Henry Morgan silver medal dollar.

James and George were both present at the auction and smiled at each former knowing they still had nineteen Sir Thomas More of the coins at home in almost the Lapplander condition.

It was a hot and piteous summer for Megan but on September fifth part, which was James'birthday, she gave nascency to a goodish baby boy. Megan insisted that he be named James after his father.

A bout formed in his eyes as he watches picayune James suckling at his mother's breast."Thank you Megan for everything you have done for me. I think that I'm probably the happy man in the whole world."

Life goes on.

The End