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A Kind stranger ( The whole story From Beginning To End )



My epithet is James River. Back when I was a child I was very lonely and dysphoric. I had no family, I was an orphan. I spent most of my puerility with Stephen Foster parents never staying with anyone for more than a yr or two. I wasn't a job child ; I guess I was just unlucky when it came to foster parents.

One of the families I stayed with when I was about four class old moved out of the expanse because of a job change and didn't want to adopt me.

Another duo I stayed with when I was seven geezerhood old thought they couldn't have children but when my Stephen Foster mother became fraught I was no longer wanted so I had to give back to the orphanage.

The first couple of times I was pulled away from my foster parents it hurt, it hurt me real bad. I didn't understand why I couldn't stay with them. After that I learned not to get close to my nurture parents anyone. I just went into a shell to protect my fragile feelings.

Thinking back I never got many, if any hugs from most of my foster parents. Oh certainly they fed me and told me when to go to bed but most of the clock time I was pretty lots on my own. At that Danton True Young age I didn't know any honorable, I didn't know or understand what a normal substantial menage was like so I thought that was the way it was. Looking back on my young life I guess some of them where in it for the money.

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

In my senior twelvemonth of senior high school schoolhouse shortly after I turned eighteen I met Kathy. She was like me, an orphan. The sound way to name Kathy was modal. There were a lot of former girls that caught my eye as beautiful but Kathy was average. Don't get me wrong she wasn't ugly. She had morose brownness tomentum, Brown University center, and an intermediate sized thorax. She stood about 5'6"and carried a few extra dog pound but if someone asked, I would possess 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 city 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 protagonist of hers to read up. Her daughter ally was already belatedly and she didn't want to wait any longsighted so she asked me if I'd walk her domicile. I didn't have anything else to do so I said yes.

It was a cool fountain night as we started walking the two or so mile to her foster home. 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 engagement and walking her home was the longest clip I had ever spent alone with a girl. I tried to avoid answering the question for concern she would tell someone that I was a Virgin and make my life story worse.

I threw the doubtfulness 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 face away from her not wanting her to see me blush.

She took my arm in hers and laid her school principal on my shoulder and said in a kind voice as we walked,"Don't headache about it everybody starts off as a 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 halt with her arm and stood in front of me. She put her subdivision around my neck and we kissed. I was new at this ; it was the first existent kiss that I had ever received from a girl. I put my arms around her waist and tried to osculate her like she was kissing me. She relaxed her lips and I felt her tongue trying to wiggle its way into my oral fissure. I took in a mysterious aflutter breathing place and relaxed a niggling and our lingua met.

My heart was beating faster and I was getting worked up. My dick was getting hard as she pulled me closer to her, pressing her B-cup titty into my dresser. We broke our candy kiss and continued walking arm in arm. When we got close to her house we walked down the alleyway and she whispered to be quiet. We went to the back of her house and she took a key from the top of a window sill and quietly unlocked their garage. We went in and she locked the door behind us.

It was a large single car detached service department with a workplace terrace and an old lounge on one incline. Kathy cleared some material off the sofa and sat down. I sat down future to her and she put her arm around me and we began kissing again.

After a few minutes she must have gotten impatient and took my handwriting and put it on her breast. My heart was pounding in my pharynx as I squeezed her bosom a few time but mostly just left it where she had put it.

A few minutes later she stopped kissing me and after a scotch sigh said,"You are new at this aren't you ?"

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

I could just barely see her outline in the dark as she stood up and took off her pants and panties. She reached down unbuckled my belt and pulled my knickers and boxers down to my articulatio talocruralis. I was glad it was saturnine because I would have been too mortified to let her see me without my wearing apparel on.

She knelt down on the couch facing me with one genu on each side of me. I reached up and massaged her breasts while she reached for my grueling penis. When she touched it, it felt so trade good I damn near came right there in her hired man. She slowly lowered her organic structure down on top of me and slid my putz up into her slippery oh so wet snatch. It was the most enjoyable flavor that I had ever felt. I couldn't believe how warm and soft her pussy was. She sat still for a few seconds and then started slowly sliding up and down.

existence my first time I lasted just a few bit 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 fountainhead on my shoulder. Every once in a patch she gave my penis a squeeze with her pussy muscles and it didn't take long for me to become hard again. When my hammer was fully upright she sat up directly and lifted up her blouse and bra and took my helping hand and put them on her bare breasts. She put her hands on my shoulders and started slowly rocking forward and backward.

I started rolling her punishing pap between my finger and thumb and she was moaning and whispered,"Ohh that feels sooo good."

She started rocking faster and faster and whispered,"Ohh that feels so good, hug harder."

I squeezed her nipple harder expecting her to confess 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 breasts and rolled her nipples. She grabbed two handful of my hair and started grinding her twat heavy into my pelvis. On every forward stroke she moaned then she let out a squeal and collapsed on my chest of drawers breathing knockout.

Her slit started quivering around my peter in shortstop fast bursts. The virtuoso was incredible 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 initiative 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 girlfriend !'I was happy 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 smiling back at me, she just said hi and kept walking. I ran to captivate up to her and asked,"What's wrongfulness ?"

She pulled me to the side and whispered,"stopping point Saturday night I was just hornlike and wanted to fuck. Don't take it personal."

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

I didn't go out on any escort and kept take in of girl, which was pretty well-off for me because I was invisible to most of them. As meter went on I withdrew from people to the point where you could say I was a hermit. My faith in human beings was at an all clip low.

By some miracle I managed to graduate gamy school. I didn't bother buying commencement annunciation because I didn't have anyone to send off 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 commencement exercise ceremony to look out me graduate.

After I graduated I packed my things and told my foster parents that I was moving out of their theatre. I followed my dreaming of tour of duty hiking across the land to see all of the things that I had read about and seen on television. The kickoff few twenty-four hour period I made dear forward motion heading out west to see the Rocky Mountains. I was about six hundred air mile from my hometown eating breakfast in a truck layover buffet car when I discovered my wallet was gone.

I had a few buck stuffed in my front air pocket and paid the bill. I don't know if I was pick-pocketed or if I had just lost it. I retraced my steps back until I got to the spot where I got out of the in conclusion car that gave me a drive. 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 bid and ask for avail so I was on my own.

I was depressed and didn't want to continue my journey so I began hitch hiking back house. I didn't have a home to go to but I wanted to get back to some familiar environment. I was having a hard sentence catching a ride and it took two 24-hour interval for me to go only fifty miles, almost of that on metrical foot. I was dropped off at a gas station toward the end of the adjacent day and I only had a dollar mark left in my pocket. I hadn't eaten anything in the live on two daytime and I was thinking about going into the entrepot and shoplifting some food.

Not paying close-fitting attending to my surroundings I was startled by a woman's voice saying,"Loretta Young man !"

I looked to see that an senior char was walking toward me. She asked,"Would you please serve my husband alteration a flat tire ?"

She was a nice grandmotherly looking individual with a nice smiling 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 proud man and will probably say that he doesn't need any help. 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 turning point of the building there was a brand new Cadillac with a flatcar tyre. An older man was empting the trunk that was total of suitcases and other personal detail to get the jack and spare tire out.

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

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

His wife cut in and said,"Damnit note 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.

measure shook my helping hand 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 athirst and I ate the food for thought so fast it made Bill ask,"My god son when's the close time you ate ?"

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

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

She nodded her approval and the following thing I knew I was in the adjacent town's bus storage with a ticket base in my paw.

I tried to get their speech to pay them back but he patted me on the berm and said,"Life has been good to us and we have More money than we know what to do with."

He then handed me a XX dollar sign posting and said,"You'll probably get athirst before you get home."

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

Bill and Nancy President Washington were the nicest the great unwashed that I had any dealings with. The bus ticket cost over a hundred one dollar bill and they paid for it like they had known me their unhurt lifetime. I was happy on the bus drive home, felicitous then I had been in a long time.

The day after arriving back in my hometown I found a good job with a major manufacturing company. The pay was good and there were benefit 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 flat complex consists of five large identical brick buildings with eight apartment in each building. Four apartments are on the 1st floor and four on the s floor. The complex was immense and took up a whole city block. They are all arranged in a big U shape with each building facing toward the large heart special K area and swimming kitty.

The William Green region was criss-crossed with pavement and was shaded by respective 12 large hardwood trees. The grounds were landscaped with shrubs and small-scale flower gardens along the sidewalks and around the swimming pool. At the far end of the undercoat sat a large stately three story Victorian house.

The business firm was owned by Jacques Louis David and Mary Williams who also own the flat. David and Virgin Mary was a nice retired mates in their belatedly 60. David was a stockbroker and Mary was a registered nurse. They've been married for over forty geezerhood and are childless.

The house appeared to be at least one hundred days old and upon close inspection it showed neat craftsmanship with ornate molding around the windows, threshold, and on the eves. The front and book binding of the house had large screened in porches. The kitchen and dining room had beautiful built–in solid oak console and all of the rooms had solid oak floors.

The stair were also oak with hand carved scroll piece of work on the railings. It had three hearth, four bathrooms, and six large chamber plus a few extra rooms that could be used for a program library or den. Madonna used one of these rooms as an office.

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

Saint David shook my mitt and said thank you. He's a very form man with a Nice smile that immediately put me at ease. We talked for a few bit and then he asked me to look at some other electrical trouble he had. I went with him and we looked at the electrical problems in the early flat. We got along beneficial with each early and the next thing I knew I was helping him with all of the other maintenance.

It took some time but we became good protagonist. I didn't have any other acquaintance so I spent most of my time helping David with the sustentation or helping Virgin Mary with the gardening. I helped out so much that they let me bide in my flat rent free people.

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

I ate supper at their house three or four times a week and was always invited to their holiday celebrations. We were a sodding fit for each other. They had no children and I had no parents. While working close with St. David he taught me a lot about the stock grocery and gave me insight on where to put my 401-K money. Needless to say my 401-k plan grew by leaps and bounds.

I had been living there for almost 15 years when Saint David died of a sudden heart attack. I cried at the funeral like a son who had lost his father. Soon after the funeral Virgin Mary and I had a long public lecture and it was decided that I would move into the house with her and protrude taking care of the apartment full metre. She offered me a remuneration that was about twice as a great deal as I was making at my job so I quit and transferred my bombastic 401-K to an IRA.

Mary was in her late seventies and never fully recovered from David's death. I soon took over her duties of collecting split and paying her bills. I did all of the shopping, to the highest degree 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 break off heart about a year after David.

The day after the funeral I was contacted by their attorney and was surprised to retrieve out that David and Madonna had willed their estate to me. I was shocked, between the value of their IRA's and the income and time value of the house and apartments I became an instant multi-millionaire at the age of thirty two.

Not bad for an orphan.


Tara

I have never seen mom look so worried. It's root to scare me. cobbler's last night she was crying because the landlord came to our apartment and said, ‘ If the snag isn't paid by Monday you will deliver to affect out of the apartment.'

She took off workplace today to look for a new flat for us. We needed to discover a chinchy place to endure but the showtime three apartment 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 real bad fight just after Noel. He left that night and I haven't seen him since. My older babe Katie is sitting in the battlefront seat of the car and I'm in the back. The car is making a funny stochasticity as we pulled to the curb in presence of the apartment.

Mom checked the address in the newspaper and said,"This is the endure one lets Hope for the Charles Herbert Best."

The apartments looked rattling skillful, better than the last one we saw. We got out of the car and I poked Katie and pointed to the swimming pool. We walked to one of the flat doors that was propped give with a chairperson.

Mom knocked and said"howdy is anybody here ?"
A skillful looking man carrying a paint curler walked into the hallway. He's tall, taller than dad was and he has brown eyes and dark fuzz. He looked at mom from her school principal to her toes and then looked at Katie and me. He smiled at us with a decent smile. I like him.

James

It was a hot June day and one of my flat was evacuate. I was inside painting one of the bedchamber with the room access propped open to keep assuredness and to let the blusher fumes out. I heard a knock at the doorway and a female voice say,"Hello is anybody here ?"

I went to the hallway and looked to see a beautiful young cleaning woman about my age followed by two very cute Pres Young girls. The lady friend were the skewer simulacrum 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 deep blue eyes and big than average knocker. Both of the girls were slim with their pilus in a ponytail and they had an athletic expression to them.

The woman was holding a newsprint and asked me,"Do you know where the office is ?"

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

She smiled and asked,"Is this the apartment that's for economic rent ?"

"Yes."

"How much is the rent ?"

When I told her she said ‘ damn'under her breathing spell. The onetime little girl crossed her arms and had a worried-disappointed face on her face.

The immature girl tore at my bosom strings. She looked to be about nine or ten days old. Her lip started to quiver and a binge came out of her eye and quickly ran down her cheek. She looked like she had the weightiness of the whole humanity on her young shoulders. My inherent aptitude was telling me something was very ill-timed.

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

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

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

Her cheek was beautiful even with her sad expression. Something in her eyes gave me the confidence to talk to her so I said,"Try me."

She looked at her miss and then back at me. I could distinguish she didn't want to say anything in front of them so I reached in my pocket and pulled out a five dollar mark account and gave it to the honest-to-goodness girl and said,"There's a store down at the end of the block. Go buy you and your Sister some ice cream or what ever you want while I talk to your mother."

They looked at their mother and she nodded yes. grin broke out on their faces and in an minute they were gone.

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

She shook my hand and said,"My gens is Megan and my little girl are Katie and Tara."

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

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

Her head 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 bills. 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 throw us out. I don't have a very undecomposed job and I can't afford the rent that everybody charges."

Her reply seemed honest and solemn and she looked like she needed someone to reach her and her daughter's a prison-breaking. I was amazed at myself because I was able to blab to her without stumbling for watchword to say. She was a very beautiful woman and I wanted to ask her out on a engagement but I was too shy to ask her. I thought a couple of months of free rent wouldn't scathe and when I knew her better I might encounter 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 work that I need to do around here and if you and your girl are uncoerced to help out I'll give you the apartment rent-free."

I really wasn't behind in the up-keep but she seemed like the type of person that didn't like to take something for zippo and it would also give me an excuse to keep in inter-group communication with her.

She had a spirit on her brass like she was trying to forecast out if I was teasing her.

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

I answered,"Yes."

The smile disappeared from her face and she asked,"What will the owner say ?"

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

We walked out of doors and saw her daughter coming down the pavement licking ice emollient treats. Megan went to converge them and I could tell the import she told them the good news. Both girls started jumping up and down and dancing on their tiptoes. It brought a smile to my case seeing her girls were happy. I thought to myself ‘ now that's the way piffling girls should act.'

Megan asked when they could move in and I said as soon as we get done painting and cleaning up. Megan and I finished painting while the girls swept, mopped, and vacuumed. We finished by early afternoon. Megan said they lived in a semi-furnished flat and they just had wearing apparel, a few small pieces of furniture, and personal items to move. She had a small 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 lounge that they would need so I brought Megan to a storeroom that I put all of the things that renter leave behind when they move.

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

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

A facial expression of rest came over her facial expression and she surprised me by turning and giving me a hug and said,"A few hour ago I was at rock-and-roll bed. I didn't know where we would be living future workweek. 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 little help from a kind unknown felt like.

She has very soft skin and her perfume smelled nice. She was pressing her breasts into my chest as she hugged me. I started day-dreaming and was loosing my train of thought. I have been living alone for a foresighted clock time and I found the physical inter-group communication with a woman exciting.

We set up the beds and arranged a frame, a table, and death chair. When we finished we sat down and took a well deserved break. I looked at Megan slouched back on the lounge with her centre closed and watched her breasts heaving up and down as she breathed. She is an extremely beautiful woman and I was getting aroused. I was nervous that she would see my growing erection so I stood fixing my pants so my hard-on would sustain more room and walked toward the threshold. I told her if she needed anything to let me acknowledge and I left for home.

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

I said,"goodness morning girls, where's your mother ?"

Tara said,"She has to process today."

I showed Tara what I was doing. She soon caught on and started cleaning the pocket billiards. I took Katie with me and showed her how to run the riding lawnmower. I grabbed the weed eater and we soon finished what would take taken me all day to do.

It was lunch clock time and I asked them,"What's for luncheon ?"

The grinning left their faces and Katie looked at her feet and said in a low vocalization,"We don't have much food."

There went my kernel strings again. ‘ Damn it !'I said to myself petty daughter shouldn't be worried about such round-eyed matter as food. I said,"well I can fix that. semen on."

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

We started in the health and Beauty section and I told them to get what they need and don't forget about their female parent. We then stopped in the little girl's clothes department and I asked if they had swimming case. They ran off looking for case and I told them to each get some summer clothes, socks, underclothes, and a pair of shoes. We then went up and down the market isle and when we pulled up to the hard currency register the shopping go-cart was full moon to the top.

The sum came to just over four hundred dollars and the girls looked at me with incertain middle. I gave them a reassuring smile and paid with my cite card. We loaded everything in the rear of my pick-up. Tara sat in the middle and when I got into the driver 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 receive. The immense smiles they had on their face had been deserving every penny I had spent.

We were still putting things 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 language off and said,"Don't headache about it."I thought to myself that I didn't want to make her feeling bad that I had given her something without her giving me something in return so I said,"I could use a Nice home cooked meal."

Megan is a mythologic Captain Cook and made probably the C. H. Best pork chopper I had ever tasted. I helped her clean up the kitchen while the female child played in the livelihood elbow room. She was easy to speak to although she did about 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 face to mine. I was uneasy and wasn't sure if she wanted me to kiss her. I was beginning to get an erecting and didn't want to pry her in the stomach with it so I patted her back a duo of prison term in an try at a hug and quickly stepped back away from her mumbling thanks for dinner and hurried out the room access.

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 Saame dress over and over and I asked her why. She told me that she had grown quit a bit in the live few calendar month and the only apparel she had that fit were the one I had bought her. Money was no trouble for me so every week as a payoff for helping me I took the girlfriend shopping and let them buy some clothes and girly thing's to recreate with.

Being with them with all of their energy made me happy, well-chosen then I have been in a long time. It felt good and I enjoyed buying things for the girls. I loved the way they laughed and giggled. After I had known them for a little while they freely gave me their hugs and kisses.


Katie

Mister William James is the squeamish 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 things 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 things. Every Monday Tara cleans the swimming puddle while we cut the eatage. I enjoy driving the lawnmower and Mister James says that I'm really ripe at it.

After we eat lunch we put on our swim suits and conform to him at the pocket billiards. We swim for a couple of hours and then he always gives me a XX dollar bill and tells us to go to the store and get an ice cream.

Two ice pick cost less than two buck and I would wreak him back the change and he always says,"That's ok Katie you can keep it."

When mom gets abode from work I give her the money and she uses it for bills and thing. One afternoon Saint James the Apostle took us to mom's eating house to eat. She was surprise to see us. When we finished eating Mr. James left mom a twenty dollar bill dollar bill tip.


James

Katie and Tara are very smart girls. They follow me around while I do maintenance on the apartments. When I need a part I would show them the broken one and narrate them where a new one was in my shop. They would run and bring me what I needed.

They soon learned what tools I needed to fix things and they would fetch them for me too. At first I thought at their age they wouldn't be often help but I was wrongly they save me a lot of fourth dimension and energy.

I enjoyed their ship's company and one Saturday I invited Megan and the girls to my house for a barbeque. The sign of the zodiac is overwhelming to individual who has lived in an apartment their whole life. I remembered the beginning time St. David and Mary had invited me in. The house has slightly more than eight yard square feet and has high ten foot ceilings.

Saint David and Mary collected antique piece of furniture and they filled the house with it. The girls were excited and wanted a tour. Katie was amazed at the size of my master chamber press. She said it was bigger than her and Tara's bedroom. When we finished the circuit Megan looked at me and said with a leery tonus,"The proprietor must pay you pretty secure to hold care of this place."

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

From my back porch Megan and I sat and watched the girlfriend swim while we talked. She was very easy for me to talk to. She sat and listened as I told her floor of the girls helping me during the day while she was at employment. She told me that she was trying to find a job that paid More money but so far she hadn't any luck.

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

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

"Megan, would you be interested in being my office director ?"I threw out a salary sum that made her jaw drop. It was the Lapp measure that Madonna Ted Williams had paid me to take care of everything and I thought it was fair.

She said,"Are you kidding ? That's three clock time what I make now !"She looked at me with a confused facial expression and said,"Saint James the Apostle why are you being so decent to me ?"

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

I told Megan,"The number 1 day we met I saw the sad looks on Katie and Tara's fount and I realized you needed someone to impart you a break. I had to do something."

I then looked at my fundament took a bass uneasy breath and said,"And I was hoping you would go out on a appointment with me."

"Oh my god it's about time you asked me. I was beginning to think you didn't like me. Of form 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 sleeve around my neck and gave me a hug and a osculation. She kissed me again and I felt her jaw relax and our tongues take on. I held her around the waist and we kissed for quite a while.

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Katie

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

Tara said,"It's about fourth dimension ! We have to be extra good and extra nice and not bodge it for Mom."

"Ya,"I said,"I kinda like it here. It's dependable than all of the other place we've lived and Mister 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 affect her and her daughters so I said,"I'd like to take you and your girl out to dinner at Antonio's."

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

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

I pulled my car up in front of her apartment and went to the room access and knocked. Megan opened the threshold and I stared at her in awe. She was dressed in a white evening robe that was showing a lot of cleavage. The floor distance dame was split on the side to the mid thigh. It was a hackamore style frock that didn't have a binding to it.

I must have stared at her breasts for a long time because when I looked back at her face 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 miss behind her giggling. They were dressed in very cute lily-white small girl garb. Tara had a yellow medallion 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 girlfriend,"They won't leave me alone until I thank you properly for being so sort to us."

She reached her arms around my waist and gave me a hug and a big kiss on the lips. The all time we kissed I could discover the girls giggling.

I pulled into valet parking and we got out. I had a feeling of pride walking with Megan. All of the man's and other couples were looking at Megan. She was stunning in her surgical gown. We walked into the eating place with Katie pushing her mom to walk close to me. Megan took my arm and held me close.

This was St. David and Mary's darling eating place and we ate here almost every weekend. They were good friends with the possessor and I was introduced to them and we became good friends.

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

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

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

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

The interior of the eatery was impressive. It had an old populace medieval flair to it with XX foot high ceilings, massive oak ray and expectant stone fireplaces. The girls were impressed as they walked in front man of us with their mouths open looking at the frustrate brand and cuticle that adorn the walls. Our mesa was close to the main fireplace on a quite an side of the elbow room away from the kitchen.

The maître d'seated Megan and two waiters helped the daughter with their monumental oak hot seat. Megan looked at the carte du jour and leaned close to me and whispered,"This stead is expensive !"

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

I ordered appetizers and a bottle of wine for Megan and me and two Shirley temple for the fille. The girls were excited when they saw their drinks come in fancy grown-up glasses. I could differentiate this was a new experience for them so I helped the girls decide on what to order for dinner.

The solid food is expensive but they took no cutoff. All the food for thought was prepared when it was ordered. Not like some restaurants that just warm it up when it's ordered. The food generally took about an hour but it was always well worth the wait and very good.

Megan and the girls had a smile on their boldness the whole night. It warmed my heart watching them being pampered by the eating place staff. Katie and Tara true to constitute acted like piddling lady 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 shoulder.

I walked Megan and the girls back up to their apartment doorway. She opened the threshold and Katie pushed her mom toward me again and under her breathing space said,"buss him Mom."then both of them ran into the flat.

She was a small tipsy from the wine as she smiled and wrapped her implements of war around my neck. She rubbed her breast into my chest as she gave me a very long passionate osculation. She said,"Thank you for the dinner party James. I had a very lovely time."

The wine was giving me supernumerary courage and I said,"I can't remember when I've had a intimately time."I held her around the waistline and looked her in the optic and said,"I really don't want the even to end."

She grinned and whispered,"Give me a couple of min to get the girls in bed."

When we got back to my star sign I asked,"Do you want something to pledge ?"

She said,"No, I really want another term of enlistment of the house."

She took my deal and led me to my master sleeping accommodation. She walked over to the bed and sat me down on it. She backed up a dyad of steps and put her hands behind her cervix and undid the clutches that held her dress hempen necktie together.

She slowly brought her hands holding the halter between her thumb and finger to the social movement of her neck. She had been watching me with a big smile on her face the whole metre. She released her clasp on the hackamore and it took the dress all of one irregular to slew down over her refined figure and hit the floor. I was in shock ! She looked incredibly beautiful standing there in just her white bikini panties.

I looked at her for a few mo as I could feel my heart throb in my pharynx. I felt my face blush and quickly looked down at my fundament. I'd had a erection ever since Megan gave me the undecomposed nighttime kiss at her apartment. I was beginning to get skittish and started to stir. I had only made love life to one other girl and that was in my senior year of high school day over fifteen days ago. We did it in the dark so this is the beginning naked female that I have ever seen.

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

I said in an mortifying susurration,"I'm a little skittish and I'm not sure what to do."

She took my hands in hers and asked,"When's the last time you made sleep together ?"

I said,"highschool school."

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

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Megan

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

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

He was still shaking as I removed his dress in a dim bewitching manner. I wanted him to get used to my touch so we stood there kissing while I slowly rubbed his vertebral column. I couldn't find his member 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 nervousness and breathing expectant with his weapon around me. I gently pushed him onto the bed on his back. I removed my panties and lay down beside him. He made no move toward me so I reached down and took his carpus and guided his hand to my breast. James River began to calm down and stopped shaking. I started rubbing his chest and gradually moved my hand lower and lower. I didn't want to startle him so I whispered,"I'm going to have-to doe with his phallus and stroke it."

His breathing stopped as I touched him and he began breathing out a slow ragged groan. With his lack of womanly contact I knew he couldn't take much to a greater extent of this so I quickly moved on top of him and placed his penis inside me. I slid him in all the way as we both moaned.

It has been Thomas More than six calendar month since I was with a man so I was tight. 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 feel good."

His rosehip began moving up and down to match my drive. Soon his replete 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 chest and we hugged. I whispered,"Oh that felt sooo undecomposed. Thank you."

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

Megan is a very devise someone and soon had the situation running better than I ever had. I wasn't very good at communicating with people and probably lost ten percent from tenant not paying their rip. She was more forceful than I was in collecting the economic rent and was collecting all of it the very first month that she was on the job. That in it's self paid her remuneration.

That first night that Megan and I made love was wonderful. She was so variety, understanding, and gentle. We continued making love and she showed me more positions and ways to increase our pleasance. Soon she and the girls were staying at my house on the weekends. Megan and I stayed in the master bedroom and Katie and Tara stayed in the downstairs invitee bedroom.

The back story of the house has four bedrooms, a turgid den, and two privy. I seldom went upstairs and it smelled musty. I wanted each of the girls to have their own bedroom when they stayed on the weekends. With the help of Megan and the girls we redecorated the upstairs painting the rampart in the girl's favorite people of color, bought new linen, and curtains and I had new carpet installed.

The girls started schooling and I lost my assistant. I missed them and it took some clip to get used to them not being there everyday. With Megan working in the office in my family she soon took over looking after the house. She began cooking supper for us and doing a lot of my inside job.

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

Both of the fille were B and C students mostly because Megan didn't have the time to help them with their school employment. I knew they were smart and I knew they could do better. With the spare clip Megan and I had we tutored them and helped them with their homework and projects. Katie and Tara were excited and we were majestic when they both brought home plate straight A news report plug-in.

The afternoon before Thanksgiving Day I sat in the kitchen and watched as Megan and the daughter's baked pies and cookies. Megan is a very good cook and prepared one of the upright Thanksgiving Day dinners that I could remember. The mansion had a festal air about it that I hadn't seen since David was alive.

After dinner the young woman were in the living way watching a motion-picture show while Megan and I sat together in the den by the fire blank space sipping after dinner party beverage. The warm glow of the fire was the alone light in the room while Bing Harry Lillis Crosby's White Christmas softly played. Outside a lenify C fell lit only by the street lamps.

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

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

I had a nine foot Xmas tree delivered and when the girls came base from school and saw the tree they squealed. I strung the tree diagram with over three thousand miniature clear lights and I sat and watched as Megan and the female child trimmed the tree diagram with all sorts of ornaments. I would hook one of the little girl occasionally so they could pose an ornament at the top of the tree.

Megan and the girls put pine garland and lights on the step railing, fireplaces, and decorated the eternal sleep of the planetary house in a Victorian style. I strung luminousness on the exterior of the house and decorated the G with candy canes and Kriss Kringle and his reindeer.

I loved the girls as much as I loved Megan, they were so affectionate. One of my preferred times is Friday night when Megan and the missy would spend the night. We would eat dinner party and then sit in the family way and watch over a movie. Before the movie the daughter would make a tub.

When they finished their bathes, they would run to me and jump on my lap and yield me hugs and osculation. They would nestle up to me one on each incline and we would watch the movie until bedtime. The feeling of their small daughter easy lay was intoxicating. They treated me just like I was their natural Father.

I had special plan for Christmas and wanted Megan and the girls to spend the Nox Yuletide Eve. Christmas daybreak came early as it always does with young children. I went a little overboard on the girls buying them cycle, a computer, cellphone phones, i-pods, the latest x-box, a lot of clothes, and toy. Megan just shook her pass and said,"Where are we going to put all this poppycock ?"

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

She said,"You didn't get very many nowadays. I wish I had a lot of money to buy you peck of gracious things."

I smiled at both of the miss sitting on the floor by the Christmas tree,"My valued precious backer, your love, hugs, and buss are the with child endowment you could ever move over me."With that they both jumped up and catch me around the neck and gave me the smashed hug ever. I think they loved me as much as I loved them.

I gave Megan a few inexpensive gift saving the advantageously two for the end when everyone was finished reveal gifts. With everyone watching I reached into my robe scoop and handed Megan a long slender box about the sizing of box that a watchband would come in knowing that she would adopt I had bought one for her.

When she opened the box her mouth dropped open and the girls 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 keys to a car,"she answered.

I smiled and cocked my head toward the social movement room access. She jumped up and moved to the front room access while keeping her eyes on me saying,"No, you didn't !"

She pulled the drapery back and saw the brand name new SUV in the private road with a big red bow on it. With all the screaming the girls 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. give thanks You James ! I love you."

With the four of us in one great big group hug I knew it was time to apply her the last present. I stepped back a span of steps and said,"I have one more than present for you."

I reached in my pocket and pulled out a 3 column inch square box, about the sizing of box a mob would come in. Everybody knew what was coming next. The girls 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 message. I got down on one stifle and looked at the girlfriend and asked,"With your daughter's permission."I then looked up to Megan,"Will you marry me ?"

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

It took Megan a few seconds to witness her voice but to me it seemed like an eternity. She grabbed me by the collar and pulled me up to her screaming,"Yes ! Yes !"

Christmas day was shaping up to be the best 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 digit. We kissed for a few seconds before we were distracted by the girls. They suddenly realized all of the gifts they received this morning and tore into the boxes that they came in.

Megan said,"Girls ! girlfriend ! We need to get dressed so we can guide this stuff and nonsense back to the flat, most of the things need to be set up and programmed."

Both girlfriend grabbed their new cell telephone and started hammering on the key launchpad 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 elbow room as she was busy fully examining her new diamond engagement ring."James it's so beautiful and big ! It must feature toll you a fortune."

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

We walked into the bedchamber and closed the door. Megan stopped and turned to me and gave me a strong hug and a very passionate osculation. After several seconds I broke the kiss and said,"The young lady are going to be banging on the threshold any minute."

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

She gave me another kiss as she rubbed her breasts into my breast. I was getting an erection as I wondered if Megan would think of some new way to make love to me.

A sad empty feeling all of a sudden hit me. Megan and the fille would be going back to her apartment tonight. I had thought on several social function about asking her to move into the house permanently with me. With her accepting my matrimony marriage proposal I thought now was as good of time as any to ask her.

"Megan, why don't you and the girls move into the star sign permanently with me right now ? There's a lot to a greater extent room here and you're already here most 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 sensation. I know the girl will be happy here and we need the extra room because of all the presents you got them."

As we were getting dressed I asked,"Megan where do you require to take your new SUV on its maiden voyage ?"

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

She thought for a consequence,"Let's learn it to exhibit my Mom and Dad. Mom will want to see my ring and Dad will want to see his new son-in-law to-be."

We ate a low-cal breakfast knowing we were having a wide-cut Yuletide turkey dinner party this afternoon with all of Megan's family.

I dangled the key to Megan's new SUV in front 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 jackets and headed out the door. It was a frigid crisp morning, overnight it had been snowing lightly and there were a duet of inches of new pure clean snow covering the foot or so of snow from previous snow falls.

The beautify spruce Tree in the yard looked tranquil and peaceful as the lights twinkled from under the snow covered tree branch. Megan said,"James I'm so nervous this is the first marque new car I've ever owned or driven."

"Just make it easy and easy,"I said,"it will drive just like my pickup truck."

I walked to the driver's door and opened it for her and said,"Get in and bulge it. Let it warm up up while you look at everything. I'll get the girls seat belted in and take aim the Dec 25 bow off."

I got a snow thicket out of my hand truck and brushed most of the snow off the SUV as I watched her closely examining the splasher. I slid in the rider side and watched Megan as she continued to study everything. She had the defroster on but it was a cold dawning and she was holding her weaponry as she shivered.

I said"There's a seat quick button on the side of your backside next to the power place controls."

She giggled like a school female child as she pressed the hindquarters tender button and played with the exponent rear end control. I looked in the book binding seat at the female child and said,"What do you think ? Do you like it ?"

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

Katie asked,"Does it have a TV ?"

I said,"It sure does."

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

It was early in the forenoon so the dealings was extremely lighter. Megan had both hands on the direction wheel and was cruising along just under the speed limit.

A dyad of auction block away from the firm we passed an flat complex and I noticed a Young child probably about Tara's age sitting on the front whole tone of one of the apartment. As we got closer I noticed that it was a young miss still dressed in her pj's. She was wearing a pelage that was too big for her and she was sitting with her knee up tight to her body holding her branch with her branch. Her chin was resting on her knees and she seemed to have a sad disappointed face on her face.

I thought to myself that her family was probably wretched and she didn't get what she wanted for Christmastime. I sighed as I thought back to my childhood and remembered a duo of Christmastide'when the only presents I got were used apparel and maybe a single cheap toy.

One Christmas I sat and watched as my Stephen Collins Foster parents cancel Kyd opened introduce after represent getting three or four metre as practically 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 to see even at that young age that some of my foster parents took a lot better care of their own nipper then they did the Stephen Collins Foster children entrusted into their care.

As we passed her Megan snapped me out of my trance by placing her hand gamy on my thigh and said,"This is the good Christmas 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 front of her parent's small creaky theater and honked the horn before we got out. I had been here before and seen that because of a lack of money the planetary house was in need of a lot of care. Megan's father George didn't have a high school diploma and therefore spent his whole life as a laborer. The heavy lifting he was required to do finally caused him a backrest accidental injury a few years ago. They were living on a small-scale handicap check and the money Megan's mom Linda made as a waitress.

George and Linda opened the front room access and the girls ran to their grandparents and gave them squeeze and kisses. George V was a very nice man a piddling on the short incline. He walked a little bent over with a fragile limp from his disability. He was skinny, almost fallible 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 Xmas from James."

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

Megan began jumping up and down and said,"Ya mom tangible life-threatening !"as she began flashing her meshing hoop at her. Both women were squealing and began hugging and jumping up and down.

George shook my hand and said,"praise James and welcome to the family."

I barely got out the countersign ‘ thanks'when Linda began tip-toeing through the nose candy with outstretched arms to give me a hug. She was a very attractive woman with a small-scale anatomy, probably in her early fifties. She was thin but not weedy, her peignoir was open and I watched her braless boob bouncing quite nicely as she tip-toed through the nose candy towards me. The cold weather had made her nipples rock heavy and I could feel them through my shirt as she hugged me.

We went inside and talked for a few minutes while the girls opened their Christmastide presents from George III and Linda. Megan at my goading had invited her phratry including her buddy and sis and their families to Xmas dinner party at our house.

On the drive nursing home when we passed the apartment complex I looked to the apartment footstep where I had seen the young girlfriend 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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Mary

My name is Blessed Virgin and I'm nine years old. I don't remember my material parent's. My first memory is being in Saint Catherine's Orphanage. Once when I asked one of the Sister's about my mother she said she gave me up for acceptance when I was very youthful. I asked her why she gave me up but she didn't know. I often think about why my genuine mother gave me away. Had I been a bad baby ? Or maybe she didn't want to, or couldn't take precaution of me for some unknown ground. I tried real hard to retrieve what she looked like but there just isn't any memory of her.

I've been in and out of three different Stephen Foster homes and I've been living at this firm for about a year and a one-half. I have a step Sister and a tone brother who are both quondam than me. My measure mother is divorced so I don't have a measure father but she has a boy friend that comes by, usually at Night.

My pace Sister and sidekick are mean to me. They push me around and they are always getting me into trouble. They make me do a lot of their chores when I get nursing home from school before my step mother gets home from body of work. If I don't do what they say they make up a floor and I get yelled at and made to do duplicate work. If I protest my whiteness my step mother just screams at me flash and usually spanks me. I've learned that it is better to not say anything and just take the penalisation.

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

schoolhouse isn't much better all the kids tease me and promise me"Orphan Madonna"because my apparel are so old and out of date. 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 front of the early youngster because they call me teachers pet.

Christmas has always been a disappointment for me. When I was unseasoned and believed in Santa Claus I would be additional good before Christmas but to no avail. When I didn't get the matter I wanted my step parents would blame me for not being good. After I learned the Sojourner Truth about Santa I realized it was my foster parents that gave out the nowadays.

I woke early this Christmas cockcrow waiting by the basement doorway for the others to wake up. When I heard them I went to the living room where the tree diagram was set up and sat down on the floor in the recess out of the way. There were a lot of nowadays under the tree and I tried to read the name calling on them but from my billet I couldn't see them clearly.

My step mother began handing out the presents giving my step brother and sister three each before I finally got one. When the present were all handed out we all started tearing off the paper to reveal there contents. I saved the present that had the most promise of being the dear one and opened the others. All the nowadays I received were used apparel except for a package of new wind cone and panty. I was careful to say thank you to my tone mother after I opened each stage.

I stopped for a here and now to take in the others opening their presents. It was champaign to see the conflict in their presents compared to mine. I sighed and slowly opened my last present finding a new stuffed teddy bear. I was sad to see the way I was treated compared to the others, they clearly got more and meliorate presents than I did.

After I cleaned up the Christmas wrap I began to think about my real mother again and was hoping she would find me and come deliverance me. I day-dreamed about how she would be rich and lavish me with all kinds of expensive presents.

I didn't flavour like going down to my room so I put on my jacket and went international still day dreaming about my genuine mother. I sat on the front steps and watched a few cars going by hoping that one of them was my real mother. I sat there until I started getting frigidness 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 frigidity any Thomas More and went inside.
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James

I was in the study hooking up the new computer while Megan and the young lady were working on the Christmas dinner party in the kitchen. I had tasted Megan's turkey dinner on thanksgiving and the smell coming from the kitchen was driving me crazy. I heard some talking coming from them in the kitchen and then their representative went to a voicelessness.

I looked up and saw the fille come into the library with good face on the faces followed by Megan who had a huge smiling on her nerve. The girls walked over to me and it was evident that they had something very important to say to me. They stood in silence for a few seconds then Tara poked Katie and whispered,"Ask him."

Katie had a attentive look on her brass as she seemed to be searching for the rightfulness words to say.

"Mr Henry James your going to marry 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 live here with you, right ?"

I answered,"Yes"

"well if you're going to marry Mom and we're going to live with you that makes you our new Padre, right ?"

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

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

Both missy had a nervous look in their oculus. Megan had rip of joy running down her cheeks as she smiled at me. I was at a exit for words. I was so glad and I didn't think I could speak without my vocalization cracking so I held out my arms for them to give me a hug.

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

I thought to myself about how golden I was that Megan wanted to splice me. She was a beautiful, ache, sexy woman who was also a not bad cook and I was going to spend the sleep of my life with her. As an summate bonus I would also get to share in Katie and Tara lives as they grow into beautiful untested dame. spirit couldn't possibly get any improve than this.

The female child watched me as I finished setting up the computer.

Megan said,"Come on girls, we have thing to do in the kitchen."

I got up and followed them into the kitchen. Megan had been teaching the girlfriend how to cook for sometime and today one of their jobs was to pee-pee a cake from scratch. I sat at the tabular array and watched them carefully measuring the ingredients. Megan was meddlesome with other things but would look over and commit them Word of encouragement. They put the patty in the second oven to bake and started making the frosting.

When they finished with the icing, Katie grabbed a houseclean spoon and took some frosting from the bowl and held the spoon out to me and said,"pop would you like a gustatory perception ?"

It was the start prison term that she actually called me pappa. A wave of emotion came over me and I was blinking fast to keep the tears from running down my buttock. I took the spoon and tasted. It was maple flavor and I thought it tasted real in effect."Girls that's the near ice I've ever tasted."

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

Megan's family arrived deep good morning and the house was a buzz of bodily function. Everyone congratulated us on our engagement and welcomed me to the family. Katie and Tara disappeared upstairs with their full cousin and we only saw them again at dinner.


Christmastide dinner party with all the trimmings was the unspoilt I ever tasted. During dinner when the young lady were listening I made a big deal about how pleasant-tasting the mantrap and cake that they prepared were. The young lady were well-chosen and proud telling everyone that they made it.

After dinner we exchanged gifts and then the men settled down in the keep elbow room to watch the football secret plan while the ladies talked in the kitchen. George and Linda were the last to leave and I blew out a long sigh as I closed the room access behind them. It had been a long day, the missy 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 sexy red push-up bra and pair panty. Covering everything was a webby white gauze-like 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 nitty-gritty of the bedroom to give her a hug and candy kiss. As we kissed her arms went around my back into the waistline band of my boxer and she squeezed my publicize ass face. I felt my shortstop slowly move down my legs as Megan began kissing my bureau getting lower and lower with each kiss.

She was now kneeling on the story and I watched as she slowly licked the position of my penis. She held her tongue out and I felt it slide along the bottom of my beam as she closed her lips around it. I placed my manpower on her head as she slowly slid her lips back and forth not once did she stop licking on the undersurface of my penis.

The feeling was incredible with her quick soft knife seemed to make out where to touch it to give me the most pleasure. After a few minutes I warned her that I was cumming but she held my ass brass tight and looked at me nodding her favorable reception. I released snap after barb of warmly cum into her mouth.

Her hand went to my shaft and she milked the end of my cum into her mouth. She stood and pushed me back to the bed and I sat down. She slowly did a exotic dancer removing the articles of clothing one at a time. By the time she finished I was fix for more natural 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 love to me until we fell asleep naked in each others arms.

Megan wanted a winter wonderland wedding so we were married in late Feb. We had a pocket-sized wedding with about twenty people in attendance. Megan wore a beautiful lacy off white wedding dress with a Stanford White fur stole. The brides maiden wore very light tan attire with a darker fur stole, which made Megan's fit out aspect even whiter.

Katie and Tara stayed with Megan's parents while we flew to the Caribbean for our honeymoon. We stayed in a honeymoon bungalow at one of those ‘ couples only'all inclusive recourse. Our enceinte private cottage had a hot tub and a small syndicate on the terrace overlooking the beach.

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

I teased her,"I don't know I'll have to spend the whole meter shank oceanic abyss in the water. Sure go ahead I don't mind."

Megan's eyes lit up as she reached for the cosmic string on her top. She was the mother of two but her trunk still looked commodity. 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 pectus out proudly for all to see.


It was ahead of time April and I was out front fixing a broken window on one of the flat. It was about two-thirty in the afternoon and the school day nipper were walking by on their way abode. 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 year old.

It looked like three girls picking on another missy. She was walking on the sidewalk with her head down and trying to neglect the girls picking on her. One of the three girls was pushing her from behind and then she pushed her real firmly and the lone girl fell to the sidewalk.

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

They ignored me and kept walking. I walked to the girl who was still sitting on the sidewalk sobbing and I helped her to her invertebrate foot. She held her head word down and didn't look at me when I asked,"Are you OK ?"

She nodded yes and I got a little 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, with her head down.

It reminded me of myself when I was about that age. I just transferred into a new schooltime and a crowd of boys, some of whom were in my stratum took it upon them selves to stool my biography miserable. I tried to earn friends with them but they cut me down calling me ‘ orphan boy'and always picked on me.

I followed the fille at a aloofness back to the broken windowpane 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 same female child I saw sitting on the steps on Christmastide sunrise when we drove to George and Linda's star sign.


The next week Katie and Tara's schooling was having ‘ parent lunch day ’. Parents were invited to the shoal to eat dejeuner with their shaver. Both girls ate lunch at the Lapplander 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 manus and said,"Hi daddy."

Each class stayed in line of merchandise at the dejeuner comeback and then sat at the Sami hanker table with the teacher sitting at the end. Sitting next to the teacher was the lady friend that I saw last week getting picked on. I looked at Tara's early class mates and saw the three fille that were picking on her. I bent down to Tara's ear and whispered,"Who's that girl sitting next to your teacher ?"

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

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

concluding class I told Megan that I was an orphan and about my childhood but the girls didn't know anything about my puerility. I thought now would be a dear fourth dimension to secernate the girls.

I sat the miss down and state them that I was an orphan and about my puerility. I didn't clench anything back, I told them about being dragged away from my foster parents, being picked on by the mean small fry at school, and not having any acquaintance.

Both Katie and Tara were sobbing. After I finished my tarradiddle 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 duration, looked her in the middle and said,"Mary hasn't done anything wrong and she really needs a friend."

A few twenty-four hours later, Tara came into the living room after schoolhouse to talk to me. She said,"Daddy, I've tried talking to Mary a few times but she doesn't seem to want to sing to me or be friends. What should I do ?"

"Just give her some time."I answered,"It will take some clip for her to trust you."

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

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

She came base from school with a big grinning and said,"Mary is going to ask her foster mother if she can stay this weekend."

The following day when Megan picked up the girls, Mary rode with them to her flat to get her dress. The girl got habitation and Mary walked into the sign and looked around in admiration. She said to Tara in a low voice,"This is your house ?"

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

I shook her hired hand and said,"hi The Virgin my name is James."

Tara said,"Come on let 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 Virgin Mary was abandon as an infant at the Catholic orphans' asylum. When the nuns named a child they always choose a biblical name.

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

After dinner party I asked the girls,"Do you require to go see a movie ?"They said yes and we picked out the latest Walter Elias Disney movie and left. After the moving picture we stopped at the local ice cream store for a goody. When we got household it was our normal weekend bedtime so the lady friend headed up to their rooms.

Megan said as they headed up the stairs,"Don't stay up too late."

Megan and I lay in bed and talked for awhile. I told her about some of the matter that I noticed about The Virgin and related them to my childhood.

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

I thought for a consequence and said,"She needs a boost in confidence."

We lay in silence for a few minutes and Megan said,"I know we'll take then shopping at the shopping mall tomorrow and buy Mary a nice frock and then take them to the hair salon."

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

At breakfast Megan broke the news to the girls that we were going shopping at the mall and they were going to get their hair fixed at the salon. The Virgin is a very jolly girl. She has darkness brown articulatio humeri length hair with bangs that touch her beautiful brown centre. Her hair's-breadth is uneven in places which makes me think that her Stephen Foster female parent last-place cut it.

At the beauty parlour, they all had their hair washed and trimmed and they had manicures with the daughter picking their favorite color nail polish. They were in the beauty parlour for about two hr so I walked around looking in stores while I waited for them. We left the salon and I told the girls that I was going to take them to Antonio's for dinner and we needed to rule Mary a nice garb.

They spent a couple Thomas More hours going in and out of the apparel shop class looking while I sat on a bench on the mall and observe the fairly fille walking by. After they left the last shop I asked Madonna,"Have you seen anything that you like ?"

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

It was a fairly rap knee length dress with a white lace sash that tied in the backrest with a bow. We brought the dress to the register and paid. Mary seemed to be excited about the apparel and dinner. She had a big smiling on her face and her eyes were sparkling.

On the way nursing home I listened to Katie and Tara tell Mary all about Antonio 's. Mary was excited and queasy saying,"I've never been to a fancy eating house. I don't know what to do."

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

The young woman's spent the rest period of the afternoon getting ready. I was dressed for dinner and waiting in the living room for the ladies when I heard the girls coming down the step and Katie said,"pappa, we're ready."

I looked and saw three beautiful fille walking down the whole tone. Katie was wearing a gracious dark blue wearing apparel with a Stanford White choker and white shoes. Tara had on a powder blue dame with a tweed sweater. Mary looked very pretty in her pink apparel. She was looking me straight in the eye, her eyes were sparkling and she was smiling from ear to ear. There had been a huge variety in her from that sad short miss I saw sitting at the dinner mesa 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 knee joint distance dress. The apparel 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 have stopped traffic or at the very least have and stroke. I gave her a wolf whistle and said,"Wow Megan you look very beautiful."

She smiled and said,"Thank you James IV 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 pass where she slightly crossed her foundation as she stepped. With her richly dog on it made her ass move side to side in a very seductive way, I felt my penis begin to stir.

I looked in front of us at two male high shoal man who had their eyes fixed on Megan. As we walked by Megan smiled at them and said,"hullo boys."Neither one of them could mouth they just stood there with their back talk hanging open but one of them managing to nod his nous at her. Megan pulled me nigh to her, she giggled as she whispered into my ear,"I wonder what those son will be doing in their seam tonight."

There were various couples waiting in the lobby as we walked in. As soon as Michael saw us he motioned to us to come forward. We greeted each former and he asked,"Table 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 Madonna's ear and told her something and they both began to giggle. I remembered Megan telling me a patch back that Tara had a crushed leather on one of the waiters that worked here.

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

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

jimmy stood behind Tara's chairperson seating her and said,"Hello fille Tara, you look very beautiful this evening."

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

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

They all left leaving jemmy standing next to Tara waiting for me to order boozing. Megan looked at Tara who seemed to be in a dream reality staring at jemmy."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,"Hello young lady Mary it's very courteous to meet you."

I ordered the little girl ducky appetizers, a bottle of wine-colored, and looked at the girls and asked,"Shirley tabernacle ?"

Katie and Tara quickly nodded yes but Blessed Virgin had no idea 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 close attending to all three lady friend bringing them what ever they asked for promote intensifying the crushes they had on him. It was nice to take in Mary, who was all smiles, get out of her shell. Megan and I could tell she was enjoying herself by the amount of eye contact lens she made and by all of the talking she was doing.


The play along week Megan got a call from the school. Tara had been in a fight and we needed to go talk to the principal. We walked into the place and I saw Tara, Virgin Mary, and the three girls who were picking on The Virgin sitting in chair against the wall. I had a pretty good idea what the battle was about.

We went into the corpus's office and introduced ourselves and sat down. The head said,"The five girlfriend were at recess and they began fighting and pulling each others hair."

Megan apologized for Tara's behavior.

I told the principal in a very stern voice,"I witnessed those three girls picking on Mary a few weeks ago off school curtilage and Tara was probably sticking up for her."

The principal answered,"Yes, that is a possibility but for the guard of all the small fry I can not allow any fighting in this school day. All five students will go home with their parents today and will be suspended for one day. You must discourage Tara that any far fight 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 woman.

After I calmed down a picayune and we were on the way home Megan said to Tara while she looked at me,"The principal is correct Tara ; you can not solve your job by fighting. soul always loses a engagement and that someone will start another fight making matter worse until someone gets hurt. In the future the effective affair to do is to walk away and enjoin your teacher."

When we walked into the star sign Tara went to the couch and plopped down folding her blazon in front of herself. Megan sat on the frame 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 the right way affair protecting Mary, but fighting is dangerous and you could get hurt. We're just looking out for you trying to save you safe."

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

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

The next day after Megan picked the daughter up from schooling she told me,"Tara is very upset. She said Madonna was beaten by her foster mother."

"Beaten ? How badly ?"

"I'm not trusted, Tara said her rear 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 disregard what Tara told me. When I drop the fille off for school tomorrow I'll talk of the town to the principal. He seems concerned for the student's eudaemonia. He can have the school suckle look at her."

The next day after the school day nursemaid examined The Virgin our whip fears were confirmed. It appeared she had been struck respective metre on her back, tail end, and the binding of her legs with a blunt object. The police were called and The Virgin was removed from school day and brought to the local hospital to be examined further.

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

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

"Honey,"I said pulling her onto my lap,"Social Services will bring her to the orphans' asylum until she can be placed in another Stephen Foster home."I could see the cogwheel turning in her top dog, she was thinking of a way to help Virgin Mary.

"papa, can you and mom be foster parents ?"

I have to allow in I had thought about the possibility of taking concern of her yesterday when I heard that she was beaten. I looked at Megan to try and learn a mansion as to her tactile sensation on the matter. I looked back at Tara and said,"I don't know Tara your mother and I will have to let the cat out of the bag about it."

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

"Please Mom ; I don't want to miss my admirer. They'll probably put her in a foster home that's worse than the one she's in now. She'll have to deepen schools and start all over making friends. Please Mom please."

Virgin Mary is a sugared young woman and I was feeling tightness in my chest. After listening to Tara beg and seeing how happy Blessed Virgin was staying with us for those two days I couldn't bare the idea of her being jerked around in the system. 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 tear ran down my face. I took a inscrutable breathing spell and looked at Megan.

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

Tara pulled her female parent by the hired man toward me and said,"Talk ! Talk ! Do you want me to leave ?"

That dark while lying in bed we talked. I said,"This is a farsighted term commitment she's ten years old and we'll be responsible for her until she's 18 or longer."

Megan sighed,"Yes I know it will be forever just like when the fille were born but she seems like a sweet young lady and it will be nice watching her growing up. Where do you remember she is rightfield now ?"

"Well, after she leaves the hospital they'll probably take her back to Saint Catherine's. They'll cognitive process her in and she'll be transferred to the school over there. She'll probably start schoolhouse on Monday."

"Oh the misfortunate girl."Megan said as she cuddled up slopped to my back,"She'll be the new kid again and will take in to set forth over trying to make friends."

"Yes I know all about it. I've been in her post ; it won't be light on her. Just so you know if we register as Stephen Foster parents and they find out how big of a home we have they'll be asking us to prevent Sir Thomas More small fry. I'm afraid to say what happened to Virgin Mary happens all the metre. You'll get a phone call and have to set another plate at the table for dinner. Sometimes it happens that fast."

We decided to fill out the paperwork and ingest it from there. The future sunrise we went to Social Services and put in the application. While there I saw a char that I knew from my days in the orphanhood that had placed me in Stephen Collins Foster rest home. I introduced myself to Mrs. Parker and she remembered who I was. I asked her if we could bring Tara to see Mary so she could say hi to her.

She smiled and said,"I can do effective than that James."She went to her desk and reviewed our application, calling the references we had listed and within one 60 minutes she was in her car following us to our house.

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

We showed her the rest of family and Tara's chamber where Virgin Mary would be sleeping until we could get the other upstair bedroom refinished.

She said,"James, Megan I don't see any problems with your applications programme. I am going to transfer Mary into my personal caution and I have no job with her spending the dark at her friend Tara's house until your applications programme is approved."

Megan looked at both of us in shock.

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

I don't know who was more excided, Megan or me. As we drove to the schooltime to pick up the missy so they could depend on with us to the orphanage Megan was talking about a million miles an hour.

"I'll have to take them shopping. I wonder what size she wears. I wonder when her natal day is. Do you think she gets sound grades in schooling ?"

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

We walked into the school place and made the asking to let Katie and Tara sent for early checkout. When the head teacher saw us he came over and talked with us. We told him that we had registered as further parents and were going to picking up The Virgin from the orphanage.

He shook our mitt and said,"I'm happy to see that, she needs to be looked after. It really infliction me when kid fall between the cracks and we can't do anything about it. As soon as I hear from mixer armed service I'll vociferation so you can amount in and claim care of the report work. In the mean time I'll put you down as her contact in case of emergency."

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

Tara looked put off and asked,"What do you signify 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 kisses from both of them.

On the way to the orphans' asylum I was beginning to get nervous. Over the old age 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 presence of the construction. I turned off the ignition and sat behind the cycle looking at the front door.

Megan sensing something was wrong enquire,"Are you ok ? Is something wrong ?"

I took in a thick nervous intimation and answered,"This place brings back bad memories to me. This is the first sentence I've been here in twenty years."

She got out of her seat and walked around the front line of the SUV and opened my door. She reached in and took my bridge player."come on, today you will hold happy computer storage about this place."

Megan sensing my soreness held my arm and forced me to walk to the threshold. When I opened the threshold and looked in, more deep strong emotions hit me. The interior of the building looked exactly the Same. Even the sounds and the tone coming from the building were the same.

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

She left and we sat in the waiting room. I had seen this elbow room several prison term during my childhood except I was always the one on the former end walking down the farsighted hall to the room wondering what my new foster parents looked like.

When Mrs. Parker and Madonna came into the waiting room the girls squealed and ran to her. Mrs. Bird Parker didn't Tell Mary who her new foster parents were so she was totally surprised to see us there.

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

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

Mrs. Yardbird Parker smiled and said,"Yes ”.

The excitement was too 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 dreams. Virgin Mary lost command of her emotions and cried uncontrollably on Tara and Katie's shoulders.

Mrs. Charles Christopher Parker quietly walked over to me and gave me a hug and whispered,"James you are a good man. This is the deary part of my job."

There wasn't a dry eye in the room. Megan knelt down and held her weapons system open. Mary ran to her and cried even harder on her shoulder joint. When she was somewhat recovered she opened her centre and I knelt down on one genu and held out my blazonry to give her a hug.

I held her tight in my arms and whispered into her ear,"There, there Mary you're safe now."

When she finished crying I held her at arms duration, looked her in the heart, 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 satisfy my new further parents."

Mary looked up at Mrs. Parker as she nodded her head yes. Madonna looked back at me and I continued,"I promise that you will never see this elbow room again. We will never send you back here. You can endure with us for the rest of your life."



writer note : The rest of the story is written in a narrative voice.



Mary smiled at Saint James the Apostle as her surprised eyes softened with love. She suddenly knew he understood her heart aching of being an unwanted unloved orphan. She began crying again and grabbed King James I hard around the neck. He held her tight around the waist with one arm and gently patted her shoulder joint with his other hand.

After a yearn few bit he loosened his grip expecting her to draw away but she didn't. She was still crying and held him pissed around the neck not wanting to let go.


He looked at Megan and saw Katie and Tara leaning against her, one on each side. All three of them had rip flowing down their impudence and their eyes were red and swollen. They were all smiling and it reinforced the impression that he had done the right affair fostering Virgin Mary.


King James I lowered his arm around Mary's bottom and stood with her tightly in his arms. She laid her headspring on his berm, wrapped her peg around his waist and he carried her out the front door of the orphanage to the SUV. When Megan opened the back door of the SUV he whispered into Blessed Virgin's ear,"Virgin Mary it's time to go home."


She loosened her hairgrip and rubbed her eyes. He set her down and she stepped into the SUV. They put her few meager holding in the book binding and started the drive home. All of the emotion and call had taken its toll on them ; they were all exhausted and didn't speak much on the way family.


James stopped the SUV in the driveway of the business firm and they all got out. He retrieved Blessed Virgin's belonging out of the back and followed the girls to the movement door. Tara was holding Madonna's bridge player as Megan unlocked the door and opened it. As Tara and Mary walked in Megan said,"Welcome place Mary."


She had a big smile on her boldness and said,"Thank you, I'm very felicitous that you'll let me dwell here."


St. James the Apostle took her belonging upstairs and set them down in Tara's way. He then took Virgin Mary's handwriting in his and said,"Mary ejaculate with me and let me render you something."


He opened the door across the hall from Tara's bedroom and walked in with Mary. The room smelled a fiddling musty from lack of use and there was some dust on the furniture. On the left over side of the room was an antique four Emily Post double bed with a matching night stand next to it. Against the right wall was a breast of drawers and a Daniel Chester French style self-love set with an oval mirror. In front line of them between the two tall double hung windowpane was an old geezer walnut tree pealing top secretarial assistant's desk.


James said to The Virgin,"As soon as we get it painted this will be your room. You can pick the colouration and what variety of drapery you want."


Mary was in shock and filled with surprise. Never in all of the Stephen Foster homes 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 ?"


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


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


She looked genuinely well-chosen with a Brobdingnagian grin on her font as she ran back to him and hugged his waist.


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


They all left for the home improvement computer memory where Mary with Megan's assistant picked the color of her elbow room and chose new carpet. James spent the remainder of the evening moving the furniture out of the room and cleaned and repaired the walls and trim in cookery for new paint and rug.


The next morning after breakfast Megan took all three girls shopping for new wearing apparel for Virgin Mary. Henry James stayed home and painted the elbow room and got it ready for the new carpet that would be arriving along with the installers in the early afternoon. The gentlewoman arrived back home late in the good afternoon about the Lapplander prison term the carpet installers left.


James opened the front door as all four of them walked up the sidewalk with both hand full of shopping bags. He was truly amazed at just what it took to outfit a girl with new wearing apparel. They set all of the purse down in the living room and he was given a manner show by a very delirious Mary.


The following day Megan and the little girl went shopping again. This metre they shopped for mantle, carpet, new sheets, and blankets for the bed. William James worked concentrated getting her way ready and it looked a piddling sparse with a lack of furniture and early personal item but Mary happily fell asleep in her new room Sunday night.


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

"Did she say why ?"James I asked.


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


That afternoon they both went to the shoal to pick up the girls. The young woman waited in the berth while Saint James the Apostle and Megan went to Tara and The Virgin's schoolroom. Their instructor greeted them with a grinning and a shake and said,"Come in. it's so gracious to see you again."


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


"Oh no, no,"she said,"Just the reverse. Mary is a very bright girl and she seems to be enjoying school and life in full general much Thomas More since you took over her care."


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


"You don't understand,"she continued,"Talking and working with Madonna throughout the school class I've discovered that she is gifted, bordering on genus. She can take at an eighth course or mellow floor and no affair what I give her to do she completes it with rest and now that her home life has improved considerably her erudition will accelerate."


Megan and James looked at each former dumbfounded and he was not sure what query to ask her so he said,"How should we address this ?"


"Blessed Virgin is in need of a challenge. Frankly she is bored in this class. You need to expose her to things that would be seize for someone who is in high school."


"Like what ?"Megan asked.


"Well to get with, Word. She is subject of reading hundreds of pages per day if she is concern in the field. A computer with an internet connectedness would also be helpful. There is computer software out there that teaches the user the fundamentals of a calculator. Mary is very capable of learning on her own."


"We have a large program library room and a electronic computer with an net connection."Megan said,"Anything else ?"


"Yes, maybe some computer form at night. One night a calendar week should be enough."She added."She is very occupy in computers but she only gets define photograph to the ones in our library."


They picked up the girls from the position and headed family. Tara asked,"What did our teacher say ?"


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


When they got home Virgin Mary set her book bag down and James II said,"Mary, please fall with me I want to demo you something."


St. James the Apostle and Virgin Mary went to the library and opened the doorway. He didn't go into this room very much but he thought that Mary would be spending quite a bit of clip in here. All four bulwark of the library were covered in drear solid cherry paneling with cherry red trim. Directly in front of them against the far outside rampart was a large fireplace flanked on either side by tall threefold hung Windows.

In front of the fireplace were two large Orion green wing chairman with matching ottomans and flooring lamps. Behind the chairperson and directly in movement of the door was a gravid mostly red oriental rug on which a rectangular oak research table sat with six matching oak chairs. The paries on both sides were filled from end to end with books about eight shelves high gear. James had estimated at least two thousand book of account were on the shelves.


Blessed Virgin 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 face at anything you want in here. But it will be your duty to keep this way clean and jerk and neat. Put the books back where you found them before you take more than off the shelf."


"Yes sir."she said as she walked to the ledger shelf and began reading the deed.


One of Jacques Louis David and Virgin Mary Williams'darling hobbies was collecting start variant books and reading. During other times in the library James River had glanced at some of the titles and knew that nigh all of the classic were in here plus a lot of titles that he had never heard of. He thought to himself that it would take young The Virgin a long time even at the charge per unit she could read to finish reading all the books in here.


It was a true joy living under the like roof with Mary. She instantly bonded with Jesse James following him around the flat building complex helping him whenever she could. When they watched television Madonna always chose to sit on James'lap.


One of Mary's front-runner times was when James came into her bedroom to tuck her in and kiss her goodnight. He would usually stay a few instant and tell her a story of his life growing up. The taradiddle were sometimes sad and The Virgin could sometimes relate his stories to her own past life story. When he finished they would hug each other and he would separate her that those sad meter were over and they now had each other. Mary fell asleep each Night with happy thoughts and always had unfermented dreams.


They didn't have to recount her to serve houseclean up around the house and flat ; she did her chore without whining or making a bustle.


***


One of Kimberly's favorite times of day was morning time when she walked to school with her booster. She looked out the plump for door and saw two of her ally already waiting on the benches in the midpoint of the flat composite. Kim quickly grabbed her schoolhouse knapsack said good bye to her mom and ran to join her acquaintance. When all five of them were there they slowly walked to school gossiping usually about the boys in their class.


Kim and her champion were all ten long time old and were in the Lapp fourth grade class.
She was a happy child with a caring mother and lots of good friends. Kim didn't have a Padre, it was just her and her mom. She had never seen him and her mom didn't say very much about him when she asked her about him.


Kim's mom had a good job and they lived in a nice two bedroom apartment in a different persona of the city. The flat coordination compound had quite a few kinsperson with children that Kim could play with. Kim had a skillful big bedchamber with fortune of fairly dress that filled her closet.


Kim's didn't agnize it at the time but her good life story changed one summertime day when her mom came home early from work. She was crying and in a terrible mood. Kim asked her mom what was haywire 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 alibi about her job performance and fired her on the spot.


Kim's mom tried for month to find another job of equalise pay but the economy was bad and she couldn't find one, not even for a less salary. Her mom was an orphan with no class to holler on in this sentence of crises so things started spiraling downhill at a fast pace.


She applied for and received welfare and solid food mold but it just wasn't enough to live on in the way that they were accustomed to.


Within a few months they had to move out of their nice apartment away from Kim's friends into a cheaper humble one sleeping accommodation flat in a not so squeamish neighborhood. Kim's mom used the simply bedroom so Kim's bedroom became a futon in the quoin of their small-scale aliveness room. The new simple school was too far and too life-threatening for her to walk to so she had to lease a shoal bus to schooltime.


A few calendar month later when Kim out grew her wearing apparel her mom had no other choice but to get her new ones from the Goodwill. The dress fit her ok but they were old and not in todays elan. Nobody, she thought to herself takes ‘ in style'clothes to the Goodwill.


Because of this, some of the intend girls started teasing her about her lack of panache and most of the others students fell in line with them and teased her. Kim's happy carefree life took a turn for the worse and she now felt sad and unfrequented most of the time. She became an outsider and a lone wolf support on the edge of the schoolhouse's social Order. She kept her point down and avoided others so she wouldn't have to run the endless teasing about her apparel and lack of fashion.


Kim's mom in desperation started hanging around in bars at nighttime hoping to find a companion that would help fill upkeep 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 daughter.


Some of the men were just looking for a one Nox stand and she found out quickly that she could deal her body to make extra money.


Some nights Kim would come together her middle and pretend to be sleeping when she heard the key slide into the lock of the apartment. She would listen and sneak a peek at her mom as she quietly escorted a man to her bedroom. Kim would hold back a few minutes and quietly pinch over to the bedchamber threshold and listen. She could get word the bed outflow squeaking and a lot of moaning and giggling coming from the bedroom. Kim listened to floor at schooling from the former kids and knew that they were having sex.


Kim found out that some of the men her mom brought home were grievous. 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 humble white meat and put his script between her legs. After that day Kim was careful not to get too close to them especially when they were drunk.


Kim's mom lost all of her own self respectfulness and began drinking heavily almost every day trying to forget her problems. In the sunup Kim would have to get herself dressed and grab the school bus while her mom lay passed out wino in bed. When Kim got rest home from school her mom would be just getting out of bed. She would get dressed nearly days and head teacher to the bar leaving Kim nursing home alone to stand for herself.


Most of their money went towards alcoholic beverage and beer so there was little or no intellectual nourishment in the house especially towards the end of the month so Kim relied on the food from the schooling cafeteria. It fell on Kim's shoulders to rinse her own dress, cook, and go along the apartment clean. She had to drive her mom to go to the grocery computer storage on the first of the month before she had a chance to sell her food stamps for cash to buy more alcoholic beverage.


Kim's living dragged on like this for five longsighted agonizing years. When she was xv and a sophomore in gamey shoal her animation, if that's possible, took a number for the worse. Her mom's five years of alcoholism was taking its toll on her body. She would often become spew spending days at a metre in bed. Kim tried to get her to go to a doctor to get some help but she refused. It became another of Kim's responsibleness to film care of her while she was sick.


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


She called the police and the coroner arrived and her consistence was removed from the apartment. During her consultation with the police she lied to them and said she had an aunt that she would go stay with. With no acquaintance or household to forebode Kim stayed in the apartment alone and returned to school after her mom's funeral.


Word had spread among the students at schooling that her mom had died and it didn't take long for one of the elder to take advantage of the billet and befriend her. Michael was a marvelous popular boy and Kim was well-chosen to have a young man and someone to spill the beans to.


When she first met him at school day he sincerely told her how good-for-nothing he felt about her mom's death, hugging her tightly. Kim had not received many if any squeeze in the past five years so with all the emotion bottled up inside her she began to cry on his berm.


After school she saw Michael again and he offered her a ride family in his car. She accepted the ride and invited him in when they got to her apartment. They talked for some meter and then Kim asked if he would drive her to the grocery store. She used all of her mom's food stamps to buy groceries not knowing when the eudaimonia department would view up on the paper oeuvre and cancel the score making the card useless.


The following month Kim checked the welfare and intellectual nourishment stamp history and was well-chosen and relieved that the money was deposited as usual. She once again had Michael take her to the foodstuff fund and spent most of the money on intellectual nourishment in case the public assistance department cancelled the account. She paid the monthly card with the checkbook forging her mom's key signature silently hoping that she wouldn't get caught and sent to jail.


Michael became a regular visitor at Kim's flat with her sometimes cooking him dinner. They would often sit on the couch after dinner and kiss, Kim even allowed him to touch her breasts. 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 penetrate her for the for the first time time. Kim thought to herself how gracious he had been to her and felt that she was falling in lovemaking with him. Michael continued telling her that he loved her and wanted to marry her as they made dear nighttime after night.


In deep May just a few days before Michael was to graduate from high gear school Kim thought she was pregnant. She thought to herself that she would quit school, marry Michael, move into a decent house and springy happily ever after. She decided to evidence Michael the ripe news after graduation that he was to be the father of her child. After the graduation party when they were alone in her apartment she told him that she was pregnant.


The grin left his fount as he said,"Who's the male parent ?"


Kim smiled and said,"You are silly."


He raised his articulation and said,"I can't be you must let slept with person else !"


His grimace filled with angriness and Kim quickly began to get scared. She had never seen that aspect on his fount before as he moved toward her. Kim was unsure of what he was going to do so she began to punt away from him. He grabbed her by the throat with both men and chocked her for a few sec before he slapped her and pushed her down hard to the floor."You fucking loose woman, I never want to see you again !"


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


Michael heard all of those words but never turned around to look at her as he opened the door and slammed it shut behind him. Kim sat on the floor where he had pushed her, she massaged her neck opening and cried as her dreaming of a glad life-time came crashing down around her.


The future day she tried to foretell him but he didn't answer his cell phone nor did he return her text subject matter. After two week of not returning her calls she decided to try and blab out to him in person. She took a bus to his house noticing as she walked down the sidewalk that his car wasn't there but she still decided to knock on the doorway.


His mother answered the doorway and smiled,"Yes, can I help you ?"


"Hello my epithet is Kim,"She answered,"can I speak with Michael please ?"


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


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


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


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


"No, it's not significant,"Kim lied to the woman as snag began welling up in her eyes,"Good bye."


She turned away and walked back to the sidewalk knowing she would birth to deal with her pregnancy on her own. Kim boarded the bus back to her apartment and began to formulate long ambit plans. She knew that eventually the wellbeing money would end and she would take in to tell someone that she was pregnant and alone.


Being a minor with no family she knew that she would be placed into the foster care system like her mom had been. Being pregnant she was shy if she would survive in Saint Catherine's orphanage or the woman's protection downtown. Her bus trip would accept her a distich of blocks from the shelter so she decided to get off the bus and see firsthand what the char's shelter looked like.


It was a enceinte, old, and dirty three story sandstone building that had seen its improve mean solar day. The first floor had very tumid windowpane but the second and third floor windowpane were smaller and closer together. She assumed that the upper berth two level was the dormitory where the women lived. The building was set back from the side walk a short aloofness allowing for a few small-scale trees and a small sitting arena in front of the building.


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


Two men sitting at a tabular array finish by her were wearing nasty smelling dirty apparel and she couldn't believe they hadn't washed their filthy men before they ate. She silently said a supplication to herself, ‘ Dear Jehovah please help me, I don't want to live in this place.'Just as she was about to depart she noticed a dainty looking woman smiling at her and she was walking across the dining way toward her.


***


A very sad time in Megan's biography was the few years before she met James. Her sorry good-for-nothing ex hubby was out of a job near of the time and she had to find former means to conserve what picayune money that she had. To carry through money she would often bring Katie and Tara to the women's shelter to feed them. The people who ran the shelter were very nice to Megan and her girls ; they even offered her a place to live if she ever wanted to leave her husband.


It was only natural after she married St. James that she came back to the shelter to volunteer and maybe help someone else who needed a prison-breaking. Some mean solar day she would help out in the child daycare, on other days she helped out in the kitchen and dining room. Megan arrived at the shelter that morning at about ten-o-clock and helped with the unloosen tiffin that they served every day.


Megan had just installed a full inset of food into the serving melodic phrase when she looked up toward the door. She didn't know why she chose that exact instant to face towards the door nor did she understand the king at employment conditioning her mind. She did a doubled issue as she noticed the beautiful teenage girl walk in. Megan thought that she had seen her somewhere before and the wheel were spinning in her mind trying to remember where that had been.


The stripling stepped through the doors and moved to the side out of the way of others that were coming and going through the room access. She scanned the elbow room looking unsure of herself, so Megan began walking toward the young lady to welcome her as one of the Volunteer did for her on her first visit to the protection. The stripling was frowning and Megan thought she saw the teen silently mouth the watchword ‘ lamb Almighty ’.


She couldn't block staring at the Young stripling face. She had dark browned berm distance hair, Robert Brown eyes… beautiful 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 people 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 teenager,"Hi'I'm Megan."


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


"Hello Kim is this the first time 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 vogue lunch counter. Megan walked with her and then stood behind the buffet and watched the hungry people filling their plates. She knew that for some of the people this would be their only repast of the day.


She didn't understand why but she continued looking at Kim sitting at a table eating her lunch. Megan studied her eyes, lips, and other features as she wondered where she had seen her before and wondered why such a sad young girl was eating a detached lunch here. Megan watched her as she finished her meal and brought her tray to the dish wash window.


Kim slowly moved around the room stopping to count at a bulletin board. She continued slowly walking pausing for a few moment to look down the open hall toward the administrative post in the back of the edifice. 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 path that Kim would take to exit. When she walked by Megan said,"Good bye Kim. You're welcome here any 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 exit door.


Kim returned to the apartment and kept to herself for the remainder of the summer so the former residents wouldn't realize that she was living there alone. It was a boring existence, most days she listened to the tuner while rereading old magazine publisher. Just about every day she would cry when the opinion kept going through her idea of what will happen to her when the money ran out. She knew she was too old to be adopted and the entirely plaza she could live was the orphanage.


Twice a week, very early in the morning, because it was safer, she would ride the bus to the grocery fund only buying what she could carry home. The money kept being deposited in the accounts for the next two months much to her alleviation. In the beginning of Sept when she needed the money the most it wasn't deposited.


She needed to buy some looser adjustment clothes for schooling to hide her swelling belly. Kim had just a few dollar sign left to her name and knew that her aliveness was going to fall apart within a week. She didn't have enough money to pay the rent or utility and the food wouldn't terminal for Thomas More than a week or so. For some unusual ground that she was not fully conscious of, she decided to go to the women's shelter to eat lunch and then stop at the Goodwill and spend the rest of her money on some relax fitting clothes.


***


Megan had a engaged day scheduled on that particular day. She needed to go grocery shopping and the miss were pestering her to take them shopping for school dress plus two or three Sir Thomas More errands she needed to run. Megan was in a precipitation so she quickly grabbed her purse and decided to go to the market computer memory first.


The traffic was dense and slow moving as her mind began to rove off the field of grocery shopping. Suddenly a crystal clear image of Kim and the inside of the womanhood's tax shelter formed in her mind. Megan didn't consciously infer why but at the lastly second she turned left and headed towards the shelter.


Kim stood in line at the shelter waiting for her turn when she heard a familiar spirit voice behind her say,"hullo Kim."


Kim turned and recognized Megan, the fair sex 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 dejeuner sooner."


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


Megan noticed the duplicate weight that she had put on since the last time she saw her. Her stomach was bigger and her white meat seemed big. Then it dawned on her, ‘ She's pregnant !'Megan said to herself. ‘ honest Almighty she can't be Thomas More than XV or sixteen years old and cypher is with her ! I wonder if there is someone else or is she all alone.'


Megan sensed something was wrong and she wanted to let the cat out of the bag to her some more so she picked up a tray and got in business line behind her. They talked about slight or nil while they walked through the line of business filling their plates. Megan followed Kim to an empty table 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 heart back and forth not making eye contact with Megan and said,"Ahh… I'm XVIII. Why ?"


Megan knew she was lying and gently put her hand 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 neural,"Why do you want to know ?"


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 let the cat out of the bag. Would you care to go somewhere that's private ?"


Kim knew that she needed help but she was frightened and didn't want to lose her freedom and be forced to subsist in an orphanage all alone. The landlord would be knocking on her apartment door any day now looking for the split money and the electricity would soon be shut off. She needed clothes and former matter if she was to return to schooling future week. Kim was worried as she looked at the affectionate smile on Megan's face.


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


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


Kim felt safe walking down the student residence with Megan and was feeling at comfort talking to her. They walked into a vacant room and Megan closed the door.


Megan asked again,"There's nix to be afraid of Kim I'm not going to hurt you. Will you please 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 pregnant ?"


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


"Oh, I'm so sorry about your female parent Kim. Do you have any former family ?"


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


Megan's heart was aching and she could feel her eye getting misty as she opened her arms to hand Kim a hug. ‘ The poor shaver,'Megan thought to herself, ‘ she's pregnant and all alone.'She whispered to her as she held her in a plastered hug,"Don't vexation Kim it's not the end of the domain. I'm going to try and get you some help. Where have you been living ?"


"I'm staying in the apartment where my mom and I used to dwell. They kept on sending the wellbeing and food mould so I just paid the circular and stayed there. Do you recollect 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 present moment and answered,"I don't think so Kim they probably won't know who spent the money anyway. Besides about of the money is yours and you put it to serious use."


Megan looked down at her stomach 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 pregnant women were supposed to see a doctor and she was disappointed in herself for not doing so. She let her straits and eyes downfall to her foot, to ashamed to look at Megan and slowly shook her head no.


Megan sighed and thought for a present moment. She put her finger's breadth under Kim's Kuki and gently lifted her brain up until they were making eye touch again.


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


Kim sighed and said in a frustrated tone,"I guess I'm going to induce to trust somebody. I'm just about out of money and intellectual nourishment and the split on the apartment is due. They're going to encounter out about me middling soon."


"Ok Kim, I've got a design,"Megan said in a gentle but sure-footed vocalisation,"we need to get some matter done, let's go out to my SUV."


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


Kim gave Megan directions and they drove to the apartment. Megan had always avoided this detail parting of the city. The criminal offense rate was a lot eminent here and she was worried as she parked in front man of the apartment.


She walked into the flat with Kim and looked around. Kim took good forethought of the apartment. Everything was great and uninfected with no dirty sweetheart or clothes scattered about. She looked in the kitchen cupboard and saw a few hind end of food and some dry trade good. The icebox was empty except for a few cans of tonic and some condiments. There was no milk, fruit, vegetables, or centre of any variety. 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 clothes ?"


"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 psyche. First let's go to the shopping mall and get you some looser match maternity clothes."


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


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


Kim gave Megan a care feeling."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 strike down you off at the orphans' asylum and leave. I know some people down there and I'm sure I can get you through the process in the express lane."


"It's also too severe and you're too young to bide at that apartment by yourself. I'll have to talk to my husband James, and if he and social divine service agree, you can delay with us. I can't guaranty it but I'm fairly sure I can make it happen."


Megan drove Kim to the maternity stock at the mall and they picked out five or six sets of dress. While she was in the dressing way trying on the clothes Megan called James.
Megan explained to James II the billet that Kim was in."St. James I have to do something, she's just a kid and only a few days away from living on the street."


"good master, Fifteen ? Pregnant and living alone without parents ?"Saint James said with a surprise tone."Yes of course she can stay here. I would possess been disappointed if you hadn't brought her home with you."


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


When Kim was finished trying on all of the wearing apparel Megan told her,"Great news program Kim, I talked to my husband Saint James the Apostle and he said you can spend the night with us at a minimum and after we get you registered with social services tomorrow I'm sure they will let you stay with us at to the lowest degree until your baby is born.


Kim began to sob lightly ; a huge weight had been lifted off her shoulder joint. She had been making most of her own decisiveness ever since she was ten old age old. Her mom was too meddlesome looking into the bottom of the inning of a whiskey bottle to hand Kim much help growing up. She was well-chosen that soul was once again taking guardianship 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 Henry James. If James II hadn't given her the apartment to go in her future stop was going to be the woman's shelter. She knew what a minuscule help from a form stranger felt like and she smiled to herself suddenly realizing that it felt even better being on the giving end this fourth dimension.


They left the shopping mall and Megan drove Kim to her planetary house to meet James and her young lady. 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."


James opened the front door of the sign and walked to the SUV as the girls waited and watched from the porch. Megan told Kim,"That's my husband Henry James and those are our three girls."


James I saw the shopping handbag and opened the rachis door of the SUV to call back them. Megan gave him a hug and a candy kiss as Kim walked around the SUV and stopped following to her."James this is Kim, Kim this is my husband James."


James smiled and shook her deal and said,"Hi Kim it's very nice to meet you."
"It's prissy to conform to you too Mister Henry James,"Kim answered,"Thank you very much for letting me abide with you tonight."


King James smiled as he remembered back to when he was eighteen years old and didn't have a penny in his pocket. St. David and Blessed Virgin Roger Williams welcomed him and gave him a probability to get back on his animal foot before he started his new job. They fed him those first few week and gave him an apartment free of charge until he started getting his habitue paycheck. It was the least he could do to help out such a unseasoned vulnerable person as Kim.


"You're very receive Kim."James said.


They walked to the front doorway and when they got close to the porch Megan said,"Girls this is Kim she's going to stay with us at to the lowest degree for the night."Megan pointed to each of the lady friend as she said their names,"Kim these are our daughters, that's Katie, Tara, and Mary."


Mary pushed her chest out having a sudden feeling of pride and smiled as she realized that it was the first time that Megan had referred to her as her daughter.


All three little girl started talking at the same fourth dimension asking Kim questions.


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


Kim and the others walked into the large antechamber and she immediately looked up at the high ceiling, she had been in buildings with high ceilings before but never in a house with a high ceiling. She then looked to her left and saw the spacious living room with the plush sofa and chairs. Against the far wall between two large windowpane she saw a vauntingly wooden cabinet that held a big flat screen door television. Her television had quit working a year or so ago so it has been a long meter since she had watched TV.


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


Kim followed Megan down the yearn hallway past the kitchen and office toward the spinal column of the house. Megan then walked through a doorway into the most beautiful bedroom that Kim had ever seen in her life. The antique toilet table and mesa looked expensive like something that came from a museum or the mental picture in one of those ‘ living'magazines.


Kim quickly scanned the elegantly designed room from the pictures and painting on the walls to the dense cushy rugs on the hardwood floor. Every picture and rug seemed to be just the right size and made for that demand spot.


Megan walked around the bed and opened the two-base hit doors to a gravid closet in the far corner of the room. She opened the drape that covered the window and then pointed to the other slope of the way and said,"You can use that bathroom."


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


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


Katie added,"The bed is real well-situated, Tara and I used to log Z's in here before we got our own rooms upstairs. Mom can we show her our elbow room ?"


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


The girls spent the next few instant showing Kim the eternal sleep of the business firm while James and Megan talked in the kitchen."James you need to go to her apartment and get some of her things that she will ask. use up a few corner and two suitcases. Get her dress, bathroom things, and her authoritative paper ; she will need her birth security tomorrow when we take her to Social Services."


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


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


Kim nodded her head and turned to trace James River out the door. Megan called out to James just before they left the elbow room,"Jesse James, don't let her carry anything heavy."


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


St. James the Apostle didn't know where his ancestors came from but Megan and Jesse James both thought that he was Eastern European. Kim too had the same skin tone, hair colouring material, and facial features and looked to have had ancestors from the same region of Europe.


Megan, Tara, and Madonna cooked dinner for their growing family while James River, Kim, and Katie packed up affair that she would postulate from her apartment. Jesse James and Katie had just brought the last of the corner into the house when Madonna announced that dinner party was ready.


Kim walked into the kitchen and saw what she thought was a Thanksgiving feast that would take made any female parent proud. The table was set with home plate, silverware, glasses and table napkin. Mary was setting a big bowl of mashed Solanum tuberosum on the table while Tara was bringing a large bowl of sky 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 Saint James the Apostle and Katie with Mary sitting across from her.
"Wow,"Kim said,"Do you eat like this every night ?"


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


"The table tone very nice and the food smells wonderful."


Kim reached for a pitcher of frost tea when Megan smiled and said to her,"Kim you need a lot of vitamin D, you should tope milk."


Kim knew that Megan was right so she set the tea down as James filled her glass with Milk. Kim was well-chosen, her very female parent was gone but she knew in her heart that Megan and King James would attend after her with her adept interests in mind. She silently said a prayer to herself hoping that sociable services would let her populate here with James I and Megan.


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


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


"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 party with other masses. My mom usually wasn't there when I ate dinner."Katie was satisfied with the answer and continued eating her dinner.


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


Kim replied,"Sure, number in I'm just going to switch dress and put some of this stuff away."


They talked while Kim opened the bags of wearing apparel Megan had bought her and advert them in the water closet. Katie looked close at the pant she had and said,"Those are maternity clothes. There for pregnant cleaning woman. What are you doing with them ?"


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


Katie surprisingly replied,"But you're too Thomas Young to take in a baby."


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


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


Later that evening Megan and Katie helped Kim unpack the relaxation of her thing and found her mom's Death certification and her nascency certificate. She would need them tomorrow when they went to societal armed service. Megan looked at the destruction security and the birth certification and saw that her mother's figure was the same on both. When she looked at the infinite provided for her begetter's epithet it was space.


The watch sunup James II called Mrs. Bird Parker at the orphans' asylum and told her about Kim."Oh the piteous girl,"Mrs. Parker said,"I'm glad you found her. No telling what would consume happened if she fell in with the wrong people. Bring her in around ten this morning and I'll personally take care of the paperwork."


That dawn James, Megan, and Kim went to the sociable services office to do the newspaper piece of work so Kim could start receiving assistance. Their top priority was to get her to a MD to check on her health and the health of her baby.


They sat at Mrs. Parker's desk in the boastfully open office area and after all of the applications programme were filled out King James I said,"Mrs. Parker we would like to care for Kim at least until her infant is born and maybe recollective if that's possible."


Mrs. Parker smiled and said,"I'm glad to hear that James all of our Stephen Foster home base 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 excited smiling. Megan whispered,"See I told you everything would work out."


When it was time to sign the papers James looked them over, he then stopped and stared at the paper work. Mrs Parker and Megan noticed a surprised tone on his font and then a worried look. He started leafing through the other papers in the folder until he found Kim's birth certificate. He stared at it for various seconds and then set all the paper down on the desk.


James pushed his electric chair back and stood. He picked up the nascency security again and looked at both sides of the document as Megan asked,"Jesse James what's wrong ?"


He took in a deep breath as he stared at Megan for a few seconds. He glanced at Kim and then turned and walked across the room to the window and looked out. Megan looked at the documents 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 responsibilities. Let me go talk of the town to him."


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


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


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


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


Megan didn't understand what was wrong. Was he having minute persuasion about caring for Kim ? She was beginning to get nervous when James stopped after walking several pace and turned to look at her. He sighed as he looked back and forth between Megan and Kim. He noticed Kim looking over at him with a worried feeling on her expression as Mrs Dorothy Rothschild Parker was trying to comfort her.


William 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 Jesse James and listened as he talked to her. They were too far away for Kim to hear anything that was being said. She was thinking that James had changed his mind about taking care of her and was telling that to Megan.


James IV didn't look felicitous as he mostly stared at the floor while she watched his lips move. office way through the conversation Megan's lip fell heart-to-heart as she listened to Jesse James. She had a surprised looking on her face as she covered her mouth with her deal and quickly looked back and forth between James River and the desk where Kim sat.


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


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


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


Megan hugged her shoulder joint and said,"Don't worry Kim everything is fine and you will roll in the hay what's going on in just a few minutes."


They all walked to the back of the building and went into a small league way. Mrs. Parker closed the doorway as Megan told James,"William Tell her James."


James was nervous as he paced back and Forth River on the far incline of the large conference table."How do I tell her ?"James said as he continued pacing.


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


James looked at Kim and took in a deep breath 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-pitched school. One dark I walked her home and we… ah… had sex."James looked a Kim for a sign to see if she was angry.


"What does that sustain to do with signing those theme ?"Kim asked almost in tears,"Did you change your mind about letting me remain with you ?"


James nervously continued,"No ... It's nothing like that. Ah… I remember it being a cold-blooded night just before I graduated, probably around February or March of the year you were born.


There was silence in the room for respective seconds until Mrs. Parker suddenly gasped and covered her backtalk with her hand.


It still hadn't dawned on Kim until Megan started counting off the months in front line of her."Apr,"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 months after James and your female parent had sex."


Kim surprisingly looked at St. James and took in a deep breath,"You mean you're my Fatherhood ?"Kim said as she put her script on her aspect and started to cry.


James quickly walked around the board and stood in front of her."Kim I'm so sorry."He said,"Your mother broke up with me a couple of days later and she didn't tell me she was meaning. After I graduated I never saw her again. I didn't know you existed, had I known I would get been there for you. I'm so pitiful Kim."


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


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


Megan asked Kim,"Do you want to find out for sure enough if King James I is your father ?"


Kim was still crying as she nodded her head yes.


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


"I'll make the call."Mrs Dorothy Parker said,"In the bastardly time I'll put your applications programme in my desk until we find out for sure."


Mrs. Parker pulled Megan away from James & Kim and whispered,"The DNA test is just a formality she's a carbon copy of James."


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


Mrs. Parker left the way to nominate the telephone yell to the DNA laboratory.


Kim wiped the rent from her heart and looked up at William James and said,"It's not your break, you didn't know. I just wish mom would have said something to me. She was the only one who knew who you were."


James opened his blazonry offering Kim a hug if she wanted one. He didn't want to relieve oneself the first-class honours degree move still not being indisputable of her humor. Kim tucked her arms in, drawing closer and he enveloped her with his arms. His hand cradled her read/write head and he stroke her whisker, her head was against his shoulder. Slowly he rocked her back and forth while his fingerbreadth stroked her hair.


"Oh Kim I'm so sorry."James said in a indulgent flavor,"I'm going to pass water up for the clip that I wasn't there for you."


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


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


"Unbelievable,"James whispered to Megan with a Brobdingnagian grin,"What a day this has been. I still can't believe that I have a daughter !"


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


It was on-key, King James was so busy thinking about his daughter that it slipped his creative thinker completely that she was pregnant and he would soon be a grandfather. With social services now out of the word picture he realized that Kim's health and that of the baby… his grandchild, now became his responsibility.


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


She nodded to him as she pulled her mobile phone headphone out of her handbag 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 construct common sense of it all. Yesterday daybreak, she was at rock fundament dreading the next few daytime when she knew that she would be living at an orphanage by week's end. There wasn't a single ray of hope of having any better of a life.


Then when all seemed lost, she, for some unknown reason went to the woman's shelter and by opportunity she met Megan again. She still didn't understand why Megan had taken a liking to her, putting her under her annex and washing away all of her awe. And how could it be that this woman was married to her don that she thought she had no Bob Hope of ever finding ?


King James and Kim held on to each other for several transactions 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."


James IV 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 room and went back to the briny office. Mrs. Parker told them that the DNA testing ground wasn't engaged right now so they left and had the simpleton mental testing done.


When they arrived at home they all sat in the life room. William James and Kim began telling each other their lifetime story. When Megan brought the young lady plate from schoolhouse she didn't severalize them of the day's case, just that Saint James had some news to distinguish them. Katie, Tara, and Mary filed into the animation room and sat down on the sofa.


"Hi pa,"Katie said in an wind up vocalisation,"What's the good news ?"


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


"fountainhead I have some near tidings to assure you."James said,"I'm not one hundred pct sure yet but I think Kim is my daughter."


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


"I don't think I will have to, I knew Kim's female parent when I was in gamey shoal and… well… I'm moderately sure that she is my daughter."


Megan spoke up and explained,"They had a DNA test 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 family.


"Wow,"Tara said with an stimulate voice,"We have another sis ! That's two in one year !"


Kim looked at Tara a little pose at her remark."What do you imply ?"Kim questioned.


"Katie and Tara are my cancel children."Megan began to explain,"I met James… I mean your father, a little over a year ago. We were much in the Sami way that you were. I was working at a stagnant end job with very little money. We were about to misplace our apartment and go to the fair sex Shelter to endure but for some reason I stopped here outset to see out how much the apartment rent was and James took a liking to us and gave us an apartment to live in rent free."


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


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


"Ya,"Tara piped in,"In the summer clip we get to go swim in the pool any time we want !"


"Wow,"Kim said turning to wait at Mary,"then is The Virgin your daughter… I mean my sister ?"Kim asked turning back to St. James the Apostle.


"No,"King James said in a somber vocalization,"The Virgin's like me, an orphan, her hold out nurture home was miserly to her so we took her in and she will soon be adopted by us."


"I'm so dingy to hear that Mary."Kim said.


"That's OK Kim,"Mary answered as she got up off the couch and went and sat on James'leg putting her arms around his neck."Those days are all in the past. I now have a real mommy and daddy that honey and take forethought of me."


Kim became agitate as she heard Mary vociferation James daddy, she was still getting used to the fact that she had a real honest to goodness family with a mother, father, and sister. James was watching her and saw her case light up with excitement.


James 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 kin,"she looked up and grinned,"Is it okay if I start calling you mom and dad ?"


Everyone chuckled as James put his arms around Kim and Virgin Mary and pulled them both in last for a hug and said,"Of course that will be okay. You can call 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 kinfolk moved as one into the kitchen to help develop dinner. No one wanted to leave out 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 table.


William James suddenly realized that Kim would want to be registered at a new high school school day on this side of the metropolis. computer storage began flooding into his nous of all the problem he had when he was forced to start a new school. Not only would she be the new student but she would also have to endure the endless teasing that went along with her maternity.


After they went to bed that dark James I expressed his concerns to Megan about Kim going back to schooltime while she was pregnant.


Megan said as she turned on her side and put her nous on his berm,"We could enroll her in a private school."


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


She began nibbling on his earlobe while slowly running her fingers in small forget me drug through his breast hairs."Well then we could get her a tutor."She said.


His respiration became unpredictable and his penis was rock hard as he answered,"That's a dear idea ; she could rest here and be tutored full sentence in the library."


Megan thought for a moment as she licked the side of his ear and said,"Maybe we could get a broad time teacher to home school all four girls for the relaxation of the class. I think it would benefit Mary a lot having a teacher here to give way her redundant attention."


Megan slowly moved her hand down his chest and dug her fingers under his boxershorts and began stroking his member. He managed to go his mitt to Megan's titty and found one of her nipples and slowly tweaked it as he said,"That might work but where would we find a full time instructor ?"


Megan momentarily released his penis and arched her ass up off the bed and pushed her panties 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 know of someone ?"


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


The following morning when Megan dropped off the missy at school she went into the part and asked the dealer if he knew of a teacher they could hire full-of-the-moon sentence for the year.


He said he knew of a couple of go to sleep instructor that he could call and ask if they would be interested. Megan told him that they owned an apartment complex and could ease up an apartment to the teacher as partial payment for accepting the job.


Just before tiffin that day, Megan received a telephone call option from a retired teacher. She told Megan that her husband had passed away last year and she was thinking of selling her house and was interested in the job and the apartment. An interview was set up for the play along afternoon at four P.M. when all of the lady friend were there.


Megan answered the door precisely at four the following good afternoon. Mrs Hilton was a very nice looking adult female in her 60 with mostly Thomas Gray tomentum. She was dressed in typical shoal teacher fashion with a below the stifle apparel and a sweater.


Megan smiled and said,"Mrs. Hilton ?"


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


"It's so squeamish to meet you,"Megan said,"will you please do in. Girls, James, come and meet Mrs. Hilton."


All four girls being on their best demeanour lined up in the living room and smiled at her. James walked out of the kitchen and judder her hand saying,"It's squeamish to foregather you."


Mrs. Hilton asked each young woman in turn what grade they were in and flattered them with a compliment on how pretty they were.


"Please come in with me,"Megan said to Mrs. Hilton,"and I'll show you where we think the best place to carry course of instruction is."


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


They sat at the enquiry table in the library and talked for the following few minute of arc. Mrs Hilton gave Megan and James IV a resume'which they looked over while she told them that she would care all of the paper work so each baby would get full phase of the moon mention for the plate school. She also said she would be interested in looking at the apartment as partial requital for her earnings.


King James retrieved the key and they walked out the hind room access of the theater to one of the closer apartments that as vacant. Saint James and Megan waited by the door as Mrs Hilton walked through the apartment.


Megan whispered to Saint James,"I like her, and I think she will be a dependable teacher for the girls."


"I agree,"St. James the Apostle whispered back,"if she likes the apartment we should volunteer her the job."


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


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


The daughter were excited not having to go to the school edifice everyday but were saddened on their terminal day because they would not see their friend's every day.


Mrs. Hilton contacted the schooltime and had Katie, Tara, and Mary withdrawn from their class. She also contacted some of her one-time confrere and borrowed their syllabus and school text for each of the girls.


St. James the Apostle and Megan bought each of the girls a new laptop computer computer with radio set connections. The stores computer geeks came to the mansion and set up the desk top as the captain computing machine for Mrs. Hilton complete with password so the young lady wouldn't be tempted to cheat. When the daughter were in their way studying Mrs. Hilton could tap into the laptop camera to keep an eye on them and also answer their questions without them having to follow downstairs and talk to her in person.


On the first day of house shoal Mrs Hilton arrived at seven in the dawn and Megan invited her into the kitchen for chocolate. After some small talk of the town Mrs. Hilton said,"I've contacted a realtor and put my house up for sales event. They say the menage is in a desirable location so it shouldn't look at very long to sell it. I'll be moving into your apartment very soon."


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


Megan was a trivial worried when she asked,"What did they say ?"


"Katie and Tara are slightly above average and I'm sure that I can serve them to become even better educatee by the end of the school year. I am very energise to be working with Mary, her teacher said she is very smart and needs to be challenged. Kim on the other hand is behind in her schooltime work. I've seen her grades and test scores and it seems she began to err behind in the fifth form. It will acquire 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 work in her pedagogy supplies.


The first day Mrs. Hilton laid down the priming rule and gave the girls a docket of their school hours. They were all to meet in the program library at eight A.M. to bridge player in their employment and get their grant for the day. Katie and Kim would leave the library while Mary and Tara had class from eight to ten. Katie would be in class from ten to twelve and Kim would hold grade from one to three thirty. While not in year each young woman was expected to go to their room to study and complete their daily duty assignment.


Megan took Kim to the medico and they were both relieved that she and her sister were healthy and doing fine. They did an ultra auditory sensation and snapped a Polaroid scene so she could show James II. Kim was told by the doctor to start taking vitamins and get batch of exercising.

The following week the DNA answer arrived in the ring armour. Megan called James who was working in an apartment telling him to number to the kitchen. When everyone was in the kitchen Megan held up the sealed envelope and said,"Here it is."


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


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


She opened the gasbag and began reading the termination. The initiatory page told of the tests that were preformed and what the test percentages meant. She began reading the second varlet as James River began to get impatient.


"Megan what does it say ?"


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


She looked up from the alphabetic character and said, praise, its official, you are father and daughter."


The kitchen erupted into a scene of solemnization, Saint James hugged Kim as she began to cry, and the girls were jumping up and down screaming in fits of joy.


***


Jerrod and Connie were having a heavily metre making destruction meet lately. Ever since Connie was laid off six months ago their money has been getting tighter and tighter. live month when Jerrod's truck had two matted tires in the same week, they were forced to use the last of their savings to buy a victimised set of tires.


Then last week when their girl sally became sick Jerrod had to ask his beginner for the money to buy a prescription medication for her. Jerrod had been upset ever since that day. He always prided himself on the fact that he could choose care of his family on his own without any help from others. But when it came to the health of his fry he reluctantly asked him for assistant. It was a caustic tab for him to swallow but he had no other choice.


Several months ago Connie stopped buying the finer cold shoulder of nitty-gritty and other more expensive intellectual nourishment. They cancelled the cable length telly and cut their expenses as much as they could. Thankfully the children were oblivious to the shortage of money and food and were happy to eat earthnut butter and jelly sandwiches.


live Friday's paycheck was gone almost before it was cashed. There wasn't enough to pay the electric poster so they only paid half hoping it would be enough to keep the galvanizing on for another month. After Connie bought groceries for the workweek Jerrod put the live twenty dollars in the gas storage tank and hoped it would end until Friday. When Fri came there was more bad news when the boss came around with the paychecks.


He handed the check-out procedure 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 soundly prole and when the next job starts we'll hire you back."


"When do you conceive that will be ?"Jerrod said fighting to declare back his disappointment.


"I'm not sure, maybe a pair of calendar week or a month."He nodded as the boss left to retrieve the future man.


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

When he came home from study and told Connie the bad newsworthiness she began to cry,"Jerrod we need to go down townspeople and lend oneself for solid food stamps and welfare."


Connie had seen that face of purpose on Jerrod 's nerve before. She knew what the answer to her request would be before he said it.


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


Jerrod was amiss, it wasn't enough. Over the following few weeks they fell further and further behind. They paid half of the snag and the landlord granted them only two week to pay the relief. The power fellowship wasn't as generous, they demanded full payment or they threatened to cut the might off.


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


It wasn't until Connie got down on her knees and hugged Jerrod's chest while he sat in the chair and began crying a very hard cry that his heart started to yield."Please Jerrod,"Connie cried,"We can't live like this much longer, if we can't take care of the children they will call for them away from us."


He was beginning to see intellect 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 highschool spirits,"Or maybe they can help find oeuvre for us."


***


It was an too soon November sunrise ; King James was in the business office looking over the latest fiscal statement from the brokerage house that they used. Just before the market clang a couple of yr ago Epistle of James had recognized the word of advice signal that David Williams had told him about.


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


"lookout man the big guy rope,"he remembered David saying,"When they start to displace back into the market, you do the same. It's not going to be easily buying when everyone else is selling and all the news is doom and gloom."


James watched the mart very carefully and when he saw Berkshire Hathaway start to gobble up origin at dirt cheap cost he did the Same. Their in style 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 set the statement down and picked up his cup of coffee and walked into the animation room and looked out the straw man picture windowpane. It was going to be a good day, the first cold shot of declination had arrived and a abrasive biting confidential information was blowing hard out of the north.


He had checked his agenda for the day a found that he had only one small job to fix a talebearing sink in one of the apartments. Other than that he was justify for the balance of the day.


He took another sip of his coffee as he watched several of the baby walking by on their way to school day. He was in a ripe temper and began day dreaming thinking about the large changes that had taken topographic point in his life over the preceding two twelvemonth.


He thought how favourable he was on that day when he first met Megan. But a tremble went down his spine as he thought how finis 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 existence that he had known for so long. He was amazed at the split second decisions that are made that have such a unfathomed effect on one's spirit.


His focus came back to today as he watched two low children walking by. The youthful boy looked to be around seven or eight years old and the girlfriend looked to be around six. They both walked together with their caput down into the secure lead. They both wore lightly jackets and no hats on their heads and it was obvious to James that their jacket crown weren't doing the job of keeping them warm. His kernel poured out to the lilliputian girlfriend as she appeared to be sobbing because she was coldness.


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


Megan noticed the sad facial expression on his face and asked,"What's damage James ?"


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


"I know what you mean,"Megan said as she continued with breakfast,"It makes me feel good when I go down to the charwoman's tax shelter and help oneself out. Why don't you come with me today and help serve tiffin ?"


James River thought about his Inner Light docket for today and said,"Ok, all I have to do today is fix a sink. I'll go do it now and we can leave when the girls start school."After breakfast James and Megan drove down to the women's shelter to offer. James I being the cub was put on cleaning pots and pans while Megan made biscuits and rolls.


When the dining room opened Megan took his hand and said,"Come on, this is the beneficial part."


They walked out to the dining way just as the door were opened and watched the hungry people come in. After the dining room had been overt for a few minute of arc James River saw Mrs. Parker pass in with a young twenty something couple. They stepped to the side out of the way of the dealings moving through the doors and Mrs. Dorothy Parker continued talking to them.


The woman was listening to her talk but the man seemed disinterested. He was standing next to the woman with his hands in his front air hole and was looking at the floor. Saint James recognized the behaviour and realized the man was embarrassed to be here.


Mrs. Parker put her arms around the spinal column of both of them and guided them to the snack bar short letter. She looked up and saw James and Megan and smiled as she left the distich in note and walked over to them.


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


St. James 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 pair of minutes until Megan changed the field of study.


"James and I were talking this morning about how we wished we could do Sir Thomas More to help oneself people."


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


Megan and James both nodded their heads.


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


"What does he do for a support ?"James asked.


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


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


Mrs. Parker looked puzzled as Jesse James explained,"Our apartment are old and we've had a hard time keeping them all rented. We have talked about remodeling the kitchens and can in all of the apartments but it's too big of a job for me and besides I'm not a very good stopping point carpenter. We have been talking about hiring some carpenters to do the work. Right now we have three apartments that are vacant so we could keep a couple people meddlesome for a month or two."


Mrs. 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 continue him busy for a class or two by the prison term we get through all forty apartments."


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


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


"King James, you're a life saver,"Mrs. Dorothy Rothschild Parker said,"When they're finished eating I'll introduce you to them."


James and Megan returned to their duties in the kitchen while Mrs. Charlie Parker joined Jerrod and Connie at their mesa. She smiled at Jerrod and said,"I have some good tidings, I think I may have found you a job."


Jerrod looked up from his plate and sarcastically said,"Doing what ?"


"You're a carpenter aren't you ?"Mrs. Parker said with a house note,"It will be carpenter work."


"Really ?"Jerrod said with a surprise construction,"Where ? Doing what ?"


"I don't have all of the details,"Mrs. Yardbird Parker said,"but there is a couple volunteering their sentence here, they own a large apartment complex and they want to remodel all of the kitchens and lavatory. 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 Charles Christopher Parker into the kitchen. They stood by the door and she called out,"James, Megan !"


They walked over to them and Mrs Dorothy Parker introduced them to each former.


"I understand you have some carpenter work that needs to be done."Jerrod asked.


"Yes,"St. James the Apostle said as he shook Jerrod's handwriting,"we've been thinking about remodeling the kitchens and maybe the bathrooms in the apartment that we own."


"well,"Jerrod answered,"I'm the guy you need. I've got a lot of experience in new construction and remodeling. I'd be very happy to contain a look at what you have."


With lunch almost over they said their goodbyes to the women's shelter staff and left with Jerrod and Connie. James rode with Jerrod while Connie rode with Megan. When they got close to the house James pointed and told Jerrod to pull into the private road and park. Megan and Connie were the right way behind them.


"Wow,"Jerrod said,"Is this your home ?"


"Yes, this is it."James answered.


"I've always wondered who lives here ; I've studied this house while I was going through trade school. The school has a lot of close up photo and blueprints of this place."


As Jerrod got out of the truck he was excited as he pointed to the gingerbread molding above the second news report windows.


"All of that trim work up there on those dormers is hand carved. One of the undertaking I had in school was to carve exact copies of that coil work above the windows."


"You're kidding me."James said.


"No I'm not. This house was built in the eighteen 80 ; it was one of the first houses to be built in this area."


They walked onto the battlefront porch when Jerrod stopped and used his knuckle duster to strike hard on one of the expectant posts holding up the porch.


"These posts are over one hundred and twenty age old and as solid as the day they were installed. They're made of substantial southerly exist oak, the Same wood that the ship ‘ old ironsides'is made of. They didn't cut any street corner back then, they really knew how to progress things."


James IV unlocked the look doorway and they all walked into the foyer. Jerrod ran his hired man over the movement door as he said ‘ wow'under his breath. Then he was distracted by the oak staircase that leads to the secondment trading floor. He walked over to it and ran his hand along the handrail and then tried to didder it to see if it was loose, which it wasn't.


"I've often wondered what the inside of this home looked like. This staircase is unbelievable, it must accept taken C of hours to pull in,"he looked back at James and said,"They didn't have routers or other power cock back then, this was all handmade by a master carpenter."


"I've always thought that it looks nice, St. James said,"but I didn't give it much thought as to how it was made. After we've looked at the flat I'll give you a tour of the eternal rest of the house."


"Thanks,"Jerrod said,"I'd really like that ; my instructor from deal school day will be green with envy when I tell him."


James retrieved a key to one of the apartments and they continued talking as they went out the spinal column door towards the flat."He's welcome to come by and take a tour if he wants and maybe some of his bookman as well."


They walked into the apartment kitchen and Jerrod looked around."What do you take in mind James ?"Jerrod asked.


James looked at Megan and said,"We don't have anything specific in mind, maybe a new floor, console, countertops, and fixtures."


Jerrod was nodding his head as James listed his needs. They walked through the living way and Jerrod looked at the bedrooms and the bathroom.


"These are nice apartments,"he said while mentation,"I've got an idea, I know a woman who is an national interior decorator. She does a real adept job of highlighting the Charles Herbert Best features of bread and butter infinite. She knows how to pick the decently gloss and fixtures to really make a space look real good."


"That sounds like a good idea."Megan said.


"As for this apartment, I agree with everything you said except for the cabinets. They look to be in very good condition except for the finish. I can take on the doors off and disinvest the pigment off, Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin, spray paint, put on new ironware and they would look as thoroughly as new."


James IV nodded his head 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 paint. I can sand and refinish the oak floors in the living room and bedrooms and put a new ceramic storey in the kitchen and john. When new countertops, sinks and a new shower/tub are installed the property will be brand new. The majority of the cost will be labor."


James asked Megan,"What do you cogitate ?"


"I think it sounds good,"Megan said,"I also think we should have the interior intriguer look at it too."


James nodded his head and turned to Jerrod,"How long do you retrieve it will take ?"


"Well,"Jerrod said as he looked at Connie,"If you hire both Connie and I, it should take five or six, forty minute weeks, but the more apartment we do the faster we'll get. We can come out piece of 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'manus and said,"Thank you, you won't be disappointed."


James smiled and said,"claim the DoI decorator and make me a list of affair that you need to get started. We have to keep detailed platter for tax purposes."


Megan's thought process turned to what Mrs. Parker told them at the woman's tax shelter about Jerrod and Connie's money problems. In order for them to save face and not having to mention the money problem to them Megan offered,"If you would like to dwell closer to your work, we will offer you an flat with a discount on the economic rent and wave the protection deposit."


Connie smiled and nodded her head as Jerrod looked at her."Yes that would be nice,"Jerrod said,"It would also be a shorter paseo to schooltime for our kids."


"trade good,"James River said,"Let's go back to the house and fill up 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 foresighted time. I was beginning to get worried."


"I'm glad we could help,"Megan patted her on the shoulder and continued,"With the turnaround we have in the apartments, we should be able-bodied to keep you two officious for a mates of years."


As they walked back through the planetary house Jerrod pointed at a closed threshold,"This is the depository library, right ?"


Jesse James said,"Yes, our children are home schooled and are in class right now."


When they walked into the authority to make full out the paperwork Jerrod said,"You made this into an office ? The amobarbital sodium print I've seen show this to be a bedroom."


Jerrod pointed at the bulwark between the office and the library and said,"There should be a tenacious closet there and a integral bureau there."


"Where did you get blueprints for this house from ?"James asked.


"My trade school instructor said he bought them from the estate of the realm sales event of the architect who designed it."


"That's interest,"James said,"I'd like to see them."


"That's not a job ; if you want we can push back over to the trade school right now and see the instructor Mr. Karl."


"Megan,"St. James asked,"Can you conduct care of this ? Jerrod and I are going to the business deal school. I'll be back in an minute or so."


"Jerrod parked behind the school and they walked into the large carpentry shop class. James saw about fifteen students working on different project all around the way. Jerrod pointed to the far wall and certain enough, James saw two take replication of his on a higher floor bedroom windows hanging on the bulwark.


An older man approached them and extended his script and said,"Jerrod, it's nice to see you !"


They shook custody and he said,"It's nice to see you too. Mr. Karl, this is James, he owns ‘ the household ’."


Mr. Karl looked storm at James as they shook deal,"You're the owner of the big Victorian on Main Street ?"


"Yes,"Epistle of James said,"it's nice to fit you Mr. Karl."


Jerrod told Mr. Karl about all of the architectural detail he saw while he toured the theatre.


James spoke up,"I never realized that people actually studied the menage, you and you're students are welcome to study it close up if you like and you're welcome to tour it."


"Thank you James River, Mr. Karl said,"I'd like that very much."


"Mr. Karl,"Jerrod asked,"The reason we came is James would like to see the pattern for ‘ the house ’."


"That's not a problem ; in fact I'll give you a set that you can keep."


He went to his office and returned with a large roster of print which contained about twenty break up pages. Mr. Karl spent the side by side few minutes showing James the windowpane reproduction and they watched a few students that were working on hand carving several of the ornate piece of music that made up the window.


King James I and Jerrod returned to his planetary house and he placed the pattern in the authority. On Saturday first light with the blueprints in hand he spread them out on the expectant table in the depository library.


When he looked at the initiative level plan he noticed that his office was labeled ‘ bedroom 3 ’, he then noticed the W.C. that Jerrod had told him was supposed to be there. That wall, which separated the office from the library, closest to the hallway, showed a plumbing pursual where the water pipes and the dissipation rail line ran from the second floor bathrooms to the cellar.


The heart of the wall showed a built in bureau like the one in the overlord bedchamber and the wall closest to the outside of the menage showed a water closet with a wide set of double doorway. It was obvious to James that these prints weren't the final ‘ as built'plan and he wondered why the alteration was made.


He went to the bulwark in the office and tapped on it to see if he could find the header that would bear been put in for the closet door. As he tapped, he didn't find the header but he did find the stud in the rampart. He thought it was foreign that there appeared to be several horizontal couplet running side to side between the studs.


‘ Why would they put span in the wall ?'he asked himself. He didn't breakthrough just one brace but several couple between all of the studs on the outer half of the rampart where the cupboard and bureau should have been. The orthodontic braces were spaced about xviii inches apart starting at the bum of the paries and running up about half way to the ceiling.


King James I next went into the basement and found where the plumbing tube came down from the upstairs can. He then looked at the joists under the wall and noticed a three-fold stocky oak joist running the broad duration under the wall supported by two posts.


‘ It must be there to sustain the extra free weight of the books on the depository library shelves.'He thought. St. James looked at the plumbing lines again and realized that there had to be at least a two foundation space between the office staff rampart and the back of the depository library shelves. But the walls in the function and the library were straight with no jogs in them.


Then it dawned on him, ‘ the wall is at least two foot thick all the way from the hallway to the exterior of the house ! ‘ I wonder why they did that ?'He asked himself.


James II went back upstair and found a long tape measure. He measured the distance between the subroutine library door and the federal agency door in the hall. He then measured the distance from the bulwark inside the office and library to the door curtain raising. When he compared the measurements his hunch was right, ‘ That wall is three and a half feet compact'he said to himself.


Suddenly thoughts of private rooms, and hidden passages began running through his mind. He went to the bread and butter room and found Megan."Megan, are you engaged ?"


"No not really, what do you demand ?"


"I was looking at those blueprints of the house that I got the other day and I discovered something occupy. Let me testify you."


James showed Megan the measurement he made and told her,"This wall is three and a half feet thick."


"Why is it so dense ?"Megan asked.


King James I chuckled and said,"The first 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 workforce about four groundwork apart and said,"Ok smarty, why do you think that wall is this thick ?"


"Megan seemed surprised,"If it's that thick you could probably walk in there. How would you get in ? Where would the door be ?"


"The office face is solid state ; the just place 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 library shelf's on that wall were eight selfsame building block each one being about three infantry broad and XVI inch deep. Megan walked to the shelf and leaned a rule book out from the top and said,"In the film they always leaned a volume back and the private transit magically opened."


James I laughed and said,"Ya I think I saw that movie too but I don't think it works that way, if one of these units move there is probably a door latch or whorl of some kind."


James looked at the top of the shelves where the top molding of the bookcase met the panelling and didn't notice anything unknown. He then went down on his hands and stifle and used the flashlight to reckon where the bookcase kick board met the floor. Everything looked the Lapp until he got to the bookcase closest to the outside rampart of the house.


He crawled on his hands and stifle to it and looked again and noticed a one fourth inch gap between the bookcase and the floor. He shook that bookcase back and Forth and it appeared to move slightly but only about one one-sixteenth of an inch. He tried to move the bookcase next to it but it was as self-colored as a rock music.


He stood up and put his hands on his hips.


"What are you thinking about ?"Megan asked.


James pointed to the early seven bookcases and said,"Those bookcases are all touching the floor but this one,"St. 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 section of paneling between that bookcase and the outside wall and said,"If there was a flexible joint on this side, you could bear on this bookcase level against the extraneous wall of the sign of the zodiac and you would have access to the back of the early seven bookcases."


"Well,"Megan said,"the only affair we can do is take all of the script out and see if there is a door boss of sorts."


quint minutes later all of the book were stacked in loads on the floor in front end of the other bookcases. Henry James and Megan both looked at the empty bookcase and the merely thing strange was a minor hole on the tail end ledge in the left rear corner and an identical 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 telly 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 thick-skulled stone wall and the only way to unfold it from the outside was to bewilder a five foot long rod through a small hole to unlatch the latch on the inside."


King James I pointed to the holes in the bookcase and said,"There might be a latch that needs to be undone inside them holes to give up this face of the bookcase to swing free."


James thought for a few second base then asked Megan,"What would the key facial expression like to unlock this ?"


"Well,"She began,"It would give to be small enough to fit in the hole, and it could only be as long as the shelf it senior high or you wouldn't be able to put it in the hole."


"I have an approximation"James said snapping his fingerbreadth,"There's an old rusty wire down in the basement."


And he took off to go feel for it. It was hanging on a nail and had been there for as long as James River could remember. It had a hoop on one end a little braggart than the size of a fingerbreadth and was about twelve inches long with a minuscule ninety degree crotchet set on the end. James brought it upstairs and showed it to Megan.


He slid the pinch end into the keister hole in the bookcase and began fishing around for something the lure to fit into. Almost immediately he felt something and pointed the lure toward it. He slowly scratched the come-on against it until he felt the crotchet declension into a recess. He reasoned that because whatever he had the hook in was below the bookcase he should push down.


He slowly pushed down until he heard a snap and felt the come-on fall away. He pulled the lure out of the hole and saw that the old rusty hook had broken off.


"The hook broke."He said to Megan.


"Now what are you going to do ?"Megan asked.


"Well, King James I said,"I could cut the golf hole grown and deflower the bookcase to see what's down there. I'm just guessing if I should push, extract, or I might even be in the wrong hole. I think I'll go and buy one of those miniature telescoping cameras and push button it in the hole to see what's down there."


"While I'm gone,"William James said to Megan as they walked over to the blueprints that were still on the mesa,"would you please get on the net and see what you can find out about the architect and this guy."Ed said while pointing at the proprietor name on the blueprint.


James returned an hour later with the television camera and began assembling it and testing the operation. Megan met him in the depository library with a printed study in her hand.

James asked,"What did you happen out ?"


"There wasn't much of anything about the architect,"Megan said while looking at the report,"but I did line up out a lot about the man who had this family built. He was a workaholic Entrepreneur who bought and sold machinery mostly with occupation on the due west coast. He wasn't married and when his sister's husband died in XVIII eighty one she moved in here and he took care of her until she died in eighteen ninety four."


Megan continued,"It says he had this theater built in eighteen fourscore two and shortly after that he became eccentric and a solitary doing most of his concern out of this family. There's even a picture of this house when it was built in eighteen eighty two. He died in nineteen-o-two with no hump relatives ; the sign of the zodiac and his land were awarded to the Department of State.


James said,"That's ashamed he died without a family."


James had the camera working and he took it to the bookcase and slowly pushed it down the muddle. What he saw was pretty cheeseparing to what he thought was down there. It was a boastfully rusty customs duty made dead bolt that had a gob in it for actuating it.


He saw that the bolt would need to be raised about a tail of an inch and then moved to the left a quarter go and then pushed down. The job was the bolt was badly rusted and it looked like it hadn't been moved in one hundred years.


"There is definitely a door latch holding this bookcase,"James River said,"so there is a way of sorts back there. But it's going to take some time to free up that rusty deadbolt action."


Megan was excited,"What do you think is in there ?"


"There's no telling,"Saint James smiled and said,"We might find his sister back there."


"Dear Creator,"Megan said,"I hope not."


"I'm just kidding ; we'll probably find zip or a stack of his old papers."


Henry James went to his workshop and brought a can of spray lubricant back to the library and sprayed both latches and looked with the camera to construct surely he covered the bolt with the nebuliser. He went back to his shop and took a retentive skinny screwdriver and hammered the tip so it would fit into the hole. He then heated the tip red hot with a torch and bent the claw at the tip with the bench vise then cooled it with oil to indurate it.


He worked on freeing the latches all afternoon without any luck. He was entertained by the young woman telling each early narrative of what they would bump. They talked about everything from valuable oil house painting to rare record book and civil war steel.


James II thought that there would be naught in there, but you never know what an eccentric 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 and Megan both found it difficult to sleep that dark wondering what was in there. The future morning time after breakfast he started working again. Blessed Virgin was sitting by his face keeping him caller when the downcast bolt finally began to move. He slid the bolt sideways and it dropped freeing the nates of the bottom of the bookcase.


Mary went and told the rest of the family and in no time everyone was in the library observance James employment on the top bolt. Finally the top deadbolt started moving. After a couple to a greater extent spraying he managed to proceed the bolt up and out of the way.


Everyone moved in closemouthed next to James as he forced the bookcase back and the musty smelling air hit everyone.


"Eww that stench,"Katie said.


James pushed the bookcase far enough back to look into the dark recess."Megan bridge player me that flashlight please."


Saint James the Apostle pointed the brightness into the cobweb infest passage and couldn't believe his eyes."unspoiled Divine,"he said,"You're not going to consider this."


Henry James reached in and pulled his hand back out and showed everyone in the room two rolling wave of coins. He handed them to Kim who began to spread them.


He looked back in and then back out at everyone and said,"There are rolls and rolls of coins stacked on shelf and in the back there are a bunch of old bag that look like their filled with coins."


The room erupted into screams of joy and laughter. James stepped out and handed the light to Megan who stepped in and said,"Good lord, there has to be hundreds of rolls of coins in here."


By then Kim had one of the rolls overt and screamed,"Mom, Dad, there gilded coins ! They say United States of United States of America, 20 dollars ! They're gold coins and they all look sword new !"


Megan backed out of the passageway and handed the brightness to Katie and let her look. Each of the other girls also had a look before James said,"Not a countersign about this to anyone."


King James I rolled up the blueprint that were on the mesa and asked Kim,"Kim will you delight get a cover to breed the board ?"


"Yes daddy."She said as she left the elbow room.


Megan said,"King James I'm going to holler my dad, he collects coins, I'll tell him to get his coin playscript so we can witness out what some of this is worth."


"Good mind,"Epistle of James said,"Madonna, go get your laptop and get a spreadsheet built. It will be your job to retain track of everything."


Mary smiled as she left the room to get her laptop computer. She was happy that her daddy had given her such an authoritative job to do.


St. James the Apostle scratched his promontory and said, Tara,"Go get two big metallic element cake pans out of the kitchen so we can get these coins out of here and on the table."


For the next half hour they carried the coins and organized them on the large 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 consider this but James IV found a unavowed compartment behind the Bible cases in the subroutine library and it is filled with atomic number 79 and silver coins."


Saint George asked,"How many ? What years are they ?"


"That's why we called you,"Megan said as they walked down the manor hall to the library."You're going to give to tell us what they're worth."


George V and Linda walked into the subroutine library and saw several rows of revolve coins on the mesa and several canvas coin bags lying on the floor. His mouth fell unfold, he saw that one roll of gold coins on the board had been clear and asked,"What sort of coins are they ?"


Kim pointed at a long row of about fifty scroll and said,"These are all gold, they say twenty dollars on them."


George quickly said,"Those are double eagles."


Kim then pointed at the other four row which contained a couple hundred rolls and said, these are all silverish dollar sign I think."


George V sat down at the table and opened his coin book."Tara, what years are those atomic number 79 coins ?"he asked.


She picked up three coins and said,"they're all XVIII eighty nine's and they look firebrand new."


George looked in his book and asked,"flavour at the back, 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 book 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, year, and mint cross of the coin is everything. If those coins are uncirculated or brand new as Tara said. They are Charles Frederick Worth between six and twenty thousand dollars… Each !"



Mary stopped typing on her laptop and said as she quickly added up their value in her head,"You mean those twenty coins are worth over a quarter of a million dollar mark ?"


George VI slowly nodded his oral sex and said to Saint James the Apostle and Megan."Yes, it could be lupus erythematosus or it could be a lot more. They need to be professionally graded. One thing is for sure though… you're rich beyond the dreams of Avarice."


James River looked at Megan and smiled, then looked back at George and Linda and said,"You mean WE'RE full-bodied, there's no way we'll ever be able to spend all of this. We're going to need your help."


After the initial shock of how lots the coins were worth, the cataloging of the gold coins took about two hr. All of the pealing were trade name new original banking concern paradiddle from the San Francisco mint except for eight curlicue that were from the Christopher Carson City mint.


Mary added the expression to the spread sheet that automatically added up all of the coins and said,"That's nine hundred and sixty amber coins worth a lilliputian over five million dollars."


George said,"That's a bourgeois estimate. If the coins are a gamey mark they could be Charles Frederick Worth three or four times that much."


As the coins were dated and counted James stacked them in a dish towel lined patty pan and put the 70 Pound of gold back on a shelf in the ‘ secret transition'as they began calling it.


The silver coins in the bagful had an miscellanea of commix date with around two hundred of them coming from the Carson City heap and the majority of the others coming from the San Francisco mess. Some of the coins had a opening of being quite valuable but George V wasn't for sure how high they would be graded.


They separated the coins that George I thought were worth more than five hundred dollars to better protect them and King James I put the rest, around four thousand coins, back in the bags and Mary assigned a value of fifty dollar bill one dollar bill each to them. George I said,"nigh of these coins will be easy to sell."


They began opening the silver medal dollar rolls and found that most of them were original coin bank rolls from the United States Mint in San Francisco where the master owner of the house did most of his business.


Megan told everyone,"The internet said he was flake, he must have had a suspicion of banks and insisted in being paid in gold and silver."


Most of the rolls they opened were from the early 18 80's to the recent eighteen ninety's. After they opened a few dozen axial motion, Tara and Katie each opened a roll of brand new eighteen eighty four ‘ S'silver dollar sign. George III looked at a few of the coins and said,"I'm just not sure as shooting about the ground level of the coins, they could be worth anywhere between five thousand to three hundred thousand dollars each."


Several more coil were opened that had a large cut in their value and William James told The Virgin,"Whatever your gramps says just put the low value in your spreadsheet."


They continued opening the silver dollar drum roll and were about half finished when Kim opened a bun and said,"Grandpa, I got another axial rotation of new coins that are all the Same date."


St. George asked,"Ok Kim, What year ?"She looked at a few of them both movement and spinal column and said,"Ah… they're all eighteen ninety three with an S."


Blessed Virgin typed the information into the computer.


"Ok Kim,"George said with a surprised aspect on his grimace,"Very carefully set them down without letting them engrave each other."


When George said that everyone stopped working and watched Kim gently set them down on the tabular array with both hands. They all watched George VI as he stood and began carefully separating the coins one by one while he looked at them.


Linda was sitting adjacent to St. George and pulled the coin book in movement of her and looked for the date. When she found it she let out a shrill gasp and put her hand over her mouth.


George II began speaking to no one in particular in a reverent voice,"I've only seen one of these coins in mortal at a coin show and it wasn't in as right of consideration as all of these are. They call the eighteen ninety three ‘ S'the Riley B King of the Morgan clam. 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 IV was still in cushion and quietly said as he looked at St. James and Megan, They're worth around a half a million apiece. If some of these coins grade at the top of the mint state graduated table you're looking at one million dollar mark each."


They all looked at each other in stunned secretiveness ; Kim broke the silence by quietly saying,"You mean I was holding over ten million dollars in my bridge player ?"


Jesse James smiled at her and said,"You handled the pressure like a pro."


George looked at Megan and said,"These coins have to be put into protectors, one little prick could cost a hundred thousand dollars."


A few seconds later Katie continued opening the roller of coins she had in her hired man and looked into the end of the gyre."grandfather did you say eighteen ninety three ?"


George looked up at her and said,"Yes Katie."


Megan was standing behind her as she gently set the axial motion down and said in a neural voice,"Mom, there's a firebrand new eighteen ninety 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 theme away. When the coins were exposed, she took the first base coin away and giggled as she read the particular date."It's an S !"


She pulled the minute coin away and said,"S,"she continued saying ‘ S'until all of the coins were safely separated from each other.


Tara held her open manus up to Katie and she gave her Sister a high five and said,"YES ! ! !"


Mary installed the formula in the dispersed sheet that automatically added up the number for the silver dollars."I've got eight thousand four hundred and twenty two silver grey coins with a value of four million six hundred and LXX thousand, not including the ‘ business leader'and a magisterial sum of just over thirty million dollars for everything."


"Wow,"George said,"And that's a button-down estimate ! A lot of the coins I looked at could be worth five hundred clam or l thousand dollars depending on how they're graded. We could easily have fifty to seventy five million dollars Worth of coins !"


St. James the Apostle, Megan, George, and Linda sat at the subroutine library table and discussed what they would do with the coins for the future hour while the fille went to their room to look up entropy about the coins on the computer.


Megan was worried that if the State found out there was coins in the house left by the original possessor that it would try and claim them. So it was decided to tell everyone who officially asked, that George II and Linda ‘ found'the valuable coins hidden in their house probably by Linda's grandfather who previously owned the house. They would make up a tarradiddle that he worked on rebuilding San Francisco after the great temblor of xix o six and probably brought the coins dwelling house with him.


James would ‘ suddenly'become a great aggregator of coins who had been collecting them for many yr and now had yard of them that he wanted to trade.


Kim and her sisters came back into the library with a laptop computer and set it on the mesa, e-bay was on the covert.


Mary spoke,"Daddy, we have been looking on the internet and found that e-bay has thousands of coins for sale. Most of the coins that are selling for more than than five hundred dollars are coins certified by one of two, third party grading serve. I've understand articles about them and it seems multitude trust the grade of the coins when they're certified by these two companies and will buy them sight-unseen."


Katie set some impress newspaper on the table in front of them. The adults looked over the papers as Katie explained,"This is what to costs for coins to be graded by those two companionship. You have to buy a membership in order to submit coins for grading."


Tara set some more printed theme on the table, as they looked at them she said,"Both companies have detailed listing of every year and grade of coin and their value."


Kim added,"We compared the Price of the coins on that list,"she said while pointing to the newspaper publisher,"with the selling damage on e-bay and they are very close or slightly higher."


The missy all stood quietly and waited for mortal to speak. Megan looked at Saint James the Apostle and he nodded his head. She then looked back at the missy and said,"Very skillful work lady friend. We have decided that you four will sell the low-pitched value coins. I'll go to the banking concern tomorrow and give a checking account in all of your names and you can part selling some of the low time value coins on e-bay."


James then said to the young woman,"It will have to be done slowly, with checks and cash in amount of money of less than ten thousand dollar sign or else the IRS will be notified. It's going to take several years or possibly a life sentence clock time to sell off everything. This is also going to be very prison term consuming and a lot of hard work."


James continued,"When the money starts coming into your checking business relationship, we'll divide it equally among all of you, then I'll show each of you how to spread out a brokerage house account. You're mother and I need to show all of you how to invest the money in gillyflower and mutual monetary fund. You're all going to have to larn how to superintend money because in a few years you will all be millionaires."


The girls were all smiles and began high fiving each former. Kim suddenly began crying and Saint James asked,"What's wrong Kim ?"


She went to him and held him blind drunk and began to cry harder. He gave Megan a questioning look and she said,"She's ok James, her hormones are kicking in."


Kim sniffled and looked up at him and said,"I'm so happy I found you. When I first became fraught I was worried that I wouldn't be capable to bring tending of my child 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 flood Gates opened and she began crying again, her babe went to her and they all hugged her. Mary looked up at Saint 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 little Megan continued,"If the IRS gets involve at ten thousand dollar sign, what are we going to do with the coins that are worth more than that ?"

George offered,"We may be able-bodied to find a fat buyer at a coin show that will pay in cash for the expensive 1.

"Or'” James said,"We might have to pay taxes on them."

George continued,"We should get the high gear value coins certified but we don't want to flood the market on the king Morgan's, which may ride the Mary Leontyne Price down, so we should only licence them a few at a metre and sell them before we certify more."

It was getting late so everyone pitched in to scavenge up the library and put the Word back on the shelf's so the girls could revert to their cogitation in the morning. They used several towel lined cookie rag to protect the valuable coins from touching each former and put them all back in the secret passage. William James oiled the bookcase latches and hinge again and was satisfied with their operation and the bookcase was closed and locked.

George IV and Linda returned the succeeding day from several coin shops in the area with over one thousand coin defender, coin rolls, and several dozen coin boxes. After the miss were finished with school they opened the secret transition and brought the gold coins out. They began placing the gold coins into the two by two Mylar protectors and sorted them by yr. When the daughter finished their prep they helped fetch up packaging the gold coins. Mary numbered the coin box and made another overspread weather sheet detailing the coins in each box so they could be easily found.

King James I and Megan purchased a laptop computer for George and Linda so they could begin selling the low to medium valued gold and flatware coins. The miss scoured the net and printed out highly detailed moving-picture show of professionally graded coins so they could grade the low time value coins themselves and assign a value to the coins for selling purposes.

The girls developed a organization of grading the coins by at to the lowest degree three of them secretly grading the coins and then liken the form. If there was a variance in the leveling they would discuss the coin and arrive at a decision as to its grade.


James contacted one of the better coin leveling armed service and purchased a Pt membership ; he and George picked a few of the higher valued amber and silver coins from different class, packaged them and sent them in to be graded.

Over the next week they sorted the traveling bag of ash grey dollar by year and put them in plastic pipe rolls and wrote the contents on the exterior of the rolls. They put the rolls back in the secret passage in ascending orderliness so they could be easily found. Megan supervised as all of the girls set up their accounts on the computer and began listing a few of the least expensive coins for sale.

***

The next hebdomad was a busy one for James and Megan. Jerrod handed James River a schedule of when different stuff would be required on the job to continue the work without any delays. He went with Jerrod to the edifice supply entrepot and purchased the requirement materials to start piece of work on the flat.

The interior designer, Megan, and Connie worked on choosing the level tile, countertops, the paint scheme, and early necessary detail needed for the flat. Because they planned to do all XL flat 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 cognitive content and Henry James and Megan helped them move in when they finished their job of working on the flat for the week.

During the week days while the girlfriend were in school James and Megan were regular visitors at the apartment that Jerrod and Connie were working on. Megan made lunch for them and they often ate together in the kitchen.

George and Linda were happy and excited when they sold two of the coins on e-bay for nine thousand clam. James and Megan told them to use the money to travel to a coin show that was scheduled after the first of the year. They planned on taking a couple of dozen coins higher value coins with them to test the grocery store 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 mean solar day they each had over a thousand dollars in their bill. Everything was going according to plan.


***

Megan was working at the women's shelter a few days later. She had just finished making the cookie and looked at her watch. She had XV second before she would put them in the oven so they would be hot and sassy when the threshold opened for lunch. 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 good fourth dimension employees who did a lot of the cookery. She was standing at the stove stirring a big pot of veggie and Megan noticed tears rolling down her impertinence. She had a care look on her boldness and was in the verge of crying.

Megan walked over to her and touched her shoulder 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 mulct Megan."

She was trying to put a brave grimace on as Megan asked,"How's hotdog doing ?"Frank was Julie 's husband and had broken his ankle a couple of month ago."Is his ankle getting better ?"

Julie's shoulders started to shake and Megan could see that she was trying to control her emotions without often success. Megan stepped in and began assisting her by putting some of the food into inset to be put into the help line. When they had everything ready she went back to her biscuits and put them into the oven.

She went back to Julie and asked,"Julie what's incorrectly ?"

Julie sighed and said,"Frank went to the doctor yesterday and asked when he could go back to work. He's wearing a subdued shape now and we were hoping he could go back to work next hebdomad but the Doctor said that it would be at least three Thomas More months before his ankle would be impregnable enough for him to work."

Her shoulders began to shake again and she continued,"We're behind on our mortgage and will suffer our house before weenie can get back to study, 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 cooky.

That afternoon when Megan got home she talked to Saint James."Do you remember Julie from the shelter and her husband dog ?"

Jesse James thought for a second and smiled,"Yes I remember, didn't hotdog go his leg a duad of months back ?"

"Yes that's them,"Megan said,"but it wasn't his leg, it was his ankle. I was talking to Julie today and they're having a grueling meter. Frank won't be able to go back to work for another three months but by then the depository financial institution will probably prevent on their house."The smile left James River'cheek as he sighed. Megan asked,"Is there something we could do to avail ?"

"Do you roll in the hay who holds the mortgage on the household ?"James asked.

"Yes,"Megan answered,"I'm fairly sure they use number 1 commonwealth Bank, the like camber we use."

James smiled and said,"Yes, I think we can do something."

The be calendar week Megan was back at the shelter working. She watched Julie and saw that she still carried a refer look on her side."Julie,"Megan said,"Would you and Frank and your kids like to descend over to our firm for dinner party tonight ? James and I have something to ask you."

Julie said,"Sure, we don't have any programme. What do you want to ask ?"

Megan smiled,"Let's wait until after dinner party tonight."

frank, Julie, and their two Son frank Junior and Mike rang the buzzer at six that evening. James answered the door and invited them in. Frank hobbled through the threshold with two crutches wearing a soft protective rush around his mortise joint.

"Hi, semen on in."King James I said. He looked at Julie as he shook her paw,"Megan and the girls are in the kitchen."

He looked back at frankfurter and shook his hand,"Come on in Frank and have a seat, dinner party should be ready in a few minutes."

weenie and his two, twelve and baker's dozen year old boy followed Henry James into the life room and sat. bit later Tara and Katie came in with three glasses of frost tea and offered them to Frank and his two sons. The missy were both dressed in middling sun dresses and immediately caught the eye of the two teen male child. Both of them grinned as Tara and Katie offered them the drink.

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 living room and greeted Frank and said,"dinner is ready."

wienerwurst sat following to Henry James on the slope of the expectant dining room table while his two sons sat next to him and Kim at the end following to Megan. Julie sat next to Megan on the other side of the tabular array with Mary, Katie, and Tara sitting adjacent to her.

The dinner conversation was light with Frank telling the account of how he broke his ankle. Then using a disturbed tone, told them that the doctor would not let him go back to work for at least three calendar month.

After dinner the girls cleared the table and cleaned the kitchen while the adult sat at the dining room board drinking coffee. hot dog Junior and microphone followed the young woman into the kitchen.

Saint James excused himself and went to the situation and returned seconds later and placed his briefcase on the tabular array in movement of himself."The rationality we asked you to dinner,"William James said while opening the briefcase,"is to inform you that low State Bank no longer owns the mortgage to your house."

Henry James removed a declaration from his briefcase that contained about a dozen legal sized pieces of newspaper that were stapled to a thick blueness backer paper and slid the document across the mesa to frankfurter and Julie. Frank and Julie paged through the document remembering it from six years ago when they signed it at the bank. The final stage page showed their notarise signature on it. Below that they noticed the banking company chairman and a loan situation notarise signature. In the middle of the page was a large red starting time State Bank stamp indicating the loanword was paid in full.

Julie looked at Megan,"I don't understand, I told you a twain of 24-hour interval ago that we won't be able to make the payment until hotdog 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 St. James the Apostle 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 continue making your mortgage payments to us instead of the bank."

Frank sighed deeply,"You don't understand Saint James the Apostle, we still won't be capable to make the payment until I can get back to work."

"We understand that dog,"Megan said,"That's why the new contract says that your first requital is due one year from today. That should feed you enough fourth dimension to get back to work."

Julie's shoulders began shaking as she silently tried to moderate her happy tear. James watched as Frank looked down at his hands, he seemed embarrassed."Frank, Julie, this is a win-win situation, it's not charity. Your new interest rate will be about one-half of what it used to be on the original loan. Your new mortgage payment will be about three hundred dollars per month less, including the escrow, and in fourteen years when you're finished paying for your family we'll have made money too. It's just business sector, you pay less and we make money on the raft. We both win."

Frank looked at Julie and nodded his head in correspondence. Julie sniffled and said,"Thank you ; I don't know what to say, this will help us get through this."

Megan nodded to James I and he continued,"We've seen your sign of the zodiac and talked with a actual estate federal agent, they said that your mansion is in a very sound location and has appreciated in value."

James removed a teller's bank check from the briefcase and slid it across the table as he continued."To edulcorate the deal we will afford you this check for ten thousand dollars when you bring the signed contract bridge back. This money has been added to the contract and should help you with your doctor note and see you through until you start working again. take in the contract home with you, learn it over and have your lawyer look it over if you want. If you agree to the terms, sign it, have it notarized, and bring it back to us."


***

< < < Saint James suddenly found himself standing at the swallow hole at the woman's tax shelter. The swallow hole was to the full to overflowing with dingy pots and pans. He looked to the floor and was surrounded by several dozen more pots and pans. The water filling the sump began to overflow and run down the front onto the story. He franticly searched for the hold to shut the body of water off but it was hidden from survey behind the slew of dirty pots and pan.

Off to his right he heard Megan say,"Henry James I need that pan now !"

Off to his left field he saw Kim standing by the kitchen door."Hurry pop, I'm hungry,"she sobbed out to him.

He franticly searched through the pans but couldn't find the one that Megan needed.

Off to his right he again heard Megan say,"hurry Jesse James ! I need it recognize !"

He looked at her but instead of seeing Megan it was now Mrs. Parker standing there. She yelled,"precipitation James River, there isn't much prison term left, I have to consume it know !"

In a panic he looked on the storey for the pan she needed and he noticed that he was standing in piddle up to his knees. He began searching through the goat god in the sump again for the faucet grip but he couldn't find the back of the sink.

Off to his left he heard Kim again say,"Please hastiness daddy, I'm hungry !"

He looked and saw that it wasn't his sixteen class old girl Kim any longer but she seemed to have aged. She now looked to be thirty years old and very skinny. He franticly looked back at the cesspool and he was now standing on his tiptoes with the water splashing over into his mouth. With his hands under the body of water he desperately felt around for the spigot to shut the water system off.

Off to his left field he heard a constant screaming and looked to see a fifty dollar bill year old Kim standing by the kitchen door watchword. He looked closer and saw that she was nix but skin and bones. As his mouth and olfactory organ went under water he relaxed and accepted his lot.
As he drifted helpless in the water, unable to move he felt somebody shake his shoulder,"James… James… JAMES !"> > >

He opened his oculus and bolted straight up in bed. exertion was pouring off his forehead and he couldn't captivate his breath. 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 vocalisation."It's just a dream honey ! Lie down and go back to sleep."

She rubbed his back and he began to chill out down. He took in a mystifying breath and lay back down following to Megan."Ya, I'm all right. It was just a stupe nightmare."

"Do you want to talk about it ?"she asked as she cuddled in close to him.

James sighed and told her of his dream.

Megan hugged him tight and whispered,"Sometimes our aspiration are trying to tell us something, but virtually of the time they are just stupid dreams."

"Yes dearest I know,"James IV said,"But they seem so real when they're happening that it's just difficult to get them out of your mind."

Megan held Saint James the Apostle blind drunk and kissed the back of his neck and said,"I know dearest, try and get some sleep."

She lay there next to James wide awake now as she thought back to the morning when she went to the Woman's tax shelter and found Kim. The week before that, she had some dreams about the start time she had seen Kim at the shelter and that good morning the dream popped back into her mind while she was driving. She clearly remembered the zany bumps she felt as she made the quick left field hand turn and headed for the shelter. ‘ If I didn't have that dream,'Megan thought to herself, ‘ I would have never gone to the shelter that dawning and found Kim.'

She thought back to the first day that she met James. The inst she saw him standing in the apartment she felt something. It was more than an attraction to someone ; it was a warm relaxing feeling, Sir Thomas More of a bond that had been instantly formed and she realized that she could entrust him with her life.

Megan began remembering moments during her life story with William James when she was doing something and she realized that she needed James for something and she would see up and he would be standing there. She did the same matter to James, he would look up at her and say, ‘ oh there you are I was just going to go find you.'A affectionate feeling washed over her as she hugged James and smiled to herself. ‘ So this is what it feels like when you find your soul mate.'

She thought about James IV'dreaming again. ‘ If I'm somehow connected to James I is he trying to tell me something ? In his dream I had turned into Mrs Charlie Parker while Kim was hungry and needed help, but James couldn't helper her. But we have already found Kim and ‘ have'helped her ? It can't be her, could it ? St. James said that Kim got older and skinner in his dreaming. ‘ Hmmm,'Megan thought, ‘ an elder and skinner Kim…'Then the light went off in Megan's brain, ‘ James'mother…'

The next forenoon after breakfast she drove to the woman's shelter and went to Mrs. Parker's desk.

"Good aurora Megan,"Mrs. Parker said with a bright 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'adoption 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 tribunal order."

"How do I get a homage order ?"Megan asked.

"Forget it Megan, they don't receptive those files unless there is a very good rationality such as a medical penury and then they won't give out names."

Megan was frustrated and sighed looking Mrs. Dorothy Rothschild Parker oceanic abyss in her heart,"You know, ,, Katie, Tara, and I were very tightlipped to coming to the shelter to live on before we met King James I, ,, and wasn't that a nice thing he did taking Mary in ?"

Mrs. Dorothy Parker was shaking her head no."We could do more."Megan continued as she glared at Mrs. Parker,"Wouldn't it be courteous if you had a couple more apartments to put struggling families in ?"

Mrs. Parker was shaking her head the whole clock time that Megan was talking."I could get sack 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 okay most generous human being organism that I know."Megan stood and continued,"Think about it, all I want is a name and her day of the month of nascence. James deserves to know."

She turned and left the office. Mrs. Parker thought about Megan's postulation for the remainder of the day. She knew in her heart that James was a trade good man and deserved to know. But if his mother didn't want the information released and complained, she knew she would be fired and probably sent to jail. There's no way she could look at the single file without signing the register and the ‘ might that be'would see her signature and know she was the one who gave the information out.

She sighed and thought that it wouldn't hurt to bet at the file to see if she could figure out the rationality why Jesse James was given up for adoption. The keep an eye on morning she went to the book department, signed in, and looked at the file. She read the data file and saw his female parent's name, Connie York, Date of birth, November s xix 60. She then looked at St. James the Apostle'day of the month of birth, September fifth, nineteen 70 six.

‘ Damn,'she said under her hint, ‘ she was only fifteen year old when she gave birth.'She sighed as she closed the file and left the records room. She struggled with her conclusion for the next two 24-hour interval finally writing her public figure and date of nascence on a post-it eminence and put it in her pocketbook. Mrs Parker called Megan and asked her to bring together her for luncheon.

Megan had a worried smile on her face as she saw Mrs. Yardbird Parker walk over to the mesa and sat down.

"how-do-you-do Mrs. Parker."Megan said trying to translate her expression.

"Hello Megan, how are you ?"Mrs. Parker asked.

"I'm amercement, have you decided to help me ?"Megan asked.

Mrs. Dorothy Parker sighed and opened her purse and took out the post-it short letter with James'mother's name on it."Megan, my life history is in your deal. If a complaint is made it will come back on me, I had to signalize my name to attend at the file."

She passed the government note to Megan. Megan held Mrs. Dorothy Parker deal and said,"Don't worry I'll be very distinct. If something happens we'll Emily Post your bail and get you the best lawyer we can retrieve. Please don't say anything to James ; I don't want to get his hopes up if I can't receive her or if she's dead."

"His female parent was only fifteen years old when he was born,"Mrs. Parker said,"I'm hoping that she was forced to leave him up and will want to find him and be a part of his life."

That evening she secretly began her hunt for Connie York. She was frustrated to see out that there was C of Connie York's in the United country. None of the name had a date of birth with them but they did have an approximate age. She narrowed the list down to thirty and began calling them the next morning. Over the next few days she called as many as she could. There were a few with abrupt bit and a couple of hang-up's but the residual of them said that it wasn't her birth date.

She tried the married couple database thinking she may be married. There were a few possibilities but they turned out not to be the somebody she was looking for. about of the State Department didn't make the database public including the Department of State they were in so Megan temporarily gave up until she could suppose of something else.

***

It had been a very busy and exciting week for Epistle of James and his menage. After their life history had calmed down somewhat his thoughts had turned to the coming holiday season.

The Monday before Thanksgiving while they were eating dinner Megan asked,"What does everyone require to eat for thanksgiving ?"

Henry James immediately said,"dressing, please realise the turkey stuffing that you made live year."

Megan smiled at him as the girls began telling her their deary.

James looked back and Forth between Blessed Virgin and Kim and said,"This will be your first Thanksgiving with us and you both are in for a kickshaw. Your mother is the best cook in the whole human race !"

Megan blushed and said,"Well, I don't know about the whole world."

James smiled and joked,"Ok, maybe not the altogether world, but certainly the whole United States."

During and after dinner party they planned the menu and made a food market inclination of everything that they would require. On Midweek school had been dismissed for the weekend to allow their teacher Mrs. Hilton to travel to her family's house.

After breakfast everyone helped with the baking. Megan and her mother Linda introduced Kim and Mary to the finer stop of baking. They patiently watched and guided them as Kim and Mary rolled the lolly for the PIE and watched them measure the ingredients for the cookie.

They all enjoyed talking about what they wanted to do with some of the money of their new found wealth. St. James helped with sporting up while Megan and the daughter went on to new bake project. Once again all of Megan's menage came for Thanksgiving dinner party to James and Megan's sign.

The day after thanksgiving, the Yule season started with the decorating of the family tree and the house. The girls were very excited and with James and Megan Holocene epoch godsend they spared no expense to insure that all of the fille had the very outflank Christmas Day that they ever had. Because it would be Kim and Mary's low gear Christmas with them he wanted this yr's celebration to be better than last years and one that they would never forget.

In early December about a workweek before Kim's sixteenth birthday they were sitting at the dinner party table when Kim asked,"Mom, Dad, Would it be ok if I had a birthday political party following calendar week ?"

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 River and Megan had been secretly planning a birthday surprise for her and the girls for the last two hebdomad.

James looked up at the ceiling and said thoughtfully,"Let's see… Thursday, Thursday,"he looked at Megan and said,"Megan, do we have got any plans for next Thursday ?"

"No James IV, I don't think so."She said then looked at Kim saying,"Would you like some cake and ice emollient ?"

"Kim was a petty disappointed in their want of enthusiasm about her birthday and said,"I was hoping that we could maybe get some reservations or something and go out to eat ?"

"mental reservation ?"Henry James said while trying not to reach the surprise away,"Yes I think we can get some reservations for somewhere."

Nothing more was said about it until the following Sunday Night. James called up the stairs,"daughter ! Would you all come down here please ?"

They walked into the animation way and Katie asked,"What's up daddy ?"

James picked up an envelope from the coffee tree table and handed it to Kim and said,"We got you some reservations for your birthday party."

They all looked at James IV a slight funny and Megan said,"Go ahead Kim, open it."

Kim opened the envelope and saw the Disney logo at the top of the Page but there was too often writing on the Sir Frederick Handley Page for her to immediately understand what it meant.

James allowed Kim to rake the page for a few second base then said,"I hope you don't mind but we made dinner reservations for your birthday at Walt Disney World."

"We're going to Disney earth ?"Katie asked as they all began jumping up and down while they hugged each former.

"We're going to Disney world !"They all said at least five times each as they continued jumping up and down. Henry James and Megan laughed the whole time as the girls jumped on their laps and dozens of hugs and kisses were exchanged.

"Girls !"Megan said in a loud enough vox so she could be heard over their unremitting chatter,"Our flight leaves tomorrow good afternoon, and we will be there for seven days. Go up the stairs and lay out your clothes on your bed so we can get packed."

"trajectory ?"Kim said,"You mean we're going to fly in an airplane ?"

"Yes,"Megan answered,"our flight leaves tomorrow afternoon."

"Wow,"Kim's said, her eyes were as big as dish aerial,"I've never been on an aeroplane before."

"Nether have I !"Katie and Tara answered at the exact Lapplander time. They hooked their pinky fingers together and wrinkled their nose at each other which was a sister thing they always did when they spoke the Sami words at the same time.

"Well,"James IV answered,"it's a lot faster than driving and it's very exciting the initiative clip you do it, I think you're all really going to enjoy it."

It was a hectic evening trying to get enough clothes packed for the girls. The girls ran around the household looking for different articles of wear that they wanted to bring. The evening wore on into the early hours of the break of the day as they were all too excited to fall asleep.

The next day it seemed like one of the girls asked James or Megan every ten min, ‘ when are we leaving ?'The time finally arrived and they got into the limousine and rode to the airport. They checked in and made it through security and on to the departure logic gate.

At this point, after looking out the windows, the girls began to get neural about flying, finally realizing after they saw the aircraft up close that they were getting onto a jet.

When they called for the number 1 class passengers to board James said,"That's us, let's go."

Kim and Mary held on to James'deal for dear life as they walked down the jet way. All four girls had fear in their eyes as they stepped off the jet way and on to the aircraft. They took their keister and the hostess welcomed them and brought them some drinks.

St. James said to the stewardess,"None of our daughters have ever flown before."

The hostess smiled at Kim and said,"Welcome aboard, there's nothing to interest 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 James and said the like matter to them. The plane taxied to the end of the runway and James I pointed out the window and said,"There's the runway, as soon as we turn on to it we'll be quick for takeoff."

As soon as the engines came up to takeoff big businessman and the jet accelerated down the runway Kim grabbed Jesse James'script and held on tight. James looked across the aisle and saw Madonna and Tara holding each other's hand while they had excited smiling on the faces.

After liftoff Kim watched out the window and became fascinated with the view and relaxed her grip on his paw. The low gear category hostess only had to cater to ten citizenry so the girls got everything they asked for.

James and Megan rented a three chamber villa at the beach club resort for their seven day stay. The first of all evening there, the missy changed into their swimming courting and they all explored the resort, including the beach and heated swimming puddle.

On Th good afternoon they returned to the room to unlax and get dressed for Kim's natal day dinner party. She and the girls were surprised when they went to the marina and walked onto the fifty foot yacht for their secret dinner cruise. The crowd catered to the crime syndicate for dinner. They all, including the crew, sang glad natal day to Kim.

King James told Kim after her birthday song was finished,"Your natal day nowadays were at home and you'll have to wait until then to open them."

"Daddy,"Kim smiled,"I don't need any Thomas More presents, and this is the best birthday and the most fun I've ever had in my whole life."

After dinner they all went outside onto the pack of cards to watch, at close orbit, the nightly fireworks display.

Seven Clarence Shepard Day Jr. is barely sufficiency time to see and do everything at Walter Elias Disney cosmos. Every day was crammed full of one exciting event after another. Sunday morning they packed their bags and headed to the airport for their trajectory house.

***

Christmas was an agitate day and James and Megan bought the girls more endowment than they should sustain. Kim was loaded down with baby giving plus some new maternal quality apparel. The other girls received new clothes, the latest new jail cell headphone, and matching earrings & necklaces.

With the lady friend new found wealth all of the girls had a large family portraiture painted in oil for King James I. He stared at it with an open mouth then said,"I know the perfect place for this,"while dabbing at the tear in the niche of his eye,"I'll put it above the open fireplace in the den. Thank you girls ; this is the best nowadays I've ever received."

Epistle of James closely examined each face in the painting before he set the photo aside and glanced at Megan. She smiled and nodded her oral sex as James stood and reached in his pocket. He pulled out the same wristband box that he gave Megan in conclusion year and walked over to Kim.

"Kim, I've got one Thomas More present tense for you."He said handing the box to her.

Katie and Tara were giggling, knowing what was inside the box. Mary looked at Tara with a questioning manifestation and Tara quickly whispered in Mary's ear. A smile outburst out on her font as Kim opened the box. She slowly pulled the key out and looked at James."What is it ?"

"Go reckon out in the front yard."James said smiling at her.

The girls were squealing with delectation while they pulled Kim off the lounge and pushed her to the straw man door. She pulled back the mantle and began crying as she looked at the trade name new silver Lexus, with a elephantine red bow on top, sitting in the drive. James and Megan were standing in the living room, while they watched Kim at the front door.

Kim hugged her sisters 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 excitement died down Megan quickly kissed James and pushed him down on the couch. She smiled and said,"I've got one more present for you."

She brought him a humble 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 white baby plunder."Oh, you must possess meant for this to go to Kim."He said while handing the package to her.

"No King James I,"Megan said while shaking her head 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 sidesplitter of excitation, while Epistle of James smiled at Megan. He held his arms open and she sat down on his lap and they kisses while the fille piled in around them in one giant grouping hug.

***

One afternoon shortly after the New Year, Megan was helping Connie strip old paint from the interior window skeleton of the apartment they were remodeling. They began talking about St. James."James has been living here for about twenty dollar bill years."Megan said,"I met him about two years ago when I was down on my hazard. James gave me and my young woman an apartment rent-free and we took an instant liking to each other."

"That's sugared,"Connie said,"does he have any brothers or sister ?"

"No, none that we know of,"Megan sighed and sadly continued,"James is an orphan, and he was unofficially adopted by the previous owners of the apartments and became their heir because they had no family."

"Oh that's so sad,"Connie said,"My mother told me that she had to gift up a child when she was a Thomas Young teen. So I guess I have a comrade out there somewhere that we can't find."

Megan stopped scrapping the old rouge off the window and closely looked at Connie. She had never noticed before that Connie had the Saame dour brown crinkled hairsbreadth, and the Same center and nose that James II had. She stepped back a brace of footstep and took in her eastern European features. ‘ Could it be ?'Megan thought to herself. Megan's sass fell open as she continued looking at Connie.

"Megan, what's damage ? 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 hand covered her gapping, wide open, mouth then she took in a deep breath."What is her engagement of nascence ?"

Connie gave Megan a pertain look,"November second, Why ?"

"November second xix sixty ?"Megan almost shouted.

"Yes 19 sixty, how did you know ?"

Megan screamed out a shrill squeal and jumped up and down then grabbed Connie in an excited hug. Jerrod stopped working in the kitchen and walked to the keep elbow room to see what was going on. He stood next to Connie as Megan asked."Where is she ?"

Connie looked at her lookout man and said,"She is probably at employment right now."

"No, no, that's not what I meant ; does she live here in the urban center ?"Megan asked barely able to utter without screaming.

"Yes she lives over in the housing projection on Front Street with my dad. Megan, what's going on ?"

Megan took in several deep breathing space to calm herself and said,"Mrs. Dorothy Parker looked at James'adoption record and said his mother's name is Connie York and she was born on November sec XIX sixty."

"York ?"Connie said,"That's my mom's maid name !"It finally dawned on her and she started crying,"That means that Jesse James in my…"

Connie turned and cried on Jerrod's shoulder as Megan finished the sentence,"half brother ?"

Connie looked back at Megan and shook her header as she cried out,"No, he's my entire brother ! My dad got my mother significant when they were still in high up 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 passing as to how she was going to stay on her search for James'parents.

Megan called James on her cell phone and told him to do over to the apartment. When he arrived Connie screamed as she ran to him and hugged him tight. William James nervously looked at Jerrod who was grinning from ear to ear.

"James,"Megan said as he looked at her with concern,"You need to sit down ; we have some good tidings to differentiate you."

Connie took his hand and led him to a death chair and stood beside him. He was embarrassed because Connie was still holding his deal. He looked at Megan and she said,"It's ok Saint James, She's your sister."

James looked at her and said in an irritated voice,"What do you mean she's my Sister ?"

"I talked to Mrs Parker last month and she told me your mother's gens. I've been searching for weeks for her. While talking to Connie this morning we found out you both have the Lapplander parents. There's more James, your mother and father are alive and they live a few mil from here over on Front Street."

James sat in the chair stunned as Connie hugged him and kissed his buttock. Jesse James was still in shock when he asked Connie,"Why did they hold me away ?"

"I'm so deplorable James,"Connie answered in a sedate interpreter,"My… I mean our grandparents were very religious and very rigid, when they found out mom was fraught they made her give you up for adoption. They were very block and very abusive toward her, they even called her a whore."

"She was only fifteen at the time and didn't have a choice."Connie continued,"right wing after I was born, I guess when you were about five old age old, they tried to get you but the judge wouldn't open the adoption records. There was nothing else they could do. believe me when I say that mother has been heartbroken ever since."

The geared wheel in James'head were spinning about a million knot per hour. All of the bad memory of his childhood ran through his caput like a video tape on firm forward. Most of his life he had been upset and mad at the populace because he had been abandoned and had no syndicate.

Megan saw the emotion on his nerve and could almost read his mind ; she spoke, pulling him back to reality,"James I, this is a dream cum true for you. The circumstances were out of your parent's command, they did everything they could to happen you. You need to leave those bad thoughts in the past and look forward to a bright new beginning."

James sighed as he thought for a moment. He realized that Megan was correct as usual. He could hold a score 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 baby huh, order me about your biography and our parents."

Connie hugged him unvoiced and cried well-chosen split for a few seconds then told Jesse James stories of her animation living with their mother and father. Thirty minutes later Henry James and Megan followed Connie and Jerrod to their apartment and they sat and looked through her photo album.

Megan called Mrs. Hilton and the girls were released from school day for the day and they all walked to Connie and Jarrod's flat and were reintroduced to their Aunt Connie and Uncle Jerrod. They all ate lunch at James I and Megan's house and continued talking while sitting at the dining room table.

"Mom and dad aren't doing very well financially,"Connie said to James II,"Dad was working full metre after you were born instead of going to school. They both ended up quitting high school and neither one of them has a very good job. They are living on assistance in the housing labor over on forepart Street."

"I've driven by that sphere,"St. James the Apostle said,"It's not a very effective or safe region. 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 work by now and should be home, do you want me to invite them over here ?"

James II 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 ?"

Megan smiled and said,"Don't worry, we'll throw something together, make out on girls we have work to do."

Connie told James that she would break the news to them when she went to piece them up. They both agreed they didn't want to afford them a nitty-gritty attack breaking the news all at once in front of everyone.

He was a nervous wreck waiting for her to get back with his new found parents. He paced back and forth glancing at his spotter and out the window every couple mo. He spent a couple minutes watching Megan and the girls doing their magic in the kitchen as they were preparing dinner. The female child were excited, especially Kim. After all, they just found out they had grandparents.

He finally saw Connie's car puff into the driveway and he walked back into the living room and sat down. He was too nervous and didn't want to be the one that answered the threshold.

Megan and the girls answered the room access and he heard the excitement as they were all being introduced. James slowly stood and walked into the foyer ; he stood in the archway and watched as his female parent was hugging Kim.

His sire saw him first and nervously smiled. King James I saw the resemblance and immediately knew that he was his father. His eyes, jaw melody, and the same dismount European olive tree skin told him what he needed to know. James II stepped forward and shook his hand.

"Finally we meet,"James'father Raymond said,"You have no idea how longsighted and how grueling we've looked for you. I'm so pitiful that we weren't there for you when you were growing up."

Before he could serve he heard his mother squeal with agitation. He looked at her just as she grabbed him in a contain hug and began crying happy tears. James wrapped his arms around her spine and hugged her tight. He looked over her shoulder joint at Megan and the others and saw the glad smiling on their faces.

They hugged each other for a replete arcminute before she released him and pulled back. She blinked her eye quickly, trying to clear her snag so she could get a good flavour 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 happy that I have found you too."William James 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 oculus and said,"About a twelvemonth and a one-half ago she walked into my living and everything changed. I still don't understand how she managed to rule all of you, but she did. She is the best affair that ever happened to me and I truly believe that she is an Angel Falls that was sent to me."

epilogue

To say that James'biography was now complete would have been an understatement. Two short long time ago he was lonely, exclusive, and an orphan. Now he had a full phase of the moon folk with a beautiful, sexy, and talented Angel Falls for a wife, four smart caring daughters and a child on the way, a loving baby, and most of all he had a existent female parent and forefather. What more could anyone possibly ask for.

Connie was correct when she said they were having financial difficulties. The low paying job they managed to keep didn't allow for any of sprightliness's extras. But James fixed all of that. When Jerrod completed the renovation of the kickoff apartment they insisted that his parents move in. James went one step further, with the assistance of the DoI designer ; the flat was furnished with all new appliances and furnishings. When the second base apartment was finished Jerrod, Connie, and their baby moved into it.

Jerrod's work on the apartments was of the highest quality so James and Megan decided to set him up with his own construction business concern. His inaugural job was remodeling and adding an accession to George and Linda's house.

Kim gave birth to a healthy baby boy in former MArch. She named him Raymond after her newly found grandfather. With five female person living in the home with him and a grandmother and an aunty living just a few pace away it is safe to say that the child will be spoiled rotted.

Kim, Katie, Tara, and Blessed Virgin's banking concern and brokerage firm accounts grew almost daily. Epistle of James taught them and cautioned them that research and hard work was the only way to consistently peck good stocks. It turned out they had a knack for picking them. Almost every morning one of them could be found with their nose in the paries Street Journal.

George went to the coin show and found that there was a great interest in the coins he brought with him. One of the dealer had a confidential guest that bought several of the higher priced coins and paid cash for them.

James River and George examined all of the Martin Luther King Morgan's closely under a magnifying loupe. They picked the very best one and manus delivered it to the professional coin grading Robert William Service. It didn't score a perfective tense Mint State LXX but it did score a Mint Department of State sixty nine which was the highest grade ever for a Riley B King Morgan.

They allowed the grading service to exhibit the coin at coin shows around the country to generate interestingness in it and it was sold at auction sale the following year to an unrevealed telephone buyer for one point seven five million dollar sign. The highest amount ever paid for a Sir Henry Morgan silver dollar.

James II and George were both stage at the auction sale and smiled at each former knowing they still had nineteen More of the coins at home in almost the same condition.

It was a hot and miserable summertime for Megan but on September twenty percent, which was James'natal day, she gave nascence to a healthy baby boy. Megan insisted that he be named James after his founder.

A tear formed in his eyes as he watches little Epistle of James suckling at his mother's titty."Thank you Megan for everything you have done for me. I think that I'm probably the felicitous man in the unit world."

biography goes on.

The End