Chapter 104

As I was climbing up the stairs in all fumbles and foot stepping, I meet an elderly woman on the floor of the second floor. She was waiting for me apparently, she said she heard struggling so waited behind to help whoever it was. I shouldn't lie, I was shocked.

Who would wait for anyone struggling up the stairs? I even questioned the integrity of that statement but she looked genuinely concerned and ready to help. It was not every day you see such souls hanging around.

I look back at her, she said something but I didn't get it. I was too busy questioning her motives. "I'm sorry come again" I politely answer.

"Oh I said is it ok if you let me carry one of them up the stairs?" she asks.

I look down at my two pups being comfortable torturing their mom with their heavy weight. Hesitantly I reply, "I don't know, I wouldn't want to impose on you."

"Nonsense, what do you mean impose? I am the one who asked." She says bending over and carrying Rafe from the carrier. At first he makes a face and then settles down in her arms. He just looked like he didn't care what was going on and was just glad to not be bopped from side to side in the carrier.

"There" she says as if satisfied that the little toddler did not reject her. She starts the way up the stairs leading to the third floor my floor. Now that I had one to carry, it was easier.

As we are climbing, she looks over her shoulder as she speaks to me. "You must be the new tenant, I am Dolly and I have lived here ever since I could knit. And my grandchildren are brought to me now and again for visits. They are also little toddlers not older than your own. They are twins right?"

"Ah yes ma'am they are..." "No need to call me that, you ca call me Dolly" she cuts me mid-sentence.

"Dolly, yes they are twins" I say with a smile "born in the fall" who didn't like bragging about her babies when given the chance? Certainly not me. I would have flaunt these pups in front of the whole galaxy if I was told to do so. I was proud and happy that I had such beautiful pups. With another on the way. A voice in the back of my head says.

I shut that part of my brain as soon as I entered the building. I didn't need to remember that for some time, I needed to process it and actually give it a good thought. For the time being let's focus on getting me a job.

"Did you say fall?" Dolly asks.

Getting back from my head I look at her and her puzzled expression, well what I could see of it. "Yes the fall"

"This year?"

"Yes this year" I narrow my eyes, where was she going with this.

"Don't they look a bit big for their age" she states not questions. Of course she is a human mother, she is used to seeing babies growth delayed. It is why she was surprised that my pups are bigger than the average child their age.

I give a little laugh "They are fast growers, took it from their father's side." I lie, not completely. They were fast growers until they reach a certain age when they will grow just normal like all human beings.

"Oh, their father must have been a very big man" she says dismissing it though she was clearly still puzzled.

Oh you don't know how true that statement is, I say to myself. Thinking of Aiden's big biceps and body full of hard muscle. I tried, but I couldn't, to find any amount of fat on his body hanging around. I was disappointed to learn that some people wake up and choose to be perfect. Why didn't it work for me.

Getting to the third floor I notice that Dolly keeps on going, "Dolly, I end here" I call out to her. she stops and looks down in her arms. "Oh will you look at that. He fell asleep." She says smiling.

I let her lay him back in the carrier and bids me farewell as she continues up the steps. She tells me not to be a stranger and if I needed any help she gave me her apartment number.

Such a nice lady, I am glad that I found her when I did. If I didn't, I would have been very exhausted by now.

Next day I was ready to drop off my babies at a day care center and go job hunting. The daycare was some place I found in the city, that way I thought it would be easier to not worry about them when I knew they were nearby.

After a long days search I was lucky enough to find a decent job that paid by the hour, not much but it was a start. I was told to start right away but I told them that today I just had to see how things were handled so that I can start better tomorrow.

It wasn't bad, not like the other jobs that had nice pay and all I just couldn't accept the offers. It was disgusting how men liked to take advantage of venerable women. I wasn't fit to fit into the category of ‘venerable women' but with my condition, I was.

I didn't need to be around human men who thought the would started and ended with their private parts. How could they think that by undressing me I was going to say yes to their preposterous money offer? Sick bastards is what they are.

Thank goodness I didn't give up and ended up here at Eddy's. It is a restaurant and bar and I was employed as a waitress. Fortunately they had been understaffed since last month when one of their waitress left to get married to some hot shot as he said it.