Jennystepped back and let the both of them come into her small room."Derek didn't mention anything about him asking anyone to check in withme," she sa...id to him."Brother Derek called me a short while ago. I apologize for not gettinghere earlier to check on you, but I thought it best to wait until sisterMadeline was able to come along with me." He indicated the woman besidehim. "After all, it would not look right for me to be visiting a youngwoman such as yourself without another woman. Schatz Construction shriek his name. Now, several years after exchanging vows for better or for worse, Wanda stood frozen in the kitchen where chef-quality dinners had grown cold on too many nights. There she remained as stiff as a cadaver, heavy with burden, a half-hour after learning the news that he and she were expecting an unplanned baby. Wanda snatched the flimsy curtains from the tension rod and sank down to the linoleum floor until she was in the fetal position, the lace panels covering. “Sure sis, but we can't tell our parents though,” Jake replied.“I wasn't going to,” I said.He got into his dresser looking for condoms.“I'm out of condoms,” Jake said.“I thought you had a lot of sex before I moved in?” I asked.“No, not much. I didn't wanna do it when you were here, I thought you'd be uncomfortable,” Jake replied.“Well, you better get some more. I'm all out of birth control now,” I said as I took a pill.He was getting naked, I saw him naked a handful of times. We had a few. Most people who stopped by didn'tbother to trade names and she could tell that, until he had seen thatlittle baggie, that he was just a few moments from moving on as well.She held out her hand to him and said that her name was Tonya. It was ahand that was in some ways like her face. There was the trace of thegirl she had been mingled in with the seasoning of the woman that shewas becoming. It was a good hand. The hand of someone who was not afraidto get it dirty when there was something needing.