Raising Tasha

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Jerry

I could not hold in my laugher, the comical way Claire had widen had widen at my suggestion was a sight to see. Could a human's eyes get that wide? She was looking very adorable sitting there shocked, I could not control my hands and before I knew it was pinching her cheeks,

"Ouch!" I had been slapped, hard. Claire had not held back her strength when she had hit my arm. This little woman had a lot of strength on those bony arms. I could still feel the stinging pain from the hit.

"Damn woman! Those bones actually hurt!" I tell her while rubbing my fore arm trying to alleviate the sting only to end up rubbing the other arm too. My comment had earned me another hit but I could not stop myself, she was just to cute.

Even while lying lying helplessly in her hospital bed her fiery attitude could not be hidden. Just observing her brought a smile to my face. My friends would be so shocked if the saw me now, in my circle I was a cold emotionless man. 

"I'm not sleeping with you!" blurts out Claire from beside me and I almost fall off my seat in shock. What the hell was this woman on? I had not even wanted to ask her to pay me back for anything but she had brought up the topic on her own.

"Who wants so sleep with you?" I ask looking at her up and down, "you are too bony for my taste. I like my women with some meat on their bones." I answer her in a serious manner causing her to hide under the blankets.

"You p*****t!" she snaps trying to hit me one more time but because she can not not see me she ends up flailing her thin arms in the air almost causing Tasha to fall off the bed.

"Sleeping with you looks like it would hurt! Ouch, you are so bony miss," I go on poking fun at her, her reactions to me egging her on were too precious. She looked like an angry little kitten, how cute!

"The why are you wasting your time with me? Go find a meaty woman somewhere else. My bones and I would like some peace and quiet please." she was getting frustrated, I could tell buy the way she had a hand in fist. I was almost sure if it were someone else they would have already been kicked out the room with a few punches, to me she was just being polite because I had helped her. At least she was clever enough to not bite the hand that fed her.

"You are the p*****t!" I finally tell her.

"Why? It was you who came up with idea, why am I taking the blaming" she asks voice subconsciously going an octave higher showing how much embarrassment she was currently feeling.

"What? I said you should work for me to repay your debt. What part of my conversation touched on s*x? therefore you are the pervert."  honestly though, when had I asked for s*x? Did I miss something that I had said?

"Ummm, I...I sorry I misunderstood" he voice was barely above a whisper, she was now covering her face with her palms. I could barely hear anything she said. She had bee all brave when accusing me of being a p*****t but now she could not even look me in the eye.

"I meant work, like a job. Do I look like the kind of man who goes around sleeping with anyone?" I could not understand how she had jumped into that conclusion, "do you know how to cook?" I ask. I did not really have work for but she had been persistent. She did not like owing people favours, that was a stubborn but an admirable trait.

"Of course I can cook, I am mother after all" she answered with pride. She did enjoying being a parent her eyes twinkled when she mentioned anything related to Tasha whom I had noticed was a very well behaved child. Not once had she interrupted my and her mother, conversation. 

"I am always busy at work and I need some one to help me prepare my meals, you could come during the weekend and prepare meals for a whole week. This weekend could be the trial period, if things work out well I can hire you for the rest of the year. Of course that is if you are up to it" call it pity but I felt bad for Claire but especially for her daughter. Claire needed a stable source of income to provide Tasha with a stable home. I had money to spare, I could just hand the money to her but I knew she would not accept as prove by her instance to pay back her hospital bill.

Finally getting discharged I offer to take them home to which Claire refused with a passion. She claimed she did not want want to bother me but I thought otherwise, she probably did not want me to see their living conditions but she had just gotten out of the hospital I was not goin to leave them to fend for themselves. Besides they could not jump out of a moving car but I had underestimated her I drove round and round in circles for about an hour, she was not giving me the directions to her house.

 "How about I add the cost of gas to your hospital bill? I casual mentioned. Now that got her ass moving quickly I had gotten what I wanted and of we went, her house was actually near the hospital but she had watched me drive in the opposite direction for about an hour, what a heartless woman.

I had stopped by the supermarket and bought the a lot of food, "It is for you to brush up on your cooking skills. I do not want to eat poorly cooked food" I had used that as an excuse when Claire was going to refuse my help, she was proud. I know I would abandon my pride for free food but I guess that was just me.

The house before me, if we could it a house was falling apart. There were holes on the walls, raw sewage was openly flowing like a river outside the gate. I quickly understood why she had not wanted me to come, I was sticking out like a sore thumb. Her neighbors were gathered outside pointing fingers while talking about her. I had unintentionally caused her trouble, after helping her in the house I practically speed off out of there. 

"I have got to get them out of there," I could not help but think on my way home. I had to do something.