Chapter 15: An Unwanted Visitor

It has now completed an entire week without the children driving me insane or me strangling them. In fact, I was fully acting as a mother... to two children, Alan wouldn't let me touch him or be nice to him, I was still the enemy.

But now, I didn't care, I had two angels fawning over me and I was loving the attention. Now that Arthur didn't follow Alan around anymore, Alan started spending more time in the town with some boys he said were his friends, though I've never seen them before. At least he respected my wishes and always returned home before dark. 

It was rainy often now in winter and it was so cold, I had to buy the materials and make coats for everyone before the snow starts. Even in that rain, Alan still goes into the town and spend the entire day there. I had no reason to stop him, so I just let him be rather than get into an argument with him.

It was that day it completed a week, it had rained early in the morning and the weather was chilly,