Christina walks into the house “I got the job!”

Ginger looks up from doing her homework. Nora pokes her head out of the kitchen when she hears Christina’s announcement.

She comes walking out of the kitchen wiping drying her hands on a towel “congratulations, Christina.”

“Congratulations, as well.” Ginger liked Christina and saw some of her work she did.

“Thank you.” Christina takes a bow.

When she stands back up. She has a smile on her face. She was on cloud nine right now. Her instructor at the Art Institute gave her and the team she had high praised for the work they did on their final project. They were the only ones to get a high score for their work.

“When do you start?” Nora figures Christina should be safe now.

Cheshire had informed her, that Jack and she had captured Marin Jones. They were torturing him for all the information he had. She would still pay her to look after Christina. Nora had told her not to worry about it anymore. She would look after Christina as if she was her own daughter, which now she may have one of her own.

She sent pictures of Ginger to Cheshire. Also, all the information she had gather on Ginger. She ran into a road block finding out what happened to the death benefits that Ginger was supposed to get for the death of her parents. According to the department who handles the benefits. They had been sent to her.

Cheshire told her not to worry about it. She’ll have an investigator friend of hers to research the matter and get back with her. As for the girl, she looked cute and she would make a good mother, along with her girlfriend. They talked for a little while longer, till Cheshire had to go.

“Tomorrow. I’m to show-up at 7:00 am. and report to Rob Fulton. He’s the head special effects manager at the company. They said I might have to go to Hollywood, California to help out on a television series they might start filming.” Christina couldn’t believe her luck.

“I’m happy to hear that Christina. Why don’t you go and change? Once your changed, why don’t you come in the kitchen and give me a hand
with dinner, please?” Nora was proud of Christina.

“Yes ma’am.” Christina skips to the bedroom she was staying in.

Ginger just shakes her head and goes back to work on her homework. She was trying to get everything done tonight. That way she could spend time with the new game coming out tomorrow. Nora, had already given her permission to spend a few hours learning the game, if her school work was completed.

She wasn’t worried about the meeting between her history teacher or Nora tomorrow afternoon. She looks up when Christina comes walking through the living room towards the kitchen. She had changed into a pair of shorts and a short sleeve black t-shirt that had a polar bear
drinking a coca cola bottle with her cubs playing nearby.

Christina had glanced at the homework Ginger was doing when she walked by. She saw she was doing a history assignment. Ah, the days where she had done the same thing.

“Do you need anything from the kitchen, Ginger?”

“A bottle tea would be nice.” Ginger looks up from the report she was writing.

“Okay, I’ll grab you one.” Christina heads into the kitchen and grabs one from the refrigerator.

She takes it back into the living room where, Ginger was working.

“Here you go, Ginger.” Christina hands the drink to Ginger.

“Thank you.” As she accepts the bottle tea.

“You’re welcome.” Christina heads towards the kitchen to help Nora with dinner.

Nora was preparing Mediterranean Stuffed Chicken Breasts. Christina follows Nora instruction with her helping ever so often. Christina notices she was doing most of the cooking. She gives Nora a knowing look, once she realizes what Nora was doing.

“Hey, your going to need the experience for yourself or any guest you have over, Christina. I know you know how to cook simple dinners. This is just expending your talents.” Nora takes a sip of wine she had poured for herself while she was cooking.

While Christina was doing the chicken, Nora worked on the vegetables to go with it. She had stopped by the store on the way home from picking Ginger up from school. She had picked up fresh vegetables and cheese cake for desert. While the vegetables steamed in the steamer, she looks towards Christina.

“So, tell me about the position you got.” Nora was curious.

“I’ll be the assistant to the head special effects artist. He is going to teach me stuff I didn’t learn in school and I’ll be working on projects of my own, with him supervising me. I’ll need to go by my place sometime time this week to grab some stuff I’ll need from it.” Christina had most of the tools she’ll need, but there were a few other items still at her place she’ll need.

“How about your part-time job at the bar? Are you still going to work there?”

“I’m going to keep working the bar, until I managed to save some checks up or till this job interferes with that job. If I go to Hollywood to work on that new television show, I’ll have to quit the bar job.” Christina didn’t want to, because they had taken a chance with her and she liked the job.

“Maybe you might be able to do both.” Nora knew how much Christina liked the bar job.

“Maybe. I hope Jerry and Frank will work with me.”

“I think they will.” Nora knew if she had a talked with them they would be a little flexible with Christina and her new job.

Nora gathers the plates and silverware and start setting table. Since, Ginger was doing her homework, she was exempt. Nora set the table and when the food is ready. She sets a plate for Kelly aside so when she comes home. She’ll have something to eat.

“Dinner, Ginger.” Nora had walked into the living room.

“Okay, mom.” Ginger stops herself and looks at Nora to see if she was offended.

Nora walks over and extends her hand down to Ginger.

Ginger takes her hand and is lifted from the floor. Nora pulls Ginger to her body and hug her.

“You can call me mom anytime, Ginger.” Nora places a kiss on her forehead.

Ginger wraps her arms around Nora’s waist and just hugs her. There’s only been one other person she has ever held like this and that was her birth mother. Nora just holds her for a while.

Ginger releases her grip and wipes the tears from her eyes.

“Come on pumpkin. Let’s get some food in you.” Nora had a loving looking on her face as she escorts Ginger tot eh dining room table.

Christina serves up the stuff chicken. Everyone takes how much veggies they want. Desert is served up, after the dinner table is cleared and the left overs are put away. Nora finds out that both girls love cheese cakes. She has to set aside a slice for Kelly or she wouldn’t get any.

Once desert is done. Ginger goes back to finishing her homework and Christina takes a bath and gets ready for bed. Nora sits down and reads a German novel she brought back from Germany with her. She watches Ginger as she works on her homework. She also keeps an eye on the clock. She wasn’t going to let Ginger stay up past 10:00pm.

At 10:00pm “okay, time for you to head to bed young lady.” Nora looks over towards Ginger as she finishes typing a paragraph she was working on.

“One second, mom.” Ginger just wanted to finish the paragraph.

She scans it to make sure she didn’t misspell any words and that her grammar was right. She list her references and sources.

“There, all done.” Ginger backs the file up and then prints a copy to give her teacher tomorrow.

Nora just smiles “okay young lady. You can take your bath now or a shower in the morning?”

“Bath.” Ginger closes her laptop up and heads towards her bedroom with her backpack.

Nora could hear the water in the bathroom running. She listens as Ginger takes a bath. Ginger normally plays music when she is in the bathroom taking her bath.

Nora glances up at the clock. She knew Kelly would be home by 11:30 hopefully. She looks up when Ginger comes walking into the living room. She closes her book and looks at Ginger.

“Ready for bed, sweetie?”

“Yes ma’am.” She walks over and gives Nora a hug.

Nora returns the hug “slept tight, sweetie.”

Nora follows her back to the bedroom and tuck her. She knows Ginger didn’t need to be treated like a child, but she couldn’t help it. She places a kiss on Gingers cheek.

Ginger snuggles deep under the blankets. She watches as Nora leaves the bedroom. She knew Nora was going to wait up till Kelly got home.