Nora looks out into the neighborhood and watched as people got ready for work. She had on her robe and was enjoying her freshly brewed coffee. She loved that she was finally home for good now. She was enjoying her retirement. She liked the peace and quietness of her place and neighborhood. It’s not like she didn’t enjoy her oversea assignments, but it was always nice to come home.

As she is sitting on her back deck enjoying her coffee, her cellphone starts ring. She looks at the number and notices it was blocked. She pushes the accept button.”

“Hello?”

“Hello Midnight. I have a job offer for you.” Cheshire knew Marin Jones might go after Christine for saving everyone’s life.

“Hello Cheshire. You do know I’m retired, don’t you?” Nora knew if Cheshire was calling her, something must be up.

“I know you are retired from the DSS, but the job I have for you. It won’t take you away from your home.” Since, Christine lived in Memphis and so did Midnight. Cheshire felt it might be a good idea to have her watch over her. She could train Christine in self-defense.

“How important is the job, Cheshire?” Nora takes a sip of her coffee.

“It’s a long-term babysitting job, Nora. The person in question is a college student by the name of Christine Pyle. Jack and I owe her for pulling our daughters from a burning building.” Cheshire knew no matter what, her and Jack was going to make sure Christine stayed safe. They owed her that much.

“Were your daughters part of the group that was pulled out of the burning warehouse?” Nora had seen a news cast last night of the fire and the people that had been rescued.

“Yes, the Montana Police Officer is Jacks oldest daughter and the Honolulu Police Officer is my daughter. The other young lady. The Private Security Contractor is Jack’s youngest daughter. The rest of the people were friends of our daughters.”

“So, whom am I guarding this college students from?”

“A burned CIA/Delta Force agent. He is responsible for the murder of six different government agents. “Cheshire had more, but Midnight didn’t need to know.

“Alright. Send me what you have on this Christine Pyle. I’m charging you my standard rate for this job, Cheshire.”

“Tack on an extra 20% percent, Nora. This is going to be a long-term assignment. Until, Jack and I catch Marin Jones. Christine is going to be valuable. So, until you hear from me or Jack. I’ll need you to be her shadow. There is one more thing, you need to know as well. Christine is transgender and likes to dress up in different cosplay costumes. So, be aware she likes to play hero while dressed up. Jack has already bugged her place with a micro-camera and mic. Any conversion that occurs there goes directly to a secure cloud account. I’ll send you the website login credentials.”

“Thanks.” Nora heads inside and over towards her desktop and check her email.

After going through several secure connections, the file Cheshire sent her shows up. She needed to use Cheshire’s decryption key to read the email. Before she starts, she refills her coffee and grab a banana nut muffin she picked up yesterday at Tasty Pastries.

She walks back over and looks at the file Cheshire sent her. The person was 18 years old and attended ITT Technical Institute for their associates degree in electrical engineering, was three months away from getting their Bachelor degree in movie production from The Art Institute. Was carrying a 3.62 grade point average, had 5,000 in their bank account. Owned the building she was living in and sold custom made costumes online. She brings up the website and saw it was nicely design and easy to place an order. Police record was cleaned. Bills were paid either on time or a few days behind the due date. Didn’t own any credit cards, except a bank card. Had a cousin in the army working at the Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, Maryland. There was some video and pictures included in the dossier.

She goes through them and notices how well Christine looked when she was all dressed up. For the next hour-n-half, she goes through everything Cheshire sent her on Christine. Her routine, where she worked, what she orders from different take out joints in her area. The file included who Christine’s friends were and who she was working on with the film she was making and their backgrounds. All the information she needed to keep Christine safe and sound.

She checks her clock and notices that Christine should be in school right now. She heads towards her bathroom and takes a shower. Since this was a simple recon, she dresses in non-descript clothes that allow her to blend in without a problem. She takes her motorcycle over to the school location and locate her motorcycle. Nora waits to see when she comes out and watches as she heads towards her motorcycle.

While she is waiting for Christine to come out, she spots someone else heading over to Christine’s motorcycle and messing with it. She watches from her vantage point and was about to go over and undo what had been done. When she spots Christine walking towards her motorcycle. She watches as the girl stopped and start searching her motorcycle and spots her pulling away a bomb that the person she had seen had planted on it.

“Smart girl.” Nora was impress, and her opinion of Christine went up.

She watches as Christine put her helmet on and head towards her job. Midnight notice a car pull out and follows behind Christine discreetly.
She smiles as she waits and follow them. Midnight pulls off and parks her motorcycle on the other side of The Rainbow Lounge. She works her way around swiftly and quietly to the car that had followed Christine and planted the bomb on her motorcycle.

She sneaks up to his car and opens the passenger side door and shoots him with a fast-acting tranquilizer dart and knock him out. She drives the car with her unconscious passenger to a junkyard where she keeps a container for holding people and for interrogating them. It came in handy a few times while she was overseas for extracting information in private. She knew the owner of the junkyard and had the container transported there. She brought it back home when she retired from the DSS.

She interrogated the guy and let him go after injecting him with a tracker. If he tries to remove it, it will burst and release the poison. She watches as he walks away. She had a smile on her face when she blew the car up. She heads back to the lounge to watch over Christine and to spend some time with the waitress she was dating.

The woman she was dating was recently divorce and had admitted to herself that she was a closeted lesbian. Her ex-husband had taken everything from her and just left her with the clothes on her back. The man was a douche bag and was very connected. She’s been dating this woman for two years now. She knew Kelly was happy she was home permanently now. She wanted Kelly to move in with her, but Kelly liked having her own place.

When Christine finishes her shift, she follows her home discreetly and watches as she pulls into the garage. Nora turns on the hidden cameras and mics Jack had placed and listen and watched Christine till she goes to bed.

She’ll have to find some way to worm her way into Christine’s life. Maybe have Kelly invite Christine over to her place for dinner one night. When she gets home, she notices Kelly’s car pulled into the driveway. She parks her motorcycle next to it and walks into her house. She had her gun ready, just in case it was an ambush. Kelly knew she didn’t like surprises, not after the setup where she was almost killed protecting the ambassador she had been assigned to.

She walks in cautiously and hears the shower going in her bedroom. She walks in and see Kelly in the shower. She had some soft music playing while she was washing her body. Nora leans against the door frame of the doorway and just watch her girlfriend lather her body. She loved how trimmed and curvy Kelly’s body was. Nora knew Kelly worked hard to keep her body trimmed and fit. Originally, she did it to keep her husband interested in her, but when she learned he was having an affair. That caused her to become depress and lazy about taking care of herself. Than the first time she had gone to a sex toy party with some friends. She had enjoyed being made love to by several of the women there and it stirred things inside of her.

It was at a banquet that her and Kelly had met. Kelly’s husband had gone off to bang his teenage girlfriend and left her at the banquet all by herself. Kelly had started hitting the drinks hard. She had to get Kelly a hotel room and one thing lead to another that they ended up in with each other. After that night, the two of them started seeing each other in secret and when Kelly finally got feed-up with her husband. She filed for divorce and her husband managed to get everything, including their house and only left her with her clothes, half the money in their joint account and her jewelry collection. She got a modest one-bedroom studio apartment and worked at the lounge as a waitress.

When she was out of the states, Kelly would take care of her place. She just keeps watching Kelly as she washes her hair. She takes her gun belt and holster off and put her gun in a hidden holster under her nightstand. She keeps listening while Kelly takes her shower and strips out of her body suit and thong panties. She didn’t wear a bra when she wore the bodysuit Cheshire had given her. She hears the water cut off and look towards the bathroom. Kelly comes out drying her hair.

“Hey good looking. How was your night?” Nora slips on a black lacey halter baby doll night gown.

Kelly jumps when she hears Nora’s voice “don’t do that to me. You nearly gave me a heart attack.”

Nora walks over and gives her a kiss.

“Sorry, about that.” Nora kisses her again.

Kelly returns the kiss and gaze into Nora’s sapphire color eyes.

“So, what case are you working on?” Kelly had her arms wrapped around Nora waist.

Nora just smirks “protection detail. What do you know about Christine Pyle?”

“Is she the one your protecting?” Kelly had seen the news with Christine all dressed up and how she had rescue some people from a burning warehouse.

“Yep, I can’t go into detail about the case, but I’ve been hired to protect her.” Nora moves Kelly towards the bed.

Kelly releases her and grabs her night gown and slip it on. She sits down on the mattress and pat the area next to her for Nora to sit down.

Nora sits down next to her girlfriend “those people she pulled out from that warehouse are children of people I know and have worked with in the past. Christine has walked into a problem, that the person who trapped them wants payback for saving them. So, the parents of those people want me to protect her, that’s it. Just a protection detail and maybe teach her how to defend herself.”

Kelly looks at her “will it be dangerous?”

“I’ll be lying if I said no. Someone already tried to kill Christine earlier today. I took care of him, but it doesn’t mean they won’t send someone else. I was wondering if maybe you could introduce me to Christine and invite her over for dinner one night? I’ll do the cooking.” Nora figures she could make a nice Spanish meal for the three of them.

“I have Friday off from work. Why don’t we do it that night?” Kelly knew she was lucky to get Friday off and loved the food Nora cooked. She knew Nora got her cooking skill from her mother, who was a famous chef and owned her own restaurant in Huntsville, Alabama.

“Cool, Friday will be nice.” Nora didn’t have anything planned, except watching Christine.

“Now, why don’t we enjoy each other.” Nora starts kissing Kelly and the two of them fall back onto the bed.

The Next Day:
Christine wakes up and takes the explosive device she found that had been attached to her motorcycle and examine it. She was surprised at the workmanship of it. Whoever made it did a good job, but did a terrible job hiding it on her motorcycle. She would had hidden it down near the battery or something.

She leaves it on her work bench as she heads into the kitchen and fixes herself some coffee. She didn’t have class this morning and didn’t have to be at work till 6:00pm. So, she could get some work done on the movie and pay some bills. She walks over to her computer and start working on the movie. As she is sitting there working, the power goes out. It was good thing she had her computer system on battery back-up as she starts shutting things down. As the computer shuts down. She takes her cellphone out to call the power company, but she wasn’t getting any signal. She checks her cellphone again and she still wasn’t getting a signal. As she is walking towards her bedroom, her front door blows inward and two armed guys carrying rifles come walking in.

There was the sound of two-gun shots as Midnight comes charging into the building with her gun out and pointed at the two men in front of her.
She hits the first one in the back, but he doesn’t go down.

The two guys turn around and fire at Midnight as she drops to the floor. She shots one guy in the knees, while sweeping the legs out of the other guy.

The other guy tries to get up, but Midnight is sitting on his chest and slams the butt of her gun into his throat. She points her gun at the other fellow lying nearby.

“Now, who the fuck sent you?” Midnight had her gun pointed at the head of the other fellow from where she was sitting.

The guy didn’t say anything to Midnight. She just shots him and look at the fellow she was still sitting on. He had choked from her slamming her gun butt into his throat. She stands up and looks around for Christine.

“Christine, are you alright?” Midnight just stays where she was.

“Who are you and yes.” Christine heard a female’s voice call for her. She had hidden in storage area she had.

“My name is Nora Midnight and I was hired by Cheshire And Mr. Bounty to protect you. If you don’t believe me, I can call Cheshire, or you can call her, and she’ll verify what I am telling you.” Nora wonders if Christine is going to trust her.

“How do you know Cheshire and Mr. Bounty?” Christine was standing in the doorway of his bedroom.

“I know Cheshire, because I was her body guard when she uses to be married to a US Senator. Her and her husband came to Germany and I was assigned as her body guard. I used to work for the Diplomatic Services.” Christine just looks at Midnight as she stood where the two men were.

They could hear sirens coming towards them.

“I wonder how much trouble I’m going to be in?” Christine felt that the police might accuse her for this.

“Don’t worry about the police. I’ll handle them. Go and get a bag together, you’re coming home with me.” Nora turns around and head outside to deal with the police.

She uses her special body guard license she was given a couple of years ago. It pretty much said she could carry her firearm while on duty.
She had a concealed carry permit as well.

Christine gets a bag together to take with her. She grabs her portable drive, so she could work on the movie her and her friends were working on. She grabs her laptop and once she has everything packed. She heads towards the front door where Nora was standing.

“Nora, will it be okay if I take my motorcycle with me?” Christine didn’t want to leave it behind.

“You can take it with you. I rode over on my own motorcycle. I know a handy man that can come over and fix your door.” Nora was going to call Jerry. He was the handyman she used.

“Thank you. How much will he charge me?” Christine was worried about the cost to fix her door.

“Don’t worry about it, Christine. Mr. Bounty will cover the cost.” Nora knew Jack would cover the cost.

“Okay.” Christine hops onto her motorcycle and follow behind Midnight as she headed towards her house.

When she arrives at Nora’s place, it was an older house that was listed as a historical house.

“Wow! You live here?” Christine had parked her motorcycle next to Nora’s.

“Yep, I live here. My girlfriend sometimes spends the night with me.” Nora leads Christine towards the front door of her place.

“Will your girlfriend be alright with you having another girl here?” Christine didn’t want to be a bother.

“She’s not going to mind. You work with her up at The Rainbow Lounge.” Nora puts her helmet up on a shelf.

“Who is she?” Christine was curious.

“You know Kelly, don’t you?” Nora escorts Christine to a spare bedroom.

“Yes ma’am. She normally works the afternoon shift down at the lounge.” Christine knew Kelly well. She was a nice person and gave her some suggestion about her appearance.

“You can use this room while you’re here. I don’t think it’s wise for you to go back to your place, until Cheshire and Jack catch the guy they are after.

“Nora, what are Jack and Cheshire?” Christine was curious and really wanted to know.

Nora looks at Christine “I can’t tell you really what they do, but I will say this. If you are ever in trouble and you need someone to rescue or bail your butt out. Those two would be the ones you call.”

Christine was still confused, but took Nora’s word for it. She drops her stuff in the bedroom that Nora pointed out. Afterwards, she joins Nora in the kitchen. She watches as Nora makes them some lunch.

“I don’t know if Cheshire told you or not, but she has asked me to start teaching you how to protect yourself. The question I have, are you willing to learn how to defend yourself?” Nora wanted to make sure Christine was committed to learning how to defend herself.

“I’m willing to learn whatever you are willing to teach me, Nora.” Christine couldn’t remember if Cheshire mention something to her or not, but if Nora is willing to teach her. Then she was willing to learn.

“You’re going to regret saying that, after I’m done training you. Do you own a leotard or any exercise clothes to wear? “

“I have an exercise outfit I can train in, if you don’t mind me wearing girl clothes.” Christine wonders what Nora thought about her.

“Christine, you could walk around this house dressed as a chicken and I wouldn’t care. All I care about is that if you’re going to be a girl, you act like one. If you want to be lady like. I will teach you how to be a proper lady.”

“Thank you.” Tears were sliding down from Christine’s eyes.

“You’re welcome. Now, let’s get you situated and we’ll start your first lesson.” Nora shows Christine where she’ll be staying.

Then she heads towards her bedroom and changes into her exercise clothing. She waits for Christine to changes into her exercise outfit and
show her where the exercise room is. Inside were several pieces of equipment for exercising. She had a total workout machine for lifting weights and building up a person’s muscles, an exercise bike, thread mill and an Elliptical machine. There were several mats on the floor and pull-up bars.

“Alright, let’s get you loosened up then start teaching you some hand-to-hand moves.” Nora hangs her towel up.

Christine follows Nora’s example and follows her out on the mat and assume a position that Nora shows her. For the next two hours, Nora takes it easy on Christine as she puts her through her paces. By the time they are done, Christine could barely move. She was so out of shape as she looks at Nora.

“You do that daily?” Christine drunk some water from her water bottle.

“Use too. When I was an active DSS agent. Now I do it every other day. This is just the first part of training you. Do you do any jogging or anything?” Nora takes a sip of her water.

“I used to when I was on the track team, but I don’t anymore.” Christine knew she shouldn’t had given it up, but she just had so much stuff
going on in her life.

“Well, I’m going to get you back into running every day.”

“Okay.” Christine takes another sip of her water.

“Go take a shower. We’ll go out for lunch today.” Nora heads towards her bedroom, while Christine heads towards the guest bathroom to take her shower.

Once, she is done with her shower. She heads into her new room and changes into a nice dress, a pair of matching 3-inch pumps. She puts on a nice silver necklace that had a crystal butterfly hanging from it. She brushes her long hair and tie it back into a pony tail. She looks at herself and apply light make-up to her face. She adds her favorite perfume. It had a light sandalwood scent to it.

Nora meets her in the living room “ready to go?”

“Yep” She was surprised at how pretty Nora looked cleaned up.

Her short brown hair framed her face nicely. Christine could see some Hispanic features in Nora’s face and was amazed at her sapphire eyes.

She has never seen anyone with eyes that color before.

“So, where are we going for lunch?” Christine was curious.

Nora leas Christine to the garage and opens the door. She unlocks the doors on a black Shelby convertible mustang.

“Get in.” As Nora climbs into the driver seat.

“Nice car.” Christine swipes her hand under her dress and slides into the passenger seat.

“Thanks. I’ve owned it since I was in High School.” Nora had bought it directly from the factory with zero miles on it when she was sixteen years old.

Christine notices there was another car parked in the garage. It was a nice 2015 Mercedes S600.

“Is that car armored?” Christine looks towards Nora.

“Yep, one of the Germany officials I use to guard gave it to me as a departing gift. He just bought a brand new one and gave me that one. I use it every so often when I do protection jobs.” Nora was surprised when the German government gave it to her.

Normally, she wouldn’t had been able to accept it, but since she was retiring. It didn’t matter anymore. Nora backs the mustang out of the garage and watch as the door closes before driving off. She takes Christine to a high-class restaurant for lunch.

Christine notices where they were going “Wow! This place is very upscale.”

Nora just smiles “I know the head chef. He uses to work for my mother, before he came here to Memphis and opened his own place. I fill in every once in awhile for him.”

Nora parks the Mustang and her and Christine heads inside. The place was already busy with Lunch traffic. A black hair young hostess greets them as they walk in.

“Ah, Ms. Midnight, it’s so nice to see you again. Do you want your usual table?”

“Yes please, if it is available.” Nora looks around to see if her preferred table was available and saw that no one was sitting at it.

“Please follow me, then.” Brenda escorts Midnight and her companion over to her preferred table.

Nora and Christine follow behind her. Christine looks around as they walk towards the table. She was impress with what she was seeing.
The hostess seats them and their waitress comes over and gives them their menu. Nora doesn’t even open hers. She already knows what she wanted. Christine looks at the selection and the prices. She couldn’t believe how expensive the place was. Christine spots a nice dish and orders that.

After lunch they go and pick Kelly up from work.

Kelly was surprised to see Christine with Nora.

Christine moves to the back seat, so Kelly could sit in the passenger seat.

“Hey Christy, is everything okay?” Kelly looks at Christine and then towards her girlfriend.

“We had a little problem earlier today, but everything is fine. Christine is going to be staying with me for a while, till I hear from Cheshire.” Nora glances toward Kelly.

Kelly looks at Nora “that bad?”

“Yep, that bad.” Nora figures she would explain later if Kelly stayed the night.

“Can you take me by my place, please?” Kelly knew she needed to check her mail.

“Sure can.” Nora takes Kelly to her place.

Christine and Nora follow Kelly up to her apartment. After spending some time there, they all leave and head back to the mustang and back to Nora’s place. Nora fixes dinner for everyone. Kelly and Christine help with setting the table and with cutting up ingredients for the meal.

After dinner, Christine heads to bed. Kelly and Nora stay up for awhile talking about what happened with Christine and that she had been thinking about taking Nora up on her offer to move in.

It wasn’t because of Christine being there, but because her landlord was going to raise her rent. She would have to take on a second job just to pay for her place.

“Well you know, I know you like feeling independent and having your own place. But, I would love to have you here living with me. Besides, we can spend time exploring each other.” Nora leans over and gives Kelly a kiss on the lips.

Kelly returns the kiss.

The two of them head towards Nora’s bedroom and retire for the night.

“Come on slow pokes. Move it.” Nora was running behind Kelly and Christina to motivate them to pick the pace up some.

They were out jogging down the street first thing in the morning. Nora was whipping Christina and Kelly into shape. Christina because she was asked by Cheshire to train her and Kelly, because her girlfriend wanted to lose a few pounds. She was already in good shape, but she wanted to learn how to defend herself like Nora was teaching Christina.

Christina glances over towards Kelly “why do I get the feeling she is enjoying this?”

“Because she is such a task master.” Kelly smirks when she says that.

“I can hear you two. Just for those remarks, I’m adding on an extra quarter mile. Now move it.” Nora was enjoying watching her lover’s ass move as she jogged.

By the time they get back to the house. Kelly and Christina were exhausted. Both haven’t jogged in years. Even though Christina tried to walk as much as possible. Nora had them eat a light breakfast, because she was going to teach them some basic hand-to-hand moves. Nora demonstrates with Kelly first as she explains what she wants them to do. Then she pairs up Kelly and Christina and have them practice the move against each other. She has them repeat the move several times, correcting any flaws or mistakes she spots. She stops around noon, so
Kelly could get ready for work and so Christina could meet up with her study partners, so they could do some more work on their project. They were going to meet at the campus computer lab.

Nora drops Kelly off at work first and gives her a kiss. She’ll be back later in the evening to pick her up. She takes Christina to the school and drops her off.

“I’ll be around. Don’t worry, okay?” Nora just smiles at Christina and watches as she exists from the Mustang.

“Okay.” Christina gets out and heads towards the computer lab to meet up with her friends and work on their project.

Nora makes her way inside the building and pretended that she was a student. She blended in with the rest of the students and instructors there. She spends the day blending in and watching over Christina as she worked with her partners, finally getting the project completed. So, far nothing out of the ordinary has occurred. By the time Christina calls her and tells her she was ready to go. She had already made it out to the car and was waiting on her.

Christina comes walking out with a spring in her step. She was so happy that her and her friends had finally gotten the movie they were making done and ready to submit for grading. She spots Nora’s mustang and walks over towards it. She makes sure no one is taking aim at her or coming towards her. Nora had taught her what to look for, to protect herself.

“You look like the cat that ate the canary.” Nora watches as Christina gets in the car.

“I finally finished the movie me and my partners were working on. All the special effects, credits, editing and everything has finally been done.
All we have to do, is submit it for our final grade.” Christina puts the seat belt on as she looks over towards Nora.

“Well, I wish you all the luck in the world for your project. Where would you like to go for lunch?” Nora turns the mustang’s engine over.

“How about Kooky Canuck? They have the best burgers around town?” Christina was in the mood for a good burger.

“Bad choice. Christina, if you want to have a nice figure. You need to lay off the burgers and a lot of other junk foods you like. However, I will allow it this once.” Nora knew where the place was and drove over towards there.

Nora orders a Boston Burger with onion rings and Christina orders the bacon monster burger with onion rings as well. Christina adds a French Vanilla milkshake to her order. Nora enjoys a nice diet Pepsi.

Their server brings their drinks over and place them in front of them. Christina waits till their server leaves their table, before asking the question on her mind.

“Nora, how dangerous is this Jones person?” Christina takes a sip of her drink.

“He’s extremely dangerous. He has killed six agents and assumed their identities. He normally, targets agents that are single and don’t have any relationships with any one. He’s also an ex-Delta Force member and is CIA trained. He was one of the CIA’s trouble shooters.” Nora did some background check with a few DSS agents she knew that served overseas with her.

“So, the team that went to apprehend him, walked into a trap?” Christina saw what he had done to the two teams in the warehouse.

“Yep, from what I have been told. He knew they were coming after him and had the place rigged. He wanted them out of the picture because they cost him and the people he was working for money. Plus, they arrested the person he had been sent to bring back to Russia.” Cheshire had shared the details about the case with her.

“Does Cheshire and Jack know where he is, and can they capture him?” Christina takes another sip of her milkshake.

“If there were two people I would be afraid of, it would be the two of them. I can’t tell you much about them or what they do for a living, but what I can tell you is this. If the two of them are coming for you. That means you cross some line that you shouldn’t had cross. It’s bad enough when one of them come after you, but to have both come after you. That’s a death wish I wouldn’t want on me or my worse enemy.” Nora knew how dangerous Cheshire was.

She had wonder why she had been assigned to the woman when she was a Senator’s wife. Most of the old timers in the DSS knew Cheshire from her days as a CIA black-ops agent. When she first met her, she could tell she wasn’t what she appeared to be. She couldn’t believe Cheshire’s actual name was Cheshire. She always thought the name was a code name or nickname. Until, she learned that it was her real name.

She knew Cheshire went by another name because she was an author and an expert on big cats. Her other name was well known and respected in the academic field. There were very few professors that taught zoology that did know her or used her research to teach their students. She has gone to colleges to give lectures and to show off her Liger.

“Do you think it will take her and Mr. Bounty long to capture Mr. Jones?”

“Nope, it shouldn’t take them long to hunt him down. It’s what they are good at.” Nora knew they were close to capturing him.

Cheshire had a few contacts here in Memphis that knew approximately where he was hiding. It still amazed her how connected Jack and
Cheshire were. It seemed that they had people in every part of the country. She knew they had an extensive network of people and suppliers.

Their meals finally arrive as they sit and eat in quiet. As they are eating and looking out the window of the place. They see a long copper hair kid run by being chased by a group of burly teenage boys.

“Excuse me Christina.” Nora gets up from the table and step outside.

As she is looking around, she hears a bunch of kids chanting.

“Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!” It was coming from just down the street in an abandon parking lot.

Nora walks down to where the kids were fighting. She noticed the long copper hair girl had blood coming from her nose, but one of the burly guys that chased after her. He was on the ground holding his crotch and moaning. Another one laid nearby and he looked like he had a broken leg. There was another guy standing in front of the girl trying to punch her. While another one was trying to circle behind the girl to grab her.
She kept moving to keep the guy from getting behind her.

The guy in front of her charged towards her, while the one that has been trying to get behind her. He manages to grab her and wrap his arms around her. The one that charged her, he punches her in the stomach. Nora could tell that it had hurt her.

The girl brings her leg up and kicks the guy in front of her in the groin. She plants her feet and flips the guy holding her into the guy she just kicked. She follows up by punching the guy that held her in the face. The young girl looks up and at everyone watching her.

“Do any of you jerks have a problem with me being a t-girl?” The copper hair girl looks at all the teenagers gather around her.

Now that Nora could get a better look at her. She could tell the girl had bruises going around her neck and a black eye. She had bruising on her arms. The shirt she had on was thorn and the knees of her jeans were torn.

“Alright, fights over. All you kids go home.” She pulls her cell out and call for the paramedics and the police.

When the police show up, one of them recognize the girl.

“Fighting again, Ginger?” Officer Green notices his son had a broken leg.

“They started it. I was only defending myself.” Ginger looks at Officer Green and knew he was going to arrest her, like he did last time.

He walks over to put handcuffs on Ginger. He pulls his cuffs out and was about to slap them on Ginger.

“I would stop, before you make a fool of yourself Officer. She fought back in self-defense. I saw it.” Nora stood near Ginger.

“It doesn’t matter. She’s a known trouble maker and her foster parents said she stole from them.” He went to slap the cuffs on Ginger.

“They’re lying. My mother gave me that necklace before she died.” Ginger moves her arm out of the way.

Officer Green went to grab her again, but was grabbed by Nora instead.

“I wouldn’t do that if I was you.” Nora had a good grip on his wrist.

“You better let me go, before I charge you with interfering with a police officer and assault fo a police officer.” Green looks directly at Nora.

“You mean you’ll try to charge me. I have friends on the Memphis police department, Officer Green. Once I tell them what you did. I don’t think you’ll be an officer much longer.” Nora had friends in high places on the Memphis police force.

She helped the police department out a few times when she was in the states. They also knew she was a DSS officer. She just looks at him
with her serious face on.

“Your lucky you freak. Get out of here.” Officer Green put his handcuffs away.

Nora just gives the Police Officer a dirty look and make sure she remembers his badge number. She holds her hand out to Ginger.

“Let’s get your nose looked at, Ginger.”

Ginger takes the woman’s hand and walks with her over to the paramedics. Her nose wasn’t too bad. Once the paramedics were done checking her over.

“Why don’t you come with me.” Nora looks down at Ginger.

Ginger looks up at the black hair lady “thank you.”

“You’re welcome.” Nora takes Ginger back to the restaurant where Christina was waiting for her.

“Looks like you have a new friend.” Christina smiles at Ginger.

She could tell the poor girl had been beaten a few times from all the bruises on her.

“Ginger, this is my friend Christina.”

“Nice to meet you Ginger.” Christina holds her hand out.

“It’s nice to meet you as well.” Ginger shakes Christina’s hand.

“Are you hungry?” Nora had a feeling that Ginger didn’t get feed on a regular basis.

“Yes ma’am.” She was wondering who this woman was and why she was helping her.

Nora flags their waitress down and ask her for a menu.

“Order whatever you want, Ginger.” A smile appears on Nora’s face.

Ginger looks at the menu. She orders a nice ¾ pound Texas burger, onion rings and a nice chocolate milkshake with whip cream. She hands the waitress the menu back.

“Thank you?” Ginger had a puzzled look on her face.

“Nora Midnight and your welcome, Ginger. Now, why don’t you tell me why those boys were chasing you and why Officer Green doesn’t like you?” Nora had forgotten to tell Ginger her name.

“It’s because I reported them to the principal for bullying some kids in school. Our school doesn’t allow bullying. They got kicked off the football team because of me reporting them. So, him and his friends have been making my life hard while at school. The coach is my gym teacher and he has been rough on me. My foster parents are friends with the parents of the boys I got kicked off the football team. They accused me of stealing their things, which they took a necklace that was given to me by my mother before she died. So, I stole it back and hid it form them. My foster parents hate the fact I refuse to dress and act as a boy.” Tears were starting to leak from Ginger’s eyes. She wipes them away.

“Do you know who your case worker is?” Nora takes a pad out from her purse.

“Yes ma’am.” Ginger gives her the information.

Ginger’s food arrives and as she is sitting there eating. Her foster mother comes storming in and grabs her by the hair. She pulls Ginger out of the chair and causes her to fall to the floor.

“Begging for food again, you little brat.” Heather couldn’t believe what Officer Green had told her that her foster child had said and did.

“Take your hand off that child.” Christina stood up and got right in the face of the woman.

Nora slowly got up and walked around to where Christina and Ginger was.

“Back down Christina. I’ll handle this.” Nora helps Ginger up off the floor and mover her behind her.

“Now, why don’t we act like reasonable adults here. My name is Nora Midnight and I take it that you are Ginger’s foster mother?” Nora was looking at the woman.

She had her professional look on her face. She was also ready to protect Ginger as well. She kept Ginger safely behind her.

Heather looks at the woman standing in front of her. She was protecting her good for nothing foster child behind her.

“Yes, I’m that brat’s foster mother and I don’t know what lies he has been telling you.” Heather wasn’t going to let that brat get away with whatever he did.

“Actually, she hasn’t been telling me anything. We were having a nice lunch, before you came in here. Now, do you mind telling me why you felt it was necessary to grab her by her hair?” Nora kept her eyes on the woman.

“That brat isn’t a she, it’s a he and he is my foster child. I can treat him any way I like.” Heather was fuming.

“Actually, you can’t treat her any way you like. Now, why don’t you tell me why you came in acting the way you did?”

“I don’t have to tell you anything. That’s my foster child and there’s nothing you can do about it.” Heather was starting to get pissed at this woman.

Christina had pulled Ginger near her. She was going to make sure Ginger was protected. Her parents may not like her decision to become a girl, but they never acted like this woman.

“Actually, you do if I am going to allow Ginger to go with you. If you don’t I’m going to call the police, and have you arrested for child abuse.” Nora had her friend on speed dial.

Heather knew she couldn’t afford to have the police investigate her again. She looks over towards Ginger. She notices he was being protected by the girl who got in her face.

“Why don’t you keep the stupid brat then.” Heather looks over towards Ginger.

“Don’t come back to the house you brat. I’m going to throw your things in the trash.” She turns around about to leave.

“Actually, your going to pack her things up and have it ready for me to pick-up. If I found any of her things in the trash or littering the lawn. I am going to press charges for child abuse, child neglect and first-degree assault. You have one hour to have it done.” Nora gives her a sweet smile.

Heather just turns and storms out of the restaurant.

Nora follows behind her till she gets outside. She watches as she walks towards her car and drive off. She takes a snap shot of the license plate and heads back inside the restaurant. She spots her waitress.

“Can I have a replacement order please?”

“Yes ma’am.” The waitress just smiles at her and place the same order for Ginger again.

Nora walks over and helps clean the mess up on the floor from Ginger being manhandled. She places the mess she picks up off the floor on their dirty plates. She stands up and looks at Ginger.

“Please sit down, Ginger. I have a replacement lunch coming for you.” Nora sits down in the chair Ginger had been sitting in.

“Yes, ma’am and Thank you.” Ginger sits down in the chair Nora had been sitting in and rubs the spot where her hair had been pulled.

After a few minutes, her replacement order shows up and slices of pie are given to all of them, compliments of the manager. She clears the dirty dishes away.

When Ginger is done with her lunch. They head over towards the house to pick-up her things.

“Christina, stay here with Ginger. Keep the door lock and your phone ready.” Nora checks her gun as she locks her door and walk towards the house to retrieve to Gingers stuff.

She walks up to the door and knocks gently.

“Who is it?” Heather had gotten the last of the brat’s stuff downstairs and packed.

She had tried to call Officer Green to come over and help her, but he was unavailable. Her husband wouldn’t be home for another few hours. She was sick of that dam kid and she didn’t know who that woman was that interfered. She was startled when she heard the knock on the door.

“Nora Midnight. I’m here to pick-up Ginger’s belongings.” Nora stood back and a little to the right.

Heather walks over and opens the door.

“Here’s all his stuff.” Heather aside to show three trash bags.

“If you’ll bring them outside please.” Nora noticed the bags.

Heather goes and grabs all the bags and leave them at Nora’s feet.

“There! I hope the brat dies.” Heather slams the door afterwards.

Nora just shakes her head as she carries the bags to her car and pop the trunk and put them inside. Once they were carefully stowed away.
She gets in the driver seat and heads back towards her house. She makes a mental note to call Ginger's case worker later.

Ginger slowly rub the sleep from her eyes. She had cried herself to sleep last night. They had come back to Nora’s house and unloaded her stuff. Nora had given her, her own bedroom. It was next to Christina’s bedroom. Nora had told her what the house rules were and that she was going to talk with her case worker. She was going to see how Ginger felt living here with her and Kelly. If she felt comfortable around herself and Kelly. Then they would talk about taking the next step of adopting Ginger as her own daughter.

It takes Ginger a few minutes to remember where she was. The nightgown she had own, was one she hid from her other foster mother. It made her look like a little girl. She had put her long hair into pigtails. She gets out of bed and head towards the kitchen. When she walks in, she notices Nora, Kelly and Christina out on the back porch in their nightgowns. She walks outside to join them.

Nora glances over at Ginger as she comes walking outside. She looked so cute dressed like she was. They had taken pictures of her body last night to show the case worker all the bruises she had on her body.

“Well good morning sleepy head.” Nora had a smile on her face when she saw Ginger.

Ginger just waves hello as she sits down in a nearby chair. She notices that the patio table had orange juice, milk, coffee and two baskets of muffins.

“Help yourself to some breakfast.” Kelly grabs a muffin and breaks it open.

“Thank you.” Ginger pours herself some milk and grabs a muffin as well.

Ginger notices it was an apple cinnamon muffin. She saw that Nora was wearing a silky full length black night gown and Kelly had a matching
cream color one on. Christina was wearing one that stopped mid-thigh and was aqua blue.

“I called your school and told them you weren’t coming in today. We’ll drop by later this afternoon to get your assignments, Ginger. We also have a meeting with your case worker this afternoon as well. So, I want you to dress as if we are going to church.” Nora figures if Ginger
looked like a church girl, that the case worker might be easier on her.

“I don’t have any dresses or shoes that would go with them. My foster mother gave all my dresses, skirts, swimsuit and such to the Good Will.” Ginger misses wearing dresses and skirts. Her mother had bought her a lot of nice ones before she died.

“We’ll go out and get you some nice dresses and skirts with matching shoes after breakfast. So, eat some breakfast and get dress.” Nora knew a couple of nice places that she thinks Ginger and Christina will like.

“You’re coming too Christina. I want to get you fitted for a couple of business suits for a couple of interviews I know are coming your way.” Nora had a talk with Cheshire this morning. She had arranged for Christina to meet with a special effects company.

Christina looks at Nora “does that mean they caught the guy?”

“Yes, they have caught him. You’re still welcome to stay here as long as you like.” Nora felt that Christina’s presence would be beneficial to Ginger.

Ginger just looks from Nora to Christina wondering who they were talking about.

Nora notices Ginger’s confused look “I’ll explain later Ginger.”

“Okay.” Ginger finishes her muffin and heads towards the bathroom to take a shower.

There was a knock at the bathroom door and it opens just a little bit “here’s a robe for you Ginger. I’m just going to hang it here on the door knob.” Kelly puts the robe on the door knob.

“Thank you.” Ginger notices it was a nice white one.

She steps into the shower and takes a nice shower. She wonders where Nora was taking her and Christina. She uses the shampoo and conditioner that is in the bathroom. She loved the smell of the body wash.

She finishes her shower and heads into the bedroom. She gets dress in a nice pair of jeans and a blouse. They were clean, and she kept them in her backpack. That way, if her clothes get damage like it seemed to do every time she went to school. She would have some clean clothes to change into for school. She hears the shower and guess Christina must be taking her shower.

After everyone has had their showers and gotten dress. Nora and Kelly take the girls shopping. Nora takes Christina to her favorite suit shop, where she bought all her suits for her job. She orders four suits and two special suits from Elaine’s suit shop. The two-specials had bullet proof lining and protected the wearer from low caliber bullets.

While Nora was having Christina fitted for her suits. Kelly was taking Ginger shopping and getting some nice dress, skirts, blouses and undergarments to go with them. She gets Gingers ears pierce and let her pick out any she wanted. Afterwards they meet up with Nora and Christina and go to the hair salon and have their hair and nails done.

Nora and Ginger meet with her case worker. Nora explain things to her about what happened. Ginger’s case worker informs her that this wasn’t the first time they had gotten complaints about the foster parents. The case worker makes Nora her temporary guardian. She will have to come by and inspect Nora’s place out and Nora herself However, with the references Nora gives and the fact that Nora is a retired DSS agent. The case worker doesn’t see any problems with Nora becoming Ginger’s full time foster parent.

Once all of that was taken care of and she had the papers she would need to have items on Ginger’s file changed. She visits Ginger’s school and meet with each of her teachers. Ginger herself was a little nervous visiting her teachers dress the way she was, but after a few minutes and with some encouraging words from Nora. She calms down and relaxes.

“Well, it sounds like you are a good student.” Nora looks down at Ginger as they walk back to the mustang.

“I try to be.” Ginger tried to carry an A average or a B average in school. She had some AP classes she took.

“I’ve been meaning to ask you. Where did you learn to defend yourself like you did?” Nora had been impressed.

“My mom was a drill instructor for the Marines and she taught me. When I told her, I should had been born a girl. She decided that I should
learn how to protect myself. So, my mother taught me how to fight, just before she died.” Ginger was a little choked up talking about her mother.

“How did your father feel about you wanting to be a girl?” Nora reaches into her purse and pull out a tissue and hands it to Ginger.

Ginger accepts it “he never knew. He was killed in a car accident, coming home from the airport. He just got back from Afghanistan and a drunk driver plowed right into him. His car went off the road and he bleed to death. The police didn’t get to him in time to stop the bleeding.”

“I’m sorry to hear that. If you want to keep on training like your mother taught you. I can continue your training.” Nora thought it might be a good idea.

“I would like that.” Ginger holds Nora’s hand as they head to the car and get in.

Nora treats everyone to a nice dinner and afterwards they go to a Dairy Queen for desert. When they get home, Nora and Kelly help put Ginger’s clothes away and help Christina as well. Nora has Christina dress up like she was going to an interview and have her come into her office and does a mock interview on Christina.

Afterwards she tells Christina what she did wrong and how to correct it. She’ll do another interview in a few days to see if Christina corrects the mistakes. She knew Cheshire was talking to a special effects company located here in Memphis that was looking for talent. She was arranging for Christina to be interviewed.

Nora calls her friends at the Memphis police department and report Officer Green. She knows if the department doesn’t do anything, she’ll handle the problem.

“Alright girls, go get ready for bed.” Nora and Kelly give each girl a hug before they head towards their bedroom.

Once the girls had left the living room.

Kelly looks towards Nora “you’re enjoying being a mother, aren’t you?”

Nora just smiles and takes Kelly’s hand and lead her to their bedroom.

“Alright Ginger, let’s see what you know.” Nora and Ginger were dressed in their exercise leotards in the practice room in the garage.

Ginger and Nora were facing off against each other, while Kelly and Christina watched from the side lines. Ginger attacks first trying to us her small size to her advantage, but Nora was expecting it. Nora counters and tosses Ginger onto the mats.

“Not bad Ginger, but your opponent might expect you to use your small size to your advantage. You need to take that into account.” Nora was watching Ginger to see what she was going to do.

Ginger tries a series of punches and kicks her mother taught her against Nora. They were quick and fast for someone her size. Ginger tries to sweep Nora’s legs out from under her, but Nora dodges at the last minute.

“Dam! Ginger is quick. I wonder who taught her how to fight. She’s giving Nora a workout.” Christina was amazed as she watched Nora and Ginger spar.

Kelly just smirks. She has seen Nora fight before. She wiped the floor with the person she fought. Ginger was good, but still reckless and undisciplined. Fighting against children and some adults, she will be able to hold her own, but against someone like Nora. She will lose all the time.

Nora and Ginger continue for a little while longer. They stop when Nora notices Ginger was getting tired. She was impress with Ginger. She had talent and she was good. With a little bit more growing up, practice and a little refinement. Ginger could give a first year DSS agent a run for their money.

Ginger sits down on the mats and watched as Nora showed Kelly and Christina a few moves. She watches Nora step back and watch as Kelly and Christina spar, like she and Nora had done. She was enjoying living with Nora and how Nora didn’t find her strange wanting to be a girl.

After about an hour, Nora puts an end to everything.

“Go take a shower people.” Nora wipes the sweat from her face.

Nora watches as the three women leave, while she cleans up and wipes down the exercise room and mats they had practiced on. She had to admit that Ginger was taught well. Which, reminded her that she needed to contact her friend about the life insurance policies that Ginger’s parents should had, had.

Once the exercise room was cleaned. She heads inside the house and grabs a bottle water form the refrigerator. She pops it opens as she heads into her bedroom and strip out of her exercise outfit and join Kelly in the shower.

The two of them just wash each other’s bodies. They do spend a few minutes on certain parts a little longer then they should. Afterwards, they exit from the shower, after drying each other off. Kelly had the day off and so did Christina. Her interviewed wasn’t till Monday around eleven o’clock.

Once Nora and Kelly were dressed. They step out into the living room and find Ginger all dressed and waiting for everyone. A few minutes later, Christina joins them.

“Grab your purses ladies. I’m treating everyone to breakfast this morning.” Nora grabs her purse and the keys to Mercedes S600.

She hasn’t driven it, since she has been back in the states. Normally, she drives her Mustang or take her motorcycle. She heads towards the car and unlocks the door.

“Wow! We’re riding around in style today.” Christina couldn’t believe Nora was taking the Mercedes today.

Ginger looks at Christina with a puzzled look on her face “what’s so special about this car?”

“Well, first it’s armored. Second, it’s a nice comfortable Mercedes’s” Christina sits behind Kelly, while Ginger sits behind Nora.

Ginger looks the rearview mirror towards Nora “is this car really armored?”

“Yep, kiddo. It is. I used to use it to transport the German ambassador and his family back and forth to where ever they needed to go.” Nora doubles checks everything before backing out of the garage.

“Is that what your job was? To protect the German ambassador?” Ginger was curious.

“When he came to the United States. Sometimes, I would investigate criminal activities overseas or chased down criminals that left the United
States. In a since I was like our US Marshals. Where the US Marshal’s track down criminals here in the United States, I chased them down in foreign countries when they left the United States. I also was the body guard to diplomats and such when they visited the United States or when Senators or Congressmen from here came to visit a foreign country.” Nora backs the car out of the drive way and heads towards the interstate.

“Could they call you back into service if they want too?” Ginger was worried about that.

“Nope, I’m too old for that and I am permanently out of the service. I gave them twenty years and spent most of my career overseas.” Nora
remembers joining the DSS days before she graduated from college. She had a Master’s degree in Law Enforcement and joined as soon as she turned twenty-one years old.

“Did you regret spending so much time overseas?” Ginger was curious.

“Yes and no. I missed the time I lost with my family and friends. However, I did learn a lot about different cultures and some of their leaders.
Would I do it all over again if I had the choice, yes I would.” Nora had enjoyed her time with the DSS.

“What made you want to become a DSS Agent?”

“I guess it had to be Agent Emily Conklin who piqued my interest in wanting to join them. She visited our school on career day and told us swhat the DSS agents did. There’s a lot of different thing we do, but mostly our job is acting as Law Enforcement in foreign countries, protecting what belong to the United States and guarding our embassy’s and ambassadors. When we are stationed here in the United States, our job is to protect ambassadors from other countries while they are here.” Nora takes the exit she was looking for.

She pulls the Mercedes into the parking lot of a plain looking building. It had Jerry’s Diner in blue and red neon. She turns the engine off and gets out.

Everyone follows Nora into the place. It was setup like an old fashion diner. One of the waitresses greet them.

“How many in your party?”

“Just four, Sara.” Nora had spotted Sara’s name on her name badge.

Sara escorts them to a booth and leaves four menus for them. Kelly sits next to Nora and Ginger sits next to Christina. They look over the
menus as Sara returns with four glasses of water.

“Would you like anything to drink, while you look over the menu?” Sara had her pad out.

“Yes, three coffees’ and one orange juice, please.” Nora had looked at Sara when she placed their drink order.

Sara writes the order down and heads off to fill their order.

Nora looks at Ginger “So, what type of work are you going to do when you graduate from High School?”

“I’m going to join the Marines like my mother and father did. I want to be a drill instructor like my mother was. Both my parents loved the military. Mom, liked being a drill instructor and dad enjoyed deactivating bombs and such. Mom said dad was good at handling explosives. There wasn’t a bomb or explosive he couldn’t deactivate or build from spare parts.” Tears start to slide form Ginger’s eyes as she thought about her father.

Nora hands Ginger a napkin from her purse to wipe the tears away.

“Thank you.” Ginger takes the napkin and wipes the tears away.

Sara comes back with their drinks. She takes their orders and the menu’s. Christina watches her as she walks behind the counter and place their order.

Kelly looks at the girls “I was thinking we might go and see a movie today. Is there a particular movie you would like to see?”

“I wouldn’t mind seeing the new Star Wars movie.” Christina wanted to see what special effects they used and the movie itself.

“I don’t mind the new Star Wars movie, either.” Ginger liked Star Wars and wouldn’t mind seeing it.

“How about you Nora?” Kelly looks at her girlfriend.

“I’m easy. Whatever movie you guys choose is fine with me. I’ll spring for the refreshments.” Nora didn’t really have a movie in mind she
wanted to see.

Their breakfast arrives. Sara refills their coffee and Ginger’s orange juice. Nora was impress with the food. A friend of hers had suggested the
diner. She had gotten a Western omelet, while Ginger got pancakes, Kelly got waffles and Christina got a Spanish omelet.

When everyone was done. Nora pays the bill and they head towards the nearest mall. They split up so the girls could go look at a few places. Nora and Kelly could check out a few places while the girls were off exploring. They agreed to meet at the movie theater in time to catch the movie they agreed on.

Kelly purchases the tickets for everyone, while Nora buys the refreshments for everyone.

Nora drops Ginger off at school “okay, Ginger. Play nice and have a nice day.”

“Thanks Nora.” Ginger leans over and hugs Nora.

Ginger gets out of the Mustang like she was taught by Nora. She was wearing one of her new dresses to school. She turns around and shut the mustang’s door and watches as her foster mother drives off. She adjusts her backpack and her purse as she walks into school. This was the first time she every wore a dress to school.

She heads towards her first class and takes her normal seat. She had completed all her missed assignments. She takes them out of her backpack and puts them on her teacher’s desk. She had her note book out and was sitting like she has been taught.

Her teacher walks in and notices she was wearing a dress.

“You look nice today Ginger.”

“Thank you, Mrs. Bell.” Ginger smiles at her.

She was one of her favorite teachers. She was always willing to help a student. There were times she wished Mrs. Bell would become her parent, but she knew that was impossible. That was before she met Nora. Now, she liked that Nora and Kelly had taken her in and have become her foster parents. When the bell rings, she starts writing down what Mrs. Bell puts up on the board.

For next few hours, her classes go well. She could tell her teachers were surprised to see her wearing a dress and heels to school.
It was during lunch when the bullies made their move. Ginger was eating a lunch she made last night before going to bed. Kelly had helped her make it.

“Well, Well, well isn’t it our little faggot.” Joseph hated Ginger.

He had been on the football team. Him and his friends were kicked off because she told on them.

“Walk away, Joseph.” Ginger looks at Joseph and the two other guys that were with him.

They had been on the football team as well and got kicked off for bullying. She had turned them in at the same time she reported Joseph. They had been bullying and taking money from some of the kids. They had tried to force her to pay them, but she kicked their butts. The problem was, her former foster mother went along with what Officer Green said. She took the money Mr. Pierce gave her to go along with calling her a liar.

“Why, what are you going to do, faggot?” He pushes on Ginger’s right shoulder.

“Hey, why don’t you morons leave the girl alone?” William was getting tired of Joseph and his crew.

Ginger looks over towards William. She didn’t know much about him, but she knew he was a nice person. She glances at her cellphone to see if it was still recording. Nora had told her to start recording any encounter she has with the bullies at school.

“Stay out of this William. This is none of your business.” The last thing Joseph needed was Williams sticking his nose into his business.

It was bad enough he took his spot on the football team, but now he was interfering with his turf.

“It is my business, when you and your goons are bulling people. Now, why don’t you stop harassing Ginger and take your wannabe hoodlums
out of here.” William use to be a gang member in Merced, California.

He knew what real gang bangers were. The chumps he has met since coming to this school were a joke. His old gang would make mince meat of these wannabes. The only reason he was here, was because his father got a job out here in Memphis.

Ginger had packed up what was left of her lunch and just sat there waiting to see what was going to happen.

Joseph looks down at Ginger “you’re lucky, you faggot.”

“I rather be a faggot, then a jackass.” Ginger gives him her best sweet smile.

He clenches his hands and walks away with his two guys.

Williams comes walking over to Ginger. He knew she was transgender and that lately she had been getting a lot of crap from Joseph. He was trying to stay out of trouble. So, far he has managed to behave himself.

“Thanks for helping.”

“You’re welcome. Why doesn’t the principal suspend him and his cronies?” Williams was curious.

“Because his uncle has a lot pull downtown and his father is on the police force, but I don’t think he’ll be a police officer much longer.” Ginger let a smile appear on her face.

She knew Nora had called and complained to the chief of police. If he didn’t do anything about officer Green. She would handle him herself.
She knew Nora had a lot of connections with people.

“Why you say that?” William was curious.

“My foster mother called and complained about him to the Chief. If Officer Green isn’t kicked off the force. There is going to be hell to pay.”
Ginger picks her trash up and start walking towards the exit.

Williams follows behind her. He liked how her butt sway back and forth as she walked. He follows her up to the second floor and then to his next class. His next class was directly across from hers.

Ginger knew he was behind her. It made her feel warm and fuzzy to be admired by a guy. Someone tries to trip her as she moved down the aisle towards her seat. She looks at the student who tried to trip her. She just smiles at him and then kick him in his leg.

“Oops! Did I just kick you? I’m so sorry for that. Maybe, next time you won’t have your leg sticking out.” Ginger walks to her seat with an evil grin on her face.

Her Government teacher comes in and starts the class. Ginger didn’t care for him very much. He was a religious nutcase that gave her a hard time for being trans. Plus, she corrected him several times about certain items in the Constitution.

She tries to refrain from saying anything during his preaching, but everything he was saying was horse crap.

“Excuse me, Mr. Talbot, but that’s not how our government works. It says...” Ginger reads off the passage he skipped.

She also reads another section, that he skipped over. She looks up at him to see what he was going to do.

“Ms. Summers, please see me after class.” Mr. Talbot looks over towards Ginger.

He didn’t get a chance to meet her new foster mother when she came up to visit her teachers. If he had meet her, he would had told her how she tends to be disruptive and rude towards him. He continues the class and gives them their reading assignment and an essay they must write and turn in by the end of the week.

Ginger waits till all the students left, before heading up to Mr. Talbot’s desk. She walks up to his desk and stands before it.

Mr. Talbot looks up at Ginger “I would like to meet with your new foster mother. Can you have her meet me here tomorrow afternoon?”

Ginger just smirks “I think she will be happy to meet you Mr. Talbot.”

Mr. Talbot lets Ginger go to her next class.

By the time school is over. Nora is waiting for her.

Ginger spots Nora’s mustang and heads over towards it.

“How was your day?” Ginger climbs in the proper way with sweeping her dress under her legs and keeping them closed.

“It was good. My government teacher wants to meet you tomorrow afternoon, if your available.” Ginger knew Nora wasn’t going to listen to his BS.

“Did he say why?” Nora was curious. She thought she meet all of Ginger’s teachers.

“I think it’s because I corrected him several times today during class.” Ginger had a smile on her face.

“Why don’t you tell me what you did today.” Nora listens while Ginger tells her what happened in school.

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.

Nora woke Christina up and got her ready for work. She also, got Ginger up and ready for school. Kelly had gotten up and fixed breakfast for everyone. Once everyone was ready to go. They left the house. Nora’s meeting with Ginger’s history teacher wasn’t till the afternoon.

They dropped Ginger off first at school. Then they took Christina by her place to grab what tools and supplies she needed for her new job.
Once Christina had what she needed. They drop her off at work

They had talked about what to do with Christina’s place. What Nora, Kelly and Christina had agreed was to turn her place into a work studio.
She could stay with Nora and help with the bills. Nora didn’t need finical help. Her retirement paid the bills and gave her spending money. Plus, she had investments that she received money from. Her house was already paid for.

Once Christina was at work and Ginger was in school. Nora went down to social services to meet with Ginger’s case worker. Since, Kelly was living at the house with her. The case worker wanted to meet her and do a background check on her.

Kelly didn’t mind. She had a clean police record and her credit was so-so right now after the divorce she went through. She was in the process of rebuilding it. After she and Nora met with Ginger’s caseworker.

They leave and stop for lunch at a nice German restaurant. Kelly knew that Nora loved German food.

“Did Ginger tell you why her teacher wanted to talk to you?” Kelly was enjoying a nice Schnitzel and apple strudel dish Nora had ordered for her.

Nora was enjoying a nice goulash dish. The two of them had ordered wine to go with their lunch.

“Ginger’s history teacher tends to tell his class only half the truth or let his beliefs cloud the subject matter. When Ginger corrects him. He makes her stay after to lecture her and some of the test she has been given, he nicked picks them apart.” Nora couldn’t wait to meet this teacher.

After they finish eating, Nora and Kelly do some shopping. While they are shopping, Nora spots a teenage girl that should be in school shoplifting. She had spotted the girl opening a package of socks and stuffing them into her purse. She continued to watch the girl as she stole some panties and a few other items.

Nora nudges Kelly and motions to the young girl, who couldn’t be no taller then 4’5”. They watch as she steals a few more items and once she was done. They follow her out of the store. Nora and Kelly follow her discretely while she pedals away on a beaten-up bicycle. The bicycle looked like it had been rescued from a junkyard.

They follow the girl to a nice house and tended manicure lawn. The place was extremely nice and well care fore.

“I wonder why she was stealing with a place as nice as this?” Kelly couldn’t figure it out.

They watch as the girl hides the bicycle. They watch as she makes sure the bicycle is hidden well. She walks inside the house through the back door.

“Kelly, stay here and be my lookout please.” Nora grabs her gun from it’s hiding spot and tuck it behind her back.

She sneaks up to the house. As she gets closer, she could already hear raised voices coming from inside.

Inside the House:
“You stupid, ignorant girl. What do you mean you didn’t make any money? You weren’t supposed to come home till you made $300 selling yourself. That’s all your good for. Your nothing but a stupid cow.” He back hands her hard across the mouth.

Nora watches as the girl is smacked across the mouth by an older tall white guy. He looked like he was in his late forties and was bald. He had tattoos showing on his shoulders and down his left arm. He had on a pair of faded blue jeans and was wearing a black t-shirt that was tight across his chest.

When he smacked the girl on her mouth. The girl was lifted off the floor and sent flying across the kitchen. She hit the back of her head on the door frame and was bleeding.

“Get up you, lazy cow.” The man was walking towards the girl laying slump against the door frame.

Nora couldn’t stand it anymore and busted through the back door. She punches the guy in his face.

“You like beating on a child. Let’s see how you like being beaten on by me.” Nora follows through with a kick to the guy chest, sending him flying backwards.

The guy was caught off guard by a Hispanic woman that had come through his back door. He picks himself up off the floor.

“Lady, I don’t know who you are, but you just made a big mistake.” He charges towards Nora.

Nora jumps up on the counter and kicks him in the face with her foot. The guy tries to block her kick but is struck directly in his face. He feels his nose break and blood seeps from his broken nose.

He reaches out and tries to grab Nora’s leg, but he misses. He manages to hit her in her left thigh. He tries to hit Nora again, but she had jumped down off the counter and landed on the other side of him.

As he goes to punch Nora. He feels his arm grabbed and twisted behind him. Then he feels another arm wrapped around his throat and squeezed.

Nora holds on tight as she cuts the guys air off. She had him by his one arm behind his back and her other arm wrapped around his neck, cutting off his air supply. She feels him slowly relaxing and finally, he passes out from lack of air.

She taps her ear piece to call Kelly.

Kelly hears her cellphone ringing. She looks at the caller Id and notices it was Nora.

“Are you okay?”

“Yay, I’m fine. I’m going to need you to call the police and have them come here. Also, tell the operator we need any ambulance as well.” Nora
was kneeling by the young girl checking her out.

She notices she had bruises on her body and her fingers were crooked. She checks her pulse and detected a slow pulse. She stands up and walks over to the guy she knocked out and tear his t-shirt. She finds a bowl and fill it with warm water. She walks back over to the girl and kneel by her side. She tends to her wound. She could tell that this wasn’t the first time he had done this to her. She spots another scar on her head.

Kelly had gotten out of the car. She came around to the back door where she saw Nora and the girl went. As she walks in, she spots Nora kneeling by the girl they had followed just inside the house. She was tending to a head wound on the girl's head.

When she kneels to see if she could help. She notices a pool of blood under the girl’s head.

“Is she going to be okay?” Kelly looks towards Nora.

Nora looks up at Kelly “I hope so, Kelly. She hit her head against the door frame pretty hard.”

They hear the sirens approaching their location. When the police show-up. Nora gives her account of events and why she had followed the girl. She tells them everything and shows her DSS badge.

Kelly ends up going with the girl. Nora calls her lawyer and sees what needs to be done to get temporary custody of the girl. Afterwards, she shows up at Ginger’s school to meet with her history teacher.

Ginger's High School:
Ginger had stayed and waited for Nora to show-up. Her teacher had been smug towards her today in class. Nora was escorted to Gingers class by one of the school security officers.

Nora knocks on the door frame before she walks into the classroom.

Mr. Talbot looks up form his grade book when he heard someone knock on the door frame. He notices a slender Hispanic woman standing in
the doorway. She had straight black hair that had been tied back in a ponytail. She had on an expensive short sleeve charcoal gray blouse that seemed to be custom fitted to her. It went with the black dress slacks she was wearing and the two inch black heels. The slacks looked to be custom made, just for her.

“Hi, I’m Nora Midnight. I’m Ginger’s foster mother.” She holds her hand out to him.

Mr. Talbot shakes Nora’s hand. “I’m Harry Talbot, Ginger’s history teacher. Please come in and have a seat.” Mr. Talbot shows Nora to one of the desk in front of his desk.

Ginger moves to sit next to Nora.

Mr. Talbot looks towards Ginger “I would like to talk with your foster mother in private.”

Ginger was about to stand up to step outside. When she is stopped by Nora placing her hand on her arm.

“Mr. Talbot, whatever you have to say to me about Ginger in private. Can be said to me in front of Ginger.” Nora wanted to hear both sides.

“Very well Miss. Midnight. Ginger is a very disrupted in class and tends to speak out while I am teaching class.”

“That’s because you give us the wrong information and say what is written is wrong. You also don’t tell us the whole truth, but what you believe is the truth.” Ginger was made when she heard what he was telling Nora.

Nora just places her hand on Ginger’s arm. She looked directly at Mr. Talbot.

“Do you mean just like she did just now?” Nora just smiles.

“Exactly, like that. She tends to speak out during my lectures.” Mr. Talbot looked smugly at Nora.

He was going to make sure Ginger was kicked out of his class. If he was lucky, maybe out of the school as well.

“I do agree she gets excited when she feels someone is doing her wrong, but is what she told me true about you? That you inject your own belief and leave out important information when you teach your lessons?” Nora was watching his facial expression.

“Well no, not exactly. I mean everything is up to interpretation. Some of the information in the book is out of date or goes against what the truth is.” Mr. Talbot could see that Miss. Midnight was very intelligent.

“Ginger, can I see your book please?” Nora looks towards Ginger.

“Yes ma’am.” Ginger hands her book to her.

Nora accepts the book and flips to the copyright and printing page. The current edition they were using in class was only two years behind.
She flips through the book and finds a question and answer section she knew the students did for homework.

“Can you answer this question for me?” Nora reads off the question and then looks towards Mr. Talbot.

Mr. Talbot tries to remember what that question was asking, but he couldn’t recall anything on it. He just watches Miss. Midnight.

“Let’s try an easier one that I know Ginger has just recently answered.” Nora goes to the page that she saw Ginger working on last night and ask the question.

Mr. Talbot couldn’t remember the question or answer it either. He just looks at Nora.

A smile appears on Nora’s face “maybe I should get permission to sit in on your class and check out how you teach, Mr. Talbot. Because I have asked you two questions from this book that you assigned, and you seemed to be unable to answer the question.”

Mr. Talbot couldn’t believe how she made him look like a fool. Now she was talking about coming into his class and seeing how he teaches.

“That won’t be necessary, Miss. Midnight. There’s no need for you to be bothered.”

“Oh, it’s no bother. I’ll speak with the Principal about coming and observing your class.” Nora stands up and hands Ginger her book back.

Mr. Talbot couldn’t believe this lady was going to come and observer him. He watches as Miss. Midnight and Ginger leaves his classroom. He saw the smirk on Ginger’s face.

Nora just smile as she heads down to the Principal office and arrange to come up and observe Mr. Talbot teach history. The Principal didn’t have a problem with her coming up and observing. He wishes more parents would take an interest in their kid’s educations.

Ginger couldn’t believe the way her mother handled Mr. Talbot. She did notice that Nora’s knuckles were red and puffy. She waits to ask her
mother what happened till they get out to the car.

Once they were in the car “mom, why are your knuckles red and puffy?”

“Because I had to hurt a man for hurting his daughter.” Nora starts the car up and heads towards the hospital where Kelly was with the girl.

Christina wasn’t due to get off work for another hour or so. She’ll go and pick her up after she checks on the girl and pick Kelly up as well. She was still waiting to hear back from her lawyer.

Nora goes back to the girl’s house later that night after Christina and Ginger were in bed asleep. Kelly was in Nora’s car keeping watch for her.
Nora managed to pick the lock of the back door and walks inside. She scans the place but, doesn’t find any type of security system.

She moves quietly throughout the house. She finds the master bedroom and looks inside. The bedroom was messy. There were empty beer cans and Jack Bean whiskey bottles littering the floor. The room stunk of spilled booze and unwashed socks. The guy that was the girl’s father was a slob.

There were hooks in the ceiling and on the back of the bedroom door were leather whips of different styles and shape. There were several sets of leather cuffs that could be hung from the hooks in the ceiling. She looks around some more and finds bricks of marijuana and cocaine hidden underneath the bed stuffed up in the box mattress. She leaves it alone and searches the rest of the house.

She finds the girl's bedroom and couldn't believe what she was seeing. All the girl had for a bed was a bunch of tatter smelly blankets for a bed. There were deadbolts on her bedroom door and a five-gallon bucket in one corner of the room. She checks the windows and noticed they were nailed shut.

She looks in the closet and there were only two pairs of blue jeans, blouses and two dresses. The clothes smelled nice and clean. She looks around the closet some more and discovered some books, a jar of peanut butter that was halfway gone and half a bag of bread.

Nora couldn’t believe that the man kept his daughter locked up in the room. She leaves the girls room and looks around some more. All the cabinets had locks, including the refrigerator. She finds two more bedrooms. The doors were locked. She picks the locks and walks in. In one room had a bunch of money and guns in it. There were crates of hand grenades, AK’s and other assorted weapons. As for the money. There had to be at least a couple of millions all bundled up and ready to be transported. She was going to grab a few for the girl before she leaves.
She leaves that bedroom and goes to check out the other room and couldn’t believe what she found inside the room. There were ten white plastic five gallons buckets that were sealed. She unscrews the cap off one and smelled the contents. It smelled like alcohol to her and nearly burned her nostrils. She finds a large stack of cocaine bricks, several bags of Ice and over thirty blocks of heroin.

She finds several unopened boxes of cellphones of different brands. She grabs a few of them. You can never have too many burn phones. She knew this was what the guy was using them for.

She pulls her cellphone out and starts taking pictures of everything. She makes sure she had several clear pictures of everything.

She locates a gym bag and heads back into the bedroom that had the money and fills the bag up with the money for the girl. She adds the unopened burn phones she found too. She’ll go to the bank tomorrow and start an account for the girl.

Ginger’s case worker was working with her lawyer to get custody of the girl that was in the hospital. The report she got from the doctor that was tending to her wasn’t good. This wasn’t the first time she has been hit in the head. He found several scars on top of her head. She had several STD’s that they had to give her shots for. She was malnourished, underweight and had needle marks on each arm.

All her fingers had been broken and healed incorrectly. He had to rebreak her fingers and reset them. They did a cat scan and MRI of the girl.
The doctor did discover she had a few cracked ribs and her arm had been broken before.

Nora relocks the back door and heads back outside to Kelly; who had been waiting in the car for her.

“What did you find out?” Kelly starts the car and put it in gear.

“The guy is a drug dealer and treats his daughter more like a slave than anything else. You should have seen the condition in which he makes her live. She didn’t even have a bed to sleep on. He makes her sleep on the floor on a pile of tatter worn out blankets.” Nora couldn’t believe how he treated his own daughter.

Kelly could tell Nora was mad. She has known Nora for several years and knew she donated to National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, Saint Jude’s Hospital and Make a Wish foundation. If it had something to do with kids, she donated to it.

“What’s in the gym bag you brought back?”

“Money, I took it for the girl and several unopen cellphones. The guy was going to use them as burn phones.” Nora figures she would do the same.

Kelly drives them home and pulls into the garage. Once they were parked. Nora takes the gym bag and stuffs it in a hiding spot she uses in the garage. She takes the burn phones into the house with her and put them in a secret cabinet she stores a few she owns in.

Once that was done, she heads towards her bedroom and strips out of her clothes. She walks into the bathroom and takes a shower with Kelly. They fool around in the shower some and finally make it to bed. Nora had her black nightgown on and Kelly had her cream white one on. Nora was spooned against her from behind with her arm draped over her.

Five hours later, Nora’s cellphone goes off. She touches the snooze button and goes back to sleep. The Alarm goes off a second time. She gets up out of bed and heads into the kitchen to make breakfast for Ginger and Christina. She prepares a bag lunch for Ginger and a lunch box for Christina. She knew Christina could go out to lunch if she wanted to, but she figures she’ll eat lunch at her work. She fixes a quick breakfast for both girls. The coffee was already brewing.

Christina comes walking in first and waves good morning as she grabs a cup of coffee for herself and some breakfast. Ginger comes in next and grabs an orange juice and breakfast as well. Once they had finished their breakfast. Nora changes while they put thier dirty dishes in the dish washer and grab their lunches to takes them to school and work.

Just before Ginger steps out to the car. She looks towards Nora.

“Are you coming this afternoon to my class, mom?”

“I’ll be there Ginger. I want to see how Mr. Talbot teaches the class. I went through your Government book yesterday before you went to bed
and read the chapters he required of you. I also review the homework he assigned as well.” Nora covers up a yawn.

“Tired mom?” Ginger just smiles.

She knew Kelly and her mom tends to make love to each other. She didn’t mind if they did. Neither one of them were forcing her to be like them. She didn’t know which way she really swung.

Ginger grabs her school bag and lunch. She follows Christina out to the car. She sits in the back seat by herself. Kelly wasn’t coming with them this morning.

Nora takes Christina to work first and drops her off. She then heads towards Ginger’s school to drop her off. As she pulls up to drop Ginger off.

“Do you need anything, Ginger?”

“I’m fine mom.” Ginger leans in the middle of the seats and gives Nora a hug.

Nora returns the hug “be careful and have fun sweetie.”

Ginger gets out and heads inside the school. As she walks in, she notices William was waiting for her. She wonders what he wanted as she walks up to him.

“Morning William, what can I do for you?” Ginger stops near him.

“Oh, hi Ginger. I was told you sometimes tutor students. I was wondering if you wouldn’t mind helping me?” William was having a hard time in Trigonometry and needed some tutoring.

“Sure, what subject do you need help with?”

“Trig. I’m failing the class and if I don’t pick my grade up. I’ll be kicked off the football team and we can’t afford that right now.”

“No problem. What day is good for you?” Ginger adjust her backpack.

“Would tomorrow be okay? I have football practice on Thursday and Friday, plus this weekend.”

“Tomorrow will be fine. Do you want to come over to my house or me over at yours?” William didn’t mind going over to her house.

“Why don’t we meet at mine. My mom will be up here this afternoon and I’ll let her know.” Ginger didn’t think Nora would mind.

“Thanks, Ginger.” William gives her a smile and heads off towards his first class.

Ginger heads towards her first bell class. She’ll inform Nora when she comes up to the school this afternoon for Mr. Talbot’s class. She walks into class and over to the desk she has claimed as hers.

Hospital:
Nora heads towards the hospital after stopping at a toy store to buy the girl a teddy bear. She didn’t see one in the girl’s bedroom last night.
She heads up to the floor she was staying on.

She waves to the nurses as she walks into the room.

She notices that the young girl was still out for the count. She hadn’t moved since they put her in the room. Nora walks over and tucks the teddy bear next to her. She brushes some of the girl’s hair out of her eyes.

“Your father should be ashamed by the way he has taken care of you and treated you.” Nora wonders who her mother was and what she ever saw in the man.

The doctor walks in “Ms. Midnight, how are you doing?”

“I’m doing good doctor. I’m just concerned about this girl. How much longer do you think she’ll remain in a coma?” Nora was concern about her.

“I don’t know. Hopefully, she’ll wake-up in a few days.” Doctor Goodman checks her vitals and blood pressure.

Nora just stands nearby and watches the young girl. As the doctor was about to leave. The young girl opens her eyes and looks at the room she was in. She notices she had a few machines connected to her.

Nora was about to walk out when she notices the girl awake “Doctor, she’s awake.”

Doctor Goodman quickly moves to her side. He starts checking her responses. He was surprised that she woke-up.

Nora stands back and watches. She hopes the girl can answer some question for her. She wants to know who her mother was.

The information she collected last night. She sent to a friend of hers with the DEA. They had worked together for five years before he left the DSS and went to the DEA. He informed her he would investigate the person. The judge wasn’t allowing the girl's father bail. He already had domestic assault charges and assault with a firearm charge against him. She placed charges against with assault, attempted murder, and child abuse.

Melody didn’t know what to make of the Doctor or the well dress Hispanic looking woman observing her. She was confused on how she got her. The last thing she remember was getting backhanded by her father and hitting her head against the door. She notices all her fingers were bandaged up.

“W-Where am I-I?” Melody was looking towards the Doctor and the woman.

She was looking towards the Hispanic looking woman.

“You’re in the hospital. I saw your father backhand you and you hit your head on the door frame.” Nora notices that the girl was nervous.

Melody notices the teddy bear lying next to her. She picks it up and hugs it tightly. The last one she had was thrown into a fire barrel by her father. He did it to punish her. When she went to try and pull it out, she burned her hand.

“What is your name and how old are you?” Nora was curious and could see how much the young girl loved the teddy bear she bought her.

“M-My name is M-Melody W-Wolcott and I-I am 13 y-years old.” She looks directly at Nora.

“Well Melody, I’m Nora Midnight and this is your Doctor. His name is Doctor Richard Goodman. I have been given temporary custody of you till the courts decide what to do about your father. Do you know who your mother is or where she might be?” Nora was curious about her mother.
“M-My mother d-died of an o-overdose.” Tears leak from her eyes as memories of that day surface.

“Melody, has your father always abused you and sold you out to other men?” Nora moves closer and records their conversation on her phone.

“Y-Yes! I-I'm supposed to make three hundred d-dollars every night for h-him.” She shivers as she squeezes the teddy bear tighter against her body.

Nora notices she has a stutter to her speech. She could see that she was a little cautious and scared as well.

“Melody, does your father shoot you up with the drugs he sells?” Nora had seen the track marks on her arms.

“Y-Yes.” She shakes again.

“Doctor Goodman, did your blood test show any drugs in her systems?” Nora looks over at him.

“Yes, we found traces of cocaine and heroin in her system and when we tested her hair. It came back positive for history of drug use. We have given her an injection of Naltrexone to help her. She only needs to take it once a month.” Dr. Goodman figures Naltrexone should help her.

“How long will she need to take it?” Nora knew kicking a drug habit, especially one forced upon you was going to be hard to kick.

Nora turns her attention back to Melody. She walks over and sits on the edge of her bed.

“I’m going to need to leave and take care of some business Melody. However, I will return later to check on you. I have a cellphone for you with my number already programmed into it. All you need to do is press 1 for me. If you press 2, you’ll get my wife Kelly. If you press 9, you’ll get some friends of mine. Please, only use that one if I and Kelly don’t call you in twenty-four hours. It’s for emergencies only” She pulls a flip phone cellphone out and hands it to Melody. Nora had programmed the number Cheshire had given her into the phone. Nora knew if Cheshire or Jack came, they would protect Melody, Ginger and Christina should something happen to her and Kelly.

Melody looks at Nora “y-you promise to r-return?”

“I promise.” Nora gives her a hug and place a kiss on her forehead.

Nora gets up and steps outside Melody’s room to speak with Dr. Goodman.

“Dr. Goodman, if there is anything that Melody needs to be done or needs. Let me know, please. I have to leave to handle some business, but I will be back.” Nora knew she needed to be at Ginger’s school for her Government class.

“Don’t worry Ms. Midnight. She’s in good hands.”

Nora walks out of the school office after checking in with them. She had asked permission to sit in on Ginger’s government class. She had explained her reasoning to the principal and vice principal. They had granted her permission to attend. She had brought a notepad and pens with her to take notes during class. She also had a copy of the same Government Book Ginger had been given for the class.

Nora takes a seat in the back of the class. She watches as the students in the class enter and take their seats. She spots Ginger as she comes in and takes her seat.

Ginger spotted Nora in the back of the class as she entered the room. A smile appears on her face as she heads towards her favorite seat and prepare to take notes. She was going to enjoy this class. She wanted to see if Mr. Talbot was going to screw-up while her mother was here.

Mr. Talbot looks towards the back of the class towards Ms. Midnight’s direction. The objections he raised with principal Kramer and vice principal Bones had fallen on deaf ears. He had said that there was no reason for Ms. Midnight to observe his class.

Principal Kramer had said he should be trilled that one of his student’s parents were taking an interest in their child’s education. He starts writing information up on the smart boards while he waited for the bell to ring. Once the bell ring, he shuts the classroom door and turns around to face his students.

“Today we have a special guest class, so please be on your best behavior. Now, today we are going to learn about the US Constitution. Who knows why the founding fathers wrote the Constitution?” Mr. Talbot looks out at everyone.

“No one?” He looks around at all his students.

Ginger wanted to answer his question, but she wanted him to make a mistake.

“Well, since no one bother to read the section I assigned last night. It’s because Locke argued that the government should have absolute power over the people. His argument was that the government should have total say over the rights that the people should have.”

Nora looks at him and couldn’t believe she just heard what she heard. That wasn’t what Locke and the founding fathers believed. Locke and
the founding fathers believed that people had unalienable rights and that there should be limited government control. It was Thomas Hobbes who suggested that the government have absolute power over its subjects.

“Sir, that wasn’t what the book said. I believe you have your facts wrong.” Ginger looks towards her teacher with a smile on her face.

“Your wrong, Ms. Summers, that isn’t what the book says.” He looks directly at her with a red face.

“Sir, it says so, right here on page 157, paragraph 2, third line in.” Ginger had highlighted the paragraph to prove what she was saying.

Nora stands up and walks up to Ginger’s desk. She looks over her shoulder at the section she highlighted. It was the same paragraph in her book as well. She glances over towards the student sitting next to Ginger to look at their book and it said the same thing.

“Mr. Talbot, for my curiosity. Could you show me where it says this in your book please?” Nora looks directly at him.

“Ms. Midnight, must I remind you that you are a guest in my classroom? As such, I don’t have to show you or explain to you anything at all?”

“Then you shouldn’t have a problem, showing me where in your book it says what you told the class. I mean, maybe your book might be an
older version that had mistakes that were never corrected.” Nora was trying to be diplomatic about the situation.

Some of the class were trying not to snigger at Mr. Talbot. All their books said the same thing as their classmates. They watch Ms. Midnight as she heads towards the front of the class.

Mr. Talbot could see that Ms. Midnight wanted him to answer her. He watches as she stops on the other side of his desk and holds out her hand. He spots several of his students taking out their cellphones and videoing them. He hands his book over towards Ms. Midnight.

“Thank you.” As she opens the book.

Nora looks at the page and notices it said the same thing that hers, Ginger’s and the other student she checked had said. She double checks the edition and printing. She makes sure to leave a mark on the page with her initials in very small lettering.

“Here you go Mr. Talbot. You may continue with your class.” Nora holds the book out to him.

Mr. Talbot doesn’t accept the book. Instead he gathers his things up and walks out of class. He heads down towards the Principals office.
Nora turns around and looks at the class. She opens the book back up and turns towards the page they were on.

“Now, who can tell me why our founding fathers believe in the protection of unalienable rights and limited government in the Declaration of
Independence and Constitution?” Nora continues teaching the class till the bell rings.

Principal Kramer and Vice Principal Bones had been surprised when Mr. Talbot stormed into their office and turned in his resignation. He had told them to go and fuck themselves as he stormed out of the school. They both watched as Mr. Talbot almost hit a couple of people as he drove out of the schools parking lot. Afterwards, both headed up to Mr. Talbot’s former classroom and listen as Ms. Midnight taught his class. They went inside the classroom and watched as she taught the class. The students seemed to pay attention as she read and wrote things on the board. By the time the class bell rang. They watched as the students pack up and left the room.

Ginger stayed behind to act as a witness for her mother. She recorded the whole encounter. She watches as the Principal and Vice Principal walked over towards her mother.

“Ms. Midnight, would you mind explaining what happened?” Principal Kramer looks at Ms. Midnight.

“I asked Mr. Talbot a question to show me what he told the students after checking in my book, Ginger’s book and the student next to her school book to make sure all of us were on the same page. I thought maybe, he had a different version or an older book that had errors. He refused to show me at first. So, I went up to the front of the class to confront him.”

“Sir, I have the whole thing recorded.” Ginger plays the whole thing back for Mr. Kramer and Mr. Bones.

Both men watched the video and could tell that Ms. Midnight had been very diplomatic during the whole time. They couldn’t believe what Mr. Talbot had said to the students. They look at Ms. Midnight.

“Maybe we should hire you to teach his class.” Both men were impress by what they saw of Ms. Midnight.

“I’m flatter you would offer me the job, but my Master’s degree is in Law Enforcement. I would have to go back to school to get a teaching degree in the state of Tennessee.” Nora hadn’t consider being a teacher.

Hell, she hadn’t consider coming out of retirement either. She just wanted to enjoy life for once.

“Ms. Midnight. What did you use to do?” Mr. Kramer might know a loop hole and a friend on the school board that could help.

“I was a US DSS agent. I worked mostly overseas. I just recently retired.”

“Well, let me make some calls and get back with you.” Principal Kramer wouldn’t mind having her on staff here.

She could help him with another problem that was going on here at school as well.

Nora reaches into her purse and pull one of her business cards out and hands it to him.

“You can reach me at this number.” As she hands the card to Mr. Kramer.

“Thank you.” He accepts the card and tuck it into his shirt pocket.

Afterwards, Ginger and Nora leave the school. They head towards the hospital to check on the girl Nora had rescued.

“Mom, I can’t believe Mr. Talbot walked out of class. I thought for sure he would have done more to fight you.” Ginger looks over at Nora.

“The fight isn’t over yet sweetie. He might try to say I attacked or provoked him.” Nora felt the matter wasn’t over yet.

“How? There’s no way he can. You have over twenty different students that can testify on your behalf. We also have video to prove it.” Ginger
made sure to save a copy to her cloud account.

“So, who are we visiting at the hospital mom?” Ginger watches as her mother pulls into the parking lot of the hospital.

“Melody Wolcott. She was the young girl me and Kelly rescued from an abusive father. Her father almost succeeded in killing her. If we hadn’t
intervened when we did. She might be dead right now.” Nora parks the car and turns to face Ginger.

“Why did her father try to kill her?”

“Because she didn’t bring home any money for selling herself. He was sending her out to sell herself for sex.” Nora was going to be open with
Ginger about Melody.

Ginger couldn’t believe what she was hearing. Melody’s father was making her sell herself for sex. She couldn’t believe a parent would do that to their child.

“Is there anything I can do to help her?”

“Just be supportive and be her friend. That’s all you can do right now Ginger. Just show her you care for her. She’s had a hard life. Do you think you can do that?” Nora watches Ginger to see if she can.

“I’ll try, mom.” Ginger wipes a tear from her cheek.

“That all I can ask of you.” Nora gives Ginger a hug as they get out of the car and head inside the hospital to see Melody Wolcott.

Nora and Ginger walks into the hospital room where Melody was. She was watching cartoons.

“N-Nora, y-you returned.” Melody was so happy that Nora had returned.

“I told you I would, Melody.” Nora gives her a hug.

Ginger looks at the girl her mother told her about and notices all her fingers were in splits. She also had her head wrapped up. There were a few tubes connected to her.

“Hi, Melody. I’m Ginger, Nora’s daughter.” Ginger holds out her hand for Melody to shake.

“I-It’s n-nice to m-meet you.” Melody shakes Ginger’s hand.

She could tell Ginger had some pretty nails. They had little kitty faces on them. She looks back towards Nora.

“W-Will I b-be able to go with y-you?” Melody was concern that Nora wouldn’t want her.

“As soon as the doctor gives the okay, you’ll be coming home with me. You and Ginger will be sharing a bedroom. I hope you don’t mind.” Nora hadn’t told Ginger yet.

“I-I don’t mind. I-It will be nice to h-have a s-sister.” Melody looks at Ginger to see if she minded.

Ginger didn’t mind sharing a room. She could see the abuse in Melody’s eyes. She wouldn’t mind helping this girl.

“Why don’t you two girls get to know each other, while I go and speak with Dr. Goodman.” Nora leaves the hospital room and goes looking for Dr. Goodman.

She finds him at one of the nurse’s station.

“Dr. Goodman, when can Melody come home with me?” Nora was still waiting to hear from Ginger’s social worker about handling Melody’s case.

“She’s doing better, Ms. Midnight. I would say she can be release tomorrow, afternoon. I just need to perform one more test and if the test comes back negative. I’ll discharge her to your custody.” Dr. Goodman didn’t see why Melody couldn’t be discharged to Ms. Midnight’s care.

“Thank you, Dr. Goodman.” Nora glances at her wrist watch and notices it was getting close to when Christina would be getting off.

She pulls her cell phone out and dial Kelly’s phone number.

Kelly was in the kitchen gathering what she was going to need to make dinner tonight, when her cell phone rings. She notices it was Nora calling her. She picks the cell phone up.

“Hey sweetie. What can I do for you?” Kelly walks over to the cabinets to pull down some spices.

“Can you pick Christina up from work for me please?” Nora wanted to give Ginger and Melody sometime to learn a little about each other.

“Sure, let me get dinner going and I’ll fetch Christina. How is the girl we rescued doing?” Kelly figures the items can cook in the crock pot while they were gone.

“She is doing fine. Dr. Goodman wants to do one more test and if it comes back negative. She’ll be able to be discharge to my custody tomorrow evening.” Nora was still getting used to being, a mother.

She hadn’t planned on becoming a mother when she retired from the DSS. Nor, had she thought about becoming a teacher either. Now, she has become a mother and if she understood Principal Kramer right. He would like for her to come and be a teacher at Ginger’s school.

“That’s good. Well, let me get things going and I’ll go and get Christina from her job. See you later, sweetie.” Kelly ends the call.

Nora puts her cell phone back in her purse and heads back to Melody’s room. She peeks in and notices that Ginger and Melody was getting along well. Ginger was showing Melody a music video on her cell phone. She just stands and observe them for a while.

She was proud of Ginger in accepting Melody. After the video she was showing Melody ended, Midnight walks in.

“Well, how are you two girls getting along?” Nora looks at both girls.

“G-Ginger w-was showing me some v-video’s. I-I was n-never allowed to own a p-phone.” Melody felt so stupid being around Ginger.

“It’s going to be okay, Melody.” Ginger gives Melody a hug.

She felt sorry for the poor girl. She won’t mind being her older sister. She’s never had a sister before, so this will be new for her.

Nora just smiles at the two of them “I got some good news for you Melody. Dr. Goodman said he had one more test to perform on you tomorrow and if the result come back good. You’ll be able to come home with me.”

“Y-You’ll let me come and l-live with you and G-Ginger?” Melody couldn’t believe that someone would take her.

Her father said she was a worthless, stupid and moronic cow. That the only thing she was good for, was being used like a female dog in heat.
He also told her that her mother should had aborted her, once she found out that she was pregnant with her.

“I believe thats what mom said, sis.” Ginger gives her a sisterly smile and hug.

“Melody, we’re going to leave you now, but I promise to be back tomorrow morning after dropping Ginger off at school.” Nora wouldn’t mind taking Melody home tonight, but Dr. Goodman said he needed to perform one more test, before he would release her.

Nora walks over and gives Melody a hug “I promise I’ll be back tomorrow, Melody.”

“O-Okay.” Melody didn’t want Nora or Ginger to leave, but Nora always kept her word to her.

Ginger gives her a hug as well “I can’t wait till you come home tomorrow. You’ll like meeting Kelly and Christina.”

Melody watches as Nora and Ginger leave. She snuggles under the blanket and hold her teddy bear to her. She can’t wait to leave the hospital.

Nora and Ginger head down to Nora’s car. Ginger looks at Nora just as they reach the mustang.

“Mom, is it alright if I have a person over to help them? The new quarterback of our football team needs help with Trig and asked me to tutor him.”

“I don’t see why you can’t. Kelly will be picking you and your friend up, unless you want to take the bus?” Nora starts the mustang up.

“Kelly will be fine mom. I hope I’ll be a good big sister to Melody. She seems to need someone who cares about her.” Ginger had seen how other foster kids had been treated like Melody.

“I think you’ll make a very good big sister. Just remember, she’s going to need some help. According to what Doctor Goodman has told me about her medical condition. There are signs that she has survived several injuries to her head. He believes that is why she seems a little slow and has a stutter to her speech. You might need to help her sometimes.”

“I don’t mind, mom. What is going to happen to her father?” Ginger was concern about that.

“Let’s just say that he isn’t going to last long in prison. I made a call to a family friend in the District Attorney’s office and he is going to be sent to general population. The men in that part of the prison don’t like child abusers or pedophiles.” Nora hopes he gets what is due to him.

When they walk into the house. They saw Christina in an extremely good mood.

“Okay, why are you so happy?” Nora was curious.

“I’m going to Hollywood to work on a movie set. Rob wants me to come along and help. He said that our hotel room and meals are being paid
for by the production company. He doesn’t know how long we are going to be there, but it shouldn’t be longer than a week and a half.”
Christina couldn’t believe she was going to Hollywood.

Nora looked concerned. If Christina goes to Hollywood, she couldn’t protect her or look after her.

“Christina, come with me to my bedroom please.” Nora heads towards her bedroom.

Christina follows behind her into the bedroom. She watches as Nora goes over to her closet and reach up on her top self. She pulls down a slim box.

“This is my back-up bullet proof vest, Christina. I’ve never worn it and it’s lighter then my normal one. I know you might not be expecting any trouble while you’re there, but I rather you be prepared for any trouble that might pop up. Also, you won’t be able to take any weapons with you on the plane. I have a brief case that you can hide your weapon in that the x-ray machines can’t pick-up. It was given to me while I was station over in Europe. It has a metal foam lining inside a tungsten case. Even if you look inside the case, you can’t spot it.” Nora shows Christina how the case work.

She removes the panels on the inside of the case. Behind the panel, Christina could see where a gun and two magazines could be stored and replace the panel.

“You can also use the case to block bullets.” Nora hands the brief case over to Christina.

“Thank you, Nora.” Christina accepts the case.

“Just do me a favor of not getting into any trouble while you’re in Hollywood please.” Nora just smiles at Christina. She was very proud of her.

"I promise not to get into any trouble, while I'm gone." Rescuing Jack's daughter and her friends had put her on some nasty persons radar, not to mention when she stopped the robbery at the convenience store as well.

Christina drops the brief case in her bedroom, before heading towards the dining room to have dinner.

Nora and Kelly help Christina pack for the trip. She made sure she had enough clothes for a two-week stay. They made sure she had some nice clothes to go out and enjoy the nightlife but made sure she understood the dangers as well.

“Here’s the number of a friend of mine, Christina. If you get into trouble or need help, call this number. Ask for Fredrick Martian. He was one of my instructors when I became a DSS agent. He’s retired, but he has a private bodyguard business.” Nora slips the sticky note to Christina.

“Thanks, Nora.” Christina gives Nora and Kelly a hug.

She may be 18yrs old and living on her own, but Nora and Kelly have been like mothers to her. Her own parents didn’t want to have anything to do with her and her sister tolerated her, just like her cousin Wolf did. However, Nora and Kelly didn’t judge her. Cheshire had said she would pay for the final operation. All she had to do was let her or Jack know when she wanted to do it.

Since Christina was going to have an early flight, she helps with dinner and heads to bed afterward.

Nora checks Ginger’s homework and finds several mistakes in her math.

“You need to fix these six, Ginger. Your math is wrong.” Nora points out her mistakes.

“God, I hate Algebra.” Ginger may be smart and good in math, but she hated Algebra and Trig.

“So, did I when I went through it in high school and college. However, I managed to pass it with straight A’s. Let me know if you want me to help you.” Nora watches as Ginger goes back to fixing her math problems.

Kelly looks towards Nora “are you planning on becoming a teacher?” She had seen Nora looking up the qualifications she would need for Tennessee.

“It’s not a bad idea. I have a master’s degree in Justice and Law Enforcement. Plus, twenty years of being a DSS agent and knowledge of our government. Plus, knowledge of other countries from my relationships with ambassadors of other countries.” Nora figures her work experience would cover most of the requirements.

She reads the site to get a license to teach. There were two ways she could go. She already had a master’s degree. Even if it was in Law Enforcement, she could transfer some of her credits over to see what she would need to get an educators license, or she could take several different Praxis test to get a license and teach that way.

She decided that she would take the test to get her license to teach. There were at least six test she could take to get her license to teach in different subjects. She goes ahead and orders the study material for the ones she knew she needed to study for. The languages ones she could take right now. She'll set a day to take test for those after, she gets the other one she needs. As for the others, she’ll take Praxis Core Academic Skills for Educators (Core) Tests. She’ll take all three tests at the same time in that category and the Principles of Learning and Teaching afterward. She orders the study material and once it all downloads. She’ll look at it in the morning.

“Done.” Ginger comes back with the corrections she made.

Nora looks at it and discovers she still had one wrong.

She looks at Ginger “would you like for me to show you the proper answer on this one?”

Ginger looks at the one Nora was pointing at and couldn’t believe she got it wrong again.

“Yes please.” Ginger sits down next to Nora’s legs on the floor.

Nora takes her pencil and erases what Ginger had written down. Step-by-step, she explains what she is doing to Ginger and let her finish the
rest. Nora watches and when she had the correct answer. A smile appears on her face.

“There you go. Now, why don’t you go and take your bath? It's pass your bedtime.”

Ginger stands up and hugs Nora and Kelly. Afterward, she heads towards the bedroom to drop her school bag off and then into the bathroom to fill the tub up.

Kelly just leans against Nora’s shoulder and smiles. She was proud of Nora and what she was doing. Tomorrow, she was going to go with Nora to pick out a dresser and bed for Melody. She’ll take Melody out to personalize her side of the bedroom.

“You think Principal Kramer is going to hire you to be a teacher?” Kelly glances at Nora.

“Yes, I think he would like for me to work there at the school. The first reason is, he just lost a teacher. So, he needs a replacement. The
second reason I think he’ll hire me. He will have someone who is experienced in spotting problems and things a normal security personnel can’t spot. I noticed a few things when I walked through the hallways from Ginger’s Government class.” Nora saw a few things that she knew weren’t permitted in school, not to mention she smelled the scent of marijuana on a few students as they passed her.

“Isn’t that common in school? I know my school had a few reefer heads at my high school when I went.” Kelly’s best friend was one.

“I know, we had a few in my high school along with a few drug pushers. However, the teenagers at Ginger’s school shouldn’t have to worry about that.” Nora was thinking about what she had observed.

“You know, Ginger might be teased and attack if you come down hard.” Kelly was worried about Ginger and Melody.

“I know, but Ginger can handle herself pretty well. I’ll make sure she is protected as best as I can. Melody might end up taking special classes. I’ll give her a test to see what she knows and what she doesn’t know. We can help her catch up with students that are her age." Nora knows Melody might need some help in her education and social skills.

Once Ginger was ready for bed. Nora goes in to speak with her. She walks over and tucks her in and then sits on the side of her bed.

“You don’t mind sharing your room with Melody, do you?” Nora brushes some of Ginger’s hair out of her eyes.

“No, ma’am. I don’t mind sharing my room with her. Is she going to be okay with me not being a physical girl?” Ginger was on hormones and getting her curves and her own breast.

“We’ll talk about it, but I wouldn’t worry too much. I think she will like you, for you.” Nora looks down at Ginger and could see she was a little worried.

“I hope so. I want to be a good big sister to her.” Ginger felt sorry for Melody.

“You will, just take it slow and let her get to know you. Now, close your eyes and get some sleep.” Nora kisses Ginger’s forehead and turns her lamp off on her nightstand.

Nora walks out of the bedroom and checks on Christina. She could see Christina having a hard time falling asleep.

“You know when I have a hard time sleeping. I listen to sounds of nature to relax me.”

“It’s more like I’m excited, than anything else.” Christina had a giant teddy bear dressed as Darth Vader sleeping with her.

“Well, let me know if you want a sleeping pill. Also, try to get some sleep.” Nora walks over and tucks Christina in and gives her a kiss on the forehead as well.

She finally heads back into the living room to spend some time with Kelly. After a few hours, they head to bed with Kelly snuggling up to her. Nora just holds her and finally fall asleep.

In the morning time, she and Kelly drop Christina off at her workplace, so she can help load things into their van to take with them on the flight. Then, drop Ginger off at school and Kelly informs Ginger she’ll be by after school to pick her and her friend up.

Nora and Kelly go bed shopping for Melody. Nora buys her a canopy bed and matching bedroom furniture to go with it. She also picks her up a few things she might like. The nurse had given her Melody’s size and Kelly picks out some clothes for Melody to wear home and to bed.

Nora’s lawyer and Ginger’s caseworker is handling Melody’s case. She was given custody of Melody and charges were filed against Melody’s father. There was no way he was going to get off hurting Melody. Nora and Kelly spend the day buying things for Melody, so she will feel welcome and at home.

While Nora is running around taking care of things for Melody to come home later. Her phone starts ringing. She checks it and notices it was the High School number. She hopes that Ginger hasn’t been hurt.

She answers the call “hello?”

“Ah, Ms. Midnight this is Principal Kramer. I was wondering if you could by the school, so we could speak?” Principal Kramer had spoken to
superintendent Mary Hodges about hiring Nora Midnight.

He had informed her that she was a retired DSS agent and had a master’s degree in Law Enforcement. He told her about everything that had happened in Harry Talbot’s classroom. She had given him some suggestions on how he could hire Ms. Midnight, but she did want to see an application for her before they do anything.

“I can be there in a few minutes Principal Kramer.” Nora figures it wouldn’t hurt meeting him. She had her resume on a thumb drive she carried around.

“That will be fine. I’ll be expecting you.” Mr. Kramer ends the call.

“Drop me off at the restaurant and I’ll get us some lunch.” Kelly figures while Nora was being interviewed. She’ll get them some lunch.

“Okay.” Nora drops Kelly at the diner and then heads over to the High School to meet with Principal Kramer.

An hour later, Nora comes walking out of the High School. Her meeting with Principal Kramer had gone well. He said that he would get back to her. Once he talked with the superintendent again. He did agree that the route she was going, would allow her to be able to teach in
Tennessee.

She heads over to the restaurant and has a nice lunch with Kelly. Afterward, she swings by the house for Kelly to grab her car to pick-up Ginger. She heads to the hospital to get Melody and bring her home.

Melody wakes-up when she hears movement in the room with her. She notices Ginger getting dress. She sits up still clinching the teddy bear Nora gave her when she was in the hospital.

Ginger turns around and spots Melody sitting up watching her “well good morning. I hope I didn’t wake you.”

“N-No I’m a light s-sleeper.” Melody never allowed herself to fall into a deep sleep.

She never knew when her father would come into her bedroom. Even when she was in the hospital, she never let her guard down. She just hugs her teddy bear tighter.

Ginger had woken-up early, so she wouldn’t wake Melody up. She was getting ready for school and was trying to be as quiet as she could. She had laid everything out last night before turning in.

Melody just watches as Ginger got dress. She had been told last night while getting ready for bed. That Ginger was transgender. Melody didn’t care, that her new sister was trans. Melody gets out of bed and follows Ginger out of the bedroom. She had on a nice pink nightgown Nora had given her last night. She also had on a pair of bunny slippers.

She notices when she follows Ginger into the kitchen that Nora and Kelly were up. Kelly was fixing breakfast.

“Good morning, Melody. Are you hungry?” Karen had a stack of pancakes she made for breakfast for everyone.

Melody shakes her head yes.

“Do you like pancakes?”

“I’ve never had them before.” Her father never fed her anything nice before.

She was lucky to even get fed most days. Sometimes, she would have sex with her johns to get a burger or something. There were times she would hold some money back to buy herself something to eat.

“Well, today is your lucky day.” Karen puts four on a plate and pours maple syrup on them. She adds some sausage links to the plate.

“Here you go, Melody.” Kelly sets the plate down in front of her and adds a glass of milk.

“T-Thank you.” Melody picks up the fork and knife. She cuts into the pancakes and tries apiece.

“You’re welcome.” Kelly gives her a warm smile.

She loved the sugary taste of the syrup. She couldn’t believe the texture of the pancake. It was fluffy and airy.

Nora was watching while she drunk her coffee. She had heard from Christina last night when she landed and when she arrived at her hotel room. Today, Christina was going to be on set with her boss and fellow special effects artist.

“Melody, would you like to ride with us as I take Ginger to school?” Kelly was going to drop Ginger off.

Melody looks towards Nora to see if she would allow her.

“You can go if you want to, Melody. However, if you’re going to go with them. You’ll need to get dress first.” She gives Melody a warm smile.

After Melody finishes her breakfast. She goes with Nora back to her bedroom. Nora lets her choose what she wants to wear. Since her fingers were still splinted, Nora helps her get dress.

“I thought you might like having your own purse.” Nora hands her a purse she had picked out for her.

“T-Thank you.” Melody could tell it had some weight to it.

She opens it and discovers inside that she had a wallet, a new cellphone, brush, make-up mirror, lip gloss and a package of tissue. She looks up at Nora with tears in her eyes.

“T-Thank you.” She hugs Nora.

Nora wraps her arms around her and hugs her tight “you’re welcome.”

Nora watches as Kelly and the two girls head towards her car. Once everyone was in the car. Nora watches as Kelly backs the car out of the driveway and drives off. she turns around and heads back to the kitchen to refresh her coffee. She had an appointment tomorrow to go and take the test. If she passes the test she signed up for, she can have the results sent to Principle Kramer or the Super Attendant of schools.
She heads into her home office after cleaning the kitchen up and getting dress. She goes through the training material she had downloaded for the tests. The material covered what she would need to know about each test she was going to take. She makes notes of the material. She knows, she won’t be allowed to take her notes when she takes the test, but it doesn’t mean she couldn’t study them.

“Nora, we’re back.” Kelly walks into the house with Melody following her.

“I’m in here.” Nora glances at the clock hanging on her office wall and notices they have been gone for almost an hour.

Kelly sticks her head into Nora’s office “Ginger said she wants to take the school bus home today.”

“That’s fine.” She spots Melody standing behind Kelly.

“Come on in Melody.”

Melody walks pass Kelly and further into the office. She was amazed at how it looked. There were paintings, trophy’s, art pieces and plagues
on the walls. There were even pictures of Nora with some friends of her. She walks over and sits down in a high back leather chair. She watches as Kelly sits down in the chair next to her.

“So, what would you like to do today, Melody?” Nora wanted to let Melody do whatever she wanted to do.

“C-Could we go to the movies, p-please?” Melody hasn’t been to the movies in years.

She had one john that took her to the movies. He made her suck him while they were there. She doesn’t remember the movie, but she liked going.

“Sure, is there a movie you would like to see?” Nora brings up a list of movies on her computer.

“I-It has a y-young boy in it with a bunch of s-skeletons and he plays a g-guitar.” Melody saw a commercial for the movie.

“Okay, but before we go Melody. I’ve would like for you to read something for me, please.” Nora had seen the books she found in Melody’s closet and most of them were picture books.

Melody looks at Nora. She had a sad look on her face.

“I-I c-can’t read very w-well. E-Everything is b-blurry to m-me.” Melody knew she could only make out shapes and certain colors.

“Before we go to the movies Melody, why don’t we have your eyes checked first. Okay?”

“O-okay.” Melody has never been to the eye doctor before.

Nora shuts her computer down and they head off to see the eye doctor. The eye doctor Nora takes Melody too gives her all sorts of the eye test. What they find out, startles Nora. The eye doctor informs her that Melody is color blind and has astigmatism. Melody couldn’t see things that are red and green.

Nora looks towards Melody as she walked around with Kelly looking at the different frames while waiting for her. She wonders what else Melody has that her poor excuse of a father didn’t take care of. She walks over towards Melody.

“So, did you find any you like?” Nora stands behind Kelly and Melody.

“Y-Yes m-ma’am. I-I w-would like t-these.” Melody shows the pair her and Kelly had found that she liked.

“They are lovely a gold pair that would look great on her. Why don’t you pick out a second pair as well?” A smile forms on Nora’s face.

“Okay.” Melody goes over to a pair she had turned down for the pair they had chosen.

Once Melody picks her second pair. They head towards the movie theater and watch the movie, Coco. Afterward, they stop at a nice Italian
restaurant for lunch. They let Melody pick out whatever she wanted to try. They get an extra-large pizza to take home for dinner.

By the time they get home. Ginger was home and was relaxing.

“How was school today?”

“It was fine. We had a substitute teacher for my government class. Everyone still can’t get over that Mr. Talbot walked out and quit after you
confronted him, mom.” Ginger couldn’t believe Mr. Talbot would be so stupid to do what he did with a parent observing him.

“Well, hopefully, your class won’t have a substitute teacher for long.” Nora hopes she’ll be able to pass the test.

Kelly could see the concern on Nora’s face “you’ll be able to pass it.”

She walks over and gives Nora a hug. She holds her close to her body. Kelly knows Nora has never fallen at anything she did and has faith in her.

“Thanks.” Nora places a kiss on Kelly’s cheek.

Ginger and Melody spend some time together for the rest of the night, while Nora studies the prep material for the test she needs to take. Kelly reheats the pizza they brought home for dinner for everyone.

Nora looks at herself in her full-length mirror on the back of her closet door. Today was her first day of being a teacher. She couldn’t believe that it had taken two weeks for her test results and background check to clear. She should have done her own background check and handed it to Principal Kramer. She still held a Top-Secret clearance, but it took a security company almost two weeks to clear her.

Christina was back from Hollywood and was working on another project. Kelly had gotten a job as a receptionist with an insurance company. She met the manager one night at the bar where she worked. She had just come out of the closet about her sexuality and divorced her husband. He had been seeing another much younger woman behind her back.

She ran an insurance company and their former receptionist had moved with her husband to South Carolina. So, she needed a new receptionist. Kelly had always been nice to her and helped her through her divorced. She also got along with the customers extremely well. So, she offered the receptionist job to Kelly and she accepted.

Melody was in school and was taking special classes. Nora had her seeing a therapist about her abuse. So, she could overcome the nightmares and self-doubt about herself. Ginger and Melody were getting along like they had grown-up together. During the two weeks since Melody came to live with Nora. She has come to find out what a true parent is. She knew that Nora and Kelly would always be there for her. She was becoming close to Ginger and loved the fact she had an older sister.

Kelly walks up behind Nora as she stood feeling nervous before the mirror. She knew Nora was nervous because today was her first day as a teacher. She had seen Nora work hard last night putting together her lesson plan for her classes she was teaching. Not only was Nora teaching the government class that Mr. Talbot had walked out on, but she was teaching an advanced Spanish class.

“I have never seen you this nervous before. You, have always had a calmness about you. Why, are you so nervous?”

Nora just looks at Kelly’s reflection as she stood behind her. She was nervous because she was dealing with teenagers, not grown-ups.

“Because this is a new experience for me. Adults, I can deal with. Teenagers, on the other hand, are something that is going to be new for me.” Nora couldn’t just pull her gun out and shoot them or punch them if they got in her face.

She was going to have to use a different set of skills to handle hormonal teenagers. She knew they were going to test and push her to see what they could get away with. However, she knew how she was going to handle them. As for Ginger being in her class. She was going to treat her like she does other students.

“Well, I know you can handle those students. Just be yourself and trust your instincts. I know those students will learn you are a teacher that they don’t want to be on the bad side of.” She places a kiss on Nora’s cheek.

“Thanks.” Nora goes and grabs her bag and purse.

“You ready to go Ginger?” Nora looks over towards her older daughter.

“Yes, ma’am.” Ginger was just finishing up her breakfast.

Melody had already left for school. She felt comfortable enough to take the school bus to her school. She knew she didn’t have too because
either Kelly would take her, or Nora would take her. Sometimes, Christina would take her as well. She had made a friend in school and wanted to spend time with her on the bus.

Nora and Ginger take the Mustang to school. Kelly took her car to work. Christina was taking her truck to work when the weather wasn’t nice outside. Normally, she took her motorcycle to work.

“You’ll be fine mom.” Ginger saw how nervous her mother was.

“Thanks, sweetie.” Nora drives them directly to the school.

She parks her mustang in the teachers parking lot and walks inside the school. Nora checks in at the office and pulls any mail that was in her box. She heads towards the classroom assigned to her and start writing her name on the board. She also put the pages they were going to review today. Plus, their homework and chapters they needed to read before coming to class tomorrow.

While she waits for the students to show up for class. She reviews the student’s names in her first class and their grades. Some of them were doing okay, but the others weren’t so bad. She did read the letter left by the substitute teacher that had been teaching her class. She said that a lot of the students that were failing because they weren’t reading the assigned pages. When she called on them. They had no idea what was going on.

Nora makes a list by class of which students had been called on and weren’t understanding the material. She was going to call on them and have them read the book in class. When the first bell rings, Nora stands outside by her door and watch as the students come walking in. She was also watching the hallway for any problems.

Once the students were inside the classroom. Nora closes the door behind her and heads towards the front of the class. She notices some students were already writing down everything wrote on the board, but others weren’t writing anything down.

She takes a deep breath and slips into her professional personality. The same one she uses when she is giving instructions to a bunch of new recruit’s.

“Good morning class. My name is Nora Midnight and I will be your new government teacher. Each day when you come to class. I will have our agenda up on the blackboard, along with any announcements you need to know about. When I start writing on the board, I suggest you do too. If you need help in this class. I have a free period on periods 4 and periods 7. I am also here early in the morning and an hour after period 8. My door is always open for you and if you need help or have me explain something to you. Then feel free to ask me at any time. I’m here for you and to help you succeed. When I take roll, please say here and raise your hand so I know where you are sitting.” Nora looks down at her grade book and starts calling names.

She looks up each time she calls a name and makes sure she memorizes their face. Out of the twenty-five students she has in her class. Two students were missing.

Once she is done with calling each person. She looks at the student directly in front of her desk.

“Mr. Mckenzie, will you please read the first paragraph to us on page 185.” Nora had her book opened to follow along.

“Yes, ma’am.” Jack couldn’t believe Ms. Midnight had called on him to read to the class.

He turns to the page and starts reading the first paragraph to the class. He stumbles at first but recovers and continues. He finishes the first paragraph.

“Your turn Ms. Taylor, if you’ll read the second paragraph, please.” Nora looked directly at the young lady who had been texting during class, instead of following along in her book.

“Before Miss. Taylor start. All of you who are texting or surfing during. Please put your cell phones away. If you continue to use your cell phones during my class. I will take measures, so you can’t use them.” Nora looks at each student when she says that.

“You can’t do that Ms. Midnight. We have responsibilities and the right to have our cell phones out.” Clair needed to stay contact with her girlfriends all day long.

Nora just smirks “Ms. Roth, not only can I do it, but this my classroom. You are here to learn so you can become productive members of society. If you’re on your cell phone, you aren’t learning.”

She was going to bring a cell phone jammer to class. That way they couldn’t text or surf the web during class. Cell phones have become a distraction now a day.

“Now, Miss. Taylor. Please start the second paragraph.”

Clair just glares at Nora for a while. She wasn’t going to let a teacher tell her what she could and couldn’t do with her cell phone. She had every right to use her cell phone when she wanted to.

Nora notices Clair Roth glaring at her. A smile appears on her face as she looks directly back at her and letting her see how dominant she is. She has had the best trying to stare her down and they never succeed.

Clair diverts her eyes after she notices that staring down Ms. Midnight wasn’t going to work. She and her friends were going to have to think of a way to get rid of Ms. Midnight. She listens to the next student after Sera Taylor, which was Jackie Dickerson read the third paragraph.

When the last person finishes reading the chapter they were studying and came to the Q&A questions at the end. She glances at her list of students who weren’t doing so well in each class and ask them to answer the question. If they were following along, they should be able to answer the question.

Five minutes before the bell rings, Nora looks at the class “remember to do the Q&A questions for the next chapter and for extra credit points. I want you to find an article about what our government is doing now and tell me why you chose that article. Also, print it out and put your name on it.” She watches as they leave the room.

Her next class was homeroom. She reviews those student names and waits for them to come in. Once the bell rings letting everyone know they should be in their homeroom. She goes over the roll and notices that none of the students assigned to her homeroom were missing. She goes over the announcements that had been left in her mailbox to inform the students about. She also introduces herself to the students and gives them the same speech she gave her first period.

For the rest of the school day. Nora does what she did during her first-period class and during her advanced Spanish class. She insists that the students, speak, think and write in Spanish.

During her free periods, she patrols the halls making sure there weren’t any students roaming. When she spots a few students “excuse me, but why aren’t you in class?”

The students look at the new teacher. They never had any teacher ask them before.

“Well?” Nora was in her agent mood.

“We don’t have class during this period.” Jake answers for him and his friends.

“Do you have a hall pass?”

“No ma’am.” Jake and his knew they didn’t.

“Then get to your class and make sure I don’t catch you roaming the hall again without a pass.” Nora takes a picture of them.

“Yes, ma’am.” Jake and his friends run off to their class.

Nora checks the stairwells, where she knew students use to hang out when she was in school. When she comes across the security people patrolling the hallways, she gives them a copy of the students she found and where they had been. Once that was done, she heads back to her classroom and prepares for her next class.

At the end of the day, she stays an extra hour as Ginger meets her, in her classroom. She has been hearing rumors about her mother all day long. She heard how the students that, had her for class either liked the way she did things or hated how she didn’t do things.

She knew the popular kids didn’t like the fact she didn’t allow the use of cell phones in her class. There were a few students that really liked her and hopes she is staying permanently.

“So, what is the word around school about me, Ginger?” Nora looks towards her daughter.

“You are stirring things up, mom. There are students that like how you do things and ones that don’t.” Ginger had been working on her homework while waiting for her mother.

“Good.” Nora closes her things up and put everything back in her bag.

“So, how are going to stop students from using their cell phones, mom?” Ginger had heard what she told one student.

“I have a cell phone jammer at home. I’m going to bring that in and turn it on during class.” Nora had checked the regulations and there was
nothing in there that said she couldn’t do it.

“Oh, you really are going to make some students mad, mom.” Ginger never used her cell phone during class.

They head down to the parking lot, after letting the office know she was leaving and head home.

Nora had a free period and was correcting papers when she heard a crash out in the hallway near her classroom. She gets up and sticks her head out. She notices Ginger standing over a large boy. The blouse she had worn to school was torn and you could see her neon pink bra.

Nora walks over to her older daughter “what happened Ginger?”

“He tried to grab me from behind, while I was getting a book from my locker. When I yanked away from his grip. He tore my blouse. He tried again to put me in an arm lock and I smashed my head against his nose and elbowed him as hard as I could in his chest. Once I managed to turn around. I swept his legs out from under him and punched him in his nose.” Ginger was glaring down at Joseph.

If her mother hadn’t shown up when she did, she would have stumped on his groin.

Nora notices that Joseph had a bloody nose and was having a hard time breathing. She kneels and checks his chest to see if Ginger used a little too much force when she elbowed him. He had no broken ribs, but they might be bruised. She helps Joseph up off the floor, as a security officer comes around the corner.

Nora tells him what Ginger told her. Since Joseph wasn’t talking right now. They would take him to the nurse’s office and have him look at and have an incident report filed. Everyone in school by now has learned that Ginger is her daughter.

The adoption papers for Ginger and Melody had been approved for her and Kelly to be their legal parents. So, she had Ginger’s last name and Melody’s last name changed to hers. Nora goes to the nurse’s office and makes sure Joseph is okay, before heading back to her classroom.
She writes a note for Ginger.

“Thanks, mom.” Ginger heads off to her classroom.

“You’re welcome.” Nora just watches her daughter head towards her classroom.

Some of the students had complained to the principal about them not being able to use their devices in her classroom. She found out the rule was that she could take their cellphones from them and have their parents come up to reclaim it. Her way was better, but she was willing to give the other way a try. Because she could deal with the parents.

She did have one parent threaten her until she gave him a certain look that meant pain was coming next. That shut him up fast. Her students learned she wasn’t a teacher you could pull tricks on or try to con. She was tough and fair to her students. If they needed help, she helped them.

William was waiting for Ginger by the front door. She was coming over to his house today to help him with his math. He knew Mrs. Midnight had met his mother and the two of them had gotten along. He spots her walking towards him in her gym shirt. She had worn a nice baby blue blouse this morning to go with her blue jeans.

“What happened?” He was curious.

“Joseph tried to grab me, while I was at my locker. I defended myself and bloody his nose after he ripped my new blouse. He’s in the nurse’s office right now.” Ginger wishes they would suspend Joseph for a year or more.

“He should know by now, not to mess with you. If he only got a bloody nose from you, then he got off easy this time around.” They walk towards his bus.

Ginger already cleared it with her mother’s. Christina was going to pick her up when she got off work. She was working on another project. This time her boss had put her in charge of the project from start to finish.

“How’s Melody doing?” William had met Melody and liked her. They had gone to the movies together and hung out at the mall.

“She is doing better. She has put on some weight and mom has taught her some basic moves to protect herself. Her grades have gotten better, and she might be transferring from the school she is at now, to ours. If she keeps improving like she has, that is.” Ginger has been helping her sister learn.

When Ginger arrives at Williams place “hi Mrs. Saller.”

“Hi Ginger, are you helping my poor son again?” Betty looks over towards William.

“Yes, ma’am. He needs all the help he can get.” Ginger looks at William with a playful smile on her face.

“Ha, Ha.” He leads her over to the dining room table and starts on their homework.

Around 7’o clock. There is a knock at the front door “I got it, kids.”

When Mrs. Saller opens the door, she sees Christina standing there “Hi Christina, why don’t you come in and I’ll let Ginger know you’re here.”

“Thanks, Mrs. Saller.” Christina walks in and heads into the living room to wait for Ginger.

After a few minutes, Ginger comes walking out with William following her.

“Hey, Christy.” William gave Christina the nick-name Christy.

“All bronze, no brains.” A playful smile appears on Christina’s face.

“That’s why I am tutoring him, sis.” Ginger has come to think of Christina as her older sister, just like Melody has.

Ginger and Christina finally leave to head home. Christina was driving when she spotted a car coming up behind them being chased by police cars.

“Hold on Ginger.” Just as she says those words, she turns her car right into the path of the speeding car.

Her car takes a direct hit and stops the car that was trying to escape from the cops. Ginger looks over towards the guys that hit them, and one was raising his gun at Christina. Ginger grabs Christina’s gun from its hiding spot.

“Gun!” Ginger pushes Christina down as she fires Christina’s gun right above her head.

Nora has been taking her to the gun range and teaching her how to properly fire a gun. Her shots hit the guy that was getting ready to shoot at Christina. She was stun that she had shot someone.

Christina sits back up and notices Ginger holding her concealed handgun.

“Here, give me the gun, Ginger.” Christina takes the gun out of Ginger’s hand. She was still stunned she had shot someone.

A few seconds later “are you girls okay?”

Officer David Flick had seen the car pull out to stop the car they had been chasing. He then saw gunfire coming from the car that had been struck.

Christina could hear again. Ginger had fired her 9mm right above her head. She still had some ringing, but it was slowly fading.

“We’re fine, officer. My sister is stun that she shot someone.” Christina looks at Ginger and could tell she was still stunned.

“When the paramedics get here, I’ll have them check you out. Can you get out?”

“Yes, sir.” Christina turns towards Ginger.

“Come on Ginger, we need to get out.”

“Okay.” Ginger turns around and gets out on the passenger side.

Christina follows behind Ginger. She has both their purses. She tells Officer Flick what happened. The police weren’t going to give them a ticket for stopping the carjacker or for Ginger shooting the guy.

Christina was afraid to explain everything to Nora. She had to call her to come and pick them up and tell her what happened. Ginger was still in shock.

When they get home. Nora holds Ginger in her arms and understood how she felt. After a while, Ginger starts crying as she holds onto Nora. She didn’t think she would feel the way she did. After a while she cries herself to sleep.

Nora carries her into her bedroom and with Melody’s help. She undresses her and tucks her into bed.

“W-Will-l G-Ginge-er be a-alright-t?” Melody was concern about Ginger.

“She’ll be alright Melody. We all experience our first kill in different ways.” Nora looks down at Ginger and had wished she didn’t have to experience what she did.

Sometime during the night, Ginger ends up crawling into bed with Kelly and Nora. She cries against Nora from the memory of shooting the guy. Nora just holds her during the night.

Nora looks up from some papers she was grading when she hears someone knock on the door frame of her classroom. She spots one of her students that has been failing her class standing at her door.

“What can I do for you, Mr. Thompson?”

Darin walks in and over towards Nora’s desk. He knew if he didn’t pass her class, that he would be kicked off the football team. Normally, he would get one of the smart kids in class to do his homework, but Mrs. Midnight had found out and put an end to it.

“I was wondering if your offer to help, still stood?” He felt nervous standing before Mrs. Midnight.

He couldn’t figure out why she made him nervous. Most of his classmates felt the same way with her. She was different than most teachers here at the school. It was like when she spoke, you did what she said.

“Yes, my offer still stands. However, Mr. Thompson, your grades are so bad. That you will need to get an A on all your test and turn in all your homework, until the end of the quarter. If you want me to help you with your school work, I’m normally here early in the morning and two hours after school.”

“Can’t I do a special project or something to help my grades out?”

Nora looks at him and could tell that Darin was worried about his grades. She thinks of a project he could do, that might be acceptable to improve his grades.

“I’ll tell you what. If you can put together a report showing how our government has advance or decline in the past five years. I will grade it and add the grade to your grades. You’ll need to cite all your sources and research. You’ll need to turn it in by the end of the quarter. That’s on top of bringing your grades up as well.”

Darin thinks about it. He really needed the grade, but he was lousy at reading. He found his Government class boring. He looks at Mrs. Midnight and could tell she was serious.

“How many pages does it have to be?”

“Including title page, index, and sources? Let’s say five pages long, double space. This way I can put any corrections in. So, altogether eight pages.”

“Thank you, Mrs. Midnight. I’ll be here this afternoon if that is okay?”

“I’ll be here Mr. Thompson.” Nora watches as Darin walks out of her classroom.

A few minutes later, Ginger knocks on the door frame and walks in.

“Hi, mom.”

Nora looks at her daughter. She had taken Ginger to a counselor she knew to talk about what she did a week ago. Ginger still had some nightmares, but she was doing better.

“What brings you up here? I thought you were with Williams?”

“I was. His mother invited me to go with them to the park this weekend if it is okay with you. Melody can come along if she wants too.” Ginger knew Mr. and Mrs. Morton liked Melody.

“Are you up to being around people?” Nora knew Ginger was still a little jumpy around loud noises.

Ginger looks at her mother “I’ll be fine mom.”

“Alright, you can tell Mrs. Morton that you can join them this weekend. Melody has dance class on Saturday.”

Melody had expressed interest in dancing. So, Kelly had signed Melody up with a dance studio run by a famous drag queen named Lady Bimbi. Kelly knew her from her days as a waitress at the bar.

“I didn’t know Melody liked to dance?” Ginger was surprised that Melody didn’t share it with her.

She thought they were growing close as sisters.

“She doesn’t know yet, Ginger. Kelly just heard back from Lady Bimbi a few minutes ago. She sent me an email telling me.”

“Oh, I won’t say anything, mom.”

“Thanks. So, which park are you going to with the Morton’s?”

“To the Botanic Gardens,” Ginger knew Mrs. Morton liked flowers.

“That sounds nice. Let me know what flowers are blooming and we’ll go as a family.” Nora knew Kelly loved flowers. She was already planting flower beds around the front of the house.

“I will mom and thanks.” Ginger places a kiss on Nora’s cheek and heads for her first bell class.

Nora’s first bell shows up.

She waits till everyone is seated and has taken roll. She goes and stands before the board and points towards a saying she had put up on the board.

“Alright class, what does Franklin D. Roosevelt mean by this statement?”

“Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.”

Ginger was walking into her first bell class when her teacher stops her at the door.

“What’s wrong Mrs. Sanders?”

“The clothes you are wearing today, Ms. Midnight. They are against the school code and a distraction to the male students.”

Ginger just looks at Mrs. Sanders like she was nuts.

“Are you serious? Do you think my mother would let me walk out of the house looking like a slut? Think about my last name?”

“Your mother isn’t the teacher of this classroom, I am. I interrupt what the dress code is.”

“Just because you interrupt it, doesn’t mean you are right, first off. Secondly, by insulting me. You're insulting my mother and she’s one woman you don’t want to insult. I think maybe I should go and get her. Excuse me please.” Ginger turns around and walks back down to Nora’s
classroom. She knocks on the door.

Nora hears the knock and spots Ginger standing on the other side.

“Excuse me, class.” Nora walks over and steps outside her classroom.

“What’s wrong, Ginger.”

“Mrs. Sanders said what I am wearing is a distraction to the boys in my class and against the school’s dress code.”

Nora steps back and couldn’t see anything wrong with the way Ginger was dressed. She knew Mrs. Sanders was an old fashion type of teacher.

“Go to the office and get Vice Principle Bones please.” Nora makes sure to give Ginger a hall pass, so she doesn’t get in trouble.

Vice Principle Bones was talking to a student who had arrived late to school when Ginger walks up to him. She waits till he writes a hall pass for the student, before approaching him.

“Hi Ginger, what can I do for you?” VP Bones had spotted Ginger waiting for him.

“Mrs. Midnight sent me to get you Mr. Bones.”

“Did your mother say why, Ginger?” He knew Nora could handle any problems that might come up.

He wonders why she needed him. He follows Ginger back to Nora’s classroom. As she got closer to the door, he could hear Mrs. Midnight teaching her class. Ginger knocks gently to get her mother’s attention.

Nora spots her daughter and VP Bones.

“Class, your assignment and homework are up here on the board.” Nora steps outside in the hallway.

“What’s the problem, Nora?” VP Bones was curious.

“You’ll find out in a few minutes, Mr. Bones.” Nora walks down to Mrs. Sanders classroom and doesn’t even bother to knock before entering.

Mrs. Sander was in the middle of talking to her class when she noticed her door open and Mrs. Midnight comes walking in. She also notices that Nora wasn’t in a pleasant mood either.

“How dare you come in my classroom, so rudely.” Mrs. Sanders stood looking at Nora with an angry look on her face.

“I have yet to be rude to you, Mrs. Sanders. Now, tell your students what they need to read and do and step out in the hallway please.”

“You can’t tell me what to do Mrs. Midnight in my own classroom.”

Bones heard the tone of voice from Mrs. Sanders. He steps into the classroom “I think you should do what Mrs. Midnight suggest, Mrs. Sanders.”

Mrs. Sanders looks at VP Bones. She didn’t know he was outside in the hallway. She looks at her class “read chapters 9 & 12 and answer the questions on page 35.

Mrs. Sanders steps out into the hallway and shuts the door behind her. She cast a death glare at Ginger.

“She’s not the one you have to worry about Mrs. Sanders. It’s me. “Nora slipped back into her agent personality.

“Now, why don’t you ladies explain to me what is going on?” VP Bones looks towards Nora and Mrs. Sanders.

“Mrs. Sanders said that the clothes I am wearing are a distraction to the male students around here, Mr. Bones. I told her my mother would never let me out of the house looking like a slut.”

Ginger looks at Mrs. Sanders when she says that.

Mr. Bones looks at what ginger had on and there was nothing that was breaking the school's dress code or would cause a distraction to male students.

“Then she came down to me and told me what Mrs. Sanders had said. I told her to go and get you Mr. Bones. That way no one could say I’m favoring my daughter.” Nora looks at Mrs. Sanders.

If looks could kill, Mrs. Sanders would be dead. Nora knew that this wasn’t the first time she had picked on a female student about the way they were dressed. She knew Principle Kramer had spoken to her a few times.

“Now, Mrs. Sanders. What part of Ginger’s outfit causes distractions to young boys or goes against the school dress code?”

Nora looks at her daughter.

“She’s not wearing a bra.” Mrs. Sanders couldn’t see any bra straps.

“Ginger, step over here to me please.”

Ginger does as her mother request.

Nora lifts one corner on Ginger’s blouse, so she could see only.

“I think your wrong Mrs. Sanders. Ginger is wearing one of her favorite bras, would you like to check?” Nora looks at Mrs. Sanders for an answer.

Mrs. Sanders just ignores Nora’s request.

“Are you questioning my judgment?”

“In this matter, I am. I think maybe you should consider retiring.” Nora felt that it was time for Mrs. Sanders to retire before a lawsuit was brought against the school.

“I have to agree with Mrs. Midnight's judgment here, Judy. Maybe it’s time for you to submit your paperwork for retirement.”

“Fine, I will.”

“Oh, one more thing as well, Mrs. Sanders. You’ll mark my daughter as present and give her the school work you caused her to miss as well.”

Mr. Bones just smile as he listens to Nora boss around Mrs. Sanders. Maybe Nora should think about running for city school Board. He’ll have to suggest it to her next time she has lunch with him and Principle Kramer.

The school bell rings letting students know that class has ended and to go to their next class.

“I’ll be in the office if either of you two needs me.” Mr. Bones heads towards the front office.

Ginger heads to her next class.

Nora gives Mrs. Sanders a look before heading back to her classroom.

“Hey faggot, were you just looking at my body?” Jesse walks over to Kalvin and gets right up in his face.

“Leave me along Jesse.” Kalvin just wanted to get dress and head to his next class.

“You know something faggot. Maybe I should teach you some manners. I know faggots like you can’t fight.”

Kalvin reaches for his shirt and pulls it out of the locker.

Jesse pushes him hard against the locker “I’m talking to you faggot.”

“Get away from me.” Kalvin tries elbowing Jesse in his chest.

Jesse steps aside and pushes harder against Kalvin’s back. He presses hard against Kalvin, till he was pressing against the locker leaving marks on his bare chest.

“There should be a law about allowing gays in the same locker room as normal guys. Maybe, I should beat the gayness out of you.”

“Or maybe you should beat some common sense in that melon you call your head. You’re the only one that is having a problem with me and pressing their body against mine.”

Jesse steps back away from Kalvin, as he punches him in his back. Jesse disliked Kalvin. Heck, he really dislikes any gay person male or female. Jesse heads back towards his locker to finish getting dressed.

Kalvin just looks at Jesse as he walks away. He’ll make sure that he was the first person he got his revenge on. He finishes getting dressed and heads towards Mrs. Midnight’s class. He enjoys her class and liked how she taught.

“Morning Mrs. Midnight.” As Kalvin heads towards his seat.

“Morning Kalvin how has your morning been?” Nora like Kalvin because he asked her very intelligent question when the rest of his classmates
just sat like a frog on a log.

“That’s good, so did you read that book about James Madison how he constructed our constitution?”

“Yes, ma’am. It was a good book. Mrs. Midnight, if you don’t mind me asking. What were you before you started teaching?”

“I used to work for the Diplomatic Security Service. I protected our diplomats and foreign diplomats. I also went after criminals that tried to escape overseas.”

“Did you ever have people trying to bully you because you were a woman?”

“Yes, and they found out what I am capable of. Sometimes the best way to confront a bully is to show them you're not scared of them. Don’t give them power over you. Are you having trouble with bullies Kalvin?”

“Yes, ma’am. There’s a guy in my gym class that seems to have it in for me. I try to avoid him, but I can’t.”

“Have you told coach Jones who he is?”

“No, ma’am. I don’t think coach Jones cares. He’s from the old school or if you’re a boy, you should like girls and if you’re a girl, you're inferior to boys. I’ve seen him watch the girls in his classes like he is shopping for meat.”

Nora wonders if what Kalvin was telling her was true. She’ll have to ask her daughter later about it. She knew Ginger had Mrs. Henderson for gym class.

“This is what you do Kalvin. Next time he confronts you. Record what he says. If he gets physical with you, defend yourself. Bring what you recorded to me and I'll make sure he is punished for his actions okay?”

Kalvin looks at Mrs. Midnight and knew she had a daughter. He wonders if Ginger has had any problems. He knew she was transgender because he has seen her come up to the LGBT center a few times.

“Okay, Mrs. Midnight, I’ll try it your way.”

Kalvin was willing to give Mrs. Midnight's way a try. He knew she would do anything she could to help him.

“That’s all I could ask of you Kalvin.”

Later in the evening as Ginger and Melody are helping Nora fix dinner. Nora looks at her oldest.

“Ginger, have you ever had any problems with Coach Jones during gym class?”

“What do you mean mom? Are you asking me if he has ever touched me or anything like that?”

“No, what I want to know is. Does he ever watch you, girls, like he has lust in his eyes?”

“Not me personally mom, but I have seen him look at some of the girls in my class that have big breast and nicely shaped hips. I know he pays extra attention to us when we do jumping jacks and running around.”

“T-That sounds like h-he’s a p-pervert.” Melody had stopped to listen to her mother and sister.

“That it does Melody. However, until he touches one of the girls or one complains about him ogling them. There’s nothing that can be done.
There’s no law that says he can’t look at the female body.”

“Well, I know there is a rumor that he fooled around with the head Cheerleader two years ago, but it's just a rumor.”

“We’ll let me know if he touches or does anything that makes you uncomfortable. While we are on the subject. What do you know about a kid named Jesse? He has third bell gym class.”

Ginger thinks about it for a few minutes “he’s one of the bullies at school mom. However, he knows how to make sure none of the teachers know he is bullying someone. He knows where all the blind spots are in the school and the routine of the security officers that patrol the hallways.”

“Does he now? I think I’ll have to talk with Mr. Hannity tomorrow about changing up their routines. Thanks, Ginger.”

“Any time mom.”

Nora carries a dish into the dining room. Kelly and Christina weren’t back from work yet.

“Melody, did you like your first day of dance class?”

“Y-Yes m-ma’am. I-I have a n-nice t-teacher.” Melody loved her dance class.

She loved feeling the music as it enters her body and made her move to the rhythm. She never knew how much she enjoyed music or how it made her feel. She was discovering things about herself now that she was living with Nora.

“We’re home mom.” Christina comes walking into the dining room.

Following behind her was Kelly. She had just gotten off work and arrived at the same time Christina had. She was glad to be home. She was helping one of the lawyers at the firm she worked at on a nasty divorce. The husband had a lot of money and connections.

He had beaten his wife in an attempt to take their daughter away from her. However, the woman had managed to call the police and have him arrested. Now she was in a private hospital with her daughter being protected by some bodyguards of her company.

Christina looks at the food on the table. They were having Mexican and she knew Nora had made a lot of fajitas for her and tacos for everyone.

“Oh, I am in heaven.” Christina heads towards the kitchen to wash her hands.

“Mom made sure to make a lot for you sis.” Ginger takes her place at the table.

Melody just grins. She likes Christina and loved the bantering that went on between the three of them. Christina made her a nice costume to wear for the Comic-con coming to Memphis next month. Christina was going to take her and Ginger.

The light conversation goes on at dinner as everyone enjoys the meal that was prepared. After dinner, those that weren’t home like Christina and Kelly helped put everything away. Nora normally retreated to her home office to grade papers and record grades. Kelly oversaw Ginger and Melody’s homework, while Christina either tinker with something in her workshop in the backyard or soak in the tub for awhile.

Nora had allowed Christina to put a pre-built shed in the backyard to use as her workshop. Power had been run to it and soundproof material had been added as well, so Christina wouldn’t disturb their neighbors with her work. A camera system had been added so Nora could check in on Christina as she worked.

Jack had covered the cost. He had one of his trusted contracting companies come out and do the job. Christina still used her old garage for very special projects for the company she worked for.

“M-Mom, can you h-help me w-with t-this p-please?” Melody shows Kelly the problem she was working on. She understands the question but didn’t know how they wanted her to write the answer.

Kelly looks at the question and even she was stump about it. She looks for Ginger to ask her, but she was already in the bathroom taking her bath.

“Let’s go ask your other mother.” Kelly escorts Melody into Nora’s home office.

Nora was on her last paper. She couldn’t believe that Chris Hoosier had copied word for word off the internet. He didn’t cite his sources and he didn’t cite the parts he stole from the sites he got his information. She couldn’t understand why he was being so lazy. He was a smart child.

“Nora, can you make heads or tails of this math question?” Kelly sets the book down on Nora’s desk.

Nora looks at it. She reads the instruction and what it was asking. She looks back up to Kelly and Melody.

“Do you understand what the question is asking, Melody?”

“Y-Yes ma’am, b-but I-I don’t understand how to w-write i-it.”

Nora take s another looks at it and she could see how the question didn’t clarify how the answer was supposed to be written out for it.

“I believe it is supposed to be written like this, sweetie.” Nora writes it out for Melody and Kelly.

“T-Thank you M-Mom.” Melody hugs Nora.

“You’re welcome.” Nora returns the hug.

Melody takes her math book and heads back into the living room to finish her assignment.

“How did you figure that question out? It was so badly written?”

“I went back a few pages and saw an example like it. I do agree it was written poorly and unless the students looked closely and have Ginger’s math talent. They won’t figure it out as well.”

Nora records the page number and math book.

She had a copy of it in her library, so she could help her students and her children.

“So, are you done for the night?” Kelly sits on Nora’s lap with her arms wrapped around her.

“Yes.” Nora leans in and kisses Kelly on the lips.

Kelly returns the kiss and before she passes out. She stops and leans back. She felt Nora wrap her arms around her torso.

“How are things going for that one case?” Nora knew about the case that Kelly has been helping on.

“The douche bag is in jail, but he’ll make bail. He has a friend or two that are judges. I informed my boss about what I found while digging through his financial records. There’s enough evidence in his wife’s medical records that will put him away for a long time for spousal abuse.”

“Is she safe where she is?”

“As far as I know. Why? Do you think we should add more bodyguards?”

“How many do you have now?”

“We have two highly trained retired marines protecting her.”

“Being ex-military doesn’t always prove they are better than a person who never had military training. I proved that.”

“I know, but you’re not normal. You’re a whole lot deadlier than most DSS agents. I saw a picture of you with a bunch of special forces guys. Can you tell me about it?”

“Sure, there’s nothing classified about it. There was a special training course offered by a unit sponsor by Germany and the British government. The ambassador I was protecting at the time recommended me for it. It was in the middle of summer and the course was designed to make you fail. Me and six others managed to pass the course. Once I finish the training, I started getting special assignments. I did that for a few years and then went back to just doing protection details.”

“So, does that mean you're like a secret agent or something?” Kelly caresses Nora’s cheek.

“You could say that. Let’s just say, I’m happier not to be doing that type of work anymore.”

Kelly leans forward and kisses Nora “there are a few things I wouldn’t mind doing again.”

As she takes Nora’s hand and leads her to their bedroom.

Ginger was walking around outside of school, waiting for the bell to ring. It was a nice day and she wanted to enjoy it. As she turns the corner, she spots Jesse and his gang picking on a trans-student that wasn’t out yet. She has seen him up at the LGBTQ center a few times.

Troy looked at the group of guys who had him pinned up against the wall. They had seen the outline of the bra he was wearing under his t-shirt. He thought he had on one of the bra’s that didn’t show.

“You touch me Jesse, and I’ll tell the Principal and Vice Principal.”

“You go to the Principal or the Vice Principal, and I’ll beat you so bad that they won’t know who you are a faggot. I’ll spread the word around school that I caught you sucking Jerry’s cock here.” Jesse points to one of his guys.

Ginger had taken her cell phone out and recorded what was going on. She was going to make sure the Principal and her mother saw this video. She continues to watch.

“Go ahead. You are a moron anyway and your whole family are religious nuts that need to be locked up.” Troy knew Jesse’s parents. His father was a preacher at one the new churches that opened up downtown and his mother was just as brainwashed as his father.

“Why you little faggot.” Jesse goes to punch Troy.

“I wouldn’t do that unless you want me to turn this video in?” Ginger waves her cell phone at them.

“I don’t think you’ll do it, bitch. Because if you do, I’ll shoot you.” Dean pulls the 9mm he took from his brother.

Ginger looks at the gun and then up at Dean. She presses the call video app on her phone to call her mother.

Nora’s Classroom:
Nora was writing the assignment she had planned today on the blackboard. When she hears her cell phone chirped at her. The chirp was the one she assigned to Ginger. She accepts the call and notices it was a video from Ginger. She saw one of the kids that hung around with Jesse pointing a gun at her. She grabs her gun from inside her purse hidden pocket and runs towards where Ginger was.

As she is running towards where Ginger was talking with the guys. She spots two of the security personnel walking around making sure the kids were safe.

“Thomas, Fred come with me right now. We have a possible shooting situation.” Nora kept running towards Ginger’s location.

Thomas and Fred follow behind Nora as she ran down the back stairs and out the fire door. Just as they entered outdoors and was almost on Ginger. They hear a gun go off.

Ginger and Troy:
Troy wasn’t going to let Dean shoot Ginger. He rushes past Jesse and his goons. He tackles Dean causing the gun to fire.

Ginger feels the bullet hit her right leg when the gun goes off. She falls to the ground, dropping her cell phone.

Jesse and his gang were getting ready to run when Nora, Thomas, and Fred turn the corner. Jesse and the rest of his people stop from running into them.

“GINGER!” Nora runs over towards Ginger leaving Thomas and Fred to deal with the boys.

Troy was punching Dean in the face. He stops when he sees Nora running pass him and over to a down Ginger. She kneels by her baby and checks her out.

Ginger spots her mother kneeling by her. Her leg was hurting like hell.

“Leg.”

Nora spots the wound and notices it had gone completely through. Nora takes her belt off put a tourniquet just above the wound to slow the flow of blood.

“Sorry baby, this is going to hurt.” As she tightens the belt.

Ginger screams out in pain as her mother tighten the belt. She grabs her mother’s arm and squeezes.

“I’m so sorry Ginger.” Troy had gotten off Dean and moved to Ginger’s side.

Ginger looks at him “it wasn’t your fault, Troy.”

More guards had shown up to take the boys into custody. Sirens could be heard coming towards the school. Some of the teachers, the Principal, and Vice Principal had arrived and saw what was going on.

Melody was with her friends comparing notes before class started. When several teachers and security guards ran from the school and around back. She was curious like a few other students and followed behind them. As she got closer to where everyone was crowding. She saw her mother holding Ginger.

“MOM!” Melody tries to get past the teachers keeping the students from getting closer. The teacher stops her from passing, so she kicks him in his knee like Ginger taught her. She runs towards her sister and mother.

Nora had looked up when she heard Melody’s voice and watched as she kicked Mr. Stone in his knee and run pass him and over to her and Ginger.

“M-Mom, what h-happened?” she kneels by Ginger.

“Your sister was shot, Melody.”

Melody looks at her sister and notices the blood on her right thigh. She grabs Ginger’s hand and holds it. She didn’t want to lose her big sister.

The paramedics show up and Ginger is put on the gurney. Melody goes with Ginger to the ambulance and holds her hand.

Principal Kramer walks over towards Nora “go with your daughter, Nora.”

“Take this Mr. Kramer. It’s Ginger's cell phone. I believe she recorded the whole encounter.” Nora hands Mr. Kramer Ginger’s cell phone and
heads back upstairs to get her purse. Once she has her purse, she heads towards the hospital Ginger had been taken too.

Mr. Kramer looks at Troy, Jesse, his friends and Dean, whose face was bloody from Troy beating him up.

“Does someone want to tell me what happened?” Principal Kramer looks at all the boys.

“Troy, you tell me what happened.”

Troy looks at all the guys present “Jesse and his gang surrounded me and was treating me when Dean pulled a gun when I said I would tell
you and Mr. Bones what they were doing. Ginger must have seen what was going on and had threatened to show you and her mother the video she took of the encounter. Dean turned around and pointed a gun he had in his hand at her and I thought he was going to shoot her, so I tackled him, and the gun went off, hitting Ginger. I started punching Dean in his face.”

“We weren’t threatening him, sir.” Jesse was going to try and lie about the matter.

“Really, let's move this to my office.” The police that showed up along with Mr. Bones all head towards Mr. Kramer’s office.

Once they were in the office. Mr. Kramer plays the recording on Ginger’s cell phone. He looks up at the boys and police gathered in his office.

“Officers take Dean Shawn with you and Jesse Phelps. As for the rest of you boys. You’re being suspended from school for bullying for the rest of the school year. As for you Mr. Pecker. Since you were trying to save Ms. Midnight’s life and only defending yourself. No charges will be brought against you.”

The parents for each student show-up and everything is explained to them about what happened. However, when it came to Jesse’s parents.
Mr. Kramer had to call the police back into his office to remove them from school grounds. They were pissed that he wouldn’t do anything against Troy and that he is was letting someone like him among civilized students.

Regency Hospital:
Nora stayed by Ginger’s side as she was taken to the emergency room. They wouldn’t let her or Melody in the operating room as they fixed Ginger’s leg. The bullet had gone completely through her thigh muscles. They were going to keep her overnight, but Nora felt it wasn’t necessary.

They get home late in the evening. Christina and Kelly had been made aware of what happened. They had prepared Ginger’s favorite foods.
Nora was calm the whole entire time, but now that Ginger was home and safe. She was pissed and wanted to make the boy who shot her daughter pay for his crime. She tries to relax during dinner and once Ginger was in bed with Melody’s help. She retreats out to the garage and starts punching the bag.

Kelly just stands and watch Nora. There were only a few times where she has seen her wife this upset. Even though Nora was trained for this.
She knew Nora took her responsibility to their daughters serious.

“Hey, there was nothing you could do. You can’t protect our girls all the time.”

“I should have been there to protect her. Ginger has already experienced things no teenager should have to experience. So, has Melody.” Nora hits the bag hard.

The protective nature of her personality was coming out. She takes her anger out on the punching bag. She stops when she feels Kelly wrap her arms around her.

Kelly wraps her arms around Nora and holds her. She was scared when she was told Ginger had been shot. Nora had called her while the doctor operated on Ginger's leg. They were lucky it was a through and through. If the bullet had hit just a little more to the right, it would have hit her femoral artery.

“I know, I’m just mad that I wasn’t there.” Nora takes her gloves off.

“Come on, let’s go and take a nice shower and then to bed.” Kelly escorts Nora back to their bedroom.

Nora had met with Principal Kramer and Vice Principal Bones to asked permission to have a few people she knew to come in and speak to the school about bullying. After she got their permission, she made a few phone calls. The call was to some hard-hitting people she knew and to some ex-gang members. She asked them if they could come and speak at the High school she teaches out.

There was one more person she knew would need to make an impression on the students. Someone who dealt in cyber-forensic. She takes her phone out and dials a number she hasn’t used in years.

“Hot sun beating down
Burning my feet just walking around.
Hot sun making me sweat
'Gators getting close, hasn't got me yet
I can't dance, I can't talk.
The only thing about me is the way I walk.
I can't dance, I can't sing
I'm just standing here selling everything.
Blue jeans sitting on the beach,
Her dog's talking to me, but she's out of reach.
She's got a body under that shirt,
But all she wants to do is rub my face in the dirt.
Cause, I can't dance, I can't talk.
The only thing about me is the way I walk.
No, I can't dance, I can't sing
I'm just standing here selling.
And checking everything is in place,
You never know who's looking on.
Young punk spilling beer on my shoes,
Fat guy's talking to me trying to steal my blues.
Thick smoke, see her smiling through.
I never thought so much could happen just shooting pool.
But I can't dance, I can't talk.
The only thing about me is the way I walk.
I can't dance, I can't sing
I'm just standing here selling”

Sharon Baker was listening to her favorite artist when her cell phone rings. She looks at the caller Id and notices it was Nora’s. She hasn’t spoken with Nora since she had gone to Germany to do a job for the ambassador she was protecting.

“Black Bird Forensics, what can I do for you, Nora?”

“Hi Sharon, are you busy right now?”

“Not really. I’m waiting for the program I’m running to finish.” Sharon takes a sip of her drink. She had several computers she was looking through to find images or anything that the person had, on child pornography. The person was arrested for selling and making pornography of children. The problem was, before the crime scene could be secure, he had activated an erase program. Which meant she was trying to retrieve information still left on the hard drives and hidden in places most law enforcement didn't look.

Nora could hear music in the background playing “hey, I got a favor to ask. Would you mind coming to the High school I teach at and explain to students how you can backtrack or find out who is cyberbullying people?”

“Hm, I don’t see why not. Does your school have a bullying problem?” Sharon knew what it was like to be bullied for being gay. She and Nora had been each other’s, first lovers.

“Yes, and I felt that maybe by scaring these teenagers letting them know we can track them, even if they used a false name and such. That they will be punished for their actions.”

“Let me guess, you called Big Tony, didn’t you?” Sharon knew Big Tony could make anyone wish they were dead after he got done with them.

“Yep, he had agreed to come in and speak. Also, I called Coreno 'The Shadow' Reo, Bradley 'The Snitch' Peddicord and Stefania 'Diamond' Leatherbury.”

“Dam, I didn't know you knew those people.” Sharon had heard about them.

Coreno was a mob enforcer, Bradley was a snitch for most of the law enforcement officers knew about and Stefania, she uses to belong to an
all-female gang. They called her Diamond, because of her love of diamonds.

“Yea, I knew them before I joined the DSS and kept in touch with them throughout the years. All of them have straightened out their lives and run successful businesses. I figure they could tell the teenagers at my school that a life of crime isn’t something they want to get caught up in.” Nora hopes the people she called in will help.

“Well, you can count me in. Are you still living in Memphis?”

“Yep, still living in Memphis. I just recently got married and adopted two teenage girls.”

“I would have never imagined you the domestic type of person.”

“Me neither, but these girls came along and my heart went out to them. Hey, did you and Debbie Connors ever tie the knot?” Nora remembers Debbie, she was the head cheerleader at their high school and came out being a lesbian after graduation.

“Yep, she’s an Accountant and has her own business. Who would ever imagine a former cheerleader being an accountant.” Sharon still thought it was weird.

“I thought she was going to be a professional Cheerleader with a football team and such.” Nora knew how much Debbie liked cheerleading.

“She did for about ten years, but she got tired of all the traveling and low pay she was getting. So, she went back to school and got her CPA degree. She started building up a client base and started her own business.”

“Well, I’m happy that you and she are still together. I know me, and you didn’t work out, but it was for the best.”

“I know, and you’ll always have a special spot in my heart, Nora. I’ll tell Debbie you said hi.”

“Thanks, Oh, the assembly is going to be in two days. Will that be okay for you?”

“That will be fine. Well, I have work to finish. I’ll see you in two days.”

“Okay.” Nora ends the call.

That was eight people she knew that have agreed to come in and speak to the students. The school had hired a few counselors to come in and speak with the students. Those who needed help could go and get help.

Ginger was talking to her counselor about what happened. Melody was seeing her counselor as well. She had come a long way since she came to live with them. She was proud of both her girls.

She was also proud of Darin Thompson. He has been showing up every day before and after school to bring his grades up in her class. So, far he was carrying a B average in her class and she checked with his other teachers. In his other classes, he was carrying B’s and A’s in a few of them. She figures if he keeps doing as well as he is, he’ll have a B average from her on his report card.

Nora finishes up grading the papers she had and head into the living room. Just as she walks in, Ginger, Kelly, and Melody coming walking in through the front door. Kelly stopped at Taco Bell and bought dinner for everyone.

Melody and Ginger were wearing their leotards. Even though Ginger got shot, she still took dance class with her sister. Melody loved taking dance class and liked her teacher as well. She looks over towards Nora with a big smile on her face.

“I take it you had fun this afternoon?”

“Melody has a solo part during our recital, mom.” Ginger looks at her younger sister.

Melody was happy as a clam. Their teacher was letting her do a solo part in the recital. She couldn't believe it when her teacher told her she was doing a solo.

“That is great news. When is your first recital?” Nora looks at both her daughters.

“In about a month. It’s going to be held at Chester Elementary school.” Ginger hands the paperwork she had been given to her mother. Kelly had already given them permission.

Nora looks over the paperwork, while the girls set the table. She noticed that Kelly has already given them permission to take part in it. There was a $40.00 fee for their costumes, which Nora would make out a check for tonight before going to bed.

Once the table was set, she sits down with her family and enjoys dinner.

*Song lyrics by Phil Collins, I Can't Dance

Nora sent email messages to all the teachers and student council. Principal Kramer and Vice Principal Bones had been briefed on Nora’s plan for the assembly that they were going to have on the bullying issues and harassment going on in school. The parents of all the students have been asked to come to the school on the day of the assembly.

She got in touch with some of her law enforcement friends and some of her friends at the local NAS office. The student council members on the day of the assembly. They are going to be dress as security officers and checking students bags as they pass through the metal detectors.
The NAS agents were going to be standing by and double checking the council members. Also, they had a list of names taken from the teachers that caused trouble in their classes. They were going to be taken aside and held till the assembly.

The people that Nora asked to come in and with the Principal’s permission we're going to give these trouble students a taste of what it is like to be treated like a convict. The students were lined up and marched to the auditorium. The parents were lead, but the students were treated as if they were in the military.

Once the parents and students were lead to the auditorium and seated. Principal Kramer gets up from his seat and walks up to the podium and look out towards the students and parents. A huge screen had been set-up on the stage behind him and it had the school logo on it.

“Good morning everyone. You have probably notice that some changes have been made over the weekend. The changes we made is in response to what happened last week. There is going to be a zero policy of bullying in this school and for those of you who think you can continue to bully your fellow students and teachers online. That will come to a stop as well. We have ways of finding out what accounts belong to who. Before we get into the cyber portion of our assembly. I want you to meet some people who have been where you kids are and how they turned their life around.”

Coreno gets up and walks up to the podium after Principal Kramer introduces him. He looks out towards all the young men and women wondering why they were here.

“How many of you think you are tough?” He watches them see who will raise their hands.

He doesn’t see notice anyone raise their hands. “Oh, come on, someone out there thinks they are tough and better than the rest of his classmates. We wouldn’t be here today if you didn’t. Well, since you’re not going, to be honest, I’m going to tell you a little of myself.”

Coreno takes a sip from his water bottle. He looks out towards the crowd and his face becomes really serious.

“When I was your age, I and my gang ruled the High School I attended. You paid me to come to school and if you didn’t like it, well let’s just say you ended leaving the school broken.” He looks at the students and he spotted the ones he was interested.

“I spent a lot of time in juvenile hall, where I had to defend myself from kids a lot bigger than me. Sometimes I won and sometimes I didn’t and was sent to the hospital. I was recruited by the Mafia and became an enforcer for them. Yes, the money was good, and it was great being recognized by them. However, there were drawbacks to that life. Being hounded by the police and under investigation by the FBI. If you think you can commit the perfect murder, think again. Everything you do comes back to haunt you. If not from your so call friends, but from your enemies. This type of life turned out to be more then I bargained for, so I left that life. The thing is, no one ever leaves the mob. Once you’re in, you’re in for life.” He looks out and notices several kids that had a regret look on their face.

He takes a sip of his water before beginning again. “Now, I bet your wondering how I got out? Here’s is how it happened. I was sent to prison for some crimes I committed, and I didn’t snitch on the organization I served. In return for keeping my mouth shut, they let me leave to restart my life. However, should I ever reveal what I know, they will come and give me a pine box burial? Is that how you kids want to be? Always wondering if someone is looking for you and watching you?”

Several students were moving their heads back and forth in a no fashion. He stays silent for a few seconds. He was letting what he said to soak in.

“If you don’t like that life, then straighten your life up. Because if you don’t, you’re going to have people like him watching your every move.” Coreno points towards Big Tony.

Several students saw the biggest State Trooper they had ever seen sitting next to Principal Kramer and Vice Principal Bones.

“Now, I’m going to turn you over to Bradley 'The Snitch' Peddicord.” He walks away, as a short man with black hair wearing a nice blue business suit steps up to the podium.

“Hello, ladies and gentlemen. Where my friend Coreno worked for the Mafia, I was independent. I find out your dirty little secrets and sold that information to whomever I can. Some of you I already know a lot about. You see when my good friend Mrs. Midnight asked me to come up here and talk with you because of the bullying some of you have been doing. I decided to see who the troublemakers are and find their dark secrets.” Bradley looks over towards the group of kids standing with the student council members and the NSA agents.

Bradley pulls out his notepad “let’s see, Samuel Harrison, you have the habit of seducing girls and talking bad about them if they don’t put out for you., Tony Johnson, you like taking pictures of the girls without them knowing., Chris Summers, you talk girls into sending you pictures they have taken of themselves either in the nude or their underwear and reposting them some where else., Sara Christen, you talk about your friends and some of the other girls that don’t do as you say. You also talk bad about some of the kids who are handicap.” He stops and looks at the people he named.

“Now, do you see how this type of information can be valuable to people to use against you?”

The people he named looked surprised and ashamed at what he said. Some of them didn’t care what he said.

“Now you know why I do what I did. I feel no shame snitching on people. I make money doing that and sometimes its needed. Why do you ask? Would you want what is going on keep going on? How would you like it if one of those kids I named, post pictures of your sister or mother? Talking about people doesn’t prove you are better, it just proves your jealous of what they are able to do and such. Now, I’m going to turn this microphone over to a very good friend of mine. She was one of the toughest girls I knew when I went to school.”

Stefania 'Diamond' Leatherbury steps up to the podium after giving Bradley a hug. She turns around and faces the audience “I’m not going to repeat what my friends said. All I’m going to say is this. You are young men and women that are going to be out in the real world, where you don’t have mommy or daddy protecting you. Where your actions will tell people who you are. Some of them don’t give a damn that you think you are tough. They are going to beat the crap out of you or kill you. You need to decide now, what type of person you want to me. Bullying others for fun or because they are weaker than you don’t cut the mustard and will ruin your life. There are people out in the world that are bigger and tougher than you. Here is one of the guys that made a difference in my life.”

Tony stands up and walks up to the podium. He hugs Stefania. The two of them were really close. After hugging her he turns to face the audience.

“Good morning, my name is Tony Rhodes or as the people on the street call me Big Tony. I’m here to talk to you because my dear friend Mrs.
Midnight, told me this school has a bullying problem. You children should know better. I’m not going to call you young adults because you’re acting like spoiled rotten children. Adults don’t act like you do. Adults take responsibility for what they do. Adults know that it's not right to bully other people. So, the word children fit you better. You need to start acting like responsible adults and do the right thing. These people you are going to school with now, could one day be your bosses or control your mortgage. If you make an enemy of them now, you may regret it later.”

He turns to face the kids that were still being surrounded “as for all of you. For you to make amends for your actions, you will be required to do a hundred hours of volunteer work, from an approved list and all your electronics and such will be fortified till you complete the hundred hours. You’ll also be on probation here at school till the hundred hours are complete. Any infractions or rules you occur or break will cause you to be expelled from school for the rest of the year. Your parents have already approved this agreement.” Big Tony spoke to the parents about the kid’s actions earlier.

Big Tony turns the podium over to Sharon and she shows the audience how she can track down all their Facebook post, twitter accounts and other Social accounts they use. She shows several students their recent post.

“Now, if you don’t think I can’t track you down or find out about your post, think again. I have offered my services to your parents and the school with your parent’s permission. I do have a question for all of you though, how many of you liked what went on this morning?” she looks around and didn’t see any hands raised.

“The only way what you experience today coming to school is going to stop, is for all of you to start acting like responsible adults and put a stop to all the harassment and bullying going on here. If this school keeps heading down this path, you’ll be seeing more security in this school as you have today.” Sharon walks away and back towards her seat.

Nora stands up and walks up to the podium “a lot of you don’t know what I use to do before I became a teacher. I was with the Diplomatic
Security Service protecting our interest overseas and our diplomats. so, I know how to spot and take care of troublemakers. Some of you have me for your classes and some of you don’t. Because of some of your fellow schoolmate’s actions, we had a shooting last week. It happened because all of you allowed the bullying in this school to escalate. It needs to come to a stop. My classroom door is always open and most of your other teacher’s door are always open as well. If you don’t feel comfortable talking to us, then go to your student council members, thats why they are here. They can bring the problem to us or Mr. Kramer or Mr. Bones to handle. The security personnel here at the school are here to protect you. Tell us if you have a problem, or if someone is bullying you. Now, I going to give you to Vice Principal Bones.”

Vice Principal Bones steps up to the podium “for the rest of week, the metal detectors and searches will continue to be a presence in our school. You will see the student council working with the security guards walking the halls, along with me and Principal Kramer.”

One of the students raises his arm.

“Go ahead, Mr. Warren.”

“Sir, you said the metal detectors and searches will be going on for the rest of the week. Are you and Mr. Kramer going to keep them after that?”

“Let me ask you this Mr. Warren, do we need to? Is there someone here bullying you?”

“No, we don’t Mr. Bones and Yes, Eric Jackson is bullying me and several other members of the chess club.”

Eric Johnson jumps up from his seat “you’re a liar Paul.” Eric was mad that Paul was telling on him.

“Keith, James, please escort Mr. Johnson over to the group.”

Two huge council members walk over to where Eric was sitting with his friends. Keith looks down at him.

“Don’t make us carry you over there, Eric.”

Eric knew Keith was on the Wrestling team, while James was on the football team. James was a huge African American, while Keith was of Irish descent.

Eric stands ups and is escorted over with the rest of the people that had been stopped earlier. Keith and James stood nearby guarding the group of students whose punishment had already been announced.

“Now is there any more question? Then, I’ll meet with the parents in my office, while the rest of you go ahead and go to your fourth bell class.”
Everyone watches as the students leave.

Christine couldn’t believe she could finally get the operation to finally fix her birth defect. She wonders if Cheshire offer, to pay for the operation still stood and meant it. She figures she’ll ask Nora if Cheshire meant what she offered to do. She could smell the scent of cooking food drifting from the backyard.

She heads back towards the backyard and could hear splashing going on. She steps outside and notices Ginger and Melody in the pool splashing each other. Kelly was in her skimpiest bikini and so was Nora. Nora had an apron on protecting her as she stood at the barbecue unit fixing dinner. The unit had everything Nora needed to cook outside. It was like a second kitchen in her backyard.

“Christy, put your swimsuit on and join us.” Ginger was moving some of her wet hair out of her eyes.

“P-Please-e C-Christy-y?” Melody swims over and stands next to Ginger.

Christine notices Ginger was wearing her emerald green bikini and Melody was wearing her sapphire color bikini. She was doing better since
she came to live with them.

“Alright, I’ll be back in a few minutes.” Christine loved Melody and Ginger as if they were her younger sisters. She wishes she had sisters like them when she was younger.

Christine heads back into the house and changes into her swimsuit. After she changes, she fixes drinks for everyone. She knew Kelly like Long Island Ice Tea, she fixes Nora a Margarita, and for Melody and Ginger, she fixes virgin Margarita’s for them. She fixes herself a Long Island as well. She may not be twenty-one yet, but Nora didn’t mind her having a drink at the house. Since she uses to be a bartender at the restaurant.

Christine walks back outside with a tray filled with drinks. She walks over towards Kelly first “one long island ice tea for you.”
Kelly sits up and takes the offered drink “Thank you, Christine.”

“You’re welcome.” Christine moves over towards Nora.

“The Margarita with the salt and lime is yours, Nora.”

“Thank you, Christine.” Nora takes the Margarita with the lime and salt on the rim.

“Ginger, Melody I have drinks up here for you.” Christine takes the tray and sets it on the outside table.

“Thanks, Sis.” Ginger gets out of the pool with Melody following behind her.

“It’s Margarita time!” Ginger and Melody starts singing the Margarita song by Jimmy Buffet.

Nora just shakes her head at their antics. She loved watching the two of them dance and sing. She was proud of Melody as she overcame the things that were done to her.

“How long have the two of you been working on that?” Kelly was proud of both girls as well.

“We didn’t.” Ginger takes a sip of her Margarita.

“Well, you two did a wonderful job performing it.” Christine liked it.

“Thanks, Sis.” Ginger and Melody hug Christine.

“Girls, could you come over here and grab the food, please?” Nora was both happy and proud of the girls.

“C-Coming-g m-mom-m.” Melody heads over towards Nora.

Ginger was right behind her. She gooses Melody.

Melody jumps forward when she gets goosed. She turns around and notices a smile on Ginger’s face. She just wiggles her butt as she grabs a tray of meats Nora cooked.

Ginger just laughs as she grabs the next tray of food. She follows Melody over to the table and set it down. Christine carries a tray as well.
Kelly comes over to the table and takes a seat. Melody and Ginger sit across from Christine, while Nora and Kelly sit across from each other.

“Dig in.” Nora takes some meat and passes the tray around.

Once Christine ha her plate like she wants, she looks towards Nora “mom, I finally got my letters from my doctors saying I can get the surgery
to fix my birth defect. I was wondering if Cheshire meant what she said about paying for it?”

“Who’s Cheshire?” Ginger and Melody were both curious about this Cheshire person.

“She’s a friend of the family. She teaches and raise big game cats.” Kelly knew who Cheshire was. She had asked Nora once when she came
across her picture in Nora’s phone and a few books in her library.

“She’s a school teacher?” Ginger was curious.

“Nope, she’s a zoologist that specializes in big game cats, like Tigers, Lion, Panthers, Cheetahs, Leopards, and Ligers. She owns a Liger that
is named Shur Khan.”

Christine looks confused at Nora. She thought Cheshire was a special agent or something. Then she thinks about what Cheshire told her when she visited her. She said she was a zoologist, but something told her that wasn’t true.

“W-What’s a liger-r?” Melody was curious.

“It’s an offspring between a Lion and a Tiger. It’s extremely rare for one to be produced from a mating.” Nora knew what a Liger was. She met
Shur Khan once.

“Awesome! I would love to meet one.” Ginger was excited.

“W-What is-s an offspring-g of a Tiger-r and Lion-n called-d?” Melody was curious.

“That’s a Tigon. I don’t think Cheshire has ever raised one.”

Nora wasn’t sure, but as far as she knew, Cheshire has never raised one.

“If Cheshire has offered to pay for your surgery, then she means it. Did she say where you would be having it done?”

“She said she was going to call the doctor that operated on her oldest daughter. Was she the one I pulled from the burning building?”

“Yep, she is a police officer with the HPD special division. Which means you’ll be having the operation in Hawaii and more than likely staying with Cheshire at her place.”

“Hawaii? Dang, sis. That’s the most beautiful place to go. You can go down to the beach to surf and relax. I’m also jealous you can have your
operation.” Ginger wouldn’t mind having her birth defect removed. She and William were getting serious in their relationship. She had been
honest about being trans to him and he had been stunned at first when she told him, but he got over it.

“She won’t be doing much surfing after her operation, Ginger. It takes about two whole months to recover from the surgery.” Kelly knew a few trannies’s that had the operation and they told her what it felt like.

“Still I want my birth defect fixed and if that means I have to be down for two months, I’ll do it.” Ginger knew she was going to have to wait till she turned 18yrs. old before she could get her surgery.

Melody places her hand on Gingers and gives it a little squeeze. She knew how much Ginger hated that she couldn’t experience everything Melody did.

“It takes two months to recover?” Christine looks over towards Kelly.

“About that. The first month is the worse. Have you talked to your boss yet about taking the time off for the operation?”

“I just got my letters today, but you are right Kelly. I don’t know if I can take the time off.” Christine knew she was still new at the company she worked for.

“Talk with your boss and tell him that the operation is necessary. I don’t think he’ll mind. When do you plan on doing it?” Nora was curious.

“I was thinking about over the summer vacation. I know you, Ginger and Melody will be starting summer vacation next week.” Christine wanted to be home and knew Nora, Ginger, and Melody would be home for summer vacation.

“Hawaii does sound like a nice honeymoon place, Nora.” Kelly looks towards her wife.

“We could see if Cheshire will show us, Shur Khan.” Ginger wanted to meet him.

“Alright, let me talk with Cheshire and arrange things. Do you want to talk to her Christine?” Nora looks towards Christine.

“Yes, ma’am. I just want to make sure I didn’t hear her wrong.”

“Knowing Cheshire, I doubt you heard her wrong.” Nora knew when Cheshire spoke to you and told you something. You can bet she meant every word of it.

After dinner, the girls and Christine help clean everything up. They have a water fight in the pool. Melody team up with Nora, Ginger teams up with Kelly and Christine was the judge. Ginger accidentally causes Kelly’s top to come off when she falls from her shoulder.

“Sorry, momma Kelly.” Ginger hands her top back to her.

“That’s alright sweetie.” Kelly puts her top back on.

Ginger couldn't help but stare at Kelly’s breasts and how big they were. She wanted her breast to be as big as Kelly’s.

“Momma Kelly are your breasts natural or enhanced?”

Kelly was a little taken back by the question, she knew Ginger was just curious. She was bigger than Nora in the breast department. She also knew that her breasts was one of the features Nora liked.

“Mine are natural Ginger. Why, do you ask?”

“I want mine to be as big as yours.”

Kelly looks at Ginger’s frame and tries to imagine what her breast size would be on her. Ginger was slim and petite.

“If you really want to be as big as mine, I would get a D cup, Ginger. Anything bigger, you’ll have back problems with your frame.”

“T-Trust me sis-s. H-Having b-big breast-t isn’t-t fun-n.” Melody knew what she was talking about because she was a 38DD cup and was only 13 years old. She was only 5’5” tall.

“Can I get that as a birthday present?” Ginger looks at Nora and Kelly.

Nora just shakes her head at Ginger “I won’t make any promises, but if you can wait till your 18 years old, I’ll pay for you to have your operation and get a breast increase.”

“Thanks, mom.” Ginger hugs Nora.

Nora knew the money Ginger was supposed to get from her parents dying. It had been recovered and put in an account Ginger couldn’t touch till she was twenty-one years old. Nora tickles Melody as she holds her against her body.

Melody just giggles as she is being tickled by Nora. She never thought she would ever have a loving mother again. She felt loved being held in Nora’s arms.

Nora glances over towards Kelly and she had Ginger in her arms and was tickling her. A smile appears on her face as the laughter of the two girls filled the air.

Afterward, the girls and Christine head inside leaving Nora and Kelly outside in the pool. Kelly slips her bikini off and undoes Nora’s.

“You know, we don’t have to wait for the girls to go to bed, to do this.” Nora holds Kelly in her arms.

“I know, but I do like it when it is just you and me in the nude out here under the moon in the pool.” Kelly kisses Nora.

“This is so cool!” Ginger was sitting up in the cockpit, while Patricia flew the Lear.

She was on her way back from South America picking up the Lear, Jack kept down there. When she was contacted by Cheshire to fly to Memphis International Airport to pick some people up. She was informed that Jack had approved the change in the flight plan.

When she landed and refueled in Memphis, she picked up three adults and two teenage girls. According to the information she received from Cheshire, these were friends of hers and Jack’s. She was given pictures of each person and their names.

The first-person Patricia met was Nora Midnight. She looked like a younger version of Cheshire herself, except she was Hispanic. Then there was another lady standing next Nora, with short dark brown hair and an ample chest. She was a little shorter then Nora. She looked like she had some Irish in her. Standing next to Nora and Kelly was a woman who looked to be in her late teens and early twenties and she had blonde hair and was about Nora’s height.

Then there were two teenagers. One had red hair and was dressed in a nice dress that showed her figure off. The other girl had short dark brown hair as well and was shorter than the one named Ginger. Patricia notices she stayed near Nora’s side. She wasn’t very tall, and she was the opposite of the one named Ginger. Instead of wearing a nice dress and such. She wore tight blue jeans and a nice camisole. She had on
very little makeup, where ginger looked like she was going on a date.

“Hi, I’m Patricia O’Hare and I will be your pilot.” Patricia had a pleasant smile on her face.

“Hi Patricia, I’m Nora Midnight and this is my wife, Kelly Midnight. These are our daughters Christina, Ginger, and Melody.” Nora motions to the girls.

“It’s nice to meet you. Mrs. Cheshire that I’m to take you to Hawaii, where she will meet us. The Lear doesn’t have any snacks, so if you would like to go and grab some snacks. We can wait for a while, before taking off.” Patricia tries to keep the Lear’s stack with snacks, but since she just came from South America, picking this one up.

She hasn’t had time to stock it up. It was going to be taken directly to Jack’s ranch for Gina to use. Gina was planning on spending a week with Arnold and her adopted daughter. She hasn’t met the girl yet, but if Gina was taking on the responsibilities of being a mother. Then the girl must be special.

“How long is the flight to Hawaii?” Nora and Kelly were curious.

“It’s an 8-hour flight, but I will be landing in California to refuel before heading to Honolulu.” Patricia always made sure the tanks were full before crossing the Pacific Ocean.

“Why don’t we get something in California, while the plane is being refueled?” Kelly didn’t mind waiting.

“Okay, well, in that case, let’s get you luggage stow away and up in the air.” Patricia starts loading the luggage they had brought with them.

Once they were loaded and had taken off into the skies, Patricia had offered to let the girls come up and sit in the co-pilot seat. Ginger had taken her up on her offer. Melody was scared and didn’t want to leave Nora’s and Kelly’s side.

Nora notices how scared Melody was “everything is going to be okay, Melody. I have flown lots of times, Melody.”

Christina was reading the letters she had been given for her hospital stay and what to expect. She didn’t mind flying. She has already flew once, but not in a private plane.

When they land in California to refuel, Nora and Ginger leave to grab some snacks and lunches for everyone. Once they were back aboard the plane and up into the air. It didn’t take them long to land in Honolulu. When the plane comes to a complete stop. Nora notices Cheshire, Tizzy and a younger teenage girl was waiting for them. They had brought an SUV and a silver Dodge Challenger.

Patricia comes and opens the door. She stands aside as Nora goes first followed by Kelly. Christina and the girls go last. Patricia follows the girls.

Cheshire watches as her friend Nora and her family follow her out of the plane. Tizzy was standing next to her mother with her little sister on the other side of Cheshire. Krisha watches as her mother’s friends disembark the black Lear. She knew it belonged to her uncle Jack.

“Nora, its good to see you.” Cheshire gives Nora a hug.

Nora returns the hug “let me introduce my family to you, Cheshire. You already know Kelly. We finally got married.” Nora holds up her ring finger to show Cheshire.

“Congratulations. I see Christina has changed some.” Cheshire spotted Christina standing with Ginger and Melody.

“Yep, I’ve managed to keep her from playing hero.” Nora smiled at Christina.

“Well, I want to thank you again, Christina, for saving my daughter and my niece's life.” Cheshire gives her a hug.

Tizzy walks over towards Christina “so, I owe you my life?”

“No, I did what you would have done.” Christina knew what she did was right, and she wasn’t looking for any repayment.

“If there is anything I can ever do for you, Christina. Feel free to call on me and my cousins. I know they would like to repay you for what you did.” Tizzy gives Christina hug.

“Thank you.” Christina was blushing.

Nora had been watching “this is our oldest daughter Ginger and our youngest daughter Melody.”

Cheshire looks at both girls and could tell right away that Ginger was the more adventures of the two. She could tell from Melody’s body language that Melody didn’t like to far form Nora or Kelly.

“Allow me to introduce my youngest daughter.” She motions for Krisha to step forward.

Krisha steps next to her mother.

“This is my daughter Krisha.” Cheshire had her in a loving embrace.

“It's nice to meet you, Krisha.” Nora notices that the girl was from some Middle Eastern country.

“It’s nice to meet you as well, Mrs. Midnight. Mom has told me so much about you.” Krisha had told her about Midnight being a school teacher
and a former DSS agent.

“Oh? I hope it was all good.” Nora glances towards her friend.

Cheshire just gives her that smile of hers. After all, she was named Cheshire. Cheshire looks at Christina “so, you have finally decided to have the operation?”

“Yes, ma’am. Ginger is jealous.” Christina looks at her little sister.

“Well, I am.” Ginger wanted to get rid of her birth defect.

“I know how you feel Ginger. I used to be where you are now.” Tizzy walks over to Ginger.

Melody looks at Tizzy and couldn’t believe the beautiful woman before her use to be a boy. She examines her but couldn’t find any signs she uses to be a boy.

“Y-You use to be l-like-e my s-sister-r?” Melody looks at Tizzy.

“Yep, I use to be exactly like your sister. I was so depressed about not having a girl’s body, that I had thought about killing myself. If my mother
hadn’t come along when she did. I might have gone through with my plan. I worked hard to get the body I have now and the husband I have as well.”

“Y-Your-r m-married-d?” Melody was surprised.

“Yep. I have been married for the past five months since we finished that case Christina saved me and my cousins.” Tizzy and Ikaika had gotten married in a secret ceremony. The only people there was her mother and Ikaika’s parents.

She knew her cousins were disappointed about not being there, but after she went through what she did. She didn’t want to die without marrying Ikaika. She knew Julia had married her childhood friend and the only one who wasn’t married yet was Gina. She Gina was planning an October wedding. Arnold will be done with law school and be a full fledged lawyer.

“Well, let's go and get you to get settle in. That goes for you as well Patricia. You are required to take two days off to relax, Jack’s orders.”
Cheshire looks towards Patricia when she says that.

“Hey, I’m not going to argue. You guys pay and treat me too good.” Patricia taxi the plane to a hangar Jack keeps in Honolulu and secure the Lear.

“Till you have your operation Christina, you’ll be staying at my condo in Honolulu. Once you go through the operation, you’ll be staying with me at my house.” Cheshire figures she could look after Christina like she did Tizzy while she recovers.

“Patricia, Jack has made arrangements with the hotel near my condo for you to relax and enjoy yourself. He’s picking up the tab for your stay. So, feel free to enjoy yourself.”

“Oh, I will.” She had a company card Jack gave her to use.

As they are heading towards the condo “Mrs. Cheshire, mom said you raise large cats and that you have a Liger as a pet?”

A sly smile appears on her face “I do have a Liger and so does Tizzy. I’ll introduce you to them tomorrow. We also have a pair of clouded leopards that a friend of mine rescued from a poacher that I’m teaching Krisha to raise.”

“Are they native to China and the Himalayan foothills?” Nora was curious about how she managed to get a pair.

“Yep, they are, and my friend knew I was the foremost authority on endangering cats. Plus, he also knew I would kill anyone who came for them.” Cheshire was known by a few people as a very protective person when it came to endangered animals.

“Remind me not to ever get on your bad side.” Ginger couldn’t believe that this small oriental woman was so deadly. She was about the same height as her mother, but twenty years older.

Tizzy was following her mother with Krisha riding with her. She looks at her younger sister “so, what do you think of mom’s friends so far?”

Krisha thinks about Tizzy’s question “you and mom said that the blonde hair girl rescued you and cousin Julia and Gina from a burning building?”

“Yep, she risked her life to pull us, the wolves and US Marshal’s out of a burning building. If she hadn’t done that. I would be dead right now along with Julia and Gina.” Tizzy just shivers thinking about that day.

“Mom is paying for her SRS surgery?”

“Yep, she said she would. Hell, Uncle Jack would pay for her surgery for what she did. Mom and Uncle Jack take honor and debt seriously.
That’s what makes them so deadly. They live by a code. That code of theirs says that they owe that young lady for saving our lives. Also, that woman that has become Christina’s mother, is as deadly as mom. Mom taught Nora when she was with the CIA. Mom said that she was her star pupil. She thought for sure Nora would stay in Black Op’s, but Nora got tired of all the assignments and killing. She decided to go back to be an ordinary DSS agent.”

“What was uncle Jack?” Krisha knew a little about her uncle.

“He was MI 6 and had SAS training. He carried a license to kill. Most MI 6 agents weren’t allowed to kill unless it was self-defense. Uncle Jack
was like mom, he did black op’s assignment for the British government.” If Nora is like mom, why did she become a school teacher?” Krisha was curious why someone with her skill set would change.

“I’m betting it’s because of the two young girls she has now. Mom got out of the game because she was tired of it. Uncle Jack got out because
of our cousins. He wanted to spend his time raising them and taking a more active role in the business he was building.” Krisha thinks about what her sister told her.

Ginger and Melody were watching where they were going. They were loving the sights they were seeing so far.

“Cheshire does the building your condo is at have a pool and can you go down to the beach as well?” Ginger was curious.

Cheshire looks at Ginger in the rear-view mirror “you can call me auntie Cheshire if you like, Ginger. I consider your mom and her family as part of my family now. Also, to answer your question, it has a beach and a swimming pool you can use.”

“Mom, watch!” Ginger was out on a surfboard.

Melody and Krisha were next to her. Tizzy was nearby to help should the girls have problems. All four girls were in bikinis. Tizzy and Krisha had taught Melody and Ginger how to surf. They came over early in the morning, after dropping Christina off at her doctor’s office for her per-examination.

Nora, Kelly, and Patricia watch all four girls from the beach. Cheshire had a meeting she had to attend too but would be coming by later after picking Christina up from the Doctor’s office.

Ginger waits for the right wave to come to ride in. The wave she was waiting for comes and Ginger rides it in. She does pretty good on it but wipes out once she gets close to the beach.

“You did good Ginger.” Nora and Kelly were proud of their daughter.

Melody tries the next wave. She makes it as close as her sister did. She looks up towards the beach.

“You did good Melody.” Nora and Kelly were proud of Melody as well.

Tizzy and Krisha mount their boards and surf towards the beach. Krisha learned how to surf from her sister and mother. Tizzy use to compete when she was younger, but now surf for fun.

They were having dinner at Cheshire’s place tonight. Patricia has never been and couldn’t wait to see how a dangerous assassin lived.

Nora could surf, but not as well as Tizzy and Krisha. Kelly couldn’t surf at all. Tizzy was showing her how. Around lunchtime, all the girls head to a nearby restaurant and have lunch. Ginger and Melody were loving the attention they were getting from the guys.

Nora and Kelly spotted how the two were loving the attention. She couldn’t blame them, they were in Hawaii. Nora looks at Kelly to see if she was enjoying their semi-honeymoon as well. Kelly just gives her a smile as she runs towards the incoming waves. Once she is in the water, she swims out towards the girls on their surfboards. She treads water as the girls catch a wave and ride it in.

Nora chases after her. The two of them normally don’t have much time to spend with each other during the week. The weekend’s they were busy doing family things.

“Gotcha!” Nora wraps her arms around Kelly’s waist.

“What are you planning on doing with me, now that you have caught me?” Kelly speaks in a sexy voice.

“Oh, I think I can think of something.” Nora leans in and kisses her.

The rest of the afternoon, Nora, Kelly and the girls spend down on the beach. Cheshire picks Christina up from the doctor’s office.

“So, how did things go with Dr. Bowers, Christina?” Cheshire watches as she gets into the car.

“She said I’m ready for the surgery. I went ahead and schedule for next Monday.” Christina fastens her seatbelt. She was ready for the operation.

“That’s understandable. We’ll move your items from the condo to the house on Sunday. That way when you get out of the hospital. I can take
you straight to my place to recover.” Cheshire knew what to expect from when Tizzy got her surgery.

Nora, Kelly and the girls end up over at Cheshire’s house for dinner. Ginger and Melody was kind of disappointed. They were expecting a house a spy would live in, but instead, it was a normal house in a normal neighborhood.

When they walk into the house, they are pounced on by two clouded leopard cubs. Kit pounces on Melody when she walks through the door.

Melody jumps when something attacks her legs. She backs into her mother Kelly. She looks down and spots a small dark grey cub.

“Kit, SÚil!” Krisha looks down at the little-clouded leopard cub.

It stops and looks at Krisha. His sister Kat was about to attack Ginger’s foot. The two cubs just stay where they were.

Ginger kneels and picks up Kat “she’s so cute.” As she starts scratching under her chin.

Melody looks at her sister as she held one of the cubs and then back up at Krisha “i-is it okay t-to pick them u-up?”

“Yes, Melody you can pick him up. He won’t bite you. He’s just very playful.” Krisha watches as Melody picks Kit up off the floor.

Melody scratches him under his chin like Ginger was doing with his sister. She follows her sister towards the den, where the sliding glass door was opened.

“A-Are-e the L-Ligers-s outside?” Melody was holding kit and petting him while looking outside.

“Yep, Shur-Khan and Simba are outside somewhere. I can call them if you would like.” Tizzy was looking towards Melody.

“M-Maybe-e l-later-r.” Melody was enjoying Kit in her arms.

Nora and Kelly had gone to the kitchen to see what Cheshire was cooking. Nora loved learning new recipes and what she smelled in the air tickle her nose.

“Watch you cooking, Cheshire?” Nora watches as Cheshire uses a blade like a surgeon to cut up some vegetables.

Cheshire flips the knife one handed after cutting the vegetables “I’m making Poke. I hope none of you are allergic to tuna.”

Cheshire finishes the Poke and sets it aside. She starts with another dish that could be made while everyone was at her house.

“Hi, mom.” Ikaika had dropped in after work. Tizzy told him they were having a guest at her mother’s place.

“Ikaika, it's so good to see you. Let me introduce you to a woman I consider my daughter. This is Nora Midnight and her wife Kelly Midnight.
The blonde hair girl in the other room is Christina. She’s the one responsible for saving Tizzy and her cousins. Along with the Bounty Hunter’s
and the Marshal’s that day. The two teenage girls over there with Krisha and the cubs are Nora and Kelly’s, daughter. The red hair one is named Ginger and the brown hair girl holding Kit is Melody.” Cheshire knew that Ikaika felt indebted to Christina for saving his wife.

Ikaika looks at Nora and could tell she was Hispanic. She looked like a younger version of Cheshire. Especially, when you looked into her eyes. The shorter woman standing near her was the opposite of Nora. She looked to be of some European descent, maybe Irish or something from that region. She had a nice shape to her body.

“It’s nice to meet you Mrs. Midnight. I’m Ikaika Kahue, Tizzy’s husband.” He shakes her hand.

“It’s nice to meet you, Mr. Kahue. This is my wife Kelly Midnight.” Nora motions to Kelly.

“It’s nice to meet you as well, Mrs. Midnight.” He gives her a pleasant smile.

“Now that the three of you have introduced yourself, out of my kitchen.” Cheshire normally didn’t like people in her kitchen when she was
cooking. She knew Nora loved to cook and her mother was a professional chef.

“Would it be okay if I stay and help you, Cheshire?” Kelly wouldn’t mind helping her.

“That will be okay. The rest of you out of my kitchen.” Cheshire goes back to cooking. She notices that Tizzy and Krisha were outside with
Ginger, Melody, and Christina.

Ginger, Melody, and Christina stood close to Tizzy and Krisha when Tizzy called Shur-khan and Simba. The cubs were in the house. They watch as two huge cats come walking out of the woods behind Cheshire.

Neither of the girls has ever seen cats this big before or this close either. Tizzy calls Simba directly to her and scratches him where he loved.
She turns towards everyone “this is Simba. He’s my kitty cat.”

“That’s not a kitty cat, that’s a horse.” Ginger couldn’t believe how big he was.

“You think he’s big. You see the wolves, my uncle, Jack raises. They are huge as well.” Tizzy wishes she could show them, Cadmus and
Sphinx. If Chaos was still alive, she would show them him. He was the biggest wolf Jack had.

“Who does Shur-khan belong too?” Christina was brave enough to pet him like Tizzy was doing Simba.

“He’s my mom's kitty cat.” Tizzy had to regain her balance, because Simba rubbed against her, almost knocking her over.

“A-Are they R-Related-d?” Melody was curious. She reaches forwards to scratch Simba.

“Nope. Simba is from a different tiger, lion mating.” Tizzy knew her mother never bred the Ligers from one another.

Ikaika steps outside and is almost knocked down from Shur-Khan rubbing against him. He regains his balance and scratches the big cat.

“How you are doing boy?” Ikaika loved being around big cats.

He plays with Shur-Khan till everyone is called inside for dinner. They are warned not to feed Kit and Kat. The cubs pester them while they are eating.

Nora and Kelly volunteer to clean the dishes, but Cheshire wouldn’t let them. The girls went back outside and helped Tizzy, Krisha and Ikaika feed the big cats. The cubs were easy and fun to feed.

Christina pulls Tizzy aside to talk with her. She knew Tizzy had the surgery.

“Tizzy, how bad I the surgery?” Christina watches Tizzy’s emotions.

“Let me put it this way, Christina. You're going to wish you never went through it. It’s going to take at least a week at the hospital and then they
will let you go home. About 4-6 weeks, you’ll be able to go back to work, no strenuous lifting or activity. Then after that, you’ll be able to return to your normal activity levels. I suggest once you’re feeling better. That you start to get your body in better shape. You’ll have to get used to having a vagina and working muscles you haven’t worked in a while. Trust me, as soon as I was able to move. My mother started whipping me into shape. She may or may not do that to you.” Tizzy wasn’t sure what her mother had planned for Christina.

“Whatever your mother wants me to do, I’ll do.” Christina liked Cheshire.

“Remember those words.” Tizzy smile as she directs them back to everyone else.

The Day of The Operation:
Cheshire, Nora, and Kelly help prepare Christina for her operation. All her stuff has been moved to Cheshire’s house. Nora and family were leaving to go back home at the end of the week.

Nora could tell Christina was nervous “relax baby. Everything is going to be okay.”

Nora squeezes Christina’s hand. Keely held her other hand and gives it a little squeeze. Nurse Kellye walks in to transport Christina to the operating room.

Christina is in surgery for four hours. There were a few things she wanted to get done to her body. Cheshire and Jack were splitting the cost for the best plastic surgeon to come out and give Christina anything she wanted. It was the least they could do for saving their children.

Five Hours Later:
Christina is rolled out of the operating room and back to her room. Everyone was waiting for her. She was so out of it.

Ginger looks at her older sister “is she okay Mrs. Cheshire?”

“She’s fine, Ginger. Christina is just filled with painkillers right now.” Cheshire went through this with Tizzy.

When Christina comes a little aware of her surroundings, she is greeted by Nora, Kelly, and Cheshire.

She looks at them and a goofy smile appears on her face. She felt so happy right now.

“So pretty.” Christina looked so goofy.

“Yep, she’s out of it.” Kelly was smiling at the goofy look on Christina’s face.

“I think she’s going to be out of it for a while.” Cheshire was even smiling.

“Let’s, let her sleep and we’ll talk with her later?” Nora figures Christina won’t remember that they were here with her.

“Okay, I’m going to stay and watch over her.” Nora considers Christina her daughter.

“Alright, sweetie.” Kelly kisses Nora’s cheek.

Cheshire and Kelly leave to join up with the girls and tell them Christina’s condition.

Christiana hated to see her family leave, but she wasn’t heading back to Memphis with them. She has going to stay in Tizzy’s old bedroom and recover from her surgery. Tizzy was right when she told her that she was going to regret it, but she didn’t care. As soon as she could have sex like a true woman, she was going to finally explore what it meant to be a woman. She was going to see if the nerve cluster for her clitoris was as sensitive as her doctor said it would be.

Nora, Kelly, Melody, and Ginger give Christina hugs. They also hug Cheshire, Tizzy, Krisha and Ikaika goodbye.

“Thanks for everything Aunt Cheshire, Tizzy, Krisha, and Ikaika.” Ginger looks at everyone gathered to see them off.

Nora hugs Christina one more time “you behave yourself and do what Cheshire tells you.”

“I will mom.” Christina looks into Nora’s eyes and could that Nora really thought of Christina as her daughter.

Kelly hugs Christina as well. She has always care about Christina from the first day they met.

“Behave yourself and come home to us.” Kelly kiss Christina’s cheek.

“I will mom.”

Nora, Kelly, Melody, and Ginger board the Lear that Patricia was flying them back to Memphis in. It was a different one than the one they came in.

“How many Lear’s do you and Mr. Bounty own, Aunt Cheshire?” Christina looks towards Cheshire for an answer.

Cheshire just smile at Christina “if I tell you, I have to kill you and I promise your mother I wouldn’t allow anything bad happens to you.”

Tizzy just smiles at her mother’s response. She knew of four Lear’s the two of them own together. One was here in Hawaii, one was with her Uncle Jack. The others she had no idea where they were kept.

They head back to Cheshire house, so Christina could recover. Cheshire was going to take care of her like she did her daughter when she had her surgery. She was also going to see what Nora taught Christina as well.

Melody had her head on Nora’s lap as she slept. Ginger was sound asleep as well. They should be arriving back in Memphis around five in the morning. They were going to take a day to rest and unpack. Then they were going to go school shopping for Ginger, Melody, and Nora.

They finally arrive back home at four in the morning. Patricia was tired and was just going to sleep onboard the Lear.

Nora and the girls drove home and dragged themselves into the house. They were tired from the time change and flying home. Ginger managed to slip into her favorite baby doll nightgown. Melody slips on her nightshirt and crawls into her bed. Her and Ginger shared a bedroom.

Nora and Kelly managed to slip into their nightgowns and crawl into bed.

They sleep till noon. Nora is the first one awake, so she gets up and fixes lunch for everyone.

“Morning sleepy head.” As Ginger comes stumbling into the kitchen.

She walks over and hugs Nora. She was still tired from the time change. She wonders what Christina is up too.

Nora hugs Ginger back “why don’t you go and sit-down sweetie. I’ll have lunch done in a few minutes.”

Ginger stumbles over to her chair after grabbing a tea from the refrigerator. She rubs the sleep from her eyes, as she watches her mother cook.

“I wonder what Christina is doing right now?” Ginger looks at her mother.

“Probably, recovering. Cheshire is going to give her time to heal.” Nora knew it was going to take a while for Christina to heal.

Melody and Kelly come stumbling into the kitchen. Melody hugs Nora as well. After Melody hugs her. Kelly hugs Nora and helps with getting lunch done.

All four ladies sit around the kitchen table eating lunch. They were still jet lag and were trying to overcome the time difference between
Memphis and Hawaii. After lunch, Nora checks her emails and notices that she was teaching American Government again and two other courses as well.

After lunch, they unpack all their clothes and items they bought while they were in Hawaii. Both Ginger and Melody were sporting dark tans.
They had gotten a lot of sun, while they were in Hawaii.

Nora and Kelly were as dark as their daughters. Nora just looks at Kelly as she was getting dress and walks up to her. She puts her arms around her.

“Have I told you how much I love you?” As she kisses Kelly while holding her tight to her body.

Kelly returns the kiss and starts roaming and caressing Nora’s body. Nora returns the caressing and slowly move them towards the bed. She takes the lead and worships Kelly’s body. She shows Kelly how much she loves her.

They make love for a few hours. They end up lying next to each other with Nora holding Kelly. She was caressing Kelly’s breast as they laid in bed together.

Ginger and Melody were in the living room watching movies curled up on the sofa. They knew their mothers were in their bedroom enjoying each other. Ginger looks over towards Melody.

“Melody, if you don’t mind me asking. Who do you think you’ll marry, a man or a woman like our mother’s?” Ginger already knew she wanted to marry a male.

“I-I don’t know if I’ll e-ever-r m-marry-y.” Melody was still having problems with what her father made her do.

“It’s okay if you don’t.” Ginger could sense how the question bothered Melody.

Ginger gets up from where she was sitting and go over and hug her little sister. She knew she didn’t want her sister to be upset or feel bad. She feels Melody wrap her arms around her.

Melody didn’t know how to react when Ginger held her. She has never had an older sibling before. She has always been an only child, but now she has two sisters that look after her. She returns the hug.

They release each other and choose another movie to watch. Ginger pops some popcorn for them and Melody pours some glasses of sweet tea for them. They were going to take it easy and recover.

The next day Nora and Kelly take the girls shopping for school supplies. They go to OfficeMax and Staples for items that Nora wanted to decorate her classroom. She also buys extra supplies for the kids not able to afford supplies or couldn’t get them right away.

While they are out shopping, they go by the hair salon. Nora, Kelly, Melody, and Ginger get their hair, nails and toenails done. By the time they leave, they are feeling nice and beautiful. They stop at a restaurant named Opal’s and have dinner.

When they get home, Ginger and Melody get their new school bags ready. They couldn’t wait to go to school. They had the weekend to relax and enjoy.

Nora meets with Principal Kramer and is introduced to the new Vice-principal, along with the other instructors. The Principal and the new Vice-principal, Aron Harrison informed the teachers that they have a zero-tolerance policy and that this school, they want all teachers and security personnel to in force it.

Nora has been asked to work with the chief of security and the Vice-principal like what she did last school year. She and the security chief will make sure the security personnel changes up their routine and she will help them.

Later that night Nora looks at the girls. She had spoken with Christina and she was doing alright.

“I’ve spoken with Christina and she is doing fine. Her boss told her that when she was ready to come back to work, her job will be waiting for her. As for you two, I have your school schedule. Melody, you have me for Spanish.” Nora looks towards her daughter and notices she was smiling at her, considering Nora has been teaching the girls Spanish at home. She was also teaching them German as well.

“How about me mom? Who do I have for French?” Ginger was curious who her French teacher was.

“You have Mrs. Kingsley for French, during third period.” Nora knew her, and she was a nice teacher.

Ginger didn’t know the teacher, but she trusted her mother. She couldn’t wait for school to start. She stays up and watches a movie with her parents, before turning in.

Melody was as excited as her older sister for school to start. She’ll get a chance to see her friends and catch up on what they did over the summer. She lays on the floor with Ginger as they watch a movie.

See Nora, Ginger, Kelly, Christina and Melody in Back to School.