A Priest, A Rabbi, and Their Kids Walk Into A Bar…
Chapter 1: A long, long time ago…
(Note these characters are not mine. Please do not sue me. By the way this story takes place in the year 2020.)
Hello, everyone in cyber land. It's your favorite neighborhood priest Brian Finn here to catch you up on the past twenty years. Yes, it really has been that long since you last saw my little gang. Since that time a lot has happened. I mean a lot. I'm talking Titanic sized boats full of changes. Ok, I know I'm sounding corny and I'm probably also exaggerating but, trust me things have changed.
First of all, if you haven't guessed already Jake and Anna got married. I know you're thinking, "c'mon man tell us something we don't know!" But, trust me, things will get more interesting as we go along. Second, they had three kids, two boys and one girl, Jon, Jeff, and Erica. Once again another not shocking moment, but please bare with me. We'll get back to these two perfect lovebirds in a second.
All right now let's shift the story over to me for a little bit. Well, for the past twenty years I've still been stuck at the same place. Doing the same thing year after year well as raising my cousin's kids. Knew that would make you do a double take! Yes, your eyes are not failing you you have just read that I have been taking care of my cousin's kids. Now, before you go thinking that this is some psycho, reversed, Raising Helen type of situation let me explain this further.
I had a cousin, unknown to me, who was a drug addict and also had a few screws loose. Anyway, so she had two girls who she couldn't really take care of. Childs Protective Services took her to court and declared her incompetent of raising her children. She had no siblings and her parents were uninterested in helping out so the only other person they could stick these rug rats with was yours truly.
Over the years I've grown to love these kids, whose names are Rose and Brianna. Its been hard having kids to take care of but with Jake and Anna as my guides its been easy for me to make the transition from just a priest to a priest/legal guardian.
Okay, now back to Jake and Anna. Besides all the good things that happened to him while you were gone there were some mishaps as well. The main incident that happened was his mother passed away. As you can imagine this was extremely hard for him to handle. Even to this day he can't do anything that reminds him of her.
So, now you're caught up. Well at least partially. The rest will reveal itself. So without further adieu I present to you the next half of Keeping the Faith…….