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The alarm clock went off way too early. Lucy felt as if she had only gotten an hour of sleep. She got up and jumped into the shower. The water was warm now. She was lucky to get a shower in that morning. Some mornings she had no time. She woke her kids up to feed them before she left. The only thing she could find to make them was toast. The bread was old and stale, but it would have to do. She buttered two pieces then through the empty margarine container in the piled high garbage. Another thing to buy at the store. She knew she would have to hide her money from Logan better this month, since there was a lot of things on the grocery list.
Logan had passed out on the couch and Lucy tried to awake him, but he refused to wake up. Frustrated, she threw her kids coats on. It was April and getting warmer out, but still cold. She grabbed her purse and hurried the kids over to Mrs. Kezler's.
"Thanks for watching them Betty." Lucy said as she hurried out of the trailer, kissing her kids bye.
Lucy spent a long day at work, dealing with unruly customers, coffee spills on her pants during her break, and bad kids. As her shift ended she remembered at that moment that she wouldn't be paid til next Friday. She ran her hands through her hair and fought back tears. More stress piled up. She took the bus to the stop near the food bank and grabbed some food. The owners knew her story, and let her take food even though she had a job. She got on the next bus and went home. Picking the kids up first from Mrs. Kezler's, she then went home. Smoke filled the trailer again, but Logan was out of site.
The kids had eaten at Mrs. Kezler's, but Lucy made them a little snack anyways before they brushed their teeth.
"Mom we're out of tooth paste." Jake said coming out of the bathroom. Lucy managed to squeeze a morsel out for each kid, but knew nothing else would come out. Another thing to get she thought. Using one of the bags she had gotten from the food bank, Lucy put some soup cans in it, two bananas, some juice boxes, two sandwiches she had put peanut butter on, and a container filled with assorted vegetables. She told the kids what was in it and hid it in the small closet in their room.
" Because Daddy never feeds you, I'm going to hide some food in here for you guys to eat. Try to make it last for tomorrow and the next day. I'm keeping the soup in here for tomorrow's supper. Who knows if the other food I left in the kitchen will be there tomorrow once your dad finds it.
It was getting late but Lucy made time to color a picture with Maddy and do a puzzle with Dylan. They only had a few books for bedtime stories, but she read them one that they had heard many times before anyways. She kissed them good night then went to bed. She was exhausted and didn't have the energy for anything else.
She got paid the following Friday and picked up soap, tooth paste, laundry soap which was now needed too and some groceries. What was left, other than bus change she would need and rent money, was 4 dollars.She hid that in a locked box she kept under the mattresse. There was only 20 dollars in it, because every time she tried to save more money, there was an expense needed to be paid. The next day she only had to work until 3 o'clock in the afternoon, so she brought the kids downtown to do laundry, and then they stopped off at the park.
Lucy was pushing Maddy in a swing and Dylan was climbing on the playground.
"Hey." a friendly voice said behind Lucy.
She turned around to see her friend Kevin. He was a police officer and they had met one time when Lucy had to go get Logan out of jail. They had been friends ever since and Lucy always told him her problems.
"Hey. What's up?" Lucy answered back.
"Not much I was patrolling the area and my break started. I thought I saw Dylan on the park then I noticed you so I came to say hi." Kevin said.
Lucy and Kevin continued to talk for a while more, but then both parted their ways as Kevin's break was over and Lucy wanted to get home.
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