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" How about we help each other?" He says and I look up at him, eyes still wet from the tears streaming down my cheeks, heart freshly broken from the public humiliation and betrayal that was Lucas's breakup. I can faintly make out the first droppings of snow floating magically under the light of the street lamps. It's that time of the year, a time for wool coats, a time for relaxing, none of which I'll be doing. "I'm an orphan with a wicked aunt and a boyfriend who left her because she has nothing to her name, how could I possibly help you?" I say another sob escaping my lips. "Marry me" he replies and my eyes widen in anger. Is he mocking me?. I look into the eyes of this stranger and see he's dead serious. "I need a wife, you need a home, marry me and you'll have all you want". I nod.

A Snowy Marriage (A Christmas agreement)

Our plans to get Ercles some things to wear is put on hold. It has to be put on hold because not a few minutes after i collapse onto the bed, I think I hear that sound again.

I hear that horn being blown again and I can practically hear Adrian groan.

"What else do they want.. arghh, what else do they want now?".

Alice is simply looking like she might simply suffer a midlife crisis and I sigh.

"How can we possibly leave him here?" I say looking at the little boy and Adrian nods.

"I'm pretty sure it won't take that long, at least they should not have much more to say to anybody at this point".

I wonder what he means by saying that but still I do not bother about it.

I motion his phone from him, I asked him for a pen, I ask for a sheet of paper and I write something down. I write the little note in which Adrian's pin is contained and Alice's phone number.

I don't really think that I have a phone with me, I don't even think I have a phone at all and I silently cringe at this.

Exactly how shameful is it that i do not have a phone. I cannot put my number here for him but yet if he can call Alice, if he can call Alice then we can come get him immediately.

I hope he knows how to read. He sounds very educated and philosophical to me and I smile to myself.

"You know, you'd make a really good mum" Adrian says leaning in close to me and whispering almost like he's lost in the sight of the boy and i.

It's almost like he's lost in the sight of the little boy who is sleeping on the bed and who is practically resting his head on my tummy now.

I don't even know when we got into this position, I don't know when we got into this position but yet I like it. I like the little head on my stomach.

You can just imagine how this would seem, eighteen-year-old me and nineteen year-old Adrian basically acting like parents at this point.

Alice wears a smiling face, smiling such an awry smile that I know that she's imagining something else, something totally uncalled for and I shoot her a glare.

"Don't tell me you're thinking of what i suspect you're thinking of?" I say looking at her and she smiles at me.

I sigh dramatically at this as I finish writing the instructions and I place them on the bed with Adrian's phone.

I gently lift his head off my stomach and drop him back onto the bed.

For a five year old boy he weighs considerably nothing, it's almost like he's as light as air and a million ideas are running through my mind now, ideas which are not my own and which I banish at the very moment that they pop up.

Exactly what is happenig to me????.

Chapter 179