[I think chapters are too fast-paced for a slice-of-life story, so I'll be slowing it down a bit and focusing on attention to detail.]
Jack slowly made his way back to his apartnt. Upon seeing Theresa still on the couch, he felt a sense of relief. However, his relief was short-lived, as she was wearing a dress with a slit in the middle.
Removing his clothes, he took a cold water shower to calm himself down. Then he realized he didn't have any towels or anything else in this new apartnt, so he went outside naked and searched for sothing to wipe his naked, wet body.
Jack went to the living room, naked, and sat on the leather couch. The room's heat made him feel comfortable.
But looking at Theresa, who was sleeping soundly and he was naked, he felt a little weird, but she was sleeping, so when he naturally gets dry, he'll put on clothes.
As he was sitting comfortably, the doorbell rang. He was a little sleepy with all the alcohol and cold bath, so he just went to the door.
Opening the door he saw Ms. Stephanie. Ms. Stephanie's face was first worried, then she looked horrified.
Jack slowly closed his eyes and fell forward in front of Ms. Stephanie.
Stephanie, on the other hand, was horrified by a naked boy. The first thing on her mind was, 'Is my daughter okay? 'Then, after seeing Jack unconscious and falling down on her, she was scared.
Holding Jack barely, she almost lost her footing and fell as well, but she managed to sohow not fall down.
Then she slowly placed Jack down, grabbed his ankle, and pulled him inside. At that mont, Emily, her crazy neighbor, slightly opened her apartnt door. Seeing Stephanie grab Jack's naked ankle and pull him inside, Emily smiled and nodded.
"It's not what it looks like. Sigh." Stephanie tried to explain, but Emily closed the door with a smile.
Stephanie, after taking Jack inside, pulled him on to a rug, which was warr, then covered him with a bedsheet.
Looking around, she found Theresa on the couch near the rug where Jack was sleeping.
She then pulled out another bedsheet from the bedroom and covered her too. Stephanie wanted to pull Jack into a bed but failed because she can't lift a 6-foot man on her own. So she let him be; she didn't even move Theresa.
Stephanie calmly went to the bedroom, which was on the left corner, and slept there.
Jack was having a nightmare where he was poor again, this ti no Euro breathing system, his life was rough and he had to quit his studies and work full ti. life was miserable, and as he was one day returning ho, he choked on a peanut and died.
Jack woke up from his sleep, but he was taking big breaths and was sweating a lot; he was actually scared. Jack, after calming down, felt sothing heavy on his body. Looking at the heavy object, Jack was confused at first and then didn't rember much.
He actually forgot what happened last night; he just rembers he was taking Theresa to his apartnt; now they are only separated by two white bedsheets.
"Oh my!" Stephanie, who just ca out of the bedroom, was blocking her eyes with her fingers, sotis looking through them.
Jack's lower half was covered, but the chest area was not covered with the bedsheet, and on top of him was Theresa.
"Ms. Stephanie, It's not what it looks like," Jack tried to explain.
"I know! Theresa!!!!! Wake up!" Stephanie ca near Theresa and slapped her in the back.
Theresa opened her eyes slightly; seeing it's her mother, her senses started to return to her, but she closed her eyes tight.
"Get up, Scoundrel, I'll beat you up." Stephanie pinched Theresa's ear hard and pulled her to get up from Jack and took her to the bedroom she was sleeping in last night. Theresa, looking at where she was sleeping, was horrified, then a smile crept up on her face. She gave Jack a reassuring smile, then her mother closed the door of the bedroom.
Jack was confused as fuck; why was he sleeping here, and why would Theresa smile like that?
Jack, shaking his head from the distracting thoughts, got up. When the bedsheet fell off, he realized he was not wearing anything. Grabbed his crotch, he searched for his clothes and wore them after finding them.
Then he calmly ca in to the living room; he could hear Ms. Stephanie was angry at Theresa and was reprimanding Theresa loudly inside the bedroom.
Jack was also nodding his head, as if he were supporting everything Stephanie was saying, 'That's correct, you can't do that.".
Jack was using his phone after a while because it was getting boring and the mother and daughter were at each other's throats. It's been 30 whole minutes.
Then the sound slowly started to calm down, and Jack heard so sobbing noises from inside.
Jack didn't even want to know what was happening inside that room, such a lodrama?
After 15 more minutes, the door of that bedroom opened. Stephanie ca out, then slowly Theresa ca out after her; her head was lowered, and she looked guilty.
Stephanie sat on the couch. In front of Jack and Theresa stood behind her mother; her head was lowered, and she looked guilty.
"She stole the jewelry from my cabinet and went to the party without asking . I am sorry you had to rescue her, Jack. You can bla for her upbringing." Saying this, Stephanie almost cried.
"Mother, don't cry. I am sorry. I am not going to do it again." Theresa held her mother's hand and cried as well.
Jack, looking at the mother-daughter duo, wanted to just tell them it was okay, but they wouldn't stop crying.
"It's Okay, Ms. Stephanie. She's still young and can make mistakes." Jack wanted to calm Miss Stephanie down.
"You don't know how hard it is to be a single mother, Jack. I really am sorry for bothering you like this," Stephanie said while wiping her tears from her cheeks.
Theresa didn't talk much after that; she felt guilty and blad herself for everything that happened. If she were an adult, maybe this was not a big deal, but she was not, and she still rembers the phyco who wanted to grab her.
Jack went to her and patted her head like a big brother would. Theresa hugged him and cried like a baby.
Stephanie didn't stop her this ti; she also knows that her daughter must be horrified and needed a shoulder.
She went to the kitchen and didn't find anything, so she went downstairs to buy food for them.
Jack held Theresa as she was crying her eyes out, and after so ti she stopped but didn't leave Jack's embrace.
Jack was also holding her. Theresa, to be very honest, looked like an exquisite little doll; she was maybe around five feet, two inches, and she felt like a pillow to Jack as she was very soft.
Their mont didn't last long as Ms. Stephanie ca back with food and served them steamy fried rice with beef.
"Where did you get such delicious fried rice?" Jack asked while eating.
"Well, apparently they sell this very near here, and it doesn't cost much." Stephanie was also very chill about it.
"How's the apartnt?" Stephanie asked, as the person who helped Jack get this apartnt.
"It's very nice. Everything feels closer from here."
"Of course it's the middle of the city," Stephanie smiled.
"Actually I was so scared; the first thing I was thinking of calling the police, I thought You took her to the bar," Stephanie laughingly explained.
" Ah! Thank god you didn't," Jack smilingly said.
"Mother about the date with Jack, Can we postpone it?"" Theresa chid in, seeing the mood was very light.
" Oh! Why? " Jack asked; he was actually very intrigued.
"Well, I have my reasons," Theresa smiled mysteriously.
"Alright, let know," Jack said.
"Jack, we're going to go. Take care of yourself. Visit us anyti you want." Stephanie smiled at Jack, saying this.
"Yes, I will. I have stuff in that small apartnt, so maybe soon," Jack replied.
After eating, both mother and daughter left Jack's apartnt and apologized to him ti and ti while leaving.
When Jack was left alone in the apartnt, he thought of the whole incident that happened. Life was so unpredictable that Jack felt anything could happen, from his system to this today.
Then he rembered his dream, and sweat started to form on his forehead. Shaking his head, he was waiting for his PC to co.
Sigh!!! Jack sighed. Life is easy if you can make it easy and hard if you make it hard. Money makes it easy, and poverty makes it hard.
*DingDong* * DingDong*
Jack's apartnt's bell rang. Jack opened the door to see two deliveryn and lots of boxes.
"Hello sir, I am from XMG; I've got a delivery for you."
" Ah! Alright, that room over there, place everything there." Jack pointed at a midsize bedroom; this was the room where Jack would co and play gas.
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